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The following is a piece entitled The Ballad of “An Ode To Ken Death” which was graciously written for us by PFN, a founding member of Portland Anti Racist Action and former Corvallis punk. This true story was originally told during the It Did Happen Here panel at the 2024 HotV AntiCapitalist BookFair. A zine version of this piece can be found on our website at cvantifa.noblogs.org/PeacockStabbing. -CVAntifa

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I don’t know if I was consciously entering the fight against White supremacy when I did. I was 14 years old, and my band, Ehgas (it came from a dream the guitar player had), were playing our first ever show 8 months after Ethiopian college student Mulugeta Seraw was murdered in southeast Portland by members of the racist skinhead gang East Side White Pride. One of the three murderers was known by the name Ken Death, and from reports on the murder, it was Ken who struck the final blow that ended Seraw’s life. Ken was a known entity in Portland’s hardcore punk scene prior to becoming a murderer, having been a bouncer at Portland’s largest all-ages club, The Pine Street Theater, and having been the lead singer in a metalcore band that had opened for The Accused and Poison Idea (the biggest hardcore bands in the Northwest at the time) at a packed show at Pine Street only 8 days before killing Seraw on November 13^th, 1988. Seraws’s murder brought home the reality that the Nazi skinheads who had been increasing terrorizing the Portland punk scene with unbridled violence knew no limit. The swastikas and sieg heils were not cosplay, the unprovoked punches were not just roughhousing. My friends and I were stunned and outraged, and it led our guitar player, Spot, to write song about how we were feeling called Ode to Ken Death. I knew the moment I heard it that it was going to be our best song, and fully supported the sentiment behind it, despite the passing thought that it might REALLY piss off some very dangerous people.

As was common among political hardcore bands of the time, we created a photocopied lyric sheet to hand out at the show, and Spot added his address and phone number to it in hopes that people would contact us and ask us to play more shows (This was ultimately short-sighted on his part). We played our set as the openers of an all-day, 8 band benefit show, and were received well, if for no other reason than who doesn’t like seeing 14 and 15 year-olds playing their first show? I noticed a small group of skinheads there, but their vibe was observational more than aggressive, which was unusual for the skins I had previously encountered at shows, so I and presumably everyone else assumed that they were not Nazis, and not there to cause trouble. Notably their matching dark blue flight jackets and overall clean and composed appearance presented a stark contrast to that of the Nazi skinheads who marauded around Portland punk shows. Guys in East Side White Pride often looked like they had woken up in their own vomit.

About a week after the show, my teenage band mates and I were hanging out in Spot’s bedroom where we practiced when he got a call that sounded like a prank. A young woman was on the other end saying she was a part of anti-racist group in Texas that monitors the activity of racist groups such as former KKK grand dragon Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.), and did we know that on his weekly address to his followers on the W.A.R. hotline that he had implored them to let us know what they thought of our characterization of Ken Death and theviolent acts that he committed. This had to be a joke, right? The most powerful and dangerous bigot in America had just sicced his legions of militant White supremacists on us, three teenagers in a little town outside of Portland? It was not, in fact, a joke. Within days the letters started pouring in, mostly with U.S. postmarks, but some coming from as far as Europe. The tone of these letters ranged from your standard “Fuck you go die race traitors” to carefully crafted appeals to our intellect and anti-authoritarian sensibilities, expressing concern that we had been misled by mainstream media reports on the Seraw murder. Wisely, none of the mail we received (roughly 20 letters, from my recollection) threatened us with actual harm, as this would have been a legal offense. We responded to this situation with the kind of exhilaration a person whose life is very boring experiences when something interesting finally happens, while at the same time carrying a collective pit in our stomachs. Our next show was about a week later in Corvallis at The Peacock Ballroom (AKA The Top of The Cock), opening for Rhode Island’s Verbal Assault, among others. As happens in college towns sometimes, the punk scene in Corvallis was exploding at that moment, and nearly all the shows were happening up that long flight of stairs. Getting to play a proper punk show opening for a bunch of touring bands was incredibly fun and exciting, but the traumatized child part of me was always hypervigilant when the threat of danger existed, even in moments where I was having a good time. So yes, I was watching the door all night, and yes I was the one to notice a couple of skinheads in dark blue flight jackets entering the club minutes after we played. I watched as they spoke to the person at the door, and after a moment saw them turn around and leave. Deductive reasoning told me those were the skins from our last show, who had very likely provided W.A.R. with our lyric sheet, and they were there to find us. The threat we experienced felt serious, and as teenagers without any real community or connections, it seemed to us that we had entered that fight alone. Having been ready for a name change as it was, we chose self-preservation and updated our name to Malcontent.

Part of why the punk scene in Corvallis was thriving at this time in 1989 was because very few venues were hosting all-ages shows in Portland. The violence brought by Nazi skinheads to nearly every show was a likely reason for this, along with the restrictions imposed by Oregon Liquor Control Commission on clubs who dared selling alcohol to the 21+ crowd while minors were present in the same room. Meanwhile some folks in Corvallis found a good, cheap, mid-sized ballroom to rent out for shows, and soon bands from all over were stopping there to play in lieu of Portland. In December of that year, one of my favorite bands at the time, Neurosis, came up from the East Bay to headline at The Peacock. I’d love to tell you how thrilling it was to see a band that I had been obsessed with for more than a year prior, but I can’t. They made it to The Top of The Cock, but they didn’t perform.

