Admin’s Note: There are several video and audio files included in the original post of this article, and readers are encouraged to click through the link to find them.
Spencer Thomas Simpson is a member of the neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, white-supremacist group Patriot Front (PF). He operates under the name “David WA” and lives in Ellensburg, WA.
Patriot Front is known for holding fascist flash mobs in major cities, which are planned in secret so members can march without any real confrontation. The group is an offshoot of Vanguard America, a fascist organization that fell apart after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally on August 12th, 2017. Vanguard America gained significant attention after that event when it was revealed that James Alex Fields had marched with them before driving his car into a crowd and killing Heather Heyer.
Spencer Simpson assisting a banner drop in September, 2021, with Patriot Front members from Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Jacob Sundt and Justin O’Leary were previously identified on our site.
While Patriot Front does not yet have a body count themselves, fascism as a philosophy is inherently violent and is characterized by forcible suppression of opposition. Members of PF do discuss committing violence against their political opposition and marginalized groups. Spencer Simpson trained to be a part of a shield team for the December 4th fascist march after his Network Director, Colton Michael Brown, set an expectation those team members might need to commit assault against people of color at PF events.
Background
(From L to R) Spencer Simpson, Colton Brown, and “Neil WA” saying goodbyes in a parking lot in Renton, WA, after a Patriot Front banner drop and lunch in March 2021. Simpson often rides with Brown to events.(From L to R) “Anthony WA,” Colton Michael Brown, and Spencer Thomas Simpson walking to a Patriot Front exercise gathering at Pat Ryan field in SeaTac, WA, in August 2021. Brown is wearing a shirt from the Rise Above Movement, a violent street-fighting group for white supremacists.
Spencer Simpson joined Patriot Front in late 2020, after being vetted by Stephen Trimboli and Colton Michael Brown around November.
He is known for his extreme social awkwardness, public and private breakdowns, and incel-like behaviors. Simpson has become an in-joke among his region for being so subservient to his Network Director that he would, and has, peed in a bottle on the highway rather than be a mere few minutes late to a meeting.
Whenever Spencer Simpson is left alone at any Patriot Front action, we usually spot him either standing perfectly still or making anxious circles, giving this exact soulless glare into the dirt.Spencer Simpson (left), with “Anthony WA,” “Charles WA,” and Colton Brown placing a banner in SeaTac, WA. Simpson is wearing the same shirt that he wore to an exercise session earlier that day at Pat Ryan field.
His loyalty to Colton Brown defines his relationship to the collective. Simpson follows his leader at cost to himself, driving frequently over the Cascades to attend events. When he’s late or commits any minor infraction, he demands Brown punish him. In return, Brown describes Simpson as his most loyal and well-behaved member. Simpson stays attached to Brown at any action they both attend. Brown trusts Simpson to a high degree and even invites Spencer to stay over at his own house prior to actions.
In the following video, he even follows Brown over a barbed-wired pedestrian bridge over a highway to place a banner in Burien, WA. Shortly after placing this banner, the group had to run away after sighting police driving up to the overpass. Simpson is seen wearing a sweatshirt with a black sun, a neo-Nazi symbol.
As described in our previous article, Brown uses his position to pressure aimless young white men (and occasionally minors) into commiting hate crimes for the organization. Brown trains the insecure Simpson by asking him to plan actions on the east side of the mountains. As Spencer is miles and hours of driving away from other members in the network, Brown asks him to scout his area and make local plans for the racist group to drop banners or put up white nationalist posters.
This picture, taken by Colton Brown during one of their actions and later sent to Thomas Rousseau, shows Spencer Simpson wearing his sonnenrad sweatshirt and a skull mask. The skull mask was popularized for use among racists by armed neo-nazi groups such as the Atomwaffen Division. At the time Patriot Front members would use this park-and-ride area outside of a Maple Valley Safeway parking lot to stage their vehicles. One Patriot Front member previously snuck an Info Wars sticker onto the King County rideshare van pictured here.
Simpson shows affection to his racist mentor by giving him gifts, including a matching sweatshirt with neo-Nazi symbols and a memoir by a Nazi collaborator and Waffen-SS volunteer.
