Identity Evropa, rebranded as American Identity Movement in March 2019 after massive leaks of their Discord and Slack communications platform, is an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist "identitarian" organization established in March 2016. These are their dues-paying members. We are Panic! In the Discord collective.

This article was written by Chicago Anti-Fascist Action.

The Background

Discord user “Balbo” and Slack user “David Yates” who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server” and the American Identity Movement’s Slack channels that were leaked in March of 2019 by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than as white nationalist Jason David Finney, a Credit Analyst at R.J. O’Brien and a current candidate for 43rd Ward Republican Committeeperson.

Identity Evropa, a white supremacist identitarian organization, is most infamous for its involvement in organizing the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr.

Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as Nolan Brewer, who was arrested for the attempted arson of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

Identity Evropa re-branded as the American Identity Movement (AmIM) in March of 2019 after having their communication platforms – Discord and Slack – leaked by Unicorn Riot. IE/AmIM scrambled to re-brand as many of their dues-paying members were later exposed by antifascists under #IdentifyEvropa. They also re-branded tactically to get away from the Identity Evropa name which was tied to Unite the Right, lawsuits, and several other violent encounters.

Finding Jason Finney

Jason Finney joined Identity Evropa under the username “Balbo” in December of 2017. The username “Balbo” comes from an Italian Blackshirt fascist politician Italo Balbo to whom the Balbo monument and street were dedicated to in downtown Chicago.

Although Jason was reluctant to participate in activism, for nearly two years, Jason Finney was one of the most active members of Identity Evropa and American Identity Movement in Illinois. He was roommates with the Midwest regional coordinator of Identity Evropa-  Brendan S. aka AltRightMick/Chidentitarian for a full year.

Do note that Jason Finney moved out of the apartment he shared with Brendan at 2626 N. Lakeview Avenue, to an apartment building just behind Brendan’s at 2629 N Hampden Ct, as per candidate filing with Cook County, which is public information. He moved after the Unicorn Riot leaks that exposed over a hundred Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement members [source].

Upon Googling “Jason Finney” along with Brendan’s address at 2626 N. Lakeview Avenue, you get a cached Google result confirming Jason’s residence in the building, in Unit 1902 [source, archive].

The owners of Unit 1902 are Dean & Lori Thuente [source], whose contact information is provided in the above link, if the media needs to confirm Jason’s residency at the unit for this identification.

Jason Finney can also be seen photographed at an Identity Evropa trash cleanup in Ottawa, IL during the summer of 2018:

Jason’s White Nationalist Activities

Jason was the administrator of a “Chicago Conservatives Meetup” club for years which met publicly at the same time and place every week. Their meet-ups are all announced on social media.

Jason’s Chicago Fiscal Conservatives group typically meets up on Sunday evenings at around 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Red Lion Pub on 2446 N Lincoln Ave where they openly discuss topics while espousing anti-feminist, anti-immigrant, and racist ideological talking points.

The posts within the Chicago Conservatives Facebook group appear to have been cleaned up recently. Edits were made to racially sensitive posts. Comments were deleted, and perhaps most notably, Shawn Miller, one of their most active members is no longer in the Facebook group, possibly because of his history of defending ideas associated with “the alt-right.”

His posts on there quickly mar the veneer he has worked to keep over his public, politically-correct persona. He makes jokes about Muslims being forced to eat pork and drink alcohol as part of authoritarian re-education camps in China, calls third wave feminism a “mind-virus,” and quickly posts about the ethnicity of terrorist attackers in attacks in Germany.

Jason’s rhetoric on race suddenly changed entirely in his Facebook posts like the flip of a switch once he had announced that he was running for public office in that Chicago Conservatives Facebook group in November of 2019.

Now he likes to present himself as “liberal” on social issues, which is rich considering his involvement with Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement, which has been defined as a white nationalist hate group.

Additionally, we were able to find footage of Jason Finney in a CBS story covering a white nationalist banner drop over I-290, complete with video of them being told to scram by the cops. The banner, emblazoned with red letters and images of skulls and crossbones, read “DANGER: Sanctuary City Ahead.” We were additionally able to identify two other Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement members in the video – Brendan S. and Steven Scheele while two other members, including one with a completely unmasked face, remain at large.  If you have a tip about these members, please let us know.

In a conversation on American Identity Movement Discord about the banner drop in Oak Park [source],  Balbo confirms that he was in attendance that day [source].

