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Dragged into Moonlight Part II: More on the NPA and its Leader

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

Welcome back for Part II, below we have the legal name of the leader of the Northwest Pioneer Association (NPA), another active duty member, and more, but first let’s take this opportunity to impart some context. In part one we gave a more complete description of the group but suffice it to say, this series is related to exposing the White Separatist NPA who follow the teachings of the late Harold Armstead Covington (HAC) aka the Old Man. In short Harold envisioned a plan where, after concentrating their sympathizers in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), a White Supremacist insurgency would be led by his group the Northwest Front (NWF) in its real and “proto” stage and the Northwest Volunteer Army (NVA) in his pipe-dreams. Their goal, alongside defeating the US Gov’t forces in the area, would be the ethnic cleansing of all non-white and Jewish people and the mass murder of all non-straight people, ultimately establishing the Northwest American/Aryan Republic (NAR) as an all-white, anti-Jewish, ethno-state. The NWF has had a few iterations after HAC’s initial attempt, but we’ll get into that later. For further reading check out this piece by Rose City Antifa. To briefly reiterate, this idea isn’t new: Oregon was established as an all-white state, Confederates flocked there after the US Civil War to set up Klan orgs, and the idea of the neo-Nazi Northwest Territorial Imperative (NWTI), aka the Butler Plan, has been around since the 1980s.

Part of what is new however–aside from the formation of this group which has only been around a handful of years–is the methods used and the dispositions being exploited. As we’re sure you’re aware, capitalism has created a very atomized society, and contemporary socializing is mediated through profit-above-all social media. In this environment, truth-authority has been fragmented and many new hobbies, fandoms, and political groupings have usurped the network television news and major newspapers. Along with all of this, even reasonable COVID-19 precautions exacerbate young people’s atomization and their alienation from meaning-making and social activity in general. In short in these online spaces, including Discord chats, friendship, community, and world building hits different, and can even feel radical given the context. (If you’re an NPA member reading this and you came to the group having found companionship and meaning, but have matured, realizing the toxicity, the rotten core of bigotry, and want to turn your life around, please reach out to us at [email protected] we can help you make the exit.)

To further explain the phenomenon, it is increasingly evident that the ruling system creates injustice against proletarians, everyday at home and in US-backed wars abroad, while the grand narratives of the ruling order seem to collapse around us. This may draw some people into these circles, especially when people with certain privileges in our society (e.g. white men) are hearing lip service against their positionality via corporate recuperation of egalitarian rhetoric. There’s also plenty of young men out there who want to be cool and evil just for some affective sake, but in terms of the appeals to some kind of justice, however, this isn’t really that new. Jews have long been scapegoated by the ruling class for the ills of money, and later capital, especially in Germany, and even before the Nazis seized on the opportunity.

Without getting too into the Nazis, “National Socialism” was a recuperation of liberatory rhetoric for reactionary ends. ‘The reaction’ and ‘reactionaries’ are the core of fascism and the force that comes into play, in modern times, to crush revolutionary movements; they wield syncretic tactics and ideas with hopes of re-establishing the ruling order and/or having a hyper-nationalist national-rebirth. Despite the allusions to the Provo era Irish Republican Army, and direct claims to the contrary, this is the NPA’s true lineage: a reactionary force that operates in stages. First the Nazis and Fascists had street power and appealed to workers, anti-clericalism, and in Italy’s case even Women’s Suffrage, but the next phase was always brutal repression of the workers and alignment with the ruling order such as the corrupt factions of the Church, the bourgeoisie, and the like. No doubt the NPA’s final phase will not happen, but their next phases will also no doubt look more repressive.

In many ways the reaction and neo-Nazis have always lived downstream from leftist culture. With the emergence of things like the neo-Nazi infested /pol/ on 4Chan, or the reactionary sectors of gaming culture, there’s been a long moment where it’s felt this wasn’t true. In the Trump era it seems that leftist memes are walls of texts and the hip trends and novel tactics are coming from the right. When anti-fascists are put in a defensive posture this also doesn’t help as the right and the more insurgent reactionaries can begin to set the tempo. Since 2020 though, the tide has maybe shifted, neo-Nazis have to recuperate bleeding edge communist-made video games like Disco Elysium or Cruelty Squad, White Nationalists are often found having to rework leftist economic/political memes, and insurgent wannabe White Separatists are making their own versions of anarchist anti-repression posters.

