Utah Proud Boys Events 2021

January 6, 2021

Utah Proud Boys spotted at the Utah capitol in Salt Lake City on January 6, 2021.

first row: #3 last name Heugly; #17 Andre Herrera
second row: #6 Riley McFarland, #7 Jed Burnham, #18 Eric Bullard
third row: #10 Tom Houghton
fourth row: #14 Seth Pritchett, #15 Eric Lopez, #16 alias “Gary Utah”

 

August 9, 2021

posted on Eric Lopez’ Facebook August 9, 2021: “Best weekend ever with the boys in Washington” Archived at https://archive.ph/gOHew

 

December 4, 2021

Utah Proud Boys at Washington Square Park in Salt Lake City, December 4, 2021.

 

 

Proud Boys Utah Events 2020

January 25, 2020

March 4 Life, Salt Lake City

 

May 30, 2020

@trailoffears20 “This is what #SaltLakeCity is doing right now.” From archives at the Wayback Machine.

July 10, 2020

 

September 26, 2020

Utah Proud Boys (circled) in Oregon for a Proud Boys rally.

 

November, 2020

Utah Proud Boys at Washington Square Park, Salt Lake City.

Utah Proud Boys at the Utah capitol in Salt Lake City, November 7, 2020 .

 

Proud Boys Utah – group photos 2018

February 18, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “Utah Proud Boys meet up at my place.”

 

March 20, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “SL,UT Proud Boys March meetup! St Patty’s day.”

 

April 14, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “SL,UT Proud Boys were refused service at this tattoo parlor.”

@Rbt1975_USA “@Divas4Trump with the SL,UT Proud Boys”

 

April 23, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “bachelor party”

left to right: Adam Priest, James Lemming, Derek Rich, Brian Taylor

June 17, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “SL,UT Proud Boys June meet up”

 

July 14, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA, Abolish I.C.E. counter-protest

 

October 7, 2018

@Rbt1975_USA “Northern UT Proud Boys October meet up”

Proud Boys Utah – group photos from 2017

August 20, 2017

A group of nine men poses for a photograph behind a table holding snacks and pitchers of beer. Some of the men are in Proud Boy shirts. Several of them are making the "ok" sign with their hands.

@Rbt1975_USA “First meet up with my Proud Boys UT”

 

November 19, 2017

@Rbt1975_USA “Proud Boys Utah”

 

December 24, 2017

@Rbt1975_USA “SL,UT Proud Boys at the Valor House”

 

December 30, 2017

@Rbt1975_USA “SL,UT Proud Boys December meet up”

 

 

Utah Neo-Nazis Arrested in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

In June of 2022, thirty-one members of the neo-fascist hate group Patriot Front (PF) were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, ID on misdemeanor charges of Conspiracy to Riot. A seven-page “operations plan” found in their possession detailed their plans to disrupt Coeur d’Alene’s “Pride in the Park” event, then make their escape “once an appropriate amount of confrontational dynamic [had] been established.” None of the PF members arrested were from Coeur d’Alene. Only two were from Idaho; the other twenty-nine were from as far away as Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, and Virginia. Six of them, shown below, were Utah residents at the time of their arrest. [source] If you have information about the current location of these or other far-right extremists in Utah, please email it to us at UtahAntiFascists (at) riseup (dot) net.

Photos of Jared Michael Boyce of Springville, Branden Mitchel Haney of Kaysville, Cameron Kathan Pruitt of Midway, Alexander Sisenstein of Midvale, Dakota Ray Tabler of West Valley City, and Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield of Elk Ridge.

In June of 2022, Utah residents Jared Boyce, Branden Haney, Cameron Pruitt, Alexander Sisenstein, Dakota Tabler, and Nathaniel Whitfield were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, ID on charges of Conspiracy to Riot.

Below is a brief summary of what is known about the six Utah members of PF who were arrested in Coeur d’Alene. As we publish more detailed information about each of them, we will update the summaries to include links to in-depth articles.