Final Confirmation and Contact Info

Finally, once Jason was confronted about his white supremacist identitarian views and confirmed involvement with Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement, he panicked, and sent an email to an account we operate. He confirmed being approached by a journalist  and requesting that we not say anything about his involvement with the white supremacist group.

Jason’s response can be provided upon request to his employer & to media seeking to cover this story. Please contact Chicago Anti-Fascist Action at antifascistchicago@ riseup dot net or Panic at panicinthediscord at riseup dot net or @discord__panic on Twitter.

Since Jason is running with no competition on the ballot for 43rd ward committeeperson, we encourage you to write-in literally anyone else into the position.

Further, we encourage you to contact RJ O’Brien, Jason’s employer, and ask them if they are comfortable having an avowed white nationalist employed at their company.

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jason.finney.397
http://archive.is/vVHJ7

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-d-finney-mba-88365667/
http://archive.is/KPGYb

Chicago Conservatives Meet-Up:
https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Conservatives-Meetup/

http://archive.is/A80NA

Chicago Conservatives Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/380449419049840/?ref=share
http://archive.is/NEWVU

If you have any additional tips about Jason or other fascists in Chicago or elsewhere, please send them to panicinthediscord@riseup.net or DM them to @discord__panic on Twitter

Discord user “NIMP”  who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server”  that were leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Nathan Petri, a student at Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Identity Evropa, a Neo-Nazi organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr.

Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as Nolan Brewer, who was arrested for the attempted arson of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

Nathan was identified because he was trying to raise money to attend the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and dropped his personal PayPal account in discord messages. Since his initial outing on Twitter, he has deleted this PayPal account.

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This article was made possible by an anonymous contributor and was reviewed.

Discord user “fgtveassassin” (pronounced fugitive assassin) who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server” as well as the American Identity Movement’s Slack channels that were leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Matthew Guse, student at Lackawanna College.

Identity Evropa, a Neo-Nazi organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr.

Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as Nolan Brewer, who was arrested for the attempted arson of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

We will first take a look at some of Matthew’s views, and then show how he was identified. First, he talks about trying to influence his friends into Neo-Nazi viewpoints by “planting seeds” [1, 2]

Matthew also tried and failed to join Lackawanna County GOP:

Matthew infiltrated the county Young Republican group and gave advice about replicating his efforts to others:

Matthew also joined the Future Business Leaders of America:

He has done activism for Identity Evropa, including putting business cards in books at a nearby library.

In fact, he has attempted to contact the local news about his activism.

He even has a signed copy of white supremacist Jared Taylor‘s book with Jared Taylor calling him a ”comrade in the struggle”.

Connecting Matthew Guse to fgtveassassin

First, Matthew’s Twitter account (now @EmperorZoomer) uses the same avatar as that of his previous handle @fgtveassassin.Matthew has used this username for a long time, including in gaming tournaments – only changing it after the Discord leaks. He even hints at his own bad operational security, having used this username all over the internet.

The two twitter accounts are additionally linked by replies, going all the way back to 2013.

Next, we find out which city he currently resides at. Fortunately, we are given many clues that can be used to discover this. In one message, Matthew states that he lives near a Penn State campus.

According to the Penn State undergraduate bulletin website, there are about 20 Penn State campuses. Next, we note that Matthew said that his county is one that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

After compiling a list of counties in which those campuses reside, we remove the ones that Clinton did not win in 2016. This narrows down the list to about 7 counties. Finally we see that Matthew says his county is 92 percent white as of 2010.

According to Wikipedia, this narrows the county he’s in to exactly one: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.  According to this post, Matthew says he is in the same city as the county GOP office.

The office for Lackawanna County resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania, therefore this is also where Matt resides. This is bolstered by the fact that he put business cards in Albright Memorial library in Scranton, as mentioned before.  It is also bolstered by this description in this message, which states that there was no Republican candidate to vote for in the 2018 general election in his district.

Looking at the general election results for the states, we see that one of the districts Scranton is in, specifically the 113th district, indeed had a Democratic candidate run uncontested.

From there, we can discover the college that he attends. In one message, we learn that there is a Mason Hall across the street from his college.

Looking up Masonic Halls in Scranton, we find that there is one across the street from Lackawanna College.

This is where he goes to college. To further confirm this, in another message, he says the author of a book called ”Not Another Diversity Book” came to speak at his
school in October of 2018.

