Masked Patriot Front march through Washington, Confederate flags displayed

newsJul 4, 2026422,363

On July 4, during America’s 250th anniversary, several hundred masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched from Union Station across Capitol Hill and toward the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Marchers carried Confederate flags and chanted anti-immigrant slogans, and many wore white masks or gaiters to conceal their identities. Reports and photos, including imagery credited to Reuters photographer Cheney Orr, show the group in khaki trousers and coordinated face coverings. Local officials issued a statement condemning the group, identifying them as white supremacists and urging neighbors to protect vulnerable people. Some accounts put the turnout at roughly 400, while one local report described a smaller contingent of about 100; witnesses say the march lasted only a short time before dispersing. News outlets including NBC Washington and Raw Story covered the event and published on-the-ground reporting and reaction.

Ricky Davila

@therickydavila.bsky.social

Nothing says MAGA quite like seeing the cowardly masked Nazi group Patriot Front marching in the streets of Washington DC on July 4th with their racist confederate flags in honor of the orange felon. How far this country has fallen in 250 years because of fascists.

6372h ago

📎𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🌹💙🐾18

I hope they have heat strokes.

Saturnine13

"Let 'em Up Easy" I blame Lincoln for the plan, and Johnson for carrying it out, rather than grinding the Confederacy to dust. There needed to be trials. There needed to be hangings. Without them, you get 160 years of slavemonger impunity that's still shaping our politics today.

Josey7

If they are such patriots why are they hiding their faces?

Akiro3186

Shirt for work at my federal job today. #fdt

Ceramic Sculptor/printmaker6

Maybe that was the deal for being pardoned from the January 6th scenario?

Mark Sanchez4

Make the world a better place. Punch a nazi in the face.

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jessica jonestown14

who wants to tell him about the people who founded the country?

Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline.com

Patriot Front came out of their moms’ basements, dusted off the Old Navy khakis, put on the white masks so they don’t get fired from their day jobs, and headed to Washington for America’s 250th birthday celebration. Four hundred self-described patriots, not one ounce of bravery.

3281h ago

Matt25

I hope they get heat stroke.

Reverend Dr. Khlamydia Kardashian, MD, PhD13

so painful to see this many impotent cowards

Terre-Strial12

Oh, NOW masks are okay. Fearful. Toddlers. Scared. Cowards.

The Hot Stepper11

So many families are beyond ecstatic that these useless assholes didnt show up for 4th of July celebrations. Overjoyed.

Dave Markaudino8

They all used to fit in a U-Haul box truck. This isn’t getting better.

Russ Blazier7

Seems like we’ve seen a gang in white masks before, hmmm?

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie)3

Nothing says "proud to be an American" quite like wearing a cap, a mask, and sunglasses so no one can recognize your face. 🙄 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Patriot Front headed to the Mall in DC. Seems a questionable way to dress for 100+ degree weather. Sure hope none of these little fascist twerps gets heat stroke . . .

3391h ago

The Roaring Lion28

How uncomfortable is that poor woman in green? Poor thing. 😕

if7ate9.bsky.social25

For a group that would claim they couldn’t breathe with a mask on during Covid they sure seem to be fine with it when it comes to being Nazi cowards.

andrinoraf.bsky.social14

The look on that young woman's face! I hope that she is okay. What a horrible experience for her.

For the People11

But they were dying in a mask during winter Now they wearing a sweater mask on their entire face in high heat Republicans lie

Odd Kelvin9

Why are they riding on socialist public transport?

Rumplestiltskin6

I will celebrate their suffering with the passionate heat of a thousand suns.

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David Stone3

This tells you all you need to know about where America has landed. Who knew that if you took the lids off all of the sewers, these people would emerge? Trump knew. You have to give him credit for that. Reminder: The majority of those who voted in Nov 2024 voted for him.

CherieAnne3

A girl can dream, though.

John Pavlovitz

@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

The good people of this nation need to drive these Patriot Front incels back into the woodwork like the cockroaches they are. This is what Trump and his supporters (and that means you, if you voted for him) have done to America.

2421h ago

riverloki6

How scary for that woman who is surrounded by these single-cell brain idiots.

Jeffrey Bigger5

They’re such weak assholes. Hiding their faces. They know they’re garbage.

catlady49ers.bsky.social2

And they get so defensive when we call them Nazis! 🙄

Luca Migo

@victinibcn.bsky.social

BREAKING: Hundreds of masked men in Confederate flags marching through the nation's capital on its 250th birthday, and the White House response is... crickets. Almost like silence is the statement. Happy Independence Day, apparently some Americans get an asterisk

1063h ago

SassyKate🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her12

Masked like the clan. Cowards.

Baltussen 🇳🇱🇪🇺7

Hope they all get a heat stroke.

"Judge Grimlock" aka "Andreas" aka "Who?"7

The Union won the war, no matter what the nazis and southern thinks.

rcinnc16

Calling them “men” is a stretch,” they’re faithless cowards unable to stand up on their own. This is the only guaranteed “crowd” tRUMP and crew could muster.

Rick Miskowski 🏜️6

This 4th is a good one to sit out.

Monamo60☮️❤️🎶🏳️‍🌈💙🦋🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦6

WTF IS THIS SH*T? A corp of pathetic losers whose mothers never loved them,and quit school in the 6th grade. Disgusting!