By the time he was arrested in Coeur d’Alene, 27-year-old Jared Michael Boyce had already been involved with violent extremist movements for several years. In August of 2018 he traveled to Oregon for a “flash march” that devolved into a series of street brawls. He joined Patriot Front that same year [source]. His leaked chat logs from PF’s private communications platform, where he uses the code name “Logan UT,” are available here. When Boyce returned from Coeur d’Alene after his arrest, his mom told him he’d have to choose between continuing with Patriot Front and continuing to live in her house. He chose to stay with PF, and true to her word, Mom kicked him out. He has since skipped bail on the Idaho charges and is believed to be living in Utah County, where he occasionally spray-paints weird antisemitic garbage on public property in his embarrassingly awful handstyle.

UPDATE: Jared Michael Boyce has, in fact, been living in Utah County – he was booked into the Utah County Jail on March 10, 2023 on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and dealing in material harmful to a minor 16-18 years old by a person 18 or older. The latter charge alleges that Boyce, who is 28 years old, sent pictures of his genitals to a 16-year-old girl.

headline from The Crime Report

Boyce pleaded guilty in April 2023 to nine felony counts and one misdemeanor, and was sentenced in May to one year in jail and three years probation.

Branden Mitchel Haney submitted his application to join Patriot Front in October of 2021. He was accepted into the group just a little too late to attend their national event in December of that year, so his trip to Coeur d’Alene in June 2022 was likely his first big event with the group. His trial is currently scheduled for July of 2023 in Kootenai County. For more information about Haney’s explicitly antisemitic beliefs, his location, and employment, please see our article “Branden Mitchel Haney, neo-Nazi flight student.

Cameron Kathan Pruitt has been a Patriot Front member for several years. In 2020 he was arrested along with PF’s national leader, Thomas Rousseau, on charges of Criminal Mischief after they were caught posting advertisements for their hate group at a courthouse in Parker County, TX. Pruitt is now the leader of PF’s “Network 5,” which covers  Utah and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. He has attended and helped plan multiple national events with the group. You can read his leaked PF chat logs under his code name, “Jon UT,”  here. After his arrest in Coeur d’Alene, his Utah security guard license was “limited” by the Utah Division of Professional Licensing, meaning he cannot work as a security guard until the allegations against him are resolved.

Alexander Nicholai Sisenstein is the first of the Patriot Front members arrested in Coeur d’Alene to plead out. In November of 2022, the Midvale resident submitted a written plea of guilty to a lesser charge of “disturbing the peace. He was sentenced to two years of probation with one day of credit for time served, and a fine of $500. He is currently licensed with the State of Utah as a Plumber’s Apprentice. If you know where he is currently employed – as a plumber or otherwise – please let us know.

Dakota Ray Tabler of West Valley City is one of three Coeur d’Alene arrestees to hold a Security Guard license in the State of Utah. In 2022 he was employed by CBI Security as a security guard, but was suspended from his job after his arrest. [source] The Utah Division of Professional Licensing also shows that Tabler’s license is currently “limited,” meaning that he is not legally allowed to act as a security officer until the allegations against him are resolved. He has pleaded not guilty, and is currently scheduled to go to trial in May of 2023 in Kootenai County, ID. Photos from Tabler’s Facebook profile suggest that he is or was a member of the USMC.

Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield has been a member of Patriot Front for at least two years,  and holds a leadership role in Network 5. You can read his leaked chat logs here, under his code name “Joshua UT.” He has been spotted at multiple local events with PF since his arrest. Whitfield held an Armed Security Guard license in the State of Utah at the time of his arrest, but it has since expired. Based on information he gave at the time of his arrest in 2022, he is believed to be living in Elk Ridge. If you have more information about his current location or employment, please let us know!

 

 

Branden Mitchel Haney, neo-Nazi flight student

In late October of 2021, an anonymous source sent us a tip: the racist, neo-Nazi hate group known as “Patriot Front” had a new member in Utah. The source didn’t know the new guy’s real name, but they gave us the notes from his application interview in the hope that we’d be able to identify him. (You can read the full text of the interview notes at the end of this article.) After reading the notes, we knew a lot about the political views of applicant 462179, but didn’t have enough for a positive ID. When independent media outlet Unicorn Riot published PF’s leaked chat logs in January 2022, we searched for the applicant’s user number in the chats and learned he had chosen the moniker “James.” His chat logs gave us several more details about his personal life, so when he got arrested in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in June 2022, we were easily able to connect Branden Mitchel Haney of Kaysville, UT with his pseudonym, “James UT.”

