In the summer of 2020, a BLM rally held in the small Southern Oregon town of Cave Junction was harassed by a right-wing counterprotest that was shockingly racist. Afterwards, a somewhat viral image of the event circulated in local Facebook groups: a young white man standing next to two children; with a sidearm holstered at his hip, the man held two poorly written signs that read “BLM is funded by rich satanic elite pedophile Jews” and “Christ is King.”| Stumptown Research Collective
This article exposes two of the founders of the American Banderite Network (ABN), a neo-Nazi political project, as a pair of 16-year-old twins who are currently juniors at Century High School in Hillsboro, OR. As they are minors, we will only be identifying them by their initials: AP and BP. However, if they continue to engage in neo-Nazi organizing, their full names and unredacted faces will be released. And to any adults who consider organizing with these kids in the future, know that if yo...| Stumptown Research Collective
American Banderite Network logoAmid news of the horrors of Russia’s war on Ukraine, North American white nationalists have been engaged in an online argument over which side is the most nazi. One online space that has branded itself around this ideological tug-o-war is the American Banderite Network (ABN), a pro-Ukraine white nationalist channel on the messaging app Telegram.| Stumptown Research Collective
Welcome back to our series on the Rose City Nationalists. In Part 5 we will introduce you to James Nicholas Paine. Based on his membership in a white supremacist organization, he should be considered a threat to his community.| Stumptown Research Collective