Thread by @FashFreeNW

Unfortunately it is time again to shine some sunlight on one of Montana’s nazis
Meet Trenin Bayless, a PhD post-doc researcher at Montana Tech, Republican running for state legislature, and very active neo-nazi who most commonly goes by “TurnCoat”
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The individual “TurnCoat” showed up on Montana anti hate researchers radar early 2022 when he joined the WLM Telegram chat. WLM is an explicit neo-Nazi hate group splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

At first folks didn’t think much of it, but after latter looking again at “TurnCoat” it became clear he was far more active than the average internet white nationalist.
He’s active on Gab, Poast, Substack, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, Telegram to name just a few.

But more than the typical racist internet troll, he’s very active in the movement. He’s written for Antelope Hill and White People Press (award winning fiction by white nationalist standards, but actually just extremely cliche knockoffs of Hollywood films with a fascist twist).

By far the most concerning thing about Tuencoat is that he’s also a contributor for the neonazi accelerationist outlet American Futurist. While AF has become a joke as of late, when he was writing for them they were the main outlet for white-power terror ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-…

Being listed alongside James Mason and Brandon Russell is extremely incriminating. Even in neonazi circles, these are the most extreme of the advocates for white power terror. These are the people who crave death and destruction, who want to achieve mass casualty events

American Futurist is dedicated to helping white power fanatics achieve terror without making mistakes (i.e getting caught). And the articles Turncoat aka Trenin Bayless wrote for them were focused towards this goal. They want collapse and chaos splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…

This association with AF was more than enough to concern researchers, who started looking more into who “Turncoat” was and what was found was even more concerning.
While most Terrorgram types don’t even know how to brush their teeth, Turncoat emphasizes that he has a PhD

In fact, “Turncoat” talks a lot about his PhD and almost all of his social media contains reference to how he’s highly educated in his bios.
He even clarified in a Telegram chat that his degree is in physical materials engineering

It goes without saying that it is extremely concerning that someone who is a listed contributor to American Futurist alongside Seige author James Mason and convicted domestic terrorist Brandon Russell, is also someone with a PhD that would have access to laboratory spaces.

Unfortunately this was not one of the many instances where the Nazi was lying online. Turncoat aka Trenin Bayless does in-fact have a PhD and is listed on the Montana Tech website as a Post Doc Researcher

But how do we know Turncoat the accelerationist nazi is Trenin Bayless the PhD researcher?
Fortunately there were just enough clues scattered around to verify this without a doubt

Turncoat not only mentioned the PhD, but some good old Nazi drama revealed the next clue. Turncoat was kicked out of the National Socialist Movement Telegram that for having an Asian wife
Quite frankly a Nazi with a PhD and an Asian wife really narrows down the list of potentials

Turncoat also makes very cringe videos online where he LARPs as if in a video game. Make no mistake, this is militant training disguised as nerd LARPing.
It doesn’t matter that he is a bad shot, any pro violent, pro social colapse fascist with a high power gun is a threat

These videos are embarrassing, but they also happen to feature “Turncoat” and his Asian wife (she is an active participant in these neofascist activities and even went to the movie theater with these Nazis, though they made her sit in a different row)

So, going through the list of recent materials engineering PhD graduates, there was one who stood out as matching with “Turncoat.” Note the indent in the ear and the droopy eye lid. So the neonazi Turncoat and the PhD researcher Trenin Bayless look like the same person

And there is more. Trenin Bayless thanked his wife (whose parents live in China according to their son’s birth announcement), and Bayless’ wife is referred to by an alt name MacSidhe. MacSidhe is also the last name used by Turncoat on one of his neo-Nazi social media accounts.

