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鈥淚 promise you this, Ted Wheeler: I鈥檓 coming for you, you little punk. And all your little antifa bastards. I鈥檓 coming for you f------, too,鈥� he said in a Facebook video. Members of Patriot Prayer regularly accuse Portland鈥檚 mayor of collaborating with antifascists and black bloc protesters.

The Proud Boys are a hate group known for their bigoted rhetoric against, among others, women and Muslims. The group鈥檚 involvement in a series of violent incidents in 2018 brought them national notoriety and from federal law enforcement.

The threats first came to the attention of 贬补迟别飞补迟肠丑听after they were 聽by a user on Twitter. Axtell's tirade is one of the most recent attempts by members of the far-right network in the Pacific Northwest, anchored by the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, to initiate violent encounters with leftists and now, it seems, democratically elected officials. Since 2016, the two groups have partnered to hold dozens of rallies and 鈥� flash marches鈥� in West Coast cities in hopes of brawling with counterprotesters. Their rallies have regularly聽descended into violent riots.

On Jan. 22 鈥� the same day Axtell posted his threats 鈥� Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, Proud Boy Tusitala 鈥淭iny鈥� Toese聽and former Proud Boy Russell Schultz collectively announced a new 鈥渄emask antifa鈥� movement. All three men encouraged their followers to approach antifascists activists 颅鈥� who sometimes wear bandanas over the lower half of their faces 鈥� remove their masks, take a photo and post it to social media. The group plans to use the photos to dox leftists.

鈥淲e鈥檒l find out where they live and then you can knock on their house doors,鈥� Schultz said in a video.

Axtell said he will take part in the campaign.

The demasking effort comes as part of a larger move to shift their campaign of intimidation against leftists outside the boundaries of their rallies, raising the threat that political violence could break out unpredictably on the streets of Portland when police are not standing by to keep the rival sides apart.

Some members of the groups have made 聽against antifa. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e gonna be getting knives put into your throat. You鈥檙e going to be getting bullets put into your head if you don鈥檛 stop this shit with us,鈥� Skylor Jernigan, who has attended several recent Patriot Prayer events, said on a Facebook video.

These threats and announced demasking campaign followed on the heels of an alleged violent encounter the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer had with antifa.

On the evening of Jan. 17, a large group of far-right activists gathered outside the building where the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a left-wing political organization, was holding a chapter meeting. After being denied entry, several Proud Boys claim they were attacked by antifa.聽After the incident, Axtell and another Proud Boy, James Yaakov, went to the hospital with minor injuries.聽

Footage recorded after the alleged incident shows Toese 鈥� who has a 聽of engaging in violence 鈥� with bloodied knuckles, bragging that he 鈥渒nocked the f--- out of鈥� three men. In another video, he suggests that Proud Boy Jason James pulled a gun out during the encounter.

The DSA is a policy- and campaign-oriented organization with more than 50,000 members nationwide. Two are currently serving in the U.S. Congress. Antifa聽is聽a much smaller patchwork of autonomous groups that organize locally or regionally and employ militant tactics. The Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer typically denounce anyone who opposes them by calling them antifa, with little regard for whether or not a person or group belongs to an antifascist organization or has engaged in violence. Other chapters of the Proud Boys across the country have DSA meetings, justifying their actions by describing their targets, without evidence, as antifa. In the Portland incident, the DSA chapter Willamette Week that none of their members were involved in any fighting.

The next day, members of the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer protested outside the Industrial聽Workers of the World (IWW) building where DSA hosts their meetings, later wandering the streets of Portland to find leftists to harass.

In one video, the group spots some of their political rivals across the street, but they pause to consider how to approach the apparent antifascists in a way that doesn鈥檛 paint them as the antagonists. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 want it to look like we鈥檙e fighting them,鈥� Patriot Prayer affiliate Haley Adams says. 鈥淒o it all natural,鈥� another in the group suggests. Gibson begins yelling before he reaches the other side of the street, and a confusing tussle breaks out.

鈥淲e鈥檙e gonna hurt you,鈥� an older man tells a person with their face covered.

Later in the day, Gibson and a large crew of his followers came head-to-head with a smaller group of mostly black-clad activists. They yelled a Proud Boys slogan 鈥� 鈥淔--- around and find out鈥� 鈥� and repeatedly called one member of the group a 鈥渇-----.鈥� They demanded that the activists remove their masks, even though some of those on Gibson鈥檚 side were covering their faces with the signature yellow-and-black Patriot Prayer bandana. One member of Gibson鈥檚 group brandished a bottle of mace.

Gibson announced Thursday that Patriot Prayer plans to attend all upcoming meetings of local socialist organizations. After finding a scheduled meeting of the International Socialist Organization had been cancelled, he and several of his associates went to the IWW building and recorded a video calling for socialists to engage in dialogue with their group. 鈥淒eath to antifa,鈥� a Facebook user commented.

The far-right activists in the Pacific Northwest hope to take their campaign against leftists nationwide.

Schultz encouraged people attending an upcoming racist rally at the Stone Mountain Confederate monument聽outside Atlanta, Georgia 鈥� one organized by an affiliate of a KKK group 鈥� to demask and dox 鈥渃ommie鈥� counterprotesters. Schultz has marked himself as 鈥渁ttending鈥� the rally on Facebook, though a permit for the event was recently denied because officials determined it poses a 鈥渃lear and present danger鈥� to public safety.

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