Is this what Trump's MAGA thugs have become? Hamas-inspired copycats living like rats in their underground tunnels?
Is Trump's MAGA preparing for a civil war in the US?
Is Trump implementing Project 2025?
This is beyond the second amendment and the paltry argument of owning guns for innocent hunting. As far as I can remember, whenever I saw the National Rifle Association (NRA) conventions and its white supremacist underground (back then, not anymore) subsidiary militias, I wondered what these people were up to. How can you be training a non-state terrorist army while claiming its members love their guns like they love their cars?
Ever since the KKK and its roots in savage rural America, the English who first landed here were impregnated with the colonial mindset that made them believe they ougt to rule the world. That reasoning has persisted and found permanence in the stream of white supremacism that has pervaded American history. Just as the English did with their colonies, the English-Americans seized territories, conquered lands, enslaved large communities of humans while genociding other communities....all aiming at securing their exclusive rule over land and people.
Under white supremacist Trump, his terrorists are no longer figuratively underground. He has normalized them, forgiven their crimes, pardoned their subversion, enabled their hatred into the streets into what is nowadays ICE, CBP, and all the rest of the federal government's so-called "law enforcement" agencies. The Trump regime is identical to all other dictatorships that create a multitude of "security" agencies and entities that often overlap for no other reason than to protect the exclusive rule of the WASPs over the country by 1- instilling fear and terror into the population, and 2- repressing any dissent against the dictator and his regime.
Under Trump, the underground and the official have merged into one giant network of white supremacist terrorist militias. They have come out from their Hamas-inspired tunnels and weapons caches. Trump's white supremacist terrorists are preparing for the civil war that Project 2025 has proclaimed against all Americans who are not white anglo-saxon protestants (WASP): Everyone else is their enemy: Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Africans, Asians, Indians, Hispanics and Latinos, etc.
They want exclusive rule of WASPs over America, just like it was between the 1600s and the 1800s, a "democracy for WASPs only", with the rest of humanity (Trump's 'scum', 'garbage', 'shithole'...) as their slaves. This is identical to what the Zionist racists and Jewish supremacists want for the Levant and Palestine: A "democracy for Jews only" in which a large minority of Palestinians is preserved as a herd of second-status cheap laboring slaves.
This is no longer mere suppositions and hyperbole. This is real. The WASPs fear losing control of the country. They emerge in historical cycles. They start out by needing labor. They open up the gates of immigration. Immigrants come, work, build the country with their brains and arms, then when the job is done, the WASPs turn against them, harass them, persecute them, deport them.... They couldn't enslave the native indigenous Amerindians, so they massacred them and herded them in reservations.
We are now at the end of one such cycle where the WASPs think they no longer need immigrants, which explains the harrowing hunt of anyone with an accent or dark complexion. The WASPs know they cannot get rid of all these people they brought in a generation or two ago. But they cut off the supply first, then terrorize those who are already in, kill and deport as many as they can, until they establish an equilibrium in which there aren't enough immigrants to threaten the WASP demographic advantage, but there are enough immigrants to be enslaved into bonded servitude.
Again, the very same approach the Zionist colonials are using in Palestine, the difference being that in Palestine, the indigenous Palestinians have (unlike the Amerindians and the Africans) resisted and continue to resist the immigrant Zionist Jewish invasion of their land.
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A 100-foot tunnel, secret bunker and weapons stash found at MAGA activist's California home
Clara Harter
Tue, January 27, 2026
California Highway Patrol officers discovered an underground bunker while serving a search warrant for a suspected illegal marijuana grow in Shasta County. (California Highway Patrol)
Shasta County authorities started out investigating a suspected illegal marijuana farm but ended up making a far more unsettling discovery: a massive stash of illegal firearms and a secret underground bunker at the base of a 100-foot tunnel on a MAGA activist's property.
Michael Jay Kamfolt, 40, was arrested Jan. 20 after members of the California Highway Patrol discovered the bunker and confiscated an array of illegally possessed weapons — including three AR-15-style assault rifles, a sawed-off shotgun and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition — while serving a search warrant at his Anderson home. He is no longer in custody, according to county records.
Among the weapons seized in Anderson, Calif., were a sawed-off shotgun, three AR-15-style assault rifles, one with an obliterated serial number, and two firearms that were reported stolen, one in 2016 and the other in 1978. (California Highway Patrol)
“This operation went far beyond an illegal grow," CHP Northern Division Chief John Pinoli said in a statement. "The combination of a hidden bunker and an alarming cache of illegal firearms and ammunition highlights the threat posed to public safety."
