Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office yet, but the racist alt-right movement that has latched onto him is already showing signs that it’s falling apart. 
 
 The loosely knit group was shocked to the core Saturday night when one of its most influential leaders -- a man known to his online followers as "Mike Enoch," a virulent racist and anti-Semite -- was revealed to be a New York website developer named Mike Peinovich, who has said that his wife is Jewish. 
 
 Enoch/Peinovich is the creator of the popular neo-Nazi website The Right Stuff (TRS). For several years, he has also co-hosted a podcast called “The Daily Shoah,” a deliberately offensive pun on the Hebrew term for the Holocaust. 
 
 In his online persona, Peinovich routinely cracked jokes about killing Jewish people and forcibly deporting Muslims and people of African descent. The weekly program had roughly 100,000 regular listeners, many of whom regularly sent in financial donations by PayPal or bought merchandise from the site. 
 
 Peinovich's wife appears to have been aware of the entire situation. She even appeared on "The Daily Shoah" several times, including a special holiday-season segment in 2015 where she read a neo-Nazi parody of "The Night Before Christmas." Introducing the clip, which can be found online, Peinovich said his wife was "very proud of it." 
 
 Peinovich’s doxxing --- a term referring to revealing someone’s private information online --- was largely the work of anonymous left-wing users on the Medium blog site, in a post that has since been deleted. Word spread like wildfire throughout the alt-right’s many web forums and message boards over the weekend, as TRS fans and detractors battled over whether the information was legitimate or not. 
 
 That initial report had an air of credibility, since the identities of Peinovich’s fellow “death panelists” on the podcast had been revealed earlier in the week. That doxxing was done by anti-fascist activists who call themselves "antifas" and also members of a rival far right website called 8chan, who attacked TRS for supporting the principle that non-Jewish white nationalists had common interests with extreme right-wing Israelis, which is anathema to hardcore neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. 
 
 The first of Peinovich’s colleagues who was doxxed was a University of Nebraska philosophy student who called himself “Ghoul." His information was leaked out by antifas; 8channers subsequently revealed that his mother was revealed to be married to another woman. 
 
 After that, 8channers and and antifas doxxed the rest of the “Daily Shoah” crew. “Bulbasaur” was exposed as a corrections officer living in Tennessee and “Seventh Son” was revealed as a guitarist in a New York-based rock band. 
 
 The big prize for the doxxers, however, was Peinovich. As the creator of TRS, he was (at least until this weekend) regarded as one of the three most influential figures in the alt-right, alongside Daily Stormer creator Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer, the co-creator of the "alt-right" label. 
 
 Though TRS has not received as much coverage in the mainstream press, it originated or popularized many alt-right pranks and memes, including the practice of identifying Jewish people or those suspected of being Jewish with (((triple sets of parentheses))), bogus White Student Union schemes at educational institutions, and racist or anti-Semitic song parodies. Peinovich has also claimed he was the first person to give a Nazi salute at the infamous National Policy Institute conference after Trump's election in November. 
 
 Peinovich’s downfall was set in motion in December when a former alt-right vlogger named Mike Cernovich hinted to his viewers that one of his rivals “is morbidly obese and is married to a Jewish woman.” He declined to say who he meant, but that salacious rumor set the cyber-sleuths to their task. 
 
 As the doxxing unfolded this weekend, Peinovich said nothing on Twitter or on his own site. Contacted via email by Salon, he denied being Mike Enoch but admitted to having been involved with TRS. 
 
 “I was involved with that site years ago, writing a few libertarian articles for them and using my PayPal for the exactly zero donations that the site ever got when it was still a libertarian blog,” he wrote. 
 
 Peinovich then claimed he had disassociated himself from TRS after it became overtly pro-Nazi: “I cut off ties when they went the direction they are going now, and that was 4 years ago. Honestly I have not thought much about them. As you can see from all public writings I am libertarian. My wife is Jewish. Do you really believe that I am this person?” 
 
 The TRS creator then asked Salon to help him deny that he was Enoch: “If you give any fucks at all then you could print that this is all bullshit. We are now being harassed not only by communists but by actual neo nazis.” 
 
 When asked if he would be willing to conduct a telephone interview, Peinovich replied, “Let me talk to my wife.” He never answered back. 
 
 As the evidence continued to mount linking him to the Enoch identity, Peinovich decided to fess up to his devoted Nazi fans in a post for TRS’ password-protected forums, part of which read: 
 
 As I am sure you all know, I was doxxed and an ill advised attempt to fool the media about my identity led me to not talk to you people and to try to simply ride it out by being silent. This was irresponsible and a disservice to all of you. Yes my wife is who they say she is, I won't even bother denying it, I won't bother making excuses. If this makes you want to leave the movement, or to have nothing to do with TRS, then I understand. Don't lie for me. Don't try to defend me to those attacking me. Don't jeopardize your own reputation by defending things that you don't think you can. I could try to explain my whole life for the last ten years to you but what difference at this point would it make. Life isn't perfect. 
 
