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Stephen Parshall has been sentenced to life in prison for a plot to bomb a substation near a Black Lives Matters protest in Las Vegas.

Stephen Parshall, a Las Vegas, Nevada, man with ties to the boogaloo movement, has been sentenced to life in prison for planning to firebomb anti-racism protestors in 2020.

Stephen Parshall, a member of the boogaloo movement, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit violence during a Black Lives Matter protest.

The U.S. intelligence community deemed racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism -- with adherents such as white supremacists, Nazis and other racist groups -- the "most lethal threat" to Americans in its annual 2023 threat assessment released in March.

ProPublica and FRONTLINE have identified more than twenty members with ties to the armed forces.

Pentagon report reveals growth of fascistic networks within US military On Thursday, California Democratic Representative Peter Aguilar announced that he would be introducing legislation based on the findings of an October 2020 Pentagon report that lists seven recommendations aimed at curbing the growth of far-right “domestic extremists” within the US military. “This report confirms that white supremacist extremists are attempting to use our military to acquire training, new recruits and ...

Hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, a group calling itself the Last Sons of Liberty posted a brief video to Parler, the social media platform, that appeared to show members of the organization directly participating in the uprising. Footage showed someone with a shaky smartphone charging past the metal barricades surrounding the building. Other clips show rioters physically battling with baton-wielding police on the white marble steps just outside the Capitol. Before Parler went offli...

Jonathan Valdes/USAF Taylor Bechtol, then an Air Force staff sergeant, with munition at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Oct. 26, 2018. Bechtol has been linked to the Boogaloo Bois. By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Lila Hassan and Karim Hajj, FRONTLINE Hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, a group calling itself the Last S...

This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary. Hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, a group calling itself the Last Sons of Liberty posted a brief video to Parler, the social media platform, that appeared to show members of the organization directly participating in the uprising. Footage showed someone with a shaky smartphone charging past the metal barricades surrounding the building. Other clips show rioters physi...