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This weekend marks the 7th anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA.

It also marks the second year of Ignite the Right, a project created by anti-fascist researchers intent on identifying participants so they can be held accountable

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Ignite the Right continues to catalogue, archive and track down new and old information on participants. Our public database has over 600 listed identities released so far. We have hundreds more we are still working on.



Some of this years highlights:ignitetheright.net/database/
Oct 20, 2023 Charleen Ryan #LOSBlondeShadesUTR

Dedicated League of the South member and neo-Nazi, Charleen Ryan aka Char Gasemall of Villa Hills, KY, mingles with some of the worst racists. Identified by @LateNightAFA in this expose:


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Dec 2, 2023 Marcel Karol Stein #MarcelSteinUTR

This former Marine did security for Unite the Right and was a Patriot Front member. Active in the Nazi scene in Houston, TX, he is now making the rounds in Poland. AKA Zeljko Stanjnovic and fashslav.


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Feb 3, 2024 Clay Pinkston #MSSouthUTR

Not only was Clay Pinkston of Christiana, TN present at Unite the Right, it appears he was also involved in an act of violence at the racist event. Meet this neo-Nazi and LoS member identified by @LateNightAFA


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Feb 12, 2024 Jordan Thomas Fracht #VanguardBlueGlassesUTR

Neo-Nazi and Patriot Front associate Jordan Thomas Fracht aka Mooch TX of Houston / Beaumont, TX attended Unite the Right with Vanguard America. More about this ID in the thread by @LateNightAFA


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Feb 15, 2024 Andrew Mark Liebnow #AndrewLiebnowUTR

Andrew Liebnow aka Eurogenicist is a software engineer and Patriot Front associate who attended UTR all the way from Austin / RoundRock, TX. Learn more about this ID in the thread by @LateNightAFA


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April 2, 2024 Judson Blevins #JudsonGannonBlevinsUTR

In April Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, OK who not only didn't deny being a white supremacist, he also didn't refute evidence tying him to a secretive fascist group.





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After a recall election, Blevins who marched at UTR and was previously an Identity Evropa coordinator lost his seat in local government. Excellent coverage by journalist @letsgomathias here:

#JudsonGannonBlevinsUTR #IgnitetheRight



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May 13, 2024 Joshua Harley James and Justine Danielle Crowe James #BeardedTorchUTR #JustineCroweUTR

In May these OK-based neo-Nazis and UTR torch bearers Joshua and his former wife Justine were ID'd by @antichud @405JR @TheDoorOKC @LateNightAFA


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June 12, 2024 John Joseph Kelly #TWPNorthFaceUTR

Next on the chopping block was John aka Boilerplate, an NJP nazi from Chicago, IL and Sarasota, FL who participated in the Unite the Right rally. ID'd as a torch bearer as well as an NSM and TWP member.


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July 2, 2024 Michael Anthony George #PlaidPeterUTR

With a long history of online and in-person racist / anti-LGBTQIA harrassment, Savannah, TN nazi Michael George aka Great Ape Niggy was ID'd by @AnonComrades.


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July 17, 2024 HUGE UNITE THE RIGHT ROUNDUP

@LateNightAFA released a BIG roundup of attendees some known and some who were not yet in the #IgniteTheRight database.




latenightafa.noblogs.org/unite-the-righ…
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July 19, 2024 Tyler Bradley Dykes #GrayGoose #GooseInGrey #LanyardNoShirtUTR UPDATE

Tyler Dykes was sentenced to 57 months in prison for rioting at J6. He was ID'ed by @SunlightAFA in 2022 as a participant at UTR:





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Since Feb. 2023 the Albemarle County Attorney's office started getting indictments under the burning objects statute against UtR attendees who carried torches and threatened members of the public.

Molly Conger has a great thread on those charged:


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Ignite the Right's first year in review thread can be found here:




ignitetheright.net/ignite-the-rig…
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When Ignite launched 2 years ago on the 5th anniversary of Charlottesville, we did so with the message:

"We do not forgive. We do not forget." That statement remains true.