NPA have done some seemingly potent world-building though, making a micro-public with their own lingo and references largely taken from HAC’s novels. Some references include a “tickle” being a guerrilla attack, “Zack Hatfield drill” referring to practicing killing mixed race or gay couples with a shotgun, GUBU (grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented) being a term from the troubles in Ireland referencing actions that are so unhinged they damage the movement, and “bing bing wahoo” being their version of the ‘boogaloo’ or state-collapse scenario. While their leadership posits that they’re not exactly vulgar accelerationists like Atomwaffen Division (AWD,) as the NPA leaders think things like attacks on power-grids that provide electricity to majority white areas will push potentially sympathetic whites away from their cause, the NPA are, however, close to preppers. The NPA are, to use gamer terms, ‘building deep’ e.g. getting quality people to a specific area, and accumulating resources, preparing for a collapse scenario in which they can assert themselves or push towards their ends. However, this is not true for everyone in the NPA. Since we put out part one it’s become increasingly clear that members of the Portland cell of the NPA have formed, what HAC calls, a ‘Trouble Trio.’ This Trio form was taken from the North Vietnamese Army (the other NVA) and amounts to something like a three person cell or affinity group that performs more chaotic attacks and actions with a tighter circle of trust and more compartmentalized communication flow. This trio has also been in touch with former elements of the Base.

As the aforementioned Rose City Antifa article points out, the acolytes of HAC have had a long relationship with the Base, a group that followed the NWTI for most of their life. The NPA is no different, though mostly it’s been people who left the Base due to its dysfunction. Recently though the Base has announced they’re shifting away from the NWTI and towards a white separatist state to be carved out for them in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine. This comes after the leader of the Base fled to Russia and one contingent of the Base claimed responsibility for the assassination of a Ukrainian SBU intelligence Colonel. This move has not been totally popular though, which might explain why some of them have been making contact with segments of the NPA.


Briefly, another post-AWD group that we mention as having notably friendly relations with the NPA is The American Futurist, which came directly out of the ruins of AWD and its media organ. TAF is also friendly with Chernobyl Media, a less careful and more edgy post-AWD terrorgram media project, as well as the currently operating Injekt Division, an heir of sorts to AWD with overlap with the Base neo-Nazis fighting in Ukraine. Injekt Division even interestingly engage with Active Clubs aligned with the Will2Rise movement who in the past have been more hostile. There isn’t any total integration though ACs still criticize AWD wannabes and the NPA leader still signals over and over again about the operational blunders that come with having a named group predicated on ‘fed-posting.’ Speaking of the NPA leader, we’ve digressed enough, let’s get into new revelations.

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THE LEADER

Edwin Maynard aka Edwin Rapheal Maynard Guzman aka Mungo aka Lord Humungus aka Horus aka Canderous Ordo aka Omegon: Edwin is the pseudo-charismatic leader of the NPA. Although he is largely referred to as Mungo by his followers we’ve been able to confirm Edwin Rapheal Maynard Guzman is his legal name–he often tries to pass as more Anglo using just Edwin Maynard. Edwin was born in June in 1991, and for a long while now he’s been living in Estero, Florida, and could still be there. We do also know he has plan to move to Washington and whip that cell of the NPA into shape. Part of the move is to also begin coordinating more between the cells active in the PNW as they increase compartmentalization in part by using an LLC they’ve set up to build doxx resistant financial infrastructure. His last known employment was as an Executive Accountant at Naples Excavating, LLC. He has a girlfriend who he met on Discord, but she is not aware of the his political views. Edwin largely runs the show, first starting what would become the NPA in a Warhammer 40k chat where he was convinced of the merits of the ideas of Harold Covington by Warboss, aka Redbeard, and other former members of New Awakening, who we covered a little in Part I. He does most of the posting on the main channel and does a lot of the original writing. He bottom-lines a lot of the big idea macro planning and tries to be a good listener and adapt to or correct the disposition of the NPA in general. He is also in contact to some extent to other less tactful groups like the Aryan Freedom Network, who has a hub in Idaho, but keeps them at arms length. Try as he might to put into practice a more decentralized operation, he is key to the NPA and its continued existence, which suggests that if he is demobilized then the NPA will be neutralized.

