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Dragged into Moonlight Part I: Exposing the Northwest Pioneer Association

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this is part of series you can find Part II here and Part III here

INTRO

The Northwest Pioneer Association (NPA), also known as Torchlight, are a yet undisclosed group that follows the path set out by the late neo-Nazi Harold Covington and his White Separatist project the Northwest Front. Their goal, just like the original 2000s era Northwest Front and Northwest Pioneer Association, is to establish an all-white homeland in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the US. Adhering to the ideas laid out by Harold Covington in his novels, which land somewhere between Tom Clancy and the Turner Diaries, and old recordings of his podcast/radio program, the NPA aims to establish an all-white, gay-free, homeland in the PNW by means of a multi-phase operation that escalates to targeted killings of mixed race, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ couples, and instigating a white insurgency against the US government in the area. All of this will allegedly culminate in driving the state out of the region and carrying out an campaign of ethnic cleansing. Despite their extreme goals they place an emphasis on doing it smart and not blowing their cover or acting prematurely, counterposed to groups like Atomwaffen Division (AWD) who seem to be predicated on forming cults and posting incriminating things online. The NPA tries to play like everything is above board, that they’re just getting their friends to move to the PNW, and have to act like an underground group cause the government is trying to make racist jokes illegal. However, though they aren’t doing any activism or murders now, their goals of bigoted double homicides and ethnic cleansing remain the same.

This is not the first time racists have dreamed of an all-white homeland in the PNW. Oregon for example was founded as an all-white state, and many Klansmen and confederates moved to the PNW after the Civil War.  Decades later, Christian Identity (a racist spin on Christianity that Harold was also a fan of) pastor and one of the figureheads of the Idaho headquatered neo-Nazi “Aryan Nations” group, Richard Girnt Butler, proposed the Northwest Territorial Imperative (NWTI), also known as the Butler Plan. The NWTI is basically the idea that the US is a lost cause and all White Supremacists should move to the PNW to concentrate their forces. A great deal of neo-Nazis took up this wager, and Northern Idaho remains a neo-Nazi epicenter due to the NWTI’s legacy. One such group that adopted the NWTI was the armed struggle White Nationalist group known as “the Order,”  which operated in the early-to-mid-1980s until a fatal shootout with the FBI on Whidbey Island claimed the life of their charismatic founder and leader, Robert Matthews. The Order are revered as heroes and martyrs by contemporary neo-Nazis, including the NPA.

Before the founding of the Northwest Front in the wake of the fall of the Aryan Nations, Harold Covington had many failures of his own: he was kicked out of the US military during Vietnam, got kicked out of Rhodesia, abandoned his wife and children while absconding with their money, and created numerous ineffectual neo-Nazi groups. After all of this, Covington moved to Astoria, OR, and built upon the idea of the NWTI by starting the Northwest Front. He crafted guerrilla doctrine and racist ideology around what needed to be done to achieve an all-white homeland in the PNW, which he was now calling the Northwest American Republic (NAR), pulling heavily from the Irish Republican Army (IRA), particularly the Provisional IRA period. He also formulated critiques of past White Nationalist movements where only George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party, Richard Butler, and the Order seemed to come out unscathed. His criticism of legalist Suite and Tie White Nationalists, skinhead gangs, and bikers poisoned him to many already active neo-Nazis, which isn’t something he minded, as he saw them as toxic elements that would doom any organization they joined. These attitudes are also adopted currently by the NPA, but they aren’t the first to attempt to carry on the dream of the Northwest Front.

When Harold Covington died in Bremerton, WA, his project was handed over to one “Doug Morrison.” Since this transition, the Northwest Front has dwindled substantially, the website and radio program falling into disarray. Every so often, neo-Nazi skinheads like the Hammerskins or the Pacific Northwest WolfPack will attempt to pick up the banner and fly the NAR flag (think of the tricolor flags of other republics like France or Italy, but Blue, White, and Green) often besmirching it with some neo-Nazi runic symbol (something Harold warned against), but these formations often have no real strategy beyond making music and fighting, often falling into in-fighting and/or catching serious charges over a sloppy, if not also horrific, altercation.

Another recent, 2017-2020, attempt at reviving Harold’s legacy was called New Awakening. It made heavy use of Nazi symbols and imagery of Nazi soldiers, which it paired with Harold’s appropriated IRA  imagery. This group was largely present on 4Chan and Roblox, often recruiting impressionable youths, eventually imploding after their leader was outed as a homosexual and they were unable to maintain stability afterwards. It was out of the ashes of this group, and the disillusionment with groups like the Base and AWD, that the Northwest Pioneer Association was born.

The NPA started its gestational period as a Facebook page run by the current leader, “Mungo” (aka Horus), and soon became a Discord group for a stint until the latter was abandoned due to security concerns, then a Guilded server was launched and got taken down, until they finally settled on an Element bunker and two telegram channels: one Telegram channel for broadcasting, and one that’s used as a chat. 

