We explored the unbelievable acts committed by members of the Zizian cult as they left a trail of violence across the country, driven by an ideology of trans vengeance, militant veganism, effective altruism and a fanatical belief that they were “saving the world.”

The Zizians are a fringe example of extremism, but they fit into a larger pattern of growing trans violence that is legitimized, supported and financed by many powerful figures, organizations and institutions.

The Zizians didn’t get to where they are alone.

Conservative commentator and author Glenn Beck has published an excerpt from my book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, on his site.

Read the rest of the long excerpt here.

In case you missed it, the New York Post also published another exclusive excerpt from my book.

Watch my interview with Megyn Kelly about my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, out now.

The New York Post has published the first look inside my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

How did a computer science nerd from Fairbanks, Alaska become the leader of a Silicon Valley trans death cult linked to violent deaths across the world? How did the Bay Area’s AI tech culture provide fertile ground for Jack “Ziz” LaSota to recruit?

This is Ziz’s secret origin story, finally revealed.

Read the excerpt at the New York Post. Order the book now.

Read the exclusive excerpt from my new book, The Zizians:

will join me live on Substack on Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. ET to discuss what I uncovered in my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

The book is out Oct. 13. Order your copy now and join us live for the conversation. Leave your questions in the comment section below.

For them to live, you must die. They believe death is a virtue.

Read the true story in “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”

I’m devastated and in shock. I still can’t bring myself to believe this.

Waldemar Krysiak was an incredible conservative gay independent journalist based between Poland and Germany. He was also my friend. He fearlessly pursued stories on Trantifa, Antifa and the far left. He was the only journalist in the world who shared so much in common with me.

Today, I found out he died after suffering a pulmonary embolism at his family home overnight on Oct. 4. He was only 36.

You may not have heard of him because he reported only in Polish, but his stories and videos had great influence and impact across Polish media and politics. He was a longtime contributor to the publication Tygodnik Solidarność and its news site, Tysol.pl, where he was known for being critical of the excesses of the LGBTQ+ movement.

One of his best investigations was into a Polish trans Discord server where adults were discussing ways to traffic cross-sex hormones to children.

On social media, he went by “Myślozbir,” meaning “thought criminal.” Indeed, he repeatedly transgressed against the left in his writing.

I first met Waldemar in 2021, when he attended my speaking event on Antifa in Warsaw. We bonded over having shared enemies and became friends from then on. (Antifa and the SPLC later targeted me over that Polish event.) He was one of my first new friends after I had to leave the U.S. because of repeated violence against me by Antifa

Over the years, he helped me many, many times with my reporting on the ground. We were both undercover once in Berlin to discreetly report on Antifa rioting on May Day. We pretended to be boyfriends to better fit into the dangerous crowd.

Waldemar can be seen right at the beginning of this clip beside me as we reported undercover in the Antifa direct action in Berlin on May Day 2022. As it became darker, the leftist crowd turned violent and started fires.

In September 2022, Waldemar reported solo on an Antifa direct action aimed at shutting down Jordan Peterson’s live speaking event in Berlin. He sent me clips from the scene. In one video, a masked militant confronted him for recording. (Antifa regularly attack, rob and mob videographers in an effort to prevent their extremism and crimes from being documented.) Quick on his feet, Waldemar responded that he was filming the demonstration (“die Demo”) so he could show his comrades how to organize similar actions in Poland. The militant accepted that and walked away.

Waldemar even contributed to my upcoming new book, helping me locate Polish family members of one of the Zizian cult victims whom I had been unable to find, and acting as an interviewer and translator for one of the most crucial parts of the investigation.

Five days before he died, Waldemar texted me a screenshot of the Amazon page for The Zizians, writing in German: “I can hardly wait 😁.” Waldemar was completely fluent in English, but I had asked him to use basic German with me so I could practice. He asked me what I thought about the reporting on Candace Owens’ alleged lesbian life. When gays get together, we gossip.

I had been so excited to hear and read his reaction once the book came out. His name is in it, and at the end I have a personalized acknowledgment thanking him for his help. I will always be haunted by the fact that he never got to read it. This week is when media figures finally began receiving review copies ahead of the Oct. 13 release.

For several years, I kept inviting Waldemar to come see me in London, but he was always busy with his writing and traveling back and forth between Berlin and Warsaw. And then I was too busy to travel because of the book writing. I thought there would always be another opportunity.

Love the people in your life, don’t take them for granted, and forgive the slights they may cause you.

I want this to be a bad dream that I wake up from.

Waldemar, come back.

Content warning: This post contains graphic images.

Ahead of the Oct. 13 release of my book about the Zizian AI-doomer trans death cult, I traveled to Southeast Asia. You might have noticed I have not posted as much on Ngo Comment in the last few weeks. I apologize for that absence.

Most of my short social media posts about the trip highlighted the incredible foods I sought out and enjoyed with gluttony: pandan leaf desserts, noodle soups, pomelo salads and stir-fries to my heart’s content. Those lighthearted, apolitical posts also served another purpose: They helped mask how deeply disturbed I was feeling beneath the surface.