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OREGON


Daniel Albrecht Streiff aka Best NW aka NW Cobson: we’ve done another entry for Daniel, who just turned 22 on June 20th, because as of writing this Daniel seems to be the de facto leader of the Portland cell of the NPA and has escalated activity in the area to at least vandalism. He’s entered into a Trouble Trio with Soren and someone called “Norf.” Don’t let his baby-face fool you, he’s a neo-Nazi zealot. He’s also delving into other, previously verboten, pools of recruitment like circles associated with the PNW Youth and Kalifornia Youth which fall between AWD wannabes, whose whole politics is predicated on edgy online posts, and Active Clubs, PNW Youth and Kali Youth even feeding into PNWAC, who encourage their members to go on hikes and train MMA as part of the White Supremacist and neo-Fascist movements. Typically, due to the coalitional relationship between Patriot Front, Will2Rise/Rise Above Movement, Active Clubs, and White Lives Matter chapters, Patriot Front being US Patriots which is antithetical to NPA, as well as those groups propensity to get doxxed, time and time again, these are not places where recruiting for NPA is encouraged, but Daniel appears to be breaking this taboo and also starting his own compartmentalized efforts drawing in younger and more belligerent neo-Nazis into the NWTI, all the while still hating on Patriot Front.

These efforts have materialized in part in loose Northwest Separatist Network or NSN, which borrows its acronym from the Australian neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network, and in part takes the form of a Telegram broadcast by that name and chat channel called Northwest Nationalists. Daniel is also likely meeting people in the flesh outside of even the NPA netoworks. A more recent leader of the Base who we’re working to get more info on and at least one other recently involved member of the Base have joined Daniel’s side efforts. He’s also claimed to be in touch with The American Futurist, on behalf of the NPA, and others closely related to the post-AWD neo-Nazi projects and figures. Future targets of Daniel’s trouble trio would be public fixtures like bridges and symbols of the LGBTQ+ and non-white community. They’ve been promoting the NWTI and neo-Nazism in the streets, but online they’ve escalated their edgelordism even repping a Pioneer Supremacist variant of self-described “Nazi-Maoism.” The ideological choice here is odd because Dan and “Norf” were some of the most ardently pro-capitalist in the group, both being from well off bourgeois families, Norf even more so, but maybe that’s the point–perhaps they think Maoism is evil, and thus cool, ideology? Regardless, this activity is against the typical NPA phase doctrine as it usually draws heat too early. Suffice it to say it would be better if this trajectory of his were cut short.

Soren Erickson aka Slinky aka Ing aka Draugluin aka Pancho: Soren is part of the Portland cell of the NPA and is the best friend of Daniel Streiff and part of his trouble trio. Soren is 21, but he’s a very developed bigot and neo-Nazi zealot who moved from Duluth, MN, to Portland, OR, to join the NPA efforts. He’s often repping more belligerent neo-Nazi orgs and methods than is usually recommended for NPA members and has expressed desire to take action. Dan S. and Soren seem to have met on Roblox trolling Patriot Front and recruiting children into neo-Nazism and continue to operate there and on iFunny. Soren is originally from Minnesota and his parents are compassionate progressive Pentecostal-Evangelicals, a community prevalent in that area. It’s almost as if Soren adopted a whole secret set of beliefs that he acts out online, and now in person, constructed in opposition to his family’s beliefs. He also routinely makes references to the cultist neo-Nazi Charles Manson’s acronyms like ATWA (Air, Trees, Water, Animals and All The Way Alive) and even the notorious Order of the Nine Angles (O9A) who took over and tanked AWD–since then O9A have largely taken the form of fed honeypots. Soren also routinely references James Mason and Joseph Tommasi’s National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF) neo-Nazi armed struggle group, formed after the collapse of the the American Nazi Party. The NSLF was one of the main inspirations for AWD via the NSLF newsletter, Siege, following the release of anthology of Siege by Feral House. Following this edgy progression (regression?), Nazi-Maoism, aka NazMao, has become one of Soren’s interests, particularly the LA Maoist Red Army brand which explicitly fuses Shining Path style MLMpM with both varieties of Masonite ideology (Charles and James) along with the “original” NazMaoism of Franco Freda.

