Note 2nd half of the AJC article about the UHURU MOVEMENT, a socialist group BASED IN TAMPA with embedded links to Tampa Bay Times stories:

[....] Another group implicated in the alleged conspiracy is Uhuru Movement, a socialist group based in Tampa, Fla. According to the Tampa Bay Times, federal agents raided several locations there Friday including the movement’s headquarters. Prior to the founding of the Black Hammer Party, Kodzo was secretary general of the Florida-based group until 2018 when he either left or was expelled.

According to the federal authorities, in 2015 Ionov paid for members of the Florida group to travel to Moscow, “and for at least the next seven years, Ionov exercised direction and control over senior members of” the group. The indictment claims that emails sent by senior leaders in the Uhuru Movement acknowledged that Ionov’s organization, AGMR, was “an instrument of (the) Russian government” and that it was “more than likely” that the Kremlin was using AGMR “to utilize forces inside of the U.S. to sew (sic) division inside the United States.” A senior member of Uhuru allegedly wrote that the connection between Ionov and the Russian government did not “disturb us.”

In addition, the indictment claims Ionov used these connections to interfere in local elections in Florida by supporting and consulting in two Uhuru members’ campaigns for local office in 2017 and 2019. Ionov’s involvement in the campaigns allegedly impressed members of the FSB, and one agent of the security force wrote to Ionov that “our election campaign is kind of unique ... are we the first in history?”

Uhuru leaders held a press conference Friday in Florida defending their actions.

“We can have relationships with whoever we want to make this revolution possible,” Eritha “Akile” Cainion said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “We are in support of Russia.”

According to WTSP-TV, Cainion claimed the indictment was part of a “propaganda war being waged against Russia.”

“The U.S. has a hold on what is being propagated about the war on — the defensive war — Russia’s defensive war against Ukraine, against world colonial powers because that’s what’s happening right now,” she said.

The Black Hammer Party has made similar defenses of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [....]

We're gonna hear a lot of crying now about the DEEP STATE from extremists left and right and many in the GOP

It's affiliated now with the Democratic party, too, as after J. Edgar Hoover, federal law enforcement slowly became NOT the favorite thing of the GOP.

The ACAB/abolish people don't realize how much they are in synch with libertarian GOP and the current Supremes in believing that what "law and order" is should be decided by small local "communities"

Just breaking Covid lockdown to protest police with masses in the streets was a libertarian "up yours, gummint" in itself, much less rioting.

I saw the equivalence with Trumpism then and I still see it everyday. No respect for current rule of law and no respect for its enforcers and everyone gets a mulligan. (And of course Putin is going to take advantage, why wouldn't he?)