Thread by @afainatl

NEW: We're exposing Martin Christopher Rojas as racist propagandist "Chris Roberts" of American Renaissance.

Rojas is an important behind-the-scenes player in the white power movement. He is the only current AmRen employee that had not been publicly IDed.
atlantaantifa.org/2021/02/25/mar…

Martin Rojas has used at least 7 pen names when writing for far-Right & white nationalist sites:

Chris Roberts
Hubert Collins
Gilbert Cavanaugh
Nathan Doyle
Albert Emory
Benjamin Villaroel
Linda Preston

We discuss Rojas' pen names in a companion article:
atlantaantifa.org/2021/02/25/mar…

In his eight years+ of writing, Rojas has published more than five hundred pieces on anti-immigrant, white nationalist, and far-Right websites.

Over 300 of these are on American Renaissance, under "Chris Roberts" and other pen names.

While living near Washington DC, Rojas was active in Alt-Right circles while also moving in the Beltway libertarian & conservative worlds.

Rojas worked for the conservative Leadership Institute from 2015 to mid-2016.

LI has a history of employing & training white nationalists.

After the Leadership Institute, Rojas joined American Renaissance as a full-time "Director of Special Projects" in July 2016.

AmRen is a major "suit-and-tie" white nationalist propaganda operation.

Rojas worked for AmRen until October 2016. He rejoined AmRen staff in Nov 2019.

Between his stretches at American Renaissance, Martin Rojas continued writing for racist websites.

Here's Rojas as "Hubert Collins" on Counter-Currents -- another white nationalist site -- with articles looking back on his time canvassing for Trump in VA.

For part of 2018 and again after 2019 time in Chile, Martin Rojas was in Atlanta.

While here, Rojas helped attorney & longtime white power leader Sam Dickson with his efforts in ATL real estate.

Earlier article on Sam Dickson & Atlanta property market:

https://twitter.com/submedia/status/902945537107701761

Also while living in Atlanta, Martin Rojas wrote for the racist & anti-immigrant VDare site as "Nathan Doyle", about his efforts canvassing for Brian Kemp.

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1054837340496187393

In 2019, Rojas lived in Chile teaching English - his father is from Chile & Rojas grew up in a bilingual household. Rojas now has Chilean citizenship.

Rojas built links with the Chilean far-Right org "Fuerza Nacional-Identitaria".

He writes about Chile as "Benjamin Villaroel".

Hey @DynamicEnglish1, this guy who worked for you in 2019 is an active white nationalist.

In retrospect, there were warning signs in his podcast interview.

Interesting bit for those who follow fascist variants of ecology / attempts to co-opt eco-movements:

As "Hubert Collins", Martin Rojas did a two-part interview w/ deep ecologist Derrick Jensen that appeared on the white nationalist Counter-Currents site.

https://twitter.com/RoseCityAntifa/status/1194043834516332546