This post was updated shortly after publication to include Nathan’s affiliation with Asatru Folk Assembly.
Nathaniel Ellis (19) of Durango, CO is a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, a member of the white supremacist organizations Patriot Front, Active Club, & Asatru Folk Assembly, and the Secretary of CU Boulder’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter.
“I’m actually racist, I’m just straight up racist.”
-Nathaniel Ellis
UPDATE:On 10/26/25, we received a video of Nathan describing himself as a racist, and advocating for deporting all Black Americans.
Last year, our group received anonymous email tips about a neo-Nazi who we had only known by his online alias, “Hunt’wa N’wah.” (Initially, he used “Huntwa N’wah” without the first apostrophe.) One email we received provided an actual name for “Hunt’wa,” which we worked to verify. “Hunt’wa” is David Isaac Hamilton (DOB 8/24/2005). Hamilton is affiliated with the neo-Nazi cult of “Aryanity” as well as Patriot Front, a racist and fascist organization that operates nationally. Hamilton now goes by “Hunter” online. Although he is from Georgia, he may how be spending time in Tennessee.
David Isaac Hamilton AKA “Hunt’wa N’wah” and “Hunter”
We first encountered “Hunt’wa” during our 2023 infiltration and investigation of Southern Sons Active Club (SSAC), a white nationalist group training for violence. “Hunt’wa” had applied to join SSAC’s Georgia chapter. In our article on SSAC, we noted “Hunt’wa’s” affiliations with two other racist formations: “Aryanity” as well as Patriot Front.
Our 2023 article’s discussion of “Hunt’wa” contained two errors, which we now wish to correct. First, we stated that “Hunt’wa” was nineteen, when he was seventeen at the time of publication. The reason for this error is simple: “Hunt’wa” told others he was nineteen when applying for SSAC, which accepts members aged eighteen and over. Second, we speculated that “‘Huntwa’ seemingly lives nearer to Savannah than to Atlanta.” This was due to the location of the other SSAC members who arranged to meet with “Hunt’wa” for face-to-face vetting. In fact, David Hamilton/“Hunt’wa” was living in Augusta, Georgia at the time.
“Hunt’wa” lies about his age to the vetting channel for the Georgia chapter of Southern Sons Active Club, 2023.
When we received tips about “Hunt’wa,” we proceeded cautiously, matching information disclosed by “Hunt’wa” (e.g., his mother’s profession) with facts about Hamilton. We also compared images of “Hunt’wa” with photos of Hamilton. This was difficult at first, as our set of “Hunt’wa” images all had the faces blurred or otherwise obscured. In November, however, “Hunt’wa” posted an image on the Telegram messaging app showing his whole face. He also appeared in a video of a white supremacist boxing/combat sports event with his chest tattoo visible and his face unobscured. These decisions by “Hunt’wa”/Hamilton suggest that he either wanted to be publicly identified as a Nazi in some display of bravado, or at least that he was unconcerned about this possibility. We cannot even rule out Hamilton himself feeding information to our organization, in a misguided bid for notoriety. Even if that scenario were true, however, we would feel obligated to warn the public about an active neo-Nazi.
Still from 2023 “Church of Aryanity” video showing a swastika tattooed on Hamilton’s chest.
When we wrote about “Hunt’wa” in 2023, we noted that he was involved with the Church of Aryanity, a neo-Nazi cult which reveres Hitler and attractsvolatileindividuals. As we discussed in our 2023 article on SSAC, “Hunt’wa” traveled to an Aryanity gathering earlier that year, where Aryanity leader Aaron Barret Chapman tattooed a swastika on “Hunt’wa”/Hamilton’s chest. Hamilton was seventeen at the time, which means that professional tattooer Chapman broke Kentucky regulations about underage clients, unless one of Hamilton’s parents consented for their son to receive the tattoo and accompanied him. David Hamilton has subsequently added to his chest tattoo, giving it a more “tribal” appearance, although it is still clearly a swastika. At the time of writing, Hamilton (as “Hunter”) remains a member of the Church of Aryanity group on the Telegram messaging app.