Kamfolt is a well-known conservative activist who had shown up at protests and county Board of Supervisors meetings and had repeatedly raised concerns about voting fraud, according to reports from the Shasta Scout. Shasta County has become a hotbed for hard-right governance and election denialism in the Trump era of American politics, and a staunchly conservative majority took control of the county board in 2022.
Kamfolt is a strong advocate of Kevin Crye, a county supervisor and MAGA supporter. Kamfolt described himself as a “good friend” of Crye who would “do anything to help him out," while confronting protesters outside of Crye's business in May 2025, according to the Shasta Scout.
Crye is a pro-Trump election denier and survived a recall effort by just 50 votes in March 2024. The effort was launched after he led a successful effort to have the county ditch Dominion voting machines in favor of hand-counting ballots.
In a Facebook vido posted the day after Kamfolt's arrest, Crye said, "It came to my attention today that a supporter and I'll even say a friend of mine was arrested last night, and my heart is truly broken."
Crye said he was caught off guard by the news but urged people "not to rush to judgment." "Remember we are innocent until proven guilty," he said.
The CHP initially received a December tip about a suspected illegal marijuana grow on Kamfolt's property in Anderson, a small city 10 miles south of Redding.
During the search of the Northern California property, officers discovered an underground bunker accessible through a 100-foot-long culvert. (California Highway Patrol)
Officers then secured a search warrant and conducted a flight over the area. They continued to investigate for a month before searching Kamfolt's property on Dec. 20, when they discovered the bunker equipped with all the supplies necessary to cultivate marijuana including power, ventilation and a concrete floor with built-in drainage.
Located at the base of a 100-foot water drainage pipe, the sprawling secret cavern also contained a home gym, armchair and television. The wall decor included a Bennington flag, which was among the various historical American flags carried by supporters of President Trump during the Jan. 6 riot.
While on the property, officers seized 13 firearms, four soft body armor vests and 30 high-capacity magazines. Two of the guns were reported stolen, one in 2016 and the other in 1978, according to the CHP.
Kamfolt was arrested on suspicion of an array of misdemeanor and felony weapons-related violations. They include converting a firearm into a machine gun, manufacturing a ghost gun, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of armor penetrating ammunition.
The CHP's investigation is ongoing, and so far a case has not been presented to the Shasta County district attorney's office for filing consideration, according to a department spokesperson.
Kamfolt was no longer in custody on Monday, according to Shasta County inmate records. The county Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on when he was released.
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This red California county roiled by a far-right insurgency braces for more trouble as election nears
Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, right, talks with Jason Miller, owner of Lucky Miller’s Deli and a Crye supporter, in Redding, Calif. Crye is one of the board members who voted to get rid of the county’s ballot-counting machines in favor of counting ballots by hand. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
By Jessica Garrison
Nov. 2, 2024 3 AM PT
The Shasta County supervisor who fought the county’s hard-right majority is up for reelection. The county’s new voting machines are failing to properly count ballots.
As a devoted Republican who runs a cattle ranch and proudly talks about owning a gun, Shasta County Supervisor Mary Rickert is an unlikely progressive icon.
But that is exactly what the 72-year-old devout Catholic and grandmother has become to some in this Northern California county — which has been convulsed by conspiracy theories about voter fraud and other extremist ideologies over the last three years.
Rickert is still a staunch conservative. But she has also emerged as an often lonely voice on the Board of Supervisors against a far-right insurgency that has roiled her county.
Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert. (Shasta County)
After an ultra-conservative majority took over in 2022, the board voted to dump Dominion voting machines in favor of hand-counting ballots. The supervisors passed a measure to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings in defiance of state law. And they explored hiring a California secessionist leader as the county’s chief executive. Rickert, whose personal style tends toward feathered blond hair and flowy scarves, argued against much of what they did.
On Tuesday, voters in her district, which stretches from Redding into the waterfalls and mountain peaks to the east, will decide whether to give her a another term. Her challenger is a local business owner, Corkey Harmon, who said on his website that he is running “to protect our god given rights and our rural way of life.”
Some county residents say the contest is also about the future political direction of the county.
In recent years, Shasta County has attracted national attention for its embrace of voting conspiracy theories along with 2nd Amendment and anti-vaccine causes. Board meetings have been disrupted by shouting matches, and senior staff have been fired or quit. Election workers, meanwhile, say they have faced intimidation. An unknown person installed a game-hunting camera in the alley behind the elections office in 2022.