 The admission sent a shock wave throughout the alt-right. The reactions began pouring in. Some listeners of “The Daily Shoah” were crestfallen. Here's just one example of the anguish: 
 
 TDS was my favorite podcast and one of the best parts of my week. Enoch's rants were both enlightening and triggering, but now I cannot listen to them the same way again. It just feels like they're just more actors in the same play being orchestrated by the Jews. Half of my gut has also thought TRS has been controlled opposition for awhile now. Although I will continue to listen to the Shoah I just don't know if I will be able to take Enoch as seriously as I used to. It's pretty bad for your WN, fourth reich, neo-nazi, facist movement when one of the head guys happens to be married to a Jew. 
 
 Within a few more hours, Peinovich’s partners announced that he was resigning from TRS entirely. 
 
 The 8channers, who pride themselves on their refusal to adopt pseudonyms (all site users post under the handle “Anonymous”) and reject the "alt-right" label in favor of "national socialist," were ecstatic. 
 
 “(((TRS))) is over. Period,” gloated one of them. 
 
 Many began improvising some of the Holocaust memes that have been lobbed at Jewish journalists, instead featuring Peinovich and his wife. Both were depicted in gas chambers before the night was done. 
 
 Another hoped the entire alt-right movement would just disappear: “After the shitstorm is over the alt-right won’t be important enough to warrant a [discussion] thread,” he wrote. “In my opinion, they never did.” 
 
 With Peinovich gone and many TRS readers mistrustful of the “death panelists” who helped him cover up his secret, the site’s future is an open question. Its unique blend of pop-culture references and hardcore neo-Nazism will be hard to replace. By around 3:30 on Sunday morning, at least some 8channers had begun to feel a sense of regret. 
 
 "I'm going to bed but I want everyone involved with this doxxing to think about contributing something to replace TRS rather than pissing on its grave and saying that they did the right thing,” wrote one of them. “So far you have fucked up royally.” 
 
 This article has been updated to reflect the fact that anti-fascist activists were the first to expose Ghoul, not 8chan posters. 
 
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 in your inbox every day Sign up for our free newsletter • • • ||||| Over the weekend, unnamed leftists leaked the true identity of Mike Enoch, the pseudonymous neo-Nazi talking head behind white supremacist blog TheRightStuf.biz and co-host of its Daily Shoah podcast, on the self-publishing platform Medium. 
 
 According to the Medium post, which has since been taken down for rules violations — but is still archived online — Enoch is actually Mike Peinovich. 
 
 Peinovich lives in New York City's ritzy Upper East Side neighborhood, has a "lucrative tech job" and a "liberal family, rooted in the affluent suburb of Montclair, New Jersey." Unlike notorious white nationalist spokespersons like Richard B. Spencer of the National Policy Institute or Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin, the Medium post noted that Peinovich concealed his true identity to enjoy the trappings of his liberal city lifestyle. 
 
 As news of his true identity spread, Peinovich — whose Right Stuff site popularized (((echoes))), a technique for targeting Jews online, which Mic reported on back in June — was forced to admit to fans his true identity — and that his wife is Jewish. 
 
 According to Salon, after initially denying the report Peinovich took to the Right Stuff's password-protected forum to write, "As I am sure you all know, I was doxxed and an ill-advised attempt to fool the media about my identity led me to not talk to you people and to try to simply ride it out by being silent." 
 
 He added, "Yes my wife is who they say she is, I won't even bother denying it, I won't bother making excuses." 
 
 Other denizens of the forum saw yet another Jewish conspiracy afoot. 
 
 "It just feels like they're just more actors in the same play being orchestrated by the Jews," one user responded. "Half of my gut has also thought TRS has been controlled opposition for awhile now." 
 
 On the web communities 4chan and 8chan, both of which run far-right political forums, users responded to Peinovich's unmasking with a combination of mockery, anger and anguish. One thread asked, "Why is the Alt Right full of pathetic untermenschen?" — a reference to the German word used by Nazis to describe inferior races. Another poster suggested, "He did it to setup an online community that required people to divulge all of their personal information in order to join." 
 
 According to Salon, Peinovich's wife appeared to be aware of her husband's online identity — and even made several appearances on the podcasts. In one, according to Salon, "she read a neo-Nazi parody of The Night Before Christmas. Introducing the clip — which is also archived online — Peinovich said his wife was 'very proud of it.'" 
 
 Peinovich has since resigned, and the Right Stuff may be on the verge of collapsing entirely. The Medium post noted other members affiliated with the network were outed recently, including "Cooper 'Ghoul' Ward (also a member of the American Vanguard, another group trying its hand at a public presence), Van 'Bulbasaur' Bryant II, and Jesse 'Seventh Son' Dunstan." Ward and Bryant have since dropped off the web. 
 
 Peinovich's Daily Shoah, a play on a Hebrew term for the Holocaust, is a major player in far-right politics which claims to have roughly 100,000 subscribers. And Peinovich has attended neo-Nazi and white supremacist conferences like Spencer's NPI under his Enoch pseudonym. 
 