This site shows that the author did in fact visit Lackawanna College at that time.

Now that we have the college he attends, we can infer that he joined the Future Business Leaders of America chapter at Lackawanna College. Furthermore, we can infer the GOP group he attempted to join is the Lackawanna County GOP and the Young Republicans group that he is a part of is the Lackawanna County Young Republicans. From here, we note this Discord message of Matthew talking about being able to speak with the chair easily if the group is small enough.

There are other messages of him talking
about them wanting him in a role in the organization after only a couple of meetings.

Additionally, one of the earliest Discord messages from Matthew show him reporting antifascist groups on Facebook, hinting at a Facebook profile.

Given all of this, there is a possibility that the chair of the Lackawanna County Young Republicans group Justin Severe is Facebook friends with “Matthew”.

There are multiple Matthews that he is friends with, but let us focus on the Facebook profile of this person, Matthew Guse. There are a few things to notice about Matthew Guse according to his profile, namely that he appears to be in the Future Business Leaders of America and that he goes to Lackawanna College, same as fgtveassassin. Take a special note at his cover photo, and then compare it to this tweet posted by fgtveassassin aka EmperorZoomer.

Sometimes they make it so easy.

If you have any additional tips, including where Matthew may work, please send them to panicinthediscord@riseup.net or DM them to @discord__panic on Twitter.

This article was made possible by several independent sources.

Discord user “Ekdromoi” who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server” as well as the American Identity Movement’s Slack channels that were leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Sean McGovern of New Jersey who graduated from Rowan University and is currently a research analyst responsible for macroeconomic analysis at McAlinden Research Partners in New York City.

Left: Sean McGovern Right: Swedish Fascist Marcus Follin aka “The Golden One”

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Discord user “Juan Carlos -MD”  who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server”  as well as the American Identity Movement’s Slack channels that were leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than John Charles Stortstrom of Bel Air, Maryland.

Second Amendment rally held in front of the courthouse in Bel Air that was sponsored by the Harford County Republican Central Committee. John pictured on the left.

Identity Evropa, a Neo-Nazi organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr.

Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as Nolan Brewer, who was arrested for the attempted arson of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

John, who goes by Juan Carlos on identity Evropa’s discord and Slack servers, used the Spanish version of his own name (John=Juan, Charles=Carlos) as his alias- perhaps because John is not shy of his white supremacist ties. He has been active in white supremacist groups for the better part of a decade. He has been profiled before by the One People’s Project both in 2018, as well as June of 2013. The Southern Poverty Law Center also wrote about him all the way back in July of 2013. He has run in the same circles as other Identity Evropa members. To quote the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Stortstrom also has been a member of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), a far-right student group started about five years ago that now appears to be defunct. Simultaneously, Stortstrom served as vice president of the Route 40 Republican Party Club, based in Edgewood, Md., which recently sponsored an appearance by Matthew Heimbach, president of the racist White Student Union at Towson University

At Towson, he also helped host American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor  (who attended Identity Evropa’s first national conference held in Nashville, Tennessee in 2018) to the university to speak. You can view the video of Jared at Towson here. You can see John present at the talk in 2012 at the 35:36 mark.

His connections with Neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach
who later became the leader of the now defunct Traditionalist Workers Party, go way back.

John Stortstrom (holding the cellphone) at a White Student Union event sitting behind Matthew Heimbach circa 2013.

John was additionally suspended from his work as a mechanical engineer for the  Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory based in Maryland in 2013. He was reinstated at his job a couple of weeks later, but it is unclear if he is still working there at this time.

So what about his recent activity? He didn’t speak much on Discord, but on Identity Evropa’s North Atlantic Slack channel, he was quite active. He attended several range days with other Identity Evropa members.

Kurtis “Konrad” Buckingham explains that John Charles Stortstrom has enough firearms for everyone to train with.

He also discusses his short barreled rifle, a federally regulated firearm that requires a NFA tax and special forms to be filled out with an FFL dealer to be held legally.

It appears some things don’t change, including John Charles Stortstrom’s propensity towards Neo-Nazi organizations, as well as his history with firearms.

You can read redacted info about John Charles Stortstrom here.

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Discord user “Konrad” aka “Konrad-MD” who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” as well as several others that were leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Kurtis Bailey Buckingham, of Woodbine, Maryland.

