US arrests heads of white supremacist ‘Terrorgram’ for planning to attack Jews, other minorities

Two leaders of a white supremacist group have been arrested on charges of seeking to spark a “race war,” including attacks on Jews, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community, using an online forum known as “Terrorgram,” US officials say.

Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, were taken into custody on Friday and were to make their first appearances in a federal court today, they say.

“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,” Attorney General Merrick Garland says in a statement.

Humber and Allison face multiple charges including soliciting hate crimes and the murder of federal officials, distributing bomb-making instructions, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

According to the indictment, Humber and Allison used the encrypted Telegram platform to promote their white supremacist ideology and communicated with followers on a forum dubbed the “Terrorgram Collective.”

They promoted the belief 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,” it says.

Humber and Allison allegedly joined Terrorgram in 2019 and became leaders of the group in 2022 after another leader was arrested.

Followers were led to believe they could become “saints” by “committing an attack in furtherance of white supremacist accelerationism,” the indictment says.