 Peinovich was also one of the most prominent organizers of the alt-right, the loosely affiliated online network of white nationalist and far-right activists who sprung to prominence amid Republican President-elect Donald Trump's campaign. His venture, the TRS network, appeared to be generating at least some revenue as well through merchandising and various fundraising ventures. ||||| An ‘antifascist investigation team’ claimed to unmask Mike Peinovich as the ringleader of the Right Stuff website, a hub for the far-right movement 
 
 Antifascist activists claim to have “doxxed”, or umasked, the leading “alt-right” writer and podcaster Mike Enoch as part of a string of such actions that have convulsed the far-right movement. 
 
 Enoch has appeared at conferences hosted by Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute, including one in Washington in November that culminated in Roman salutes and widely reported shouts of “hail Trump”. 
 
 On Saturday, a group that called itself counter-counter signal and said it was “a small antifascist investigation team in the New York area” issued a statement and a Medium post detailing its claim that the ringleader of the Right Stuff website, hitherto known as Enoch, was in fact Mike Peinovich, a former tech worker who lives on New York’s Upper East Side. 
 
 ‘A sense that white identity is under attack’: making sense of the alt-right Read more 
 
 Peinovich’s Gmail address, they said, had been attached to a PayPal account associated with the site in 2013. 
 
 The Medium post – since removed by the company in a “rules investigation” – revealed Peinovich’s address, telephone number and the identity of his wife. 
 
 Counter-counter signal claimed his wife had also contributed to a high-profile podcast hosted by Enoch, the Daily Shoah, the name of which is a pun on the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. 
 
 In heated discussion in far-right forums and on social media, most concern seemed to center on the fact that Peinovich’s wife was identified as having a Jewish background. 
 
 Contacted via email, Peinovich denied he was Enoch and said he would “try to get my Google search results cleared up”. 
 
 Asked about the association of his email address with the PayPal account, he wrote: “Well, see if you can think of any ways in which a guy’s email address could be on a website four years ago and he is not the guy in charge of the site today.” 
 
 No other figures have said Peinovich is not Enoch, however, and in a widely shared screenshot from the Right Stuff’s private forum, Enoch appears to admit to the doxxing, writing “Yes my wife is who they say she is” and “I am just a guy who puts ideas out there on the internet.” 
 
 Asked about the screenshot, Peinovich wrote: “No idea really about any of that. Sorry.” 
 
 On Monday, Spencer said on Twitter: “I respect, like, and admire Mike Enoch. He will continue to be a force on the Alt Right in the future.” 
 
 The same day, Peinovich’s podcast partners said he had quit the Right Stuff. 
 
 
 
 The Right Stuff serves as a hub for the far right and publishes podcasts including The Daily Shoah and Fash the Nation. The site claims tens of thousands of listeners. Before it was banned from Soundcloud last October, Fash the Nation was the No1 conservative podcast on the platform. 
 
 The Right Stuff has been instrumental in evolving the distinctive lexicon of the far right, notably originating the “echoes” meme in which Jewish names are enclosed in three closed parentheses. This was listed as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League last year. 
 
 In its Medium post, counter-countersignal accused the Right Stuff of taking “alt-right politics to their logical conclusion, including favorable references to the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, gaybashing, Islamophobic hate crimes, police shootings of black youth, and much more”. 
 
 The group justified the doxxing by claiming the website was “central to a hard-core, explicitly neo-Nazi tendency in the alt-right movement”. 
 
 Antifascist sources said the investigation had proceeded with online intelligence, supplemented with offline checking of Enoch’s address and his wife’s identity. Counter-countersignal said that there was “no hacking or illegal activity involved”. 
 
 'Alt-right' groups will 'revolt' if Trump shuns white supremacy, leaders say Read more 
 
 In an email, the group provided its reasons for targeting Enoch. 
 
 “[The Right Stuff] posts podcasts and articles advocating for the murder of people of color, queers, leftists, and a new holocaust against Jews on a daily basis,” the email read. “For the most part they would not be saying this stuff if they had any accountability from their neighbors, friends, and family.” 
 
 Writers and podcasters at the Right Stuff usually operate under pseudonyms. In recent weeks, other doxxings have led some far-right figures to go into hiding. 
 
 A Scottish YouTube star known as Millennial Woes, who appeared at the National Policy Institute, has reportedly left the country after attracting mainstream media interest. Other figures associated with the Right Stuff have been driven off the internet. Some have been the victim of former allies on the far right. ||||| A Jewish real estate agent from Whitefish, Montana, is suing the founder of a neo-Nazi website who allegedly incited an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against the woman and her family. 
 
 The suit, filed in U.S. District Court of Montana on Tuesday, claims that The Daily Stormer blogger Andrew Anglin urged his online followers to direct hundreds of hateful messages — including death threats and references to the Holocaust — to Tanya Gersh and her husband and 12-year-old son. 
 
 Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent from Montana, is suing neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin after he incited an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against Gersh. Dan Chung 
 
 In a December blog post, Anglin wrote, “Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda . . . This is very important. Calling these people up and/or sending them a quick message is very easy." 
 
 The post listed Gersh's phone number and home address, along with her 12-year-old son's Twitter handle and her husband's contact information. A "tsunami of threats" ensued, according to the lawsuit. 
 
 "My friends used to joke that I was the happiest girl on the planet," Gersh told NBC News. "Overnight, my life was stolen from me. I’m in trauma therapy and the safe world I lived in inside my beautiful mountain town was changed for me." 
 
 Anglin allegedly targeted Gersh after Sherry Spencer, the mother of well-known white nationalist Richard Spencer, accused Gersh of extorting her in order to profit from a real estate transaction. 
 
 Anglin and Spencer did not respond to request for comment from NBC News. 
 
 Related: White Nationalist Richard Spencer Assailed by Ex-Classmates, Elite Texas Prep School 
 
 A Whitefish resident for 10 years, Spencer owned a commercial building in the town, the suit claims. Locals were planning on protesting outside of Sherry Spencer's building around Nov. 13, 2016, shortly after her son gained nationwide attention for a video of him giving the Nazi salute at a white nationalist meeting in Washington D.C. 
 
 The complaint claims that Spencer hired Gersh as a real estate agent after Gersh suggested Spencer sell the building and donate the profits in order to ease tensions in the town. But on Dec. 1, Spencer "began to get cold feet" and asked to continue her sale without Gersh's help, according to the lawsuit. 
 
 Two weeks later, the suit claims, Spencer penned a Medium post saying that Gersh had threatened her into selling her building. 
 
 “[Gersh] relayed to me that if I did not sell my building, 200 protesters and national media would show up outside—which would drive down the property value—until I complied," the post reads, adding that the real estate agent was looking for "financial benefits" from threats of protests. 
 
 Related: White Nationalist Richard Spencer Removed From CPAC 
 
 The post led Anglin to go on a "campaign of terror" against Gersh — with 30 Daily Stormer articles written to date urging readers to target her, according to the suit. Anglin also encouraged his readers to share a video of Richard Spencer discussing the failed real estate deal during a radio interview on The David Duke Show, the complaint added. 
 
 One Twitter user tagged Gersh's son in a tweet reading, "psst kid, there's a free Xbox One inside this oven" alongside a photo of an oven, according to the complaint. At least 700 communications were directed at the woman's family. 
 
 For Gersh, the hate directed at her son was the most difficult to endure. 
 
 "This will follow him for the rest of his life. Those images will always be on the internet. It’s part of our regular conversations now to tell him that he's safe and he can still be proud of being Jewish," she said. 
 
 Anglin's harassment has led to medical issues for Gersh, the suit claims, including anxiety, weight gain, joint pain and hair loss. 
 
 Related: Protester Punches White Nationalist Richard Spencer During Interview 
 
 "Ms. Gersh has had panic attacks, goes to bed in tears, wakes up crying, startles easily, feels anxiety and discomfort in crowded places, has had trouble leaving her home, and fears answering her phone," her attorneys wrote. "Overall, she feels like an entirely different person than she did before the troll storm, as though she has been permanently altered." 
 
 Gersh deleted most of her social media accounts, but told NBC News it is devastating to "feel like I have to go into hiding." 
 
 Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the digital aspect of the case is what makes it unique. 
 
 "What makes this case different is it's one for the digital age," he said. "In the past, Anglin would’ve burned a cross on Tanya’s lawn, but now, they start a troll storm online." 
 
 Gersh is being represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and seeks an undetermined amount in damages. She is accusing Anglin of invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malice and violating the Montana Anti-Discrimination Act. ||||| Published on Dec 29, 2016 
 
 "In his online persona, Peinovich routinely cracked jokes about killing Jewish people and forcibly deporting Muslims and people of African descent. The weekly program had roughly 100,000 regular listeners, many of whom regularly sent in financial donations by PayPal or bought merchandise from the site" -- 
 
 
 
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 Cernovich vs "Baked Alaska" Part 6: The Same Person Calling Me Kikeovich is Married to a Jew 
 
 (formerly The Gulag) 
 
 Mike Cernovich Live on Periscope 12-29-2016. Part 6 of the Cernovich vs. Baked Alaska saga. 
 
 - Alt-Right Fight Night Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... 
 
 - Cernovich Periscope Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... 
 
 - Reuters Article on the drama: http://news.trust.org/item/2016122920... 
 
 - Mike's blog post about it: https://www.dangerandplay.com/anthime... ||||| Andrew Anglin is the founder and editor of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website. Styled after popular image-heavy Internet forums like 4chan and 8chan, the Daily Stormer is dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism, primarily through guttural hyperbole and epithet-laden stories about topics like alleged Jewish world control and black-on-white crime. As of April 2017, the site ranked 13,137th globally and 5,597th within the United States, according to Alexa. 
 
 In his own words 
 
 “Fear. Now is the time for it … We want these people to feel unwanted. We want them to feel that everything around them is against them. And we want them to be afraid.” 
 