Among the places I visited were Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21, and Choeung Ek, the killing fields, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

S-21 and Choeung Ek remain two of the most notorious sites of the mass atrocities committed by Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot in the 1970s.

As a journalist who writes about far-left violent extremism and has experienced some of that violence myself in Portland, Ore., I was ashamed of how little I knew about how revolutionary communist violence had played out in Cambodia.

Content warning: Below this line are graphic images.

S-21 displays hundreds of human remains found on the prison grounds in 1979. Many of the skulls were bashed in because regime cadres were instructed to save ammunition by killing prisoners with tools and blunt-force trauma.

I was familiar with the history of communist violence in Vietnam because my own parents experienced it after the fall of Saigon. My father was sent to a “re-education” prison camp, while my then-teenage mother and her family were relocated to do agricultural labor. I wrote about some of this family autobiographical history in my first book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

But my knowledge of what occurred in neighboring Cambodia was embarrassingly limited to what little I had picked up over the years from articles about the genocide.

You can read my full essay about the trip at The Post Millennial. I even had the chance to meet one of 12 known survivors of S-21.

I connect what I learned about the genocide to the ideological thread of fervent radicalism and the politics of jealousy that I see in Antifa, Trantifa and far-left extremists.

I have included exclusive videos and photos in this post for my Substack readers.

At Choeung Ek, one of the Khmer Rouge death camps near Phnom Penh, the larger exhumed mass graves are covered and identified. But around the field, smaller depressions are still visible from where bodies were found decades ago.

Please read my personal essay published on The Post Millennial and share your thoughts with me below.

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

I’ve finally been able to unmask a long-time Dallas trans Antifa cell leader who uses the alias “Doberman.” His real identity is Hunter David Holmes. He has gone by the female name “Paige.” He uses she/they pronouns.

The violent militant was arrested over an attack outside the Republican midterms conference in Dallas last week. The FBI previously raided him, but he has not yet been charged with any federal crimes. Holmes claims to have traveled all over the U.S., including Portland, Ore., for his extremist political activities.

Read my new report at The Post Millennial.

Hiding identities through masking, using anonymous online accounts and wearing all-black clothing in riots is part of how Antifa keep their criminal activities clandestine. They rely on liberals and leftists to perpetuate the lie that they don’t exist in any organized form, despite multiple convictions for terrorism.

Trans violence is real. My upcoming investigative true-crime book reveals how a group of leftist tech nerds obsessed about the threat of super-intelligent AI ended up forming a cult where they believed trans people would save the world.

They left a trail of bodies in their wake. Pre-order my book now.

TUCSON, Ariz. — An African Muslim migrant has been identified as the shooter who targeted people outside a gay bar, resulting in the deaths of an Antifa associate and a leftist, as well as the gunman.

Ousman “Lofty” Ceesay, 44, from The Gambia, confronted Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, in the parking lot of the Venture-N gay bar at around 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 31.

Ceesay shot both men to death before shooting himself with a handgun, Tucson police said. He was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Ceesay did not attempt to enter the bar.

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Three members of the Zizian trans death cult have had their felony state cases in Maryland suddenly suspended. One is already out free. The group is linked to at least eight violent deaths, including the assassination of a key witness taken out before a California trial. They have repeatedly claimed that prosecutions against them across three states are “transphobic.”

The latest setback follows the California murder trial for three other Zizians being delayed again, this time to 2027.

Read my new report at The Post Millennial.

Are you surprised by this latest development?

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

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.

Kyle William Spitze, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2024 to producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM and helping distribute animal torture videos, but he wasn’t sentenced until Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. The judge sentenced him to the entirety of what the prosecution had sought.

Spitze is a leader of the “HarmNation” group, which is part of the “764” satanic accelerationist cult-like online network.

The decentralized network of mostly teen boys and young men grooms its minor victims into producing child sex abuse material of themselves, mutilating their bodies, abusing or killing animals and, in some cases, committing suicide and/or killing others. They often target victims on online gaming platforms popular with children, such as Minecraft and Roblox.

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A Hamilton County, Ohio grand jury has indicted the members of a leftist trans group accused of torturing a 7-year-old boy to death.

You can read my new report at The Post Millennial. Separately, you can read my exclusive deep-dive investigation into the cult-like group on Ngo Comment, published this week.

As I continue digging, I cannot shake off the idea that the torture William Evans-Ellis was subjected to may have been to sacrifice him to a pagan deity the household worshipped.

William’s body had been burned, and he is believed to have been subjected to water torture. The Hamilton County coroner said he had bruises all over his body and died from blunt-force trauma to the head.

“I opened the closet door and just froze for a while,” Dr. Sammarco said at the Aug. 11 press conference.

The indictment alleges that the trio exchanged text and voice messages on Signal starting on July 1 through Aug. 6. planning the violence. The period corresponds to the Lokabrenna holiday, which honors Loki.

Read my new report about the indictment.

Pre-order my book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.

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 Laurel” Rankin (prior name: Nathan David 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.

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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.”

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