Anthony Leonard Longdyke – Fargo ND neo-Nazi

 Anthony Leonard Longdyke, 36 years old, 5’6″,  162lbs, Fargo, North Dakota by way of Wilmington, North Carolina is an active neo-Nazi waiting to be vetted into the Great Plains Active Club.

Active Clubs are regional offshoots of the street fight gang Rise Above Movement founded by Robert Rundo. In March 2023, Rundo was arrested in Romania on international rioting charges stemming from multiple violent attacks he led in 2017 in California and the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens others. Rundo calls his Active Clubs “white nationalism 3.0” and encourages white men to train and fight for neo-Nazi ideology.

Anthony Longdyke drives a vibrant blue 2018 Chevrolet Spark hatchback and lives in a little apartment in south downtown Fargo on 5th Ave just down the road from his two favorite gyms (https://archive.is/Uafdg) and has not entered the mirror stage of psychological development yet, despite the average age of apperception in humans is six months and even sooner for most birds. The totenkopf over the face is a standard nowadays on selfies, but it does no good if you don’t know how mirrors work, or how tattoos are easy identifiers.

Anthony Longdyke started balding in his early thirties, triggering a midlife crisis. Within a few years, and the help of anabolic steroids (i.e. trenbolone acetate, intended for cattle) Anthony bulked up from 90 lbs to 162 lbs, but claims he’s all natural.

Anthony Longdyke aka Whitehammer, aka W.H. aka Frozen Kingdom1488 aka Shiddy McPoopybutt used to play in black metal bands in Wilmington, NC but he alienated all his bandmates with increasingly racist hatred and eventually fled to Fargo. There in the endless and isolated winters he started the one-man bedroom national socialist black metal project Frozen Kingdom. He must be a big fan of Disney’s movie about a blonde princess.

Frozen Kingdom via Metal Archives lists the band’s origin in Germany, but moderators contest that claim adding “this appears to be rooted more in aesthetic than fact,” considering Longdyke provided his government name and previous bands, which all list Wilmington, NC.
(https://archive.is/Tr4J1)

PAAGTHEAAN via Metal Archives
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Anthony_Longdyke/700881
(https://archive.is/Mqpgq)

Anthony Longdyke complains about not being able to find friends and frets about his testosterone levels dropping with old age, and how everyone he meets are either white liberals or non-white, therefore non-people. Hate corrodes your heart, your connections, and your life.

Bryan Curtis update National Justice Party

Bryan Curtis is carrying water for the National Justice Party, a post-Unite the Right low-effort creation of The Right Stuff’s Mike “Enoch” Peinovich and Joseph “Erik Striker” Jordan.

Bryan Curtis is the disowned child of retired Iowa teachers and bounces around internet hate groups, previously we met him with the Daily Stormer book club. Bryan Curtis is treading water trying to make friends in the White Lives Matter homemade sticker Telegram chat under his BD Max (Buttdick Maximum) name from his Daily Stormer days, changing it to B Richard Max, then Braxton Bundy. He bragged to WLM member Michael “Bacon” Jensen about how he got doxed and how it definitely wasn’t a huge embarrassment to his family or how he got fired from the casino kitchen for being a publicly disgraced racist.

Bryan Curtis unsuccesfully tried to join Identity Evropa before they renamed their group in a last ditch effort to avoid the heavy and expensive legal ramifications from their involvement in planning the violent and deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. The group Bryan Curtis is involved with as of 2023, the National Justice Party, has the distinction of also being legally and financially responsible in the federal Sines v Kessler ruling.

