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1/ Say hello to Zachary Tyler Brackett, age 30, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
He's a neo-Nazi and a member of The Base, Natural Order, and NSC-131. He's a former member of Patriot Front.
He should be considered armed and dangerous, for reasons that I'll get into.
He's a neo-Nazi and a member of The Base, Natural Order, and NSC-131. He's a former member of Patriot Front.
He should be considered armed and dangerous, for reasons that I'll get into.
2/ Short story of his far-right career--
Zack Brackett was a member of Patriot Front, doing flyering in New England with former Patriot Front NDO Chris Hood, until Chris got kicked out of PF for stealing sticker money to buy weed in the fall of 2019.
Zack Brackett was a member of Patriot Front, doing flyering in New England with former Patriot Front NDO Chris Hood, until Chris got kicked out of PF for stealing sticker money to buy weed in the fall of 2019.
3/ If you want to know more about the varied and snitch-y career of Chris Hood, including stops in the III%ers, the Proud Boys, and Resist Marxism, see this thread. https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1248513779400400896
4/ Anyway, after Chris Hood got DAS BOOT from Patriot Front, he and Zack Brackett left the group and joined The Base.
They started appearing in Base propaganda in the fall of 2019.
They started appearing in Base propaganda in the fall of 2019.
5/ They started getting more active on Telegram, too, interacting with the accelerationist neo-Nazis.
Zachary picked the Telegram name "Herewald88," "Harold," and later changed it to "HH," for "Heil Hitler."
Chris used "131," alphanumeric code for "Anti-Communist Action."
Zachary picked the Telegram name "Herewald88," "Harold," and later changed it to "HH," for "Heil Hitler."
Chris used "131," alphanumeric code for "Anti-Communist Action."
6/ In November 2019, Zachary was so bold that he began posting propaganda for The Base on his Facebook account.
7/ He also began forging alliances with longtime white nationalists like the National Socialist Movement's Anthony Petruccelli.
8/ In November 2019, Petruccelli claimed that on VK he had met with New England members of The Base.
This was also the point at which Zachary began to regularly interact with Petruccelli on Facebook.
This was also the point at which Zachary began to regularly interact with Petruccelli on Facebook.
9/ For more on Petruccelli and his far-right ties-- including being the official t-shirt salesnazi for Super Happy Fun America's Straight Pride Parade-- see this thread. https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1243187103556648962
10/ Zachary also began to post increasingly violent material on social media.
Here, he memorializes Bob Matthews, founder of The Order, who was killed in a shootout with federal law enforcement in 1984.
Here, he memorializes Bob Matthews, founder of The Order, who was killed in a shootout with federal law enforcement in 1984.
11/ I'm not *entirely* sure of the timing of this, but there seems to have been a physical confrontation between Hood, Harold, and their former friends in Patriot Front at some point after Hood was kicked out.
12/ In these screenshots, Chris Hood ("131") argues with a Patriot Front member about whether or not Zachary Brackett stabbed a PF member in that confrontation.
13/ Anyway, around this time, Hood and Zachary began to create their new club, first called "New England Nationalists Club" (NENC), and then changed to "National Socialist Club" (NSC-131).
14/ Zachary was also a member of The Organization (recently changed to Natural Order), a New England neo-Nazi group that planned to seize control of Sandwich, New Hampshire during the COVID-19 crisis.
(Zachary is "Harold Waters" in the screenshots below.)
(Zachary is "Harold Waters" in the screenshots below.)
15/ For a full rundown of Natural Order and their plans to violently seize a New Hampshire town, see this excellent article by @161EUG, exposing Natural Order's leader as 17-year-old Zephyr Garrison. https://eugeneantifa.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/09/zephyr-garrison/
16/ Piece of advice, Zachary-- if you're going to post terrorist recruiting material on Facebook, you might want to make sure that the URL is not your FULL LEGAL NAME.
17/ And I don't care if you really like your green jacket, don't wear the same green jacket in terrorist propaganda that you wear in pictures that your dad posts on Facebook.
You are 30 fucking years old and you can own more than one jacket, Zachary Brackett, you Nazi fuck.
You are 30 fucking years old and you can own more than one jacket, Zachary Brackett, you Nazi fuck.
18/ I'd blur his dad's face, but from looking at his Facebook profile, he appears to be a fascist, too, posting quotes from super-fascist Julius Evola.
19/ And when you post Nazi propaganda with your faces blurred out, Zachary, don't wear a shirt with the name of your town.
And tell Chris Hood to stop wearing that watch. It's so distinctive that this isn't even a challenge anymore. (Also, Chris creases his pants like a nerd.)
And tell Chris Hood to stop wearing that watch. It's so distinctive that this isn't even a challenge anymore. (Also, Chris creases his pants like a nerd.)
20/ If you live in Worcester, Massachusetts, be on the lookout for Zachary Brackett, age 30.
He should be considered armed and dangerous, and has been accused of stabbing a fellow neo-Nazi.
He should be considered armed and dangerous, and has been accused of stabbing a fellow neo-Nazi.
21/ Stay tuned, folks.
Later this week, I'll be talking about the links between the NSC-131, The Base, Natural Order, Iron Youth, and Revolt Through Tradition, and explaining the shared goals and differences in ideology between the groups.
Later this week, I'll be talking about the links between the NSC-131, The Base, Natural Order, Iron Youth, and Revolt Through Tradition, and explaining the shared goals and differences in ideology between the groups.
22/ Who protects us?
We protect us.
We protect us.
