Two leaders of a white supremacist group have been charged after allegedly plotting assassinations and terrorist attacks that they hoped would bring on a race war. In a 37-page indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on Monday, Dallas Erin Humber, 34, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, were accused of leading a network of channels on the Telegram app that promoted "white supremacist accelerationism." Court filings said the ideology was "centered on the belief that the white race is superior," and the leaders hoped to start a race war that would collapse the government to create a "white ethnostate.
" The men were accused of soliciting members of the so-called Terrorgram Collective to carry out assassinations and critical infrastructure. The court filings said that a U.S.
senator, a federal district judge, and a former U.S. attorney were included on a hit list of "high-value" targets.
State and local officials and leaders of private companies and nongovernmental organizations were listed. The indictment alleged that the men told members to "take action now" and assassinate the targets. Members were said to have been provided with instructions on making bombs and finding federal buildings.
Prosecutors said that the white supremacist leaders inspired plots in the U.S. and around the world.
During a 2022 attack in Slovakia, two people were killed at an LGBTQ bar. Five were stabbed in a knife attack outside a mosque in Turkey. In the U.
S., law enforcement foiled a member's planned .