Bryan Curtis claims he was in Waukesha, WI for the unofficial inaugural action of National Justice Party in November 2021. In May 2023, his stickers in Omaha lasted less than 24 hours.

social media change

The Twitter account for Antifascist Action Nebraska @antifa_ne was suspended on April 26 2023. The offending tweet was a Spirited Away meme of Haku blowing on a dandelion puff with the stems floating away and spelling the sentence “this tweet touched fentanyl” in reply to Omaha Police showing the new recruit obstacle course. This comes days after multiple federal indictments for fraud, money laundering, extortion, and drug trafficking by Omaha city councilman Vinny Palermo, Omaha police detective Johnny Palermo (no relation),  retired captain Richard Gonzalez, and Jack Olsen, the fundraiser of Police Athletics for Community Engagement, (PACE). https://apnews.com/article/omaha-police-corruption-98c10d3bc491c8cda179ed0b55a9671b

 

Antifascist Action is community defense. News on trap hunting fascists and racists in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas can still be followed on Mastadon instance @antifa_ne@anticapitalist.party and on Twitter @antifa_neb and as always tips and info can be emailed to antifaneb@riseup.net

Michael R Jensen – White Lives Matter neo-nazi

Michael R Jensen (03/08/1990) of Lincoln, Nebraska has been producing and distributing hundreds of “White Lives Matter” stickers from his retired parents’ home in the South Salt Creek neighborhood. WLM is a loosely organized entry-level group focused on petty vandalism and operates as a feeder for other neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations such as Nationalist Social Club-131 (NSC-131), Proud Boys, National Justice Party, Goyim Defense League, and Patriot Front.

Mike Jensen prefers the name Bacon; he even put it on his license plate. Other aliases for Mike Jensen are DA BAC0N, Boogaloo Bacon, and Heavy Hitler. Mike Jensen is six-foot-two and three hundred-fifty pounds of armed hate and confusion.

In December 2022, Mike Jensen was confused about how to navigate a traffic stop with a concealed weapon and got a ticket for failing to provide his concealed handgun permit before getting searched.

In January 2023, Mike Jensen was confused about how to properly secure his gun while protesting a drag story hour. (Both hands up holding a sign leaves you vulnerable to being disarmed.) His friend “Rooftop Aryan” as he’s known currently, shared this gun safety confusion.

But most of all, Mike Jensen is confused about his place in the world as a white man in the U.S. that is neither in education, employment, nor training, and has no goals for himself but assumes he is a rightful leader of a racial and social heirarchy. His siblings are starting families, his parents are retired, and he is spending his days and nights on the streets of Lincoln putting up little paper stickers that say things like “Modernity is an anti-White system of humiliation and murder of the Traditional Family.”

When the WLM Nebraska Telegram channel directed people to protest a Christmas themed drag show in St Louis, that call to action was echoed in the Nebraskans Against Government Overreach channels by former Grant NE Parks & Rec committee member Melissa Sauder amplified the call to violence. Meanwhile the two drag story protesters held a sign in favor of LB 371, a 2023 Nebraska bill banning the attendance of anyone under 21 from attending any event where “a performer which exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers.” These groups of “concerned parents” intermingle far more with neo-Nazis than they’ll ever admit because they have the same violent goals, but different aesthetic choices.

Jonathan Ziegler FolksFront / Folkish Resistance Movement neo-Nazi

Meet Jonathan Ziegler of Omaha, NE. Jonathan was caught on camera placing neo-Nazi stickers on the campus of Temple Israel on April 9 2021, the day after Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Rememberance Day. In 2019, the Temple Israel cemetery was extensively damaged and it remains unsolved.

Multiple angles caught Ziegler walking his dog while vandalizing for Folksfront, the propaganda arm of the Folkish Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group fashioning themselves after the Nordic Resistance Movement active across Scandinavian countries including Finland where the political party is banned for being a violent threat. FRM existence mainly consists of stickers, posters, and banners with National Socialist themes of antisemitism and perceived white persecution.

The FRM website and Telegram posted photos of Omaha and Papillion stickers, and Jonathan’s dog is visible in those as well. An older photo on Facebook shows Jonny Z and his baby momma RaKay Reyes with the dog. Man’s best friend is a snitch.

