Patriot Front

American white nationalist group

For the Argentinian political party, see Patriot Front (Argentina). For the defunct Australian far-right organization, see United Patriots Front.

Patriot Front

Predecessor| Vanguard America
Formation| August 2017; 8 years ago (August 2017)
Founder| Thomas Rousseau[1]
Type| Neo-fascism
Location|

* United States

Membership| 200 (est.) (2021)
Affiliations|

* The Daily Stormer[1]
* The Houston Goylers[1]
* The Whomsters[1]
* Rise Above Movement[2]
* National Justice Party[3][4]
* Active Club Network[5]

Website| patriotfront.us[6]
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History

* 1967 Greek coup d'état
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Patriot Front is an American white supremacist and neo-fascist hate group.[7] Part of the broader alt-right movement, the group split off from the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in 2017.[1][8][9][10] Patriot Front's aesthetic combines traditional Americana with fascist symbolism. Internal communications within the group indicated it had approximately 200 members as of late 2021.[11] According to the Anti-Defamation League, the group generated 82% of reported incidents in 2021 involving distribution of racist, antisemitic, and other hateful propaganda in the United States, comprising 3,992 incidents, in every continental state.[12]

## History and beliefs

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Patriot Front is led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who was a teenager when he founded the group. In 2017, Rousseau took control of Vanguard America's web and Discord server several weeks before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he participated as the leader of Vanguard America's contingent.[13][14] Following the bad press arising from the rally, Rousseau rebranded Vanguard America as Patriot Front, writing in a Discord message "Vanguard America, as you know it, will now be the "Patriots Front"", and that the focus and goals of the group would remain the same.[15] Rousseau has been arrested repeatedly in the group's activities.[16][17][18]

As with Vanguard America, Patriot Front supports a version of white-centered ideology compatible with the views of fascists across America, such as closed borders and authoritarian government. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "Patriot Front is a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it to them, and no one else."[1]

The group uses patriotic imagery to broaden its appeal while adding symbols like the fasces, the symbol of fascism. It uses attention-grabbing techniques like igniting smoke bombs during demonstrations and protests.[1] According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country."[19]

The group published a manifesto which contained passages including: "Those of foreign birth may occupy civil status within the lands occupied by the state, and they may even be dutiful citizens, yet they may not be American. Membership within the American nation is inherited through blood, not ink. Even those born in America may yet be foreign...Nationhood cannot be bestowed upon those who are not of the founding stock of our people, and those who do not share the common spirit that permeates our greater civilization, and the European diaspora...In order to survive as a culture, a heritage, and a way of being, our nation must learn that its collective interests are fighting against its collective threats of replacement and enslavement...The damage done to this nation and its people will not be fixed if every issue requires the approval and blessing from the dysfunctional American democratic system. Democracy has failed in this once great nation."[20][21]

The group's members consist of eight regional networks, and its recruitment is primarily done online. The group avoids talking about guns or violence online as a policy.

A 2019 investigation by ProPublica estimated the group had about 300 members;[22] in leaked chats at the end of 2021, Rousseau complained about a "220's to 230's membership rut".[11] According to the SPLC, as of 2021 Patriot Front was arguably the leading white supremacist group in the country, and the most active in using flyers for recruitment.[23][24] According to ProPublica, Rousseau and others in the group "delight in seeing their actions reflected in the SPLC's nationwide map recording acts of hate and in the media".[22]

## Activities and events

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A sticker from the Patriot Front on a road sign in Portland, Connecticut

Patriot Front's demonstrations, literature, and sometimes acts of service are "tightly choreographed and scripted to maximize propaganda value", according to the SPLC.[19] The ADL estimated that Patriot Front generated 82% of reported incidents of distributing racist, antisemitic and other hateful propaganda in the U.S. during 2021, and 80% in 2020.[12][25] According to leaked chats made public in January 2022, Patriot Front members are required to deface racial justice murals in their areas.[11]

### 2018

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On July 28, members of Patriot Front marched on an Occupy ICE protest in San Antonio, Texas, and filmed themselves vandalizing protestors' tents and signs.[26][27]