Colton Brown bragged about receiving these neo-nazi gifts from Spencer Simpson. This was another picture he shared with Thomas Rousseau.While walking to a pedestrian bridge to drop a Patriot Front banner, Spencer Simpson (left) and Colton Brown are seen wearing matching black sun sweatshirts.
Simpson gained some notoriety earlier this year after 17 hours of Patriot Front meeting audio was leaked by Unicorn Riot. In one clip featured on Twitter, Spencer Simpson compares Jews to Lucifer. https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfcmVmc3JjX3Nlc3Npb24iOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9yZXN1bHRfbWlncmF0aW9uXzEzOTc5Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InR3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfcmVkdWN0aXZlX2FjdGlvbnNfMTQ0NTgiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoibm9fcmVwbHkiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo0fSwidGZ3X3NlbnNpdGl2ZV9tZWRpYV9pbnRlcnN0aXRpYWxfMTM5NjMiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiaW50ZXJzdGl0aWFsIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19leHBlcmltZW50c19jb29raWVfZXhwaXJhdGlvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOjEyMDk2MDAsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=153581004360965734&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwanaziwatch.com%2Fspencer-thomas-simpson%2F&sessionId=6f4c82677aded517d0c0c545fbf8c34b8fdf1a1a&theme=dark&widgetsVersion=b45a03c79d4c1%3A1654150928467&width=550px
According to ‘David WA’, the point of Patriot Front’s vandalism is to “show people that you can do something like this, and you can get away with it.” He also refers to Jews as “Lucifer.”
Spencer Simpson in a Patriot Front group photo before the Mt. Rainier hike.Spencer Simpson (left) and another Patriot Front member, Matthew Allen Clement, before the big hike.
In late August 2021, Network 8 hosted a camping event in the Mt. Rainier area, including a hike to Camp Muir, which was attended by current and former members from Washington, Oregon, and California. Patriot Front puts on events like these largely for propaganda purposes: they believe that showing their members enduring difficult hikes will demonstrate that Patriot Front is an organization that values brotherhood and has the strength to overcome challenges. These events usually include speeches and casual chats in which members repeat racial slurs, express admiration for fascism and Hitler, and share conspiracy theories about Jews.
Spencer Simpson was present for this hike and these speeches. He was photographed at the event in proximity to many other identified Patriot Front members.
Spencer Simpson with other identified Patriot Front members. He is following behind Lawrence Norman, who is carrying a Betsy Ross flag and has since been arrested in Coeur d’Alene along with several other members in this photo.
Defacing “Respect & Love” Rainbow Mural in Olympia
Spencer Simpson, in his neo-nazi sweatshirt, standing next to Patriot Front’s large banner stencils during a rehearsal. Those stencils would later be taken by antifascists and burned.
Around 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 16th, members of Patriot Front vandalized a “Respect & Love Olympia” mural, covering it with white paint before stenciling over it with their nationalist slogan and links to their Nazi website. This effort involved weeks of planning with members from across the entire Pacific Northwest contingent of Patriot Front, as well as with knowledge and assistance from Thomas Rousseau. Spencer Simpson was present and involved in this action.
The Rainbow mural was created in 2014 as a community statement against hate crimes happening in Olympia, including several violent attacks outside Jake’s, then Olympia’s sole gay bar, according to Schlecht. (archive)
In calls leading up to the event, Colton Brown described the planned mural cover-up as the “biggest org-wide” for Patriot Front to date. Network 8 members, plus members of local non-network clusters, rehearsed the vandalism late on October 15th, 2021, at an abandoned brewery in Tumwater, WA.
Simpson can be seen holding the URL stencils upon walking into the brewery in the following video. He is wearing his typical neo-Nazi black sun sweatshirt.
National Event Preparation: Drilling and Sparring
Each regional PF network was expected to hold three drilling sessions between October and December 2021 in preparation for their December 4th fascist march. Network 8 members were only able to muster mandatory minimum attendance for two sessions in that time. Members practiced marching cadences and ran shield drills, essentially trying out for spots on the shield teams present at Patriot Front marches.
