Dubbed ‘Anarchaos,’ a notorious hacker and his twin brother, both with extensive criminal records, are reportedly spearheading an Antifa faction in Chicago, intensifying demonstrations against ICE, as per sources from Daily Mail.

Jeremy and Jason Hammond, both 40 years old, who have been entangled with the law for 15 years, were apprehended at an anti-ICE demonstration in Broadview, Illinois, on September 26. This incident occurred merely four days following President Trump’s executive order labeling Antifa as a domestic terror group.

Three conservative activists stationed in Chicago, along with law enforcement insiders, claim the Hammonds have been prominent figures in recent anti-ICE protests in the area. Since 2020, they have actively exposed personal information of individuals opposing progressive school boards, illegal immigration, and advocating for police.

Jeremy Hammond terms these activities as ‘anti-fash’ campaigns.

Once hailed as the ‘world’s greatest computer hacker,’ Jeremy’s criminal journey began with a conviction for hacking the right-wing group Protest Warrior in 2005. He was later sentenced for computer fraud in 2013 after infiltrating the private intelligence firm Stratfor and leaking information to Wikileaks.

After serving a decade-long sentence, he was released in November 2020.

Rolling Stone called him a ‘legendary hacker and radical anarchist’ that the FBI was determined to take down ‘by any means necessary’ in a 2012 profile.

His brother Jason was also arrested in 2013 for his part in a brutal attack on a restaurant in Tinley Park, Illinois. 

Police said at the time that Jason was among 18 masked men who stormed the restaurant and attacked diners having lunch – some of whom they believed to be white supremacists – with bats, clubs, and hammers. Ten people were injured.

In January 2015, Jason was sentenced to 41 months in state prison.

The infamous twins, who share an X account and a website both called TwinTrouble, were taken into custody at the recent Broadview protest after they were seen blocking police cars and fighting with ICE supporters.

An ICE source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the FBI had detained the twins – who he added are well-known to Chicago-area law enforcement.

They were previously arrested in August 2024 for disruptive protesting at the Democratic National Convention.

Their music teacher dad, Jack Hammond, 68, who raised the boys as a single father and who was convicted of fondling an underage teen student in 2018, confirmed to Daily Mail that his sons were released after being detained by federal agents.

Jack Hammond said his sons were not charged. The FBI, citing the current government lockdown, was not available for comment. 

Jack said Jason had been hit by about seven to eight rubber bullets but Jeremy was unharmed.

Hammond denied that his sons were Antifa leaders of any sort but said he supports the movement.

‘I can’t imagine any reason why you or I should not be Antifa, you know,’ Hammond said. 

‘My father fought against fascism in World War II. Those people were anti-fascist and we should all be as well.’

The Hammond twins are also behind an online game and instruction manual called ‘Smash MAGA!’ that advocates for the overthrow of the ‘hordes’ of MAGA zealots ‘infected with the Trump zombie virus’.

‘Brainwashed right wing extremists threaten the free world- only one force can stop them – Antifa! Play now!’

Supporters of Antifa, a term that’s short for ‘anti-fascist’, have always said it’s a loosely-organized movement with no real structure or hierarchy but opponents insist that it’s a deliberate direct-action group with sophisticated backers and funded by dark money.

Former FBI Director Chris Wray famously referred to Antifa as merely an ‘ideology, not an organization’ in 2020, putting him at odds with President Trump who even back then railed at Antifa for being comprised of ‘anarchists and thugs.’

Since Trump’s designation of Antifa as a domestic terror organization, sources in Chicago say law enforcement is doubling down on investigating suspected Antifa members.

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University assistant professor whose 2017 book, ‘Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,’ has been taught in a number of US universities, abruptly fled to Spain a week ago, citing death threats he said came after Trump’s order.

Conservative activists in the Chicago area say that the Hammond twins and some of their associates – including local left-wing activist David Anzelc – have made their lives miserable in recent years.

Terry Newsome, 64, a salesman from Downers Grove, turned into an activist around 2021 when he began protesting what he said were pornographic LBGTQ+ books like ‘Genderqueer’ at Downers Grove High School where his children were then students.

Newsome, who now hosts a podcast called ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ and was briefly associated with the Proud Boys group, began sparring with what he calls ‘radical leftist moms’ at school board meetings about the issue and soon found himself targeted by the Hammonds, he said.

‘They started posting pictures of me on the Chicago antifa X account,’ Newsome said.