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Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦31

This is why every single Confederate general should have been hanged in the middle of Atlanta

Mark & The Crew5

I wonder if they grasp the fact that their "side" lost? Bunch of fucking losers doing a loser parade.

😈Sarcastic momma and really fucking inappropriate4

Of course the White House is silent, he just pardoned most of these guys and tried to give them a slushfund using our tax dollars.

Cowgal Fella 🇨🇦🇺🇦3

This is the #US capitol today, on its Birthday: a parade of masked stomp-troopers and a sloppy, wrecked national building. Weak, divided country.

Kinlika2

Which was the whole point of the exercise Proud Boys Oath Keepers Brown Shirts Jackboots S.S Schutzstaffel Protection Squad S.A Sturmabteilung 'stormtroopers' With full pardons waiting for anyone who needs it Absolute immunity That should scare the living daylights out of you

Steve King♿️2

At least we finally got them to wear masks

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

On Amercica's 250th anniversary, some of these people are waving the American flag, and some are literally waving the Confederate flag of traitors who sought to destroy America. www.rawstory.com/confederate-...

1262h ago

Shiver Me Embers11

Their KKK outfit remains the look of a Target employee crossed with a snowboarder...

Rob Fardon3

To be fair, the ones holding American flags are also traitors

Jasperino3

I see one American in this photo.

John Holland1

These are Republican men. They voted Republican.

vizslamum65.bsky.social1

I hope people are working hard to identify these cowardly f-wads so they can be doxed. I have so much hate in my heart for this regime.

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Kevin Collins99

The emblem in the blue section of the insignia on their hats is the fascio. They are literally saying they are fascists extremism.gwu.edu/patriot-front

Genie Lauren5

And both sets of flag-wavers are white supremacists.

PortiaMcGonagal

@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social

But we're a post-racial, rising tide lifts all boats, America, right? The fruits of the stochastic terrorist tree, watered, fed, and nurtured by a racist President and his regime. www.rawstory.com/confederate-...

703h ago

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Jack Walsh4

When I saw the Confederate Flag guy in the Capitol on January 6th I screamed "Kill him!" at the TV involuntarily, but I'd settle for a tear gassing on public street.

Nicole Votes Becerra3

Sure. No war but class war, right? 😞😡

Patrick* Neithard2

Ashley B, Baronness, that large account said it recently, to white people (paraphrased) Your uncle in [that MAGA hat] didn’t become that only in 2016. He’s been that person his whole life. You sat across from him for thirty years. The hat just made it harder to ignore. 1/2

Free DC

@freedcproject.bsky.social

This is the white supremacist group Patriot Front and we condemn in the strongest possible terms their ideology and presence in our communities. We advise DC neighbors to protect the most vulnerable people around you today. We reaffirm DC’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

631h ago

Jared Holt

@jaredlholt.bsky.social

Patriot Front, a white nationalist group that MAGA influencers have insisted is a FBI-orchestrated hoax group meant to smear conservatives, showed up in the hundreds today in DC for the 4th. Their biggest showing in a hot minute.

521h ago

Jared Holt14

Background on this group: www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

James Hughes

@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social

Over 400 members of the Patriot Front neo-Nazi group march through Washington, D.C., on the 4th of July, calling for the expulsion of immigrants and waving Confederate flags and hiding their pathetic and racist faces.

323h ago

Tinosdo2

The country that chose this disgrace as its leader has a serious value problem (and I'm not saying that the rest of us are not on the way to having the same issue)

Dr. Mar

@boldnewme.bsky.social

Watching white supremacists march through Capitol Hill carrying Confederate flags is exhausting. The flags represent a rebellion fought to preserve slavery. The ideology represents hate. This is very wrong.

403h ago

Laurå Ann Guy17

People need to follow these assholes to their cars, post their license plates. Take photos of them as they drive away. They are cowards and worse. All of them.

Dan 🔵🌊🇺🇸6

I understand this exhaustion, I feel it, too. 🫂

Joshsky 🦅🇰🇷♐🐯6

Just what we need to kick off America's 250th....tiny penis energy

⚖️ 💋4

They’re SO proud but won’t show their faces… pussies!

Patricia Donnellan, MPH 🇺🇦📎2

Once more for the people in the back: The Civil War was about Slavery. And your side lost!

Dr. Alice Frost1

And confidently showing their faces. Oh, wait.

#TuckFrump

@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

'Such cowards': Masked men marching with Confederate flags in D.C. spark outrage #RawStory

372h ago

Matt Ford

@mford.bsky.social

If the Patriot Front wants to march outside in 104 degree weather with DC humidity in balaclavas and slacks, I’m not going to stop them.

461h ago

Kelsey Atherton6

i'm also fine if they return to their previous practice of riding around in U-Hauls all day

Marty Taylor

@realmartyt7.bsky.social

app.rawstory.com/story/267715... #USD #PB Cowardly masked Patriot Front White Nationalists Fascists march in support of Donald Trump and against the United States America defeated Nazi Fascist trying to destroy the U.S. in 1945 We will defeat these modern day Trump aligned fascists today

181h ago

Lady Becky, Baroness of Bunzy, Bestie of Kim, Co-CEO Execubetch™️

@beckybunzy.bsky.social

Nazis are marching in DC wearing white face masks and carrying Confederate flags for the 4th of July. The perfect end to this failed experiment in democracy.

333h ago

Greg Olear6

It must be so hot and humid there. DC it’s like the jungles of Vietnam this time of year.. I hope people don’t sell them water.

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