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Anti-Racist Action (ARA) monitors white supremacist websites like the CIA monitors Al Qaeda. 鈥淪tormfront, White News Now, they can鈥檛 organize on the Internet without us finding out about it,鈥� says Telly, a founding member of ARA鈥檚 Indiana affiliate, Hoosiers Anti-Racist Movement (HARM), referring to two large white nationalist Web forums. 鈥淲e have trolls all over their servers. It鈥檚 really not that hard, because they鈥檙e really not that good at it.鈥�

But he鈥檚 not taking any chances. That鈥檚 why he doesn鈥檛 use his real name. He鈥檚 afraid of getting doxed. To 鈥渄ox鈥� someone is to find and publish a person鈥檚 personal details on the Internet 鈥� home address, workplace, telephone number, E-mails, family photos and anything else available. It鈥檚 virtual intimidation. Both sides do it with relish. Indeed, more than anywhere else these days, anti-racists and their white nationalist and neo-Nazi enemies try to hunt and hurt each other on the Internet. It鈥檚 gang war, using keyboards instead of knives. Less bloody, but still dangerous.

After five anti-racists were arrested for storming a restaurant where a group of white nationalists were having a lunch meeting last spring just outside of Chicago, HARM created a Twitter account to raise funds and awareness about the jailed activists known as the Tinley Park 5, or TP5. The account only had 20 to 30 followers and none of them were organized anti-fascists, Telly says. 鈥淭he majority were just activists or friends of the TP5,鈥� he adds. 鈥淪everal of the others were journalists trying to get an interview with HARM or anyone related to TP5 story.鈥欌��

But users on Stormfront, the world鈥檚 largest white supremacist Web forum, tried to dox everyone following the account, Telly says. 鈥淲hen we saw this, we started notifying all the people on Twitter that they were being labeled 鈥榓nti-white terrorists鈥� by the fine folks at Stormfront,鈥� he says. 鈥淲ell, it turns out a couple of the activists that were following the TP5 twitter account were also in Anonymous.鈥�

It was, as Telly puts it, the beginning of a real 鈥渟hit show.鈥�

Soon, Anonymous, the loosely knit Internet hacking collective, launched an attack on Stormfront. So-called hacktivists 鈥渨ent through the Stormfront thread and doxed several of the Stormfront users who had made threats or posted addresses,鈥� Telly says. Stormfront users and supporters fired back. He says Hungarian nationalist hackers came to Stormfront鈥檚 aid and forced one ARA website to shut down for several hours.

Telly says South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action is especially aggressive when it comes to doxing. 鈥淭here are a lot of people who don鈥檛 know how to be on the Internet safely, so they just put themselves out there,鈥� says Rocky of the South Side ARA. 鈥淎 lot of them get arrested for doing dumb stuff. The Internet leaves a pretty good paper trail.鈥�

As a result, Rocky says, Chicago-area white supremacists have been trying to keep a lower profile. They have been holding fewer public events and trying to keep the ones they do have secret for as long as possible. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e trying to stay a little more on the down low,鈥� he says.

Rocky says anti-racists often attempt to infiltrate the other side online by pretending to be racists. 鈥淲e read so much Nazi crap online that it鈥檚 easy,鈥� he says. 鈥淣ot only do we get information that way, we plant seeds of mistrust. It raises a certain level of paranoia.鈥�

When the Intelligence Report reached out for an interview with one of the people at the white nationalist lunch, the man said he wanted to talk and tell their side of the story. But first, he wrote in an E-mail, 鈥淚 need to feel comfortable you鈥檙e not an antifa member setting me up for another attack.鈥�

He never called back.

Daryl Lamont Jenkins, an ARA ally on the East Coast, is the founder of One People鈥檚 Project, which monitors and confronts hate groups on the Internet and in the street. He has doxed more than his share of white supremacists over the years. He says he started using the tactic only when the courts ruled that anti-abortion activists, who were continually posting names and addresses of abortion providers, were constitutionally protected. 鈥淲e said fine, why are we doing this with one hand tied behind our backs,鈥� Jenkins says. 鈥淲e haven鈥檛 seen anybody use our information to do anything that led to anything stupid.

We鈥檝e been doing it for 13 years.鈥�

Still, it worries him that some day, someone might indeed do something stupid.

鈥淢y feeling now is it鈥檚 distracting,鈥� he says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not the first and foremost thing we look to do. We are concerned that people will view us in a less than responsible light.鈥�

For Telly of HARM, doxing and outing racists is a better alternative than a physical confrontation in a crowded restaurant. After all, he says, the authorities do it when they post warnings and photos of sex offenders moving into a new neighborhood. 鈥淪ome racist moves to town and we get him to lose his job, tell his girlfriend about his criminal record and Nazi dealings,鈥� he says. 鈥淎ll of a sudden another Nazi group doesn鈥檛 get set up and nobody got beat up.鈥