Identity Evropa, a white nationalist organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by James Alex Fields Jr. Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as an attempted arsonist of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana Nolan Brewer.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

Kurtis attended the Leading Our People Forward conference as well as American Renaissance. He has also been involved in many recent public actions with Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement leader Patrick Casey, including at the infamous storming of DC Politics and Prose Bookstore. He has also participated in promotional videos for the white supremacist organization, including at one in Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

Photograph of Kurtis pulled from social media.

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Yesterday, Unicorn Riot released details from the American Identity Movement’s “Doxx Support” channel, where members who had been identified by antifascists during #IdentifyEvropa (now totaling more than 100 members, with still more to come) met to discuss best ways to mitigate future doxxing, cope with the inevitable fallout of friends and family finding out about their membership in a Neo-Nazi organization, and their own confirmations of their identifications.

The American Identity Movement, previously known as Identity Evropa, has a violent history. The American Identity Movement is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by James Alex Fields Jr.

Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as an attempted arson of a synagogue in Carmel by Indiana Identity Evropa member Nolan Brewer.

The most recent Unicorn Riot article also mentions a headquarters that was located in Jefferson County, West Virginia. The Panic! in the Discord collective visited the headquarters. Three cars were spotted at the location, belonging to Patrick Casey, Jonathan Gould, and a Tim Manzione. So, without further ado, we introduce to you the American Identity Movement headquarters.

If you have any additional tips, send them to: panicinthediscord@riseup.net or DM them to @discord__panic on Twitter.

Article made possible by several independent sources.

Cole West Russell, son of recently-retired associate district court judge Norman Russell of Kiowa County, has been identified as a long term member of white nationalist organization Identity Evropa – recently rebranded as the American Identity Movement. Under the alias “Wood-Ape – OK/MN”, Cole appears in Identity Evropa’s internal communications which were leaked to Unicorn Riot in March.

District Judge Norman Russell on the left, son Cole West Russell on the right.

Identity Evropa, a white nationalist organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by James Alex Fields Jr. Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun on an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” Identity Evropa also has within their membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson, as well as an attempted arsonist of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana – Nolan Brewer.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the rally and that they are:

“at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism”

Let’s take a look at a few of the beliefs of  “Wood-Ape”, then dive into how he was identified. This dossier cannot possibly be all encompassing, as Cole posts over 11,000 messages on the server, but here are a few of Cole’s beliefs.

First, we see Cole uses the pseudonym “Peter” in white nationalist circles. Patrick Casey, the leader of Identity Evropa at the moment, went by the pseudonym “Reinhard Wolf”, in order to prevent potentially getting “doxxed” by new recruits.

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With help from: The Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement

Discord user “Volkmom” who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Sarah Dye of Nashville, Indiana, owner and operator of Schooner Creek Farms. (And her husband Doug Mackey!)

Identity Evropa, a Neo-Nazi organization, is most infamous for its involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where antifascist Heather Heyer was killed by James Alex Fields Jr. Identity Evropa’s former leader, Nathan Damigo, is infamous for assaulting both a femme antifascist protester as well as an Arab cab driver in an armed robbery, where he pulled a loaded gun in the face of an innocent man for “looking Iraqi.” They also have within their former membership an attempted Amtrak hijacker Taylor Wilson. After the Unicorn Riot leaks dropped in March, Identity Evropa scrambled to re-brand as the American Identity Movement. 

As if that wasn’t enough, Sarah Dye and her husband Doug Mackey were linked to the synagogue arson in Carmel, Indiana because the arsonists were also Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement members.

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P!itD note: this article has been redacted to fit the publishing requirements of this platform. Big thanks to @405JR for getting the ball rolling on this fascist. For the full information, see the link at the bottom of the page. 

Hey Oklahoma University: things are not OK.

We’d like to introduce Interim President Dean Joseph Harroz Jr., the alumni and donors, the student population and the general public to the Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement member and OU student William Dennis Daniel. He first came on our radar as the lone counter protester to the Trump’s Immigration Ban, strangely, holding a sign demonstrating his support for Andrew Jackson and genocide of the indigenous people. But things start to unravel for him after that.

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Discord user J3evans who appears on who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Joshua Evans of Providence, Rhode Island.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa (now re-branded as American Identity Movement) cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the white supremacist rally and they are “at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism.”