Jonathan Ziegler lists Genesis Health Clubs as his employer where he is a fitness manager.

Most of Jon Ziegler’s social media has recently either deactivated or made private, except for his Venmo where he had multiple interactions with Paul Miller, a minor star in the National Socialist and Proud Boys circles. Miller is currently being held on federal weapons charges in Florida, but he previously found infamy during a New York City street brawl led by Proud Boys founder Gavin Mcinnes in 2018 in which Mcinnes brandished a sword while other Proud Boys chased and attacked people.

Tanner Matthies – neo-Nazi cattle hauler

In the southwest Nebraska town of McCook, there is a neo-Nazi cattle trucker by the name Tanner Matthies. Tanner Matthies was convicted of 1st degree assault when he drove his truck into a Perkins restaurant attempting to run over someone he was fighting with. He did 5 of his 20 year felony sentence and was released in 2018. Matthies used to drive for Hauxwell Farms in McCook and Patrick Minary in Indianola and McCook. The Hauxwells own farmland, businesses, or otherwise hold 23 properties in Red Willow County. Patrick Minary lost his parents irrigation business for non-payment of taxes sometime around 2018. Before Tanner high tailed off to Texas, his rig was registered as USDOT 560556.

Bryce Boepple; Identity Evropa white nationalist

Bryce Christopher Boepple is a Jew-hating neo-Nazi white nationalist and an Identity Evropa member that traveled in 2017 to Charlottesville, VA to participate in the deadly white supremacist ‘Unite the Right’ rally.

Bryce Boepple moved from Fargo, ND to Omaha, NE after he graduated from North Dakota State University. He currently works for Aerotek Staffing Agency as a job placement agent. bboepple@aerotek.com  402-997-7607

Bryce Boepple posts on the Discord chat servers of Identity Evropa as BryceB-ND where he distributed flyers and organized official Identity Evropa events like the July 15, 2017 Midwest chapters group participation at the Warrior Dash competition in Tekamah, NE.

Boepple is tasked with placing precarious workers in temporary job assignments. This calls into question if he is discriminating against qualified workers getting temp assignments because he holds racist ideas.

 

Boepple memorialized a notorious Holocaust denier when he died of old age in 2017. Ernst Zündel was born in Germany and hid out in Canada so he could be a professional “historical revisionist” in regards to the Jewish Holocaust.

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Bryce Boepple wears the black sun or sonnenrad of esoteric Nazi Germany. The same symbol was worn by the Christchurch mosque shooter on his body armor as he indiscriminately killed 49 Muslims during prayers. Boepple lifts weights at Omaha Barbell.

Boepple said “after we’ve dealt with our demographic issues, we have a long road ahead of us fixing the lifestyles of your average white male.” He also spoke supportively of Lauren Southern’s “Great Replacement”  propaganda/documentary, which was referenced at length in the manifesto of the Christchurch mosque shooter.

 

 

Boepple said in a tweet “National Socialism shatters the left-right dichotomy does it not?” This is the often cited claim that because nazis had “socialism” in their party name that they were a synthesis of nationalism and socialism.

Boepple retweets neo-Nazis quoting Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and photos of the Third Reich, and he curated a YouTube playlist of Nazi speeches and songs. He is proficient in German and believes that makes him the ubermensch Aryan neo-Nazi.

Bryce Boepple rationalized anyone could have made the same decision James Alex Fields made on August 12, 2017 when he purposely drove his Dodge Charger into a crowd of counterprotesters. Fields was found guilty of Heather Heyer’s murder.

Identity Evropa claims it is not like the other violent white nationalist groups because they don’t fly a swastika, but the current leader Patrick Casey has “retired” Identity Evropa the same weekend that independent non-profit investigative journalists Unicorn Riot exposed their chats showing the same toxic and violent sentiments as any other active white nationalist or white separatist group. Identity Evropa has rebranded as “American Identity Movement,” because it was “held down by baggage accumulated before my tenure,” Casey told Philly.com The new group, according to a news release this week, is focused on “defending America against globalism.”

