FBI stops alleged "TrackAIPAC attack" at UFC White House
Despite spending millions of dollars in Federal security assets, dumb luck won out.
For a UFC event promoted on President Donald J. Trump’s birthday at The White House, the utterly most predictable thing happened. Someone tried to crash the party.
Would it involve a nation-state? Revenge from Mexican drug cartels?
It turns out that the alleged plot to crash the UFC White House event involves the FBI weaving a criminal narrative based on old-fashioned antisemitism mixed with “revolutionary” domestic terrorism.
Not entirely a shocking development given the current state of affairs for the Trump 2.0 White House.
A fair portion of the UFC’s 18-to-34 year old bro vote that was courted during the 2024 US Presidential election cycle is not so hot to currently support President Trump, thanks to his administration’s handling of The Epstein Files and the rolling consequences Americans are feeling because of the US/Israeli war with Iran. The same kind of terminally online and agitated UFC fan that is likely to support Kentucky representative Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna when it comes to the subject of foreign policy and the Epstein files.
Two of the UFC’s biggest avatars expressing this political discontent with President Trump are Middleweight champion Sean Strickland (with his clown nose on, clown nose off routine) and Bryce Mitchell. Mitchell is strangely the more principled of the two.
With pro-war US Senators like Ted Cruz linked closely to TKO, it’s not surprising that someone with his legislative profile is an assassination target in this political climate. Many Republicans attended the UFC White House event. Despite millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security assets spent by the Feds to protect the UFC White House event, Ari Emanuel’s production remained a rather soft target for an attack.
The Department of Justice press release on the alleged conspiracy to drone attack politicians at the UFC White House event tells a Fed narrative on what was about to supposedly happen.
The multi-state plot reportedly involved individuals from California (Riverside County), Ohio, Missouri, and Nebraska.
According to the charges, Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio; Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California; Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri; and Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, conspired to plan and execute a mass casualty event targeting U.S. officials in attendance at UFC Freedom 250 hosted on the White House grounds. The conspirators allegedly planned to deploy drones armed with explosives in and around the UFC Freedom 250 event in order to force an evacuation of the event and then planned to deploy snipers to fire upon “high value targets” within the fleeing crowd.
The surface-level criminal complaints paint a picture of multiple individuals using online platforms like Signal and TikTok to organize a plot to scare attendees at the UFC White House event to run for their lives so that they could be sitting ducks for secondary attacks.
Sadly, none of this sounds surprising. What is surprising is how extensive the digital footprint is for the alleged co-conspirators when you dig into the affidavits of various FBI agents for each of the named defendants. That is where the real narrative begins.
The FBI is claiming that these name defendants were targeting politicians at UFC White House for their support of Israel and disdain of a lack of prosecutions over the Epstein Files.
Pure old dumb luck
How did these individuals get caught in allegedly orchestrating a mass murder plot for the UFC White House event?
The parents of one of the architects called police days before the event. The Feds got a lucky break.
Based on the available court documents in various Federal courts, here is how the criminal conspiracy unfolded:
Criminal complaint & separate affidavit against Daniel Eskridge
Criminal complaint & affidavit against Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez
Criminal complaint & affidavit against Bryan Omar Roa & Michael Alan Thomas
In each of these cases, prosecutors quickly moved to seal and redact documents.
Even with these procedural moves, there’s more than enough information presented by the Feds to weave a compelling political narrative.
Let’s start with the parents of Tycen Proper. FBI Task Force Officer Christopher Betts claims Proper’s mother called police because of recent firearm purchases he made in conjunction with online conversations to meet up with a group of individuals claiming to be ex-military.
“His father further stated that PROPER had also recently acquired camping gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, “lots” of ammunition, extra magazines, and plate carriers.”
Betts claimed that Proper spent $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase equipment for his “missions” and “recons.” The affidavit claims Proper’s mother noticed her son getting upset about corruption regarding The Epstein Files and data centers. Proper was making calls on his cell phone and messaging with various individuals on Discord and Signal groups to map locations of the Washington DC area.
Proper reportedly cooperated with the FBI for an interview at a mental health facility. A separate criminal complaint against a different co-conspirator identified the facility as Dublin Springs Mental Health center in Columbus, Ohio.
“During the interview, PROPER admitted to planning with others a coordinated attack against the United States government during the UFC event scheduled to take place on the White House lawn in Washington D.C. on Sunday, June 14, 2026.”
“Some expressed a desire that people who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein should not govern the country.”
The drone scheme involved explosive devices that would detonate on one side of the White House lawn, theoretically forcing attendees to flee in different directions which would allow Proper’s group of conspirators to pick off High Value Targets with long rifles and bullpup shotguns.
The FBI affidavit claims one of those HVTs was Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn.
“She’s taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them.”
The FBI affidavit alleges Proper was also focusing on West Virginia Senators Jim Justice & Shelley Moore Capito and WV Representatives Carol Miller & Riley Moore.
Why did Proper target these individuals?
“The four images of these members of Congress appear to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com” and appear to include information about how much each Congressperson received ‘from pro-Israel PACS.’”
Max Blumenthal points out something fairly important as well:
Local police had confined the main suspect, Tycen Proper, to a mental hospital several days before UFC 250, due to his "homicidal ideations"
He told them he was "thinking about joining the military or police force with the goal of being able to kill people"
Per the FBI complaint, Proper's plan was inspired by anonymous figures he met on Discord who remain unknown
Kash Patel knew the plot wasn't serious, which is why he attended UFC 250
What the other criminal complaints revealed
In the sealed Nebraska court filing against Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, FBI Special Agent Mercedes Smith revealed that Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was also a High Value Target.
