It's to be called Sigrheim. Land has for it has been purchased at an undisclosed location in east-central #Tennessee. #AsatruFolkAssembly leader #MattFlavel describes it as app 1 1/2 hrs east of #Nashville.
For those who've not heard of them, #AsatruFolkAssembly is recognized as a hate group by the @splcenter. For good reason. This is their founder, Steve McNallen, who remains active and revered in the group. @KnoxvilleHoller
Who else is coming to #Tennessee? Meet some of their leaders and stalwarts: This is Patrick W. Cook, West Virginia, who trots out his Nazi toys for #AsatruFolkAssembly meetings. *Content warning* for this slide and following (racism, antisemitism).
This exchange between members & Lane Ashby, in Palm Coast, FL, is typical. #AsatruFolkAssembly openly hates people in multi-racial & multi-ethnic relationships. Ashby was promoted by Flavel not long ago. #BlackLivesMatter
This is Daniel Young of South Carolina. The 'Aryan call to action' language is commonplace in #AsatruFolkAssembly. He's also moving up the ranks, having been promoted by Flavel about a year ago. @ADL
This is Shane Duffy of Joliet, #Ilinois. Promoted earlier this year by #MattFlavel to full folkbuilder.
This is longtime member George Schindler, center, of Massachusetts. #AsatruFolkAssembly's antisemitism is virulent. He's pictured with #MattFlavel and Steve McNallen.
We have plenty more we can, and will, share. For now, we ask all our followers to RT. This is a big move on their part and not good news, especially for those in their targeted area.
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Lots has happened within #AsatruFolkAssembly since it was shaken by revelation thatleader, Matt Flavel, allowed a pedophile in its ranks. Membership loss, an enemies list (not kidding), coalescing of folkish hate groups. And that's just the start.
Breakaway #AsatruFolkAssembly members have reconstituted under Michael "Myers" Sessumes, long a leader of racist groups, as #RavenFolkUnited. @splcenter
It's kind of like getting the band back together, except the band is racist, homophobic and antisemitic, with multiple ties to violent incidents. #RavenFolkUnited @ADL @qvoO9Adl9SFCkeL
What’s going on at #AsatruFolkAssembly? Purge? Implosion? BOTH. One member fears they’ll lose the best thing they had since — and we’re not making this up — the Third Reich. @SPLC @ADLSoutheast
2 sets of hate mongers, lotsa fingerpointing. Version 1: #AsatruFolkAssembly leader knowingly allowed a convicted sex offender to join #Wisconsin chapter, and is now purging ranks. Version 2: Disloyal members use situation as pretext for starting breakaway group.
Some elements of truth in both sides. In WI, convicted sex offender joined AsFA in 2021, with clearance by #AsatruFolkAssembly leader Matt Flavel. We’re not naming the guy because there are 2 men with same name, fairly close in age, who live near each other in Green Bay area.
Who enshrines sadistic Nazi camp guards as heroes? Who takes their lead from a murderous bigot who wanted to overthrow the US gov’t? Meet Sara Ault of Two Rivers, #Wisconsin of the #AsatruFolkAssembly.
Ault & her husband, James (left), are both leaders of the #AsatruFolkAssembly. Both identify as white nationalists. Pictured at Willow River State Park near Hudson, #Wisconsin, with #Minnesota folkbuilder Jason Gallagher & Jessie Shaffer at yearly gathering.
The Aults are regular visitors to the #AsatruFolkAssembly location in Murdock, #Minnesota. Sara Ault pictured with Brandy Callahan, a top AsFA leader. BTW, #Gilead still wants their outfits back.
Most antisemites aren’t failed entertainers with famous estranged wives. Meet Shane Duffy of Joliet, Illinois. Charlottesville mob, 2017. Now on the leadership track for #AsatruFolkAssembly. @UnmaskUTR @Blaze46142681 @UR_Ninja
Earlier this year in #Illinois. @shawlocalnews
CW: We want to emphasize that his is some of the most racist and antisemitic we’ve come across, and that’s saying something for #AsatruFolkAssembly. And he’s got a mouth most mothers would like to wash out with soap. @MeganSquire0
When #AsatruFolkAssembly introduced this new #Tennessee addition to their leadership track, they had to assign him a pseudonym: William. These things are necessary sometimes. @TheTNHoller @splcenter @KnoxvilleHoller (1/12)
This is Chase May of Sevierville, #Tennessee. He is already a steadfast member of the #kukluxklan. Kind of diversifying his portfolio. #AsatruFolkAssembly #klan
Here he is with his #klan friends in #Tennessee, where #AsatruFolkAssembly is trying to build its presence. @NoogaHoller @knoxnews @wbir
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