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1. For a long time I wondered who Shane Long was. He was always around Identity Dixie members on Facebook. Turns out he's a commercial airline pilot and was/is in multiple hate groups.
2. There were other images including ones with the Identity Dixie magnolia and another piloting a small plane, but "Shane Long" is very common and he never interested me enough to invest the amount of time I'd need to sift through endless search results.
3. Recently I discovered he publicly posted the obit for his grandmother. In it he was listed as Capt J Shane Long.
4. Whoever wrote the obit really made it easy. Thank you and condolences.
5. From there it wasn't hard to find Jonathan Shane Long, who was employed by @piedmontair, which is owned by @AmericanAir.
6. Shane's location is hard to pin down because it appears he has moved regularly, but the Mid-Atlantic is his main stomping ground.
7. That DoD security clearance part is going to be a problem later. So, let's get into it.
8. In 2013 Matthew Heimbach attempted to start a "White Student Union at Towson University.
9. Vice made a documentary about it and "Shayne", who was Chairman of the Maryland League of the South" was there supporting Heimbach.
10. At one point in the video Jonathan Shane Long says a prayer for Heimbach then goes with him on a patrol looking for crime. The implication in the documentary was that it's minority crime they're hunting for.
11. You can watch it here:
12. By 2015 Jonathan Shane Long was Chairman of the Maryland-Virginia League of the South.
30. What I'm getting here is that Jonathan Shane Long, who is a pilot for @piedmontair@AmericanAir, has spent a full 10 years in hate groups or surrounded by hate group members. He's a lifer.
31. Do the passengers at @piedmontair@AmericanAir know they might be having a multiple hate group lifer racist flying them around? Well, they do now.
32. I'm curious if this diversity messaging is talk or truth.
33. I don't know if Jonathan Shane Long is still a member of Identity Dixie or League of the South currently, but based on his past member and present associations, does it even matter?
1. Chris Monzon made news recently for being attacked while canvassing for Marco Rubio. Here I'll present old FB posts from him that I haven't seen in the reporting and other new info on him. Starting with some rare photos of Chris.
2. I've highlighted some text I found important, but much of what isn't is also important. After reading hundreds of his posts from 2010-2015 I was stunned and I was well aware of Christopher Monzon aka Chris Cedeno. HUGE Content Warning.
3. He believes murdering black people isn't just justifiable; it's the path to heaven.
1. Another #IgniteTheRight thread identifying yet another UTR attendee. Meet Identity Dixie member Ryan Charles Tuggle, last known to reside in St. Augustine, FL.
2. Ryan used to go by "Braxton Bragg on Facebook and Twitter. He deleted everything when he was exposed as an identity dixie member 2 years ago.
What's new is confirming his attendance at UTR.
3. Ryan Tuggle attended the August 11, 2017 tiki torch "Jews will not replace us" march on the University of Virginia. In the photo on the right you can see Ryan on the far right, almost off frame.
1. I'm happier than a cottonmouth under a log to introduce you to Marshall Clayton Rawson and his wife Megan Elise Rawson of North Florida. The attended the deadly 2017 UniteTheRight rally in Charlottesville, VA with League of the South.
2. Marshall has been with the League of the South hate group for closing in on a decade. His faithful wife has been beside him nearly the whole time. Let's meet them.
3. We've been sitting on this one for a spell, so make yourself a mint julep and rest your bones under a shady magnolia while we lay this one out for you.
1. White supremacists work in nearly every profession in America. Some jobs make their beliefs much more dangerous: Cops, military personnel, teachers, and healthcare professionals are among the most problematic.
2. In professions like those, the ability for racists and bigots to translate their beliefs into great damage is outsized.
Tonight I must put a bright light one one such person. Meet former Identity Dixie member Lauren Wendy Blasco.
3. Lauren Wendy Blasco was the Identity Dixie member that created the Florida chapter, named "Florida Crackers".
1. I'm happier than an alligator on a river log to introduce you to White Plains, MD fascist Hitler-loving farmer and possible Identity Dixie member George Calvin DeMarr(approx 37).
2. I can't prove George DeMarr was in Identity Dixie, but he loves their memes, likes Musonius Rufus, and used the Identity Dixie magnolia on his Facebook page.
Regardless of his status with them, he deserves this.
3. George really didn't make it hard to tie his accounts together.
1. By the beginning of March 2017 three former @txst students affiliated with @YALTxSt joined the TX Facebook chat of Identity Dixie called Lone Star Hate, including their recent past President @EnzoQuesada5
2. The Facebook chat was started by Identity Dixie founder and leader Bret Keylon Lynn aka Musonius Rufus right before the broke out from TRS. Identity Dixie is an SPLC listed hate group.
3. Bret Lynn was host of the TRS Confederates podcast called Rebel Yell. TRS Confederates broke off from TRS around the 20th of January 2017 to form Identity Dixie.