Soren is likely the instigator behind the public branding, on x.com, of the Trouble Trio as it they’re repping the title “PNW Maoist Red Army” and, though it’s in part an edgy bit meant to confound and confuse, we can assure you their desire to develop capacity for neo-Nazi violence is very real. Likewise the Trouble Trios’ alignment with HAC’s ideas are incredibly earnest. Even after the drop of Part I, Soren remains steadfast to his goal of one day achieving bigoted violence. Again this ‘Trouble Trio’ made up of Soren, Daniel, and their friend “Norf.” It would likely be best if he were encouraged to cease his activities and be shown how misdirected he is in terms of what the system is and how foolish he is in terms of his clear ressentiment. For what it’s worth, Soren was born in January in 2004.

Below is an example of some of their graffiti that was cleaned up.

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WASHINGTON

Torin Leasure aka Mort(arion) aka Shit Shaman: Torin is a long time NPA member and a figure in their Washington cell. Torin is also an ACTIVE DUTY sailor in the US Navy. As of 2024, he’s a Hull Technician First Class with the Surface Warfare qualification and mostly works at the Trident Refit Facility at Bangor in near Bremerton, WA, the city where HAC died. If Trident rings a bell, it’s because it’s named after the Trident submarines stationed and repaired there. Also know as Ohio-class submarines, these submarines house Trident missiles which are nuclear Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which means each missile has nuclear warheads that can hit multiple targets across the world nearly simultaneously. So yes, you understand that correctly, this neo-Nazi is in the military and works in proximity to nuclear missiles. He’s also encouraged other NPA neo-Nazis to try and get work at his facility, calling the others who work there ZOG-bots, but saying it’s not actively repressing white people so it’s not that bad of a job. Like the rest of the core NPA adherents, Torin hates the US government and thinks it’s controlled by Jews who are trying to keep the ‘white race’ down via mass immigration, the gay agenda, and violence allegedly perpetrated by Black people yet directed by Jews. He was born in 1998.


Nathan M Smith aka Rabid Theocrat: Born in August, 1997, Nathan is has been active in the NPA for years now, occasionally making some of the propaganda. He’s currently living in Bremerton, WA, as part of the NPA’s Washington cell. He’s the groups token Traditionalist Catholic (Trad Cath), an ironically new current Catholicism that positions itself against the progressive turns in the Catholic Church and more egalitarian interpretations that have always been present, often around race, while embracing the shortcomings around gender and sexuality and so on. His wife is also a Catholic but she’s not at all a bigot and even speaks out against transphobia and the like. Nathan’s wife likely does not know he’s an ardent racist, let alone in a White Separatist group, as she embraces her diverse Catholic community and doesn’t understand that his Facebook account keeps getting banned because he kept posting NPA stuff on Instagram and Meta has pretty good tracking across platforms. Nathan if you’re reading this please revisit the Parable of the Good Samaritan, consult your priest, and come clean with your wife and re-establish honest relations before she finds out via other means. You’re going to rest a lot easier if you leave this behind. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you want to take the next steps.

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IDAHO

Ryan Marion aka Patton(LivesOn): Ryan, a former member of the Base, is working closely with the Southern Idaho cell lead, who is also a former member of the Base. His complaints, as Patton in the NPA chats, about his company’s Culture and Inclusion Project Lead at J.R. Simplot Company made it easy to find him. He runs Odyssey Cleaning which is likely siphoning, and possible laundering, money for the NPA and seemingly moved to ID for this goal. The name Patton is a reference to the idea that, after WWII, General Patton had a crisis of faith where he announced in a speech that the US had fought the wrong enemy and that the Nazis were preferable to the USSR. His phone number is (208) 812-4004 and the current address associated with him is 1516 W Cactus St, Nampa, Idaho.

Jared Oliver aka Speedy/Sp33dy: Jared lives in Boise, Idaho, and is apart of the Southern Idaho cell of the NPA. Regarding his embrace of racism and the NWTI he states, “yea i spent about a year or two from the end of 2020 browsing /pol/ and its archives and stuff learning about the truth of everything and happened upon a dedicated thread for the NWI at the end of i think 2021 covid happenings and the george floyd riots really woke me up to things.” Along with being an avowed racist he’s also incredibly transphobic often cheering on murders of trans people in Instagram stories and in the chats. It is very likely his friends and family have no idea about his beliefs. He’s produced a great deal of memes as well as graphics for the NPA, has put in work on Instagram spreading them, and is helping make the NPA website. He was born in February, 1999, and he drives a red 1994 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe which is very precious to him. Jared didn’t you have a great time working on cars with JD? Wouldn’t you rather just watch anime and criticize the actual economic and state structures of neo-liberalism?


Isaac Jones aka Newt aka Skeletooor: Isaac, who graduated from the College of Southern Idaho last year, is an active member of the Southern Idaho cell of the NPA and has been a neo-Nazi and NWTI fan for a few years now. He’s one of the members that’s been arming themselves preparing for the future phases. He drives a white 5.2L 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 with Idaho plate 2JB965U. We can’t imagine his family, who own and operate, InterMountain Beef, would be proud of his racism or neo-Nazism. His Discord ID is 979046964232593498.

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ELSEWHERE

Joseph Taylor Bryant aka Schwarzesonne: Joseph, born in March, 1997, is a vile neo-Nazi who brags about “killing an illegal” with his car in Maryland. This made it easier to find him. The NPA leader, Mungo, occasionally will drop this lore and call Joseph “the real deal” or something of the sort. In reality he was driving while on a lot of drugs so it could very well be that this horrific murder wasn’t even intentional. Regardless, he’s a devout neo-Nazi.

Shawn Micheal Hause aka Crom: Born in August, 1998, Shawn is a neo-Nazi pagan who lives near Okmulgee, Oklahoma. He’s has been an NPA supporter for years, expressing desire to move to the PNW, and has been a neo-Nazi involved in many racist online communities for longer than that. He’s engaged to Jane Milsap, who is also a neo-Nazi. His Discord ID is 716072351569281024.

Michael E Williams aka Dreadcoot aka City Hick: Michael is a 27 year old memelord who likely got into neo-Nazism via Sam Hyde. He lives near Detroit in Taylor, Michigan, and would move to the PNW if it wasn’t for his family’s business, Kelly McLauren Meat Distribution floundering. If we were him we would shake the alienated racist fed magnet bullshit and stick to working on trucks and convincing his dad to modernize the family business. His discord ID is 266649610116661248.

Matt Law aka Cymry: A Welshman who lives in Wales and a supporter of the NPA who traveled to last year’s meet up.

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WRAP UP
If you’ve found your information posted in this series and it’s been a wake up call and you find yourself wanting to truly leave the movement behind and get on with your life, please reach out to us at [email protected] and we can help you move forward with next steps. Likewise if you have any information on the Englishman known as Warboss, aka Redbeard, who works at Excite Techonolgies Ltd in the UK, or WA NPA people like Bix, Bo, Melm, or Ned, or any other yet unnamed NPA members or adherents to the NWTI, hit us up at [email protected]

And a friendly reminder to you, dear reader, that information alone won’t put an end to neo-Nazism and that the goal with anti-fascism is not punitive, rather, it’s a matter of harm reduction which often means rendering these groups inoperable or destroying individuals capacity to enact their fascistic desires, or even turn them from their path. Ultimately there are bigger fish to fry, White Supremacists like Stephen Miller are in the White House after all, but it’s hard to fight a bear when there’s a snake in your boot.

To our enemies, we won’t stop when you’re driven out of the cities or further underground. We are everywhere and aren’t afraid of digging.

There’s even more that we’re working on, and more we have yet to reveal, check out Part III here.