Logan Plank aka Patriot Front member Clarke IL, an STL-area, Sheet Metal union (SMART 36) applicant, son of Wood River, IL councilman Jeremy Plank and Bethalto teacher Tiffany Plank

Logan Plank of Wood River, Illinois is also known as Clarke IL, a member of Patriot Front, a violent white supremacist group, as proved by their internal documents leaked today by Unicorn Riot.

Patriot Front was founded in the aftermath of 2017’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The fascist who drove his car into the crowd, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others, marched at the rally with Thomas Rousseau of Vanguard America, a neo-Nazi group. For more information on James Alex Fields, click here. Soon after, Rousseau formed Patriot Front as a splinter of Vanguard America. The then-teenaged founder, Rousseau, seized membership and assets of an earlier white power organization, Vanguard America, and rebranded his group as Patriot Front.

While the organization uses red, white, and blue patriotic imagery, Patriot Front is unambiguously white nationalist, stating that “Nationhood cannot be bestowed upon those who are not of the founding [white] stock of our people.” The organization is also fascist, an early text was titled “American Fascist Manifesto”, and involves neo-Nazis within its ranks. Since 2017, Patriot Front has also held “flash mob” events, where they are easily spotted in their uniform of khaki pants, polo shirts, ball caps, and white gaiter masks, and carrying American flags, smoke bombs or other props. At these events, their uniformed members will unload from the back of a rented U-Haul or Penske box truck, then briefly march along their planned route through the city, usually at night when there are few bystanders. The purpose of these marches is to generate footage for a few minutes of flashy recruitment videos for their social media channels. As well as holding flash rallies featuring masked participants, Patriot Front regularly spreads propaganda in the form of stickers, banners, and stencil graffiti. Patriot Front goal is often intimidation, for example when it targets synagogues with propaganda for the racist group. Following 2020’s mass anti-racist protests and rebellion, Patriot Front has increasingly targeted Black Lives Matter and racial justice murals for defacement. Patriot Front does this both to threaten its perceived enemies and to build notoriety for the organization. Today, Patriot Front is one of the most active distributors of racist and antisemitic propaganda in the country, both online and via fliers, stickers, and banners. Per its manifesto, the group is does not allow women to join and is actively working to create a whites-only ethnostate.

Below, in Patriot Front’s own video, ripped from their bitchute in case they delete it, we see documentation of Patriot Front vandalizing Black Lives Matter memorials, hanging banners over highways and of course, repurposing a Missouri FBI billboard in retaliation for the FBI knocking on their members’ doors. We share Patriot Front’s promotional video for educational purposes only.

As radicals and anti-fascists, we have no love for the state nor any of its enforcement mechanisms like the police, FBI, ICE, DHS, etc nor do we particularly care when any of their billboards are defaced. However, we are interested in uncovering the identities of the white nationalists hiding in our midst, and supporting communities in their defense against the rising tide of fascism.

Taken from Patriot Front’s telegram channel, which we will not be linking to because we don’t promote nazis:

On January 21 2022, as Patriot Front was marching at the anti-abortion protest in DC independent media outlet Unicorn Riot released 500GB of Patriot Front’s unaltered internal communications. The leaks include “private, unedited videos and direct messages reveal a campaign to organize acts of racial hatred while indoctrinating teenagers into national socialism (Nazism).”

“This release is now made available to the public at vault.unicornriot.ninja. Volunteers upgraded Unicorn Riot’s DiscordLeaks platform to host 55,249 RocketChat messages and file attachments, allowing the public to search the cache and inspect how fascists try to operate discreetly at their most inner levels.” From UR’s BitTorrent section: PatriotFrontLeaks BitTorrent release:

The PatriotFrontLeaks BitTorrent file release requires approximately 440 gigabytes of space. (Contains more than 6600 files). The app “Transmission” v3.0.0 (Linux/Mac) and “qBittorrent” v4.4.0 (Windows) is confirmed to work with this release. BitTorrent packaging courtesy of Distributed Denial of Secrets.

• Download the patriotfrontleaks.torrent file / Alt Link (5MB)
• Torrent Magnet Link (For Torrent Client programs)

Note: Torrents are not an anonymous method of downloading files. More info here.”

The January 2022 leaks of Patriot Front’s inner workings, white supremacist rhetoric, connections to the US military, and attempts to infiltrate mainstream conservative movements have been published widely in national media outlets.

For more information, see the full articles whose headlines are captured above from The Guardian, Huffington Post, NPR, Ars Technica, and Vice.

As the articles linked above also explain, upon arriving in the Patriot Front server, members are assigned a fake name and a state, obscuring their identities to one another. We are particularly interested in one young man, Clarke IL, pictured front and center in a Patriot Front training propaganda, unmasked and easily identifiable.

