A white supremacist website got hacked, airing all its dirty laundry

Enlarge / Patriot Front members spray-painting in Springfield, Illinois. (credit: Unicornriot.ninja)

Chat messages, images, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremacist group called Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file members conspiring in hate crimes, despite their claims that they are a legitimate political organization.

Patriot Front, or PF, formed in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which one attendee rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 35 others. PF founder Thomas Rousseau started the group after an image posted online showed the now-convicted killer, James Alex Fields Jr., posing with members of white supremacist group Vanguard America shortly before the attack. Vanguard America soon dissolved, and Rousseau rebranded it as PF with the goal of hiding any involvement in violent acts.

James Alex Fields was w/ the Vanguard America folks in #Charlottesville. Learn more about the group > https://t.co/HNloF8Btnf @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/TmJLi0kfZo

- Oren Segal (@orensegal) August 13, 2017

Since then, PF has strived to present itself as a group of patriots who are aligned with the ideals and values of America's 18th-century founders. In announcing the formation of PF in 2017, Rousseau wrote:

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