Like several towns in Oregon at the time, Corvallis too had a Nazi skinhead problem, and the biggest problem of them all was named Shanley. He was an oaf with a big mouth, and was always looking for trouble. Mike Arrogant, the guitar player for Portland’s Deprived ( later of Defiance), who were also on the bill that night, had a mouth of his own, and embodied some oaf-like tendencies when supplied with enough alcohol. But he was our oaf. Reports vary from about what happened when Mike and Shanley crossed paths outside of the club, but the end result was multiple stab wounds in Mike’s abdomen from Shanley’s knife. The stabbing occurred while punk legends The Detonators were warming up the stage for Neurosis. The kids were wild with anticipation when Mike emerged onto the stage, propped up by his girlfriend Pilar. He grabbed the mic from Bruce from The Detonators while lifting his shirt to show his grotesque stab wounds to the 350 or so kids in attendance, yelling “Shanley just fucking stabbed me!” We gawked at the disfigured flesh while trying to process his words. Once the message hit, it was as if someone had kicked an ant hill, and we were the inhabitants, out to seek revenge. The entire venue emptied in the span of 45 seconds, and kids flooded the streets of downtown Corvallis, screaming for vengeance and running in all directions, searching for the guy who harmed one of our own.

It’s easy to dismiss teenagers, and boy oh boy, they can be very silly without even trying, but what I experienced that night was my first real moment of solidarity in action. And it was powerful. Nearly every kid in that room had felt terrorized by a Nazi skinhead at some point in their short life, whether it had been in the pit at a hardcore show, in the halls of their high school, or walking down the street minding their own business. The rage expressed by every one of us was not just about seeing a guy from a band we liked with his guts poking out. It was a rage that had been simmering and finally came to a boil. I don’t want to speak for everyone, but in that moment I did not only want justice for a member of my punk rock community. I wanted justice for every punk kid that had been fucked with or beaten by a skinhead. I wanted justice for Mulugeta Seraw, and I wanted justice for every person who had been harmed in any way in the name of White supremacy.

The Nazi got away that night, but ultimately wound up in prison for the stabbing. One Nazi behind bars, however, was not going to solve the problem we were facing. First they came for Mulugeta Seraw, and we marched and wrote songs about it. Then they came for us, and we had not choice but to fight back.

In November of 89, a month prior to the stabbing, Maximum Rock and Roll published an interview with a Minneapolis anti-racist skinhead named Kieran, who was one of the founders of an organization called Anti-Racist Action (ARA). In the article, he described the tactics of the group, their values, and the ways in which they were finding success in taking back their community and driving the Nazis underground. I can only image how many people reading that interview felt a sense of hope that something like that could happen in their town, and in their scene, and it most certainly played a part in my friends and I forming our own chapter in the months that followed.

Nobody seems to recall the exact date or even month that the first meeting of Portland ARA took place, but based on the clothing we wore in the group photo taken that day, it must have been early spring, 1990. We met at the home of our friend, Karen, on Southeast Belmont Street. Karen seemed almost too old and mature for the 30 or so punks and skinheads who comprised that initial core of the ARA chapter, while perhaps too young and punk for the professional activists who made up Portland’s most visible anti-fascist organization at the time, the Coalition for Human Dignity (CHD). If I don’t mention a single word here about Karen again, I want to be clear that without her, Portland ARA would have been far less functional, and might never have happened at all.

I would love to say I had some important role in the inner-workings of our ARA chapter, but that just wasn’t the case. At 15 I was the second-youngest member of our chapter, and much like now, a better listener than a talker. Regardless of how much I spoke up in those meetings, I deeply believed in the cause, and felt an adrenaline rush every time I sat with my friends and comrades scheming up ways in which we could take back our scene and drive the Nazis out of our community. When we put those plans into action, it was a strange euphoria where fear and joy become jumbled up together.

The actions taken by ARA, in conjunction with SHARP, CHD and other community organizations, have thankfully been well-documented in the podcast and book, It Did Happen Here, so by all means go find those resources if you want an in-depth look at what we accomplished and how we accomplished it. For now, though, it’s important to know that through coming together and utilizing ourstrengths as individuals and as organizations, the positive impact was undeniable and massive. By 1992, less than two years after the formation of Portland ARA, Nazis at punk shows in Portland or anywhere else in Oregon were an exceedingly-rare sight. Not to say that they disappeared, but they became ashamed and afraid to make themselves known. Pompadours and rocker dos became the new style for these fascists in hiding, who found new homes in the more conservative rockabilly and metal scenes. Most moved to the outer edges of town, or left the area completely. An incredible win for our community, though like all things, impermanent, and emblematic of what John Steinbeck once wrote in a letter to a friend:

“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die”. -PFN

Quentin Eric Storey is an Oregon State University student in the college of economics. He has a documented history of  attempting to intimidate local marginalized communities and covering the city with racist, homophobic, and right-wing stickers and posters.  While none of his actions are explicitly violent, in our time doing this work, we have frequently seen individuals like Quentin engage in patterns of escalatory behavior. Many of our subjects begin with low key actions like stickering and postering that embolden them to engage in actual violence. As this is the case, we feel it is important for the public know about Quentin’s actions and identity.

In spring 2023 we were made aware of an attempt to intimidate attendees of a drag brunch  held at the Biere Library from a man wearing a goofy bright orange OSU bucket hat and ski mask. At the event, he held a childish homemade sign reading, “This is perverse. This is Wrong.”  After being denied entry to the event by supportive locals, the man stormed off alone and sadly folded his sign and put it in the trash. Following the incident, the pathetic protestor became referred to as “Bucket Hat Guy” to those in the know.