Special Agent Smith claims in the FBI affidavit to the Court that Alvarez went by the online name “Shepherd” and was involved in a Signal chat to plan escape routes after the alleged UFC White House attack.
“This is the best action I see. Position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area)(great shot) Easy out into the river.
“They will try to close down the highways stick to meeting near the 495 bridge. Take the river south, there are back roads, you can also take the river.”
Unbelievably, the FBI affidavit alleges that Alvarez and co-conspirators bought into a Twitter troll post claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu would be a guest at the UFC White House event. Anyone who knows how Ari Emanuel feels about Bibi would never believe that story.
Special Agent Smith claims that “Shepherd” was focusing on President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and Elon Musk as HVTs.
The affidavit claims to have identified Alvarez via an IP search with Cox Communications, which led to his arrest.
The Western District of Missouri complaint against Daniel Eskridge was much lengthier.
Kansas City SA (Special Agent) Andrew Brown revealed in an affidavit that the FBI raided Eskridge’s residence on Saturday June 13th, one day before the UFC White House event.
Special Agent Brown claims that a journal was found at Tycen Proper’s room stating:
“the government wants to control people and that a larger group worships a demonic figure and sacrifices children to it. The journal also had a list of approximately 46 names, which included celebrities and politicians.”
When reviewing who Proper interacted with on TikTok, the FBI alleges that Daniel Eskridge communicated under the name “Fulcrumresist” and that this account interacted with the account “DanielEskeridge.”
Chat logs in the FBI affidavit revealed extensive personal information disclosures by Eskeridge including his family life, location, and what kind of weapons he possessed.
“No official combat or tactical training but have been running battle drills with my local KC guys. Also set up a make shift range for running and gunning at the back of my property and have been solo training. Good at building anything and everything with anything and everything also good at demolition. Tons of outdoor experience- primitive living, fire starting, shelter building, water filtration, tracking trapping and hunting, fishing foraging, land nav. Worked on high angle rescue team have experience with repelling and hoisting, first responders/emt training.
Embedded in several other groups mainly for the purpose of scouting out serious prospects for this group. Involved with several group leaders and a member of Revolutions Network”
When discussing plans on the SimpleX app, Eskeridge allegedly claimed that HVTs needed to be “big and someone a majority of the country knows.” Someone that both Democrats and Republicans would unite over.
“If a person [was] to be a target of an event we need to make sure it’s someone that can’t be easily turned into a right vs left thing we want someone both sides would celebrate.”
The FBI affidavit alleges there was interesting in attacking the electrical grid with both drone and EMP attacks.
Eskeridge and Proper shared similar beliefs in various communications.
“I think I can speak for everyone in saying we’re tired of not making shit happen and tired of being ruled over by treasonous pedophillic criminal politicians and foreign agents. When the laws are no longer written and enforced by criminals that’s when I’ll give a shit about following them.”
One of the co-conspirators based in California alleged that Eskeridge was “running the show.” Another co-conspirator admitted to discussing plans but did not admit to any overt acts in furtherance.
“On June 12, 2026, the FBI interviewed Co-conspirator 4 in West Virginia, who confirmed that he and others communicated online about attacking the UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington D.C. but claimed that the members of the group had cancelled their attack plans on the morning of June 12, 2026.”
Special Agent Brown alleged that there was a Signal chat on June 10th to finalize plans for attacking the UFC White House event.
The day before UFC White House, the FBI raided Eskeridge’s residence and cataloged the following weapons stash:
The FBI affidavit further revealed that Eskeridge was scouting out the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant in Parsons, Kansas for obtaining explosives.
FBI Special Agent Mark Prator in Los Angeles revealed just how close two alleged California co-conspirators (Bryan Omar Roa + Michael Alan Thomas) got in attempting to launch their attack at The White House.
One day before the UFC event, on June 13th, the FBI raided the residences of both Roa & Thomas.
Inside ROA’s vehicle, agents found firearms, a tactical belt, and radios. Agents also seized ROA’s cellular phone which, as described below, contained communications with co-conspirators about the attack plan. Inside THOMAS’ residence, agents found a hunting rifle, an AR-style rifle, 30-round extended magazines for the AR-style rifle filled with approximately 180 rounds of ammunition, and a pistol. Additionally, THOMAS spoke with law enforcement and admitted to helping plan the attack and encouraging others to take part in it.
As for their motive in wanting to attack the UFC White House event?
“Thomas said that the aim of this and subsequent attacks was to create enough chaos to bring about the overthrow of the U.S. government. Thomas indicated that he believes that the U.S. government is run by an elite group of individuals who sacrifice and consume infants who also were deeply involved with Jeffrey Epstein and are now protected by President Donald Trump. Thomas places some of the responsibility of this corruption of government with Jewish people and blames them and Israel for the current war with Iran.”
Special Agent Prator’s affidavit to the Court reveals that these supposed terrorist masterminds didn’t have a lot of money to pull off their scheme.
“Maybe just hold a sign by the freeway saying ‘fund the freedom fighters’?”
Zach Arnold is a lead opinion writer for The MMA Draw on Substack. His archives can be read at FightOpinion.com. Contact Zach: fightopinion at protonmail dot com.