This project is dedicated to the memory of Heather Heyer and all the victims of hate.

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We would also like to thank the photographers and journalists whose work has been critical to our research. Please follow and support:

@letsgomathias
@EmilyGorcenski
@socialistdogmom
@UR_Ninja
@zdroberts
@sandibachom
@acrider
@dhosterman
@xshularx
@Edu_Bayer
@SeanRayford

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Aug 11, 2023
This week marks the 6th anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA.

It also marks a year of Ignite the Right, a project created by anti-fascist researchers intent on identifying participants so they can be held accountable. 🧵

https://t.co/wapPaWxHzgignitetheright.net/ignite-the-rig…
Image with the faces of hundreds of people identified at Unite the Right by Ignite the Right researchers, with the words "Ignite the Right, Year in Review. 607 Faces Listed. 320 Identified."
While many participants of UTR had been identified by anti-fascists before Ignite the Right launched last year, there were still hundreds who had never been named. Ignite worked to catalogue existing documentation and track down new and old info wherever they could find it. Image of nazis marching at Unite the Right with computer generated boxes around their faces from facial recognition software.
Since launching one year ago, Ignite the Right has expanded their database to over 600. This includes 250 new identities for previously unnamed participants, bringing the total to 320. And those are just the identities that have been made public.

https://t.co/6I9ZJWfTPWignitetheright.net/database/
Collage Image with the faces of hundreds of people identified at Unite the Right by Ignite the Right researchers.
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May 29, 2023
Last week Tyler Bradley Dykes of Bluffton, SC, pleaded guilty to burning to intimidate at the UTR torch march in 2017. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, with 6 months active sentence and 4.5 years suspended.

#LanyardNoShirtUTR

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Tyler Dykes is among 4 others who have been recently charged in connection to the Unite the Right torch rally:

Ryan Roy ("Rex VT"), William McAffe Williams ("Billy Williams"), Tyler Dallas Medina ("Mosin-Nagant"), and William Smith ("Wil Atteberry").

apnews.com/article/charlo…
In footage of the 2017 torch rally, Tyler Dykes can be seen briefly as physical confrontation broke out.

CW: Violence

Source: @UR_Ninja
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Apr 16, 2023
NEW: Unite the Right attendee #BloodyFlagUTR has been identified as Traditionalist Worker Party member Jonathan Alan Holderfield of Birmingham, Alabama. Holderfield in the UTR stre...Mugshot of Holderfield
Jonathan Holderfield was originally identified in part to having his photo and name dropped into Discord by Tristan Bass (#BloodyKKKUTR).

In the Discord server Tristan said "He's TWP now. We all are."

discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/view/4… Major (AL) 2017-12-02 -  ye...
Holderfield can also be found in photos of Nazi rallies alongside Traditionalist Worker Party, National Socialist Movement, and League of the South members.

An article from The Guardian has him listed as a KKK member. #BloodyFlagUTR

theguardian.com/world/gallery/… Holderfield doing a Nazi sa...Holderfield throwing up his...Wide shot of the group Hold...
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Apr 16, 2023
NEW: Unite the Right attendee #ImNot12UTR has been identified as Nathaniel Menefee aka "Nate Adams" aka "naternot" of New Castle, Delaware.

Heads up #Delaware #NewJersey #Pennsylvania

h/t @MachairaAction for finding this one 🔥

#IgniteTheRight Nathaniel Menefee wearing s...Nathaniel Menefee's profile...
Nathaniel Menefee is an Alt-Right fanboy who is proud of his participation in Charlottesville, so proud that he has posted it across multiple social media sites. Nathaniel Menefee's Faceboo...Nathaniel Menefee's Naterno...Nathaniel using the last na...Tweet from Naternot9: When ...
Nate also uploaded a video of himself in the crowd of Nazis chanting "You will not replace us" at the Unite the Right torch rally. Screenshot of Naternot's vi...
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