The Base
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| February 2025 | A 15-year-old British teenager is accused of planning a terrorist attack and belonging to The Base. He denies the charges and is scheduled to appear in court on March 14, 2025. |
| September 2024 | Three men are arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of belonging to The Base and charged with incitement to terrorism via Internet discussions. |
| September 2024 | Italian police arrest an 18-year-old and place a 20-year-old of Romanian origin under surveillance, both suspected of having links with The Base. The 18-year-old is also involved in child pornography and had previously threatened a classmate with a knife. |
| July 26 2024 | European Union designates The Base as a terrorist entity, marking a significant international consensus against the group. |
| March 29 2024 | The Michigan Supreme Court denied Watkins's appeal at age 26, upholding his original sentencing. |
| November 2023 | A coordinated anti-terrorist operation by Europol and Eurojust occurs in six European countries, resulting in five arrests and seven people questioned. Police seized weapons, Nazi material, and computer data. |
| May 2023 | The Tuscola County Circuit Court initially granted Watkins a resentencing, which was later reversed. |
| June 2022 | New Zealand designates The Base as a terrorist entity, continuing the international legal actions against the group. |
| April 11 2022 | Watkins pled guilty to conspiracy to train for a civil disorder and felony firearm, agreeing to a plea deal of 32 months to 4 years of incarceration, plus a consecutive two-year sentence. |
| December 2021 | The two Dutch men are sentenced to 24 months in prison, with 18 months suspended. |
| November 24 2021 | Australia designates The Base as a terrorist entity, expanding international condemnation of the group. |
| October 2021 | Patrik Jordan Mathews and Brian Lemley were sentenced to nine years in prison after FBI recordings revealed their discussions about mass murder of black persons to trigger a race war. |
| July 12 2021 | United Kingdom designates The Base as a terrorist entity, further isolating the group internationally. |
| April 2021 | Rinaldo Nazzaro reconfigured The Base 'to protect it from infiltrators' and retook leadership from Watkins. |
| April 2021 | Two men are indicted in Floyd County, Georgia for alleged theft and ritual beheading of an animal, with a dozen members of The Base reportedly participating in a blood-drinking ritual. |
| February 3 2021 | Canada designates The Base as a terrorist entity, officially recognizing the group's extremist status. |
| January 2021 | Two men from Amsterdam and Dordrecht in the Netherlands are arrested for participation in a messaging group linked to The Base. The Amsterdam man had threatened to assassinate Prime Minister Mark Rutte. |
| 2020 | Jason Lee Van Dyke, a former lawyer and one-time Proud Boys leader, attempted to join the Base but was denied membership, being considered a 'huge liability'. |
| 2020 | Watkins served as leader of The Base until Rinaldo Nazzaro retook leadership. |
| 2020 | The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union also designated The Base as a terrorist organization, further restricting the group's international operations. |
| November 2020 | Nazzaro was featured in a full-length interview broadcast on Russian state television, while directing the group's activities from Russia. |
| October 29 2020 | Justen Watkins and Alfred Gorman are apprehended by the FBI and charged with gang membership, unlawful posting of a message, and using computers to commit a crime. |
| February 2020 | Canadian authorities designated The Base as a terrorist organization, significantly impacting the group's ability to operate within the country. |
| January 2020 | Prior to his arrest, Lane conducted paramilitary training with a dozen other individuals, engaged in an occult ritual that involved consuming psychedelic drugs and sacrificing a ram, drinking its blood on his property. |
| January 2020 | Luke Austin Lane was arrested along with two accomplices, Jacob Oliver Kaderli and Michael John Helterbrand, for allegedly stockpiling weapons and plotting to kill an anti-fascist couple and their young children. |
| January 2020 | Mathews was arrested in the United States along with Brian M. Lemley Jr. and William G. Bilbrough IV. |
| January 2020 | Secret recordings captured The Base's recruitment activities, including attempts to recruit several Australians, notably a 17-year-old and Dean Smith, a former political candidate for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. |
| January 2020 | Nazzaro's true identity was revealed, exposing his online personas 'Roman Wolf' and 'Norman Spear' used in recruitment efforts across the United States, Canada, and attempts to expand into Europe, South Africa, and Australia. |
| January 18 2020 | Three additional members of The Base were arrested for plotting to 'derail trains' and poison water supplies. |
| January 17 2020 | The three arrested members were indicted for illicit activities related to their planned involvement in the Virginia protest. |
| January 16 2020 | Three members of The Base were arrested by the FBI before the 2020 VCDL Lobby Day gun rights protest at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. The FBI had been surveilling six members and had set up CCTV cameras in their apartment to prevent potential harm. |
| 2019 | Nazzaro is listed as a guest at a Russian government security exhibition in Moscow. |
| 2019 | The group actively recruited members through iFunny, a meme-based social media platform, using digital propaganda strategies. |
| December 2019 | The Base initiated a recruitment campaign targeting Australians, with a focus on individuals with legal access to firearms and security licenses. |
| December 11 2019 | Justen Watkins and Alfred Gorman attempt to intimidate an unrelated family in Dexter, Michigan, mistakenly believing the home belonged to a podcaster. They photographed the home's front porch and uploaded images to a Telegram channel used by The Base. |
| September 2019 | Richard Tobin organized synagogue vandalism in Racine, Wisconsin and Hancock, Michigan, dubbing the coordinated anti-Semitic attacks 'Operation Kristallnacht'. |
| August 2019 | The Base posted propaganda from a training camp located near Spokane, Washington, demonstrating the group's active recruitment and propaganda dissemination efforts. |
| August 24 2019 | Mathews was reported as voluntarily released from the Canadian Armed Forces, with his truck found near the Manitoba-US border, suggesting he had illegally entered the United States. |
| August 19 2019 | The RCMP searched Mathews' home in Beausejour, Manitoba and seized guns following his identification as a terrorist cell organizer. |
| August 16 2019 | Patrik Jordan Mathews was exposed by the Winnipeg Free Press as organizing a terrorist cell for The Base and Atomwaffen in Manitoba, with reports of him putting up threatening posters targeting anti-fascist activists. |
| May 2019 | A video is posted online showing Nazzaro in Russia, wearing a t-shirt with an image of President Vladimir Putin and the words 'Russia, absolute power'. |
| 2018 | Nazzaro purchased several blocks of off-the-grid land in Washington state, intended to be used as a survivalist training camp for the group. |
| July 2018 | Rinaldo Nazzaro founds The Base white supremacist group, with an apartment purchased in his wife's name in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the same month. |
| June 2018 | Rinaldo Nazzaro founded The Base hate group under the pseudonyms Norman Spear and Roman Wolf. |
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