David Hamilton at Hall Landing Campground, Tallahassee, Florida, 2024.
Hamilton has also remained active in Patriot Front (PF). In early November 2024, “Hunt’wa” shared the photo on Telegram that revealed his face. The image shows “Hunt’wa”/Hamilton by Lake Talquin at Hall Landing Campground in Tallahassee, Florida. Just over two months earlier, on August 31, 2024, dozens of PF members rallied in Tallahassee. PF organizer Ian Elliott had booked two sites at Hall Landing Campground for August 30th and 31st, which the organization used for camping and as a staging area. It is extremely likely that the photo of David Hamilton is from that weekend.
Graham Whitson knocks out David Hamilton in bare knuckle fight, Tellico Plains, Tennessee, early November 2024.
On the first weekend of November, PF organizer Ian Elliott hosted a “Winter Nights” gathering at his compound in eastern Tennessee featuring grappling and bareknuckle boxing fights. Photos and video footage from the event show longtime Patriot Front member Graham Whitson quickly knocking out David Hamilton in a bareknuckle fight. According to an interview that Ian Elliott later gave to the white nationalist “White Rabbit Radio” show, “Hunt’wa”/Hamilton had to go to the emergency room to get his busted lip stitched up. The fight was badly mismatched—Graham Whitson is larger and approximately a decade and a half older than Hamilton—but this imbalance appears to have been the point. The match was an opportunity for Hamilton to prove his courage and “heart” to other white supremacists, with Hamilton even boasting about his injury on Aryanity’s Telegram channel.
Photo of David Hamilton in Tennessee, mid- to late-2024.
Apart from his presence at the “Winter Nights” gathering, David Hamilton appears to be spending time in Tennessee and may be based there. A photo we received of Hamilton last year shows a Madisonville, Tennessee business in the background. That store is approximately fifteen minutes by car from Ian Elliott’s compound in Tellico Plains, Tennessee.
Photo posted by David Hamilton to his Telegram account, February 2025.
Hamilton has now changed the name on his Telegram account from “Hunt’wa N’wah” to “Hunter.” As we mentioned earlier, his account remains in the group chat for the “Church of Aryanity” (Ian Elliott of Patriot Front is also involved in this Nazi grouping.) On Telegram, “Hunter” signals his continuing involvement with Patriot Front—in February this year, he posted an image to his profile showing a masked individual with a Patriot Front patch on his cap.
Since the first time we wrote about “Hunt’wa” in 2023, he has remained involved with both Aryanity and Patriot Front, with his involvement in Patriot Front deepening. We are exposing Hamilton because he is a committed neo-Nazi and may pose a threat to those around him. Although Hamilton was living in Augusta, Georgia in 2023, he may now be spending time in Tennessee—images place him at and near the Tellico Plains, Tennessee racist compound. If you have further information about Hamilton’s location and current activities, please get in touch.
Real Estate Agent *no broker affiliation as of 1/25/22*
Thanks to the latest release of Patriot Front Chat logs by Unicorn Riot, we can identify Daniel Turetchi of Owings Mills, Maryland as “Grant-MD”. Turetchi was employed as a Real Estate Agent in Parkville, MD and an active member and Network Scribe of Patriot Front’s Network 9 (NW9), encompassing the Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia areas. He resides at Beckett Green Condominiums in Owings Mills, Maryland, a Baltimore suburb, since purchasing a unit in 2018.
*UPDATE* As of January 25th, 2022, Tuertchi’s former brokerage confirmed that his employment has been terminated. This article has been updated to reflect that.
