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  • Notes on Martin Kenneth O’Toole and White Supremacy, Part Two

    Notes on Martin Kenneth O’Toole and White Supremacy, Part Two

    In April 2022, we published the first part of “Notes on Martin Kenneth O’Toole and White Supremacy.” Now, four years later, Martin O’Toole unfortunately remains relevant to anti-racists due to his ongoing activism as a white nationalist, as well as his continuing role as the spokesperson for Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Media outlets still quote O’Toole as the voice of this Confederate “heritage” organization without referencing his decades of white nationalist activity. 

    Martin O’Toole

    Our first “Notes” on O’Toole discussed O’Toole’s racist organizing at University of Georgia in the 1970s. We then covered his activities in the 1980s facilitating the production and mass mailing of newsletters for NSDAP/AO, a neo-Nazi group. We also discussed O’Toole’s assistance with Instauration, a racist and antisemitic publication. We concluded with a discussion of O’Toole’s activity in the Holocaust denial scene, which included hosting events for Hitler-sympathizer David Irving in the Atlanta area, as well as operating a related publishing company.

    In this second article, we finish our coverage of O’Toole’s racist career by outlining his history with three virulently racist groups: American Renaissance, the Charles Martel Society, and the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). During the period when O’Toole led FHU, the Foundation reprinted Siege, a notorious book which has inspired neo-Nazi terrorist attacks. Finally, we discuss O’Toole’s travel to Russia with other white nationalists in 2018 in an apparent networking mission.

    Just as with our first “Notes” on O’Toole, this article is not an attempt at a comprehensive biography of O’Toole, or even an exhaustive account of his racist and antisemitic organizing. Our aim is to synthesize existing documentation on O’Toole—scattered around multiple sources—and to add relevant findings from our own research. We hope this provides readers with a clearer picture of O’Toole’s white nationalist campaigning over the decades.

    American Renaissance

    American Renaissance (AmRen) is a “race-realist” propaganda outfit which aims to make racism respectable by avoiding obvious slurs and adopting a pseudo-intellectual tone. It has also attempted to downplay antisemitic conspiracy theories, instead emphasizing racial pseudoscience in its writings. AmRen began as a newsletter at the start of the 1990s but is currently an online publication. The New Century Foundation, headed by Jared Taylor, is the publisher of American Renaissance. Since 1994, AmRen has held regular conferences which bring together the major players of the US white nationalist movement and some of their international counterparts. 

    “Renaissance Audio-Visual” advertisement in Instauration, 1996.

    O’Toole’s name does not feature in New Century Foundation official paperwork, but he has been an AmRen participant over the years. In 1996, an advertisement offering video and audio tapes from that year’s American Renaissance conference appeared in Instauration. The contact email for “Renaissance Audio-Visual” is Martin O’Toole’s personal account, and the address in Marietta, Georgia is a former one for O’Toole. Later, “Renaissance Audio-Visual” changed to a PO Box in Marietta rather than a street address, and eventually the business got an email address of its own. “Renaissance Audio-Visual” produced and sold copies of AmRen conference speeches for at least a decade—an article in The Occidental Quarterly references a copy of a 2006 speech released by the company. As Renaissance Audio-Visual was the official source for hard copies of AmRen conference speeches and was advertised by AmRen, it is likely that the business had little independent existence, with funds raised going straight back to AmRen/New Century Foundation. 

    In 2008, O’Toole assumed a more outward role with AmRen when he was one of the featured speakers at that year’s conference. O’Toole’s speech was on “Race and the Civil War.” In 2012, AmRen published O’Toole’s “Race and the [Civil] War” as an article on its website. While many apologists for the Confederacy claim that the Civil War was not about slavery, O’Toole argued that concern about abolitionism (and its alleged excesses) pushed the Southern states to secede. In other words, O’Toole admits that the Civil War was about slavery and race, although he states this as a double negative: secession was due to Southern opposition to those opposed to slavery! O’Toole also argued that most white people, both in the North and the South, opposed equal rights for Black people. He concluded by arguing that the current “multiracial state is […] a slave state,” where the (alleged) inability of Black and white people to live together as equals must constantly be ignored and lied about, and where the population is bound by “mental fetters.” O’Toole flatters his white supremacist audience when he suggests that they are a brave, clear-headed minority who have freed themselves from popular delusion.

    O’Toole holds the microphone as Michelle Malkin answers questions, American Renaissance conference 2021.

    O’Toole is a regular at AmRen conferences. At the 2018 conference, O’Toole briefly spoke to promote The Occidental Quarterly (see discussion of Charles Martel Society, below.) Leaked footage from the 2021 conference shows O’Toole holding the microphone as he assisted Michelle Malkin’s Q&A session.

    Following the publication of our first “Notes” on O’Toole, O’Toole gave the keynote speech at the 2022 Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans “Confederate Memorial Day” event at Stone Mountain Park. In his speech, O’Toole complained that “Modern America has become the land of the Living Dead. […] ‘Diversity’ is the idol before which they prostrate themselves.” In response, O’Toole urged listeners to renounce this society and instead live by the “eternal values” that Confederate ancestors allegedly honored. The American Renaissance website published O’Toole’s speech in full the following week. 

    O’Toole’s 2022 Confederate Memorial Day speech on AmRen website

    On the same day that AmRen published the text of O’Toole’s speech, the site also released an audio interview with O’Toole by Kevin DeAnna under his pseudonym of “Gregory Hood.” DeAnna made pointedly racist assertions during this conversation. O’Toole was cagier, and placed distance between himself as Georgia SCV spokesman and AmRen, for example speaking as a representative of the Georgia SCV without mentioning his longstanding involvement with AmRen. On a strategic level, the interview seemed designed to push AmRen’s racist audience towards greater participation with the pro-Confederate cause. Conversely, the publication of O’Toole’s Stone Mountain speech on AmRen aimed to draw Confederate sympathizers toward AmRen’s more forthright white nationalism. 

    Charles Martel Society

    Since 2011, IRS filings list Martin O’Toole among the leadership of the Charles Martel Society (CMS). Founded in 2001 by William H. Regnery II of the wealthy publishing family, CMS is a secretive, closed group that aims to influence and build the white nationalist movement. In 2005, CMS provided seed money for the National Policy Institute, a white power think tank which in turn played a leading role in developing the “Alt-Right.” Since 2006, Regnery’s name stopped appearing on CMS paperwork for the IRS; he died in 2021. 

    Sam Dickson, a racist Atlanta attorney and close associate of O’Toole, has been active with CMS from the beginning. Another individual who has a long history with O’Toole, Gregory A. Griffin, also features on CMS paperwork—Griffin was a CMS director between 2005 and 2008. The Griffin Dickson & O’Toole law partnership existed from 1989 when O’Toole joined the Georgia Bar until Dickson’s departure from the partnership in the early 1990s.

    O’Toole himself first appeared on CMS paperwork in 2011, when he was listed as a director. He continued as a director until 2015, when he became President and Chairman of CMS. In 2022, O’Toole returned to a director role, with James Edwards taking over as President and Director. (In our first “Notes” article, we referred to O’Toole as President of CMS, as the 2022 filing with his new role was not yet publicly available.) The most recent CMS filing available online is for 2024, where O’Toole remains listed as a director.

    Matthew Heimbach, former leader of the racist and antisemitic Traditionalist Worker Party, stated that CMS is “in many ways, the heart” of the US white nationalist movement. As a secretive, closed group, much CMS activity is unknown, except in outline. CMS hosts invite-only events for what it sees as the intellectual elite of the racist movement as well as for influential racist youth who show promise as future leaders. Broadly, CMS concerns itself with growing the white nationalist movement and influencing its direction; securing funds for this movement and determining how to spend money to greatest effect; and developing future leadership within the racist movement. For example, reporter Elle Reeve claims that CMS helped to nurture Nathan Damigo for leadership. Damigo went on to found Identity Evropa, a white nationalist activist group that began in early 2016 and was one of the key players in the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 2017. As CMS President from 2015 until 2021, O’Toole must have been involved in high-level discussions about movement tactics and strategy during the “Alt-Right’s” boom starting 2015 and its subsequent implosion after “Unite the Right.”

    O’Toole promotes The Occidental Quarterly at the 2018 American Renaissance conference.

    The Charles Martel Society is responsible for regularly publishing The Occidental Quarterly, which mimics the outer trappings of an academic journal while promoting racism, antisemitism, and patriarchal supremacy. For example, articles published under O’Toole’s tenure as CMS President include: “The Jewish War on White Australia” (Winter 2018), “The Criminalization of Masculinity” (Spring 2019), and “Surviving the Contemporary Racial Nightmare” (Fall 2020).

    The Foundation for Human Understanding, Black Sun Publications, and Siege

    Research published in 2024 tied Martin O’Toole to the circulation of a notorious piece of neo-Nazi propaganda. Approximately one decade before O’Toole first appeared on IRS paperwork as a Charles Martel Society participant, O’Toole featured on filings for another nonprofit, the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). FHU, founded in 1973, was a tax-exempt organization promoting racist pseudoscience. It disbanded in the mid-2000s. An FHU filing with the Georgia Secretary of State in early 2000 updated the Foundation’s business records to reflect the departure of R. Travis Osborne. The same filing showed Martin O’Toole newly listed as the organization’s CEO, CFO, and agent. According to federal filings with the IRS, O’Toole was FHU’s President in 2002 and 2003, with him dropping down to a director role in 2004 and 2005. (FHU’s 2001 filing failed to name any agents or directors, although that year’s IRS filing does claim that O’Toole was taking care of FHU’s accounts.)

