White Lives Matter Oregon Infiltrated and Exposed!

 

This summer, an antifascist activist infiltrated the Oregon chapter of White Lives Matter (WLM). WLM is an international organization that focuses on promoting white supremacy through demonstrations and agitprop. The group utilizes somewhat innocuous sloganeering in an attempt to indoctrinate white people into their racist worldviews. However, the organization is entirely composed of unrepentant neo-Nazis who attempt to “hide their power level” in order to make their hateful opinions more palatable to the masses. Despite what their optics try to represent, WLM members have a penchant for violence. Last year, two separate associates of the group were convicted of a bombing and a chemical attack at churches in Ohio and New Jersey. As such, we deem this group a genuine threat to our Oregon community, and are choosing to expose them for the safety of those in the cities where they reside.

We leaked logs from WLM admin and Oregon chats twice back in 2021. Following our last leak of their channel, the organization ceased operations in Oregon for three years. The group was restarted in early 2024 by Christian Coats of Portland Oregon. Christian is currently an Asatru folkbuilder and longtime bonehead who was arrested for attempting to assault a group of Black Portlanders in 2005. Nonetheless, he is a particularly lazy and incompetent man, and did little to keep the group active until it was forcefully taken over by Cruz Dean Walters in the Spring of 2024. Under Cruz, the group has expanded to include a small coterie of degenerates, dunces, and even an antifascist infiltrator. Not all is well in Nazi world however. As we neared completion of this article, a disgruntled member of the organization reached out to provide us with information about his fellow members. The screenshots and audio recordings of their conversations come from both this member and our infiltrator.

Since its reformation, WLM Oregon has engaged in a statewide campaign of racist stickering, banner drops, and the targeted harassment of Oregon City Pride. The following article identifies the individuals responsible for these activities and calls upon members of their communities to reject their hatred.

 

 

Cruz Dean Walters aka “Teutonic Tactician”

 

Cruz Dean Walters is the bumbling leader of WLM Oregon whose poor understanding of security culture got them into the mess they’re in today. Cruz is a 25 year old marine veteran who lives with his mother, sibling, and fiancé at their family home in McMinnville, Oregon. Cruz became radicalized by Goyim Defense League (GDL), and participated in their “City Council Death Squad” under the name “Oregon Aryan Warrior.” Despite its intimidating name, the death squad mostly just consists of dweebs calling into city council meetings and yelling incoherent slurs at beleaguered municipal employees. Cruz evidently decided that this was too childish even for him and joined WLM in winter of this year. Shortly after joining Cruz engaged in a hostile takeover of the group from then-leader Christian “Beaker” Coats.

Cruz participated in WLM’s banner drops on 8/12/24 in Salem and on 9/10/24 in Portland. He also harassed the 9/7/24 Oregon City Pride Celebration by leaving racist stickers around Clackamas Community College. He confesses to this in the following audio:

 

Cruz lives a double life and keeps his neo-Nazi organizing secret from his family and fiancé who do not share his hateful beliefs. He is, however abusive to his household. In the chat, he discusses physically assaulting his partner and threatening members of his family with a gun. He also claims to have stolen a firearm and frequently fantasizes about murdering people. He is highly unstable and should be treated with caution.

 

Michael “Whit” Gantenbein

 

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Michael Gantenbein acts as as Cruz’s second-in-command. He lives in Coos Bay Oregon where he runs Whit Industries, a company that specializes in marine fabrication. Whit has participated in all three of WLM Oregon’s banner drops, and is responsible for much of the breadth of the group’s stickers, which he leaves in truck stop bathrooms up and down the coast. Whit drives a modified flatbed work truck with plates 710PJS. This vehicle was photographed at the 8/12/24 Salem banner drop, and appears in the group’s propaganda video for the 9/10/24 Portland drop.

 

 

Michael uses his company as a means to further his organizing efforts. He employs several other far-right individuals. He claims that one of these employees prints all of his stickers, and he completed the WLM banner drop outside Roseburg with assistance from two employees. Michael also previously employed Matthew Wilbanks, a far-right conspiracy theorist involved with the local neighborhood watch. Wilbanks ran the blog The Daily Resister and enjoys filming himself harassing homeless people. He has since relocated from Coos Bay.

 

 

One of Michael’s most insidious activities is his involvement in the Oregon patriot movement. Michael is an administrator of the Oregon Patriots Alliance telegram channel. This group is primarily composed of individuals in the MAGA and patriot movements who (while vile in their own right) do not typically identify with the tenets of Nazism. Michael is actively attempting to radicalize these individuals by feeding them a steady stream of Nazi propaganda.

 

Much of Whit Industries’ income comes from government contracts. In the last few years, he has done over $200k of work for the Port of Coos Bay, all paid for with taxpayer dollars. He is currently involved in a multi-million dollar proposal for the port, and if approved it would provide $5 million of state and federal funding which he is set to be a recipient of.

 

David Glidden Jr. aka “Hammer”

 

 

David Glidden Jr. is a NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) musician based in Stayton, Oregon. He is the sole member of the bands JudenhaSS, EndSSturm, and Kreighammer. Glidden’s music paints a portrait of a disturbed individual. Many of his album covers feature the standard portraits of Adolf Hitler, Nazi marches, and Jewish corpses. His work also venerates serial killers and mass murders. He has albums dedicated to Charlie Manson, Timothy McVeigh, and Ed Gein.