Meet Paul Gancarz, Patriot Front Network Director for Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and Delaware. Paul attended Unite the Right in Charlottesville as a Proud Boy; was involved in scrawling swastika graffiti in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and was a previous Network Director for New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Among other things…
*1/25/22 Update* – Gancarz’s BJJ gym membership has been terminated. This article originally indicated a gym Gancarz had used to register for competition, but was not his home gym. This has been corrected, and specific contact information has been removed out of respect for gym owners who have taken appropriate action
Summary
Paul Michael Gancarz is a fascist and Patriot Front’s Network Director for the region covering Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and Delaware. He currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, but is originally from New York City where he has strong ties to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Forest Hills, Queens. As a member of Patriot Front, Gancarz is very active in the group’s propaganda campaigns in both New York and Virginia where he is responsible for much of the Patriot Front stickers, posters, and stencils reported in these areas. In his role as a Patriot Front Network Director, Paul would have been directly involved or consulted on high-profile vandalism in his network, such as the defacement of the Arthur Ashe mural in Richmond, Virginia. As the host for Patriot Front marches in Washington DC on January 29th, 2021 and more recently on December 4th, 2021, he would have had a large role in the organizing and staging of these fascist spectacles (and any U-haul mishaps that may have occurred).
Paul Gancarz’s involvement in Far Right politics also goes well beyond Patriot Front. On August 12, 2017 he attended the deadly white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia as a Proud Boy and has maintained strong connections to the group over the years. In December 2019, Paul and Proud Boy member Simon Ming Yui Lee (AKA Simon “Lee Greenwood”) scrawled swastikas outside of a Greenpoint, Brooklyn restaurant. Gancarz also helps distribute a variety of fascist and far right propaganda, notably those for white nationalist Robert Rundo’s groups, Rise Above Movement (RAM) and Will2Rise (W2R). His work as an engineer provides him the opportunity to travel around the United States, network with different fascists, and spread fascist/white nationalist propaganda and ideas. He currently works for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Virginia area.
Summary: Twenty-year-old Michael Patrick Hagerty, II is a member of two racist organizations, Patriot Front and Revolt Through Tradition. This year, he placed stickers for those organizations throughout Atlanta. Hagerty even wears clothes designating himself as a “National Socialist” – in other words, a neo-Nazi. His uncle, Bill Hagerty, is a Trump loyalist campaigning as the Republican candidate in Tennessee’s US Senate race, which he will likely win. Bill Hagerty vilifies Black Lives Matter and anti-fascists. Meanwhile, his nephew works with white supremacists to build a climate of intimidation against people of color, Jewish people, Muslims, leftists and LGBTQ communities.
Introduction
Michael Hagerty, II
“Revocato_Gloria” AKA Michael Hagerty, II
Michael Patrick Hagerty, II is a twenty-year-old white nationalist who belongs to two different fascist organizations, Patriot Front (PF) and Revolt Through Tradition (RTT). Over the last year, he has covered Atlanta with stickers for these organizations, trying to give the impression that they have a strong presence in our city. Hagerty has also traveled to meet with other PF and RTT members and posed in photos as they trained together for fighting. Hagerty even wears a t-shirt identifying himself as a “National Socialist”: in other words, a neo-Nazi. One of Hagerty’s associates in Patriot Front is “John GA” (alias), who targeted synagogues in Columbus, Georgia, last year with another PF member, Chris Brooks.
William F. Hagerty campaign video
Hagerty’s uncle, William F. Hagerty, is currently campaigning in Tennessee as the Republican candidate in that state’s election for the US Senate, which he will likely win. As a candidate, Bill Hagerty has repeatedly attacked Black Lives Matter and anti-fascists. He characterized Black Lives Matter as aiming to “overthrow the government and usher in Marxism” and echoed Donald Trump’s characterization of anti-fascists as “domestic terrorists”, stating that they “must be stopped”. Through his aggressive public stance against anti-racist movements, Bill Hagerty shelters and emboldens white nationalists like his nephew while they prepare for violence.
Ryan Saxer is a neo-Nazi from St. Petersburg, Florida who operates under the name “Sean Battle”. He is a member of several fascist organizations. Before we discuss Ryan’s neo-Nazi organizing and affiliations, let’s detail how we found him.