### 2019

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On February 13, hundreds of racist and anti-immigrant signs and flyers were taped up in the East Boston section of Boston, Massachusetts, an area with many immigrants. Patriot Front claimed responsibility. Boston mayor Marty Walsh denounced the incident. On February 15, Boston police arrested three Patriot Front members; two faced charges of carrying weapons, and one was charged with assault on a police officer after allegedly slapping an officer's hand.[28][29][30][31][32]

### 2020

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On February 8, about 100 Patriot Front members marched in Washington, D.C., along the National Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the US Capitol grounds, and then headed north to a Walmart near Washington Union Station. The marchers wore khakis, matching dark blue jackets, hats, full white face masks, and dark sunglasses, and carried Patriot Front and Betsy Ross flags.[33][34]

In August, during protests and counter-protests in Weatherford, Texas, over a Confederate statue, police arrested three men including Rousseau who had plastered stickers on signs, parks and property. They were charged with criminal mischief, jailed on a $500 bond and released.[35][36]

### 2021

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On January 29, a group of men wearing khaki pants, matching blue jackets with patches, and white face masks marched on the National Mall toward the US Capitol carrying flags with Patriot Front symbolism.[37]

On February 28, seven members of the Patriot Front, including Rousseau, were involved in a car crash. One member of the group died and Rousseau was seriously injured, requiring emergency surgery. The Utah Department of Public Safety determined that the Patriot Front's vehicle was speeding at the time of the crash.[38]

On July 10, two members were arrested for vandalism after being accused of spray-painting graffiti in Salem, Massachusetts.[39]

On December 4, more than 100 members of Patriot Front held a rally in downtown Washington, D.C., chanting "reclaim America", carrying flags and plastic shields and wearing uniforms consisting of white gaiters, sunglasses, blue jackets, khaki pants, brown boots and hats. Some wore plastic shin guards.[40]

### 2022

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In January, members of Patriot Front were seen at the 2022 March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C.[41]

On June 11, police arrested 31 members of Patriot Front they stopped inside a U-Haul truck near an LGBT Pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They were charged with conspiracy to riot. Rousseau was one of the members arrested.[42][18] An anonymous caller tipped off police when they saw the group of men climbing into a U-Haul after retrieving shields from the back of a truck.[43] The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office released the mugshots and names of all 31 arrested, who were from at least 11 states.[44][45] After the arrests, the Coeur d'Alene police chief said the police department received death and doxxing threats.[46] By June 13, all 31 members were released on bail.[47] Court documents stated police had recovered a typed document that detailed the group's goal and planning for the day.[43] As of February 2023[update], one member had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to riot (he was fined $500 and sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation), three members failed to appear thus had bench warrants issued, and various others had jury trials scheduled.[48] Rousseau was granted a continuance, with his pre-trial appearance moved from May to September 2023.[49] Five group members were convicted of misdemeanor conspiracy to riot on July 20, 2023, and the next day sentenced to five days in jail, credited for two days already served, plus $1,000 fines and one year of probation.[50][51]

On July 2, about 100 masked members with shields and a banner marched through Boston, with stops at the Boston Public Library and Old State House building.[52][53][54] Police said one man was injured in a confrontation with Patriot Front members.[55] This incident led to a lawsuit which resulted in a federal judge ordering the group to pay damages of over $2.7 million in January 2025.[56]

### 2023

[edit]

In April, the group protested at the "SatanCon" event of The Satanic Temple, held in Boston.[57] In May, the group marched at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.[58][59]

Five members of the group filed a federal lawsuit in June against an alleged leftist activist they said had infiltrated the group and publicly disclosed their identities—the plaintiffs alleged they lost jobs, incomes and family relationships as a result.[60] Two members had been arrested in connection with the 2022 conspiracy to riot at a pride event in Coeur d'Alene; one was subsequently convicted and sentenced for his role.[50]