    On paper, FHU seemed scarcely active during the time of O’Toole’s involvement. The Foundation claimed to have slightly over $200 in net assets each year during that period, and a 2005 IRS filing even admitted that the “organization [had been] basically inactive” but was planning to reboot. The reboot does not appear to have succeeded, and FHU died. 

    2003 reprint of Siege

    A 2024 research article by Spencer Sunshine and Hannah Gais, published on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hatewatch” blog, shows that the Foundation for Human Understanding reprinted James Mason’s Siege in 2003. Siege first appeared as a book in 1993. It has subsequently become a key text among neo-Nazis who favor terroristic attacks to achieve their goals. As only one example, a mass shooter who murdered three Black people in Florida in 2023 cited Siege. The book has inspired an “accelerationist” subculture of international neo-Nazis sometimes known as “Siege Culture,” and in the US, groups such as Atomwaffen Division and The Base have cited Siege as a foundational text.

    According to Sunshine and Gais’ research, based on Siege author James Mason’s papers housed at the University of Kansas, Greg Johnson and Ryan Schuster arranged the 2003 reprint of Siege. The reprint’s dust jacket featured an image of the World Trade Center’s wreckage after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the new foreword by Ryan Schuster encouraged readers to take inspiration from Timothy McVeigh, responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. “Black Sun Publications” published the new edition. In correspondence with James Mason to arrange the reprint, both Johnson and Schuster presented Black Sun Publications as an imprint of FHU. 

    It is extremely unlikely that Johnson and Schuster were misrepresenting themselves when they claimed affiliation with FHU. First, well-networked racists such as Dickson and O’Toole would have heard the lie. Second, in correspondence Ryan Schuster urged Siege author James Mason to consider “solicit[ing] tax-deductible donations through the FHU” for the reprint. Such a suggestion would have been futile without a real connection to FHU. However, if Black Sun Publishing really was an operation of FHU, then the FHU President at the time, O’Toole, must have approved the plan to reprint Siege and kindle new interest in it. While the 2003 Black Sun Publishing edition of Siege was neither the first printing nor the last, it was an important link in the chain. Siege’s legacy is of providing inspiration for neo-Nazi mass shooters.

    Russia Networking Trip

    In 2018, Sam Dickson traveled with “several other people” to Russia and met with “Russian nationalists” while there. Dickson had previously been to Russia in 2015, where he gave a speech at the “International Russian Conservative Forum” in St. Petersburg (as did Jared Taylor of American Renaissance). We discussed the 2018 Russia trip the following year, when we exposed attorney Michael Dominy as another member of Dickson’s party. We also discussed Dmitry Oveshnikov (Дмитрий Овешников) as the person who showed the group around Moscow. Oveshnikov has Russian state connections: he worked as an analyst for the Federation Council and later became the head of media and public relations for the Moscow City Court. In our 2019 article, we noted that Martin O’Toole’s wife, Carol, seemed to know the group’s itinerary for the Russia trip. We have since discovered that O’Toole was also part of the group on the 2018 Russia trip, alongside Dickson and Dominy. 

    Martin O’Toole photo posted to amateur railroad photography website.

    Our earlier article about Dominy and Dickson in Russia went into detail to establish that both Dominy and Dickson were on the same westbound Trans-Manchurian Express train, which departed Beijing on Saturday, July 7, 2018 and crossed the border into Russia in the early morning of Monday the 9th. While researching O’Toole, we came across his photos on an amateur railroad photography website. One of O’Toole’s images is from “Haerbin [sic] West” in China, dated July 8, 2018. Dominy and Dickson also passed through Harbin on July 8 on their way from Beijing to the border with Russia. Although the train that Dominy and Dickson were on has traditionally passed through the central Harbin station not Harbin West, around that time the train was using Harbin West, as evidenced by online images of the train (Vostok K19) at Harbin West station exactly four weeks later, on August 5, 2018. Because Dickson and Dominy’s train stopped at Harbin West station on July 8, and Martin O’Toole took a picture there on the same day, it is clear that the three far-Right metro Atlanta attorneys were all traveling in the same party.

    Because of Dickson and O’Toole’s involvement in the Charles Martel Society, of which O’Toole was President at the time, and Sam Dickson’s admission that the group met with “Russian nationalists,” the trip increasingly looks like a CMS networking mission. Circles around CMS are typically extremely favorable to the Russian state. For example, current CMS President James Edward’s radio show, “The Political Cesspool,” features pro-Kremlin perspectives from guests such as propagandist Charles Bausman as well as from Dickson himself. As we pointed out in our initial article discussing the 2018 trip, the trip occurred at a time when the US white nationalist movement was in shambles in the wake of the previous year’s “Unite the Right” rally. One theory amongst researchers monitoring the far-Right was that US white nationalists had little to offer either the Kremlin or their Russian counterparts at that point, because the US race warriors were so mired in their own problems. Dickson, O’Toole, and friends took a longer-term view that the turmoil in their movement would not last forever. They therefore set off to Russia in 2018 to build and maintain relationships with their international allies.

    Conclusion

    As spokesperson for the Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans, Martin O’Toole tries to maintain a respectable image. However, our research on O’Toole shows that he is a lifetime leading figure within the white nationalist movement who has provided support to even its furthest neo-Nazi fringes. Our first article in a two-part series discussed O’Toole’s racist activism while at the University of Georgia in the 1970s; his work assisting the production and distribution of neo-Nazi newsletters in the 1980s; his efforts for the antisemitic, white nationalist journal Instauration; and his involvement in Holocaust-denial circles. In this follow-up article, we covered O’Toole’s involvement with American Renaissance; his participation and leadership in the secretive Charles Martel Society; his control of the Foundation for Human Understanding when it reprinted a tome promoting neo-Nazi terrorism; and finally, his travel to Russia in 2018 with other far-Right figures on an apparent networking trip. Given O’Toole’s white nationalist involvement spanning over fifty years, his involvement with the Georgia SCV is not based on mere historical interest. Rather, it stems from ideological conviction and from O’Toole seeing pro-Confederate circles as useful for his movement. By keeping O’Toole in a prominent role, the Georgia SCV tells on itself. 

    If you have further information on O’Toole and his white nationalist associates, please get in contact.

  • Andrew Vellis – NorCal Active Club Member Volunteer with the SF Greek Orthodox Annunciation Cathedral

    Andrew Vellis – NorCal Active Club Member Volunteer with the SF Greek Orthodox Annunciation Cathedral

    This article is our fourth article covering the regional organizing of NorCal Active Club and White Lives Matter California’s regional presence, in our first article we outlined the organizing of Harley Ray Petero a WLM and NorCal Active club member with the Goyim Defense League. In our second article we outed raver-nazi Martin J. Wenzel and his membership in WLM CA and NorCal Active Club. In our third article we outed long time bonehead Jonathan Scott Court, and his attempts to recruit individual members and turn them towards his particular tendency of nazi skinhead organizing. In this article we will expose Burlingame resident Andrew Vellis (Jr.).

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  • On Blast: Charles Roome McLaughlin of SF Running Neo-Nazi Record Label from Tenderloin Apartment

    On Blast: Charles Roome McLaughlin of SF Running Neo-Nazi Record Label from Tenderloin Apartment

    Charles Roome McLauglin (DOB: 07/18/85) of San Francisco has been identified as the owner of Brotherhood of Light Recordings, an active Southern Poverty Law Center Designated Hate Group categorized as a Hate Music Label operating since 2009. Brotherhood of Light Recordings primarily puts out National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM), a genre/scene that attempts to recruit from the Black Metal subculture to explicit neo-nazi ideology and the white power movement.

    Charles Roome McLaughlin listed as “C.R.G.” photographs on the back of his band’s nazi tapes
    Examples of clear-cut nazi propaganda put out on BHoL Recordings

    McLaughlin lives above the Hartland Hotel in the Tenderloin District, and is likely responsible for littering his neighborhood with poorly drawn swastikas. He is a member of several NSBM, “Power Electronics Against Communism” (PEAC), and fascist Neofolk projects. He has released NSBM and RAC (Rock Against Communism) projects from the US, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, South Korea, Russia, Finland, France, and Spain on BHoL Recordings. McLaughlin is a member (often the sole member) of bands; Sunchariot, Cosmic Breath 88, Panzerjager, Sturmgraf, Surt, and Svetovid. As Sunchariot, he released the projects debut album on Winter Solace Productions — itself a SPLC recognized hate group. Winter Solace Productions operates out of Marshfield, WI and is ran by Douglas E. Mcquerter a neo-nazi friend of McLaughlins who was previously exposed via the Midgard leak. Both McLaughlin and Mcquerter tie their celebration of NSBM to the broader MAGA movement. As Vinland Special Services (Vinland SS), McQuerter has released music on BHoL and vice versa with McLaughlin’s bands.

    We are releasing this information to alert community members in the Tenderloin and Little Saigon neighborhoods to Charles McLaughlin’s formation of an active hate group and nazi propaganda outfit operating in hiding since 2009. McLaughlin’s LinkedIn last lists his job in Delivery and Sales at Sherwin-Williams Paint.

    For more information on Charles McLaughlin and BHoL visit: {link}

    Please report any and all fascist activity to [email protected]

    Content retrieved from: https://bay161.noblogs.org/bhol/.

  • Nathaniel Ellis: Patriot Front Member at CU Boulder

    Nathaniel Ellis: Patriot Front Member at CU Boulder

    This release was a collaboration between Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists and Front Range Antifascists

    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.

