In 2019, a then-18-year-old from New Jersey told the FBI that he and other members of neo-Nazi organization The Base planned to kill reporter Ryan Thorpe, after his work had exposed one of its ...

In 2019, Ryan Thorpe went undercover to expose Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Mathews as a member of neo-Nazi group The Base.

When recruitment posters for a group calling itself The Base start to appear in Manitoba, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover to infiltrate and get more information.

We only know about Mathews’ activities because Ryan Thorpe, then a journalist for the Free Press, risked his life to infiltrate and expose the group. After Thorpe’s stories were published in ...