Thomas wants the public to view Patriot Front’s shield teams as a purely defensive formation. However, in our previous article on Justin Michael O’Leary, we described how Network Director Colton Brown set the expectation that shield team members may end up proactively assaulting their opposition. In one audio clip, Brown recalled an encounter in Philadelphia between Patriot Front shield team members and people of color. He said that shield teams will not allow such encounters going forward, blames one particular crowd member for emboldening others, and states that any similar Black man at future events will get “dispatched, quickly.”
At some point after hearing these expectations of violence from his Network Director, Spencer Simpson accepted a role on a shield team.
Spencer Simpson holding thai boxing pads for another member at a Patriot Front meetup.
Targets of shield team engagement aren’t just limited to private individuals. Brown makes it clear that both shield team members and flag bearers at the march should be prepared for the possibility of resisting arrest and forming their lines in ways that would ensure that they outnumber and exhaust any police that would attempt to approach targeted members.
Those holding flagpoles are expected to drop their flags and link arms, making it difficult for police or “antifa” to break their lines. A document obtained by Unicorn Riot (PDF) shows how the drills teach members to protect themselves from getting isolated from their group. Other members will act as aggressors, to “emulate the practice seen by some of snatching a supposed agitator away from his surroundings to deal with him individually.”
During the first Network 8 drilling meetup, members interpret those “snatchers” to be police or antifascists. It is made clear that one purpose of the technique is to resist arrest. Members ask if the drill was only an “anti-cop” maneuver, which Brown says it isn’t. Rank-and-file PNW members are shocked and upset to hear that flagbearers are expected to be passive, unlike shield teams.
In the following audio taken before a drill, Spencer Simpson is playing the role of a Patriot Front member being targeted by either antifascists or police, and the rest of the present group are tasked with protecting him.
While Brown is prone to misunderstanding or disobeying commands from Thomas Rousseau, leaked videos show that he is faithfully interpreting his leader’s intentions. In the video below, Thomas himself instructs a line of pretend flagbearers, telling them to “link up.” When Kieran “Patrick TX” Morris asks how they would do this while carrying flags, Thomas says their choice is “between getting arrested and dropping a flag.” He agrees with another member’s notion to just drop the flag in order to have arms free to enter a linked, braced position. Rousseau imagines how a “pig” trying to capture a Patriot Front member would quickly get outnumbered.
Later drilling sessions in November would see Network 8 repeating these drills, with more emphasis on sparring. Sparring, and exercise in general, are commonly exploited and documented as “activism” moments and used as propaganda to aim at the disaffected white boy neo-Nazi demographic. Patriot Front members capture these sessions through photos and videos, but most are left on the cutting room floor in efforts to find the rare nuggets that their untrained followers might misinterpret as any semblance of fighting skill.
Simpson took part in these sparring drills, which were expected to be useful for assessing those looking to become shield team members. Being able to defend themselves, given the possibility of confrontation, was deemed a must. In the following video, Spencer Simpson is seen sparring with Casey “Leo OR” Knuteson, both displaying terrible footwork and form. Colton Brown regardless would later advertise Spencer’s sparring skills to Thomas and others to get him onto a shield team.
Yard Sign Theft and the Network 8 Thanksgiving Party
On November 20, 2021, Network 8 hosted a Thanksgiving party at an AirBnB near Darrington, WA. James Julius Johnson planned the event and rented the space, and Network Director Colton Brown wrote the invitation that was sent over chats to members from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Brown asked members to bring small 3D-printed stencils and yard signs. Acting Network Scribe Jacob Sundt came up with an idea: he spent weeks stealing yard signs from private property with the intent to paint over the signs with PF’s white nationalist slogans, before placing them on city streets as cheap advertisements. He was killing two birds with one stone: by stealing signs, Patriot Front members wouldn’t have to spend as much money on materials, and by targeting yard signs with pro-LGBTQ or pro-diversity slogans they were removing “oppositional messaging” from the community. Other stolen materials, such as flags, would go towards a yearly bonfire.
One of Jacob Sundt’s haul of stolen yard signs, posted in the Network 8 chat.
Network 8 was expecting a large turnout to their Thanksgiving event, so it was the perfect moment for members to collect all of their stolen materials in one place.