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  • Meet Patriot Front Participant and Neo-Nazi David Isaac Hamilton (AKA “Hunt’wa N’wah”)

    Meet Patriot Front Participant and Neo-Nazi David Isaac Hamilton (AKA “Hunt’wa N’wah”)

    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 attracts volatile individuals. 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.

  • Proud Boy B-Team Regroups in Clackamas for Lackluster Flag Wave

    Proud Boy B-Team Regroups in Clackamas for Lackluster Flag Wave

    Proud Boys and their fans gather in Clackamas

    On February 16th, 2025, members of the violent far-right street gang the Proud Boys held a “flag wave” event with supporters. After originally planning on mobilizing in Portland, they instead relocated to the Sunnyside Road highway overpass in Clackamas, OR. They hung banners on the overpass featuring the Proud Boys logo and the slogans “ICE is nice”, “Die DEI Die”, and “Fuck Antifa”.

    Counterprotesters made clear that Proud Boys and their allies are not welcome in our communities. Amidst increasingly fascist state action, direct opposition to far-right organizing is more important than ever. We invite folks to familiarize themselves with the following local figures and take action to ensure white supremacists and far-right agitators are always deterred from showing up on our blocks. Here is a quick guide to the flag wave attendees and their violent organizing backgrounds.

    This event features some new faces and a refresher about some familiar ones.

    New Identifications

    Michael Kincaid

    Four images of Michael Kincaid, in which he wears a Proud Boy sweatshirt and open-carries a handgun. one photo shows maple leaf tattoos covering one armMichael Kincaid at the event and photos from his Facebook profile.

    Michael Craig Kincaid (born 8/24/1986, last known address in Milwaukie, OR), a Proud Boy. Michael Kincaid’s uncle, Glenn Kincaid, is working to specifically appoint Proud Boys to official positions within the Clark County Washington’s Republican Party committee.

    Darrin Starr

    Five photos of Darrin Starr. Starr standing in front of a Proud Boy banner making a white supremacist hand sign. Starr with girlfriend Ariel Green, and Starr wearing a Proud Boys polo shirt.Starr at the event, and with girlfriend Ariel Green.

    Darrin James Starr (born 4/7/1984, last known address in Centerville, WA), also a Proud Boy who is currently dating Ariel Green (profiled later in this article). Darrin Starr has been charged seven times with 4th degree assault in Oregon and Washington.

    Matthew Furrow

    Four photos of Matthew Furrow. Furrow in Proud Boy colors and holding a flag which reads: Impeached, Arrested, Convicted, Shot. Still Standing. Trump 2024. A photo of Furrow making a white supremacist hand sign Two additional photos are of Miles Furrow. Miles in a Proud Boy hat and polo shirt behind a Proud Boy banner. Miles punching a person inside their car. Furrow in Proud Boy colors. A photo of Furrow making a white supremacist hand sign at a pie-eating contest in Sandy, OR in August 2021. Two additional photos feature his nephew and fellow Proud Boy Miles Furrow, at the same pie-eating event in Sandy, and punching an antifascist counter-protester at the violent August 22, 2021 rally in Parkrose.

    Matthew Frank Furrow (born 3/24/1963, 17047 S Holly Lane, Oregon City, OR 97045). Matthew Furrow is a Proud Boy, and is the uncle of violent Proud Boy Miles Furrow who committed assaults at the August 22, 2021 event in Portland.

    Some Familiar Faces

    Julie Turcol and Chris Reyes

    image collage of Julie Turcol and boyfriend Chris Reyes. Turcol stands next to boyfriend Reyes and Proud Boy Dan Tooze holding an antifascist Community Alert flyer featuring her information. Turcol stands next to Proud Boy Nate Cisneros and another masked Proud Boy in front of a banner. Two photos of Turcol smiling from her social media page. A photo of Reyes giving a white supremacist hand sign, and another of him wearing a shirt that reads: hospitalize your local antifa terrorist.Julie Turcol and boyfriend Chris Reyes, and Turcol with Proud Boy Nate Cisneros.

    Julie Turcol (born 1/9/1968, 747 SW 257th Ave, Apt 144, Troutdale, OR 97060, vehicle: Black 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, license plate 780KSW)

    The main organizer of the event, Julie has a history of participating and organizing homophobic and transphobic anti-drag demonstrations. In June of 2024, she organized a protest of a family-friendly Drag Queen Storytime at the Tigard Public Library. Her online promotion was picked up by Chelly Bouferrache (hunnybadgermom) and Andy Ngo, which led to so many violent threats the library closed for the day and the event was canceled. Her boyfriend, Proud Boy affiliate Chris Reyes (of Desert Hot Springs, CA), also attended.

    Dan Tooze

    Three photos of Dan Tooze. Tooze carrying an American flag at this event. Tooze yelling. Dan Tooze in a Proud Boy shirt and tactical vest with a yellow American flag patchTooze at the event, a photo from January 6th at the Salem Capitol building in 2021, and Tooze at the violent August 22nd, 2021 rally in Parkrose

    Daniel Grant Tooze (born 07/27/1963, 19969 S Highway 213, Oregon City, OR 97045, vehicle: Black 2019 GMC Yukon, license plate 777PSH)

    A long-time member of the Portland Proud Boys, Dan provided “security” for the February 16th flag wave. He was seen giving orders during the violent street brawl on August 22nd, 2021 at the defunct Kmart in Parkrose. We’ve written about him previously in this article from September 2020.

    David Willis

    Five photos of David Willis. Two photos from the event show Willis with an America First patch on his coat and wearing a yellow and black star gaiter over his face. Willis with a Gadsden rattlesnake tshirt and a Christian flag. A photo of Willis making a white supremacist hand sign with an America First patch on a tactical vest. Willis in a full face gas mask and tactical vest, with an orange can of bear spray and a paintball gun hanging from a shoulder strap.David Willis at the flag wave, the July 13th 2024 Jesus March, and at “The Church of Planned Parenthood” event on August 10th, 2021 in Salem.

    David Charles Willis Jr. (born 9/25/1977, 3979 NE Devils Lake Rd, Unit C, Lincoln City, OR 97367, vehicle: Silver 2009 Jeep Liberty, license plate 203NTX)

    Willis is a violent neo-Nazi who often shoots his paintball gun at antifascist demonstrators. Find more info about him in this article from August 2020.

    Skylor Jernigan

    Four photos of Skylor Jernigan. Jernigan in a Trump 2024 the Sequel baseball cap. Jernigan wielding paintball rifles.Skylor Jernigan at the event, and with a paintball gun at other far-Right rallies.

    Skylor Jernigan (born 3/2/1993, 3016 SE Holly Ave Unit 3, Milwaukie, OR 97222)

    Skylor Jernigan, a Patriot Prayer hanger-on, is perhaps most known for firing a gun toward counterdemonstrators out of a vehicle on August 15th, 2020.

    JD Stockton

    Four photos of JD Stockton standing around. Stockton wearing a Proud Boy hat in 2021. JD Stockton at various far-Right events: 2/16/2025, 8/6/2017, 5/1/2021

    Jacob Dean Stockton (born 7/25/1982, 20433 SE Stark, Apt 139, Gresham, OR 97030, vehicle: Maroon 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup, license plate 084NRN)

    Self-declared “Sergeant-at-Arms” of the Proud Boys, JD Stockton regularly attends hateful and violent rallies. Here is previous reporting on him.

    Ricky Clark and Nancy Jo Clark

    Five photos of Rick and Nancy Jo Clark. In photos from the event, Nancy Jo stands in front of a Proud Boy banner. Rick Clark wears a Proud Boy hoodie. A photo of Rick Clark attacking an antifascist counterprotester. A photo of Rick Clark in a Proud Boys tshirt and Proud Boys face gaiter.Photos of Rick and Nancy Jo Clark at the flag wave. Other photos feature Rick Clark attacking an antifascist counterprotester at a so-called Church at Planned Parenthood event in Salem Oregon on July 13, 2021, and at the violent riot in Clackamette Park on June 18th, 2021.

    Ricky Dale Clark (born 3/15/1957) and Nancy Jo Clark (born 10/1/1960, shared address 17860 NW Cambray St, Beaverton, OR 97006, vehicle: Gray 2017 Ford F150, license plate UO06795)

    Proud Boy Ricky Clark and his wife Nancy Jo were also present. Rick/Dick Clark has participated in violent street fighting at several far-Right events, including the June 18th, 2021 riot at Clackamette Park.

    Nate Cisneros

    Five photos of Nate Cisneros. Two photos from the event feature Nate Cisneros in Proud Boy colors standing in front of a banner. A photo of Cisneros pulling a gun. Cisneros wearing a red helmet and a face gaiter wielding a paintball rifle.Nate Cisneros. Other photos feature Cisneros on February of 2021, and on an evening when he got kicked out of a bar for shooting a pellet gun and bear spraying bar customers. Cisneros with a paintball gun at a Christian nationalist event on August 7, 2021 at Waterfront Park.

    Nathan Andrew Cisneros (born 5/12/1984, last known address in Lakewood, WA)

    Nate Cisneros is a Proud Boy known for his violence at the Jesus March on July 13th, 2024 and for pulling a gun on protestors in Bellingham, WA in 2021.

    Jeremy Roberts and Jaime Roberts

    Four images of Jaime an Jeremy Roberts. Both standing with Chris Reyes. Jeremy Roberts kicking a broken glass door.Jaime and Jeremy Roberts at the flag wave with Chris Reyes. Final photo shows Jeremy Roberts breaking into the Salem Capitol on December 20th, 2020.

