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In August 2022, while researching the Highland Park mass shooting with three other open-source researchers, I encountered an unheard article by Nama Cates about the alleged shooter Robert Cremo and began DMing her. Nama, a former Hollywood actress who hosted InCells and interviewed fringe figures, was also researching mass shootings. In early conversations, she referenced her friend Jade, who shared the belief that some recent mass shooters were provoked and groomed by a rising terrorist threat called accelerationism.
Accelerationists, as I understood them, are a decentralized group of domestic terrorists bound by a shared desire for societal collapse, after which they hoped to install a fascist regime. Functionally, these people are provocateurs who infiltrate extremist movements and incite violence, as well as nonviolent political activism, to facilitate collapse. Sometime in late 2022, Jade—who was a military intelligence contractor specializing in counter-terrorism—identifed accelerationism as a threat for the first time and sounded alarms or attempted to do so. Jade pinned a series of tweets claiming she had used her accelerationism research to identify the person who planted pipe bombs at the Capitol prior to January 6. Her online behavior became frantic and erratic, and she released a document online she called a dead man’s switch, after which she vanished.
Robert Cremo, the Highland Park shooter, was a musician known as Awake the Rapper and allegedly hid clues within an alternate reality game he developed prior to the shooting. The speaker believed there could be a hidden code within one of Cremo’s MP3 files, and, sharing this finding with Nama, learned that she and her friend Jade were doing the same thing with the same song file. The speaker did not know Jade’s identity at the time. Later, Jade’s online activity suggested she believed she had been double-crossed by counterterrorism colleagues who had stolen her research and repurposed it, presenting it to Congress while excluding her.
Jade’s dead man switch, The Origins of Accelerationism, is a dense, 90-page document in which she argued she was the first to identify accelerationism and urged colleagues to spread the word. She claimed to have gone to a government agency to warn them that lone-wolf mass shooters were actually manipulated by accelerationists posing as members of various extremist communities. Instead, she alleged that colleagues smeared and discredited her, created research consortiums based on her work, and redefined it. Online searches for accelerationism then began to portray it as a term used by white supremacists and extremist groups to hasten societal collapse.
Jade’s document also argued that a satanic cult, the Order of Nine Angles (ONA), was key to understanding accelerationism. ONA members allegedly use manipulation and deception to recruit unwitting people as Opfers—linked to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and fringe movements like QAnon and the incels—to provoke mass shootings and other crimes, with the broader aim of exploiting media bias and widening political polarization. Jade identified the AR-15 as the accelerationist weapon of choice because of its impact on gun-control debates. She connected the January 6 events, incel communities, and accelerationists, suggesting that accelerationists could be exploiting protesters.
Jade claimed that accelerationists had infiltrated fringe movements and that the incel forum Nama defended was a honeypot continually monitored by law enforcement, with arrests targeting vulnerable individuals rather than obvious terrorists. This led the speaker to search for Jade’s identity and uncover an old Twitter handle linked to Jade Parker. Parker appeared on Team House, discussing her cyber warfare work against ISIS and reiterating her accelerationism research, including the idea that January 6 protesters were exploited by accelerationists.
The speaker notes that Jade’s disappearance occurred after the Fourth of July investigation, and Nama later claimed she was being gang-stalked by a CVE colleague and then disappeared herself. The video ends with the speaker reflecting on two researchers who vanished after pursuing the same online phenomena, and releasing this video to illuminate the situation.