On June 1st 2023, Bucket Hat Guy again made an appearance. This time, he held a one man counterprotest of a Trans Rights march held by the Corvallis Lesbian Avengers. At this event, he once more brought a poster board that (if not for its hateful content) would fit nicely in a 3rd grade science fair. This sign confusingly reads, “2 GENDERS 0 TRANS I WILL NEVER USE TRANS PRONOUNS.” It also features the logos of Fidelity Month, a bizarre campaign to designate June as a celebration of fidelity to, “God, family, and country.” The project, created by arch-conservative ghoul Robert P. George is an attempt to subvert pride celebrations during the month.

In February of 2024, CVA received reports of two individuals bothering the Really Really Free Market, a local mutual aid group that provides essential clothing and supplies to Corvallis’ houseless residents. We noticed that one of these individuals, was wearing a coyote-brown backpack, the same backpack that Bucket Hat Guy chose to wear to harass the Lesbian Avengers. Once we had their faces, it was short work to identify Bucket Hat Guy as Quentin Eric Storey and his partner as his roommate Kevin Jeffries.

Later, in December of this year, the pair set up an anti-Black Lives Matter diorama across Central Park plaza from the Really Really Free Market. The diorama featured the same colored pencil “artistry” as the signs once held by Bucket Hat Guy.

Quentin’s harassment doesn’t solely extend to queer people and those helping the homeless. He’s also made a point to threaten and bother OSU students protesting on behalf of Palestinian survival during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He frequently was seen hollering at his fellow students during the OSU Palestine encampment. He is pictured below at a February rally in the SEC plaza where SUPER and Mid-Valley Jews 4 Peace demonstrated for a ceasefire during the Israeli bombing of civilians in Rafah.

During the summer of 2024, leading up to the presidential election, we noticed an uptick in hateful stickers and posters being placed across Corvallis. Much of this propaganda was clearly being produced by the same individual. The low-quality stickers were all homemade using adhesive labels run through a consumer printer, and all had similarly cheesy graphics. Many of the same graphics appeared on posters covered in adhesive tape and wheatpaste. The messaging present on these stickers varies greatly. Some of it is standard MAGA-aligned slop, while other content is more explicitly anti-Black, homophobic, and anti-trans.

Several of these stickers feature comics by crypto-fascist artists like Stonetoss and WokelyCorrect.This type of propaganda is deceptively insidious. These artists ingratiate themselves to conservative audiences using somewhat innocuous humor pointing out perceived hypocrisy of liberals and leftists. When audiences explore their bodies of work more deeply, they will find themselves pointed towards increasingly extreme conspiratorial viewpoints like Holocaust revisionism and great replacement theory. This phenomenon is explained in-depth in Anonymous Comrades Collective’s masterful takedown of Stonetoss published this March.

Eventually, we received a tip from a concerned Corvallisite who had seen a bearded man putting the stickers up. We showed this individual several pictures of local far-right agitators, and they identified the responsible party as Bucket Hat Guy himself, Quentin Eric Storey. Demonstrable proof that Quentin is the sticker-er can be found in his big boy diorama. The posterboard features a painting from deviantart user Kinnas which also appears on a sticker seen slapped across Corvallis. We should make it clear, despite Quentin utilizing the slogan “White Lives Matter” on this sticker, we have no reason to believe he has any association with the eponymous neo-Nazi group we infiltrated and exposed earlier this year.

Quentin’s Facebook profile also features a photo of the Trump, “fight” graphic. This is clearly one of his favorites, and we’ve seen more instances of this specific image around town than any of his others. In the comments, Quentin offers to send relatives stickers with the graphic.

In many ways, Quentin’s behavior parallels that of local neo-Nazi Benjamin Baker. Like Quentin, Ben had a tendency towards harassing local marginalized communities, and expressing himself with racist graffiti in an escalating pattern. In another striking parallel, each individual has turned their roommate into a toadie who accompanies them on missions to bother people. For Ben it was Kyle Bonham. For Quentin it is Kevin Jeffries. Ben’s behavior eventually spiraled out of control and culminated in him joining and getting kicked out of Patriot Front, displaying a swastika flag in his window, and illegally discharging a firearm during a dispute over a meth deal at the skatepark.

Just tell us you don’t see the resemblance…

To Quentin and Kevin, we urge you to avoid following the path of Ben Baker. Whatever small contrarian joys you receive from being a nuisance to your fellow citizens will be far-outweighed by the pain and suffering involvement in the far-right will bring into your life. Exit the ideological spiral now, before it’s too late. You may end up like Ben, a lonely felon isolated from his community stuck deep in debt and barely scraping by.

This article was made possible by helpful individuals across the Corvallis community who have consistently sent us tips regarding hateful materials and actions they have witnessed. We are extremely grateful to these individuals for their help in keeping our community free of bigotry. If you see fascist or far-right activity in the Willamette Valley, please report it to us at CVAntifa@riseup.net.

Welcome back to Part 7 of our series on Rose City Nationalists (RCN). In this installment, we will be exposing Jaren Huber of Portland, Oregon. Based on his membership in a white supremacist organization and his history of domestic violence, he is a threat to the community.

