Patriot Front is a white supremacist and anti-Semitic hate group. It broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group was responsible for roughly 80% of the white supremacist propaganda found in 2020. The Center on Extremism of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tracked a near-doubling of white supremacist propaganda efforts in 2020 compared to 2019, though the number of incidents on college campuses dropped by more than half. ADL officials cited COVID-19 restrictions as a reason for the drop in university incidents. These hate groups want exposure, Howard said, and they are getting it. He thinks that is why they have targeted the rock.