candidate Chandler wasn’t just some anonymous person typing threats from a dark room. He was running, or at least performing the act of running, for the U.S. Senate. He had a campaign website, chandlerforsenate.com. He had a fundraising page on ActBlue, which has since been deactivated. He had YouTube videos with actual policy positions, including the wealth-redistribution video that went up hours before his arrest.
His supposed target was Senator John Fetterman’s seat, with his campaign eye set on 2028, not even the upcoming 2026 cycle. That detail matters because it means the campaign was always a long-horizon play, not an immediate electoral threat. Federal investigators say they reviewed all the campaign material to verify his identity and understand the context of his statements.
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At minus 40 degrees and below, weapons fail, batteries quickly lose their charge, and fuel turns into a viscous jelly. Army officials wanted to learn how their equipment would perform in the extreme cold.
But their biggest questions were about the soldiers who came from places like Alabama, Texas, Florida and California. How far could these troops go before exhaustion set in and they started to lose focus, make mistakes or simply quit?
About 4,000 soldiers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, including 107 from the division’s Able Company, were taking part in the training battle, which pitted two similarly sized forces against each other.
In this fight, the ammunition was fake; blanks and lasers replaced bullets and artillery shells. But the cold was unsparingly real.