Proud Boys Update: MAGAReport 7/30/26
Earlier this month, I published a story in Esquire about the weekend I spent with the Cape Fear Proud Boys (I know you are reading, guys - hello!)
This week, I did interviews about it with Here and Now on NPR and, last night, on PBS News Hour.
If you’re interested, you should be able to hear/see both pieces at those links above.
The only political issue the Proud Boys and I agree on wholeheartedly is that we are strongly opposed to Flock cameras (and similar brands) that surveil us all as we go about our daily lives and put our movements into a national database that can be searched by police and government agencies anywhere in the country without a warrant. It’s disturbingly unconstitutional, a uniting issue if ever there were one, and you can learn more about it, along with looking at a map of cameras near you, at DeFlock.org.
What a bunch of phoney-baloneys. They remind me of my kid brothers with their forts, secret passwords, and meetings in the tree-house. They cover their faces, but tattoo Proud Boys on their arms? Hilarious.
I recently FOIA'd our city and police dept. for their Flock contracts and related docs. I'm definitely still investigating but have already found a discrepancy. They said they don't use Condor (the human tracking one) but I have the contract that shows where they bought 10. So... stay tuned...