1/ Got white supremacy? Custom-made swastika rings are pretty much a giveaway. Meet Clyde Eldridge Brown and Kristina Nicole Horacek Olson Brown, @StCloud #Minnesota. @MNUnitedAF
2/. Content warning: racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim. Some of the worst we’ve seen. @AntifaGarfield @RedoubtAFA @AnonCommieStan @BonnotGalaxy
3/ Their story intersects w/ #AsatruFolkAssembly. For a while, they were the toast of the AsFA. Pictured w/ AsFA founder Stephen McNallen and his wife, current gythia Sheila McNallen. @scottkernest
4/ Then Kristina Horacek, she starts showing up in #AsatruFolkAssembly photos in early ’17. In back, gythia Anna Plourde, formerly of #Minnesota, now in #Florida.
5/ That same year, she protested ‘against sharia law’ at the #Minnesota capitol, telling @WCCO:
6/ As a matter of fact, Kristina, 37, is a Nazi, racist, Islamaphobe, bigot, misogynist. Here’s some of her handiwork. Note: the pair post under at least 20 social media identities. CW.
7/ Clyde, 46, is just as bad. CW. These pics represent a TINY fraction of what they've posted over the years.
8/ Brown spent most of 2000s in and out (mostly in) of TX prisons; crimes ranged from petty theft to aggravated robbery. Rap sheet goes back to ‘90s. It’s plausible they met as penpals; folkish groups encourage women to connect with imprisoned white sup men.
9/ He appears to have been paroled by ’18 and was soon in #Minnesota and the #AsatruFolkAssembly. (L-R): Gothi Trent East, no id, Clyde Brown, leader Matt Flavel, longtime AsFA Marc MacLeod, Cliff Erickson, board member.
10/ With Bryan Wilton (on/off AsFA, former gothi, #Minnesota), folkbuilder coordinator Jason Gallagher, MN, and Blaine Qualls, former AsFA gothi, now leading breakaway group in #NorthDakota.
11/ By early 2020, they’re largely out of the AsFA scene, but starting their own new groups including #Minnesota Folkish Pagans and Black Sun Tribe Project. Here, Clyde 'n Kristina celebrate Nazi efforts to breed appropriate women with SS officers.
12/ BST Project connects #Minnesota white sups with those in #Texas. Their now-defunct website shows #AsatruFolkAssembly folkbuilder Patrick W. Cook as the group’s official writer. Their TX pals are a who’s who of folkish white supremacists.
13/ BST Project is recognized as a hate group by @SPLC. So is #AsatruFolkAssembly. We believe these photos were taken in Clearwater, #Minnesota in '19 or '20.
14/ These days, Kristina makes videos & social media entries extolling the virtues of women, the weaker sex, being protected by men. Cuz, you know, bad guys.
15/ Irony alert! In ’17, Kristina voluntarily gave up her addiction counseling license after being caught sexting with a patient in a state-run addiction/mental health facility. Predatory stuff.
16/ He’s been arrested on about 20 charges, including multiple felonies, since moving to #Minnesota. He's been arrested for drunken driving 3 times in less than 10 months.
17/ According to MN public records, a court conference/sentencing is set for this summer.
18/18 There are better people in #StCloud and #Minnesota. We hope they prevail upon the better angels of their nature, to quote Lincoln. This gives us solemn hope.
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