Website Promised Free Anti-Antifa Shirts. Alt-Right Signed Up. It Was a Trap

A website that offered free anti-anti-fascist t-shirts for a real far-right march appears to have been a trap by anti-fascists.

“National March Against Far-Left Violence” held in several cities on August 18, 2018 was organized by a pair of groups that are frequent attendees at far-right rallies. Expected participants include members of anti-Muslim group the Proud Boys and people involved in the group Patriot Prayer, which has attracted white supremacists.

In early July, when march leaders were planning their event, an apparent ally set up a website where marchers could pre-order anti-anti-fascist t-shirts. But the website appears to have been a trap by antifa, who turned around and published the names and addresses they’d collected from the website.

An anonymous person registered a website for the National March Against Far-Left Violence in early July, web registry records show. An early version of the site encouraged fans to subscribe to its mailing list or pre-order t-shirts, which showed an anti-fascist symbol being damaged by the American flag. The site didn’t ask for payment, just an address “so we can calculate shipping costs.”

The far right and its opponents often wage controversial doxxing campaigns against each other, with "fascists" and "anti-fascists" posting their rivals’ personal details online in attempt to intimidate them or reveal their identities.

Approximately three dozen people who allegedly signed up for the mailing list or tried to reserve anti-antifa shirts. Days before the march, the site started publishing those people’s names, and sometimes their addresses. (The Daily Beast, August 17, 2018)
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