WaPo: “Even before he started talking about assassinations and homemade bombs a couple of months ago, “Duke” had weirded out his fellow members in an anti-government militia group.
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Vane, 42, was a former Marine reservist with an intelligence background whose loose talk about explosives and Russian government connections unnerved his fellow militia members. The Kekoas kicked him out in early March, suspecting he was either a government informant trying to set them up or an unstable militant heading for trouble — either way, a dangerous liability.
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Two members, using their real names, provided Fischer screenshots of private chats and details about internal operations in a blow-by-blow account of the weeks leading up to Vane’s ouster. The result was a rare look at the self-policing and increased vigilance inside militia-style groups following the Justice Department’s landmark seditious conspiracy cases against extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”