IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was quoted in the Seattle Times;
Reporter Sara Jean Green writes, “Burghart, the director of the Seattle-based human rights institute, sees Patriot Front more as a rebranding than an offshoot of Vanguard America, as many of the same people have been involved in both groups.”
“Membership is hard to gauge because they’re pretty secretive about their membership rosters,” Burghart said. “It’s an organization that’s largely operated without a public-facing side and their actions are done surreptitiously, with masks, under cover of night.”
“It’s a challenging time right now, given the massive number of people who were radicalized during this period and the sheer number of pipelines to far-right groups that have developed,” he said.
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