In this article, we will be exposing several members of the Pacific Northwest WolfPack (PNWWP) – a neo-Nazi Odinist organization operating in western Washington. The PNWWP has existed since 2016, but recently has expanded its organizing and is constructing a white separatist compound in rural Washington state, just outside of Elma. Several of their members, including those in leadership positions, are dangerous and have been responsible for many acts of violence, including a recent double homicide in King County. As an organization, they are closely affiliated with other Odinist hate groups, and have strong ties to bonehead prison gangs and the greater “3.0″ movement. Most concerning, they incorporate children into the majority of their practices; a main goal of their organization is to groom children into a lifetime of white supremacy. PNWWP and its members pose a drastic threat to their local communities and the Pacific Northwest as a whole, and need to be regarded as such.

PNW Wolfpack

The PNW Wolfpack started in 2016 as a network of white supremacist Asatru kindreds and clans in the Pacific Northwest. Asatru is a set of norse-pagan religious practices adhered to by many neo-Nazis. Not all Asatruers and Heathens are Nazis, but they unfortunately represent a significant number of its adherents. When Asatru groups use the word “kindred”, they are referring to an individual worship group of one or more households. A directory of the PNWWP kindreds can be found on their website – there are 15 in total, spread between Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia.

The PNWWP utilizes many fascist symbols in their branding. Their logo prominently features the Wolfsangel, an ancient symbol that was used as the insignia for several Waffen-SS units in Nazi Germany, and has become wildly popular among American neo-Nazis.

Many of the PNWWP kindred flags also feature fascist symbols. The most notable of these is the “Nordvestri” kindred, which is derived from the Northwest Territorial Imperative flag, an ideology which aims to establish a white ethnostate in the PNW.

Additionally, the flags of the “House of J.R.”, “N.W. Odin’s Folk”, and “House of K.S.” kindreds all display the Sonnenrad, another ancient symbol that was co-opted by the Nazis and eventually neo-Nazis.

A Sonnenrad emblazoned on the floor of the SS General’s hall in Nazi Germany.

The Pacific Northwest Wolfpack first received attention from the media and anti-fascists in 2016, when two of their members attempted to bribe the victim of a violent hate crime committed by future Evergreen Active Club leader Daniel Rowe.

In the summer of 2017, three individuals — Joshua Cache McCallum, James Smith, and Dale Ball — registered the PNWWP as a non-profit charitable corporation in Washington state. They neglected to renew their registry, and their status expired in late 2019.

The SPLC had listed the PNWWP as a hate group operating in Washington state as recently as 2020, but have since removed them from their hatemap. We hope that this article will convince them to re-add the group.

A key objective of the PNW Wolfpack is grooming children into the neo-Nazi movement. Being a spiritual organization, genocidal beliefs of racial superiority are intimately incorporated into most aspects of members daily lives, including their parenting; a quick glance at members social media accounts makes this abundantly clear. At the organization level, many of their activities are geared towards children specifically. The PNWWP has held a children’s summer camp for three years straight, with the expressed goal of instilling their white supremacy into, according to their website, a “new generation of elders that can teach and carry on this tradition from one generation to the next.”

Another aspect of PNWWP worth discussing is their prison recruitment. A significant portion of the group’s membership is connected to Nazi prison gangs, and they do a significant amount of work connecting with and recruiting white supremacist prisoners behind bars. One example of this can be found in one of our previous articles in which we exposed children’s Jiu-Jitsu instructor and convicted murderer Justin “JT” Laks as a neo-Nazi associate of PNWWP and the Asatru Folk Assembly. Justin was recruited by PNWWP while in prison, and immidetly after release began associating with members of the group.

Ravenfolk United

Last June, we released an article entitled, “Asatru Folk Assembly and Northwest Nationalist Network: A Tale of Two Masons“. This article detailed the connections between the Northwest Nationalist Network (NNN), a militant neo-Nazi group in the Pacific Northwest, and the Asatru Folk Assembly (AsFA), a whites-only pagan organization. We encourage readers to read that article for a fuller understanding on the context on the organizations.

Since the publication of our previous article, the Asatru Folk Assembly has become embattled following revelations that it’s leader, Matt Flavel, knowingly allowed a sex offender to operate within the group and interact with children. This controversy has led to many Asatru Folk Assembly kindreds disaffiliating from the Asatru Folk Assembly, aligning instead with Raven Folk United, a competing splinter organization with significant presence in California, Arizona, and Missouri. Raven Folk is primarily run by Golden State Skinheads leader Michael Sessumes, and has garnered support from infamous white supremacists like Ron McVan and Christopher “The Hammer” Polhaus.

PNWWP was initially closely affiliated with the Asatru Folk Assembly, and previously donated all of their proceeds to the organization. Furthermore, several of the PNWWP kindreds were also AsFA kindreds, most notably the aforementioned “Nordvestri” kindred, which we examined in-depth in the Masons article.

The PNWWP formally cut all ties with the AsFA after Flavel’s actions were revealed. Until the AsFA undergoes “significant change,” PNWWP members are not allowed to associate with the AsFA. While not officially incorporating their organization with Raven Folk in any way, they do appear to have close ties. The Raven Folk United Telegram channel shared a post from the PNWWP, and their Instagram posted photos of the construction progress of the Freyrshof.

Freyrshof:

“Hof” is the word Asatru adherents use to refer to their places of worship. The Asatru Folk Assembly maintains Hofs in Brownsville, California; Murdock, Minnesota; Linden, North Carolina; and Whitesprings, Florida. PNW Wolfpack is in the process of finishing it’s own Hof — Freyrshof — located at 388 Elma McCleary Rd in Elma, Washington. This can be confirmed comparing Google Streetview and photos posted to the PNWWP telegram. This is highly concerning because physical spaces like these provide space for white supremacist community building, recruitment, and organization.

The construction of the Hof was funded by raffling off white supremacist crafts on the PNWWP telegram chat. Action items regarding these crafters and businesses will be included at the bottom of the article.

Colorado Patriot Front, Front Range Active Club, and Asatru Folk Assembly member William Planer used the PNWWP raffle chat to communicate directly with the group.

Golden State Skinhead member Jonathan Court has financially contributed to PNWWP by participating in their raffles.

Jonathan Couch buying a raffle spot using the account @GSSJon

PNWWP Leadership:

The three individuals listed here were listed publicly as officers on PNWP’s incorporation documents filed with the State of Washington. More information about all of these individuals may be found by emailing us at cvantifa@riseup.net

Joshua Cache McCallum

Joshua Cache McCallum is the primary leader of PNW Wolfpack. The PNWWP is registered under his name in the Washington business archives, and lists his address as the mailing address. McCallum also runs the PNWWP Telegram channel, and hosts the raffles.

Prior to his involvement with the group, he was a patched member of American Front, a notorious neo-Nazi bonehead gang. He can be seen below wearing an American Front bomber jacket, in 2015 alongside other PNWWP members.

He is pictured below posing with members of the Hammerskins, their feeder club Crew 38, and fellow American Front members on a Washington State Ferry on their way to a Martyr’s Day celebration in 2017.

McCallum (crouching front left) with other boneheads

Joshua has several white supremacist symbols tattooed across his body, including multiple swastikas, Celtic Crosses, a Sonnenrad, and an Algiz rune.

Joshua is currently employed as a social worker in Aberdeen, Washington. In this role, he frequently works with individuals experiencing houselessness and battling drug addictions. Someone with such violent beliefs should not be working with some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

Freyrshof is being built on land owned by Joshua’s parents Rey Duncan and Mona Larayne McCallum, although it is unclear if they are currently living there. His mother operates a business called “The Pickety Place” out of the address, where she sells kitschy gnome statues. These statues are among the items raffled off to fund the enterprise. It is very likely that Rey and Mona hold the same genocidal beliefs as their son, as it is clear that they actively support and encourage his political organizing.

Dale “Thorson” Ball and Angela Ball

Dale “Thorson” Ball is listed as the second director of the Pacific Northwest Wolf Pack non-profit corporation. Dale is a blacksmith, running his business, “Thorson Forge,” out of his home in Shelton, Washington. He also holds classes for would-be blacksmiths, including children. Dale was a major contributor to the construction of Freyrshof and can be seen in a group photo taken on site in March 2023. He is also active in the PNWWP Telegram chat.

In 2019, Dale Ball appeared on Season 7 Episode 7 of the T.V. show “Forged in Fire” and was embarrassingly the first of the four contestants to get voted out. Dale is unfortunately not the first Nazi to be featured on this show.

Angela Ball, Dale’s wife, is also a follower of Odinism and is complicit in Dales white supremacy. It is clear that she encourages Dale in his political organizing and actively supports his efforts to groom their children into a white supremacist lifestyle.

James “JD” Smith

James “JD” Smith is listed as the third and final director of the PNWWP and another major contributor to the construction of Freyrshof. JD is active in the PNWWP Telegram chat and is closely connected with many Wolfpack members on social media.

Along with being an active white supremacist, JD is the Sgt. at Arms of a Hombres MC chapter, a clean and sober support club of the Bandidos MC. The Washington Bandidos chapter is linked to much of the state’s methamphetamine distribution and several violent crimes, including the murder of 2 children and their parents in 2017.

JD previously played in the band Black Top Demon, whose singer Joe Ty attempted to set an audience member on fire  at a 2015 Kurt Cobain tribute show in Aberdeen, Washington.

PNWWP Members

The following individuals have all associated publicly with PNWWP using their real names. More information about all of them may be found by emailing us at cvantifa@riseup.net.

Brandon Joseph “Ulfgang” Gerner 

Brandon’s book for sale on Amazon

Gerner’s mugshot

Chris and Alena Mack

Christopher Mack posing with other Operation Werewolf members

Harold “Moose” and Stacy Rath 

Jeremy Wolf wearing a PNWWP hat

Jeremy Wolf hanging out with the McCallum brothers

Get in touch:

If you want more info about the whereabouts or activity of PNWWP members and associates, email us at CVAntifa@riseup.net. If you have any tips regarding the activity, employment, location, or ties of any PNWWP members, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Welcome to Part IV of a series on the Evergreen Active Club (EAC) and the Northwest Nationalist Network (3N), a regional coalition of white nationalist organizations. This project is a collaboration between several antifascist organizations and individuls including ourselves, SunlightAFA, SoCal Research Club, FashFreeNW, Stumptown Research Collective, and other antifascist anons.

In our fourth installment, we will be identifying the former leader of Puget Sound Active Club, current White Lives Matter Washington and Evergreen Active Club member, and Asatru Folk Assembly “apprentice folkbuilder” Mason Howells. We will also be identifying Evergreen Active Club member and Asatru Folk Assembly “folkbuilder” Mason Johnson, providing a brief overview of Asatru and why they are cause for concern, and detailing the significant overlap between 3N and Asatru membership. For more background information on EAC and 3N, please check out the previous articles in this series:

Part I: Evergreen Active Club: Daniel Rowe and His Bonehead Crew

PartII: Larkin McIntyre & Vinland Rebels: Nazi Bonehead in Shoreline Schools

Part III: Spread of the Northwest Nationalist Network

ASATRU FOLK ASSEMBLY

The Asatru Folk Assembly is a white-separatist Odinist religious organization operating in North America and internationally in Oceania, Europe, Argentina, and South Africa. Over the last several years, the group has grown significantly, and has established three physical churches, or Hofs, across the US. The organization is considered a hate-group by the Southern Poverty Law Center  and categorized as an extremist group by the Anti Defamation League, and has been denounced by over 120 Pagan religious groups. Despite all this, when interviewed by MPN News, Asatru Folk Assembly High-preist Matt Flavel said the group is peaceful and does not condone violence or hold white supremacist views. This claim is categorically false, and the following article will detail how multiple officials within the organization are actively tied to militant neo-Nazi organizing in the Pacific Northwest. We encourage individuals to judge the Asatru Folk Assembly based on their members, associations, imagery, and political affiliations.

On January 21st, members of Evergreen Active Club, Puget Sound Active Club (PSAC), Asatru Folk Assembly and Rose City Nationalists (RCN) had a regional unity meeting at Fort Steilacoom Park in Lakewood, WA. At this meeting they posed with a giant banner reading, “No White Guilt.” The same banner was dropped during the inaugural 3N action on Hooley Bridge in Portland, Oregon on February 18th, 2023.

These banners were produced and sold by Asatru Folk Assembly member Christopher Pohlhaus for a national banner drop in 2020. Pohlhaus has since become one of the US’s most notorious and dangerous neo-Nazis after announcing his intention to turn Maine into a white ethnostate, and his formation of the Blood tribe, a militant group targeting the LGBTQ community.

In addition to Pohlhaus, several Asatru Folk Assembly members with connections to violent neo-Nazi crews have been previously identified by a wide array of antifascist researchers:

Back in 2019, we identified one of their members, Sean Wulfe McCann  as the former leader of the Utah chapter of American Guard, and current member of Vinlanders Social Club. Additionally, late last year, we exposed Luke Winchester Kenna and Michael Brown, the men behind Aryan Compartmented Elements, a neo-Nazi terrorist cell that was busted for coordinating a bank robbery. Both of the men have ties to Asatru.

Frankie Moreira, a member of the neo-Nazi bonehead prison gang Peckerwoods, was identified as being a member of Asatru Folk Assembly by Bay161.

Antifa Sacramento exposed Joseph Simmons and his partner Anna Simmons as members of the Asatru Folk Assembly, and Joseph as a member of the neo-Nazi bonehead gang Golden State Skinheads. Additionally, he has connections to the Hammerskins and the Rise Above Movement.

Asatru Folk Assembly members Joshua and Terry Williams were identified as members of Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement, an org which played a key role in organizing the deadly Unite the Right rally in August 2017, by Ashville Anti Racism.

Ashville Anti Racism also exposed Christopher Pack as a member of the now defunct Traditionalist Worker Party and an associate of the Hammerskins, along with him and his wife Karissa Pack as members of the Asatru Folk Assembly.

Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists identified Patriot Front, Front Range Active Club, and Asatru Folk Assembly member William Planer in late May of this year

Additionally, the researchers with Southwest Washington Anti Racist Movement identified former Klu Klux Klan member Tom Herman as a member of Asatru Folk Assembly operating in Lewis County, Washington.

This concerning overlap further extends into the groups leadership roles; multiple Asatru Folk Assembly “Folkbuilders” have deep connections with various neo-Nazi organizations. A “Folkbuilder” is an official leadership position within the org, with the task of spreading their message and recruiting new members.

Asatru “Folkbuilder” Marc Macloed was exposed by Antifa Sacremento in 2020 as being a close associate of neo-Nazi gangs such as the Golden State Skinheads, Sacto Skins, and Blood & Honor.

Atlanta Antifascists exposed Asatru Folk Assembly “apprentice folkbuilder” Trent East and “Gothi” (priest) Dalton Woodward as associates of the neo-Nazi terror org Atomwaffen Division. Trent East was also identified as an associate of Operation Werewolf.

In this article, we will be adding two more names to this growing list of Asatru Folk Assembly members who are affiliated with violent white nationalist political organizations:

MASON ROSS HOWELLS

Mason Howells is a white nationalist, Asatru Folk Assembly “apprentice folkbuilder,” and member of Evergreen Active Club, who is currently operating out of Lynnwood, Washington. In this article, we will be detailing the timeline of Mason Howells’ presence in the PNW white nationalist scene, starting from his involvement with WLM Washington, to his leadership position within Puget Sound Active Club (PSAC), to his role in helping establishing the Northwest Nationalist Network, and eventually assembling into Evergreen Active Club.

Mason Howells – involvement with WLM Washington

White Lives Matter is a loosely organized white nationalist movement that aims to fight the conspiratorial “great replacement theory,” which has been the motivation behind several terrorist attacks. There are chapters in most states, and members typically center their actions around the second Saturday of each month, holding hate rallies, placing graffiti, distributing flyers, and holding banner drops. Another WLM Washington member – Frank John Baptist Bagley II – has previously been identified by WA Nazi Watch.

Mason Howells first came on the radar of Antifascist researchers as a previously unidentified member of WLM Washington that can be seen in the majority of their media releases. He first appeared in a WLM Washington video from July 20th, 2022, where members of Rose City Nationalists met up with the crew and engaged in a flag and book burning.

This WLM Washington member was additionally responsible for much of the white nationalist graffiti in Lynnwood, Washington and the neighboring communities.