Ryan has lots of different social media accounts. Some are for his public persona, Sean Battle, where he censors his face and tattoos, and one for his close friends where he posts pictures of his face. Sadly for Ryan, some of those close friends aren’t too happy with him going behind their backs, and decided to send those photos our way. We were able to verify that these photos were of the same individual by comparing them to posts on his Sean Battle account.
Same outfit:
Same outfit:
Same hoodie:
We were able to verify that the man pictured on the right is Ryan Saxer from this old Facebook profile that bears his name.
RTT & RAM :
Ryan is the leader of the Florida chapter of Revolt Through Tradition(RTT). RTT is a white nationalist organization started by Michael Moura after the dissolution of Boston Free Speech. RTT’s organizing is centralized on the east coast, but there have been a notable instances of their propaganda popping up further west. Presently, their activity revolves around putting up stickers and physical training.
The Florida RTT chapter
Revolt Through Tradition is modeled after, and is closely associated with, the Rise Above Movement (RAM). RAM is an extremely violent organization, whose members have committed numerous assaults. They were a major part of the Unite The Right protest in Charlottesville in 2017, and have been lionized in fascist circles. Ryan is also a member of RAM. He authored a communique for the group in January, and posts pictures of himself wearing their shirts.
A Rise Above Movement communique authored by Ryan
Ryan wearing a RAM shirt and posing with his Nazi friends (more coming soon…)
International Conservative Community:
RAM and RTT are both closely associated with the new group, International Conservative Community (ICC). ICC is a massive coalition of fascist and far-right groups across the world that was started by RAM’s founder, Robert Rundo. RAM and RTT’s logos both appear on this wheatpaste orchestrated by ICC.
Screenshot from an ICC propaganda video
Groups that have participated in ICC demos include: RAM, RTT, Pro Patria, RME Crew, Tradition and Order, Action Zealandia, De Fria Sverige and more. So far, the organization’s activities have been limited to doing international solidarity campaigns with arrested RAM members and fascist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. ICC demonstrations have been documented in 7 US states and 12 countries. Ryan and the Florida RTT chapter posed with a RAM solidarity banner, and Ryan has advertised the group on his Sean Battle Instagram account.
A post written by Ryan about ICC
Currently, ICC’s activity is ostensibly benign. However, the formalization of white nationalist alliances across continents is incredibly concerning. We will continue to do work to document ICC in the future. We urge other antifascists investigating ICC to reach out to us with questions and information.
Patriot Front:
Ryan appears to be a member of the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front. Patriot Front is a rebrand of Vanguard America, the group responsible for the murder of Heather Heyer at the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Ryan can be seen sparring in propaganda posted by the organization this May. An uncensored photo from the same sparring session was sent to us by one of his former fiends.
Our Fight / Will2Rise:
Through his pseudonym Sean Battle, Ryan authored several posts on a blog belonging to the white-nationalist clothing company Our Fight. Our Fight sold merchandise for numerous fascist groups and bands from the US and Europe. The organization grew out of The Right Brand, RAM’s official clothing line. As of 9/26/2020, the company rebranded to Will2Rise (cringe tbh). They are no longer selling merch for other groups, and seem to primarily be focusing on RAM branded shirts and outerwear. Ryan has dutifully served as a model for both Will2Rise and Our Fight.
Ryan modeling a hoodie sold on Our Fight.
Ryan(left) modeling for Will2Rise.
The articles Ryan wrote are generally bland and boring. They aren’t very creative, and are often filled with multiple long-winded quotes from Julius Evola and/or Oswald Mosley. We have come to the conclusion that, despite the image he likes to present, Ryan has never read political theory not written by these two men. One particularly interesting piece had him interviewing Joshua Williamson, one of the subjects of our #PanzerDox series.
