Matthew Bracken

[2][3][5] The plot revolves around a rogue ATF agent staging a terrorist attack at a football stadium and blaming it on an alleged militia, which is then used to initiate gun seizures.

[4] The essay likened the 2015 European migrant crisis to the infiltration leading up to the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and has been influential in parts of the American militia movement, being endorsed by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes among others.

[4][16][17][18][19] Bracken and Rhodes later appeared on Alex Jones' InfoWars show together in 2019 following the Christchurch mosque shootings, where the three according to the Southern Poverty Law Center—while condemning the violence,[20] agreed with the terrorist's motives, while "lamenting how the massacre was going to be used to blame white men and to further a nefarious plot to confiscate firearms and ignite a civil war".

[21] After the Quebec City mosque shooting in 2017, Bracken appeared on InfoWars and laid out a conspiracy theory that it was a false flag attack carried out by militant Islamists in order to blame Trump supporters, orchestrated by George Soros,[22] claiming that detainee Mohamed Belkadhir had radicalized perpetrator Alexandre Bissonnette as an Islamic terrorist.

[23] In December 2020, Bracken appeared again on InfoWars as a guest host, where he told viewers that "We're going to only be saved by millions of Americans moving to Washington, occupying the entire area, if—if necessary storming right into the Capitol".