### 2024

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On April 27 in Charleston, West Virginia, about 100 Patriot Front members exited U-Haul trucks in Daniel Boone Park and marched to the capitol building in front of the statue of Stonewall Jackson located on Kanawha Boulevard and California Street. The group carried numerous Patriot Front flags and a banner and members chanted and attempted to hand out propaganda fliers. They wore white masks to obscure their faces, khaki pants, dark blue polo shirts, and hats. Many included sunglasses with their uniforms. The Charleston Police Department remained close by to ensure the people of Charleston's safety and the march ended without incident. This demonstration happened on the same day that YWCA Charleston hosted a Race to End Racism event. Charleston's mayor, Amy Goodwin, responded to the unexpected demonstration by noting, "It is important for our community to celebrate coming together and stand up against hate. When our city team learned of a national hate group demonstrating earlier today, we acted quickly and appropriately to make sure all in our community remained safe."[61]

In July 2024, Patriot Front, the Goyim Defense League, and other white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations handed out flyers, asked passersby if they were Jewish, and disrupted a City Council meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, waving large Confederate flags. In response, the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville organized a peace rally, drawing about 400 participants.[62]

### 2025

[edit]

Members of the group in January 2025

On January 13, 2025, a federal judge ordered Patriot Front to pay approximately $2.7 million ($755,000 in damages and $2 million in punitive damages) to Charles M. Murrel III for violating his civil rights.[56] The group was alleged to have attacked Murrel, a black man, on July 2, 2022, during a march by the group in Boston.[56] No individual was charged in relation to the incident.[56]

On January 24, the Patriot Front marched next to the annual March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C.[63] On February 22, about a dozen Patriot Front members rallied near the Massachusetts State House in Boston, apparently as a counter-protest to a group that was protesting police brutality.[64]

Following the flash flooding that occurred at Camp Mystic and its surrounding areas in early July, the Patriot Front claimed it was participating in disaster relief efforts and distributing aid to survivors. In a video posted to the group’s official Telegram channel, Rousseau stated they were “in central Texas, responding to the flooding, which has destroyed communities and taken the lives of scores of Americans.” He stated they were prioritizing "European peoples" when determining who would receive aid.[65]

## Leaked online chats

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On January 21, 2022, Unicorn Riot, a left-wing nonprofit media organization, published more than 400 gigabytes of leaked audio files, chat logs, documents, photographs and videos from Patriot Front's chat server.[11][66] The leak revealed the group's efforts to recruit new members and increase its public profile through private communications on Rocket.chat, an open-source messaging platform.[67]

The chat logs showed the group struggled to expand membership, often reprimanding members for not meeting fitness and participation requirements, according to The Guardian. In a conversation with Patriot Front "lieutenants" on December 14, 2021, Rousseau wrote, "We are absolutely desperate for new people. We've been in the 220's to 230's membership rut for nearly a full year."[11][68]

The communications revealed the group attempted to inflate its membership numbers and importance; outlined plans to spread misinformation about public events on social media sites, such as Twitter, Reddit and 4chan, and send deceptive news tips to journalists at traditional media outlets; and detailed notes of interviews with potential members.[11] The leak also included media of members training, vandalizing, and demonstrating; Rousseau at a 2021 American Renaissance conference; and Patriot Front's guides to behavior.[69]

In August 2023, five Patriot Front affiliated individuals filed a lawsuit against an alleged member of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club for the infiltration, demanding punitive damages and claiming the disclosure of their identities cost them their jobs.[70]

## False flag conspiracies

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In May 2023, some commentators, including Joe Rogan, suggested without evidence that the organization was an FBI sting operation or false flag by Antifa.[71][72] Such claims have been debunked as conspiracy theories,[71] and labelled as "False" by fact-checkers Snopes.[73] In December 2023, X (Twitter) owner Elon Musk contributed to the speculation, replying to a user who described the group as "Fed Front" and echoing the user's question as to why group members who were arrested did not have their masks removed by police.[74][75]

## See also

[edit]

* politics portal

* Fascism in the United States
* List of neo-Nazi organizations
* List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups
* List of white nationalist organizations

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## Further reading

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* Bogna, John (December 21, 2017). "White supremacist group reportedly becoming more active in its home state". Rare. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
* Griffith, Jessica; Elizabeth Robertson (July 4, 2021). "White Supremacists March in Philadelphia on the Eve of July 4th". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
* Olmos, Sergio (December 22, 2021). "Why US far-right groups are shifting their focus to local communities". The Guardian.
* Ortiz, Al (December 20, 2017). "Report Warns About New White Supremacist Group Increasing Activity In Texas". Houston Public Media. Retrieved December 23, 2017.