 —“Female Hajis Fear to Wear the Headtowel in Public After Trump Win—You Should Yell at Them” 
 
 “The fact is, when you give women rights, they destroy absolutely everything around them, no matter what other variable is involved … Even if you become the ultimate alpha male, some stupid bitch will still ruin your life.” 
 
 —“Brad Pitt Losing Weight and His Mind After Whore Wife Ruins His Life” 
 
 “Jews, Blacks and lesbians will be leaving America if Trump gets elected—and he’s happy about it. This alone is enough reason to put your entire heart and soul into supporting this man.” 
 
 —“Get Em Outta Here: Glorious Leader Calls for Kike Lena Dunham to Leave America,” April 26, 2016 
 
 “The day is coming when we’re going to tear down the hoax [Holocaust] memorial in Berlin and replace it with a statue of Hitler 1,000 feet tall.” 
 
 —“SS Auschwitz Guard Dies Days Before Scheduled Lynching by Kikes,” April 8, 2016 
 
 “I ask myself this, in all things: WWHD? (What Would Hitler Do?). To be slightly more honest/specific, I ask myself what Hitler would do if he’d been born in 1984 in America and was dealing with this situation we are currently dealing with and also really liked 4chan and Anime. Hitler was, ultimately, the symbolic (and in some ways actual real life) culmination of traditional Europeanism. 
 
 —“Andrew Anglin Exposed,” March 14, 2016 
 
 “My problem with blacks is that I have come to understand that their biological nature is incompatible with White society, and that we will never have peace as long as they are among us, given that irrational outbursts of brutal violence are a part of their nature.” 
 
 —“Blacks Loved Slavery and Regretted its End,” Feb. 20, 2014 
 
 Background 
 
 Anglin spent his high school years dabbling in liberal politics, according to an interview he gave to Vocativ. He became a fascist after reading Noam Chomsky, exploring “all that Communist Jewish stuff,” and studying religion, including Islam and Buddhism, eventually arriving at Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. In an autobiographical article entitled “Andrew Anglin Exposed,” Anglin expounded on his life’s path: “I started out with normal Alex Jones type conspiracy material, and then moved on to weirder conspiracy material, and then eventually decided Ted Kaczynski was right with regards to a coming apocalypse due to the rapidity of technological development.” (Jones is probably America’s most prolific conspiracy theorist. Kaczynski was the “Unabomber” who is now in prison.) 
 
 An investigative piece published in February 2017 by Columbus Alive, a weekly newspaper from Anglin’s hometown, revealed a less polished ideological journey. Former classmates recalled an outspoken liberal and vegan who sported dreadlocks and JNCO pants. Anglin, who was once known to speak out against racism and homophobia, was also prone to violent tantrums including one alleged incident during a party in high school where he repeatedly bashed his head on a sidewalk outside. Former classmates also recalled Anglin’s bedroom walls being dented from other tantrums involving head slamming. 
 
 Anglin spent significant time living and working in Southeast Asia. “All the White people you meet are outcast sorts who you can usually connect with easily (you aren’t really spending much time with Asians),” he said of that experience. “To this day, I have little negative to say about Asians, save that I don’t think they should be immigrating into Western countries (in any kind of numbers) and I don’t think White people should be producing children with them. I will also say that Chinese people have no souls.” Despite such comments, Anglin’s travels abroad have led to repeated accusations of “race mixing” and investigations into Anglin’s ethnicity by white supremacist internet sleuths. 
 
 In December of 2016 Anglin joined Richard Spencer and Mike "Enoch" Peinovich on a radio show in which they referred to their tripartite group as “The First Triumvirate.” The move was a bid for unity between three leaders of the fractious “alt-right.” Following the high profile doxing of several hosts from The Daily Shoah, one of the alt-right’s most popular radio programs, Anglin took to the Daily Stormer to take up for Mike Peinovich after it was revealed that his wife is Jewish. “As most of you probably already know, we’ve had a minor crisis in the Alt-Right. As the kike dox squad continues their rampage, Mike Peinovich of the Right Stuff was doxed” Anglin wrote in a post titled “Here’s the thing.” “And here’s the thing: Jew wife.” Anglin continued, “As far as if he actually did betray anyone—no. He was obviously dishonest on some level, but if we look at his contribution, and ask ourselves ‘did this forward the 14 words?’ we will see that it did, and the weirdness in his personal life doesn’t change that.” Anglin, compensating for his own history of dating women of color, took a tellingly pragmatic approach to the revelations about Peinovich. 
 
 An imageboard known for its lack of censorship, 4chan, was the key to Anglin’s dive into fascism. “I had always been into 4chan, as I am at heart a troll,” he wrote. “This is about the time /new/ [a specific 4chan board] was going full-Nazi, and so I got into Hitler, and realized that through this type of nationalist system, alienation could be replaced with community in a real sense, while the authoritarianism would allow for technology to develop in a direction that was beneficial rather than destructive to the people.” Shortly after, Anglin formed the short-lived site Total Fascism, dedicated to long-form essays on fascism. 
 