And yes, there is even more to prove the accelerationist neo-Nazi Turncoat is Trenin Bayless:
They both drive exactly the same vehicles. A blue Yamaha motorcycle and a black Chevy Silverado. Both featured in Turncoat’s videos and on Google maps outside Trenin Bayless’ house

Funny thing, because Trenin Bayless is running for state legislature (Republican Party, seat 74), he submitted his address into the public record. So it was easy to verify in person that Trenin Bayless’s truck had the same window sticker as the truck in Turncoat’s fash videos

This brings us to another very concerning thing: Trenin Bayless is attempting to infiltrate the Republican Party so he can push a White Nationalist, fascist agenda and he’s called for other fascists to do the same. For him, the Republican Party is a means to an end. @MTGOP

I know the GOP has moved further to the right over the past decade, but I would be shocked if the Republicans in Montana supported one of their candidates being an active neo-Nazi who supports the Taliban and advocates for studying explosive manuals and chemical warfare

Speaking of, Trenin Bayless really seems to like the idea of chemical warfare. In a post praising the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Bayless responds to a sceptic by calling for the use of chemical weapons. Like other accelerationist Nazis, Trenin Bayless is a supporter of eco-fascism

And this brings us really to the most concerning thing about Trenin Bayless: he is not just connected to domestic terrorist (via AF) and supports chemical and explosive warfare, but he he has access to restricted labs which contain dangerous chemicals and materials for explosives

Everyone one at Montana Tech and in the larger materials science and metallurgy community, academic and professional, needs to expel this fascist. He’s a clown, but if recent history has shown anything is that pathetic racist with guns (or explosives and chemicals) are dangerous

It is very alarming that Trenin Bayless wrote in American Futurist that grad students should be targeted for recruitment into the white nationalist movement. And that one of his jobs is managing grad students.
This predator behavior seems counter to MT Tech’s diversity statement

Trenin Bayless does what he says he advocates for. He calls for infiltrating GOP. He’s running for office as a Republican. He calls for targeting grad students, he manages grad students. He also wants to purge the departments at the school and is printing 3D guns

If the name Trenin Bayless sounds familiar to anyone in Missoula it is likely because him and his friend Garret Morrill were alt-right racist and sexist troll on campus back in 2017 time period

And that leads to yet another thing Trenin Bayless has done that he advocates for: helping fellow Nazis get into positions within government.
Trenin Bayless calls for Nazis to get into government and then hire fellow Nazis. Trenin Bayless worked in MT Office of Public Instruction

The fact that Trenin Bayless was working in the Office of Public Instruction with his pal and fellow racist Garret Morrill really raises questions about his call that Nazis should hire each other into positions of government. For the records, Bayless no longer works for OPI

And this leads finally into Trenin Bayless’ connections with the neo-Nazi hate group white lives matter. As mentioned at the beginning, Bayless’ alt account Turncoat joined the WLM chat in 2022. But it turns out he is close friends with a few of the WLM leaders.

After the Montana WLM leader Cleetus aka Sebastian Campbell went to prison, Trenin Bayless’ close friend “Unelectable” really wanted to be the new WLM leader (yes that same Unelectable whose the exhausting ‘Debate Me’ twitter troll)

It’s not just the wanna be leader of WLM “unelectable” that Trenin Bayless is friends with. He is also friends with Cleetus aka Sebastian Campbell and even went to visit him in the spooky, haunted Old St James Hospital where Cleetus was squatting prior to his prison term.

It is without a doubt that PhD researcher Trenin Bayless is the same person as WLM-MT nazi, American Futurist contributor accelerationist “Turncoat”.
Montana Tech needs to expel this nazi immediately for the safety of everyone at the university. The MT GOP should do likewise

There are action items in this article (yes it’s long, but just imagine all the gross white nationalist brain rot things that weren’t included). And action items will be updated on this thread fashfreenw.noblogs.org/trenin-bayless…

Extra special thanks to @SunlightAFA and @SCResearchClub for their assistance with editing and archiving and tracking this fascists friend group and saving all the info. And a huge shout out the the anonymous Montana anti fascist and anti hate community. Solidarity🖤

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