US prosecutors indicted two alleged leaders of a white supremacist group for using Telegram to solicit attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people, and immigrants. 

The group, named “The Terrorgram Collective,” celebrated terrorist attacks around the world and solicited further attacks, prosecutors told a federal court in Sacramento, California. The accused Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho. are charged with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Humber and Allison were arrested on September 6, 2024.

The indictment charged Humber and Allison with one count of conspiracy, four counts of soliciting hate crimes, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, one count of threatening communications, two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions, and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Prosecutors cited Humber and Allison’s efforts to achieve a white power revolution through soliciting and supporting terrorist attacks on government organizations, infrastructure, and other “enemies of the white race”. 

The two were alleged to have joined Telegram in 2019 and became leaders of the group in 2022 after the previous leader was arrested and charged with terrorism offences.  The duo are alleged to have solicited violence during the July 2023 French riots and and after bomb threats targeted Nashville Tennseee’s 2023 pride events. The group’s aim was to escalate tensions and accelerate the government’s downfall.

“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes — all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Today’s arrests are a warning that committing hate-fueled crimes in the darkest corners of the internet will not hide you, and soliciting terrorist attacks from behind a screen will not protect you. The United States Department of Justice will find you, and we will hold you accountable.”

The two face a maximum of 200 years in prison for one count of conspiracy, four counts of solicitation of a hate crime, three counts of solicitations of a murder of a federal official, three counts of doxing, or revealing the private information, of federal officials, one count of interstate threatening communications, two counts of distributing information relating to explosives and destructive devices, and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. They also face up to 3.75 million in fines per person and criminal forfeiture.