Casey didn’t elaborate on the “baggage” that ended Identity Evropa, but the group’s members were prominently featured at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, and the organization has been named as a defendant in Sines v. Kessler, an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging the group and others conspired to commit crimes of bias and racial hatred at the 2017 rally.

Bryce Boepple was partially exposed while he still lived in North Dakota by a pro-Israeli group that also tracks Palestinian college campus activists, and for that reason we will not link to them.

However, Bryce Boepple in response to their work says “You cant talk your way through a dox. Leftists and Jewish websites will seek to ruin your reputation and stifle your employment opportunities.”

The solution to that problem is don’t be a neo-Nazi and people won’t try to expose your genocidal ideas and violent behavior, Bryce.

Bragging about his white supremacist propaganda flyers making it into the NDSU student newspaper.

 

 

Bennett Bressman; Nebraska Governor’s Field Director

Bennett Bressman likes to “name the Jew” in white nationalist chatrooms. That’s a problem for Nebraska’s Jewish population because he’s the Statewide Field Director for Nebraska’s billionaire governor Pete Ricketts. Bressman, a  UNL student, leads a team of twenty-four interns operating Rickett’s phone banking, neighborhood canvassing, answering constituent questions, yard sign supply-chain management and the distribution of campaign literature.

Bennett Bressman posted online as “bress222” in the leaked private chats for fans of the white nationalist YouTube show America First hosted by Nicholas J Fuentes. Bressman expressed extremely racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and violent sentiments throughout his more than 3000 comments, some of which is posted below. Bressman also dropped enough clues to his identity and employer, including photographic evidence, for Antifascist Action Nebraska to positively confirm his identity. His comments can be read, verified, and searched in full on Unicorn Riot  discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja

Governor Pete Ricketts and Kenny Zoeller, executive director of the Nebraska Republican Party, need to take swift and decisive action in the face of this hate so prevalent in leadership roles. Hate doesn’t exist in isolation and Bressman isn’t an outlier. This hateful behavior is encouraged and rewarded through systematic white supremacist ideology. The only acceptable course of action is for Governor Ricketts to fire everyone on his staff, repatriate this land to the indigenous people it was stolen from, then resign in disgrace.

[UPDATE 3/12/19]

Ricketts claims Bressman left his staff in December 2018 and is no longer in contact with the office, but Lincoln Star-Journal noted he was at a March 1 2019 Lincoln-Reagan luncheon as an anti-marijuana lobbyist. Bressman told LSJ he posted on his own time out of the office. His own words contradict him.


Messages shared on the gaming chat platform Discord were obtained by independent media collective Unicorn Riot in their ongoing investigations of the far right. The leaked chats, available in full on the Discord Leaks platform, provide an intensive look at the behind-the-scenes workings of Identity Evropa, perhaps the most active fascist group in the United States.

Two Discord chat servers associated with Identity Evropa – ‘Nationalist Review‘ and ‘Nick Fuentes Server‘ – hosted months of chats for fans of podcasts and videos produced by James Allsup and Nick Fuentes. Allsup and Fuentes, both white nationalist YouTubers and involved with Identity Evropa attended the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA in 2017 where James Alex Fields drove his car into a crowd, killing Heyer Heyer and injuring dozens.

Nicholas Fuentes was recently invited (then disinvited) to speak at Iowa State University by Turning Point USA and the school’s College Republicans. According to the Des Moines Register, Fuentes still appeared on campus but students opposing him successfully cut his unwelcomed visit short.

Bennett Bressman was one of the most active members of the ‘Nick Fuentes Server’ until it was deleted by Discord shortly after the ISU visit for “incitement to violence,” according to a tweet by Fuentes.

Bennett Bressman described his Nebraska GOP job twice as “state wide field director for governor.”