    Jeremy Wayne Roberts (born 12/26/1980) and Jaime Lynn Roberts (born 5/12/1980, shared address: 1280 7th Ave SW, Albany OR 97321, vehicle: Black 2023 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup, license plate 307QGJ)

    Jeremy Roberts is a violent far-Right agitator who called spree killer and neo-Nazi David Pedersen a friend, who he met during his time in prison. Roberts is a convicted domestic abuser. On December 20th, 2020 during an anti-COVID-lockdown protest at the Salem capitol building, Roberts personally kicked in one of the building’s glass doors.

    Other Attendees

    Kareem Patton

    Four images of Kareem Patton. Two at the event, wearing a Trump hat. Patton with four guns. Patton in a car with David Willis, Haley Adams, and Mack Lewis. He and Willis are making a white supremacist hand sign.Kareem Patton at the event, and posing with David Willis, Haley Adams, and Mack Lewis.

    Kareem Jamahl Patton (born 2/16/1982, last known address in Clackamas, OR)

    Samson Steele

    four images of Samson Steele. Two from the event, a Facebook photo, and a photo of Steele kicking a person who is lying on the ground.Samson Steele. One photo shows Steele kicking an antifascist counterprotester in the head at Delta Park on September 26, 2020

    Samson Elijah Steele (born 2/1/1981, last known address in Salem, OR)

    Daryl Murrey

    Three photos of Daryl Murrey. One from the event shows Murrey making a shooting gesture at a journalist. Two from the violent rally on August 22nd, 2021 show Murrey in a GOP elephant sweatshirt, macing counterprotesters.Daryl Murrey making a shooting gesture at a journalist at the flag wave. Two photos from the violent August 22nd, 2021 rally.

    Daryl Grant Murrey (born 4/13/1984, last known address in Beaverton, OR)

    James Jay Abney

    Four photos of Jay Abney. Two from the event show Abney in a Proud Boys sweatshirt with Julie Turcol, Jeremy Roberts and Skylor Jernigan. Two Facebook photos, one showing Abney with a Proud Boys patch on his vest. James Jay Abney with Julie Turcol, Jeremy Roberts and Skylor Jernigan.

    Proud Boy James Jay Abney (born 9/21/1968, last known address in Oregon City, OR)

    David Julian

    Five photos of David Julian. Two of Julian at the event in Proud Boy colors, carrying an American flag. One of him wearing a Proud Boy polo shirt. Julian wearing Proud Boy colors and a tactical vest, wielding a paintball rifle.David Julian. One photo shows Julian with a paintball rifle at the violent August 22, 2021 rally.

    Proud Boy David Alex Julian (born 10/20/1991, last known address in Clackamas, OR)

    Ariel Green

    Three images of Ariel Green. Two from the event show Green with Skylor Jernigan in front of a Proud Boy banner, and posing with Julie Turcol and Shauna Nichols.Ariel Green with her boyfriend Darrin Starr, and with Julie Turcol and Shauna Nichols.

    Ariel Marie Green (born 10/8/1984, 4895 13th Ave NE, Keizer, OR 97303)

    Troy Nichols and Shauna Nichols

    Five photos of Troy and Shauna Nichols. Photos from the event show Shauna in a Trump beanie. A photo of Shauna making a white supremacist hand sign. Troy spraying bear mace out of a vehicle.Troy and Shauna Nichols. One photo shows Troy Nichols spraying mace on October 23, 2022, protesting a Drag Story Time event in Eugene.

    Proud Boy Troy Adams Nichols (born 8/3/1979) and Shauna Marie Nichols (born 11/14/1984, last known shared address in Gladstone, OR)

    Chelly Bouferrache

    Three photos of Chelly Bouferrache. One from the event next to a Betsy Ross flag. One from February 5th, 2025. One with good friend and far-Right twitter personality Andy Ngo. Chelly Bouferrache. Bouferrache poses next to her good friend Andy Ngo.

    Chelly Kay Bouferrache (born 9/14/1969, currently of Sweet Home, OR)

    Chris Young

    Three photos of Chris Young. One from the event wearing a Trump hat with Julie Turcol. Young wearing a Proud Boy tshirt.Chris Young with Julie Turcol at the flag wave.

    Proud Boy Chris Alan Young (born 5/8/1986, last known address in Washougal, WA)

    Brandon Jaramillo

    Four photos of Brandon Jaramillo. From the event in front of an American flag banner, Jaramillo in a tactical vest with a rifle, and making a white supremacist hand signBrandon Jaramillo.

    Brandon Martin Jaramillo (born 7/28/1998)

    Robert Anderson and Denise Anderson

    Four photos of Robert and Denise Anderson. Two from the event, Denise wearing a Trump sweatshirt. The two at an event with Robert in a Fred Perry Proud Boys polo shirt. Robert in a PDX Proud Boys jacket, Proud Boys hat, and Proud Boys face gaiter.Denise and Robert Anderson.

    Proud Boy Robert Douglas Anderson (1/2/1982) and Denise Elizabeth Anderson (11/11/1976, shared address: 16272 Frederick St, Oregon City, OR 97045)

    Some additional attendees:

    Charles Booth

    Two photos of Charles Booth, one from the event. In both he wears a Patriot Prayer tshirt. Charles Booth.

    Charles Philip Booth (born 9/26/1961, currently of Banks, OR)

    Debbie Lumb

    Five photos of Debbie Lumb. At the event Lumb poses with Julie Turcol and Jayde Blomquist.Debbie Lumb with Julie Turcol and Jayde Blomquist

    Debbie Marie Lumb (born 11/1/1970, last known address in Molalla, OR)

    Monica Noble

    Four photos of Monica Noble. Two from the event show Noble in a Trump hat and US flag shirt, in one she hugs Jeremy RobertsMonica Noble hugging Jeremy Roberts.

    Monica Lynn Noble (born 4/20/1964, 5246 SE 62nd Ave, Portland, OR 97206)

    Shelby Walman

    Four photos of Shelby Walman. At the event in a Trump 2024 tshirt, in a professional security uniform, a photo in front of a Proud Boys banner, at an event in a Trump 2020 shirt with a bullhorn.Shelby Walman

    Shelby Steven Walman (born 12/6/1995, last known address in Wilsonville, OR)

    Jayde Blomquist

    Four photos of Jayde Blomquist. Two photos at the event show Blomquist ina Trump tshirt and second amendment hat with a Punisher mask. Final photo shows Blomquist giving a Nazi salute with a Christonationalist flag.Jayde Blomquist.

    Jayde Nicole Blomquist (born 4/16/1986, last known address in Vancouver, WA)

    Also there:

    Jacquelin Muro

    Three photos of Jacquelin Muro. At the event holding an Appeal to Heaven flag, another holding a protest sign about election interference in 2020Jacquelin Muro

    Jacquelin Renel Muro (born 10/29/1958, currently of Canby, OR)

    Robin Atkinson

    Four photos of Robin Atkinson. Two at the event show her standing next to a Proud Boy in a Fuck Antifa face gaiter and Proud Boys hoodie.Robin Atkinson next to a masked Proud Boy.

    Robin Karen Atkinson (born 12/10/1968, currently of Portland, OR)

    Terrie Stafford

    Three photos of Terrie Stafford. At the event she poses with Julie Turcol.Terrie Stafford with Julie Turcol.

    Terrie Lynn Stafford (born 11/17/1965, currently of Molalla, OR)

    Lenore Shafer

    Four photos of Lenore Shafer. At the event she carries a US flag. In another photo she wears a Trump tshirt.Lenore Shafer

    Lenore Alva Shafer (born 2/23/1969, currently of Tigard, OR)

    Shannon Moline

    Three photos of Shannon Moline. Two at the event show her wearing a USA 1776 sweatshirt.Shannon Moline

    Shannon Marie Moline (born 1/5/1972, currently of Fairview, OR)

    Sam Stewart

    Four photos of Sam Stewart. At the event he wears a Trump-Vance hat and US flag jacket. Another photo shows Stewart wearing a Trump 2024 hat and reveals a tattoo on his shoulder.Sam Stewart

    Sam Stewart (born 7/11/2002, currently of Cornelius, OR)

    To those who choose to attend events with Proud Boys, it’s not too late to step away from far-right organizing before you become more than just a footnote in this article.

    We Keep Us Safe

    Portlanders opposed to hateful ideologies have shown up and successfully driven far-right bigots out of our neighborhoods. The same can be done in our suburbs when we show up to defend our communities in strong numbers. Together we can push fascist organizing back to the fringe and prevent the harm they do when allowed to grow. We hope this information helps you and your networks continue to combat these toxic ideologies throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We hope you feel emboldened to take action in whatever ways you can!

    Much appreciation to everyone who has reported on far-right events; without various community photos, first hand accounts, and other information, this article would not have been possible.

    As always, please send relevant tips on fascist activity in your community to: [email protected]

  • Stuart DiNenno and “Kinist” White Nationalism

    Stuart DiNenno and “Kinist” White Nationalism

    On Saturday, August 17, 2024, three white nationalists held a demonstration in Dawsonville, Georgia. The trio displayed signs promoting racial “loyalty” and alleging that white people are being “replaced.” The theme of their demonstration—“the great replacement”—is a racist conspiracy theory which has inspired mass shootings. An onlooker photographed the three demonstrators, and the images were posted to Reddit later that day.






    August 17, 2024 demonstration in Dawsonville. Photos from Reddit.
    A Reddit commenter correctly identified one of the racist demonstrators as Stuart Nicholas DiNenno (born 1959) of Chamblee, Georgia. Through his posts on Reddit and elsewhere, DiNenno confirmed that he was involved in the demonstration. He was clearly the public face of this event. The signs displayed by the white nationalists featured a URL for DiNenno’s website, which advocates for a racist version of Christianity known as “Kinism.”

