Allison’s commitment to neo-fascism and white supremacy appears to have run deep: “I will not give up until I am dead. My only goal in life is to destroy the enemy,” Allison stated in a Telegram post cited by federal prosecutors. Both he and Humber, according to a government detention motion, attempted to identify the informant in the Brandon Russell criminal case. Allison advocated for 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 allegedly told Russell in a recorded jailhouse call in August 2023 that he had photographs of the suspected informant and was running them through facial recognition software.
When Allison was arrested last week, feds say he had a backpack filled with what appeared to be an “emergency kit” consisting of zip ties, a gun, duct tape, ammunition, a knife, lock-picking tools, two phones and a flash drive. When police searched his apartment, they found an assault rifle, two laptops, an external hard drive and another “emergency bag” containing $1,500 in cash, clothing, a passport, ziplock bags filled with pills, ammunition, a skull-shaped ski mask, SIM cards and a birth certificate.
In a videotaped interview after his arrest, Allison allegedly confessed to his involvement with the Terrorgram Collective and “having engaged in acts alleged in the indictment’s general allegations.”
Law enforcement considers Humber and Allison to be threats to their community as well as to authorities: Humber allegedly worked with Russell to try to identify a suspected government witness in the Atomwaffen Division founder’s ongoing criminal case in Baltimore, according to recorded jailhouse phone calls. Witnesses in Russell’s upcoming trial in November will testify in court. closed courtroom To avoid being identified — a highly unusual precaution. In a motion to seal, prosecutors claim that not only are there likely to be more arrests of members of the Terrogram Collective, but that the group’s membership poses a grave danger to both law enforcement and cooperating witnesses: “The defendants’ numerous associates, both in the United States and internationally, may seek to harm perceived law enforcement or law enforcement cooperators in retaliation for their role in this investigation.”
Allison is currently being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Boise next Wednesday for a detention hearing.
Hughes says the volume of evidence presented against Humber and Allison in both the indictment and the motion to detain shows the feds have significantly altered their approach to both far-right terrorism and, in particular, the “lone wolf” accelerationists who have perpetrated massacres ranging from Christchurch in 2019 to Buffalo in 2022.
“When they go beyond what they’ve done in the past to expose transnational connections and overlay an allegation of material support, it shows that either the feds are trying to make a point or they were very concerned about these particular actors,” Hughes says.
Senior lawyers from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights and National Security Divisions appear in court filings on this matter, another indication that senior Justice Department officials in the Biden administration called the shots in the Terrorgram Collective investigation.
“Building a case this way is a decision that is made in the Court of Justice,” Hughes says. “Someone high up decided to approve this.”
