Washington — Federal prosecutors in California on Monday unsealed an indictment charging two men with leading an online group of white supremacists that maintained a list of high-profile targets to assassinate and urged group members to commit hate crimes.
A 37 pages long indictment filed Sept. 5 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California alleges that Dallas’ Erin Humber and Matthew Robert Allison led the group known as “Terrorgram,” a network of channels, group chats and users on the app Telegram, promoting “white supremacist accelerationism.” The ideology is described in court documents as “centered on the belief that the white race is superior”, and that violence and terrorism are needed to trigger a race war to hasten the collapse of the government and the rise of the “white ethno-state”.
Humber, 34, and Allison, 37, face 15 federal charges, including inciting the murder of a federal official, inciting a hate crime and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
Assistant District Attorney Kristen Clarke said the indictment shows “the new technological face of white supremacy violence.”
Prosecutors allege that Humber and Allison took over the group in 2022, after one of its leaders was arrested and charged with terrorist offences. As the new leaders of the so-called Terrorgram collective, the indictment alleges that the two men distributed videos and publications called “The Hard Reset,” “White Terror” and “The List” and urged group members to carry out attacks on “racial enemies” and on critical infrastructure .
This is a development story and will be updated.