The Trace

From his chat logs, which you can read at the Unicorn Riot website, we know that “James UT” lives in Kaysville; that he’s older than most of the other PF members in Utah; that in November of 2021 he and his wife were expecting a baby; and that he’s in flight school.

Branden Haney offers free ground lessons to other neo-Nazis.

Arrest records show that Branden Mitchel Haney lives in Kaysville, and was 35 years old at the time of his arrest. Since the ostensible upper age limit for PF membership is 35, that would make him one of the oldest members in the organization. Photos posted on Facebook show that Haney’s wife was pregnant in November 2021, and a family picture posted in January of 2022 shows Haney holding a newborn baby. A baby registry for the couple shows a due date of January 4, 2022.

Branden Mitchel Haney holds a newborn infant in a family picture posted on Facebook, January 2022.

Haney deleted his Facebook account shortly after posting bail in Coeur d’Alene, but not before we were able to archive a handful of posts, including the photo below, taken from inside an airplane cockpit in July 2020. Additionally, the hat he wore for the family photo above has the logo of a Utah flight school on it.

Photo of an airplane cockpit, from Branden Haney’s Facebook.

Branden Mitchel Haney and Patriot Front

Patriot Front, the organization Haney joined in October 2021, is a white nationalist, neo-fascist hate group. They split off from neo-Nazi group Vanguard America after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally that was held in Charlottesville, VA on August 12, 2017 [1]. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old resident of Charlottesville, was killed on the day of the rally when James Alex Fields intentionally rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters who had turned out in opposition to the nazi event. Photographs of Fields from earlier in the day show him wearing the Vanguard America “uniform” of khakis and a white polo shirt, and carrying a shield with the Vanguard America logo on it (below, right). In the photo on the left, he is shown at the rally with Thomas Ryan Rousseau, a few hours before Fields murdered Heather Heyer. In December 2018, Fields was found guilty of first-degree murder, and is now serving a life sentence in prison[2]. Thomas Rousseau is currently the leader of Patriot Front.

Thomas Rousseau and James Alex Fields with neo-Nazi group Vanguard America at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. August 12, 2017.

More recently, Patriot Front has tried to soften its image and distance itself from its violent origins. A few times a year, the group stages carefully-choreographed “flash” demonstrations, which they film for propaganda purposes. The arrests in Coeur d’Alene on June 11th interrupted what was supposed to be another such event. Documents in Thomas Rousseau’s possession at the time of his arrest detailed the group’s plan to assemble at a city park where a Pride event was being held, march through the park until they encountered resistance, and then move on to other locations “once an appropriate amount of confrontational dynamic [had] been established.” [3]

In addition to producing propaganda videos which they use as recruiting tools, Patriot Front requires members to post advertisements in public spaces, in the form of stickers, flyers, posters, and stencils. Advertising materials must be purchased directly from PF’s leader, and each member must submit photographic proof that he has done a certain amount of “activism” each week – that is, he has posted the purchased advertising materials in public spaces, usually in communities near where he lives. If you’ve seen stickers or other materials around Kaysville or Ogden advertising the Patriot Front hate group since October 2022, Branden Haney is likely responsible for them.

Although Haney was hesitant to join a white nationalist organization after the deadly Charlottesville rally (interview Q5), he finally applied to join Patriot Front in October 2021. Eight months later, he was arrested in Coeur d’Alene, charged with conspiracy to riot, and his name and face were broadcast coast-to-coast as a member of a hate group.[4] We don’t know whether Haney regrets his decision to join Patriot Front, but we do know why he chose to join the group in the first place, and participate in the planned event in Coeur d’Alene.