Recently members of AmIM/American Identity Movement (previously known as Identity Evropa before a rebrand), mobbed a bookstore during an author’s presentation of his anti-racist book. Peruse our thread identifying their members. It is not hyperbolic to say that these white supremacists are looking to continue to gain footholds into mainstream discourse by any means necessary, including infiltrating local GOP offices, recruiting at college campuses, etc.

User J3vans was relatively easy to find. We were first able to find his Twitter. After the discord leaks occurred, he changed his username from J3vans to unorthodox_lad, but the internet never forgets.

Yuck it, fash.

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P!itD note:This article was written by Panic! in the Discord, made possible by major contributions from Anonymous Comrade.

Discord user giovannidannato, who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Shaun M Williams of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa (now rebranded as American Identity Movement) cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the white supremacist rally and they are “at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism.”

Compare the hairlines of these two photos. On the left, Shaun M Williams at Politics & Prose interrupting an anti-racist author, and on the right a photo of Shaun M Williams almost a decade earlier, pulled from his mother’s Facebook account.

Last week, members of AmIM/American Identity Movement (previously known as Identity Evropa before a rebrand), mobbed a bookstore during an author’s presentation of his anti-racist book. Peruse our thread identifying their members. It is not hyperbolic to say that these white supremacists are looking to continue to gain footholds into mainstream discourse by any means necessary, including infiltrating local GOP offices, recruiting at college campuses, etc.

We introduce you to another Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement member who was at Politics & Prose bookstore event.

We introduce to you Shaun M. Williams.

Shaun first introduces himself under the pseudonym Giovanni.

He posts a link to a blog on the #cyberstrike channel to a blog that he operates under the same pseudonym, Giovanni Dannato.

In this blog, he talks about various topics. He also has a section where he links to several other blogs he operates.

Notice the “Kingdom of Introversion” blog- that will become important later.

Also note that he has written for infamous misogynist Daryush Valizadeh, also known as Roosh Valizadeh, Roosh V and Roosh Vorek’s Return of Kings.
Do note that Roosh V has links to Gamergate. Roosh V has been banned from entering the UK since 2017. Considering “Giovanni’s” sites have archives on Archive.org dating all the way back to 2008, it can only be speculated that he joined in the disgusting misogyny, sexism, and racism of GamerGate as well. In fact, here are some of the disgusting articles he has written for Return of Kings about his views on women- and you’ll see why we call him a creepy incel.

Yikes!

He is incredibly racist. His basis of knowledge sits on top of debunked racial theories, which are prominent throughout all of his blog posts.

He went to work in the trades, as we will dig into deeper later, because he wanted to avoid female bosses. His misogyny knows no bounds.

He espouses nonsensical views on gender, tinged with a side of misogyny and entitlement.

Shaun also believes in eugenics, a pseudoscience, which was a set of racial theories that fascists
used to stop immigration. IQ tests themselves were created by white supremacists seeking to prove the “Nordic advantage”, when it really just shows their ableism and racism.

He believes in the necessity of social stratification, as many fascists do as fascism rests its foundation on the belief that hierarchies are natural. This is truly just a form of classism and worship of the economic elite. The irony that white supremacists believe in hierarchy and yet state that leftists are backed by the elites is lost on no one.

Across his several blogs, he has had a few aliases including: John the Peregrine, UncleGluon, Gluon the Ferengi.

Although his blog now lists his contact e-mail as giovannidannato@gmail.com,
we were able to find archives of some of his blogs with reference to the e-mail zygmuntsmw@msn.com.

Specifically, this was the e-mail that was tied to his PayPal account by which he would ask for donations on his website for the longest time.

This would be his undoing.

A simple Google search brings us this result.

From there, we were able to find his MyLife profile and his WhitePages profile
as well as others.

Giovanni Dannato confirms the residence in New Mexico, affiliation with living in Washington DC, and current/ former residence in Ohio as well by talking about living in DC, living in a desert(New Mexico), and living in a Midwestern “Flyover” state (Ohio).

Zygmunt stands for Zygmunt Bauman, a polish sociologist who was driven out of Poland by a political purge engineered in 1968 by the Communist Government of the Polish People’s Republic and generally is considered to be a big influence on the anti-globalization movement. You can see the reference to Zygmunt by Shaun again in his forum boards.