“bress22” posted a photo at a ‘Need to Impeach’ campaign tour stop hosted by billionaire Democrat donor Tom Steyer. The tour schedule placed him in Omaha on June 21, 2018. The next day “bress22” posted two photos and said “the news captured me at the impeach blumpf event.” He helpfully circled and pointed a large red arrow at himself. The Omaha Fox 42 news footage of the event matched the photos he posted in the chat server.

A simple search of “Ricketts State Field Director” directs to Bennett Bressman’s LinkedIn profile and news articles citing him as the State Field Director for Ricketts. He also posted the same selfie to Nick Fuentes Server and his Instagram bressman402.

Bressman posted a screenshot of a text from his boss, Kenny Zoeller, asking him to delete a tweet critical of Israel. Like his Republican contemporaries, most of Bressman’s attention is occupied by Israel and the conflation that it represents all Jews, so we will highlight his thoughts there first.

Bressman’s comments are organized here by topic. We have sectioned his thoughts on Jews, the Holocaust, on political and personal violence against black activists, LGBT parades and journalists. Following this, his thoughts on race and immigration, and finally his ideas on current policies and the future political gains of fascism.

Bressman on Jews

He still likes conservative radio host Michael Savage “even though he’s a jew”

The (((echos))) reference is an antisemitic meme started by white nationalist UNO student Cooper Ward on The Daily Shoah podcast as an audio effect to emphasize a Jewish name. In text it is shown with triple parentheses. Bressman used this meme to describe Ari Kohen, his American Revolution professor at UNL.

Two other antisemitic tropes we’ve covered before, the first called “the Merchant” which is an illustration of a nefarious Jewish man rubbing his hands together. The other is a conspiracy theory about Jewish influence, such as global control of banking and Hollywood, or the promotion of vices like alcoholism. Bressman is using the antisemitic conspiracy language of “naming the Jew” in which this influence must be explicitly pointed out to non-Jewish people. Bressman names Hollywood “the visual Jew” and alcohol “the liquid Jew” in the following comments.

Bressman watched a 2005 YouTube “documentary” based on a debunked text from 1903 that claimed to outline the plan for Jewish domination. Neo-Nazis have used this text to both justify and deny the Holocaust, and prove all antisemitic attacks are self-defense. The Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter believes he was acting in defense.

Bressman on the Holocaust 

Bressman on political violence

Bressman admits he would purposefully and maliciously drive into a Black Lives Matter protest in his white 2009 Daytona Charger with black trim.

Bressman confesses to committing a hate crime at an LGBT rally for which he was never held responsible, and says he would do it again.

Bressman trying to work up the courage to yell at homeless people from his car.

Bressman’s casual endorsements of genocide.

Bressman says the only meme he ever made was about Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas mass shooter, seen on security cameras carrying two large bags believed to contain the guns he used. The bags are labeled “crime statistics” and “bell curves” in reference to Charles Murray’s book that claimed there is a correlation between race and intelligence.

Bressman on Race and Immigration 

The Department of Homeland Security released a memo that had striking similarities to a neo-Nazi slogan referred to as the 14 Words. Bressman suggests he would vandalize an immigration law office with this DHS memo.

Bressman dropping hard N-bombs with both soft and hard Rs.

Bressman seems to believe the same “declining birth rates is white genocide” meme that Iowa representative Steve King has claimed repeatedly to white nationalist publications.

He also parrots old and unproven claims that immigrants and refugees are dirty, they live on welfare, and refuse to learn the culture.

Bressman on current policies and the future political gains of fascism.

The hardline immigration bill by Bob Goodlatte of Virginia was defeated twice in committee. But it should be disturbing that a governor is having private brunches with 21 year old fascists and is one of 50 governors advising the president on policy.

