An investigation into the origins of dallasjustice.org reveals a few fundamental questions about their creators.
First, language found on the blog in dallasjustice.org led us to a secondary site which we believe was used to stage, or preview, the site for clients- as is often the case with agency made projects.
This website was located at: http://dallasjustice.aodev4.com/
And has been archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210726165513/http://dallasjustice.aodev4.com/
The root domain, aodev4, shares an ip address with another url, "luceosolutions.com"
This website has been archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210726153236/https://luceosolutions.com/
The Luceo website is interesting for a number of reasons. First, its "www" subdomain redirects to a recruitment website, and wayback archive links indicate this domain functioned correctly in this way until early 2021. However, with the website configured as it is, we can now see the server root for a company staging server.
A google search for "aodev4.com" reveals a number of right wing campaigns and sources using these links, and the list of websites on the luceo server include noted Dallas astroturf campaign "Keep Dallas Safe."
It is in at least two of these projects that we discover something interesting in the wordpress theme files:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210726164531/https://display-ad.aodev4.com/wp-content/themes/base-theme/style.css
https://web.archive.org/web/20210726161604/https://keepdallassafe.aodev4.com/wp-content/themes/base-theme-child/style.css?ver=0.4.1
Both of these sites are built on the wordpress theme "Understrap", but have had their source files modified in order to attribute development to "AO Dev Team" at the url "http://online.arenacomm.com".
This url redirects us to "Arenawins.com", the website for Arena, a company which supplies the GOP and various right wing campaigns with agency services.
It is our belief that DallasJustice.org was developed by Arena for a client, in order to allow them to attribute statements and ideas to Dallas activists for the sake of driving a wedge between the left and the communities we inhabit.
Like KeepDallasSafe before them, this campaign was discovered due to their own incompetence. We will not allow these fascists and hatemongers to go unchallenged in any space. We protect us.