Branden Mitchel Haney is a racist

Each applicant to Patriot Front participates in an audio interview as part of the application process. The interviewer asks the applicant about his political beliefs, membership in other organizations, and physical condition, while another PF member listens in and takes notes on the applicant’s responses. In answer to one of these interview questions, Haney explained that he used to identify as a Civic Nationalist but now feels that “society needs to be built on a racial structure.”(int. Q6) Civic nationalism (CivNat) is nationalism without the “ethnocentrism,” i.e., racism [5], and applicants who identify as CivNats are usually denied membership in PF. Haney elaborated, “this Nation was founded by Europeans and built for us, and the government has taken us far away from that point. The only way we can fix this is working together with our likeminded European-descended kin.”(int. question “Read Manifesto”) In his view, the thing that’s broken about the US government is that it’s not racist enough anymore.

With that belief in mind, it’s no surprise that Haney thinks the “biggest threat to America is immigration.”(int. Q12) He’s also a fan of the “National Justice Party” (NJP), which advocates for “immigration and natal policy that will ensure a permanent European majority” in the US. In other words, it’s not so much the immigration itself that’s a threat; it’s the fact that some of the immigrants aren’t white.

Branden Mitchel Haney is a neo-Nazi

Because “Nazi” is such a loaded term, and is so often used metaphorically, we want to be very clear about how we’re defining neo-Nazism and why we’re saying that Branden Mitchel Haney is a neo-Nazi. The term “nazi” is a shortened form of the name of Adolf Hitler’s political party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or NSDAP. A neo-Nazi, then, is someone who wasn’t a member of the original Nazi Party, but adheres to the political ideology of the NSDAP: extreme nationalism, antisemitism, racism, anticommunism, eugenics, a dislike for democracy, and a preference for fascism[6].

While Haney’s interview notes never mention the words “Jew” or “Jewish,” Haney admits to the interviewer that he follows the NJP and “likes what they say.”(int. Q “Political Ideology”) The NJP is an antisemitic, white supremacist group that promotes neo-Nazism. They claim to be a political party, but are not registered with the FEC,[7] and to date have not fielded any candidates for political office. Among other thinly-veiled racist and antisemitic ideas, their list of preferred policies includes “a two percent ceiling on Jewish employment in vital institutions.”

When describing his ideological development, Haney mentions that he had a friend who “began listening to Alt-Right shows and got him to listen as well, to things like TDS.”(int. Q4) TDS is “The Daily Shoah,” a podcast hosted by notorious antisemite “Mike Enoch,” whose real name is Mike Peinovich [8]. “Shoah” is a Hebrew word meaning “catastrophe”; hence the genocide of European Jews during WWII is referred to as “Ha Shoah,” usually rendered in English as “the Holocaust.” Peinovich is a conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier, who used podcasts like The Daily Shoah to promote the idea that Jews have taken over or subverted the US government, the global banking system, the entertainment industry, etc. and are manipulating these systems in order to cause harm to white people. He is also a founding member of the NJP.

Branden Haney tells the interviewer that after being introduced to The Daily Shoah, he “began watching things like Greatest Story Never Told” and decided that “Nationalists had a point.”(int. Q4) The full title of the work he’s referring to is Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told. It’s a six-episode, pseudo-historical, revisionist “documentary” that attempts to rehabilitate Hitler’s public image. The “Nationlists” Haney finds himself agreeing with are early-20th-century German National Socialists – the original Nazis. In fact, when asked to describe his current political ideology, Haney says that he “studied NSDAP recently, and likes a lot about what they did,” although he distrusts “concentrated power.”(int. Q “Political Ideology”) So his concern about the Nazi Party and Hitler’s government isn’t the racism, or the persecution of political opponents, or the concentration camps, or the genocide, but rather a vague distrust of concentrated political power. As for Hitler himself, Haney fondly refers to him in the chat logs as “Uncle A.”

