On Saturday, photographers for Reuters spotted members of the Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization, on a train in Washington, D.C. The group, known for employing fascist symbolism and masking their faces in public, was seen heading into the Eastern Market Metro station.

Patriot Front’s Presence in DC

Photographer Nathan Howard, who has covered extremist groups in the past, began gathering information about the march and talking with sources who track extremist groups. He found a livestream following the group, social media posts from people who had encountered them, and Reddit posts that helped identify landmarks and street signs, allowing him to narrow down their approximate location.

Howard and freelance colleague Cheney Orr photographed hundreds of group members heading into the Metro station, waiting on a platform, and boarding a train. One photo, taken by Orr, has attracted global attention, showing a woman in a green T-shirt sitting alone on the train, surrounded by members of the Patriot Front.

The Patriot Front did not respond to queries from Reuters about why they were marching or the identities of the masked members whose images the news agency captured. The group posted on Saturday that about 400 members had arrived in Washington, with a manifesto on their website stating that democracy has failed and a ‘hard reset’ is needed to return to the traditions and virtues of their forefathers, who they say were European settlers.

Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.