User:Pngdeity/MyMilitia

MyMilitia is a website.

History
There's a rough notecard system here with the sources sorted by date and the facts from the articles beneath the source title, just an FYI for the curious. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 02:44, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

18 March 2018

Members of the White Rabbit militia communicated on the platform up to the bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque in Bloomington, MN

8 May 2020

Josh Ellis runs the website and he is also the leader of American Revolution 2.0 (AR2) he "runs a home-repair business"

"the owner of the mymilitia.com domain is Chad Embrey of New Lexington, Ohio."

Asked in a telephone conversation about whether he knew about Embrey or My Militia before the website was built, Ellis said, “Not really”, but having looked at the website, since added: “It definitely seems like a group that is pretty simple in their belief in just defending the second amendment.”

15 Oct 2020

Domain was registered in 2016, sold in April to Josh Ellis

In an interview, Ellis claimed the site has 20,000 members and that there are 530 existing militias organized by ZIP code

Features of the site include a geo-locating fellow member map, voice chat, and photo galleries -> There's also a library of military manuals and the anarchist cookbook. Further, there is a forum section with discussions

Sincerity is hard to determine -> Per Vice "There’s clearly a range of intentions among the participants.

2 Nov 2020

13 Nov 2020

21 Nov 2020

9 April 2021

2 June 2021

3 June 2021