A couple months later, this same individual can be seen in a WLM Washington propaganda video from 12/17/2022, where he was among a trio of neo-Nazis who distributed white nationalist propaganda to crowds departing from Lumen Field, and placed WLM stickers across downtown Seattle.

WLM Member, wearing the same hat

This unidentified members involvement with WLM Washington continued into 2023, and he can be seen in footage from a banner drop on 1/14. He was one of the two members who tore a pride flag, before the crew marched onto a highway overpass to unveil  a banner that contained a popular white nationalist slogan and a Celtic cross flag, before throwing up Nazi salutes.

This specific WLM member can additionally be seen in a propaganda release from a few months later on 3/12, where 7 neo-Nazis place a banner displaying “WHITE LIVES MATTER” over an I5 overpass in Pierce County. Similar to their prior actions, these fascists also placed white nationalist stickers around the area.

Researchers were able to determine that this was the same repeating individual due to wardrobe connections across the various events. They were able to connect Lynnwood, Washington resident and Asatru Folk Assembly “apprentice Folkbuilder” Mason Howells to this individual, through unmasked pictures of him from publicly available social media posts.

Mason Howells – Poster Behind the PSAC Telegram

One of the founding crews of the Northwest Nationalists Network, Puget Sound Active Club is a now defunct “3.0” style neo-Nazi organization that was responsible for distributing white nationalist propaganda across the Seattle-Tacoma region. Forming in late October of 2022, the PSAC telegram infrequently posted white nationalist graffiti members had engaged in, along with posting fascist propaganda supporting the Northwest Territorial Imperative.

We got our first look at the individual behind the telegram in November of 2022, when a video of an individual throwing away “enemy propaganda” was included in a media release.

Still from the video posted to the PSAC telegram

Through matching up the countertop and flooring patterns and materials, researchers were able to determine that this video was filmed in Mason Howell’s kitchen.

Additionally, the filmer can be seen wearing the same pants that Mason Howells was wearing in the WLM actions on 12/17 and on 1/14, along with the same green undershirt Howells wore to the action on 3/12.

The scope of PSAC’s “activism” was very limited, only engaging in a handful of stickering efforts and hosting a few training sessions. A photo posted to the PSAC telegram from one of these workout sections was identified by researchers as being taken in the 24 Hour Fitness gym in Lynnwood, Washington – Mason’s hometown.

Reminiscent of the Northwest Nationalist Network’s networking efforts, PSAC met up with Pride and Combat, on the night of 11/18/22. Pride and Combat is a defunct Idaho-based white supremacist sparring group formerly ran by neo-Nazi cult member Nick Stamolis. The PSAC and PAC telegrams posted a selfie of representatives of PSAC and PAC following the meeting, accompanied with the crews lofty goals for the future.

Anti-fascist researchers were able to identify the person on the right as Mason Howells through publicly available social media posts, where Howells can be seen wearing the same zip-up University of Washington hoodie.

This connection was strengthened when the same individual posted another selfie later on in the channels lifespan, where they can be seen wearing the same green undershirt from the WLM event on 3/12

The day following this unity meeting, on 11/19/22, members of PSAC, along with members of WLM Washington, Idaho, and Montana held a hate rally in the city of Spokane. About a dozen neo-Nazis paraded around the streets and vomited out white nationalist rhetoric at residents. Among this group of fascists was Mason Howells, wearing the same hoodie as the night before.

Mason Howells can be seen wearing the same Harley-Davidson hat he wore to WLM actions. It should be noted that Mason’s dad works at the Lynnwood Harley location

As a distinct organization, Puget Sound Active Club was short lived. While clearly being an instrumental force in establishing 3N, the PSAC telegram was deleted in early February of 2023, and they were last listed as a 3N member crew on a telegram post from March 5th. Given this, and their overwhelmingly young membership, researchers had been operating with the assumption that PSAC was subsumed into EAC, being taken under the wing of their older and hardened Nazi bonehead membership. This assumption was confirmed on June 10th, when Mason Howells and other suspected former PSAC members were spotted disrupting a pride event Centralia, Washington, repping Evergreen Active Club.

Mason Howells – the “Push-up” Nazi

Keen readers may have already recognized Mason Howells as the pathetic neo-Nazi who got utterly humiliated at Lewis County Pride in Centralia on June 10th. Video captured from the event – which would later go viral on multiple platforms and was used in news coverage – shows Howells losing a push-up contest in perhaps the most embarrassing way possible.

Evergreen Active Club and Rose City Nationalists made a paltry showing at Lewis County Pride last weekend, and were clowned out of town by the locals.

In this first video, you can see one of the EAC nazis being brutally murdered by a Pride attendee as the crowd cheers. pic.twitter.com/FdQLHmmEsj

— StumptownResearch (@Stumptown161) June 14, 2023

Mason Howells printing

While this is extremely ironic coming from a member of an active club, with the core of the movement being centered in physical fitness and martial arts, we do not want to distract from the very real threat that these people and the ideology they push bring to our communities. To that end, in photos from Centralia it also appears that Mason Howells may have been concealed carrying a handgun, although this is currently unconfirmed.

This is also the first time Mason had ever been seen without a mask on at a white nationalist rally, giving researchers a clear facial match to images sourced from publicly available social media posts, positively confirming his identity. During this hate rally, Mason hurled genocidal, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric at community members celebrating queer joy. Howells was seen wearing EAC merch sold by Daniel Rowe, whom he followed around like a scared dog throughout the day.