    Stuart DiNenno

    Kinism, the racist form of Christianity advocated by DiNenno, emerged from neo-Confederate circles—in particular, members of the League of the South—during the early- to mid-2000s. (Work formulating Kinist principles began some years earlier.) Kinists believe that God divided humanity into different racial groups; that these groups should be preserved separately; and that Christians have moral duties to their racial “kin.” Kinists therefore advocate for segregation and prohibit racial intermarriage. They are deeply opposed to egalitarianism and favor replacing democracy with theocracy. While Kinism as a term has been around for just a quarter century, adherents portray their beliefs as a return to traditional Christianity.

    It is important to differentiate Kinism from another racist form of Christianity: Christian Identity. Christian Identity claims that whites are God’s true chosen people, and that Jewish people are evil imposters. In the case of “dual seedline” Christian Identity, adherents believe that Jewish people are literally descended from the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Such Christian Identity adherents also believe that people of color are subhuman. Kinists, on the other hand, claim that Christian salvation is available to those of any race. However, Kinists promote segregation and characterize white people as superior.

    Both Kinists and Christian Identity adherents are extremely antisemitic, but there is a difference between how these two express and justify this antisemitism. Christian Identity proclaims that white people are descendants of the Biblical Israelites, and thus God’s true chosen people. Christian Identity offers theories about Jewish people and their bloodlines to portray this group as imposters or even Satanic in origin. DiNenno on his Kinist website argues that present-day Jewish people are not descended from the Israelites of the Bible. However, he does not speculate about the supposed actual lineage of Jewish people. Rather, DiNenno draws on much longer legacies of antisemitism within Christianity, asserting that “Being a Christ hater […] is the principal component of Jewish identity.”

    DiNenno takes a positive view of Hitler and Nazi Germany. On his website, DiNenno reprinted an interview with Mildred Gillars, better known as “Axis Sally,” an American who made pro-Nazi broadcasts from Germany during World War II, and who was convicted of treason after the war. Another section on DiNenno’s site provides a lengthy quote from a 1934 speech by Hitler, reprinted under the heading “Hitler’s Surprisingly Biblical View of the Role of Women.” In a rant by DiNenno on the site, he claims that someone is a “victim of Jewish indoctrination” if the person “believe[s] the Jewish ‘Holocaust’ stories” or “the mainstream narrative of World War II.” DiNenno reprinted a lengthy article by Mark Weber, a major figure in Holocaust-denial circles, to his website.

    2018 news story from 11Alive

    Calling DiNenno homophobic would be an understatement. On his website, DiNenno portrays “sodomite relationships” as an “evil that is deserving of the death penalty,” and suggests that even approving of such relationships is worthy of punishment. In 2018, DiNenno made headlines after the landscaping company he operates, Botanica Atlanta Landscape and Design, refused to work for a gay couple. DiNenno claimed on Facebook: “I average about one or two calls per year [with my business] from sodomites or lesbians. I always turn them down.”

    DiNenno (on left) protests the Pride Walk in Burlington, North Carolina, June 29, 2024 

    DiNenno was part of a group that harassed the “Pride Walk” in Burlington, North Carolina, in June of 2023 and 2024. The anti-LGBTQ+ protests were partially organized by Michael Spangler of North Carolina, who this year published a lengthy series endorsing “Christian Race Realism” and who broadly considers himself a Kinist. Earlier in the year (before the start of the “Race Realism” series) the Orthodox Presbyterian Church divested Spangler from its ministry.

    Those targeting the Pride Walks aimed to make the gatherings as unpleasant as possible for participants, with Stuart DiNenno gloating this year:
    We dogged them everywhere they went and they seemed to be disturbed by our presence. I won’t be surprised if next year’s event is canceled. Please pray for that to happen.
    DiNenno also appears to have shown up against Alamance Pride in October 2023, also held in Burlington.

    While DiNenno was only able to get two others to join him for his August white nationalist demonstration in Georgia, he is well-networked in Kinist circles and could potentially draw others to engage in public racist agitation. DiNenno’s intense antisemitism and the pleasure he takes from homophobic harassment are both concerning. For these reasons, we believe it is necessary to warn the public about DiNenno.

    What you can do:

    1)        Warn others about DiNenno’s landscaping business, Botanica Atlanta Landscape and Design. Many potential customers would not wish to financially support a white nationalist who takes a fond view of Hitler and engages in homophobic harassment. Bringing DiNenno into contact with people of color, Jewish people, or LGBTQ+ individuals risks creating an unpleasant situation or worse.

    2)        Please get in contact if you can identify DiNenno’s two associates from the Dawsonville demonstration or have potentially relevant information. We would also like to hear from anyone who has further info about DiNenno.

    3)        Finally, share this article with friends in north Metro Atlanta who may encounter DiNenno. Please also share this article to contacts near Dawsonville in north Georgia, in case DiNenno and his associates attempt further agitation there.

    Author antifa atlPosted on December 16, 2024Tags Antisemitism, Botanica Atlanta Landscape and Design, Burlington NC, Chamblee GA, Dawsonville GA, Holocaust denial, Homophobia, kinist, League of the South, Michael Spangler, neo-Confederate, Stuart DiNenno

  • Emory Law Student Grayson Walker is Responsible for Antisemitic “MAGA Communist” Publicity Stunt Sabotaging Pro-Palestinian Event

    Emory Law Student Grayson Walker is Responsible for Antisemitic “MAGA Communist” Publicity Stunt Sabotaging Pro-Palestinian Event

    Grayson Walker, Emory Law Student and “MAGA Communist”

    On April 28th, the Georgia chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) sponsored a pro-Palestinian talk on the Emory campus which was to have featured historian and activist Norman Finkelstein. However, Finkelstein abruptly canceled his planned speech. CAIR soon issued a statement blaming an unspecified “rogue actor” for adding a “divisive” last-minute speaker to the agenda: 

    “Today, we unwittingly damaged the movement for Palestinian liberation by allowing a rogue actor to brazenly hijack an event intended to highlight the Palestinian genocide and uplift the Palestinian movement. A student co-organizer commandeered this platform by inserting hateful and divisive guests into the program. He greenlighted a deeply problematic speech without sharing with co-organizers, prevented our attempts to reverse his last-minute changes to the speaker line up, prevented our staff from making statements on stage, and insulted our honored guests Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Ibrahim Awad, and Juilee Shivalkar.”

    CAIR-GA Statement

    Our group usually keeps a tight focus on exposing overt white nationalists and neo-Nazis, but there are times when our goal of antifascist education involves speaking about political actors whose motivations are not quite so obvious. With this post, we will identify and briefly give some political context to Grayson Walker, the “MAGA Communist” Emory law student responsible for the cancellation. While CAIR did not name Grayson Walker as the “rogue actor”, many other witnesses have already done so. This post is neither a full exposé nor a detailed timeline of the failed event, simply an alert to be aware of Grayson Walker and similar infiltrators who seek to exploit Palestinian suffering to curry social media attention for their niche cryptofascist political brands. 

    The word “cryptofascism” can evoke fanciful images of secret Nazi agents, but the historical reality is much more prosaic. A party or movement springs up claiming to be “above political divisions”, claiming to “synthesize left and right”, and then inevitably assimilates into the traditional right wing when their ideas fail to gain traction. These people often genuinely believe that they are not fascists, but they also tend to be sympathetic to outright fascists.

    The “MAGA Communist” speakers invited by Grayson Walker — Jackson Hinkle and Adam Tahir/Haz Al-Din — fall neatly into this pattern. Here are some defining characteristics of their cryptofascist movement, which is also sometimes known as “patriotic socialism”:

    • A social conservative identity and call to return to “traditional” values expressed through homophobia, transphobia, and clownish performative misogyny. For example, Hinkle and Haz are both full-throated supporters of sex trafficker and rapist Andrew Tate.
    • A hatred of vaguely defined “elites” expressed through conspiracism and antisemitism
    • Populist nativism and support for harsher, Trumpian anti-immigrant measures
    • Campism: the naive belief that the world is divided into competing camps of states and that each state can be assigned into a good camp or bad camp. They regard China and Russia as the good camp, with the US state as the bad camp, until their MAGA Communist patriotic revival somehow takes over the US and redeems it.
    • The invocation of a simplistic ideology-as-superstructure-only concept from early Marxist theory (this is a concept which many Marxists disagree with and have replaced with more sophisticated models of ideology, such as Gramscian hegemony).
    • anti-environmentalism and pro-extractivism (support for the fossil fuel industry)

    For this last point, it is worth noting that MAGA Communists have strong ties to the Lyndon Larouche cult, sharing not only their anti-environmentalist beliefs but also their underhanded tactics: Larouchites are known for targeting college students and for attention-grabbing publicity stunts. This idea that “any publicity is good publicity” is why this group calls themselves “MAGA communists” in the first place, because it attracts instant attention.

    The “MAGA communists” have especially strong ties to the Russian state and far right, as shown by these recent photos.

    Grayson Walker with Hinkle, Haz, and Aleksandr Dugin at an event in Shanghai, China in February 2024
    Several people standing behind a flag held by Hinkle and Haz that reads "Anti-Imperialische Aktion" and contains the combined Palestinian and Hammer and sickle symbols. Most of the people are identified in the surrounding text.
    Grayson Walker in Russia at the 2nd Congress of the International Russophile Movement also in February of 2024. Source.

