Billy Chrestman News Today

While in Washington for the Rage Against the War Machine rally on Sunday, February 19, I took time out on Friday and Saturday to check out the nightly DC Gulag vigil outside the DC Central Detention Facility. Across the street from the jail in a...

Ray Epps became the unwitting face of an attempt by pro-Trump forces to promote the baseless idea that the F.B.I. was behind the attack on the Capitol.

Olathe man associated with Proud Boys “wielded an axe handle” at U.S. Capitol attack Billy Chrestman, an Olathe resident, was involved in the Jan. 6 riot at Capitol Hill, the Kansas City Star reports. Chrestman “wielded an ax handle” and “led chants” during the riot, according to his former high school peers and “watchdogs monitoring the movement,” the Star reports. Although Chrestman is said to have self-identified as a Proud Boy — a far-right, all-male group known for violen...