Author: bay161

On February 12th of this year, the newest iteration of the Bay Area Proud Boys attempted to host dual North Bay/South Boy rallies, harassing patients at Planned Parenthood in Santa Rosa and San Jose. Outnumbered and opposed at both locations, the rallies were a flop and saw South Bay Proud Boys ditch and run after a minor police presence showed – but not before meeting up in San Jose with genocidal transphobe, homophobe and leader of “a perfectly peaceful racist group (sic)” the National Straight Pride Coalition, Donald James Grundmann.

Among those in San Jose on Feb 12th wearing off-brand Fred Perrys were Robert Michael Gomez and brother Joseph Thomas Gomez, two Bay Area Proud Boys. The Gomez brothers run a family business, Door Guys Co. out of Gilroy, CA and hold a C-61/D28 License for Doors, Gates, and Activation Devices installation, with work experience that includes local school districts and various tech companies in the South Bay. On the ground reports noted a white van transporting several Proud Boys that day — which match descriptions of the Gomez brother’s work van — staging on the grounds of the nearby Herbert Hoover Middle School.

The Gomez brothers’ work seems further intertwined with their role within the Bay Area Proud Boys, with graphics on the Door Guys Co. website matching graphics for their “Groyper” style podcast and telegram channel, and the hosting of their work website with neo-Nazi friendly hosting service Epik (who recently suffered a serious data breach), matching Robert’s registration of the Bay Area Proud Boy’s website.

Of additional concern is the relationship the Gomez brothers held with New Jersey area Neo-Nazi Boogaloo Boy Paul Miller aka “Gypsy Crusader”, a former Proud Boy associate turned accelerationist neo-Nazi Omegle streamer, who among other things called for the murder of Rep. Ilhan Omar, praised Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant, and spent stream after stream screaming slurs at children, sieg heiling, and urging his followers on to race war and genocide. Miller is currently serving a sentence for firearms related charges. On the Gomez brothers’ podcast they idealized Miller as “the scourge of Antifa” and later telegram messages show a long-winded rant after Miller’s arrest idealizing him and playing into his self-made mythology of victimhood, saying that they “(…) have interviewed and talked to this man for years and he’s a normal dude”. Miller as “GypsyCrusader” and the Gomez brothers were also mutual followers on Gab, the social media site notorious for hosting Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers.

The brothers’ social media presence also clearly indicates that the two are followers and adherents of Nick Fuentes’s paleo-conservative tinged white nationalist America First movement, as well as supporters of the Mannerbund, a neo-fascist movement arguing for the creation of masculine fraternities as a means of materializing white nationhood. They are also fans of Robert “Azzmador” Ray of the Daily Stormer, who is currently on the run after charges stemming from Unite the Right in Charlottesville, as well as the work of Proud Boy doxxer “Elias McMahone” Chadwick Seagraves. The Mannerbund’s main “contribution” to the broader movement is its anthem “By God We’ll Have Our Home Again” which has been adopted by Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman’s explicitly Nazi offshoot, the “Proud Goys” and was sung in Sacramento as “the Proud Boy Anthem” at the height of the “Stop the Steal” protests, as well as at a Proud Boy gathering in Modesto. The Bay Area Proud Boys have posted videos using the same song and have used skull mask imagery reminiscent of Atomwaffen Division and the neo-fascist Iron March forum.

Considering the recently leaked Supreme Court draft decision seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade and potentially empower states to go after similar rights to privacy such as same-sex marriage, contraception access and consensual private sexual activity, the Proud Boys’ attacks on Planned Parenthoods can hardly be considered an anomaly. Following the 2020 George Floyd Uprisings, the American far-right has doubled down on their attempts to repress political dissent, restrict or eliminate reproductive freedoms, and have further sought to marginalize queer and trans people – including criminalizing hormone replacement therapy for minors and people under 25, advancing “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, and furthering the narrative that LGBTQ+ individuals are “groomers” and should be removed from positions of visibility and from gainful employment. All these crackdowns on individual rights reflect the classic fascist obsession with “degeneracy”, as theorized by Julius Evola in Revolt Against the Modern World, condemned by Benito Mussolini and his henchmen, and realized in the early street actions of the Nazi SA. In the U.S., in addition to restricting access to reproductive and gender affirmative healthcare, this has manifested as targeted resistance to racial integration, anti-sodomy laws, fetal endangerment prosecutions, and other state interventions that venerate the “traditional family” and work in tandem with white identitarian concepts of hyper-natalism, or the obsession with increasing white birth rates to avoid ethnic “replacement”.  Last month, 18 year old white nationalist Payton S. Gendron walked into a Buffalo, NY supermarket and and murdered 10 people, specifying in his manifesto that he was looking to kill Black people. Gendron’s manifesto and attack explicitly reference the 2019 El Paso shooting, as well as Christchurch mass shooter Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto “The Great Replacement” which advanced the conspiracy theory of “white replacement”, repeatedly emphasized declining white birthrates, and called for white hyper-natalism and the murder of non-whites. These accelerationist attacks and fascist street actions work hand in hand with the post-Trump GOP to blatantly encourage and enact violence and murder, influenced by the reactionary desire to create a world where the totality of their “anti-modern” white nationalist vision can be realized.

