In August 2020, Micah joined a counterprotest of a BLM rally in Cave Junction, OR. He stood out w his holstered sidearm & antisemitic signs, yelling "I'm proud to be white! I love my ancestors!"
We have learned that his white pride extends well beyond mere sentiment.
Our article not only documents Micah Calabrese's online history of virulent racism, but it points to his regional connections to neo-Nazi organizers like Joe McGuigan aka "Idaho Joe", who was recently profiled by @LCRWnews.
Micah has turned-up in Telegram spaces organized around the Pacific Northwest Territorial Imperative - a movement that wants to create a white ethnostate. He is connected to a leading evangelist for that cause, Central Point, OR neo-Nazi Anthony Allen.
Read all the details in the article, which was a collab between antifascists in Southern Oregon & ourselves. Many thanks also to @SCResearchClub & other anon antifascists who contributed to pieces of this puzzle.
A few days before we released our American Banderite Network story, its 16-yr-old founder boasted that ABN was "here to stay & we aren't going anywhere!"
W/in a day of being exposed he posted: "I am NOT in ABN." The channel was nuked & chat set to private.
Discussing ABN requires context & nuance. It’s a tricky story set in a misinformation minefield.
Russian outlets ran pieces claiming ABN was a group of Ukronazi expats. Greyzone's Moss Robeson took ABN at face value & got suckered by the lies of Boneface.
But ABN is (was?) a kid's nazi affiliation brand trying to turn itself into something real. Adult neo-Nazis & terrorbros moved into that space for a platform, to network, & to bond w teenagers, grooming them for hate. Ultimately, Ukraine was an ideological backdrop.
Second - an overview of ABN, its place in the "brother war" btwn white nationalists w differing loyalties when it comes to the invasion of Ukraine, and the known violent extremists in ABN who are nudging the twins & other kids down a path of hate.
After 4 months of inactivity & disarray, the 3N active club alliance held a hate rally in Missoula, MT on Sat.
Earlier this year they tried to steal our Pride. Now they come to hijack our sorrows by scapegoating Jews & Muslim refugees. But their alliance is weak & they are few.
By our count 3N pulled together 26 individuals for their Missoulan fash mobbery. To get that couple dozen required multiple crews from four, possibly five different states.
They staged in 3 areas over the day: Har Shalom synagogue, the courthouse & the Reserve St. Walking Bridge
But 3N’s Missoula hate rally did not go unchallenged. At Har Shalom the community began to muster a counter across the street, w some approaching to film the nazis. At the courthouse 3N was met w loud chants of “GO HOME NAZIS” & Vinland Rebel Larkin McIntyre was arrested.
Meet Thomas Anthony Rowe (no relation to EAC leader Daniel Rowe) aka Othala Christensen – a founding member of Evergreen Active Club who dual-cards w Crew 38, a feeder club for Hammerskin prospects.
Thomas is a convicted rapist and has a long documented history of dv assaults.
Meet Jason Stebly of Auburn, WA - a founding member of EAC. Like Thomas, Jason is a career scumbag & chronic domestic abuser who did time for violating restraining orders. He also has strong ties to Crew 38 (we have not confirmed whether he is one himself).
This morning Heathen Brewing Feral Public House in Vancouver, WA discovered it had been vandalized.
This comes on the heels of a public call by local extremists to shut down an all-ages drag brunch scheduled for March 26th, & a subsequent statement of defiance from the venue.
This call for action against the venue has been pushed by local Proud Boys. In particular, it seems to have originated with Columbia River PB Christopher Lincoln Stevens, aka Von Cheddar.
Last Sept Von Cheddar joined PBs & Threepers for a transphobic protest in Port Townsend.
Yesterday local RW muckraker Chelly Bouferrache amplified the call to shut Heathen Brewery's drag brunch down.
If you recall, it was Chelly's misinformation that led to the frightening protest against all-ages drag in Eugene, a protest that included RCN nazis throwing sieg heils