    As for sympathy with outright fascists, Kris Roman (seen in back) is a Belgian who heads a pro-Putin white supremacist group which receives little support in Belgium but often features in Russian media. Maryam Susli, known primarily as a Bashar al-Assad propagandist, has made an appearance on neo-Nazi and former National Justice Party figure Eric Striker‘s media and has been interviewed by KKK figure David Duke. Hinkle and Haz have also both streamed on white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ website after having been banned on Twitch.

    Giving cryptofascists a platform generally leads to the platforming of their fascist allies, among other damage. By unwittingly allowing Grayson Walker even an indirect role in their event, CAIR-GA’s reputation was hurt and their members made more vulnerable. In a video after the event, Hinkle and Haz threatened CAIR directly, and Hinkle wielded a racist nativist dogwhistle against them, saying, “CAIR wants to come to my country, our country, and use their lobbying power to take your taxpayer dollars, just like the Zionist lobby…”. In light of how this country targets Muslim and Palestinian immigrants and refugees and treats Muslims as perpetual foreigners, this line of attack is especially egregious and makes a mockery of any “MAGA Communist” claim to Palestinian solidarity.

    Luckily, autonomous protesters quickly circulated alerts about Hinkle and Haz, giving real information about their motives and cutting short the Haz speech. CAIR and other people present were able to limit the damage by not allowing Hinkle and Haz to speak and by issuing a swift apology afterwards. We encourage everyone in the Atlanta community to familiarize themselves with Grayson Walker and bar him from any political events, or else they, like CAIR, could fall victim to a similar publicity stunt. Please make public any new tips on Walker’s local political activity and/or email tips to us securely at [email protected].

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  • Michael and Shannon Hitt: Active Neo-Nazis in Senoia, Georgia

    Michael and Shannon Hitt: Active Neo-Nazis in Senoia, Georgia

    Introduction

    Michael Cason Hitt (born 1991) and his wife Shannon Joy Hitt (née Nicholson, born 1993) are neo-Nazis living in Senoia, Georgia. Last year, both distributed flyers for the viciously antisemitic Goyim Defense League (GDL), also involving their children in this effort. Michael Hitt, a former Marine, uses the alias “D1ktater” online. Michael Hitt claims to have “been a part of at least 5 active” white supremacist groups. Recently, he has been close to Patriot Front. He works as a rebuild technician for RAS Systems, LLC, a machinery supplier in Peachtree City, Georgia that is the US partner of a German company. Hitt claims to have traveled to Germany for his work and expressed interest in networking with neo-Nazis while there.

    Michael Hitt
    Michael Hitt
    Shannon Hitt

    Identification, Goyim Defense League Activity, Michael Hitt Workplace

    “D1ktater”/Michael Hitt first came to our attention last year. In June 2023, members of the “Goyim Defense League” harassed synagogues in Macon and Marietta, Georgia. “D1ktater” was a member of the GDL’s chat on the Telegram messaging application. He was based in Georgia and appeared eager to help, but was left in the dark about GDL plans.  On Friday the 23rd, the GDL rallied outside Temple Beth Israel in Macon, and the next day, they targeted Chabad Lubavitch of Cobb County in Marietta. When he learned on the Saturday that GDL members were rallying again, “D1ktater” asked the Telegram chat: “Are they [GDL demonstrators] in the same city?” 

    “D1ktater” left in the dark about GDL plans, June 24, 2024

    Looking further into “D1ktater,” we found his account on Gab, a far-right social networking site. On this profile, “D1ktater” shared videos of himself throwing bags containing GDL flyers onto lawns. One video shared January 31, 2023 shows “D1ktater’s” wife, who drives while he throws flyers from the passenger side. Later in this video, in footage from another expedition to throw GDL flyers, two children are visible in the back seat of the vehicle (their faces are blurred in the footage). Another video shared by “D1ktater,” posted on March 12, 2023, shows him sitting in the bed of a pickup truck with a woman identified in the video as “UncomfortableTruths.” Both throw GDL flyers. When posting this video, “D1ktater” tagged the Gab accounts for his wife as well as for “UncomfortableTruths.” 

    Michael and Shannon Hitt distribute GDL flyers, video posted January 31, 2023  
    Michael Hitt and “UncomfortableTruths” (Charmon “Ann” Aaron), video posted March 12, 2023

    After finding the Gab account for “D1ktater,” identifying him was straightforward. As mentioned earlier, his wife also had a Gab account at the time. She used the same address on this Gab account as she did on other platforms where she provided her real name: Shannon Hitt. With this clue, we soon found Michael Hitt and his LinkedIn account. Hitt claimed on LinkedIn to have been a Marine from 2013 until 2018, which corresponds to “D1ktater’s” claim on Gab that he “enlisted and worked on choppers for 5 years.” 

    On LinkedIn, Hitt wrote that in May 2023 he had started working as a rebuild technician at RAS Systems, LLC in Peachtree City. RAS Systems is the American partner of a German company founded in 1939, RAS Reinhardt Maschinenbau GmbH. Hitt’s information on LinkedIn closely matched a May 4, 2023, Gab post from “D1ktater,” in which he claimed to have had an in-person interview for a new job, “less than 10 minutes from my house”, and that the company “desire[d] to send me to the Vaterland to learn new equipment, maintenance, and processes.” “D1ktater” shared a GDL video featuring clips of a Nazi rally to accompany the post about his job interview. 

    May 2023: “D1ktater”/Michael Hitt posts about job interview on Gab.

    Shannon Hitt is an active neo-Nazi in her own right. In a February 2023 comment on Gab, Michael Hitt told GDL participant Mel Travis Layton of Missouri (AKA “John 8:44”) that “I’d have learned to toss [bags of GDL flyers] while driving by now if my wife didn’t enjoy coming along so much.” On Shannon Hitt’s own profile, she posted about baking a “Führer cake for Hitler’s birthday.” Her profile picture on Gab featured an animated spinning “black sun”—a symbol used by neo-Nazis. Disturbingly, both the Hitts involved their children in bagging GDL flyers for distribution, and Michael Hitt posted a picture of his son and daughter making Nazi salutes. As mentioned earlier, they also brought their children along on a trip to throw GDL flyers.

    Shannon Hitt profile picture on Gab, with animated “black sun” symbol in background. 

    A Friend of the Family: Charmon “Ann” Aaron

    Despite a history of spreading GDL propaganda, Michael and Shannon Hitt were left in the dark about plans last year for GDL members to harass Georgia synagogues. Examining the Hitts’ Gab accounts, the reason for this became clear: infighting within the GDL. Michael and Shannon Hitt were close with a neo-Nazi then living in Newnan, Georgia: Charmon Antoinet “Ann” Aaron (born 1968). Aaron, also known as “UncomfortableTruths” on Gab, relocated to Amory, Mississippi in July 2023. 

    Charmon “Ann” Aaron

    The June targeting of Georgia synagogues was arranged by an inner circle of GDL participants close to leader Jon Minadeo II (AKA “Handsome Truth”). Ann Aaron had begun feuding with two Georgia GDL members who are part of Minadeo’s inner circle, Hilary and Philip Jacobs, with Aaron claiming that the couple took advantage of her generosity. The Hitts, on the other hand, are close with Ann Aaron—Michael Hitt even shared a video in March 2023 of him and Aaron throwing GDL flyers together. The Hitts’ relationship with Ann Aaron led them to be viewed with suspicion by Hilary and Philip Jacobs, and by extension the rest of the GDL inner circle around Minadeo. Key GDL organizers therefore did not let the Hitts in on their plans to harass synagogues in Georgia, leaving Michael Hitt to ask for information about what was happening in the broader GDL Telegram chat.

    Ann Aaron complains about Philip and Hilary Jacobs (AKA “Catfish Jankins” and “Mrs. Catfish”), 2023

    Connection with Patriot Front

    Starting in the second half of 2023, Michael Hitt was active with Patriot Front (PF), either as a formal member or a close associate. PF is a racist and fascist organization established in the direct aftermath of 2017’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, from an earlier fascist group, Vanguard America. We have documented PF’s activity in our state since its early days and exposed multiple members.

    In July 2023, Michael Hitt posted to Gab that he had “tried hooking up with PF once” and that he “may try that again.” A few months later in October, Hitt commented on Gab below a video of Nazi troops marching in the streets, writing that “I know some [people] who do [that]” and sharing a video of a PF march. 

    Michael Hitt in group photograph from Atlas Active Club and Patriot Front gathering, October 2023. 

    In late October, Georgia members of Patriot Front joined with Atlas Active Club for an “afternoon of Halloween festivities and striking training.” Atlas Active Club is part of the white nationalist “Active Club” network, whose members spread propaganda and train for violence together. In Georgia, Patriot Front and Atlas Active Club are intertwined. Although faces are blurred in images from the gathering, Michael Hitt is identifiable in a group photograph. We made this identification based not just on the figure’s build and posture, but by matching clothing with Hitt’s wardrobe. Another photograph from the gathering shows that two children were present. Again, faces are blurred, but the two closely resemble Shannon and Michael Hitt’s children. 

    Michael Hitt shares a November 2023 Patriot Front post about graffiti in Atlanta.

    Hitt further indicated his affiliation with Patriot Front in November, when he re-shared a PF post about stencil graffiti in Atlanta on his Gab account. 

    Michael Hitt (as “D1ktater”) is also part of the Telegram chat for White Lives Matter (WLM) network in Georgia. Georgia’s WLM network overlaps with Patriot Front.