Members inventory their stolen yard signs. “Walter” refers to “Walter ID,” a member of Patriot Front’s social media team who parrots Thomas’s words through his Twitter account.
They used that weekend to paint over the yard signs, replacing messages of diversity with ethnonationalism. Like their other hate crimes, members made sure to document the results and shared a group picture with others.
Fascist March on Washington, DC
On December 4th, 2021, Patriot Front held a march in Washington, DC.
Spencer Simpson, under his Patriot Front alias “David WA,” is listed on a shield team with others from Washington state.
Spencer Simpson was spotted at the event in his shield team role. When Patriot Front ran into logistical difficulties due to antifascist action during their march, members had to wait outside in the cold afterward for longer than they actually marched and chanted. Shield team members were some of the last to leave, as the group had been surrounded by scores of local police at Potomac Park. Patriot Front shield teams were prepared to stand off against police. Leaked photos from the event show Colton Brown’s team with shields facing the police in Washington DC:
Attempted Disruption of a Pride Event in Coeur d’Alene
Spencer Simpson’s arrest in his Patriot Front uniform was captured by multiple streams and photographers on the ground.
Spencer Simpson was wearing a hat with a chinstrap attached to a hard bump cap inserted into the tan hat. This is consistent with shield team procedures from earlier events, where members wore bump caps under their hats to protect against potential strikes.
Due to the arrest, Spencer Simpson’s name and address were publicly posted, and his booking photo is readily available.
Spencer Simpson’s booking photo from Coeur d’Alene.
As part of their investigation, police seized two vehicles in addition to the U-Haul: a white Ford Ranger and a red Toyota Camry, both with Washington plates.
Police observed multiple homemade shields left behind in the bed of the white Ford, as well as a blue jacket bearing the Patriot Front logo. A similar jacket could be seen inside the Toyota, police said.
You can reach CWU’s Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities (OSRR) at (509) 963-1817 or [email protected].
Vehicles
2001 White Ford Ranger
Spencer Simpson next to his white 2001 Ford Ranger before a planned Patriot Front hike at Mount Si in August 2021. Spencer was the only member who showed up when everyone else bailed out on him.
Spencer Simpson parks his vehicle behind his parent’s house, where it is not visible from the road:3
Spencer Simpson’s most-recent license plate, current as of June 16th, 2022. He changed his plate before spring 2022 due to concerns of being doxxed.
1 This article was already in progress and wasn’t the first in our queue, but, as it turns out, Thomas Rousseau is getting his members exposed faster than we can write!
2 Spencer apparently forgot that the reason Jacob Sundt chose the Olympia mural location was that there was construction keeping drivers off the road, which makes his advice worthless.
4 Patriot Front guidelines for information and operational security advise members to get new license plates if they get doxxed. After finding out that his network was infiltrated, Colton Brown recommended members falsely report their plates as stolen in order to get new license plate numbers to better hide their vehicles from the public. Antifascist activists are on alert to monitor and report back if any NW8 Patriot Front member changes his license plates. His previous plate is shown below:
Spencer Simpson’s truck parked outside of an exercise event in August 2021. His plates have been changed since then.
reposted from WA Nazi Watch
Admin’s Note: There are several video and audio files included in the original post of this article, and readers are encouraged to click through the link to find them.
Spencer Thomas Simpson is a member of the neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, white-supremacist group Patriot Front (PF). He operates under the name “David WA” and lives in Ellensburg, WA.
Simpson is highly active and has attended several Patriot Front banner drops, stencilings, hikes, and more. He helped deface the “Respect and Love Olympia” mural in October 2021, and was also present at the recent December 4th fascist march in Washington, DC. Spencer was arrested on June 11th, 2022, during an attempted Patriot Front flash mob intending to intimidate and disrupt a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.1
Patriot Front is known for holding fascist flash mobs in major cities, which are planned in secret so members can march without any real confrontation. The group is an offshoot of Vanguard America, a fascist organization that fell apart after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally on August 12th, 2017. Vanguard America gained significant attention after that event when it was revealed that James Alex Fields had marched with them before driving his car into a crowd and killing Heather Heyer.
