INSIDE THE PLOT TO BOMB THE WHITE HOUSE, KILL TRUMP, VANCE AND ISRAELI LEADER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
NEW DOMESTIC TERROR GROUP, 'VANGUARD OF THE OLD REPUBLIC,' PLANNED TO BOMB UFC FREEDOM 250 AT THE WHITE HOUSE JUNE 14, MOTIVATED BY HATRED OF DATA CENTERS, JEFFREY EPSTEIN-FRIENDLY POLITICIANS AND POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT ISRAEL. WANTS TO SPARK ‘SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION’
MALONE, NEW YORK JUNE 19, 2026
It was a cunning, audacious plot: suicide drones would bomb the UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn then snipers would assassinate fleeing "high-value targets"—Including Pres. Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and newly-minted trillionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
"Targets confirmed," one of the alleged organizers of the plot, an illegal migrant living in Nebraska named Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, wrote in an encrypted group chat the conspirators used to make and share plans. "1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk."
According to the FBI agent who arrested Alvarez, that meant Trump, Vance, Netanyahu and Musk.
Plotters hope the assassinations would unleash what one alleged conspirator called the "second American Revolution." Their enemies included corrupt officials they accused of being in league with deceased sex trafficking millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Capitalists like Musk, politicians compromised by foreign influence from Israel and even data centers.
The parents of one of the suspects intervened. They reported their son to police, who foiled the nefarious, nationwide plot by arresting the four remaining, known conspirators just one day before the planned attack. The UFC Freedom 250, a mixed martial arts event, took place as planned at the White House on June 14 without incident. Neither Netanyahu nor Musk attended.
Officials kept the plot and the five arrests secret until Tuesday. That's when FBI Director Kash Patel revealed the "FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event" on June 10.
"Thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation," Patel added, "multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold."
"It was a serious threat," Matthew Quinn, Deputy Director of the Secret Service, revealed during a news conference later on Tuesday. "It was an active plot, and it's ongoing."
"It was unique," Quinn added. "Due to the numbers involved. The level of planning involved."
Quinn also disclosed the group is larger than the five arrested. Other members of the group remain at large and potentially pose a threat.
"This is still an active, ongoing investigation," Quinn revealed. "There are still suspects at large, and we're gonna work it until everyone's been identified."
Since the start of 2026, the Secret Service has seen "a significant increase in threat cases," Quinn said. "We're up 40% this year in threat cases."
Screenshots of encrypted messages where the suspects worked out their plans to attack the White House. Photo credit: unknown, courtesy of the FBI.
The Free Lance News has obtained criminal complaints the FBI filed against the five defendants so far arrested in the case to take readers inside this new domestic terrorist group and their plot to bomb the White House.
The group calls itself "Vanguard of the Old Republic." One of the plot's organizers viewed the group as non-partisan. He urged members to select assassination "targets" that "can’t be easily turned into a right vs left thing we want someone both sides would celebrate.”
The plot to bomb the White House involved suspects from coast to caost. In addition to Nebraska, two are from California, one is from Missouri and another is from Ohio. The complaints also refer to a sixth alleged conspirator from West Virginia, but are silent on whether they, too, were arrested.
Alvarez, the suspect living in Nebraska, "is a Mexican illegal alien who overstayed a B2 visitor visa" that expired in 2001, according to the Department of Homeland Security. "The Obama Administration granted him Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2014."
The plot started as a TikTok group called "Vanguard of the Old," Tycen Proper, 19, another one of the five accused plotters, told police, according to the arrest affidavit the FBI filed against him in federal court in Ohio.
"The members of the group stated that they wanted to protect the United States, which they believed was headed in the wrong direction," according to Proper's arrest affidavit.
"Members of the group believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt," the affidavit added. "Some expressed a desire that people who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein should not govern the country."
Once members proved their devotion to the cause by displaying "identification documents and videos of their abilities and workouts" via the TikTok group, those "moved their communications over to the encrypted communications app Signal," the affidavit says.
The plotters called the Signal chat "Hunters," according to the affidavit. "Once an individual had proven himself to an established member of the group on TikTok, they were then transitioned to a vetted (and more secure) Signal chat."
Members also used Discord, SimpleX and Telegram to communicate.
Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of California, told police "he saw himself as the planner and advisor for the group," according to the FBI's arrest affidavit for him. Thomas also told police "the aim of this and subsequent attacks was to create enough chaos to bring about the overthrow of the U.S. government."
An encrypted recruitment message allegedly formulated and distributed by Daniel K. Eskridge. Photo credit: unknown, courtest of the FBI.
Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Hamilton, Missouri, also allegedly helped lead the group. The fifth alleged plotter, Bryan Omar Roa, 24, also of California, told the FBI Eskridge was "running the show," according to the FBI arrest affidavit against Eskridge.
In a May 20, 2026 chat Eskridge explained the group's philosophy and mission.
"Our constitutional republic has been stolen by corporations, politicians and foreign actors," Eskridge wrote, according to the affidavit. "They have usurped the power from the people and concentrated it at the top to the point that we now live in late-stage 'democracy.'"
Therefore, Eskridge wrote, "Our goal is to in a general sense 'restore the old republic.' When I say restore the old republic I am not talking about all the flaws that we had in past times." Instead, he explained he was "merely talking about the fact that in a Constitutional republic the people truly hold the power and that's what we intend to restore."
Eskridge called this message his "recruitment chat." He urged members of the group to share it with potential "recruits" who have "the capability and the equipment to take action."
Eskridge also encouraged members to "put differences aside because they have all been 'victims of the system in one way or another,'” he wrote.
To inspire people to join the fight, Eskridge argued, "trigger event ops" were needed" to "show our fellow Americans that the time has come to stand up and reclaim that power."
"Right now in the historical timeline, I believe we are at the 'trigger event' point," he asserted. "Meaning to set this off we need an event or events that cause people the revolution has officially begun."
While Eskridge was the group's philosopher, Thomas appears to have been its operational planner.
“To be clear, I intend to escalate this group, and I don’t want to take 6 business years to do it,” he wrote May 21. Thomas added: everyone in the group should “consider yourselves an enemy of the state.”
Thomas envisioned the group organized in four "tiers."
—Tier 1 operators may be asked to put themselves in harms way, break the law, and potentially go into hiding;
—Tier 2 would consist of get away drivers, drone operators, and direct support. May still be asked to seriously break the law;
—Tier 3 may be a runner, or part of the Underground Railroad. Indirect support, recruitment, supply, logistics, tech ... still actively contributing, but most likely safe from legal issues.
—Tier 4 social media influencers, protesters, funders, press, followers ... nobody being asked for much or taking any risks.
If anyone is caught by police, Thomas wrote, "We will try to break them out of jail if we need to."
Screenshots of encrypted messages where the suspects worked out their plans to attack the White House. Photo credit: unknown, courtesy of the FBI.
The group began debating potential "targets" or "missions" in May. Proper told police he was a Tier I "team leader," according to his FBI arrest affidavit. In a May 13 chat, Proper identified Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn as a "possible target" because "She's taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them."
Proper again identified pro-Israel politicians as potential targets May 31. He posted to the chat photographs of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, West Virginia's Senators Jim Justice and Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginian Representative Riley Moore, Ohio Representative Carol Miller and West Virginia State representative Tristan Leavitt. All are Republicans.
"These are people we're going to focus on," Proper wrote.
In Proper's arrest affidavit, the FBI observes the images Proper sent appear "to have been taken from the website 'TrackAIPAC.com' and appear to include information about how much money each Congressperson received 'from pro-Israel PACS.'"
The group continued to debate potential targets until about June 7, 2026, the FBI says. That's when Thomas, one of two plotters from California, wrote “We’re planning something in a week."
Eskridge sketched a plan calling for five teams of three including a sniper, a second "rifleman/spotter/back up" and a "drone operator," according to the FBI affidavit against Eskridge. He asked the group for $1,300 in donations to purchase drones and explosives.
"The target is ufc 250," he wrote, "if you don't know what it is look it up."
"We select 5 locations that best suit our mission," Eskridge wrote. "These 5 locations need to be ideal for precise sniper shots and for the drone pilot to operate from."
Once each team is in position, "the green light will be given and the drone rigged with explosives will fly they will initiate the attack as soon as the drones have done their part and the attention of our opposition is on the skies and not the rooftops snipers will initiate their part of the plan eliminating HVTs" —high value targets—"first then the retaliatory forces such as SS, NG and swat," using initials for the Secret Service and National Guard and police special weapons and tactics teams.
"If we are successful this could be the first battle of the second American Revolution," Eskridge trumpeted. "Now who is willing and able to drop everything and be one of these 10 operators and who here is confident and capable of flying drones?"
Four members of the overall group answered Eskridge's call—the four including Eskridge who have been arrested.
More messages were exchanged between the five men. Including "maps with pins to locate positions of attack, as well as planned routes of escape following the execution of the group’s plan," according to the FBI affidavit against Eskridge.
"Once the details were settled," Eskridge wrote “I’m liking it, now if we can keep it all coordinated it should work.”
While the group discussed stealing explosives or finding a "cook" to manufacture explosives, it does not appear any member actually obtained explosives, according to the affidavits.
Screenshots of encrypted messages where the suspects worked out their plans to attack the White House. Photo credit: unknown, courtesy of the FBI.
The plot started coming apart late in the evening on June 10—when Proper's parents called 9-1-1 in Danville, Ohio.
Proper's father reported to local police his son "recently met random people online and had been planning 'recons' with these individuals," according to the Proper's arrest affidavit. His son planned to meet up with them "the weekend of June 13, 2026." Proper's father also told police his son "recently acquired camping gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, 'lots' of ammunition, extra magazines, and plate carriers."
Police took the 19-year-old to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, and reported him to the FBI. The FBI called Proper's mother the next day, June 11.
"She detailed that PROPER had recently begun interacting with a group online that was comprised of individuals who claimed to be ex-military and Christian based," according to the FBI affidavit. She said members of the group "expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions."
Proper's mother told the FBI she believed "those individuals were using religion to manipulate and influence her son."
Police obtained a search warrant for Proper's mobile phone. In it, they found "chats on Signal groups that laid out detailed plans to conduct an attack in Washington D.C. with several unidentified confederates."
They also observed "detailed imagery of the National Capitol Region and maps of the area were shared to a group of which PROPER was a member, highlighting sniper locations, potential drone launch locations, and other detailed tactical planning."
When questioned by police, Proper "admitted to planning with others a Coordinated attack against the United States government" during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House grounds. The plan called for participants to meet up in Fredericksburg, Virginia on Friday or Saturday before the event, then drive from there to Washington, DC.
Based on the information in Proper's phone, the FBI identified and arrested his alleged co-conspirators—the day before the scheduled UFC Freedom 250 fight. All except Alvarez possessed firearms inside their residences when they were arrested. All have been held without bail.
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