California woman behind ‘Terrorgram Collective’ indicted for urging extremist violence

A California woman and an Idaho man accused of leading a terrorist group known as the “Terrorgram Collective” have been charged with soliciting their followers to assassinate government officials and commit hate crimes, federal prosecutors said Monday. Utilizing the digital messaging app Telegram, Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, Calif., and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, allegedly created and circulated several “Terrorgram” videos and publications providing specific advice for carrying out crimes, celebrating white supremacist attacks and providing a hit list of assassination targets, according to a 37-page indictment filed by the U.S Attorney’s office in Sacramento. Humber and Allison also allegedly produced and shared “White Terror,” a nearly 30-minute documentary that celebrated 105 white supremacist attacks that happened between 1968 and 2021. Gen. Merrick B. Garland called the arrests of Humber and Allison “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.” Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, said the case “reflects the department’s response to the new technological face of white supremacist violence.” “Technology evolves, and we keep up,” Clarke said. “These charges reveal that the department will come after violent white supremacists with every legitimate means at our disposal.” Humber and Allison allegedly promoted “white supremacist accelerationism,” an ideology that prosecutors said is “centered on the belief that the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate.” According to the indictment, Humber and Allison joined Terrorgram in 2019.