 Not long after, on July 4, 2013, the Daily Stormer was formed from the ashes of Total Fascism. The site, originally registered to Andrew’s father, Greg, is named for the infamous Nazi Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic weekly newspaper, Der Stürmer, which specialized in pornographic attacks on Jews. (Streicher was hanged after being convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg.) Its headlines are almost always over the top, with titles like “All Intelligent People in History Disliked the Jews” and “Talking Monkey Harriet Tubman to Replace Indian-Killer Jackson on $20 Bill.” The articles themselves are peppered with racist images and memes. 
 
 “Using the daily news is a means to propagandize people,” Anglin explained to Vocativ in March 2014. “To get them to look at the world in a certain way.” 
 
 Ultimately, Anglin and his readership are striving to shift the needle on the status quo for public discussion by creating a kind of juvenile, repulsive humor about topics like the Holocaust. Campaigns to this end have included using Adobe Photoshop to add Nazi iconography and falsely attributed Adolf Hitler quotes, plus emblazing slogans like “Gas the Kikes, race war now” to photos of singer Taylor Swift. 
 
 The site’s audience is highly participatory in the sections for comments on articles, which serve as a rallying point for the “Stormer Troll Army.” Known informally as the “Stormers,” the Stormer Troll Army is an ad hoc group of readers who perpetrate harassment online at the behest of Anglin. The site uses a bulletin board style system that was set up by the notorious neo-Nazi hacker Andrew Auernheimer (also known as “Weev”) following the banning of the Daily Stormer from Disqus, a blog comment hosting service. The ban came after the Stormers—at the urging of Anglin—swarmed the comment section of Breitbart, a right-wing news service, as part of November 2015’s “Operation: Kikebart” or “#NoHydeNoPeace.” The campaign was a result of Breitbart opening a bureau in Israel and its muted early coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Less than two weeks after the campaign got under way, Disqus notified Anglin that it was discontinuing service to the Daily Stormer for being in “conflict with the values and terms of use of Disqus.” 
 
 Despite “Operation: Kikebart,” Breitbart rose to be one of the most consistently cited websites on the Daily Stormer beginning in July of 2015, the same month that Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign. In November of 2016, Anglin lauded the site, particularly its former executive and current White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon, for making the site “hardcore.” During an appearance on Nordfront Radio, a Swedish neo-Nazi radio program, Anglin described Breitbart’s content as “basically stuff that you would read on the Daily Stormer.” 
 
 The Stormer Troll Army began organizing in small groups across the United States in late 2016, after Anglin published an article encouraging his readers to “prepare for the coming race war.” “[I]t’s a bit like Fight Club,” Anglin wrote, encouraging his audience to meet up in coffee shops, engage in firearms training, work out together, take part in political activism, meet women, and more. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented 31 active “book clubs” in 2016. 
 
 Weev has taken an increasingly active role at The Daily Stormer since his prison sentence for identity fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization was vacated. He was originally convicted after revealing a vulnerability in AT&T’s security that exposed the emails of iPad users on their network. He was released from prison following a successful appeal on the basis that the trial took place in an improper venue. 
 
 Other online campaigns launched under Anglin’s direction include “Operation: Jew Wife,” which targeted conspiracy-monger and Infowars host Alex Jones because his wife is Jewish, and “Operation: Filthy Jew Bitch,” which targeted Labour Party member of Parliament Luciana Berger for her role in the arrest of British neo-Nazi Garron Helm after he sent her anti-Semitic messages via Twitter. Anglin is also a promoter of racist hashtags including #BoycottStarWarsVII, #GasTheKikes, #RaceWarNow, #OpenBordersForIsrael and #WhiteGenocide, as well as the hijacking of hashtags used for social justice campaigns in order to spread disinformation. In the fall of 2015, for instance, in the midst of ongoing protests against racism at the University of Missouri, Anglin tweeted out false eyewitness accounts under the hashtag #PrayForMizzou claiming that the Ku Klux Klan was present at the student protests and complicit with the university police department. Anglin was banned from Twitter as a result, but the tactics persisted. 
 
 Several weeks after that campaign, Anglin spearheaded a similar disinformation campaign that involved starting fake White Student Union pages on Facebook for universities across the country. “So, guys,” he instructed his followers on The Daily Stormer. “Here’s the plan: Make more of the White Student Union pages on Facebook for various universities. You don’t have to go there. Make one for Dartmouth, Princeton, etc. If they won’t let it on Facebook, put it on tumblr or wordpress or whatever. Get it up, then forward the links to local media.” The media took the bait, and reports of racist student groups appeared in several places. 
 
 These strategies of subversion and media manipulation are at the heart of Anglin’s and the Daily Stormer’s plans for racially awakened minds and the start of a race war. 
 