While Patriot Front does not yet have a body count themselves, fascism as a philosophy is inherently violent and is characterized by forcible suppression of opposition. Members of PF do discuss committing violence against their political opposition and marginalized groups. Spencer Simpson trained to be a part of a shield team for the December 4th fascist march after his Network Director, Colton Michael Brown, set an expectation those team members might need to commit assault against people of color at PF events.
Background
Spencer Simpson joined Patriot Front in late 2020, after being vetted by Stephen Trimboli and Colton Michael Brown around November.
He is known for his extreme social awkwardness, public and private breakdowns, and incel-like behaviors. Simpson has become an in-joke among his region for being so subservient to his Network Director that he would, and has, peed in a bottle on the highway rather than be a mere few minutes late to a meeting.
His loyalty to Colton Brown defines his relationship to the collective. Simpson follows his leader at cost to himself, driving frequently over the Cascades to attend events. When he’s late or commits any minor infraction, he demands Brown punish him. In return, Brown describes Simpson as his most loyal and well-behaved member. Simpson stays attached to Brown at any action they both attend. Brown trusts Simpson to a high degree and even invites Spencer to stay over at his own house prior to actions.
In the following video, he even follows Brown over a barbed-wired pedestrian bridge over a highway to place a banner in Burien, WA. Shortly after placing this banner, the group had to run away after sighting police driving up to the overpass. Simpson is seen wearing a sweatshirt with a black sun, a neo-Nazi symbol.
As described in our previous article, Brown uses his position to pressure aimless young white men (and occasionally minors) into commiting hate crimes for the organization. Brown trains the insecure Simpson by asking him to plan actions on the east side of the mountains. As Spencer is miles and hours of driving away from other members in the network, Brown asks him to scout his area and make local plans for the racist group to drop banners or put up white nationalist posters.
Simpson shows affection to his racist mentor by giving him gifts, including a matching sweatshirt with neo-Nazi symbols and a memoir by a Nazi collaborator and Waffen-SS volunteer.
Simpson gained some notoriety earlier this year after 17 hours of Patriot Front meeting audio was leaked by Unicorn Riot. In one clip featured on Twitter, Spencer Simpson compares Jews to Lucifer. https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfcmVmc3JjX3Nlc3Npb24iOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9yZXN1bHRfbWlncmF0aW9uXzEzOTc5Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InR3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfcmVkdWN0aXZlX2FjdGlvbnNfMTQ0NTgiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoibm9fcmVwbHkiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo0fSwidGZ3X3NlbnNpdGl2ZV9tZWRpYV9pbnRlcnN0aXRpYWxfMTM5NjMiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiaW50ZXJzdGl0aWFsIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19leHBlcmltZW50c19jb29raWVfZXhwaXJhdGlvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOjEyMDk2MDAsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=153581004360965734&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwanaziwatch.com%2Fspencer-thomas-simpson%2F&sessionId=6f4c82677aded517d0c0c545fbf8c34b8fdf1a1a&theme=dark&widgetsVersion=b45a03c79d4c1%3A1654150928467&width=550px
Notable Appearances With Patriot Front
Camp Muir Hike
In late August 2021, Network 8 hosted a camping event in the Mt. Rainier area, including a hike to Camp Muir, which was attended by current and former members from Washington, Oregon, and California. Patriot Front puts on events like these largely for propaganda purposes: they believe that showing their members enduring difficult hikes will demonstrate that Patriot Front is an organization that values brotherhood and has the strength to overcome challenges. These events usually include speeches and casual chats in which members repeat racial slurs, express admiration for fascism and Hitler, and share conspiracy theories about Jews.
Spencer Simpson was present for this hike and these speeches. He was photographed at the event in proximity to many other identified Patriot Front members.
Defacing “Respect & Love” Rainbow Mural in Olympia
Around 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 16th, members of Patriot Front vandalized a “Respect & Love Olympia” mural, covering it with white paint before stenciling over it with their nationalist slogan and links to their Nazi website. This effort involved weeks of planning with members from across the entire Pacific Northwest contingent of Patriot Front, as well as with knowledge and assistance from Thomas Rousseau. Spencer Simpson was present and involved in this action.