From his name & possible relatives listings, we were able to find his mother’s Facebook account, where she confirms she lived in DC & her profile lists her in ew Mexico. This is where we found two quite old photos of Shaun.

Matching these up with photos we have of a Defend Columbus event that members of Ohio’s Identity Evropa chapter went to, you can spot Shaun M Williams aka “giovannidannato” next to Jacalyn Grace Thomas aka NITRODUBS.

This isn’t the only time Jacalyn and Shaun have worked together. They both put up flyers at Wright State University as well. You can even see him in the reflection, standing next to Jacalyn, in one of the photos she posts.

Lucky for us, he even talks about his place of employment on discord. He claims the recruiter is sympathetic to white nationalist extremist ideology.  We believe he works for Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc. as some sort of technician/ apprentice electrician.  If anyone has more information about his place of employment, please e-mail us.

Also feel free to contact Amazon about his self-published books and ask why a white supremacist is allowed to sell hateful material using their platform!

Other accounts:

Tweets by GiovanniDannato
https://gab.com/GiovanniDannato
https://disqus.com/by/giovannidannato/
http://en.gravatar.com/giovannidannato
https://github.com/GiovanniDannato

giovannidannato@gmail.com
zygmunt@gluontheferengi.comzygmuntsmw@msn.com

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Discord user bspon002, who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Blaze Kody Spon, of Bangor, CA.

The connection between the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and Identity Evropa (now rebranded as American Identity Movement) cannot be overstated. According to the SPLC, the white supremacist group was involved in the planning of the white supremacist rally and they are “at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism.”

Last week, members of AmIM (previously known as Identity Evropa), mobbed a bookstore during an author’s presentation of his anti-racist book. Peruse our thread identifying their members. It is not hyperbolic to say that these white supremacists are looking to continue to gain footholds into mainstream discourse by any means necessary, including infiltrating local GOP offices, recruiting at college campuses, etc.

Now let’s get back to identifying this Identity Evropa/ American Identity Movement member. First, bspon002 hints to us that his previous discord account was deleted, which suggests that he has more posts on the server than what is linked on his user profile. Since his username is now bspon002, we can assume his old account name is bspon001.

We can further verify that bspon001 is his original username by looking at his Slack profile photo from the Identity Evropa Slack channels.

A quick username search of bspon001 links us to his Gab profile, which in the preview already gives us a name: Blaze Spon.

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Discord user Auf WI, who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,” that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Cody Alexander Delis of Spencer, Wisconsin.

Cody Alexander Delis of Spencer, Wisconsin, local McDonalds manager.

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Discord user NuclearReactionary, who appears on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Server,”that was leaked in March by Unicorn Riot, has been identified as none other than Valley Christian School teacher
Kyle Aaron Scheuerlein, age 30, of San Jose, California.

Say hello to Kyle, everyone!

The group Kyle Aaron Scheuerlein belongs to is Identity Evropa, now rebranded as American Identity Movement is an extremist white supremacist hate group, designated by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and also by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In 2017, the group and its members played a key role in organizing the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA, where, in addition to brutal street fights and torchlit marches, an attendee murdered a protester and injured dozens more when he accelerated his car into a crowd.

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Last month, antifascists working with nonprofit journalism group Unicorn Riot released over 770,000 private Discord and Slack messages from the SPLC-designated white nationalist group Identity Evropa, days ahead of their national conference. Identity Evropa was one of the main  organizers of the deadly white supremacist Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The private messages between dues-paying members quickly showed that whatever “optics” the hate group attempts to present publicly, they are a group of racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and homophobic reactionaries hiding in plain sight. Multiple military personnel, high school teachers, college students, law enforcement officers, an accountant, tech workers, several medical professionals, and more have all been outed as white nationalists. Some are currently being investigated for extremist views and others have been fired after their racism has been proven. Almost immediately after their communications were leaked, Identity Evropa was banned from Discord and Slack forever. They attempted to re-brand as American Identity Movement, a new name with the same IE members and officers along with the exact same dues-processing structure.

In publishing a dossier on regional IE coordinator Logan Piercy, husband to equally racist and homophobic IE member Courtney, we noticed a closeness between Courtney and another member, DairyMaxx.

Why would one fascist text another fascist moments after giving birth? Unless they’re IRL family

Sleuths dedicated to stopping the rising tide of fascism by outing white nationalists did some digging about Logan and Courtney Piercy, turning up some more information about her family, especially Sean Michael Miner.

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The cast of characters exposed in the unraveling of Neo-Nazi street gang Identity Evropa (now rebranded as American Identity Movement aka AIM/AmIM) has been fascinating and horrifying. Doctors, accountants, college students…people from all walks of life have been outed. Identity Evropa has generally presented a Nazi Youth facade, pushing forward clean cut young men and women to mask their indisputable racism and anti-semitism.

By that measure, 63-year-old Mitchell Craig Brooks from Monroe, Georgia would seem an odd man out. Odd he certainly is, while he self defined himself as a former “long-haired redneck,” in truth he spent the last few decades living in the Bay area in California where he spent 25 years in the design department of the Sacramento Bee newspaper. When he was laid off in 2014, he returned to Georgia where he currently resides. Please meet OMGDwayne, a prolific, grumpy, and annoying shitposter in the Discord for Identity Evropa.

a member since 2018, Mitchell has no idea what he’s stepped into now

It didn’t take long for Mitchell Craig Brooks to start espousing his racist garbage onto the Identity Evropa servers, where he found like-minded folks.

He left a lot of clues as to his identity, talking frequently about his age, former employer and residence, his current home, and many unique aspects of his history. Here’s a quick recap of the basics (to search his entire user history, see Unicorn Riot’s awesome search tool for all of the Nazi discord servers).

misogyny and fascism go hand in hand, which is definitely one reason Mitchell wouldn’t fit in with the hippies, even if he copied their style…in the 70s

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Here’s another one for the Identity Evropa/AmIM doxx pile!

Alec “Pi is a Lie” Kerrigan, was kind enough to use his real name on Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Group” Discord server, much of which was leaked by Unicorn Riot a few weeks ago, prompting Identity Evropa to rebrand into American Identity Movement. While Identity Evropa/ AmIM presents itself as “identitarian” and merely “pro-white” without advocating hate for other races, a look behind the curtain lays bare the group’s basis in National Socialist ideology. Kerrigan used at least two aliases in the IE server, “Alec ‘Pi is a Lie’ Kerrigan” and “AlecK-FL.”

This SPLC-designated hate group was involved in the planning of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was murdered by a neo-nazi.

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Joshua Michael Sayre, age 26, is a member of Identity Evropa, now known as the American Identity Movement (AmIM). Joshua used his real name on Slack, IE/ AmIM’s internal communications platform before they were recently cut off from the service. Using the name he gave in Slack, our researchers found Joshua’s LinkedIn page, which revealed he is yet another neo-nazi who once served in the US military.

Selfie Joshua Sayre posted to his Facebook, where he goes by “Joshua Michael.”

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More than a year ago former employee of the Denton County Republican Party Joseph Kane of Denton, TX (here’s his Facebook and Twitter) was exposed as a fascist by his own public actions. However, he used the press and the GOP to shield himself from accusations that he is a neo-nazi. Since then, Joseph has been allowed to spread fascist ideology using the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability.

Now, leaked Identity Evropa Discord chat logs demonstrate unambiguously that 25-year-old Joseph Kane is an active neo-nazi. He posted in Identity Evropa’s now-defunct Discord server called “Nice Respectable People Group” using only his last name as an alias. In addition to his Republican activism and membership in IE, Joseph Kane is a US military veteran who serves in the National Guard and was a student at the University of North Texas as recently as 2017. (It’s unclear if he is still a student there, but the school has been hit with IE propaganda in the past.)

In 2016, Identity Evropa posters and fliers were posted all over the campus of the University of North Texas at Denton. Other IE stickers and fliers have appeared in Denton from time to time from then onward. We were unable to verify if Joseph Kane is still in attendance at the university, but we have included the contact information for the Dean of Students, pending verification that he is.

Joseph Kane (pictured in the middle) flashing the white supremacist OK hand sign in military uniform.

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Logan and Courtney Piercy are a Montana couple and members of the fascist group Identity Evropa. Our researchers examined posts from IE’s recently leaked Discord server, “Nice Respectable People Group,” and used publicly available records to determine that two users, “Green Nation” and “Mrs L,” are in fact Logan and Courtney Piercy, formerly of California and now living in Montana with a new baby.