Wherever these fascists take to the streets to victimize and harass, antifascists and community members need to stand up and confront them – there is no such thing as the Bay Area “liberal bubble” for the marginalized individuals they regularly seek to target. For the reasons listed above, and because of the Gomez brothers’ obvious intent to repeatedly threaten and intimidate Planned Parenthood patients, their evident anti-Black racism, hatred of transgender people and Muslims, as well as their concerning history of employment contracts with local school districts and presence on middle school campuses, we believe residents of Gilroy and the surrounding South Bay should avoid patronizing their business, and alert their neighbors and their community to these fascists organizing in their neighborhood and the wider Bay Area.

For more information on Robert Gomez visit: https://pastebin.com/trbVQzYt                                                            

For more information on the Bay Area Proud Boys be sure to check out @Borwin10’s thread on BAPB North Bay VP Richard Kenney Lewis Jr. aka “DrtyDeedz”

Please report any and all info on the Bay Area Proud Boys, Joe & Robert Michael Gomez, or any other regional fascist activity to bay161[@]riseup[dot]net.

On March 15, Justin Peoples (30) of Stockton, CA, a Black Navy veteran and father of two, was murdered by white supremacists Christina Lyn Garner and Jeremy Wayne Jones – completely unprovoked, while stopped at a Chevron gas station in nearby Tracy. Peoples was said to be working two jobs with the hopes of soon buying a home, and was shot first by Garner and then stabbed repeatedly by Jones. Peoples would later be pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Jeremy Wayne Jones (49), originally from Livermore and girlfriend Christina Lyn Gardner (42) originally from Manteca, now both living in Stockton, would be arrested the next day, after being identified by Jones’ new throat tattoo “Christina”. Jones’ social media documents his time inside the California Prison System, his recent release on March 1st, and his affiliations which are clearly visible via his various white power tattoos. Clear from both a current Facebook account and an older account circa 2018 is Jones’ involvement with white supremacist prison gangs like Aryan Brotherhood, as well as with racist or “folkish” paganism also sometimes called “Odinism”. A third person, Christopher Angelo Dimenco (52) was arrested as accessory to the murder.

Graphics shared by Jones suggest a level of involvement with “Odinist” prison gangs and religious groups, and an investment in pagan white power identity. Jones signed off various posts vaguely targeted at those he felt had wronged him with “Victory or Valhalla” (essentially victory or death in combat) and posts display various Viking imagery, Germanic and Norse Runes, mixed with overt Nazi symbolism and numerology.

On a photo Jones posted while incarcerated, a Facebook friend posted “Can’t wait until you’re on this side of the fence bro!! You have a fat steak dinner coming!” this poster, Francisco “Frankie” B. Moreira of Stockton California, like Jones, adheres to racist interpretations of the Prose & Poetic Edda, and appears to believe in an idealized “Odinist” interpretation of white genealogy, white supremacy, and racialized spirituality. Posts from Moreira show his involvement in racist skinhead culture, with him pictured alongside Asatru Folk Assembly “folkbuilder” Marc Macleod (whom he refers to as his “Brüder”) while otherwise dressing the part and hinting at skinhead affiliation. Moreira’s additional posts of a celtic cross burning, and various slavic and pagan symbols frequently used by neo-Nazis denote adherence to folkish Asatru and white supremacy.

Moreira can be seen attending a large gathering at the “whites-only” Asatru Folk Assembly’s Brownsville location “Odinshof” a hub for organized skinheads, white nationalist identitarians, and esoteric pagan neo-nazis to gather under the guise of practicing the “indigenous religion for white people”. MacLeod and many other organized racists both Asatru Folk Assembly members and not can be pictured, despite the organization’s 501(c)3 legal status and weak claim to not be involved with organized neo-Nazis or white supremacists.

Founded in 1994 by Army veteran, former national guardsmen, and white nationalist propagandist, Steven A. McNallen, the Asatru Folk Assembly attempts to materialize white nationalism through the creation of a “whites-only” explicitly racist form of Norse Paganism. Headquartered in Brownsville, CA at “Odinshof” with two additional hofs in Linden, NC and Murdock, MN the Asatru Folk Assembly draws recruits from the MAGA movement, skinhead groups like Golden State Skinheads, Black metal and neofolk subcultures, and from “Odinist/Folkish Asatru” organizing and “advocacy” within prison and the armed forces. Up at Odinshof and at their two other hofs (with plans to expand with hofs in Florida and Ohio), the Asatru Folk Assembly conduct lectures on “metagenetics” and white identity, conduct 501(c)3 mandated food distributions,  and educate the children of members in a curriculum of white supremacy. Moreira and Cloos explicit support of the Asatru Folk Assembly, and attendance at events at Odinshof should be noted.

Posts by Moreira indicate his involvement with local biker culture, and from comments on his Facebook looking to buy Hell’s Angels Supporters merch it looks like he may occasionally attend Hells Angels and other regional MC’s events.

We are releasing this information due to Moreira and Cloos open support and affiliation with the Asatru Folk Assembly, a designated hate group operating inside and out of the California Prison System, various armed forces, and that houses a wide variety of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. In addition, we believe that Moreira’s connection and open support and sympathy for Jeremy Wayne Jones while his connections to Aryan Brotherhood and organized hate within the California Prison system were clearly apparent hints towards a level of involvement in the same circles and the same feedback loop of the Asatru Folk Assembly, Aryan Brotherhood, and racist skinhead crews that regularly seek to kill. The fact that they appeared to both reside in Stockton for an overlapping time-frame make us believe that publicizing Moreira’s connections to Marc Macleod, Jeremy Wayne Jones, and the Asatru Folk Assembly is in the interest of residents of Stockton, Tracy, and the broader SF bay area.

Francisco B. Moreira  & Katie E. Cloos

For more information on Francisco Moreira visit: https://pastebin.com/RDqMdLsz

Please send any and all information pertaining to Frankie Moreira, Katie E. Cloos, the Asatru Folk Assembly or any other regional neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists  to bay161[@]riseup[dot]net.

This past October, Texas residents were repeatedly harassed by Neo-Nazi group the “Goyim Defense League” and their fifth antisemitic propagandist “Name the Nose” tour. Organized by Jon Eugene Minadeo II “Handsome Truth”, a failed Bay Area actor/rapper and Nazi streamer, NTN5 saw numerous publicity stunts like “Hug a Nazi”, a freeway banner drop with the slogan “Vax the Jews” and several swastika burnings. Following the tour, an Austin synagogue was set on fire by Telegram nazi Franklin Barrett Sechriest, who if not connected directly to the GDL was likely emboldened by the week’s intensified and blatant Nazi street actions.

With the GDL in Texas was Robert Frank Wilson of Chula Vista, CA who occasionally streams on Omegle as “Aryan Bacon”, and films one on one video chat-rooms with minors where he attempts to trot out his white nationalist arguments to bored teenagers and whoever happens to hop onto Omegle late at night. Following NTN5, Wilson started publicly organizing with SoCal “White Lives Matter” and carried out several banner drops in Orange County and San Clemente. Around this time Wilson’s identity became public due to a hate crime he was arrested for, when he trapped a neighbor in his driveway by blocking it with his vehicle, repeatedly yelled homophobic slurs at him, then reached into his vehicle and hit him in the face. Wilson was also charged for his participation in hanging an antisemitic banner over the I-805 freeway in San Diego just after the incident near his home.

Since then, Wilson has attempted to keep a low profile due to ongoing legal troubles, until March 12th when he drove through San Diego in a UHaul truck awkwardly covered with various antisemitic conspiracies, anti-LGBTQ slogans, and other provocative hate screed.

While news outlets have covered Wilson’s arrest and noted his involvement with the GDL, Wilson’s occupation as the owner of California Audio Video has not yet come to light. Operating out of Wilson’s home at 550 1st Ave, Chula Vista with a business address in La Jolla (7660-H 116 Fay Ave) it appears that his travels as “Aryan Bacon” to NTN4 in Florida, and racist harassment in Texas for NTN5 were financed by the proceeds from his business And it does not seem that Wilson’s neo-nazism is confined to his streams, as one review of California Audio Video states that he began screaming at an elderly Jewish woman that his company did not serve Jews after he saw a mezuzah affixed to her doorway, other reviews note similar experiences. While streaming as Aryan Bacon, it also seems that the flatscreen behind him on stream is set-up in the style of installations California Audio Video offers in their advertisements. Needless to say, those seeking professional audio/video services should look elsewhere to get their needs met.

Wilson and the rest of the GDL cloak their genocidal beliefs in slogans, feigned irony, esoteric in-jokes, and bottom of the barrel anti-Black racism. But despite their propensity to lie like children when pressed on their obviously hateful and murderous agenda, make no mistake – their beliefs are heartfelt and their organizing should be shut down whenever present. They exist to create an environment of terror and intimidation for Jewish people and others who are marginalized. Public displays and propagation of hate speech are an incitement to hate activity and violence and all members, associates, and anyone linked to the Goyim Defense League are a threat to our communities.

Please send any and all information pertaining to Robert Frank Wilson “Aryan Bacon”, Jon Eugene Minadeo II “Handsome Truth”, and “Goyim Defense League” regional organizing in California to bay161[at]riseup[dot]net.

Hammerlock is “Back” ?

According to their Instagram video of 4/4/21 the Oakland band Hammerlock, who claim to have been “fighting Socialism since 1995” are attempting to bring their “Pure American Music” back to the Bay Area. Having been relatively quiet since two thirds of their members were identified as part of a violent fascist mobilization in Berkeley in 2017, and were subsequently deplatformed from social media and the local music scene, the three members clearly feel emboldened by recent events and appeared ready to crawl out from under their rock

As one of the only musical acts scheduled for the Proud Boy-aligned “Fall Love Fest” — a rally organized hoping to replicate the violent Proud Boy rally in Portland Aug 22 — Hammerlock backed out of the “festival” at the last minute and appear to have been no-shows at the San Pedro event. Regardless, their willingness to openly fraternize and organize with Proud Boys, American Guard members, and racist “RAC” (Rock Against Communism) boneheads of varying stripes all suggest that they’re emboldened by the current political climate of racist/anti-vax street rallies and looking to find a place within the local far-right ecosystem.

Hammerlock, comprised of couple Travis and Elizabeth Kenney, with drummer Michael “Mikey” Kingshill (and sometimes joined by the Kenney’s daughter Cheyenne) has positioned themselves within the local outlaw biker subculture, and pedal their “Oakland Born Southern Rock” to bikers of all stripes, many of whom would probably be hesitant to attend a show held by individuals with documented ties to out and out neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and Charlottesville Unite the Right attendees. At first glance Hammerlock’s social media presence shows a libertarian “outlaw” MAGA conservatism with some neo-confederate imagery — but within their online chat-rooms their attempts to cultivate an explicitly racist fan-base become much more apparent.

Rock Against Communism, abbreviated as RAC, started in the UK as an explicitly white power reaction to Rock Against Racism, an organization itself founded in 1976 as part of a response to Eric Clapton’s open affirmation of Enoch Powell’s anti-immigrant “rivers of blood” speech. Rock Against Communism lyrically focused on antisemitism and white pride and sought to recruit for the fascist British National Front and further racist street violence through the appropriation of Oi! music and subculture, which up to that point had been either apolitical or explicitly involved with left wing or anti-racist politics. The main RAC band at the time, and one still synonymous with the genre is Skrewdriver, a band fronted by the now deceased Ian Stuart Donaldson who formed the white nationalist label Blood & Honour — named after the Hitler youth’s slogan — to network for and raise funds for the neo-Nazi cause at the time.

The significance of RAC’s legacy in understanding Hammerlock is both in their continued usage of RAC imagery and talking points, and their obvious affinity with bands like Skrewdriver, the American “Hatecore” band Aggravated Assault, and “confederate rock” like Antiseen who themselves have drawn criticism for covering Skrewdriver (and who have done a split single with Hammerlock as well as formed the informal musical group  “Confederacy of Scum” together). Due to their repeat association with, and open support of neo-Nazi bands and musicians it is well within reason to see Hammerlock as a part of this musical subculture, and by extension the same violently racist movements .

** More information on Atlantic City Skinhead Joshua Matthew Croom Williamson (pictured above) can be found here thanks to the work of @AntifaGarfield **

Hammerlock Band “Banter” chat shows Hammerlock’s overlap with white power Proud Boys and American Guard

With relatively unremarkable music and a declining fanbase, Hammerlock — headed first and foremost by the Kenneys — has turned to flirting with American Guardsmen and Proud Boys to advance their brand and secure venues for them to play on tour. Within their telegram chat, Travis Kenney appears to have bantered back and forth with Ryan Ramsey,  attempting to gig in Florida. Ramsey also sent videos to the chat showing members of the Bold City (Jacksonville) Proud Boys listening to Hammerlock before throwing up “ok” -sign hand gestures. Later videos sent to the chat show Bold City Proud Boys meeting up flying confederate flags and burning crosses.

Another amateur fan music video editor in the chat is Andrew Duncomb a/k/a “Black Rebel”, a neo-confederate organizer, former Proud Boy, and Patriot Prayer associate. Duncomb attended Unite the Right in Charlottesville, and was more recently present along with Proud Boy and “Groyper” Philip Anderson for his failed “Free Speech Rally” in San Francisco on 10/17/20, which saw the fascists quickly routed, and with a few less teeth than they came with. Within the Hammerlock chat Duncomb shared an edit of “Tear ‘Em Down” edited to footage of violent Stop the Steal rallies in Salem, Oregon that saw pro-Trump supporters and white nationalists attempt to storm the Oregon state Capitol and throw improvised riot munitions at and draw firearms on anti-racist protestors.

Local Bay Area MAGA organizer and associate of American Guard and Golden State Skinheads, Lindsay Danae Grathwohl (of Castro Valley) was also present in the “Hammerlock Band Banter” chat. Within the chat Lindsay shared photos of her at the Capitol on January 6th, video from a live Hammerlock show, and Travis and Elizabeth’s shared telegram account boosted one of Lindsay’s interviews, which was streamed to the far-right friendly streaming platform DLive. Not unlike Ryan Ramsey and the Bold City Proud Boys Lindsay has recently been spotted driving around with Proud Boy Jeffrey Perrine (of Citrus Heights) harassing people at their homes. Perrine, like the Bold City Proud Boys, has also uploaded a video showing Proud Boys “ironically” burning crosses a la the Klan, marking a potential trend within the Proud Boys internal politics.

Within the telegram channel, Grathwohl also appears to have invited the NorCal California American Guard chapter president Drew Smith into the chat, who claims that on at least one occasion the CA American Guard played Hammerlock at their meetings. Travis Kenney and Elizabeth’s account sent fliers in the chat numerous times trying to get the AG members to show up at their gigs. American Guard has been responsible for significant street violence up and down the coast and Hammerlock’s flirtation with the group’s co-founder and a regional president signal an open affirmation of the group’s racist violence and can be seen as an endorsement of the hate group that has housed former Nazi skinheads and members of the KKK. The presence of Fresno American Guardsmen in colors at the San Pedro rally is additionally noteworthy given this connection.

HAmmerlock’s REcent Gig @ The HoWard’s Mystic Saloon – October 23, 2021

As one would suspect, Hammerlock’s music is permeated with the same hateful rhetoric as their associations, such as above. We assume that they’re referring to Black Lives Matter and the widespread protest of the police murder of George Floyd with the lyrics “BML (sic) raged and shut down half the states”.  They also reference “try(ing) to drive the globalists away”, “Globalist” is common code used by antisemitic conspiracy theorists to refer to purported Jewish control over world governments and the economy. Whether it’s songs titled “Hate is Not a Crime”, and “Hate Radio” , or “Conquest Train” where the narrator says he “bows his head and prays for conquest” and is “like a soldier for Coronado”, or the song “Snide Little Faggot”, etc. it’s obvious that hateful ideology is as present in their body of work as it is in their choice of friends. To list it all would require a further article (and honestly, we can’t bring ourselves to listen to any more of their feigned rural, canned rebellion schlock to pick out every nasty example. We don’t really recommend anyone else do so, either).