From the Journal of Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater (JOLT):
In calls leading up to the event, Colton Brown described the planned mural cover-up as the “biggest org-wide” for Patriot Front to date. Network 8 members, plus members of local non-network clusters, rehearsed the vandalism late on October 15th, 2021, at an abandoned brewery in Tumwater, WA.
Simpson can be seen holding the URL stencils upon walking into the brewery in the following video. He is wearing his typical neo-Nazi black sun sweatshirt.
National Event Preparation: Drilling and Sparring
Each regional PF network was expected to hold three drilling sessions between October and December 2021 in preparation for their December 4th fascist march. Network 8 members were only able to muster mandatory minimum attendance for two sessions in that time. Members practiced marching cadences and ran shield drills, essentially trying out for spots on the shield teams present at Patriot Front marches.
Thomas wants the public to view Patriot Front’s shield teams as a purely defensive formation. However, in our previous article on Justin Michael O’Leary, we described how Network Director Colton Brown set the expectation that shield team members may end up proactively assaulting their opposition. In one audio clip, Brown recalled an encounter in Philadelphia between Patriot Front shield team members and people of color. He said that shield teams will not allow such encounters going forward, blames one particular crowd member for emboldening others, and states that any similar Black man at future events will get “dispatched, quickly.”
At some point after hearing these expectations of violence from his Network Director, Spencer Simpson accepted a role on a shield team.
Targets of shield team engagement aren’t just limited to private individuals. Brown makes it clear that both shield team members and flag bearers at the march should be prepared for the possibility of resisting arrest and forming their lines in ways that would ensure that they outnumber and exhaust any police that would attempt to approach targeted members.
Those holding flagpoles are expected to drop their flags and link arms, making it difficult for police or “antifa” to break their lines. A document obtained by Unicorn Riot (PDF) shows how the drills teach members to protect themselves from getting isolated from their group. Other members will act as aggressors, to “emulate the practice seen by some of snatching a supposed agitator away from his surroundings to deal with him individually.”
During the first Network 8 drilling meetup, members interpret those “snatchers” to be police or antifascists. It is made clear that one purpose of the technique is to resist arrest. Members ask if the drill was only an “anti-cop” maneuver, which Brown says it isn’t. Rank-and-file PNW members are shocked and upset to hear that flagbearers are expected to be passive, unlike shield teams.
In the following audio taken before a drill, Spencer Simpson is playing the role of a Patriot Front member being targeted by either antifascists or police, and the rest of the present group are tasked with protecting him.
While Brown is prone to misunderstanding or disobeying commands from Thomas Rousseau, leaked videos show that he is faithfully interpreting his leader’s intentions. In the video below, Thomas himself instructs a line of pretend flagbearers, telling them to “link up.” When Kieran “Patrick TX” Morris asks how they would do this while carrying flags, Thomas says their choice is “between getting arrested and dropping a flag.” He agrees with another member’s notion to just drop the flag in order to have arms free to enter a linked, braced position. Rousseau imagines how a “pig” trying to capture a Patriot Front member would quickly get outnumbered.
Later drilling sessions in November would see Network 8 repeating these drills, with more emphasis on sparring. Sparring, and exercise in general, are commonly exploited and documented as “activism” moments and used as propaganda to aim at the disaffected white boy neo-Nazi demographic. Patriot Front members capture these sessions through photos and videos, but most are left on the cutting room floor in efforts to find the rare nuggets that their untrained followers might misinterpret as any semblance of fighting skill.
Simpson took part in these sparring drills, which were expected to be useful for assessing those looking to become shield team members. Being able to defend themselves, given the possibility of confrontation, was deemed a must. In the following video, Spencer Simpson is seen sparring with Casey “Leo OR” Knuteson, both displaying terrible footwork and form. Colton Brown regardless would later advertise Spencer’s sparring skills to Thomas and others to get him onto a shield team.