    International Neo-Nazi Networking

    In early March, Michael Hitt deleted his account on Gab. Shannon Hitt also deleted her Gab account that month, although some time after her husband. Gab had just begun to charge users who wished to upload media on the platform, leading to complaints from its users and some quitting. Michael Hitt’s departure, however, appears to be motivated by other worries that Gab owner Andrew Torba does not protect the personal information of users.

    Michael Hitt/“D1ktater” profile on NiceCrew

    In February, Michael Hitt created an account as “D1ktater” on NiceCrew, a federated social networking server which has a reputation for blatant racism. He now uses this platform as a substitute for Gab.

    “D1ktater” post about attempting to contact neo-Nazi while in Germany

    On NiceCrew, Hitt wrote in late February that he “recently went to Germany for 2 weeks,” presumably for his job. In the same message, he claimed that he had earlier messaged a contact from Gab and hoped to meet up with him while in Germany. Hitt claimed that his contact had spent “a year in jail for protesting […] rape and murder […] by Muslims.” According to an old post on Gab, Hitt had previously helped the account in question—“Sons of Sonnenrad”—by moderating his Gab group for “National Socialists.” Most details about “Sons of Sonnenrad” in Hitt’s February post on NiceCrew are incorrect, unless “Sons of Sonnenrad” was deliberately misstating facts about his life when posting on Gab. “Sons of Sonnenrad” claimed that he is in Estonia, not Germany, and that his jail sentence was for a fight with striking workers. However, even if Michael Hitt was mistaken about his old contact, Hitt’s post on NiceCrew demonstrates his desire to network with neo-Nazis while in Europe. If Michael Hitt’s employer gives him further opportunities to travel to Germany, he will surely try to meet up with neo-Nazis while there.

    Conclusion   

    Michael and Shannon Hitt are neo-Nazis who littered Georgia neighborhoods with propaganda for the Goyim Defense League in early 2023, disturbingly involving their children in these efforts. Despite their work for the GDL, the couple were never part of the GDL’s inner circle due to their close friendship with another neo-Nazi, Charmon “Ann” Aaron, who is on bad terms with influential GDL members in Georgia. Later in 2023, Michael Hitt began promoting Patriot Front, a racist and fascist organization. Michael Hitt was photographed at a gathering PF held together with Atlas Active Club in late October, where he seemingly brought his children along. Hitt also served as a moderator for a “National Socialists” group on Gab and is in the Telegram chat for the White Lives Matter network in Georgia. Hitt claims that his job at RAS Systems, LLC gives him opportunities to travel to Germany. He has expressed an interest in meeting up with neo-Nazis while there.

    We will update our article if RAS Systems, LLC reconsiders its employment of an active neo-Nazi in light of our documentation.

    We are always interested in information about the Goyim Defense League, Patriot Front, and other racist groups active in our region. Please get in touch if you can help.

  • Revealed: Patriot Front-linked “Aryan Tribal Land” in Eastern Tennessee

    Revealed: Patriot Front-linked “Aryan Tribal Land” in Eastern Tennessee

    A self-proclaimed “tribe” of racist heathens is building a compound on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. This group overlaps with Patriot Front (PF), a fascist organization with members nationwide, and the “Church of Aryanity,” a racist cult that refers to Adolf Hitler as “the Great One.” The leader of the Tennessee “tribe” is Brian Culpepper, who spent a decade in the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was its PR Director for several years. 

    Patriot Front training on the Tellico Plains property, 2022
    Brian Culpepper at “Unite the Right,” 2017

    In 2022, Patriot Front used the large property—mostly woodland but with cleared areas—to train its members for street demonstrations. Last year, PF members traveled to work construction on the property, including a large building intended as a combined martial arts dojo, heathen temple, and home for PF member, Ian Michael Elliott. As construction on the land progresses, the property will host increasingly large racist gatherings. At least equally dangerous, the “tribal land” will bring together far-right martial artists, aspiring street brawlers from fascist “Active Clubs,” and some of the most violent fringes of the neo-Nazi scene. It already provides a home for committed PF members. By documenting this compound and revealing its location, we hope to warn eastern Tennessee residents about the white supremacist threat in their midst.

    PF members Ian Elliott (foreground) and Stephen Trimboli on property this year. Temple/dojo structure in background.

    The Property and How We Located It

    The 122-acre property is located by Shadden Road in Tellico Plains, Monroe County. According to county records, the land was purchased in 2021 at a value of $287,000. These same records list Liudmila Culpepper, Brian Culpepper’s wife, as the owner.

    Shadden Road property

    In our December 2021 article exposing Ian Michael Elliott as a neo-Nazi and a member of Patriot Front, we noted that Elliot had mentioned a homestead project in Tennessee. Elliott also mentioned that he and another PF member had traveled to the “Aryan Tribal Land” to help with building. In 2022, Patriot Front’s channel on the Telegram messaging app shared images of a training event in Tennessee. Months later in February 2023, PF released a propaganda video of the Tennessee gathering. From the video, it was obvious that the gathering took place at an Odinist or heathen property. For example, the video concluded with footage from a nighttime ceremony, where an Odinist drinking horn lay on a ritual table. Despite his face being blurred, Ian Elliott was obviously one of the speakers at this ceremony.

    Ian Elliott speaks at nighttime event during PF “Training Assembly” weekend, 2022

    In August last year, PF posted pictures on Telegram of a “community building project in Tennessee,” showing PF members doing construction work, with woods in the background. The following month, PF posted about another gathering: “activists assembled over Labor Day weekend to participate in an array of community building projects and skill teaching workshops.” While this time PF did not mention the state where the event took place, one of the images matched the building shown in the August photographs from Tennessee. We guessed that the “community building project” was on the same land as PF’s 2022 “training assembly,” which we were later able to confirm. Because Ian Elliott spoke at the 2022 PF “training assembly,” and due to his earlier references to a Tennessee homestead and “Aryan Tribal Land,” we decided to take another look at Elliott.

    May 2023 Telegram post by Ian Elliott (“Brother V”)

    We learned that in his posts to various channels on Telegram, Ian Elliott commented extensively about the land. Elliott has changed his alias on Telegram several times since we first exposed him, but he currently goes by “Brother V.” Posting to one far-right channel in May, Elliott wrote that he was “living out here [the Tennessee compound] full time now” and was “getting more of my crew on the Land”. By his “crew,” Elliott meant Patriot Front. In a different channel focused on self-sufficiency, Elliott claimed that five families comprise the “big team” behind the land project. In a later comment on the far-right channel, he specified that “the owning families in full residence [on the land] must be Odinic.” Elliott refers to the racist Odinists living on the land as his “tribe.” Elliott’s Telegram posts revealed that he was now living near Etowah, Tennessee. In a post about the 2023 Labor Day weekend gathering on the land, Elliott bragged that “over a hundred men” attended, which was likely an overcount. Elliott included an aerial photo of the property with this Telegram post.

    June 2023: Elliott shares image of Brian Culpepper, calling him “my tribe’s leader.”

    Another post by Elliott provided the final bit of information leading us to the “tribal land.” Elliott shared a picture of a man in his sixties, describing him as “my tribe’s leader [… a] lifelong craftsman and activist.” This individual also appeared in other photos from the property. We were able to identify this figure as Brian David Culpepper. Culpepper was active for a decade in the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization. In a leaked NSM members list, Culpepper appeared in an entry dated January 5, 2007. Culpepper eventually became the NSM’s “PR Director,” a role he held for several years. Culpepper was present with the NSM at 2017’s bloody “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, and led chants of “Blood and soil” at a white nationalist demonstration in Shelbyville, Tennessee, later that year. Culpepper stepped back from the NSM in late 2017, allegedly to “spend more time with his family.” Culpepper then disappeared from public view, although he never left the white power scene. 

    Aerial photo of “tribal land” shared by Ian Elliott, September 2023
    Close up of Shadden Road property, 2023

    With the “tribe’s leader” identified, we had what we needed to locate the compound. We checked the counties next to McMinn (where Etowah is located) for property records under the name “Culpepper.” We found a 122-acre property in Monroe County owned by Liudmila Culpepper, Brian’s wife. Viewing an image of the land on the Tennessee Property Viewer, it was clearly the same property as the aerial photograph shared by Elliott, except that the dojo/temple building had not been erected in the image from the Tennessee info system.

    Liudmila Culpepper

    It is important to note that Liudmila Culpepper is a neo-Nazi like her husband—she was photographed at Unite the Right and other neo-Nazi events. While Ian Elliott’s comments on Telegram about the “tribal land” do not mention her, this may be due to women’s labor being treated as invisible within much of the white supremacist movement. 

    Ian Elliott’s Affiliations and Networks

    To understand the danger of the “Aryan Tribal Land” and the groups it will bring together, it is important to examine Ian Elliott’s organizations, contacts, and friendship circles. Ian Elliott will help decide which other people live on the land, even if “tribal leader” Brian Culpepper has the final say. One of Elliott’s organizations, Patriot Front, has already trained its members on the property and helped with “community building” work days there. Elliott’s other networks will also benefit from the “tribal land.” 

    (i)                      Patriot Front

    Elliott by PF leader Thomas Rousseau in Washington, DC, January 19, 2024
    Elliott by Thomas Rousseau in New York, January 20, 2024

    Despite some reporting to the contrary, Ian Elliott remains active in PF. Elliott appeared beside PF’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, in Washington, DC earlier this month, when PF rallied at the national “March for Life.” The following day, Elliott again stuck close by Rousseau during a PF flash demonstration in New York City. This suggests that Elliott continues to provide security for Rousseau. On Telegram, Elliott claims to serve as a “spiritual counselor for our guys in PatriotFront,” although it is unclear whether this is a formal or informal role. As mentioned earlier, Elliott was pleased that other members of PF have joined the Tennessee compound.

