Editor’s note: This report has been updated with much additional new information.

Is there another trans cult?

A woman and two men who identify as trans have been charged in Cincinnati, Ohio in the brutal torture and murder of a young special-needs boy. A Ngo Comment investigation found that the group, which included at least three men who identify as trans, had groomed the child into trans ideology from a very young age and appeared to have plans to transition him before police found him unresponsive in a closet, bound with duct tape and showing signs of torture.

William Michael Evans-Ellis, 7, was recovered from an apartment in the Oakley neighborhood in Cincinnati on Aug. 6. He suffered injuries consistent with being choked and held underwater, beaten and burned. A detective testified in court that it was one of the most disturbing child abuse cases he had ever investigated.

The child was found with “a number of injuries that would indicate physical beatings, blunt force injuries,” he said.

Kaitlin Elizabeth Evans, 38, who is charged, is the child’s biological mother. The two other suspects are biological men who identify as women: “Kirby” Rankin (prior name: Nathan Rankin), 33, and “Nessa” Keaney (prior name: Adamhnán Judaydon Caoilte Lugh Keaney), 23. The three lived together as a polycule and “co-parented” the child to death.

They are charged with murder and child endangerment.

Liberal and legacy media have repeatedly reported that “three women” were charged. This follows a pattern of media outlets obscuring or omitting the trans identities of accused killers and convicted killers in an effort to protect transgenderism. The same pattern occurred in the news media coverage of the Zizian trans death cult.

The boy’s biological father, “Tara Jane” Evans-Ellis, 38, who was not charged, also identifies as trans. He married Evans in 2011. His real name is Thomas John (T.J.) Ellis, but he legally changed it to “Tara” in December 2023.

He works as a software engineer in cybersecurity and identifies as autistic and antifa, similar to many of the Zizian members I’ve reported on. (There is no suggestion Ellis is linked to the Zizians.)

The couple had a second, trans-themed wedding for “Tara” and his wife in 2025. Their child was put in a dress at the ceremony, according to a source with knowledge.

An analysis of Ellis’ social media record reveals a disturbing history of posts showing he was part of that group and that they were influencing the child to become trans.

Active on Mastodon, a Twitter-like social media platform popular with leftists, Ellis posted Antifa propaganda, radical queer activist material, said he was a DSA member and dabbled with the trans furry subculture—similar to Charlie Kirk assassin suspect’s trans lover, Lance Twiggs.

But he also posted at length about his personal life in the polyamorous trans group where they trained his son to embrace their lifestyle and transgender identities.

“The other night we did a family+polycule outing and my kiddo met my girlfriend, ‘K,’ [Kirby Rankin] for the first time,” Ellis wrote in December 2023, when William was about four years old. A couple months later, he wrote: “kiddo has started calling for ‘mommies!’ when he needs a parent and any parent will do, and it absolutely melts my heart every time.”

In another post, he described how his partners both had a “fondness for weapons.”

Ellis wrote that the polycule engaged in group sex and described the group as a “team.”

Disturbingly, Ellis had posts suggesting the group was grooming the child into becoming trans. First, they encouraged him to experiment with different names before suggesting that transition would be inevitable.

Read more

We discussed my forthcoming book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, and my years of reporting on left-wing political violence and how I’ve seen the rise of trans violence unfold.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

FAIRFIELD, Calif. — The murder trial of two members of the Zizian trans death cult—accused in the 2022 killing of one of their own and the attempted murder of their landlord—has been delayed again. The tentative trial date is now in January 2027.

Alexander “Jadzia” Leatham, 31, and Tessa Berns, 25, who is charged under the alias “Suri Dao,” have faced murder and attempted murder charges since 2022. Their case has been repeatedly delayed after defense attorneys successfully argued that neither defendant was competent to stand trial.

Read the rest of this free report at The Post Millennial.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

The autonomous zones are enforced through a hard border with armed “checkpoint” guards who “deport” unwanted individuals, like conservative journalists, using the threat of armed violence. The one is Madison is supported with spiked booby traps on the ground to damage vehicles that get too close.

Having reported from similar zones previously—including Seattle’s deadly “CHAZ” in 2020—I explain how Democrats in power are literally aiding the violent leftist criminals.

Some of them are using so-called “trans underground railroads” to traffic members to their groups. For sex. For experimentation. For indoctrination.

I investigated one trans cult—the Zizians—that used its members to kill.

I just finished this TV interview on Real America’s Voice discussing The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult and the broader investigation behind the story. We talk about the trans cult at the center of the case, the institutional failures that allowed it to operate, and why I believe this case reveals larger trends, like trans parricide (the killing of one’s parents), that have received too little scrutiny.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

MELVINDALE, Mich. — A radical leftist from Michigan has been arrested on federal charges after authorities say he spent months threatening to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, encouraging other comrades to shoot federal officers and threatening conservative figures on social media.

Michael Gary Petersen, 41, of Melvindale, Mich., was charged in federal court with threatening to assault or murder a federal law enforcement officer and transmitting interstate communications containing threats.

According to the criminal complaint, Petersen made the threats across Facebook, Threads and TikTok under accounts linked to his filmmaking business, Dark Fortress Pictures LLC.

Petersen, who publicly identifies as a Satanist and LGBTQ+ activist, began making violent posts after the Jan. 7, 2026 ICE-related shooting in Minneapolis of militant leftist Renée Good.