 

Dan Kleve update (ATTN Florida)

We identified Dan Kleve as a member of Vanguard America shortly before the Unite the Right rally in 2017, (and a year later as a member of Identity Evropa). We saw his violent attacks while in Charlottesville and his Facebook posts of guns and neo-Nazi literature, so we asked the University of Nebraska-Lincoln if they felt comfortable having a student representing them in such a violent and public manner, and if they felt the campus was safe by allowing him to return for the fall semester. UNL unequivocally said yes, having a violent, armed neo-Nazi on campus isn’t an issue for them.

Dan Kleve continued his public neo-Nazi propaganda campaigns for Vanguard, for Daily Stormer, for Identity Evropa, and his own group Alt Right Nebraska where he was part of a six person flash demo at the unoccupied state building. Along with his flyering and vandalizing, and either direct involvement with or the orchestration of racist harassment of recipients of a church food bank in Lincoln, Kleve also appeared on podcasts and livestreams. In January 2018, Dan Kleve appeared in a Google Hangouts livestream for Identity Dixie’s Blake Lucca. In the two hour chat, Kleve talked about the time he wanted to shoot and kill a black coworker, and how he loves violence. Again we asked if this new information warrants any action from UNL. Again UNL looked away. In February 2018, he was flown out to New Jersey by the hosts of The Daily Shoah podcast to be a guest of honor at TRStlemania, a secret annual live taping of TDS.

At the same time, UNL student athletes headed to the NCAA basketball playoffs used their collective public platform to call attention to what their university was refusing to acknowledge. The Huskers basketball team began the “Hate Will Never Win” campaign on February 10. They made tshirts for the men’s and women’s teams to wear during warm-ups. It was covered by ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Big 10 Network, CBS Sports, USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo! Sports and others.

Suddenly the University was in full support of the student campaign. A rally was held at the Coliseum and over 1500 students attended.

Newsweek published an extended profile of Dan Kleve and two other neo-Nazi students at other universities on February 13 2018.

Kleve mentioned on his Facebook that people mean-mugged him in the gym and he felt it was unfair that he, the proud neo-Nazi, was now scared and needed a private gym membership.

People that had classes with Kleve started talking about how he wasn’t showing up and that made them just as nervous as when he was in class. This fear was made worse when on March 6, a student was charged with a felony for carrying a gun in his backpack on campus, and the bigger realization that the school invites students and staff to use free on-site gun lockers.

Where is Dan Kleve now?

Well, he isn’t a UNL student and hasn’t been since the end of the Spring 2018 semester. He currently lives with Haley Copeland (Zdravich) in her disabled mother’s spare room in Sebring, Florida.

Haley Copeland and Dan Kleve were featured together in a previous Newsweek article when they harassed a Sunday church congregation on behalf of Identity Evropa in Antioch, Tennesse during the series of failed “White Lives Matter” rallies in October 28-30 2017. The church was the site of a mass shooting a month prior by a Sudanese man. Eli Mosley, leader of Identity Evropa at the time, denied when asked by Newsweek if it was an Identity Evropa event. Kleve became a dues-paying member of IE earlier that week.

Haley spoke to Newsweek using the name Leah. She has a lot of names. Haley Olivia, Haley Zdravich and Haley Copeland.

“This is not something that should be forgotten,” Leah said to Newsweek about the mass shooting that was allegedly perpetrated by Samson. “I’m here for the interests of our people and our country.”

Kleve and Copeland attended multiple other rallies together including Unite the Right August 11 torch rally and August 12 march.

Copeland’s mother was disabled in a work accident and can no longer do the heavy lifting required of a nurse, and she has roof damage that she cannot pay to repair. It probably doesn’t help that her daughter’s dropout neo-Nazi boyfriend moved in to hide from the scary antifa basketball team.

David Pringle, Lincoln neo-Nazi gunsmith

David Martin Pringle is the lead gunsmith and social media face for Discount Enterprise Guns, dba DEGuns.net Firearms Sales & Service at 252 North 134th in Lincoln, Nebraska. He also operates Nebraska Laser Engraving at the same location.