 

Glidden’s records are sold by Jake Laskey, a notorious longtime neo-Nazi who runs Cuthean Productions out of La Pine, Oregon. Laskey is a particularly gross character who stabbed one of his Nazi brethren in 2018 and was recently charged with beating his partner in front of her child. JudenhaSS is also represented by Aryan War Distribution who previously included local sex offender Paul Bonnen’s band Xenocide on their roster.

Funnily enough, despite being one of the more extreme members of WLM, David is one of the least suited to the groups purported Aryan ideals. The thing is, despite draping himself in swastikas and writing songs about killing the untermensch, David is simultaneously biracial *and* bisexual. He previously ran a Fetlife Account on which he coordinated cheating on his wife with men under the unimaginative name Hammer42189. A word to the Salem kink and queer communities, it is believed that David frequents Bobs Books, a sex shop frequently used for cruising.

David lives with his wife and child at in Stayton, Oregon. Neither of these individuals are white, and we have no reason to believe that they share his hateful ideology. David is employed by the Stayton AmPm gas station, and tweets racist shit about the Indian family that employs him.

 

Landon Calhoon aka “King Richard”

 

 

Landon Calhoon is a Christofascist and alleged pedophile based in Salem Oregon. He runs the Twitter account @__thelionheart where he frequently posts white nationalist content and gets into arguments with other neo-Nazis. On this account, he publicly discusses his involvement with WLM Oregon.

 

Landon was photographed using his Kia Sedona mini-van as the group’s transportation during the 8/12/24 banner drop in Salem.

Landon is a hothead, and the rest of the group doesn’t trust him. He constantly advocates for abandoning the WLM organization in favor of engaging in paramilitary training. Members of the group frequently talk about him behind his back and consider him a liability to the group and the White Nationalist movement. In the following audio, Casey Knuteson is the first speaker, Cruz Walters is the second.

 

Landon currently lives in Salem, Oregon, but has expressed his intention to relocate to Coos Bay to work for Whit Industries.

 

Casey Knuteson aka “Alfred” & Jaren Huber aka “Vinny”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Casey Knuteson is one of the Willamette Valley’s most consistently ridiculed Nazis. Originally a Proud Boy, he was forced out of the group and joined Patriot Front (who also kicked him out). Following these twin rejections, Casey settled on creating his own group, Rose City Nationalists in 2022. RCN has been routinely humiliated, facing crushing defeats in the streets from antifascists and proud boys alike. Almost all of the group’s members have called it quits following exposés from ourselves, Stumptown Research Collective, and Rose City Antifa. Casey is a convicted child abuser who lives with his mother Kelly Knuteson in Gaston, Oregon. Kelly is a show Corgi breeder who frequently opens her home to Casey’s wayward Nazi friends.

After almost all of the other members left Rose City Nationalist Club, Casey has been left as a leader of one final lackey: Jaren Huber, who we exposed earlier this year. Like many of the other aforementioned Nazis, he has a history of domestic violence. He has been convicted of strangling a puppy and assaulting his grandfather and then-girlfriend.

Jaren attended WLM’s 8/12/24 banner drop in Salem while Casey attended the 9/10/24 drop in Portland. Together, the pair engaged in targeted harassment of Oregon City’s pride celebration alongside Cruz by placing WLM and RCN propaganda on windshields and poles.

 

 

Action Items:

Help us stop neo-Nazi organizing in Oregon! The following are some quick and easy ways to help stop these fascists from organizing!

-More information about all of the individuals in this article may be found HERE.

-Put up flyers around Oregon warning the community about this group and it’s membership.

-Contact the port of Coos Bay and suggest they cease all interaction with Whit Industries. They may be reached at 541-267-7678 or via www.portofcoosbay.com/contact-us.

–Reach out to the Stayton AmPm and suggest they cease employing David Glidden Jr.

-Share the following graphics across social media and with anyone you know who lives in one of the locations that these individuals are organizing in.

 

Two Notes:

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To the Nazis:

If you are one of the individuals exposed in this article or are otherwise involved in white nationalist organizing, take this as a wake up call. LEAVE NOW. You have saddled yourself to a movement rife with pedophiles, rapists, murders, and terrorists. There is no glory in fascism, only pain and suffering. Your movements are doomed to failure, and will always fall to infighting, power struggles, and internal conflict. It is not entirely uncommon for you to attack and kill your own during such conflict.

We will not rest until your movements are destroyed. Previous individuals exposed by us have found themselves jobless, homeless, and in federal prison. The life you have chosen for yourself is not a glorious one. Your name is forever marred by it’s toxic association to hate. It doesn’t have to be that way though. If it’s clear that you’ve left this behind, we’ll leave you alone. Just send us an email at cvantifa@riseup.net with an account of your time in the movement and be willing to prove you have left, and this all goes away.

 

To the women in their lives:

Many of the men featured in this article are in abusive relationships with women who do not share their neo-Nazi views. If you are a woman in one of these relationships reading this, we offer you this. These men are bad people, and in our time fighting these scumbags, we have found tremendous correlation between fascist beliefs and domestic abuse. These individuals will not be good fathers to your children. No matter what lies they tell you, they are not safe. Get out now. If you need help connecting with domestic violence resources near you, please reach out to us at cvantifa@riseup.net.

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Huge thanks to the many friends across the state who helped us complete this article. We are everywhere. Forever.