 In March 2016, Weev took these tactics to a new height by accessing thousands of printers, many of them at universities, and causing them to print out a flyer for Daily Stormer that read, in part: “White man are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy? Join us in the struggle for global white supremacy at The Daily Stormer.” Anglin was ecstatic, telling a Washington Times reporter, “Of course I endorse it. Six million [a sarcastic reference to the death toll of the Holocaust] percent, I endorse this glorious action.” 
 
 In December of 2016, Anglin decided to target Tanya Gersh, a Jewish realtor from Montana. Sherry Spencer, the mother of Richard Spencer, had asked the realtor to help her sell a commercial property in an effort to tamp down community discontent related to Richard’s ideology, But Sherry Spencer subsequently posted a blog post on Medium, that she purportedly had authored, that falsely accused Gersh of extortion in connection with the sale of building. The very next day, Anglin published the first in a series of articles urging his followers to intimidate and harass the realtor, her family and associates. 
 
 The first of this 30-article series was titled “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and Extortion – TAKE ACTION!” In the piece, Anglin claimed “This is the Jews for you, people. They are a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths. When you do something they don’t like, they will use the power of the media to come down on you, assassinate your character. They will call you names and accuse you of all sorts of things. They will go after your money. If all of that fails, they will attack your mother.” 
 
 In subsequent articles, Anglin exhorted his followers continually to harass Gersh, as well as members of the Whitefish Jewish community, and local business owners. Anglin’s articles even attacked the realtor’s 12-year old son, including photo-shopped images of the realtor and her son on the entry gate to Auschwitz, and an image of her son being crushed by a Nazi tank. As a result of Anglin’s call to arms, the realtor and her family received over 700 threatening and intimidating anti-Semitic phone calls, voicemails, emails, text messages, social media posts and even harassing Christmas cards, causing the family to consider fleeing Whitefish for their safety and causing significant psychological harm to the realtor. 
 
 In a dramatic escalation of events, Anglin threatened an armed march on the city, going as far as obtaining a permit for January 15, Martin Luther King Jr Day, naming the march for King’s assassin. Anglin indicated that “We will be busing in skinheads from the Bay Area … I have already worked out most of the details with the leaders of the local groups. Several of our top supporters from Silicon Valley have offered to provide significant support for the march, but we may need to solicit donations to pay for gas/food for the skinheads.” 
 
 In spite of Anglin’s claim that the Daily Stormer has supporters in the Silicon Valley, neither the skinheads nor the march materialized, perhaps signaling a weakness in Anglin’s abilities beyond self-starting “book clubs”. 
 
 Despite Anglin’s nominal ban on inciting violence in the comment section of Daily Stormer, at least one mass murderer and another man accused of murder as a hate crime and terrorism have spent time among his audience. 
 
 Passages from a manifesto written by Dylann Storm Roof, who carried out the massacre of nine black people at Charleston, S.C.’s Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church in June 2015, were found almost verbatim in comments made on the Daily Stormer articles by a user calling himself AryanBlood1488. (The numbers 14 and 88, often used together, are well-known neo-Nazi taglines.) Anglin responded with indifference, writing a post entitled “If Dylan [sic] Roof was ‘AryanBlood1488,’ He Hadn’t Commented on the Daily Stormer in a While.” He added, “This isn’t particularly surprising, given that anyone reading about Black crime or other racial issues on the Internet would necessarily have come across this site.” 
 
 Anglin later merged coverage of Roof’s sentencing with the media hype around the abduction and torture, broadcasted on Facebook Live, of a mentally challenged white man by four black youths in Chicago. Referring to Roof as DyRo, Anglin claimed in “As the Final Stage of DyRo’s Trial Begins, Chicago Torture-Kidnapping Highlights Why He Did It” that “…[Roof] did understand the concept of the media covering up black crime, however, so you have to wonder why he didn’t foresee that this act would not prove anything, but simply further the narrative of evil whites oppressing innocent brown people. Whatever the Case, DyRo is the Victim” 
 
 In March 2017, another reader of the Daily Stormer, James Harris Jackson, allegedly murdered Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man, in Manhattan with a 26-inch sword. During an interview from the Rikers Island jail complex, Jackson told the New York Daily News that he spent time on the Daily Stormer interacting with “like-minded people.” He has been charged with murder as a hate crime and terrorism. Before it was revealed that Jackson was a frequenter of the Daily Stormer, Anglin published an article titled, “After White-on-Black Murder in NYC, It’s Time to Rally Around White Supremacists,” where he wrote, “It’s time for society to rally around White Supremacists, and show that we don’t blame them for a single act of someone who wrongly used their beliefs for evi. … It’s really encouraging to see people banding together like this, showing White Supremacists that they don’t have to be ashamed, because they’ve done nothing wrong.” After Jackson’s connection to the Daily Stormer came to light, Anglin penned another article in which he stated, “I’m not going to go out of my way to condemn this guy. Why should I? Black people are killing us “randomly” every single day—except it isn’t actually random, it is the exact same thing as here—these are attacks because of our race.” He followed the statement with dozens of photos of alleged victims of “black-on-white” crime, a longtime propaganda tool of white supremacists that seeks to illustrate an embattled white majority under siege by supposedly violent people of color. 
 