John Deaton joins others in a demonstration calling for the recall of Shasta County Supervisor Kevin Crye during a rally in Redding. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
But there are signs that the electorate has grown weary of being a far-right poster child.
Board president and gun-store owner Patrick Jones lost his election in the spring to a more moderate candidate and will leave the board in January. Another moderate, retired Redding police Lt. Allen Long, was elected to fill a vacant seat.
What that means is, if Rickert retains her seat, the far-right will likely lose its majority on the board.
County residents say it is harder to predict what will happen if her opponent wins. Harmon has said on his website that his “affiliation is to no group. I am not part of any Super Pacs or special interest group.” He did not respond to interview requests from the Times. In public statements he has posted on his website, he has not taken a clear position on many of the hot-button issues that have convulsed the county, although he did tell a local television station that he believed the county had an obligation to “fight back” against some state laws.
“As a supervisor, we have a duty to fight back, to go to our legislators and say no ... This is against our rights,” he said. “The state is overreaching. We all know they are, causing us grief in lots of ways... We don’t need to go into all the details of that.”
Doni Chamberlain, a local journalist and Rickert supporter whose news website has spent years chronicling the chaos that has ripped through local government, said voters in the county’s Supervisorial District 3 face a choice that will define the county. “The future of Shasta County depends on this race,” she said.
But no matter what happens in that race, there are signs that some chaos may continue. On Wednesday, the county announced that its new voting machines were failing to properly count ballots.
The county purchased the machines after it dumped Dominion and a new state law blocked it from hand-counting. The county also got a new registrar after Cathy Darling Allen, the only elected Democrat in the county, stepped down because she had heart failure and needed to reduce her stress.
Vote by mail envelopes are sorted at the Shasta County Registrar of Voters office in Redding in February. The Shasta County Board of Supervisors last year voted to get rid of the county’s ballot-counting machines and had planned to conduct elections with a hand count. The California Legislature later passed a law to bar hand-counting elections ballots, except in narrow circumstances. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
The new registrar, Tom Toller, said his office had discovered “an issue with ink overspray” that “is preventing our election equipment from processing those ballots.” He said the error isn’t visible to the naked eye and wasn’t detected during pre-election testing.
Nevada County, which uses the same machines, is having a similar problem, he said. He added that it is unknown how many of the 117,000 ballots his county issued have been affected; about 32,500 ballots have already been turned in by voters.
Also this week, a Shasta County elections official told the news website CalMatters that he had quit his job because election observers were crowding into the office in an intimidating manner. Some observers are “very angry,” Tanner Johnson said.
“They want to catch us in a lie, so they’ll try to trick you into saying something,” Johnson said. “A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”
Toller confirmed that an employee had quit because “he felt the climate surrounding elections was too hostile, and he felt threatened by that.” He called it “a great disappointment” because Johnson was an “excellent employee.”
He added that election observers have “become much more aggressive about pursuing their agenda,” which he said in many cases is advocating hand-counting, which is illegal.
“Things have gotten more confrontational,” he said. “The tone is more aggressive.”
Toller said he hoped for a placid election night, but law enforcement was planning patrols and “we have to be prepared for everything.”
Shasta County voters went overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, and many expect them to do the same this year. The real election suspense is whether voters will back Rickert or Harmon.
In a video introducing himself to voters posted on a local television station website, Harmon laid out his priorities. He described himself as “a true conservative who believes in local control” and said his values are more in tune with the district’s rural constituents than Rickert’s.
His video made no mention of the controversies that have repeatedly put his county in the national news. He has said one of his goals is to stop the “infighting” among board members and that he is committed to improving public safety.
Rickert, meanwhile, argues that she is the candidate with the experience to help right the county. She said she wants to stabilize the county’s workforce, which has been disrupted by all the turmoil, and make sure the $39 million the county expects to receive from opioid settlements is well spent.
She said she would have loved nothing more than to retire and spend time with her grandchildren, but she couldn’t find a moderate Republican willing to run.
“I just want to focus on getting our county finances back in order,” she said. “This is a pivotal moment in Shasta County’s history.”
Jessica Garrison
Jessica Garrison is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. She covered Northern California and had previously written about Los Angeles City Hall, courts, education and the environment. As a reporter, her work has won a National Magazine Award for Public Service, among other honors. Work she has edited has won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Goldsmith Prize. Her book, “The Devil’s Harvest,” told the story of a contract killer who stalked Central Valley farm towns for years while authorities failed to bring him to justice. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
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