Yard Sign Theft and the Network 8 Thanksgiving Party
On November 20, 2021, Network 8 hosted a Thanksgiving party at an AirBnB near Darrington, WA. James Julius Johnson planned the event and rented the space, and Network Director Colton Brown wrote the invitation that was sent over chats to members from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Brown asked members to bring small 3D-printed stencils and yard signs. Acting Network Scribe Jacob Sundt came up with an idea: he spent weeks stealing yard signs from private property with the intent to paint over the signs with PF’s white nationalist slogans, before placing them on city streets as cheap advertisements. He was killing two birds with one stone: by stealing signs, Patriot Front members wouldn’t have to spend as much money on materials, and by targeting yard signs with pro-LGBTQ or pro-diversity slogans they were removing “oppositional messaging” from the community. Other stolen materials, such as flags, would go towards a yearly bonfire.
Network 8 was expecting a large turnout to their Thanksgiving event, so it was the perfect moment for members to collect all of their stolen materials in one place.
They used that weekend to paint over the yard signs, replacing messages of diversity with ethnonationalism. Like their other hate crimes, members made sure to document the results and shared a group picture with others.
Fascist March on Washington, DC
On December 4th, 2021, Patriot Front held a march in Washington, DC.
According to an image posted in the private “Shield Section Team Planning” chat in the Patriot Front server, Spencer was expected to be on a “screen” team responsible for protecting column flanks and camera operators, using small plastic shields. He would be overseen by his Network Director Colton Brown, himself taking orders from Kieran “Patrick TX” Morris, who lives with leader Thomas Rousseau in Haslet, TX.
Spencer Simpson was spotted at the event in his shield team role. When Patriot Front ran into logistical difficulties due to antifascist action during their march, members had to wait outside in the cold afterward for longer than they actually marched and chanted. Shield team members were some of the last to leave, as the group had been surrounded by scores of local police at Potomac Park. Patriot Front shield teams were prepared to stand off against police. Leaked photos from the event show Colton Brown’s team with shields facing the police in Washington DC:
Attempted Disruption of a Pride Event in Coeur d’Alene
On June 11th, 2022, Patriot Front attempted to hold a confrontational flash mob at a pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Their plans were interrupted after their box truck was pulled over and members were detained, unmasked, and arrested. Spencer Simpson attended the event wearing gear consistent with Patriot Front shield teams, including a “bump cap” attached to his hat via chinstrap in anticipation of confrontation.
Due to the arrest, Spencer Simpson’s name and address were publicly posted, and his booking photo is readily available.
In addition, a vehicle matching Simpson’s was taken by the police:
Spencer Simpson’s white 2001 Ford Ranger with matching plates was found with Patriot Front shields in the back at a hotel. The red Toyota Camry, also spotted with Patriot Front gear, belongs to fellow Network 8 member Justin Michael O’Leary.
Identifying Information
Full name: Spencer Thomas Simpson
Birthdate: 9/20/2001
Address: 6051 Manastash Road, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Education
There have been online reports that Spencer Simpson is attending Central Washington University in Ellensburg, for history.
He is the son of two staff members of the university. Spencer’s father is Bruce Simpson, an Employer Outreach Liaison at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. Spencer gave his dad’s number as his emergency contact to his Network Director. His mother, Gretchen Taussig-Simpson, is a lecturer.
You can reach CWU’s Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities (OSRR) at (509) 963-1817 or [email protected].
Vehicles
2001 White Ford Ranger
Spencer Simpson parks his vehicle behind his parent’s house, where it is not visible from the road:3
License plate: C85408X, Washington state. 4
Notes
1 This article was already in progress and wasn’t the first in our queue, but, as it turns out, Thomas Rousseau is getting his members exposed faster than we can write!
2 Spencer apparently forgot that the reason Jacob Sundt chose the Olympia mural location was that there was construction keeping drivers off the road, which makes his advice worthless.
3 “Antifa isn’t going to drive all the way out to where you live and harass your mom dude“
4 Patriot Front guidelines for information and operational security advise members to get new license plates if they get doxxed. After finding out that his network was infiltrated, Colton Brown recommended members falsely report their plates as stolen in order to get new license plate numbers to better hide their vehicles from the public. Antifascist activists are on alert to monitor and report back if any NW8 Patriot Front member changes his license plates. His previous plate is shown below: