TrackAIPAC, TikTok, and the targeting architecture behind the White House plot

How They Built the Kill List

The group started on TikTok, in a channel called "Vanguard of the Old."

The group started on TikTok, in a channel called "Vanguard of the Old."

That was March. Tycen Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio, was the recruiter. He found Bryan Omar Roa through the handle @noble_0066 and Michael Alan Thomas through @whiskey_six_actual. He confirmed their identities to investigators from his own phone. When the conversations got specific enough to matter, the group migrated to Signal. By June, they had a date, a target, a two-phase operational plan, and a tool they were using to identify who to kill.

The tool was a website called TrackAIPAC.com.

Court documents confirm it. Proper cited Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee as a target on May 13, telling co-conspirators she had "taken money from the Israel pro-Israel lobby and supports them," then shared images of four additional West Virginia Republican lawmakers, including Senators Jim Justice and Carol Miller. Those images, according to charging documents reviewed by The Hill (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5926514-trump-ufc-white-house-investigation/) and WJLA (https://wjla.com/news/local/heres-what-we-know-about-5-men-arrested-in-plot-targeting-white-house-ufc-event-bryan-roa-michael-alan-thomas-tycen-proper-daniel-eskridge-abraham-alvarez), appear to have been taken from TrackAIPAC.com. TrackAIPAC is an advocacy platform founded in April 2024 by Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy. Archibald is a self-described Marxist who was living in Germany at the time of the site's launch. Kennedy is a former staffer for AOC, Jamaal Bowman, and President George W. Bush. The site publishes red cards on politicians it identifies as accepting money from the pro-Israel lobby, and green endorsement cards for politicians it supports. It has built a large social following and influenced several 2026 primary races, including by issuing a red card to Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow, who supports a two-state solution. The Intercept published a profile of TrackAIPAC in March 2026 (https://theintercept.com/2026/03/26/track-aipac-midterms-2026-israel-palestine/) describing it as a "viral" force in progressive politics. A DOJ criminal complaint now describes it as a target-selection tool for a mass-casualty plot against the White House.

TrackAIPAC did not respond to a request for comment as of publication. The site has not addressed its appearance in the charging documents.

The ringleader of the plot was not Proper. He was Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska. He went by "Shepherd" in the encrypted chats. He was a Mexican national who entered the United States on a B-2 tourist visa in 2001, when he was six. The visa expired that year. He overstayed. In 2014, the Obama administration's DACA program granted him deportation relief. TikTok identified him through the handle @unitedworldwide444 and provided his IP address to the FBI after investigators filed a records request with the platform. He was arrested on June 14, the day of the fight, in Omaha. ICE lodged a detainer. DHS confirmed his identity on June 18 (https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/06/18/alleged-ringleader-ufc-terrorist-plot-mexican-illegal-alien), the same morning its press office simultaneously announced unrelated charges against members of Direct Action Minnesota. No charging document reviewed for this piece identifies Alvarez or his co-defendants as having any Antifa affiliation. The ideology across all charging documents is accelerationist.

The DOJ has released full details of its criminal complaint against each defendant (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-arrested-and-charged-plot-attack-and-kill-government-officials-and-others-attending). They are worth reading in sequence because the picture they assemble is specific.

Alvarez, in the Signal group, posted maps of the South Lawn with purple dots marking counter-sniper and drone positions. He wrote: "This is the best action I see. Position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river." When asked how powerful the drones should be, he said: "As many and as deadly as we can get." He also designated a safe zone at an old church in Nebraska, with instructions to take back roads or use the river to reach the pickup location. He claimed to have one working drone and said he was building more.

Michael Alan Thomas of Pinon Hills, California, laid out the organizational structure in a separate group chat. Tier 1: operators on the ground. Tier 2: drivers and drone operators. Tier 3: logistical suppliers. Tier 4: social media influencers. "Tier one status is not something to take lightly," Thomas wrote. He discussed "gorilla style warfare" and marksmen training sessions with Roa in Southern California. He initiated the drone procurement fundraising: "$1,300 gets us the drones and the charges. Yes we should all pitch in and we need it asap." Agents seized a rifle, 30-round extended magazines, 180 rounds of ammunition, and a pistol from Thomas's Pinon Hills residence on June 13.

Daniel Eskridge of Kidder, Missouri, handle "Fulcrum," echoed the $1,300 figure in a separate chat and developed the operational team structure independently: "5 teams of 3 each team consisting of 1 sniper, 1 tier one operator as support/lookout, [and] one drone operator." He added that he intended to be "leading from the front as one of the 5 snipers." Agents recovered rifles, a shotgun, a pistol, and other tactical gear from his residence on June 13. The Unredacted has previously reported that Eskridge's wife knew of his communications, that he had moved all his tactical equipment from their residence before a CPS visit, and that he was preparing a hiding spot under the floorboards of an outbuilding on his 25-acre Missouri property. He had also discussed hitting the Parsons, Kansas Army Ammunition Plant to source materials for the drone charges.

Bryan Omar Roa of Calimesa, California, was found with a rifle, handgun, tactical belt, ammunition, a rifle magazine, a two-way radio, and an infrared laser target pointer. He had posted Instagram videos of himself shooting weapons and had exchanged maps of Washington, D.C. with the group.

Proper, the Ohio 19-year-old who launched the whole thing from a TikTok channel in March, had amassed AR-style firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and tactical gear at his home in Knox County. His mother surrendered his weapons to local police on June 10 after becoming alarmed about his online communications, his firearms purchases, and his announcement that he was leaving town on June 13 for "recon" and "hit and run missions." She told investigators his online acquaintances had described themselves as "ex-military and Christian-based" and that her son had grown increasingly religious, had started physical training, and had been researching locations around Washington, D.C.

Proper told investigators he was not planning to shoot anyone himself. Several other members of the group were.

The network, as of June 18, encompasses 23 identified individuals. Five are in custody. Eighteen are not. The FBI declined to say where they are. The White House declined to say either. The UFC event proceeded on June 14 while multiple members of the network remained at large.

The DOJ press release cited Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: "We will take immediate and aggressive action to identify and prosecute those who incite and plan acts of violence." FBI Director Kash Patel called the FBI's work "nothing out of the ordinary for this law enforcement team." Secret Service Director Sean Curran noted a "dramatic rise in threats" against protectees.

None of them addressed the 18.

The man who wanted snipers on the White House lawn came from nowhere on paper

Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez allegedly directed a five man cell to put snipers around a UFC card on the White House grounds. Five days later, his immigration status and country of origin remain undisclosed.

The Unredacted | Truth Without PermissionGene Goodwin