Brandon Mitchel Haney wants to turn his family and friends into Nazis

Haney told the interviewer that he wanted to join PF so he could “find likeminded people.”(int. Q “Why Join”) Since “likeminded” in Haney’s case would mean “racist and antisemitic,” we find it encouraging that he claims to have “no likeminded friends or family.”(int. Q8) He is a member of the LDS (Mormon) church, but hasn’t discovered likeminded pals there either; he finds that “the organized LDS church disagrees with him a lot on politics and immigration.”(int. Q15) In fact, Haney believes the biggest problem facing the American nationlist movement is that it’s “lacking in numbers.”(int. Q21) However, he also believes he has a solution to the problem: “keep pressing on people’s opinions, talk to your friends and family and try to make Nationalism grow. It is an uphill battle against the lies people have been convinced of all their lives.” (int. Q21)

Indeed, Nazism is a tough sell. It took several years for liars and grifters like Mike Enoch to convince Branden Haney that Hitler and the NSDAP “had a point.” But Haney is now a willing evangelist for their cause, spreading their poison to his family and friends, and presumably his coworkers and students as well. He won’t come right out and say what he’s selling, of course – at least not at first. He sometimes describes himself to his own family as a “Traditionalist,” but he confesses in his interview that “more honestly, he would call himself a Fascist.”(int. Q14)

Patriot Front member at a training camp in VA, December 2021. The patch on his hat reads “Our tradition is revolution”

Patriot Front member “James UT” may not be willing to tell his family, his friends, or his community the truth about his ideology, but we will. Branden Mitchel Haney is a racist, an antisemite, a neo-Nazi, and a self-described fascist. His worldview and political beliefs make him a danger to people in his community. Patriot Front claims to be a “non-violent” fascist organization, but the truth is that fascism is an inherently violent philosophy, characterized by forcible suppression of opposition. It rejects the idea that violence is automatically “bad,” and in fact sees political violence as a legitimate means of “national rejuvenation”[9]. This is the belief system that Brandon Mitchel Haney subscribes to, and he’s lying to himself if he thinks there can ever be a “non-violent” fascist revolution.

What you can do

Branden Haney is believed to be enrolled in and/or employed at FLT Academy in Woods Cross. In addition to wearing their merchandise in his family portrait, Haney is featured in two posts on FLT’s Facebook page.[10,11] FLT Academy’s website includes this statement on inclusivity: “We seek to cultivate an environment of respect and empathy, advanced by diverse cultures and perspectives.” FLT Academy may not be aware of Branden Mitchel Haney’s racist and antisemitic beliefs, which are clearly at odds with their inclusivity statement. If you’d like to contact them and politely let them know about Haney’s beliefs and his membership in a neo-Nazi hate group, they can be reached by email at flt@fltacademy.com or by phone at (801) 896-4470.

Branden Haney is featured on FLT Academy’s Facebook page in June 2020 (left) and October 2020 (right).

If you have family or friends in Kaysville, you may want to warn them that there’s a neo-nazi in their neighborhood. Printable flyers are available here. And as always, if you find PF’s nazi advertisements in your neighborhood, take them down!
If you have more information about Branden Haney or any other nazis in Utah, please send tips to utahantifascists(at)riseup(dot)net.

Interview notes for PF Interviewee-462179

Interviewee-462179
35/UT/Salt Lake City
10/26/21
Conductor: Jason NY
Notetaker: Jesse AR

Result: ACCEPTED

Test Question: What do you expect to be asked? Political thoughts, background info.
Political Ideology: Conservative for most of his life got involved in politics when he was 18. Tried to be active in politics. During Trump Primary, described himself as a Conservatarian, and cringes when he thinks of that title now. Saw Trump as untrustworthy back then. Doesn’t really know where he fits in right now, not a Conservative anymore. Follows NJP but unsure about their direction. Likes what they say, but untrusting of politically powerful people. Studied NSDAP recently, and likes a lot about what they did, but untrustworthy of concentrated power.

Transportation: Yes
Permanent Resident or Moving: Yes.
Drug Abuse: No
Religion: Latter Day Saints. No issues with working with other faiths.
Why Join: Wants to find likeminded people, and wants to find a good way to be politically active. Watched our content for a while now, heard an interview with one of our guys in 2016 or 17 on Cantwell’s show that he liked. Wants to see politics in an American style, not from a European template.
Skills: Outgoing, charismatic, good gardener, hunter, used to hike regularly.
Read Manifesto: Yes. It was long, liked it. Read through it a couple times. Our Nation was founded with a set of principles that we are currently nowhere near. This Nation was founded by Europeans and built for us, and the government has taken us far away from that point. The only way we can fix this is working together with our likeminded European-descended kin. Individualism won’t work.