Video posted by Peterson of the flags at his home:

According to investigators, Petersen posted a wanted-style image identifying the ICE agent and wrote that he “can’t wait till someone shoots him in the face.” On Threads, he declared: “Oh I plan to shoot all of them if I see them in my neighborhood.” On TikTok, prosecutors say he shared a movie clip depicting a police officer being executed at point-blank range with the caption, “When #ICE tries to get into your vehicle.”

Read more

JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas — A trans associate or member of the North Texas Antifa terror cell who was indicted at the state level for allegedly helping the cell’s ringleader evade capture after the July 2025 shooting ambush on an ICE detention center has bonded out of custody.

Samuel Hubbard Power Fowlkes, 23, of Weatherford, Texas, posted a $150,000 bond on July 14. Fowlkes identifies as a woman and uses the name “Lucy.” At least four of his other co-defendants identify as trans.

He was released from the Johnson County Jail last week after a judge lowered his bond from $1 million to $150,000 on June 11. His original bond had been set at $10 million following his January arrest on charges of first-degree felony hindering prosecution of terrorism and third-degree felony tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent.

Read more

In this interview on The Hill Rising, I discussed a newly released U.S. State Department report examining Cuba’s long-running efforts to ideologically and politically influence American leftist groups and movements.

The interview with Robby Soave explores the historical roots of Cuban support for left-wing extremist groups, the evolution of decentralized militant networks such as Antifa, and the role of left-wing organizations, online influencers and propaganda in shaping leftist radicalization.

You can read the 100-page State Department report here. I recommend that you do. Please share your thoughts below.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

A new US State Department report identifies the Antifa legal nonprofit, the National Lawyers Guild, as a central support organization for Antifa militants and traces the radical lawyers’ group’s activities to a decades-long network of left-wing terrorist influence tied to the Cuban regime.

The 100-page report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” released on Monday, details how Havana spent nearly seven decades cultivating left-wing American radicals, extremist organizations and sympathetic institutions to advance revolutionary leftism inside the United States.

Read the rest of this report at The Post Millennial.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

The conference was met with ridicule from liberal media and Democrats. That reaction itself demonstrates how they play a key role in denying the existence of radical leftist violence.

That denial helps embolden their militants to commit more direct action — more attacks.

Where Democrats are in power, the militants know they will likely get away with it. And they do.

Do you agree with my analysis in the interview? Comment below.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

Read more

Sec. Marco Rubio is the first U.S. Secretary of State to openly confront the growing scourge of radical left-wing violence and terrorism coming from the likes of Antifa and trantifa militants, and other far-left extremists.

That’s why the left and its media are in full meltdown over the summit in Washington. Acknowledging the threat undermines years of minimizing, excusing, or supporting the violence perpetuated by their side.

I’m very thankful I had the opportunity to meet Sec. Rubio at the White House Antifa roundtable last year.

Both Kruse and I were at that event with the president and his cabinet. While there, I suggested that the federal government look at how to tackle the international element of Antifa and left-wing violence that ultimately impacts domestic American public safety.

Those who want to learn more about the history of American Antifa and how it came to get away with so much violence for a decade, please read my book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

Andy Ngo is the author of the forthcoming investigative true-crime book The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

In what appears to be another move to delay justice, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, the leader of the transgender death cult known informally as the “Zizians,” has separated from his lawyers in his Maryland federal felony case.

LaSota’s attorneys abruptly filed a motion to withdraw as counsel, citing an unspecified “active conflict” just as the court continues to grapple with whether LaSota is competent to stand trial. The case has already been delayed for months after his lawyers successfully argued earlier this year that their client, whom they refer to with “she/her” pronouns, may not be competent to stand trial.

The Zizians are a Manson Family-esque trans death cult linked to at least eight violent deaths across the United States. Its members were involved in human experiments, self-administered trans “medicine” and occult practices while living in secretive hideouts across the country. The group developed an esoteric ideology involving radical rationalism, veganism and transgender anarchist politics.

Earlier this week, I announced that my forthcoming true-crime book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, is now available for pre-order. Watch the reveal trailer:

Defense attorneys Gary Proctor and Jennifer Smith filed the joint motion on July 14 after meeting with LaSota one day earlier.

“It became clear during the meeting that an active conflict exists,” the attorneys wrote. “Both Ms. LaSota and counsel believe that Mr. Proctor and Ms. Smith should be allowed to withdraw and that alternate counsel should be appointed pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act.”

Read more

Watch my interview with Jack Posobiec about the threat of trans violence.

Pre-order my book here.

Read more

Investigating this secretive trans death cult took me back to America. It put my life at risk again.

Hormones. Human experimentation. Swords. Guns. Bodies.

This is the true story of the Zizians.

ON SALE OCT. 13. PRE-ORDER NOW.

Another trans-identifying person is suspected of torching and destroying yet another historic American church.

The 120-year-old Grandview United Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood was destroyed in a suspected arson attack on July 7.

The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Colton Jefferson Normand, who uses the names “Olive” and “Raine.” Police believe he had been squatting on the church property. Officers had previously given him a verbal warning to leave the church on July 2.

Read more

I was interviewed by Michael Knowles on The Daily Wire. Watch:

A Wisconsin congressional campaign staffer is calling for “trans jihad” and is urging deadly violence against Republicans.

I identified who he really is—and also expose the real identity of his mentor and DSA candidate “Katrina DeVille.”

Read my new report at The Post Millennial.

Watch the videos of him below: