February 2024 – Bay161 Bay Area Antifascist Research

For our previous reporting on Hammerlock, an Oakland-based Rock Against Communism (RAC) band, and their ties to the Proud Boys and American Guard please click the link here.

Cheyenne Kenney, daughter of Liza and Travis Kenney, is running for California State Assembly in the 18th District (Alameda, Emeryville, Oakland) on a platform of “protection of kids, medical freedom, gas power, and safer streets,” with a cringe-worthy campaign slogan of “Don’t bip our future.” This comes as a departure from the family’s previously more explicit associations with fascist groups like the Proud Boys, American Guard, and Atlantic City Skinheads, and can be seen as an attempt by the Kenney family to mainstream their brand of crypto-fascism into the increasingly far-right GOP. It appears that they hope Cheyenne won’t be as burdened by their explicit connections to organized white supremacy. In recent years, both Liza and Travis Kenney have backed Cheyenne’s leadership of the TPUSA Oakland Activism Hub, her involvement in transphobic anti-vaxx group Bay Area Against Mandates, and now her involvement in the Berkeley College Republicans.

Twitter Space with Mamalitia Co-Founder, LEXIT member and candidate for California State Assembly District 13 Denise Aguilar Mendez

Cheyenne’s campaign is heavily based on capitalizing on the current trans panic. Notable endorsements include TERF-adjacent groups such as Mom Army and Dad Army, as well as Leave Our Kids Alone. Leave Our Kids Alone (LOKA), led by Manuk Grigoryan, has made news following a series of violent rallies targeting Glendale area schools and drag shows, featuring appearances by Proud Boy Adam Kiefer, and close friend of Grigoryan, neo-nazi Narek Palyan throwing several nazi salutes.

Narek Palyan seen throwing a nazi salute next to Cheyenne Kenney for State Assembly official campaign endorser Manuk Grigoryan

Kenney Family Connections to Organized Fascist Groups

Hammerlock, Travis and Liza Kenney’s band with drummer Mikey Kingshill is a mixture of RAC (“Rock Against Communism”) and Confederate Rock, and is the main vehicle of the Kenney family’s political organizing. Close friends with members of the nativist street fighting group, American Guard, the Kenney’s additionally have friends and supporters in the Proud Boys. At a Berkeley Trump rally heavily attended by Proud Boys (03/4/17), Travis Kenney sucker-punched an anti-racist protestor. Hammerlock was also invited to play at Fall Love Fest (10/16/21), a large Proud Boy rally in LA, but were no-shows despite several attendee’s wearing their RAC branded shirts. Another friend of the band is Joshua Croom Williamson, drummer for nazi band Aggravated Assault, and member of murderous NJ bonehead gang, Atlantic City Skinheads.

American Guard member Drew Smith of offering a venue for Cheyenne Kenney to play in Fresno. Family friend Ryan Ramsey of American Guard and the Bold City (Jacksonville, FL) Proud Boys comments as “Shut up and go do Proud Boy shit”.

Member of Atlantic City Skinheads and White Power band Aggravated Assault Joshua Croom Williamson posted to Hammerlock’s Instagram

Friend of Hammerlock Joshua Croom Williamson pictured here with the Confederate Hammerskin/Bonehead contingent at Unite the Right

Blatant white supremacist memes in the Hammerlock Telegram channel

Bay Area Against Mandates and Oakland TPUSA Activism Hub

Since the time of our initial article on Hammerlock, the Kenneys have involved themselves with the White Rose Society telegram group focusing on anti-communist conspiracies, anti-vaxx adovacy and covid denialism. Their family is also involved in Bay Area Against Mandates, a anti-vaxx group headed by Jackie Sarita of San Mateo, that has recently pivoted to anti-LGBTQ Drag Queen Story Time harassment (in Castro Valley and San Lorenzo). Alongside a member of the Bay Area Proud Boys, BAAM member and ex-CHP security consultant Spencer Noel Van Glahn, the Kenney (minus Cheyenne), Mikey Kingshill, and other members of BAAM attempted to force and intimidate their way into disrupting a children’s drag performance in San Lorenzo (06/11/23). Liza Kenney was one of the most aggressive protestors that day and attempted to enter the blocked off performance, and remarked on video that Cheyenne couldn’t be there that day because she was at a TPUSA event.

Travis Kenney, Liza Kenney, and Mikey Kingshill at the San Lorenzo Library attempting to physically disrupt a children’s drag storytime (06/11/23). The Kenneys remarked that day that Cheyenne couldn’t be there only because she was at a TPUSA event.

The Kenney Family at a Bay Area Against Mandates meeting alongside BAAM founder Jackie Sarita, BAAM Media Contact/Press David Reddy, and Spencer Van Glahn who were all present at the San Lorenzo Drag Disruption.

Cheyenne and Liza Kenney alongside de-transition advocate Chloe Cole at UC Berkeley.

Josh Fulfer‘s sister pulls a gun on protestors at the Chloe Cole headlined De-transition Awareness Day in Sacramento (03/10/23).

Travis Kenney with at AmFest with a TPUSA lanyard

Cheyenne Kenney at Charlie Kirk’s UC Berkeley “Educate Don’t Mandate” tour (04/13/22).

Recent fixtures at the state capitol at anti-trans and TERF rallies outside the State Capitol, the Kenney family has attempted to mainstream Cheyenne as a conservative political organizer, mostly through her involvement in Berkeley College Republicans and Turing Point USA, of which she is the Oakland Activism Hub President. TPUSA is a 501(c)3 conservative advocacy group that has recently embraced Christian Nationalism, although the group has a long history of racist scandals (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/short-history-turning-point-usas-racism). Core to Kenney’s campaign is the concept of “parental rights” an anti-trans legislative concept that advocates detransition and denies children bodily autonomy. Cheyenne has also networked at the State Capitol with Erin Friday of the transphobic hate groups Our Duty and Parents for Ethical Care (PEC)

Liza Kenney, Erin Friday, Cheyenne Kenney

A fairly openly friend to fascists, Charlottesville attendees (Unite the Right), and boneheads (white power skinheads), the Kenney’s particular brand of Confederate Rock shares all the political ambitions of original RAC. Due to the stigma of organized hate, the Kenney family are attempting to mainstream a white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ political program into the California State Assembly behind the less notorious face of their home-schooled only child, Cheyenne Kenney. While Cheyenne’s campaign planks are completely out of touch with the average Oakland voter, the Kenney family are able to network through astroturfed GOP 501(c)3’s and far-right conservative student groups like Berkeley College Republicans and TPUSA Oakland. We believe this information is of public interest to residents of Alameda, Emeryville, and Oakland.

Cheyenne Kenney:

Instagram: @cheyenne4assembly, @hammerlock_rocknroll (parents), @tpusa_oakland, @eastoaklandmotorcycles (Hammerlock drummer Mikey Kingshill)

Address: 4100 Martin Luther King Jr Way – Oakland, CA 94609 (Hammerlock House), 1221 28th Street – Emeryville, CA (B.P. Psychos Clubhouse)

Please send any and all tips regard Hammerlock and/or the Cheyenne Kenney for State Assembly campaign to bay161[@]riseup[.] net.

Many turn to the white nationalist movement hoping for community, a sense of identity and brotherhood. Father and newlywed Jon Court seems to have been so caught up in the white supremacist movement he neglected his family’s basic safety and set their home on fire.

This is our third article covering NorCal Active Club, a self-styled Neo-Nazi fight club attempting to gain a foothold in the region. In our first article we outlined some of the group’s connections to the Goyim Defense League, White Lives Matter, and Patriot Front as well as the organizing work of Harley Ray Petero Jr. of Modesto, CA and his wife Haley Phillips-Petero. In our second article we covered NorCal Active Club member and “raver nazi” currently employed at a human resources/payroll firm, Martin J. Wenzel. In this article we will bring new information to light concerning Jonathan Scott Court, a longtime member of Golden State Skinheads – a group of boneheads (nazi skinheads) responsible for the 2016 stabbing of seven anti-racist protestors at the counter protest to a Traditionalist Workers Party rally in Sacramento.

Who is Jonathan Court, and who are the Golden State Skinheads (GSS)?

Convicted spousal abuser and GSS member Derik Ryan Punneo poses with racist murderer Jeremy Wayne Jones.

Court was a relatively early member of WLM CA, joining around February 2022. Coinciding with GSS President Michael Allen Sessumes moving back to California, there seems to be an uptick in GSS activity statewide. Golden State Skinheads, occasionally referred to as Golden State Solidarity, is a white supremacist group of openly neo-nazi boneheads who have historically recruited through California prison yards, Stormfront (a web forum for dedicated white nationalist bigots), and through RAC (Rock Against Communism) shows, as well as more dressed-up suit and tie Nazi events like American Freedom Party’s conferences.

Court, Sessumes, and Nathan Lowry were all reported as being connected to the Church of Aryanity and the newer bonehead crew it produced as its “Southwest Commandry” Crew 562, now know as Clockwork Crew. Clockwork Crew, at least for a time, had adherents to The Church of Aryanity – an esoteric Klan-style fusion of Christian Identity with Odinist paganism. Founded by a former Traditionalist Workers Party member, Aaron Chapman of Tennessee (also a member of the Kentucky Thoroughbreds Active Club), California Clockwork Crew initially networked with WLM CA SoCal and SoCal Active Club, and was formed by active duty lance corporal Mohammed Wadaa and Nathan Daniel Large of Walnut Creek. Golden State Skinheads additionally have ties to the West Coast Firm Hammerskins, and their feeder group Crew 38, with both Evergreen Active Club and SoCal Active Club openly repping connections to the bonehead gang.

Photo of Court from some years back being an attention-seeking failure of a man outside the Hayward NAACP office.

Court has admitted in Clockwork Crew chats that he only saw WLM CA and NorCal Active Club as a potential GSS and Clockwork Crew feeder group. With connections to regional Hammerskins and a long history of dumbass bonehead stunts (see above pic), it makes sense that Court would buck up against WLM leadership and try to recruit for his crew of white pride-addled spousal abusers. This mirrors advances made by William Scott Planner (also of GSS) to recruit and build out of Patriot Front in Colorado, and the gradual movement of networked boneheads into the whites-only Asatru Folk Assembly. Asatru seems to have it out for Court and Sessumes after Sessumes helped form the Raven Folk United Kindred in response to the Asatru Folk Assembly seemingly harboring a known sex offender, as well as an incident at Odinshof (the group’s “temple” in Brownsville, CA), in which bonehead members of the church couldn’t hold their liquor and went a little more mask off neo-nazi than the church likes to pretend to be.

Jonathan Court (Darth Hater) in Clockwork Crew Telegram vetting chat, describing WLM CA as “they’re not skin material”

“Darth Hater” (Jon Court) bickers with Central CA Active Club founder and fellow WLM CA member Juan Cadavid, over how bad their banners look

Court and Ben Daley’s ex-girlfriend Amber Brittany Ciarollo “Astro Fash” make fun of the founders of the Rise Above Movement, the group the Active Club model came from

Local and Regional Activity

Photos taken of NorCal Active Club at De-transition Awareness Day in Sac (03/10/23). Court can be seen in both photos as the only one not masked up.

Court has been seen at NorCal Active Club’s surveillance attempt of the Trans Day of Rage counter-protest to “De-transition Awareness Day” at the Sacramento Capitol. Court has also been identified as admin of a now-private Golden State Skinheads Telegram channel, and regularly attends NorCal Active Club meets, pushing for the GSS flag to be held alongside the NCAC flag. Interestingly enough, on one recent meet, in which regional Patriot Front members met with NorCal Active Club and WLM, Patriot Front deemed the GSS banner to be “bad optics” and left it out of their published propaganda for the day. This escalation toward the inclusion of Nazi sonnenrads or “black suns” and skullmask aesthetics seems to go against the early WLM handbook strategy Court and his WLM CA peers adopted and tried to stick with for some time. Outside of WLM and NorCal Active Club organizing, Court has also recently participated in at least two banner drops in the Castro Valley area, one espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories and another coordinated with Golden State Skinheads, whose name was featured on the banner. With a membership of much younger men, some in their mid-twenties, Court has attempted to act as an unlikely authority figure within the group. While he consistently projects about LGBTQ “grooming”, he seems to enjoy spending a considerable amount of time with very young men, far away from and seemingly neglecting (literally torching) the home he shares with his newly betrothed wife and kids. So much for the fourteen words, eh?

Jonathan Court posting as admin on the GSS channel after he took part in a antisemitic banner drop over a Lafayette overpass.

Court repping GSS in NorCal Active Club official propaganda

Court seemingly shilling GSS merch at a NorCal Active Club meet

“South Bay Asatru” and Move to Raven Folk United Kindred

Before he joined WLM and later NorCal Active Club, Jon Court’s spiritual and political home outside of the Golden State Skinheads was the Asatru Folk Assembly – the SPLC-designated “Neo-Volkisch” hate group and “whites only” pagan church operating out of Brownsville, CA. Acting as a retirement home for washed up boneheads in the NorCal region, the Asatru Folk Assembly operates based on an ahistorical and largely inaccurate mishmash of widely disparate Northern European spiritual traditions and a tight-knit “back to the land” traditionalist pagan community where white supremacists can live and pray in harmony with thinly veiled new age bigots. However, by 2023 Court had migrated away from Asatru to Raven Folk United following a scandal in which Asatru leader Matthew Flavel was called out by his detractors for blatantly harboring a known sex offender within the ranks of the church. In an attempt to break away from the bad optics of the Asatru Folk Assembly, Raven Folk United defines itself as an even dorkier racist pagan organization organized around Michael Sessumes and his former allies within the church, and now boasts Blood Tribe founder Christopher Pohlhaus within its ranks.

Golden State Skinheads and Hammerskin Nation affiliates pose for a photo outside of Odinshof (8408 La Porte Rd Brownsville, CA 95919)

Court and Connor Norris (right: *see addendum at end of article for more*), the then-Asatru Folk Assembly Apprentice “Folkbuilder” for the Bay Area, at an Asatru “Moot” at Ludwig’s German Table in San Jose.

An Asatru Folk Assembly parody telegram channel pretending to be Raven Folk United posted screenshots of Jon Court sending threats to the Asatru Folk Assembly after the two organizations split.

Raven Folk United urges their followers to donate to Jon Court’s “Catastrophic Home Fire Fund”

Area Nazi Burns Own House Down, Tries to Get White Supremacist Plumbing Business to Take Off

Interestingly, Court maintains and frequents two residences in both Castro Valley and Livermore, one of which he appears to have burnt down. Court owns and operates Vinland Plumbing out of Livermore and also appears to be employed with Harry Clark Plumbing of Oakland. Court also has a badly aging plumbing business advertisement visible on his truck, going by ‘Jonny Scooter” with the logo of a white supremacist Celtic cross.

Golden State Boneheads in East Castro Valley

Court’s best men at his wedding to Lauren Hanson in Tracy, CA

It is of additional note that Court’s Castro Valley place is only about a half mile away from fellow Golden State Skinheads member James McFly, a regional bonehead who is in the decal business and who was outed as having ties to consistently bonehead-adjacent MAGA “activist” Lindsay Grathwohl. Fly’s residence has also hosted Sean Michael Wurzburg, a former Hayward GSS bonehead who was partially responsible for the 2016 stabbings in Sacramento. Parents of children who attend the nearby Marshall Elementary School, Castro Valley High School and nearby residents should be alerted to Golden State Skinhead activity in East Castro Valley and Livermore.

A “non-biased” review of Vinland Plumbing from Anita Marie Tressler (wife of Phillip Theriault, pictured above at Court’s wedding)

Jonathan Scott Court (DOB: 2/15/1985)

Court showing off his weak guard at the Asatru Folk Assembly hof in Brownsville.

Spouse: Lauren Hanson

Aliases: Jon Blood, Johnny McBlood, Jonny Scooter, Darth Hater, Andy Zemite

Addresses: 3819 East Ave Apt #30, Livermore, CA 94550, 19559 Center St, Castro Valley, CA 94546

Occupation: Vinland Plumbing Livermore, CA Lic.#1100939. Harry Clarke Plumbing & Sewer 3026 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611

Vehicles: Blue Dodge Dakota Sport Pickup 7B58992
White Chevrolet Harry Clark Work Van 05566H2
White Hyundai Accent Sedan 8MAV072

James Fly

Address: 5034 Rahlves Dr Castro Valley, CA 94546

Vehicles: Navy Ram 1500 Pickup 6B14533 (Decal “FLY” on front window, brass knuckles on side)
Blue-Grey Ram Dakota Pickup 8D59290 (Fly Decal on back w/ Phone #, “Rebel” on front window, “DOEZ” on back, Disability Tags R240418)

Occupation: Owner @ Fly Decal

Connor Patrick Norris

Address: 1478 Mount Diablo Ave, Milpitas, CA 95035

Vehicle: Red Chevrolet Avalanche 97828E3 (Metal Gear Solid “Foxhound” decal on back)

Occupation: Employee at Trader Joe’s Milpitas

Social media account history shows Norris is involved in /k/ board type meet ups and range days with his “PNW Men’s Group” Mannerbund

Previously listed as an Apprentice Folkbuilder for the Asatru Folk Assembly and later oathed in by Steven McNallen as a Folkbuilder, Norris moved from Vancouver, WA to Milpitas, CA and quickly got involved in running “South Bay Asatru” a meet up group that went for several meets around St. James Park, San Jose in 2022. Previous to his move down from the PNW, Norris was a member of the Acsafolc Kindred of the PNW Wolfpack (a neo-volkisch group with serious overlap with the Washington-based Hakenkreuz Skinheads) and later the Nordevestri Kindred of the Asatru Folk Assembly, a regional affiliate of the PNW Wolfpack. Social media account history shows Norris as both a 4chan /k/ (weapons) board user, and an adherent of the proto-nazi Wandervogel concept of a Mannerbund (“alliance of men”), regularly meeting with a “men’s group” of right wing cosplayers in the PNW. Norris is heavily involved in the cosplay scene, and is a regular at the Sacramento Anime Convention, Anaheim Comic Con, and was previously a host of the MarvelTalkCast podcast. While navigating culturally liberal spaces like his workplace Trader Joe’s it is apparent that he is actively disingenuous to coworkers and peers about his position within the white nationalist movement and his white separatist religious views.

Norris around 2020 at an Acsafolc Kindred gathering

Please send any and all tips regarding Jonathan Scott Court or the Golden State Skinheads, the Asatru Folk Assembly, Raven Folk United, NorCal Active Club, and White Lives Matter CA to bay161 [@] riseup [dot] net.

For more information on Jonathan Court and James Fly please refer to Northern California Anti-Racist Action’s previous reporting on Golden State Skinheads.

Month: February 2024

UPDATE: Oakland TPUSA President Cheyenne Kenney daughter of local “hate rock” band leaders and Proud Boy Associates Travis & Liza Kenney running for State Assembly (District 18)

Hang Up Your Boots: Aging Bonehead Jonathan Scott Court Attempting To Use NorCal Active Club, WLM CA as Golden State Skinheads Feeder Groups.