Q1: No past interviews.
Q2: Has a misdemeanor DUI, 15 years ago. No current legal proceedings. No government employ.
Q3: No ailments.
Q4: Started off Conservative, then leaned Libertarian during the 2016 election. Tried to join the Tea Party but they banned him for trying to Primary elect out the established Tea Party candidate for dishonesty in the legaslative process. Found the Republican Party to be untrustworthy. Had a friend who began listening to Alt-Right shows and got him to listen as well, to things like TDS. Began watching things like Greatest Story Never Told and discovered Nationalists “had a point. Eventually, everything clicked.”
Q5: First found us through a interview on a podcast, wants to say it was Cantwell in 2017 or so. Had some fear about applying after seeing Charlottesville and Federal infiltration in groups, thought he couldn’t be involved in a group. Never joined any political groups, but now feels like it is time for him to get involved and meet guys.
Q6: Has heard of Civic Nationalism. Used to consider himself one. Society needs to be built on a racial structure.
Q7: Family has been here for around 200 years. Scotch-Irish heritage. Ethnically British.
Q8: Tried to get involved with the Tea Party, that was about the biggest group he ever tried to join. No history of extrapolitical activism. No likeminded friends or family. Wants to get involved in activism from our positive image, effective activism, and out of a need to be involved with compatriots in a cause.
Q9: Violence is only justified in self defense. Agrees and Understands the Violence Statement.
Q10: Last fight was in high school.
Q11: Schedule is a bit busy, has a family and is involved in school. Has time in the evenings and weekends.
Q12: Biggest threat to America is immigration, but there are a lot of problems at this time. Close second is the threat of inflation.
Q13: Listens to a lot of podcasts. Jared Howe, FTN, TDS, generally therightstuff.biz shows. Sometimes Jared Taylor. Read Dissident Mag.
Q14: Would probably label himself more Fascist, sometimes says to family that he is not a Conservative, but a Traditionalist. More honestly, he would call himself a Fascist.
Q15: Struggles with religion and politics from time to time. The organized LDS church disagrees with him a lot on politics and immigration. He cannot sit back and let our enemy do what they are doing. Jesus loves us all, so he can live with himself taking a stand against foreigners in favor of his family’s wellbeing.
Q16: Working on flight school, so he doesn’t have enough time to read recently. He enjoys articles from National Justice and Dissident Mag.
Q17: Generally fit. Was going to the gym regularly, until about a month ago when he and his family starting falling ill. Sometimes has back issues but they dont effect him much. Runs 3 miles consistently, has a personal trainer that he trains with once a week. 5’10, 195 lbs. Can run a mile in about 10 minutes.
Q18: Ideal family structure is nuclear. Families today are total messes. Women are told to think that the only fulfilled life they can have is in a career, single mothers are held in high regard but statistically make bad children. These issues are created by design. LGBT is disgusting. His upbringing was done pretty well, had some issues but nothing like what is seen today.
Q19: Admires General Patton. He was an amazing leader, led from the front. He was absolutely right when Patton said we fought the wrong enemy.
Q20: Despises Ronald Reagan for what he did to our country’s immigration.
Q21: Biggest problem with Nationalist movement is our lacking in numbers. The best way to solve it is to keep pressing on people’s opinions, talk to your friends and family and try to make Nationalism grow. It is an uphill battle against the lies people have been convinced of all their lives. Patriot Front is the only group with enough courage to still commit activism in the public space.
Q22: Wants to finish school, family comes first. Wants to get involved in the political scene with an organic, positive message.

