“ Fox wondered aloud whether the group just needed to “party it out, make a cake and send it,” in what CHS-2 believed was a coded reference to sending a bomb to the Governor. Fox discussed the need to train for the next three months to be ready to engage. Fox stated, “In all honesty right now ... I just wanna make the world glow, dude. I’m not even fuckin’ kidding. I just wanna make it all glow dude. I don’t fuckin’ care anymore, I’m just so sick of it. That’s what it’s gonna take for us to take it back, we’re just gonna have to everything’s gonna have to be annihilated man. ”

“ The other individual then looked up the locations of the local police department and Michigan State Police in the area, and used them to estimate how long it would take law enforcement to respond to an incident at the vacation home. During the surveillance operation, Fox said, “We ain’t gonna let ‘em burn our fuckin’ state down. I don’t give a fuck if there’s only 20 or 30 of us, dude, we’ll go out there and use deadly force.”
26. On August 30, 2020, Fox shared photos from his surveillance trip to the encrypted chat group, which included Franks, Harris, Garbin and CHS-2. ”

“ Over the weekend of July 10–12, 2020, Fox, Croft, Garbin, Franks, Caserta, CHS-2, and others attended a FTX in Cambria, Wisconsin. Attendees participated in firearms training and other combat drills. On July 11, at the exercise, Croft and a member of the militia group attempted to construct an improvised explosive device (“IED”) , using black powder, balloons, a fuse, and BBs for shrapnel. Croft, Garbin and the militia group member attempted to make a second IED using similar components. ”