One of the most powerful tools white supremacists use to spread their ideology is music, and one of the main places it festers and grows is in music subcultures. The thing about “free speech” is that all speech has implications – bigoted speech has frightening ones, and even the most ironic and seemingly casual calls to violence will manifest concretely, sooner or later. Dylann Roof had reportedly never actually met another neo-Nazi in real life when he walked into a African Methodist Episcopal church service and took nine people’s lives. He was reportedly a fan of Screwdriver and had posted on a white supremacist internet forum asking who was in the neo-Nazi band Final Solution. Wade Michael Page, who murdered six people in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, had gotten amped up on murderous rage while playing with white power band Youngland in Orange County.

Speech is the bridge between ideas and actions – it always becomes material. Live shows serve a purpose to the organizer, and for performers who have a proven social and political agenda. If there are white power messages in the songs, the videos, the social media, the website, the general communications of the band – there will be a strong white power element to the crowd who assembles to see them. And as has been proven over time, live shows, by giving people an opportunity to network, continue to nurture white-supremacist organizing.

This is a community alert – we hereby request that venues not give a platform to those inhabiting and blatantly organizing around hateful views, including Hammerlock. They should not be given opportunities to foment hate and draw known dangerous white supremacists to our communities. Because of their numerous associations with known Nazis and white power boneheads, members of Hammerlock should be considered dangerous, and it is apparent from their videos that they are armed. Please use extreme caution in the vicinity of where these individuals live and work.

Travis Kenney & Elizabeth Kenney Information:                                

4100 Martin Luther King Jr Way – Oakland, CA 94609

Michael “Mikey” Kingshill INformation: 

Michael is the President of the BP Psychos, and runs Fast Way LLC, a consulting, construction and security team for medical marijuana dispensaries with a staff of five. He lives at the “BP Psychos Compound” 1221 28th Street. Fast Way LLC has a registered address at 1213 28th Street.

 

If you have more information about members of Hammerlock or the fascists they are adjacent to, please send it to: Bay161 [@] riseup [dot] net

 

These White Nationalist/Neo Nazi groups are active in the Bay Area. If you see stickers, flyers, flags or graffiti with these images, report the date and location to bay161 at riseup dot net. Whenever possible, tear down or post over their materials.

 

1. Patriot Front (national organization) – “Patriots” by light of day, admitted white nationalists and National Socialists (i.e. Nazis) behind closed doors. Their dream is a white ethnostate with the enforcement of “traditional white families”, with all of the racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia that infers. They pretend to be mere conservatives but in private chats they celebrate Hitler’s birthday and admit their goal is to deport all nonwhite people and put “deviants” in work camps. There are between one and three hundred of them in the US and a network of at least 4 known members in Northern CA who occasionally do stickering/stenciling/”trash cleanup” and banner drops in the Bay and post them to their social media.

https://patriotfront.us/
https://torchantifa.org/inside-patriot-front-analysis/
https://bay161.blackblogs.org/may-2020-patriot-front-advisory/

2. Proud Boys (national organization) – Most people know them as a racist fraternity & drinking club, but their ties to blatant white nationalists and full-blown Nazis have become more and more obvious. They espouse violence, posture endlessly and show up to hate events to do “security”. If there’s no counter protest, they will wander the streets assaulting marginalized people, especially queer and trans people and POC. They have a revolving door of participants and large events draw them from points in the Bay and beyond. They had meetups in the Mission a few years ago, and routinely meet up in Sacramento. The fact that they got a shout out from Trump has reinvigorated what we thought was fading out, and has increased their level of violence. They’re pretty much guaranteed at “Straight Pride” events.

https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/pb-intro/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys

3. America First White nationalist movement masked as a pro-Trump “old school” (read neo-segregationist, anti-Black, white supremacist) conservative movement headed by 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right attendee and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. With ties to groups like Identity Evropa and American Renaissance, the “Groypers” (what some adherents to America First call themselves) often style themselves as campus conservatives and have waged a “culture war on the culture war” showing up at Turning Point USA and other mainstream conservative youth groups to push them further right towards overt neo-Nazism. Fuentes was a major organizer around the J6 capitol storming and the lead up #StopTheSteal protests, where numerous America First flags were spotted. Local crossover with sympathetic members in leadership positions in UC Berkeley’s Berkeley College Republicans, Mt. Diablo Republicans, as well as the statewide California College Republicans/California Federation of College Republicans.

https://antifascistchicago.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/04/nick-fuentes/
https://www.irehr.org/2020/04/22/new-effort-to-inject-white-nationalist-immigration-stance-into-college-republicans/
https://www.irehr.org/2020/11/24/white-nationalists-prominent-at-stop-the-steal-mobilization-in-georgia/
https://www.irehr.org/reports/alt-right-to-groyper/

4. Boogaloo Boys (autonomous “militias”) – they’re essentially paramilitary LARPers in Hawaiian print shirts, and yes, they are racist. It’s more difficult to see them in CA because of the Mumford Act (they can’t publicly display guns, which is their thing – see other states, especially Michigan). They are blatantly attempting to accelerate the breakdown and balkanization of the United States (or in some cases desire a race war) where they hope to seize the moment to carve out their own little reactionary fiefdoms, which they assume white people will win and then return to a mythical greatness and prosperity. There are plenty of them organizing online in CA, including the Bay, and there have been a bunch of them at ReOpen/anti-mask rallies in Sacramento and other Central Valley cities. Often Boogaloo Boys will present themselves as “Anarcho-Capitalists” and associate with the Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen 2020 Libertarian Campaign. Making Kyle Rittenhouse a national hero basically poured kerosene on this dumpster fire. Like QAnon supporters, Boogaloo Boys gesture towards some elite “deep state” control of the government and have been known to use more QAnon styled slogans like “#SaveTheChildren” and “Kill Your Local Pedophile” often masking thinly veiled antisemitism. Boogaloo Boys are likewise very focused on their public image and public relations, often looking to form bad faith “alliances” with Black Lives Matter protestors where they can embed themselves, surveil left-wing protests, and normalize their presence at protests against the state.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-53018201

5. Revolt Through Tradition/Rise Above Movement/International Conservative Community (international organization) – Founded by racist Huntington Beach skinheads Robert Rundo and Benjamin Daley (originally called DIY Division), RAM or the Rise Above Movement built a reputation in 2017 as a Neo-Nazi fight club through a series of violent attacks along the California Coast. With a notable presence at the 2017 “Battles of Berkeley,” RAM used these rallies to build up to their eventual participation at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Suffering legal trouble after their attacks, co-founder Ben Daley was arrested, and Rundo went into hiding in Eastern Europe, a region which he built a friendly working relationship with the their fascist movements. With RAM disbanded and numerous members exposed, Rundo continues organizing through his Media2Rise propaganda accounts, and adherents have formed Revolt Through Tradition, RAM’s spiritual successor, which focuses on emphasizing the work of Italian fascist Julius Evola. With International work done through the vehicle of the unassumingly titled International Conservative Community, Rundo and Daley’s network continues to propagandize white supremacy and neo-Nazism.

https://www.revoltthroughtradition.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/nov/27/rams-revival-and-the-ongoing-struggle-against-mmas-far-right-fight-clubs

6. Rhodesian Flag & Camoflage (commonly used symbol) – occasionally used by Boogaloo Boys and other armed white nationalists. Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) was a white supremacist, settler-colonial apartheid state named after English colonizer and mass murderer Cecil Rhodes. During its short lived existence as an independent state Rhodesia was championed by white supremacist militiamen in the United States who, encouraged by the magazine “Soldier of Fortune”, attempted to join the project as volunteers. A close ally of apartheid South Africa, white supremacists (see Dylann Roof) today use their patches, camoflage, and flag as a dogwhistle to white nationalists broadly.