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* WorldNetDaily

Memes|

* "Basket of deplorables"
* "Beta male"
* "Cuckservative"
* Fashwave
* Happy Merchant
* "It's okay to be white"
* Moon Man
* NPC
* OK gesture
* "Owning the libs"
* Pepe the Frog
* "Red pill and blue pill"
* Right Wing Death Squad
* "Remove Kebab"
* "Shadilay"
* "Snowflake"
* "Social justice warrior"
* Trash Doves
* Triple parentheses
* Undercut

Groups|

* AltRight Corporation
* American Freedom Party
* Anti-Communist Action
* The Base
* Deplorable Pride
* Diagolon
* Groypers
* Hundred-Handers
* Identity Evropa (defunct)
* Les Identitaires
* National Policy Institute
* Patriot Front
* Patriot Prayer
* Proud Boys
* Rise Above Movement
* Traditionalist Worker Party (defunct)
* Vanguard America
* Washington Summit Publishers

Events|

| Incidents|

* Berkeley protests
* Comicsgate
* DeploraBall
* End Domestic Terrorism rally
* Gamergate
* Macron e-mail leaks
* Unite the Right rally
* Unite the Right 2

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Attacks|

* Assault of DeAndre Harris
* Charlottesville car attack
* Christchurch mosque shootings
* Murder of Blaze Bernstein
* Murder of Timothy Caughman
* Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
* Portland train attack

Lists|

* Timeline of activities involving the Proud Boys

People|

* James Allsup
* Andrew Anglin
* Andrew "weev" Auernheimer
* Steve Bannon
* Theodore "Vox Day" Beale
* Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin
* Owen Benjamin
* Peter Brimelow
* Christopher Cantwell
* Mike Cernovich
* Alain de Benoist
* John Derbyshire
* Jack Donovan
* David Duke
* Mike Enoch
* Guillaume Faye
* Haakon Forwald
* Daniel Friberg
* Nick Fuentes
* Jean-François Gariépy
* Ben Garrison
* Austin "Augustus Sol Invictus" Gillespie
* Tim "Baked Alaska" Gionet
* Jim Goad
* Faith Goldy
* Paul Gottfried
* Matthew Heimbach
* Michael A. Hoffman II
* Sam Hyde
* Dillon Irizarry
* Charles C. Johnson
* Greg Johnson
* William Daniel Johnson
* Alex Jones
* Jason Jorjani
* Ruuben Kaalep
* Tom Kawcyznski
* Jason Kessler
* Douglas Murray
* Steve King
* Elliott Kline
* Nick Land
* Lana Lokteff
* Laura Loomer
* Norman Lowell
* Kevin MacDonald
* Jeremy MacKenzie
* Stephen McNallen
* Merlin Miller
* Stephen Miller
* Stefan Molyneux
* Paul Nehlen
* Paul "GypsyCrusader" Nicholas Miller
* Ethan Nordean
* Jack Posobiec
* Bronze Age Pervert
* Paul Ray Ramsey
* William Regnery II
* Colin "Millennial Woes" Robertson
* Thomas Rousseau
* Steve Sailer
* Martin Sellner
* Lauren Southern
* Richard B. Spencer
* Brett Stevens
* Jared Taylor
* Tila Tequila
* Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh
* Paul Joseph Watson
* Lucian Wintrich
* Curtis Yarvin
* Milo Yiannopoulos

Opposition
and
criticism|

| People|

* Antifa
* Steven "Destiny" Bonnell II
* Ian "Vaush" Kochinski
* Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis
* Ian "Innuendo Studios" Danskin
* Robert Evans
* Emily Gorcenski
* Daryle Lamont Jenkins
* Angela Nagle
* David Neiwert
* Shaun
* Abigail "Philosophy Tube" Thorn
* Natalie "ContraPoints" Wynn
* Donna Zuckerberg

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Media|

* Alt-America
* Angry Goy II
* Culture Warlords
* Devil's Bargain
* Feels Good Man
* I Don't Speak German
* It Came from Something Awful
* Kill All Normies
* Knowledge Fight
* White Right: Meeting the Enemy

* v
* t
* e

Neo-Nazism

Groups|

| Extant|

| Europe|

* Albanian Third Position
* Autonome Nationalisten
* British Movement
* Combat 18
* Dutch People's Union
* Ethnic National Union
* Golden Dawn
* Kohti Vapautta!
* Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia
* National Alliance
* National Socialism / White Power
* National Socialist Movement of Denmark
* Nipsters
* Nordic Resistance Movement
* November 9th Society
* Order of Nine Angles
* Republic Movement
* The III. Path
* The Homeland
* Vigrid

|

Americas|

* American Front
* Anti-Communist Action
* Aryan Brotherhood
* Aryan Freedom Network
* Aryan Guard
* Aryan Nations
* The Barnes Review
* Creativity
* Hammerskins/Hammerskin Nation and Crew 38
* Imperial Klans of America
* Keystone United
* National Socialist Movement (United States)
* National Vanguard
* NSDAP/AO (1972)
* Patriot Front
* Rise Above Movement
* Vanguard America
* White Aryan Resistance

International|

* Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
* Antipodean Resistance
* Atomwaffen Division
* The Base
* Black Order
* Blood & Honour
* Lads Society
* Misanthropic Division
* National Socialism Association
* National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party
* Tsagaan Khas
* World Union of National Socialists

Defunct|

| Germany
and Austria|

* Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists
* Artgemeinschaft
* Deutsche Reichspartei
* Free German Workers' Party
* Gesinnungsgemeinschaft der Neuen Front
* German Alternative
* German Heathen Front
* German Social Union
* The Immortals
* Landig Group
* National Democratic Party (Austria)
* Nationalist Front (Germany)
* National Offensive
* National Socialist Underground
* The Right
* Socialist Reich Party
* Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit
* Weisse Wölfe Terrorcrew
* Wolfsbrigade 44
* Wiking-Jugend

|

Europe|

* Avanguardia Nazionale
* Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw
* Boot Boys
* Bosnian Movement of National Pride
* CEDADE
* European Liberation Front
* Fédération d'action nationale et européenne
* Format18
* French and European Nationalist Party
* Heathen Front
* Nacionalni stroj
* National Action
* National Socialist Action Party
* National Socialist Front
* National Socialist Irish Workers Party
* National Socialist Movement (UK)
* National Socialist Movement of Norway
* Russian National Socialist Party
* Nordic Realm Party
* Norwegian Front
* Norwegian Germanic Army
* Order of Flemish Militants
* Party of the Danes
* Party of the Swedes
* Pax Hungarica Movement
* Patriot of Ukraine
* Slavic Union
* Social-National Assembly
* Russian National Union
* Russian National Unity
* Volkspartei der Schweiz
* White Aryan Resistance (Sweden)
* Workers' Party

Americas|

* American Nazi Party
* Aryan Republican Army
* Canadian Nazi Party
* The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
* Heritage Front
* Identity Evropa
* National Alliance
* National Renaissance Party
* National Socialist Party of America
* National Socialist League
* National Socialist Liberation Front
* National Unity Party of Canada
* Nationalist Front (United States)
* The Order
* Traditionalist Worker Party
* White Revolution

International|

* Australian National Socialist Party
* Australia First Party
* Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging
* European Australian Movement
* Iron March
* National Action (Australia)
* National Socialist Party of Australia
* National Socialist Party of New Zealand
* New Triumph Party
* Patrol 36
* Rhodesian White People's Party
* SUMKA
* Unit 88
* United Patriots Front

