Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of Patriot Front After Washington March

Rep. ) on Monday called for an investigation into the Patriot Front white nationalist group after its Independence Day rally and march across Washington, D.C. “What I find odd about Patriot Front is how under Biden they were never investigated. Well funded.

Never investigated,” Luna wrote in a post on X. “FBI under Biden looked into Catholics instead. So, looks like @GOPoversight should do some digging,” she added. Luna’s push for a probe follows Patriot Front’s 400-person march throughout the nation’s capital on Saturday with uniformed, masked men.

Some were carrying the American flag upside down.

The group is known for its “flash demonstrations,” making it one of the United States’ most visible white supremacist groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Patriot Front has distributed the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda since 2019, according to the ADL.

, rally, George Washington University’s Program on Extremism says. The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate.

Sunday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he doesn’t agree with what Patriot Front stands for, but he defended the group’s First Amendment right to free speech. ” He did not commit to advising President Trump to condemn the organization or the demonstration.

Later on the show, Rep. ) strongly rebuked the group’s action. “What I’ll say is that that is not the soul of America. Look, you know, we are all created equally. That is what, what our whole impetus is based on here in this country,” Carter told Bash.

“And I would just, I would just not ignore it, but I don’t pay that much credence to it, because that does not represent the soul of America. We, we in America believe in inequality, and that is simply not reflective, certainly not of the Republican Party,” he added.