    (ii)                    Wolves of Vinland and Devotion Jiu-Jitsu

    Grappling at the Tennessee compound. A Devotion Jiu-Jitsu banner (Sanskrit writing) is in the background.

    Elliott is also close to the Wolves of Vinland (WoV), a far-right, whites-only masculinist “tribe.” He has visited the WoV “Ulfheim” compound near Lynchburg, Virginia multiple times, and grapples at “Devotion Jiu-Jitsu,” a gym run by WoV leadership. WoV is a direct inspiration for Elliott’s brand of racist heathenism. In a Telegram discussion, Elliott wrote: “I consider [WoV leaders] Matthias and Paul [Waggener] to certainly be mentors to my own Spirituality, [I] learned half of what I do for official Ritual from Matthias when he came to my Land.”   

    (iii)                  Active Clubs

    Elliott is also involved with the Active Club (AC) network. ACs are regional groups of white nationalists who meet up to place propaganda and to train for violence against their enemies. Rob Rundo, who had earlier co-founded the violent Rise Above Movement (RAM), launched the Active Club network in December 2020. Last year, Rundo was arrested in Romania and extradited to the US to face federal charges stemming from RAM’s involvement in clashes at California rallies during 2017.

    November 2023 fighting event: PF member Kieran Morris, Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann, and Ian Elliott (in ring)

    Ian Elliott was photographed alongside the Tennessee AC leader Sean Kauffmann and other Tennessee and Alabama AC members last year, at a private gym above the Lewis County Store in Nashville. Elliott competed at a fighting event above this store in November, with Kauffmann also visible in an image from the competition. At the end of last year, The Tennessean announced that the “controversial” Lewis Country Store was being sold.

    Sean Kauffmann (sleeveless blue shirt) in Patriot Front video from 2022 training assembly.

    Tennessee AC leader Sean Kaufmann also appears in footage of the PF “Training Assembly” on the eastern Tennessee land in 2022, although his face is blurred. Kauffmann was not in PF uniform and attended as a guest.

    March 2023 Telegram post by Elliott

    Ian Elliott has AC ties beyond Kauffmann and the Tennessee AC. Elliott attended “Rebirth of a New Frontier”—a white power fighting tournament sponsored by Patriot Front, RAM’s “Media2Rise” offshoot, and the SoCal Active Club—in San Diego in 2022. In a Telegram message from March 2023 but before Rundo’s arrest, Elliott stated that he “talk[s] with Rundo and a bunch of the other [AC] leaders regularly.” In December, Elliott wrote that he is part of the “AC High Council” – in other words, the inner circle that helps set the direction for the overall AC network. Although Elliott’s message has a half-joking tone, with Elliott referring to himself in the third person as “Brother V,” his claim to have sway in the AC network is genuine. 

    (iv)                  Aryanity

    October 2022: Ian Elliott officially joins Aryanity as a full member. Images via SoCal Research Club and Left Coast Right Watch.

    In our original article exposing Elliott, we highlighted his involvement with Aryanity, an apocalyptic neo-Nazi cult. At the end of October 2022, Ian Elliott officially joined “the Aryan Church” (i.e., Aryanity) after meeting with leader Aaron Chapman and reading an affirmation that he “fully embrace[s] Aryanity as my religion.” Since Aryanity attempts to reconcile white supremacist forms of paganism and Christianity, Elliott’s membership in Aryanity and his identity as a racist Odinist do not necessarily contradict each other. Elliott posts regularly in Aryanity’s Telegram channel, often promoting PF to Aryanity sympathizers. 

    (v)                    Ties to Neo-Nazi Bank Robbery Conspiracy

    Finally, Corvallis Anti-Fascists have documented Ian Elliott’s ties to Micheal Brown and Luke Kenna, neo-Nazis of “Aryan Compartmented Elements,” who have now pleaded guilty to their roles in a harebrained bank robbery conspiracy. Kenna was a member of Aryanity’s militant wing, and both Kenna and Brown posted on Aryanity’s Telegram chat. A third alleged conspirator, Michael Tierney, also moved in the same circles as Elliott: he and Elliott both appear in a group photograph from a 2022 festival at Devotion Jiu-Jitsu.

    We mention the would-be bank robbers to illustrate how Elliott’s circles attract hardcore neo-Nazis who wish to live out race war fantasies. We are concerned that similar militants will pass through or settle on the “Aryan Tribal Land.” 

    Others on the “Aryan Tribal Land”

    Two other Patriot Front organizers are visible in photos taken on the “tribal land” over approximately the last half year. Both these PF members were also photographed at the gym above the Lewis Country Store in Nashville. While we cannot rule out these individuals simply being visitors to the “tribal land,” they are likely based there longer-term, especially given Ian Elliott’s mid-2023 claim about “Getting more of my [PF] crew on the Land, living and working.” 

    (i)                      Kieran Morris

    In 2020, New York City Antifa exposed Kieran Morris as a PF “Network Director” responsible for the fascist organization’s efforts in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. In its report, NYC Antifa revealed that prior to joining Patriot Front, Morris had an account on the notorious IronMarch forum and expressed interest in joining Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group eventually linked to five killings. In Patriot Front, Morris not only led a regional network, but was part of a PF group that traveled to Europe, networking with the Nordic Resistance Movement, Casa Pound, and other European fascist organizations. 

    Kieran Morris photo from 2022 arrest.

    At some point after being exposed, Morris moved to Texas. In 2021, anti-fascists tracked Morris to PF’s then-headquarters in Grapevine, Texas, where he lived with PF leader Thomas Rousseau, Rousseau’s father, and another PF member, Graham Whitson. After Thomas Rousseau, Morris and Whitson left that property, Texas Against Fascism located them yet again, this time in Haslet, Texas. In mid-2022, Morris was one of the thirty-one PF members arrested in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, over an attempt to disrupt a Pride event. Morris was eventually convicted of conspiracy to riot.

    L-R: Kieran Morris, unidentified, Ian Elliott, Brian Culpepper. Photo shared by Ian Elliott, July 2023.

    By all appearances, Morris is now in Tennessee. He posed for a photo inside the “tribal land’s” temple/dojo structure, which Elliott shared to Telegram in July. In addition to Morris and Elliott, Brian Culpepper and a fourth individual appear in the image. Morris also appears in a different photo with Elliott and Culpepper, which Elliott shared in September. This photo is from inside a home on the “tribal land.” Morris was also photographed three times at the racist gym above the Lewis Country Store in Nashville. Morris appears in a group photo at the gym from September, as well as in a picture from a fighting event there in November. An image taken inside the gym and posted this month to a Patriot Front-operated Telegram channel shows Elliott, Morris, and others. The image was shared after Lewis Country Store’s sale, but presumably dates from before. 

    L-R: Brian Culpepper, Ian Elliott, Kieran Morris. Photo shared by Ian Elliott, September 2023.

    (ii)                    Stephen Trimboli

    Ian Elliott (L) and Stephen Trimboli (R) on the eastern Tennessee land. Photo shared to Telegram by Elliott, January 2024.

    Stephen Trimboli joined Patriot Front in 2018 while living in Washington state. In 2021, he relocated to Florida and became PF’s “Network Director” for that state. When PF held an October 2021 regional training camp in Florida in advance of a national march in Washington, DC, Trimboli’s name was on the campground rental. In May 2022, Washington Nazi Watch publicly exposed Trimboli in an article that not only documented his racist organizing, but his deep misogyny and abusive behavior toward an ex-girlfriend, such as encouraging other PF members to target her neighborhood with propaganda. 

    Trimboli in group photo at gym above Lewis Country Store in Nashville. Image shared by Ian Elliott in September 2023.

    This month, Trimboli appeared in photos of the “tribal land” shared by Elliott. Snow is on the ground, which suggests that Trimboli was not merely paying a brief visit (as this would have been a poor time for such a visit.) Stephen Trimboli also appears in a group photo from the gym above Lewis Country Store, which Elliott shared in September. Elliott and Morris are also in this photo, along with other white nationalists. Trimboli’s face is blurred, but he is easily identifiable from his physique. 

    Conclusion

    Ian Elliott’s list of “upcoming events,” shared late December 2023. Note the large gathering on the land scheduled for June.

    For a couple of years, we had heard about a white supremacist land project in Tennessee, which Patriot Front member Ian Elliott and associates were working on. We have now located this “Aryan Tribal Land” on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. Brian Culpepper, who spent over a decade in the National Socialist Movement, is leader of the racist “tribe” on the property. Patriot Front has already used the Tennessee compound for one training event, and PF members travel to the land for construction days. Elliott now lives on the compound. 

    In addition to Patriot Front, Elliott’s connections range from the Active Clubs network to the neo-Nazi cult of “Aryanity.” Elliott is a skilled networker in the neo-Nazi scene, which he will use to draw others to the land. Elliott’s networks include particularly volatile neo-Nazis, and we expect that such individuals will have a presence at the compound. Finally, we documented two other longtime PF members photographed on the “Aryan Tribal Land” over the last half year. As building on the land increases, it is likely to attract more PF militants. 

    Although the white power compound is a concern for our whole region, eastern Tennessee residents will be the most immediately impacted by the racist hub, especially given plans to host large gatherings on the land. If you live in southeast Tennessee or have friends or family there, please share our documentation. We hope that locals, community groups, and churches speak up, sending a strong  message that residents reject Nazism and will stand by each other.

    If you have further information on the “Aryan Tribal Land” and its residents, please get in touch. We are always interested in tips about members of Patriot Front and other racist groups operating in our region.