 Anglin was an adamant supporter of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The Daily Stormer posted hundreds of articles in support of Trump, as well as articles attacking his competitors and their families. When Trump polled in first place for the first time during the Republican primary, Anglin wrote: “If the Donald gets the nomination, he will almost certainly beat Hillary, as White men such as you and I go out and vote for the first time in our lives for the one man who actually represents our interests.” Anglin and his followers alternately refer to Trump as “Glorious Leader” and “Humble Philosopher” while praising his xenophobic and racist remarks on the campaign trail. Following Trump’s announcement that he would ban all Muslim immigration into the United States, Anglin wrote, “Get all of these monkeys the hell out of our country—now! Heil Donald Trump—THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR.” On major primary days, there were typically new banners featuring Trump posted to Anglin’s site. 
 
 The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, in a post simply titled, “We Won.” Anglin wrote: “Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor. Make no mistake about it: we did this. If it were not for us, it wouldn’t have been possible.” That same day, Anglin encouraged his followers to harass Muslims and make them feel unwelcome. 
 
 Despite its relative youth, Daily Stormer has generated a disproportionate amount of attention, both inside and outside the organized white supremacist movement. Some of this is inherently related to the site’s tactics—trolling on a large scale, often with the explicit intent of using the mainstream media to amplify its message. Internally, it also commands the attention of almost every corner of the racist world, although not always in a positive way. 
 
 In the fall of 2014, Daily Stormer carried an article summarizing a series of squabbles within the white nationalist world entitled “Infinite DramaQuest,” in which Anglin described all of the ongoing conflicts by comparing each of the players to Dragon Ball Z characters. This sarcastic post introduced Daily Stormer to everyone in white nationalism who wasn’t already paying attention when Colin Lidell of the blog Alternative-Right launched an attack on Anglin. 
 
 In the piece, Anglin stated plainly that, by his measure, “You cannot preserve the White race without addressing the Jews. You cannot address the Jews without addressing their [Holocaust] hoax. You cannot address their hoax without addressing Adolf Hitler.” Lidell fired back, stating: “What Anglin is unequivocally saying here is that before you can say anything at all about preserving and protecting the White race— stopping mass immigration, say, or encouraging White women to have at least 2.1 babies— you must first get everyone to love Hitler and hate the Jews, and if you can’t accomplish these supposed preconditions then you had best forget the whole shebang. So what he’s really saying is simply: ‘You cannot preserve the White race.’” 
 
 According to Lidell, Anglin’s audience is attracted to his “schtick in the same way that poor, downtrodden Whites are attracted to monster trucks and professional wrestling.” 
 
 The spat continued on for several more rounds. The only true winner was Anglin and his growing audience, which Matt Parrott of the racist Traditionalist Youth Network praised for supposedly “achiev[ing] more traffic and influence than most his critics combined.” 
 
 In January 2015, Anglin also sparred with Kyle Rogers, then-webmaster of the Council of Conservative Citizens’ racist website. Anglin complained about a “rather rude email” from Rogers over the reprinting of Rogers’ articles on the Daily Stormer without permission. He went on to say that Rogers’ response was “deeply personally insulting, given how much I’ve supported him and his organization.” 
 
 Counter-Currents, a pseudo-intellectual white nationalist website and publishing house that caters to “academic racists,” has also described Anglin as “slumming and pandering because of mistaken ideas” and “burning through brain cells by using stimulants.” 
 
 When asked about all these feuds in early 2015, Anglin told the Southern Poverty Law Center that “I try to be fair and polite to all people.” All people, that is, except for those whom Anglin describes as Jews, Zionists, Judeo-Bolsheviks, Third Worlders, Negroes, Moslem Pigs, Trannies and Hebes, maligning them daily in his headlines.
– The founder of a neo-Nazi blog and major figure in the alt-right movement has resigned after he was revealed to have a Jewish wife. A post published on Medium over the weekend claimed Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff—whose Daily Shoah podcast has 100,000 subscribers—is actually Mike Peinovich, a New York City web developer with a "liberal family" and a Jewish wife. Peinovich, who often discussed killing Jewish people, denied the report to Salon before confirming it on the TRS forum. He then resigned. As several others involved in TRS were outed recently, Mic reports its future is now unclear, though National Policy Institute head Richard Spencer says Peinovich "will continue to be a force on the alt-right in the future," per the Guardian. The revelation came less than a month after a former alt-right vlogger described a major alt-right player as "married to a Jewish woman," without naming names. Peinovich's wife appeared on the Daily Shoah podcast numerous times. In one 2015 episode, she read a neo-Nazi parody of The Night Before Christmas of which she was "very proud," Peinovich said at the time. If her Jewish heritage "makes you want to leave the movement, or to have nothing to do with TRS, then I understand," Peinovich wrote on the TRS forum this week. The response from the movement was less than understanding, with one user suggesting the pair were "actors in the same play being orchestrated by the Jews," while other memes showed Peinovich and his wife in gas chambers.