Boneheads:
Ryan is a probate the Vinlanders Social Club, a violent bonehead(neo-Nazi skinhead) gang responsible for several murders. Here, he can be seen wearing his probate shirt and posing with Vinlanders members including FL leader Donald Hansard. Don has a particularly violent history, and once went to jail for attacking a Cuban man and his child.
Sean wearing his VSC probate shirt
Ryan Saxer is also real good buddies with Ryan Ramsey, the region 4 representative of the Florida Libertarian party. Ramsey is a former member of neo-Nazi bonehead gang The Hated, and is a co-founder of American Guard, an incredibly violent fascist organization.
Freemasons:
For some fucking reason, in addition to all of the above, Ryan is a member of the goddamn Freemasons. He is a part of St. Petersburg’s lodge #139, and their website lists him as a “Senior Deacon”.
Ryan posing in his ceremonial mason outfit
Ryan’s masonic affiliations come as something as a surprise to us, since most Nazis seem to believe the Masons to be an international Jewish conspiracy or whatever. Interestingly enough, Ryan’s occult beliefs don’t stop there. He also reps Ordo Templi Orientus, an esoteric order dating back to the 1890’s. Here, he can be seen wearing the order’s symbol on a necklace.
The Order’s most notable member is famed occultist Alister Crowley, the founder of the religion Thelema. Thelema and and Odro Templi Orientus are still closely related, which may explain why Ryan has a tattoo of the unicursal hexagram, one of the primary symbols used by Thelema.
Throughout the past year, the Torch Antifascist Network has been monitoring the internal communications of Patriot Front, an American fascist organization. The leaked documents reproduced below reveal an organization incapable of moving beyond furtive flyering sessions and photo opportunities, and falling under the increasingly centralized and heavy-handed control of Thomas Rousseau as other longtime leaders step back. Despite their attempts to present an intellectually respectable and professional image, Patriot Front chat logs reveal a group defined by crude fascism, neo-Nazism, and misogyny.
As well as the leaked communications, we’re providing an analysis of Patriot Front and a collection of article links profiling PF members past and present.
Study these contents to your heart’s (dis)content and submit additional identifications to TorchAntifa[at]riseup[dot]net to be included.
On July 29 of last year, two members of Patriot Front – a fascist and white nationalist organization – placed propaganda at synagogues in Columbus, Georgia in an apparent attempt at intimidation. We can now identify one of the two people responsible, who we had written about earlier this year but failed to connect to activity in Columbus. As discussed in our previous article, Christopher Skylar Brooks helped place Patriot Front (PF) materials in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville in May 2019. We connected Brooks to the PF materials in Lawrenceville via an online brag in combination with Brooks’ internet handle, location, dress, and other clues. In our article about Brooks, we surmised that he did not last long in Patriot Front. However, he stayed long enough in the organization to target Columbus, Georgia synagogues with another member, a month and a half after the May propaganda run in Lawrenceville.
On May 30th Hamby spied upon a Black Lives Matter protest at the Austin Capitol and gleefully live-streamed as a protester was manhandled by cops.
But when Hamby got home, he found a message – apparently left by antifascists – on his door. He made several outraged tweets indicating a desire to “protect his home”, likely realizing the impossibility of defending against an enemy he does not know and cannot see.
He even put out a challenge to “fight Antifa” on his birthday – which he spent home alone – but antifascists do not let their enemies dictate, or even anticipate, the time and place of battle.
With his characteristic impulsiveness and rage, Hamby filmed himself tearing down a George Floyd banner posted outside his Midtown Commons residence.
Unfortunately for Chef Goyardee even these futile and impotent displays only result in more attention. Sources report that flyers were found around the Midtown Commons area shortly thereafter.
Additionally a large banner denouncing Dustin Ray Hamby and warning his neighbors was found posted to the nearby dog park he frequents.
While only local antifascists know for sure, it seems likely that Hamby will continue making himself a target until he publicly denounces Patriot Front and the broader fascist movement, forever leaving behind bigoted political activism and internet commentary – at the very least.