Patriot Front leadership structure

For administrative purposes, Patriot Front membership is divided into regional groups known as Networks, each with its own leader, the “Network Director” (ND). The area covered by a network may include part of a state, an entire state, or parts of multiple states (see map). In areas where there are not enough members living close enough to each other to comprise a network, members will instead belong to a “cluster,” which could become a network if enough new members are recruited in that area. PF members who are too remote from others geographically to be part of either a network or a cluster are referred to as “non-network members” (NNM).

Network Directors are selected by PF’s national leader, Thomas Rousseau. After being appointed, the ND then nominates two members of his network to be the Network Scribe (NS) and Network Quartermaster (NQ), respectively. The nominees must be approved by Rousseau before being officially designated as the NS and NQ. The quartermaster is responsible for the network’s supplies and materials, while the scribe keeps track of network members’ attendance and “activism,” takes notes at network meetings, and otherwise documents network activity.

You can find the map, and many other leaked PF documents, at the Unicorn Riot website.

 

Joshua Long: American Guard’s Worst Liar

This article is republished with permission from Corvallis Against Fascism.

The American Guard is a group of hardcore white supremacists. The organization was co-founded by Joshua Long and Brien James, a former Klansman who also co-founded a violent bonehead (neo-Nazi skinhead) gang, the Vinlanders Social Club. American Guard has deep ties to other White Nationalist gangs like the Hammerskins, the Traditionalist Workers Party, and the Aryan Nations. Unlike many of these other overtly racist groups, American Guard also associate with alt-lite organizations like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. This makes them particularly dangerous, as they are able to bring their extreme views and violence into spaces that typically cater to regular conservatives, who they attempt to further radicalize.

American Guard has engaged in physical violence at rallies across the country. They are dangerous, and their members and associates should be treated with extreme caution.

Co-founder Joshua Long is the Vice President of American Guard. He lives on a ranch in Idaho with his wife, Kasey, and three young daughters. Long works as a long-haul truck driver, so he frequently travels in Oregon, Utah, California, and other western states. He also has an adult daughter, Callie, who lives in New Mexico. She is shown here repping the white supremacist black metal band Burzum.

Like the American Guard as a whole, Joshua Long frequently claims that he is not a racist, describing himself instead as a “Constitutional Nationalist.” However, like the rest of the group, his rhetorical veil is paper thin. He has a long history in the white supremacist movement, and this tacky rebrand is nothing more than an attempt to deceive casual observers. You can read more about American Guard’s origins and symbols here.

Long is a former member of The Hated, a neo-Nazi bonehead gang. Below, he is pictured wearing a shirt with The Hated’s logo. The number 14 in the logo is a reference to the “fourteen words,” a popular neo-Nazi slogan.

He also has at least three identified white nationalist tattoos – a Swastika/sun cross, a Celtic Cross and a Totenkopf, all of which have a history in past and present Nazi movements.

In addition to his role in American Guard leadership, Long is also a member of the Proud Boys. The Proud Boys often claim that their group is not racist, but rather “western chauvinists.” They also claim that they do not harbor any racists or fascists in their ranks. The fact that they have members like Long is clear proof that this is a lie.

Long has been a key part of many of American Guard’s actions and events. He was with the American Guard contingent at the Indianapolis MAGA march on March 5, 2017. The march was the first major event to have an American Guard presence, and it served to increase the group’s visibility and attract new members.

In July of 2019, Long hosted American Guard’s annual leadership gathering at his family’s ranch in Moore, Idaho.

On August 17, 2019, Long was a part of the American Guard contingent at Joe Biggs’ ironically-named “End Domestic Terrorism” rally. The AG group traveled across the country on an armored bus, carrying firearms and other weapons. One California member, Mark Quon, attacked an antifascist counter-protestor with a hammer, before being disarmed and smacked with it himself.

Joshua Long is a white nationalist, pure and simple. He and his fellow American Guard members present a legitimate danger to society, and should be treated with utmost caution.

Thank you to Colorado Springs Antifascists, Eugene Antifa, Long Beach Antifa, and Corvallis Antifascists for their work tracking and documenting the American Guard.

This article is reprinted with permission from Corvallis Antifascists. Please send us any tips regarding the Longs and their whereabouts here: Utah161 (at) riseup.net.