‘I wasn’t the only one. They went after other moms and dads as well. Other dads got threatening letters from Antifa left on their driveways. 

‘I was an older dad, I had my kids at 45, so they began calling me ‘Pops.’ Like they’d say I was willing to take a bullet to stop communism and then they’d say ‘it’s time to drop Pops’.’

Newsome, who became more  conservative as a result of clashing with Antifa activists, said he reported the Hammonds to police but nothing came of it.

Instead, the targeting of him got worse, he said. The owners of venues where Newsome arranged for events with groups like Gays Against Groomers and Log Cabin Republicans got threatening calls from Antifa activists and canceled the events, he said.

Eventually Newsome, who worked for the French multinational company Cap Gemini, was let go after 22 years because the Hammonds and their associates continually went after him and the company, tagging them repeatedly on X.

‘They doxxed my bosses and the top Cap Gemini boss, they doxxed our customers and our customers’ CEOs trying to shame them into firing me by labeling me anti-gay and anti-trans,’ Newsome, who now has a new sales job, said.

‘They even told me when they fired me that it wasn’t for performance reasons. Antifa is a weaponized tool of Chicago Democrats to harass and intimidate parents into silence. Anyone who becomes vocal becomes a target.

Emily Cahill, a mother from Plainfield, Illinois who also became active in Republican and pro-police causes in Illinois around 2020 and eventually founded the Protest the Protestors group, said she’s clashed with the Hammond twins and their associates on numerous occasions.

‘I believe that they actually are the legitimate leaders of Antifa in Chicago,’ Cahill told Daily Mail. 

‘There’s always been a lot of fanfare around Jeremy ever since he went to prison years ago. He became a hero in these circles and he’s supported by people all across the country.’

Jeremy Hammond once told Cahill to check out the Smash Maga game because there was a character in there that resembled her, she said.

‘Sure enough I looked and there was someone that looked like me,’ she said. ‘Keep in mind the point of the game is to kill MAGA supporters. They call me a Nazi all the time.’

Cahill said she’s endured more than three years of harassment from David Anzelc, an alleged Antifa activist and Hammond associate in the Chicago area, who she said has stalked her on a weekly basis at home, in stores and and during public events.

It got so bad, she said, that Anzelc and his friends were posting flyers about her at her daughter’s school – causing her to pull her daughter out and start homeschooling her.

Cahill is not alone in being concerned about Anzelc. In 2023, both his mother and father filed protection orders, citing suicidal behavior, violent outbursts and fears of engaging in violence against others.

The Hammond twins declined to comment to Daily Mail this week. Daily Mail made repeated unsuccessful attempts to contact Anzelc.

Their father said they are both working regular jobs – Jeremy at a printing facility and Jason at a local restaurant.

But the two have been very open about their history and tactics over the years.

‘I have always made it clear that I am an anarchist-communist – as in I believe we need to abolish capitalism and the state in its entirety to realize a free, egalitarian society,’ Jeremy Hammond wrote to a Rolling Stone reporter in 2012.

‘I’m not into watering down or selling out the message or making it more marketable for the masses.’

The twins’ parents, who never married, separated in 1993 and the boys went to live with their father.

Their mother, Rose Collins, sounded exasperated when a Chicago Tribune reporter called her in 2012 to inform her about her son’s arrest for hacking.

‘Again?’ she said. ‘I love my son, but he is a genius with no brain. He has a 168 IQ, but he has no wisdom.’

In a recent YouTube interview, the twins said they became radicalized after 9-11 and that early anti-war marches spurred them both into action.

‘Speaking truth to power isn’t enough,’ Jeremy said. ‘Sometimes you have to take things to the next level… There’s no means forward by picketing or writing your Congressman. You gotta take direct action.’

Anti-Antifa journalist and activist Andy Ngo, author of 2021’s ‘Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy,’ told Daily Mail that the violent tactics and growing boldness of far-left extremist groups have gone largely unchecked by law enforcement — and that convicted members continue to play active roles in organizing and promoting the movement years after serving prison sentences.

Asked how ex-felons can so openly engage in protests or confrontations with law enforcement, Ngo said that probation typically ends within a few years, and activists often use that time to shift to online organizing.

‘They can lay low and do other things in the movement — hacking, doxing, posting propaganda, or in their case, working on the video game,’ he said. ‘After probation, they return to the streets.’