The NPA see themselves as the true heir to Harold Covington, faithfully incorporating his ideas, making a whole micro subculture around him, and even making pilgrimages to Astoria and his grave in Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, WA. Currently, there are about 30 active members, with only half of them actually living in the PNW. For clarity, their area of operations are strictly OR, WA, ID, and Western MT. 

The NPA finds themselves on the pro-Christian, pro-Pagan, anti-Satanist, anti-pedophile side of the post-AWD splits. In general, they believe doctrine, proper behavior, and careful action are more important than religious squabbles or racial/ideological hair-splitting–though, of course, they also love to argue about that kind of thing for fun. This makes them natural allies with groups like The American Futurist, with whom they also share a hatred of Patriot Front and US patriotism in general, but they seldom have this level of affinity with other White Nationalist groups. Though most of the group leans anti-NATO and pro-Russia, they also strive to keep arguments over such topics to a minimum. In general, they encourage their members to get a good job, build a healthy family, and move to the PNW. They hold a pretty male chauvinist line, and generally think members should keep their girlfriends or wives in the dark about their ideology and focus on making white children and building a stable well-adjusted life, pending racist insurgency. They even pay lip service to working-class issues.

It’s important to reiterate that this is, in the final analysis, all a rational facade constructed around a core desire to kill random non-white people and gays as well as a white chauvinism that amounts to them being favored by God and the laughable idea that racially diverse military formations can’t function well. Even their quest for a republic is likely a ruse, as Harold himself described the day after their victory as a mask-off changing the victory songs to German, changing American to Aryan in the NAR title, and raising the original Nazi flag alongside the tricolor.

Currently the NPA has gear, the firearms, and the cell operation / phase guides. We could go on about how Harold adopted North Vietnamese guerilla doctrine such as trio-cells, etc. We could elaborate further how the NPA sees Europe and the US as failed projects and calls for whites from all over the world to move to the PNW, and are close to being successful in bringing over the first wave. We could go into how the NPA has crafted its own military doctrine, written by former US Service Members. We could also enter into the debate over whether these self-professed insurgent neo-Nazi groups are really against the ruling order at the end of the day, if they never leave the “demonizing the racialized” phase of things, etc. For now, though, let’s reveal who’s been hiding away in the NPA, and leave the rest for the next salvo.

ACTIVE MILITARY

MAJ David Simeroth USAF: David fell down the anti-woke wormhole and came out the other end a White Nationalist and NPA member. He’s currently teaching (and residing) at the West Point US Military Academy in a rather prestigious position teaching aerospace science and the like. Despite being so smart he left enough bread crumbs in the Discord and on Telegram to figure out who he was. He is a COVID truther and anti-vaxxer. He also constantly talks about spreading racism and political extremism amongst his students and those under him and constantly complains that the US Military is controlled by a Jewish conspiracy. He is slated to be tapped for an advisor position in the upper echelon of NPA’s leadership once the next phase of their operation kicks in. His wife, who occupies a similar position to him at West Point and seems to be a US patriot and likely does not know of his activity. He was born in April in 1992 and his phone number is 808-294-6599.

PORTLAND AREA

Daniel Albrecht Streiff aka Best Northwest: Daniel is a zealot, often holding more accelerationist views than other members. He also recruits on iFunny as Arminius_V3 and on Roblox. Some of his beefs online were helpful in uncovering information about him. He, like much of the Portland Cell, also supports Azov and NSBM more than the others in the NPA and still has a soft spot for terrorgram type posting. He likely lives with his parents in Wilsonville, who employ him via their company Apollo Electric LTD, and hold typical QAnon style MAGA views, if you can call those typical, but likely do not know that Daniel hates America, it’s mixed race military, and the “Masonic Dishrag” they call they American Flag. He has even flown a Thin Blue Line flag with his parents at a MAGA event, but now in a broken clock moment calls the police “system pigs.” He’s currently being groomed to take over the role of Portland Cell lead so that the current lead can move up into the higher level command or help set up cells elsewhere. Daniel’s birthday is 6-18-2003 and drives a silver Nissan pathfinder with OR plate numbered 566LEW.

Colton Barnedt: Colton moved to Portland from Fairbanks, Alaska and is an active member of the Portland Cell. Colton quickly embraced skull mask style neo-Nazism and his family’s German heritage. Colton was looking for a Christian friendly Nazi group that also respected Paganism and found it in NPA. Colton was also assisted by the Portland cell leader in his move. He currently works for ARG Industrial affiliate Ultra Clean Technologies Corp. He has recently had a kid and was overjoyed when his then wife’s water broke during a theatrical screening of The Order a film about the aforementioned neo-Nazi armed struggle group by the same name. He’s 22.

