There is Proud Boys gear in the “official” section of the site, as well as products from a host of third-party vendors, including Stone, the Donald Trump confidante and longtime political fixer who advertises 1776.shop on his Instagram account. There are T-shirts and hats with all manner of right-wing slogans, from lib-baiting (“Roger Stone did nothing wrong”) to fascistic (“Pinochet did nothing wrong”). You can buy a whole lot more at 1776.shop, a freewheeling online emporium for far-right merch. Proceeds “will directly fund the NYC9,” the site says. There, for $25 to $5,000, you can buy a charity bracelet that reads “Proud Boy” on the front with the hashtag “#NYC9” inscribed inside the band.

In a November video (in which he also quit the Proud Boys in order to take some heat off the organization), McInnes promoted the fund, sending viewers to the URL, which redirects to the site 1776.shop. To help defray the lawyer bills, they set up a legal defense fund.

The “New York Nine” (10 members have now been arrested, actually) face rioting and attempted assault charges, though they say that they didn’t start the incident and that they’re not a hate group. While their nominal leader at the time, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, gave a presentation inside the Metropolitan Republican Club, members of the group were captured on film punching, kicking, and stomping on anti-fascist protesters outside of the event. In October, members of the Proud Boys, a group that calls itself a “Western chauvinist” organization and that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group, were arrested in Manhattan following a violent brawl. Some Monarch Butterflies Are Now Considered Endangered-but Are They Actually Doing Just Fine? The Myth That Fuels the Panic Over Surgery for Trans TeenagersĪ Supreme Court Case Could Decide the Fate of the Modern Internet

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