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Ayla appears in the Charlottesville 2.0 Discord server, as leaked by Unicorn Riot the day after the deadly “Unite the Right” fascist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia two years ago. The server was many things: a planning hub, a scummy cesspool, a CW and a half for memes, plus a veritable who’s who of the white nationalist movement. A lot of people will (unfortunately) recognize “Ayla” from her shitty white supremacist “trad” blog called Wife With A Purpose.

Ayla’s purpose seems to be getting exposed for being nazi scum, so let’s get into it.

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Folks in Florida may not yet be familiar with Identity Evropa/ “American Identity Movement” Neo-Nazi Patrick Julian McNally, a Certfied Nursing Assistant from Spring Hill, but there’s a good chance you’ve seen the fascist garbage he likes to post up around the Tampa area.

In the Identity Evropa  Discord server, Patrick went by the username “Grossly Incandescent,” a direct reference to the role-playing game Dark Souls character. What a guy.

This neo-nazi father-son duo are about to learn the hard way that being a fascist is incredibly fucking stupid.

Patrick revealed a lot about himself in IE’s Discord server, including his age:

Patrick is 29, and wouldn’t stop talking about his baby on the way.

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Howard J. Fezell posted as “Singleton Mosby – WV” in Identity Evropa’s “Nice Respectable People Group” Discord server. Fezell, who is 66-years-old, was formerly a director and board member of the National Rifle Association and remained with the right-wing organization until he and others were ousted by Wayne LaPierre and his loyalists in the late 1990’s. Fezell has previously been in trouble with the Maryland Bar Association, and appears to be living in West Virginia now.

Photo of neo-nazi and former NRA director Howard J. Fezell.

Fezell’s membership in Identity Evropa further demonstrates the various connections between ultra-powerful mainstream right-wing organizations and fascist movements. According to his posts in IE’s Discord server, Fezell joined the neo-nazi group in May of 2018.

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Peter Diezel [right] with other “identitarian” propagandists.

Pete with the Illinois chapter of IE in November 2018. And are those his  friends Mick and Dana with him? Are they still friends?

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Although he doesn’t appear on Discord, perhaps due to using a different username, or altogether opting out of using service, Bentley Hatchett II AKA Rosenkranz was identified based on the participation in one of Identity Evropa’s Slack work spaces (as leaked by Unicorn Riot), where he used his real name in the description of his slack username. Bentley is an alumnus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas and is originally from Texas, where he resided in Austin. He is 24 years old.

taken from his facebook, archived at http://archive.is/3jmzz

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Apparently coming from a long line of white supremacists, James Meyer claims in Identity Evropa’s Discord chats that his great-grandfather was a Texas ranger who “hunted” Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. James posted as “Procella Eques” in IE’s Discord server, and currently lives in or near Dallas, Texas. Procella Eques introduced himself as “james” in his very first post in IE’s Discord server, and made repeated references to living in Texas.

Procella Eques introduces himself as “James”

Procella Eques posts about his supposed family connection to a man who “hunted” Pancho Villa.

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Olivia Reinhold Myers has at least two obsessions: her Instagram account, where she is a wannabe influencer, and neo-nazism. Olivia is a member of Identity Evropa, now called “AIM,” whose white nationalist mission she has sought to spread all over her university campus. Though barely a presence in the IE Discord, she said enough to leave a trail:

Imagine the embarrassment of being doxxed by only posting 20 messages…

Her appearances on Identity Evropa’s Slack were noteworthy, popping up in their server and as was her stupidity in using her full first and last name as her username. After comrades at Unicorn Riot leaked all the white nationalist group’s Slack channels, we were able to piece together: that Olivia Myers is of college-attending age, lives near Rollins in Florida and so with the help of databases, we found only one Olivia Reinhold Myers, a 21-year-old who lives in or near Winter Park, FL. Finally, we were able to connect Olivia M to Olivia Reinhold Myers.

Olivia probably won’t have much to smile about now that she’s been IDed as a neo-nazi.

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Timothy Robert Kohl is the 19-year-old brother of fellow Identity Evropa member Caleb Kohl, who was recently identified by Colorado Springs Antifa in 2018.

For a first peek at Timothy’s identity, here’s a look at his Medium account. Timothy has a Medium account that he set up apparently for the exclusive purpose of following his brother Caleb’s own neo-nazi Medium account:

Timothy Kohl’s sparse Medium ‘followings.’ The first account listed, August Baldur, is Caleb Kohl’s Medium account. Check out CO Spring Antifa’s doxx of Caleb.

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