Thread by @afainatl

(THREAD) Shaun Walker once led the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization.

In 2006, Walker & associates were arrested for racially-motivated attacks in Salt Lake City.

We've traced Walker to Ontario, Canada, where he's a grassroots activist w/ the People's Party of Canada.

Shaun Walker took over leadership of National Alliance from Erich Gliebe in late April 2005. At that time, Gliebe was receiving heavy criticism for his mismanagement of the declining organization.

Walker's leadership of NA ended with his June 06 arrest for Salt Lake City attacks

Article on Walker's hate crime conviction in 2007.
deseret.com/2007/4/21/2001…

In 2009, Walker's sentence was reduced following an appeal.
deseret.com/2009/7/23/2033…

Walker was released later that year.

Here's Shaun Walker's opinion of Adolf Hitler, from when he was with the National Alliance.

If you've been looking at our Twitter recently, you've probably seen something about Chester Doles, a white supremacist in north Georgia who used to lead the National Alliance for our state.

Doles is organizing a far-Right rally in Dahlonega, GA, Sept.14.

https://twitter.com/afainatl/status/1162438794966110209

As part of promoting his rally, Chester Doles is reaching out to other ex-members of the National Alliance.

Here's Doles reaching out to his "former NA friends" about the Dahlonega rally. Screencap is from website of Billy Roper, another ex-NA neo-Nazi.

On Facebook, Chester Doles makes a special appeal to "Shawn W" to attend the Dahlonega rally, writing on August 3rd: "I need you to stand with me [...] join me old friend."

(Of course, this does not mean Walker will actually make the trip to Georgia.)

Doles' Facebook friend Shaun Walker resembles former National Alliance leader Shaun Walker.

Shaun Walker describes his background image on FB as "a vineyard in Vineland, Ontario, near Niagara Falls".

Facebook "likes" include Martin Cox, a neo-Nazi rock musician. One of Martin Cox's bands released music on Resistance Records in 2006 - a label owned by National Alliance.

This same person has an UpWork profile, giving his location as St. Catharines (which is near Vineland).

He states that he works as a winemaker and vineyard manager.

None of this would matter if Shaun Walker had left the white power movement.

However, Walker broadcasts his worldview on Twitter, where he rails against immigrants, promotes the myth of white "genocide" in South Africa, and supports the white nationalist "Identitarian" movement.

Walker was also a supporter of Faith Goldy's unsuccessful run for mayor of Toronto last year.

Goldy is Alt-Right white nationalist. More info on Goldy:rightwingwatch.org/post/canadian-…

Online databases show that Shaun Alan Walker - the ex-National Alliance leader - lived in Napa, California as well as Salt Lake City UT and in West Virginia near the National Alliance headquarters. Napa CA is known for its vineyards.

This matches Walkers' statements on Twitter

Oddly, Shaun Walker's account on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte has seemingly incorrect biographical information, as though he grew up in Ontario.

It is unclear why this was done.

The profile on Facebook is linked to family members of (neo-Nazi) Shaun Alan Walker.

Recently, Shaun Walker has been active in with the People's Party of Canada, a Right-wing populist party with anti-immigrant stances. Walker helped establish the local Party group for the PPC in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Do they know Walker's history as violent neo-Nazi leader?

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