The plumes were whorling off the top of a 132-foot-tall cell tower that overshadows an office park just north of SeaWorld. “Cell tower on fire around 1604 and Culebra,” he wrote. To resist that supposed scheme, he’d spent the past five months setting Texas cell towers ablaze. But Smith—who planned and executed his arsons by himself—appears to have been more prolific than any of these other extremists. I spent the past year talking to Smith at length about the origin and details of his anti-5G crusade.