People|

| Germany
and Austria|

* Bela Ewald Althans
* Philip Hassler
* Michael Kühnen
* Gottfried Küssel
* Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe
* Horst Mahler
* Otto Ernst Remer
* Manfred Roeder
* Horst Rosenkranz
* Fritz Rössler
* Hans-Ulrich Rudel
* Christian Worch
* Ernst Zündel

|

Europe|

* Gaston-Armand Amaudruz
* Alexander Barkashov
* Anders Behring Breivik
* Mark Collett
* Nicky Crane
* Léon Degrelle
* Savitri Devi
* Françoise Dior
* Ian Stuart Donaldson
* Bert Eriksson
* Haakon Forwald
* Jef François
* Franco Freda
* Mark Fredriksen
* Joop Glimmerveen
* István Győrkös
* David Irving
* Colin Jordan
* Virginia Kapić
* Konstantin Kasimovsky
* Constant Kusters
* Norman Lowell
* Klas Lund
* Jacques de Mahieu
* Maxim Martsinkevich
* Michael McLaughlin
* Tim Mudde
* Mindaugas Murza
* David Myatt
* Jack Renshaw
* Povl Riis-Knudsen
* Florentine Rost van Tonningen
* Simon Sheppard
* Pekka Siitoin
* Michiel Smit
* Paul van Tienen
* John Tyndall
* Fredrik Vejdeland
* Siegfried Verbeke
* Varg Vikernes
* Martin Webster

Americas|

* Karl Allen
* Curtis Allgier
* Andrew Anglin
* Andrew Auernheimer
* Louis Beam
* Don Black
* William John Beattie
* Salvador Borrego
* George Burdi
* Dan Burros
* Richard Girnt Butler
* Christopher Cantwell
* Willis Carto
* Craig Cobb
* Frank Collin
* Harold Covington
* Peter Cvjetanovic
* Alex Curtis
* David Duke
* James Ellison
* Michael Peinovich
* Leo Felton
* Ralph Perry Forbes
* Roy Frankhouser
* Joseph Paul Franklin
* Christopher Paul Hasson
* Paul Fromm
* Anthime Gionet
* Erich Gliebe
* Joshua Ryne Goldberg
* Matthew F. Hale
* Matthew Heimbach
* Heath Hitler
* Dillon Irizarry
* Arthur J. Jones
* Wyatt Kaldenberg
* Jason Kessler
* Matt Koehl
* August Kreis III
* Robert E. Kuttner
* David Lane
* Gary Lauck
* Daniel Lewis Lee
* Alex Linder
* Patrick Little
* James H. Madole
* Clark Martell
* James Mason
* Robert Jay Mathews
* Tom Metzger
* Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
* Eustace Mullins
* John Patler
* William Luther Pierce
* J. T. Ready
* Bill Riccio
* Jacob D. Robida
* George Lincoln Rockwell
* Dylann Roof
* Brandon Russell
* Gary Schipper
* Hans Schmidt
* Miguel Serrano
* Richard B. Spencer
* Frank Spisak
* Kevin Alfred Strom
* Rocky Suhayda
* Tila Tequila
* H. Keith Thompson
* Joseph Tommasi
* Terry Tremaine
* Russell Veh
* Bill White
* Francis Parker Yockey

Other|

* Kerry Bolton
* Kyle Chapman
* Blair Cottrell
* Neil Erikson
* Jacob Hersant
* Colin King-Ansell
* Davud Monshizadeh
* Jarrad Searby
* Thomas Sewell
* Eugène Terre'Blanche
* Jack van Tongeren

Literature|

* 21 Paths to the Kingdom of Darkness
* The Daily Stormer
* Défense de l'Occident
* Defiance
* Hunter
* Impeachment of Man
* The Lightning and the Sun
* National Socialist World
* Revue d'histoire du fascisme
* Serpent's Walk
* Siege
* The Stormtrooper Magazine
* The Turner Diaries
* White Resistance Manual

Other|

* Ethnic Cleansing
* Metapedia
* Renegade
* Resistance Records
* The Right Stuff
* StoneToss
* Stormfront
* White power skinheads

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