From the conversations leaked by Unicorn Riot at the links above, we see that Patriot Front member Clarke IL clearly had intentions of moving up in the fascist organization. In fact, Clarke IL even asked Thomas if he could learn the “art of making propaganda pieces” from him and then sent Thomas his sketched first attempt at Patriot Front promotional materials (aka “promat”). It’s clear that Clarke was seeking Thomas’s validation and approval, as well as maybe the design could be used on neo-Nazi stickers or banners used to terrorize communities.

After Logan compliments to Carter MO’s persuasive skills, Carter goes on to counsel Logan how to more successfully mislead and lie about his white nationalist beliefs and behaviors to his father, Jeremy Plank, Wood River Town Councilman.

The billboard that Patriot Front covered in Arnold, MO is within an hour drive of Wood River, IL.

In Springfield, Logan was one of the Patriot Front members who defaced a tunnel with fasces (of which the word “fascism” is rooted) and propaganda. In the video below, Carter MO aka Luke Paule and Logan’s faces are clearly visible:

The video is available in the Unicorn Riot vault, chockfull of all Patriot Front internal communications and unredacted images.

Logan Plank: maybe you should have thought twice before joining a neo-Nazi organization, especially straight out of high school. You made your choices. Good luck putting your life back together. If there was ever a wake-up call to leave your white nationalist values behind, this is it. Hopefully your family: your mother Tiffany Perry (Plank), your stepfather Matthew Perry, and your father Jeremy Plank, as well as your grandparents and friends can pull you out of the hatred in which you’ve enmeshed yourself.

So who is Logan Plank also known as Clarke IL in the world of the American fascist hate group Patriot Front?

 

We might not be able to assemble a full explanation of Logan’s downward trajectory to Patriot Front but Logan’s facebook likes show a distinct interest starting from Donald Trump then sliding to far-right nationalism and then finally, we find him in the Patriot Front internal communications. Just in case anyone had any doubts about the former president’s dog whistles pushing his followers from conservatism to genocidal violence and delusion. Additionally, it has been proven that white nationalist organizations target, radicalize and recruit teenagers online.

So let’s dig into his the people who have the potential to influence him and support him in his development.

First, his mother Tiffany (nee Smith, formerly Plank) Perry remarried after the divorce from Logan’s dad, Jeremy. She and her husband, former Carlinville police officer Matthew Perry welcomed a baby boy into the world in 2019. Tiffany’s Tiktok handle is “Life As a Song” where she showcases her life with Matthew and their young son. Photos are taken from Tiffany’s facebook and redacted by us.

Tiffany is a math teacher at Bethalto Middle School in Bethalto, Illinois teaching impressionable children

and Matthew is an Illinois state employee. Both have some delusions that undoubtedly played a role in Logan’s development and potentially his life path into a neo-Nazi organization Pro-Trump Tiffany believes that the January 6 2020 storming of the Capitol, directed by then-president Trump and coordinated by different fringe groups including white supremacists Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, was an ANTIFA hoax. As of October 21, stepdad Matthew was proudly unvaccinated despite being a state employee. As noted, before he was a state employee, Matthew was a cop. He resigned from the Carlinville police department in 2019, per local news. Matthew is completely tone deaf on what the Black Lives Matter movement, as seen in his gross shirt. With terrible values like this on display, who knows how many people of color Matthew harassed during his watch.

Tiffany’s twitter, now abandoned, features images of Logan performing in his early high school days before his brother was born:

 

All of these adults in Logan’s life looked away from or even possibly tacitly encouraged Logan’s hatred of non-whites as well as his desire to build a whites-only ethnostate. In addition to Logan, these enablers should also face social consequences for their ignorance or potential encouragement of white nationalism.

As mentioned previously, Logan’s facebook friends list was wide open so we went through and captured all of his high school friends and his family who are unwittingly friends with someone who’s working to build a ‘whites only’ ethnostate with other violent neo-nazis.

Holding white nationalists accountable for their words and deeds is one tenet of antifascism. We believe that there should be no quarter, no sanctuary for fascists like Logan Plank and his Patriot Front brothers actively seeking to cause harm to vulnerable communities. Keep in mind that the businesses below probably have no idea that Logan is involved with a hate group so we encourage concerned citizens to be polite in their outreach. In contacting the places below, do consider using safety tools like *67 when calling, sock emails when emailing, and a VPN for all the things online.

Due to the publishing requirements of this platform, we cannot directly share personal information like Logan Plank and his parents’ phone number, email address, or home addresses. However, we can link to this separate website and this one where that information can be found.