UPDATE August 13 2018: NFOA relocates their annual meeting after learning of David Pringle, the neo-Nazi gunsmith at DE Guns in Lincoln.

https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/lincoln-gunsmith-s-white-supremacist-ties-prompt-firearms-group-to/article_f1700504-f569-56a2-931a-3234f818b8df.html

 

David is also a long-time member and Chief of Staff for National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization started in 1974 and linked to robberies, murders, and bombings, including the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh.

David Pringle and David Duke, 2016

In 2003 the SPLC listed David at 24 out of 40 leaders to watch on the extreme right, saying, “Although Pringle’s father holds a Stanford Ph.D. and reportedly worked in weapons research for the Department of Defense, Pringle never went to college and instead joined the Army in 1988, at the age of 19. He says his visceral hatred of Jews developed when, on a mission in the Middle East, his unit brought a severely burned Bedouin boy to an Israeli hospital that refused to treat him.”

In 2002, at the age of 33 David Pringle led the Alaska chapter of the largest neo-Nazi organization of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But first, what is the National Alliance?

National Alliance formed in 1974 by William Luther Pierce. Pierce had a doctorate in physics and in 1966 he quit a senior research position to work full-time as a publisher in George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party until Rockwell was killed by a party member in 1967. Pierce then joined the Youth for Wallace group for segregationist George Wallace’s 1968 presidential campaign. After Wallace lost, the youth campaign continued for four years under the name National Youth Alliance with Pierce taking control and asserting a neo-Nazi platform, renaming the group National Alliance in 1974.

The Turner Diaries, written under a pseudonym and self-published in 1978 by Pierce’s National Alliance, has fueled some of the last three decades’ most infamous outbreaks of extremist violence, including Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The book’s protagonist Earl Turner carries out orders for the Organization, an underground group struggling against the System, described as “an anti-white, anti-gun U.S. government that continually puts more restrictions on its citizens.” In the violent work of fiction, Turner and his militias kill Jewish shop owners and a Washington Post reporter before Turner flies a small plane with explosives into the Pentagon.

The Pacific Northwest Coordinator of National Alliance, Bob Mathews organized a real-life group called The Order, based on Pierce’s fictional one, in which they committed a series of actual armored truck robberies to help fund land purchases for National Alliance, and in 1984 two members of Mathews’ Order assassinated the Jewish attorney and radio talk show host Alan Berg in his Denver, Colorado driveway.

The book received larger attention in 1995, when pages were found in McVeigh’s car after his bombing that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City. McVeigh sold copies of Pierce’s book at gun shows across the country before detonating his truck bomb.

Pierce was savvy enough to not publicly revel in the news that his white separatist genocidal propaganda did exactly what he intended it to do, although he did sign his real name to the novel in later print and audio editions. Book sales went up, donations went up and he began using the money and notoriety to grow National Alliance into the largest neo-Nazi organization in North America with a conservative estimate of 1500 members in the U.S. and Canada making it larger in size and scope than his mentor’s American Nazi Party.

In the wake of William Pierce’s unexpected death in 2002, there was a contentious shakeup in leadership.

David Pringle, then a state chapter leader, was chosen to replace the national Membership Coordinator by the newly elected chairman Erich Gliebe, placing Pringle as his second-in-command.

Gliebe ran the Alliance’s record label, which in the late 1990s heyday of hate-rock was the most profitable of their ventures. One of the record label’s national socialist black metal musicians, Hendrik Möbus lived at the NA compound until he was arrested on an international warrant for murder in Germany. Pringle was the Alliance’s mouthpiece. In the Bulletin newsletters and press statements he called his predecessor, Billy Roper, brash and stupid. After the sudden firing, Roper subsequently pulled hundreds of members from National Alliance and started his own Arkansas neo-Nazi group. Roper, a former teacher was sought out and hired by Pierce and was part of what they considered to be an intellectual inner circle.

