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.
Sara tries unsuccessfully to distance her work with a hate group, Women for Aryan Unity, from #AsatruFolkAssembly. Which is a little like trying to distance peanut butter and jelly in a PBJ sandwich.
Both Aults do prison in-reach: James thru AsFA and Sara via WAU. Again, peanut butter meets jelly. WAU picked up the baton from Bruder Schweigen, aka The Order, a white sup group led by David Lane, creator of 14 words racist credo. From @SPLC: splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
Sara credited her contact with Lane in a video conversation with #AsatruFolkAssembly top dog Matt Flavel earlier this week.
From the We Can’t Make This Sh*t Up Dept: WAU salutes women guards of Nazi concentration camps, including a creepazoid who set dogs on women & children. This one was hanged after the Belsen Trial in ’45.
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.
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
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