Meet The New KKK: Inside the Allied Special Intelligence Group’s Controversial Outreach in Ohio

By Tim Tolka

May 21, 2025

A flier recently posted to the neighborhood platform Nextdoor in Cleveland is raising eyebrows across Northeast Ohio and beyond. At first glance, it seems like just another political seminar — $99 per person, lunch included. However, a closer look at the document reveals a potentially radical new effort to mobilize citizens under the banner of “intelligence” and “liberty.”

Operating under the moniker Allied Special Intelligence Group (ASIG2), the organization is advertising an “Into Action” class scheduled for June 21, 2025, in Portage County. The stated goal is nothing short of a grassroots campaign to identify, target, and “flush out” individuals and organizations allegedly hostile to liberty — terms that are never clearly defined… until you go to ASIG2’s website.

There, ASIG2 let’s it all hang out:

“We have special skills used to educate and train: Citizens, Local, State, and Federal Leaders, Law Enforcement on how to legally and lawfully, delay, disrupt, dismantle, and remove Communists/Marxists and Terrorists from our communities in order to restore and protect our Constitutional Republic. We provide training and education for groups, including churches and political groups.”

The local Portage County GOP is actually promoting these thinly veiled fascist crusaders.

The group claims to offer training in “information operations,” “security training,” and “strategic considerations to delay, disrupt and dismantle threats at the grass roots level.” This raises pressing legal and ethical questions:

Who determines who the “enemies of liberty” are? Especially in an era when the President can’t answer the question of whether he must uphold the Constitution, and the head of DHS thinks Habeas Corpus gives the President the right to eject anybody from the nation.

Makes one wonder what kind of operations are being encouraged, and whether they veer into territory best left to law enforcement and national security professionals.

Weaponizing Patriotism?

According to the flyer, ASIG2 is comprised of “Patriots who are Military Combat Veterans with Special Operations experience, Former Law Enforcement, Elected Officials, and Intelligence Professionals.” While experience in security and government can be a powerful asset in civic engagement, the call to action in this context feels ominous. And the odd capitalization is just annoying.

The language used is militarized and urgent — America is in a war, the flyer states, against unnamed “Movements at the root of all of the anti-American issues.” The course promises to equip attendees with operational plans to “reduce the adversaries’ ability to operate,” echoing counterinsurgency doctrine more commonly used in war zones than domestic town halls.

A Return to “Republican Government”

ASIG2’s rhetoric leans heavily on the idea of restoring a “Constitutional Republic,” a phrase that — while technically synonymous with American democracy — has in recent years become a coded term for far-right ideological purity. The course aims to re-establish this system at the local, county, and state level, suggesting a strategic infiltration of institutions rather than engagement through elections or policy.

The group’s alignment with concepts like “hostile infiltration” and “strategic delay and disruption” reveals a worldview of internal siege — a nation under attack from within by its own civil society.

Dangerous Precedents

If this all sounds familiar, it’s because it echoes elements of past “patriot” movements — some of which have veered into violent extremism. The 1990s militia movement, the Bundy standoff, and more recently, the January 6 Capitol attack, were all fueled by similar rhetoric about shadowy enemies, constitutional restoration, and a patriotic duty to act.

Yet ASIG2 appears to be attempting a more polished rollout, complete with a QR code and lunch. The use of platforms like Nextdoor — designed for community gardening tips and missing cat alerts — adds a layer of normalization to what appears to be a radical agenda.

What Comes Next?

If this is a test case, Ohio may be just the beginning. The tagline “Local Action Equals National Impact” suggests ASIG2 sees this as a nationwide strategy. What remains unclear is how authorities will respond. Is this protected political speech, or does it cross into unlawful incitement?

And more broadly: in a moment when trust in institutions is eroding, will programs like this continue to gain traction among Americans seeking purpose in uncertainty? Or will communities begin to ask harder questions about what it really means to be “liberty-minded”?

As ever, the devil is in the footnotes. And the flyer’s small print may be one of the first public clues to something much larger unfolding beneath the surface.

Hopefully, someone who understands what liberty means in a Constitutional system will attend and record what these Brown Shirt fascists are planning.