Gliebe and Pringle toured the country meeting with NA chapters to introduce themselves, provide training, and explain their vision of how to continue growing the Alliance.

Their plans saw quick backlash though as Gliebe was derided as un-Christian for dating a former Playboy model, and Pringle spoke plainly about his hate and didn’t couch it in palatable, neutral terms the press would print sympathetically.

Pringle said in a mass internal email that he believed Timothy McVeigh “should have a monument erected in his honor.” He went on: “I don’t feel any sympathy for the families of the 168, not the children, not the secretaries and definitely not the federal pigs.” The backlash wasn’t that other members disagreed with the sentiment to memorialize McVeigh, it was that by saying it in an official capacity would attract federal scrutiny.

David Pringle resigned in protest after two years as the Membership Coordinator in August of 2004 due to a complaint about mismanagement of business funds by the Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. In April 2005, an attempted coup against Gliebe caused the firing of Kevin Strom, the editor of the NA’s magazine and host of its radio show. Strom, Pringle and many other dissenting members formed National Vanguard, which continued selling neo-Nazi and “race science” books and magazines, including Pierce’s The Turner Diaries. For nearly a decade, the NA and NV were locked in civil litigations until 2014 when Erich Gliebe resigned and handed control over to Will Williams. This allowed for the reunification of the two group’s businesses and properties. The book store, record label, and Pringle’s gun manufacturing shop could all be reunited on the same 346-acre plot on top of a mountain in West Virginia.

Pringle made many visits to the compound during the Alliance/Vanguard split. He kept a foot in each camp as a kind of cypher. He entertained camp with songs in 2010.  He hosted David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK in 2016.

Pringle on guitar with federal ex-convict Chester Doles in the SS tank top.

In 2016, Pringle took on the Chief of Staff role, which included moving to the Mill Point, WV compound to secure the land and evict the small group claiming ownership.

“Chairman Williams asked me come here and secure the place. So I resigned from my very good job, working for people that I genuinely like and respect professionally and personally, to stop the trespassing and begin to repair the buildings, infrastructure, and get it ready for staff to return as we need them. And that is what I am doing.”

As Chief of Staff, Pringle maintained the land, worked with West Virginia state police to evict the holdover Gliebe-era residents, fulfill orders from book and music sales, host events, and build a gunsmithing shop Pringle named Disciple Machine and Precision. Pringle being a “Disciple” of Pierce’s tax-dodge attempt at a religion called Cosmotheology. The IRS denied the religious claim, and taxes for 346 acres are not likely cheap.

With fewer dues paying members and an inability to keep current in hate music, the once profitable media empire turned to crowdfunding on Hatreon, the Patreon alternative for racists. Pringle was begging for cash to “rebuild National Alliance” to his 98 followers on Twitter in November 2017

Ironic, when he tweeted this two weeks after the Unite the Right 2017. “If you belong to a political movement with no hammer … Better get used to being nailed. Over and over and over.”

Pringle planned to attend the deadly Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, but had broken his leg at the start of August. Which will fall apart faster, a rapidly aging neo-Nazi or his organization?

Pringle also has ties the Bundy Ranch and Arizona border militias. He attended a memorial service for one of the 2016 Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupiers Robert “LaVoy” Finicum held at Cliven Bundy Ranch. Finicum was shot while evading arrest after escaping an armed standoff with federal authorities. Reports say he attempted to draw his gun after yelling for cops to shoot him.

In 2014, Pringle was living in Yuma, Arizona and had ingratiated himself in militia border patrols that slash water bottles and act as heavily armed hall monitors.

Long-time federal informant, National Alliance New Jersey member and internet radio show host Hal Turner was purged from the group for calling on Gliebe to step down in 2005. In a 2009 trial where Turner was a witness, it was revealed that Turner had been an FBI informant for many years. Turner’s lawyer said, “I don’t think he was a racist. He was doing a lot of those things at the behest of the FBI.”