7. Three Percenters (national organization) – National and Statewide militia loosely organized around the symbology of the III% which represents for its adherents the oft-touted myth that only 3% of American settler population took up arms to overthrow the British in the revolutionary war. Three Percenters are usually extremely anti-Muslim, anti-Black, and often fly the Confederate Flag alongside the Gadsden/American. Tied to numerous hate crimes, members of the Georgia III% “Security Force” provided security for the white supremacists who marched at Charlottesville “Unite the Right”. Locally, III% bumper stickers can be seen alongside other thin blue line/”come and take it” and “Punisher” style bumper stickers. III%-er organizer Aaron Bate is a local organizer with his “Boots on the Ground Branding” and various III% groups are active in California (III% United Patriots etc). The California State Militia, specifically the 2nd Regiment Echo Company is active in the Sacramento and Central Valley area, and demonstrates III%er type ideology and symbols.

8. Q Anon (national movement) – They’re an antisemitic death cult originating from 4chan and 8chan (online far-right imageboards) and are obsessed with shockingly intricate and ridiculous conspiracy theories, including all of the usual vile antisemitic tropes, up to and including blood libel. Sadly, there’s a lot of entryism into all far right and even moderate right wing organizations as well as the new age “health” subculture. They’re running a lot of candidates for public office and have massive numbers in terms of online presence. We’ve seen evidence of them doing outreach and promoting in the Bay. Many of their members are also members of other hate groups, or exist within the same right wing protest ecosystem. Proponents of the QAnon conspiracy theory often mask their beliefs due to the theory’s unpopularity and have used coded hashtags like “#SaveTheChildren” and “#Adrenochrome,” or slogans like “WWG1WGA (Where We Go One We Go All” to mask their association with the QAnon movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-is

9. Golden State Skinheads (regional, mostly Central Valley) – classic boneheads with swastika tattoos. Participated in the Traditionalist Workers Party rally June 26, 2016 at State Capitol in Sacramento and stabbed seven people. They have ties to the Bay, as some of them live in the East Bay and South Bay off and on. There is considerable overlap with other subcultural white nationalist clubs, such as Bikers for Trump, Three Percenters and oddly, Asatru Folk Assembly a neo-pagan white supremacist organization.

https://www.irehr.org/2016/12/29/white-nationalist-announces-plans-bus-white-power-skinheads-whitefish/

10. American Guard (national organization) originally founded in Indiana with a presence on the west coast, American Guard are a group of mostly older racist skinheads looking to “get in” on the anti-immigrant violence associated with Trump rallies. Started out of the Indiana chapter of the Soldiers of Odin USA, itself run by Brien James (now a Proud Boy) of the Vinlander Social Club – a neo-pagan racist skinhead group, American Guard masks its vicious anti-immigrant bigotry with patriotic stars and stripes type imagery. Common signifiers of American Guard association include the crossed meat cleavers, a reference to the film Gangs of New York, which they idealize the character of “Bill the Butcher” an anti-immigrant gang leader. Additional symbols are an American flag shield with a cannon + the “come and take it” slogan and the slogan RAHOWA, an acronym for Racial Holy War. American Guard members have been seen buddying up to local MAGA organizer (and friend of blatant Nazis) Lindsay Grathwohl at the StopTheSteal protests in Sacramento.

11. RWDS Right Wing Death Squad/6MWE: Right Wing Death Squad and Six Million (Jews) Wasn’t Enough. Two slogans and acroynms associated with the Proud Boys spotted at recent protests in the Pacific Northwest and in DC at StopTheSteal protests. RWDS is also a common ideological concept of the alt-right which idealizes the murder of communists, anarchists, and other leftists and draws heavily from the White supremacist concept of “Day of the Rope” referencing mass lynching and a supposed race war.

12. Goyim Defense League: founded by failed rapper/actor Jon Minadeo, a conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier, the GDL is an Neo-Nazi response to the Anti Defamation League that seeks to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories with deliberately provocative PR stunts like protests outside of Holocaust Museums complete with Roman salutes, swastikas, and skullmasks. Based off of the word “Goy” or “Goyim” a yiddish slang term for gentile which the GDL believe constitutes some sort of persecution of white people, they’ve attempted to appropriate the term in some sort of pathetic “act of defiance”. When they aren’t getting their asses kicked and chased out of whatever neighborhood they decided to harass, the loosely organized membership of the GDL participate in banner drops, livestream, and make antisemitic propaganda on their site “Goyim TV”. They have taken their hate tours as far as Colorado and Florida.

https://nocara.blackblogs.org/2020/05/13/north-bay-alert-anti-semite-activist-jon-minadeo-aka-handsome-truth-exposed/