Mason Howells went on to attend another anti-LGBTQ hate rally wearing an Evergreen Active Club shirt, disrupting the annual Pride in Perry in the city of Spokane (where Mason had previously attended a WLM rally) on 6/24/23. Mason can be seen in photos from the event holding a shield provided by WLM Montana.

Utilizing a mountain of evidence collected over several months, Antifascist researchers were able to definitively identify this member of White Lives Matter Washington, Puget Sound Active Club, and Evergreen Active Club as Asatru Folk Assembly “apprentice Folkbuilder” Mason Howells. Despite Howells’ strikingly young age, he is deeply immersed into the neo-Nazi and white nationalist movement, and gaining membership into four separate organizations over the course of just over a year represents a vast commitment to this genocidal movement.

MASON JOHNSON

Mason Johnson is an Asatru Folk Assembly “Folkbuilder” based out of Lakewood, Washington. Johnson first came on our radar in early 2022 when we determined that he was associating with neo-Nazi murderer and children’s Jiu-Jitsu instructor Justin “JT” Laks in Vancouver, Washington. We were able to effectively shut down JT’s jiu-jitsu school and, as an added bonus, crushed Mason Johnson’s dreams of a career in game development.

Mason Johnson has been present in the Northwest Nationalist Network from the beginning. He was present at the preliminary 3N meetup in Lakewood, Washington, and can be seen in the pictures circulated after the event. The gathering was held at Fort Steilacoom park, less than one mile from Mason’s house.

Mason Johnson in Lakewood

Johnson’s presence was also documented at the aforementioned disruption of Lewis County Pride. He went to the event wearing the same goofy-ass flatcap he always wears.

3N AND ASATRU FOLK ASSEMBLY

Mason and his wife Rachel Johnson are active organizers for the “Nordvestri Kindred” of the Asatru Folk Assembly, centered in Pierce and King counties. A kindred is an official body within the church that must consist of at least three households. It should be noted that the flag of this kindred, a vertical green, white, and blue tricolor is made directly in reference to the Northwest Territorial Imperative, a white supremacist plan to establish a whites-only ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. The same colors are used by the Northwest Nationalist Network in almost all of their propaganda.

Regardless of their claims of being a benign religious organization, the Asatru Folk Assembly is ideologically united with genocidal neo-Nazi politics. The incorporation of such beliefs into their religious practices and cultural identity ensures a deep commitment to the white supremacist movement, and poses a threat to any community in which the group is active.

Along with Mason Howells and Mason Johnson, there appears to be multiple other members of 3N that are part of the Assembly. The most involved of them is EAC member Zachary Altona, who was recently exposed by Southwest Washington Anti Racist Movement. Altona can be seen in a plethora of Asatru Folk Assembly group photos.

Christopher and Alena Mack of Olympia, Washington, are also heavily involved with Asatru. Chris and Alena are associated with Vinland Rebels, and were featured in our recent article exposing Vinland Rebels member Larkin McIntyre. Additionally, they are both members of Operation Werewolf, and Chris Macks brother, Edward Mack, is affiliated with the NorthWest Hammerskins and PNW Wolfpack.

Chris and Alena Mack can be seen in a photo from the Asatru Folk Assembly May Day celebration in Washington along with EAC member Zachary Altona. Among this group is Justin O’Leary, aka “Ethan WA”, a Patriot Front Network Quatermaster who was exposed by WaNaziWatch last year. Multiple other 3N members are present in this picture, and will soon be exposed to the world.

An Asatru Folk Asembly gathering from May Day 2023

One thing worth noting about the above photo is the large amount of young children who are present. A major part of the Asatru Folk Assembly’s mission is to indoctrinate youth into their hateful cult. In our earlier article on Vinland Rebels, we showed Alena Mack making a group of children perform a Nazi salute. This was done during a PNW Wolfpack event, a group that lists Nordvestri Kindred as a member on their website.

Alena Mack: Groomer

Mason’s wife Rachel Johnson is also actively grooming children into neo-Nazism. She works with the “Asatru Academy”, a homeschooling network run by the church that began offering classes in fall of 2022. The Academy cites a desire to educate “Aryan” students in an environment free of critical race theory. Rachel works as the Assistant dean state compliance officer, meaning that she is working to get the, “school” recognized and credentialed where it is operating.

One victim of this Nazi influence is Mason Howells; In internal documents circulated within the Asatru Folk Assembly’s Odinsof district pertaining to Mason Howells’ conversion to Asatru, Howells describes how Mason Johnson was the person who introduced him to Asatru, and that Johnson made him feel “inspired.” It is clearly evident that Mason Johnson is actively attempting to radicalize disaffected and vulnerable young people into the greater white nationalist scene. The Asatru Folk Assembly provides such people with a sense of community when they typically have none, built on the shaky premise of a shared ethnic and cultural identity, and a common heritage. This setting provides the infrastructure necessary for white nationalist political organizations — most notably militant neo-Nazi bonehead gangs — to recruit new members. As a young person, Howells had tremendous potential to succeed in life, but due to the pernicious influence of Mason Johnson, that has been completely squandered.

These connections make is clear that the Asatru Folk Assembly serves as a conduit for violent neo-Nazi organizing and as a vector for young people to get funneled into militant fascist group, providing the foundation needed for such groups to recruit new members. The increasing growth and influence of Asatru Folk Assembly, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, is cause for great concern, as it ultimately strengthens the militant white nationalist movement by providing avenues for networking and collaboration between various groups. We encourage antifascists across the country to address Asatru kindreds with the same fervor.

More info about both of the Masons may be obtained by emailing us at CVAntifa@riseup.net