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There are even networks in place that can help you exit the movement –
let us know if you need help establishing contact with them. Merely
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Let 2023 be a year of turning your life around. Reach out for help leaving the fascist movement if you think you need it. If you’re in our region, send us a message to let us know about your choice. We look forward to hearing from you.
Harley Ray Petero Jr. (left) in White Lives Matter CA’s uniform pictured alongside members of Patriot Front harassing a children’s pride event at the Children’s Museum in Sacramento (06/24/23).
On June 24, 2023 a group of roughly 15 neo-nazis, consisting of members of the Sacramento Proud Boys, Patriot Front, White Lives Matter CA, and NorCal Active Club, harassed a children’s pride event at the Sacramento Children’s Museum. Present with NorCal Active Club was Harley Ray Petero Jr. (a.k.a.: “Scottie BigBalls”) of Modesto, CA. Petero is a member of the Goyim Defense League, a neo-nazi hate group, and is responsible for recent antisemitic disruptions during Sacramento City Council meetings public comment section, as well as for distributing GDL fliers throughout the Central Valley.
Patriot Front member Ryan Sundberg of Santa Clara County, “Cap City” Proud Boy Jeffrey Perrine, and Harley Ray Petero Jr. pictured at the White Lives Matter/NorCal Active Club disruption of the Sacramento Children’s Museum pride event.
Who are White Lives Matter California?
White Lives Matter is an international white nationalist propaganda initiative attempting to make neo-nazi politics more palatable through vague “pro-white” messaging. In California, the group has worked with members of other hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Hammerskin Nation, the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Golden State Skinheads, the Goyim Defense League, the Aryan Freedom Network, Clockwork Crew, and countless other fringe white supremacist groups. Their activity has mainly consisted of freeway overpass banner drops and stickering.
Harley Ray Petero Jr. a vetted WLM CA member present at WLM California’s May “day of action” in Jackson, CA (05/14/23).
Petero, spotted here wearing the WLM khaki uniform can usually be picked out by his “Hammerwaffen” reflective sunglasses and tattoo sleeve
What is NorCal Active Club?
NorCal Active Club is a self-styled neo-nazi fight club inspired by (and distantly connected to) Robert Rundo’s Rise Above Movement. NorCal Active Club has recruited from the Northern California membership of White Lives Matter California, and attempts to embody what they call “Nationalism 3.0,” which they hope will usher in a white nationalist ethnostate. (For clarity, “Nationalism 1.0” refers to old school neo-nazi skinheads, often called boneheads, and “2.0” refers to the “Alt-Right.”)
Harley Ray Petero Jr. at a NorCal Active Club meet up.
The same meet up Petero attended pictured above. In this video shoot NorCal Active Club heavily push the Will2Rise Active Club clothing and lifestyle brand.
Petero (front center, right) poses in official Patriot Front propaganda, showing further crossover between NorCal Active Club and Patriot Front
Goyim Defense League Activity in the Central Valley
Petero passing out neo-nazi fliers just feet away from a group of children at a playground.
Tattoos visible on Scottie BigBalls’ Odysee profile compared against photos posted on Haley “Halez” Phillips’ Facebook profile of her husband, confirm Harley Ray Petero Jr.’s identity as “Scotty”. Phillips’ social media history further confirmed “Scottie” as Petero’s alias when she documented his cover-up of an Insane Clown Posse “hatchetman” tattoo.
“Fuck It, Mask Off”
“HalezHitler” Gab profile of Haley Phillips
“Halez” listed on Haley Phillips since deleted Facebook page that features white supremacist David Lane‘s “14 words” as her Facebook bio
Harley Ray Petero’s Facebook page featuring the same picture as Scottie BigBall’s telegram handle, the only two friends on Facebook Petero has are both his wife’s accounts.
A relatively recent member of NorCal Active Club as of 2023, Petero has become a regular face at nazi showings in the Central Valley, and attempted to make a name and career for himself as a nazi merch salesman under the alias “Scottie BigBalls”. He is heavily involved with the Goyim Defense League, has led harassment campaigns of both Walnut Creek City Council and Sacramento City Council, and has distributed antisemitic fliers repeatedly in Modesto and the Central Valley.
Leader of the Goyim Defense League Jon Eugene Minadeo II (a.k.a.: “Handsome Truth”) refers to Petero as “my brother Scottie.”
Harley Ray Petero Jr., antisemitic conspiracy theorist Ryan Messano, and Sacramento Proud Boy Jeffrey Perrine exiting Sacramento City Council following in a failed nazi publicity stunt (05/23/23).
Inside at Sacramento City Council (05/23/23).
Still from Petero’s since banned TikTok showing his printer setup/Hitler shrine.
Manteca, CA GDL banner drop alongside Jeffrey Perrine and an as of yet unidentified GDL member (06/29/23).
“(W)ell, I am a Nazi.” A gab post from Petero about the recent Manteca banner drop.
Additional footage from a post on Phillips’ Facebook profile appears to show the two attending Straight Pride in Modesto, CA, in August 2022 to surveil people protesting the yearly anti-LGBTQ hate rally, which is organized by christofascist Don J. Grundmann. Petero also appears to be involved in administrating the GDL Flyers website in some capacity.
Video posted to Haley Phillips’s Facebook show her and another person (likely Harley Petero Jr.) tailing a march of antifascist counter-protesters at Straight Pride 2022.
The Petero Family
Haley Phillips and Harley Petero’s introduction to openly antisemitic politics was likely through the Q-Anon subsection of the MAGA movement. Coming from a family of Juggalos (fans of the horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse), the Petero family along with Haley Phillips was featured in a 2009 Modesto Bee article describing a run in with the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force over supposed “Juggalo” gang affiliation.
Family photo of a young Harley Petero Jr. throwing up “WC” for Insane Clown Posse “Wicked Clowns”
Petero’s family seem to have a generally favorable view of his lifestyle choices, and he appears to have been in a relationship with Haley Phillips for over a decade.
Haley Phillips poses with one of her children at the Atwater CA Trump parade, holding a Q-Anon flag (10/31/20)
Petero appears to have a concealed carry permit and fantasizes about violence towards Black people.
Anniversary post showing that Petero and Phillips own at least one Glock 17 and a similar compact 9mm semiautomatic handgun, as well hollow point ammunition
Due to Harley Ray Petero Jr.’s traveling throughout the state to regularly engage in racist, anti-LGBTQ, and antisemitic “activism”, his involvement with regional neo-nazi groups, his accelerationist leanings, and armed status, we believe this information is in the interest of Modesto residents, as well as to NorCal anti-racists as a whole.
Harley Ray Petero Jr. aka “Scotty”
Address: 441 Enslen Park Ct, Modesto, CA (College Manor)
Vehicle: Silver 2009 Chevrolet Malibu Sedan #6VAP704 CA, Black 2005 GMC Yukon SUV #8SXY045 CA
Please send any further tips about Harley Ray Petero Jr. and Haley Marie Phillips, the Goyim Defense League, NorCal Active Club, and White Lives Matter – CA activity to bay161(at)riseup(dot)net
