Allison’s commitment to neofascism and white supremacy appears to run deep—“I’m not going to stop until I die. My only purpose in life is to destroy the enemy,” Allison said in a Telegram post cited by federal prosecutors. Both he and Humber, according to a government suppression motion, sought to identify the informant in Brandon Russell’s criminal case. Allison suggested adding the suspected snitch to “The List” (a collection of federal officials, journalists, businessmen, and other perceived enemies circulated by the Terrorgram Collective as potential assassination targets), while Humber said told Russell in a recorded jailhouse call in August 2023 that he had photos of the suspected informant and was running them through facial recognition software.
When Allison was arrested last week, authorities said, he had a backpack containing what appeared to be a “bug-out kit” consisting of zip ties, a gun, duct tape, ammunition, a knife, a lockpicking tool, two phones, and a thumb drive. When law enforcement searched his apartment, they found an assault rifle, two laptops, an external hard drive, and another “go bag” containing $1,500 in cash, clothes, a passport, ziplock bags full of pills, bullets, a skull mask balaclava , sim card, and birth certificate.
In a videotaped interview following his arrest, Allison allegedly admitted to his participation in the Terrorgram Collective and “engaging in the acts alleged in the General Allegations of the Indictment.”
Law enforcement considers the threats Humber and Allison pose to their community, as well as to the authorities: Humber allegedly worked with Russell to try to identify a suspected government witness in the current criminal case of the Atomwaffen founder Division in Baltimore, according to recorded jailhouse phone calls. Witnesses in Russell’s upcoming trial this November will testify in a closed courtroom to avoid identification, an unusual precaution. In a sealing motion, prosecutors said that not only are members of the Terrogram Collective likely to be arrested, but membership in the group poses a grave danger to both law enforcement and cooperating witnesses: “Many of the defendants , both in the United States and around the world, may seek to harm the suspected law enforcement officer or law enforcement officers as compensation for their role in this investigation.”
Allison is currently being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Boise on Sept. 18 for a detention hearing.
The amount of evidence laid out against Humber and Allison in both the indictment and the detention motion, Hughes said, shows that the feds have significantly changed their approach to both far-right terrorism and particularly “lone wolf” accelerationists. which carried out massacres from Christchurch in 2019 to Buffalo in 2022.
“When they go further than they have in the past to lay out transnational connections and overlay a material support charge, it shows that either the feds are trying to make a point, or they’re overreacting. -concerned about these particular actors,” Hughes said.
Senior attorneys from the DOJ’s Civil Rights and National Security divisions are listed in court filings in the matter, another indication that the top ranks of the Biden administration’s Justice Department are calling the shots on the Terrorgram Collective investigation.
“Building a case this way is a decision to be made by the Chief Justice,” Hughes said. “Someone in a high place decided to sign off on it.”