Taylor Cameron: Taylor was a main fixture in the Discord. He also started the Vinlandic Brigade Propaganda music label and after the Black Sun Nazi Black Metal fest in LA he attempted one in the PNW called Rising of the Moon fest in homage to an old Irish Rebel song Harold also enjoyed. After some drama with Jacob Laskey and others this NSBM fest never happened. After this drama and some trolling by fellow NPA members regarding Taylor working with Mexican NSBM acts Taylor left the group. There’s an excellent LCRW article written about him on which you can find here. Around the time of the article he had been kicked out of his Black Metal scene for being a violent pedophile. He continues to espouse Nazi beliefs and is active with NSBM acts like Ulvehiet. He was connected to the Base and may still be. He was also a part of the attempt to resurrect the National Socialist Liberation Front before becoming briefly homeless because of some clusterfuck. Verified at the time of the LCRW article, he appears to be living in Portland and employed as a trucker.

Noj aka Noah aka Chernyshiva: Noj was also part of Vinlandic Brigade Propaganda and is currently in the NSBM band Ulvehiet and has been in numerous other NSBM and RAC bands. He’s currently living in the Portland area and has been spotted at shows. His family and some of his friends likely do not know his true politics as he used to be an antifascist scene kid in Alaska and even has a hammer tattoo and a sickle tattoo on his knuckles and appears to have had friendships and romantic relationships with leftists in Portland in the past. He left NPA, likely over the fact that he’s the wrong kind of Eastern European and has affinity for Islam influenced nationalities like Albanians, Bosnians, and Iranians despite playing in a band with anti-Islamic themes. He got an anti-racist skinhead fired from his job and continually spouts vile and anti-Black, anti-Trans, and anti-Jewish rhetoric on his Instagram and is a huge NSBM fan and genuinely believes in the White Supremacy. Noj has tried to enter the Portland crust scene saying he’s a primitivist, likely a half truth since he easily slips into ecofascist appropriations of the Unibomber. His last known employment was at a Vancouver, WA, Safeway. If you know Noj and want to drag this traitor into sunlight hit us up at [email protected]

Bert aka DraumarBert is a member of the Portland Cell and a coder. If you have info on him send it to [email protected]

Sam: Sam is an active member of the Portland cell. He’s recently been seen heckling protests in Portland. His wife does not know he’s in a neo-Nazi group. If you have info send it to [email protected]

LEADERSHIP

Mungo aka Horus: Unfortunately, their leader Mungo lives in Florida and has never been involved in open activism or any real organization outside of neo-Nazi chat bunkers where he’s been in touch with neo-Nazi groups like Traditionalist Workers Party, Iron March, the Base, New Awakening, and others. He also shares Covington’s criticisms of the broader White Nationalist movement being filled with grifters, self absorbed “leaders,” and violence obsessed unstable personalities. For a long while he was recruiting on Facebook where some information can be gleaned. He’s moving to Washington soon to whip them into shape, WA being the most dysfunctional cell. If Mungo becomes inactive the org will likely collapse and the rest of them will go back to gaming and shit posting, so if you have any information hit up [email protected]

Redbeard aka Warboss: Redbeard, possibly Nathan, is a 24 year old Englishman who still lives in England and works at Excite Technology as an electrical engineer. He’s Mungo’s Lieutenant and a key logistics organizer who plans to move to the PNW soon and was also in the New Awakening network. If you have any information please send it to [email protected]

“Neighbor”: “Neighbor” is 34 and the former leader of New Awakening who took over after the main NA leader was purged for being a homosexual. Neighbor of course is not his legal name, but we do know he works in tech in Idaho and lives semi-off grid. That isn’t much to go on so if you have any information, maybe some NA doxx we missed, send it to [email protected]

OTHER NOTABLES

Daniel Ferguson Jr.: Daniel was a zealous member of the NPA chats. Though he was waiting until they got more serious to make a commitment to move, his support for fitness, firearms, and a general neo-Nazi vehemence helped carry the group for certain periods. He is famous for having been punched at Unite the Right, later went to train with the Nordic Resistance Movement in Europe, and recently caught some prison time brandishing a long gun at his neighbors in a racist tantrum.

Daniil: Daniil is a Russian living in Estonia and a member of Legio Christi a racist queerphobic White Christian Supremacist organization that had their Discord leaked by Unicorn Riot at one point https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/server/233. He’s currently helping NPA establish a new website to outpace the dysfunctional anti-Christian wing of NWF run by the admitted pedophile “Doug Morrison.” If you have any information AND YOU ARE NOT A CIA OR FSB ASSET please send it to [email protected]

WRAP UP

That about does it for Part I, we’ll have more info on this group coming soon in Part II and likely even more coming after that. There are also other neo-Nazis that rep the NWTI, from boneheads to terrorgram hangers-on, to even some Active Clubs / Patriot Front types, and we’re keeping an eye on them as well. Please send your info to [email protected]

It’s likely that the best ways to defeat reactionary groups in general is to target them in their infancy, hit them logistically, and to beat the ruling order they depend on. When they take up the mantle of the revolutionaries or insurgents it may seem tricky, but taking action that reveals who the true partisans of social revolution are seems to us the best way to ensure they have no such claim.

For more check out Part II and Part III