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John Anderson (fka Jon-Paul Struys) AKA “Johnny MI” and Joseph Andrew Struys AKA “Ulysses MI” of the Traverse City Area, MI

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UPDATE 3/30/24: John-Paul Struys legally changed his name to John Anderson in 2022.

Based on a tip from Central Oregon Antifascist (COA), anti-racists in Michigan have unmasked two Patriot Front members.  These two PF members are brothers and they both reside in the Traverse City area.

COA sent this link that tied PF member “Johnny MI” (an alias) to Jon-Paul Struys, someone that was arrested at 2017’s Unite the Right (UtR) in Charlottesville. From there, and from the tip, Michigan anti-racists filled in the rest.  Because of the leaks hosted by Unicorn Ninja, anti-racists in Michigan were able to social map the Michigan Cluster of Patriot Front. This mapping allowed the anti-racists to confirm the provided identity and then the additional link to the brother.

Jon-Paul Struys in the leaked chats identified himself as being experienced in security work. This was confirmed by his LinkedIn account. Information on Joseph is a bit more scarce.

Traverse City region:  If you know more and have any tips please email pftips@krutt.org.

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Zachary R. Stern AKA “Ryan PA” of Bushkill, PA

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We have identified this individual as Zachary Ross Stern of Bushkill, Pennsylvania who used the alias “Ryan-PA” in the Unicorn Riot leaks of the neo-Nazi organization, Patriot Front’s, chat server. Stern’s story, however, has an strange twist.

Zachary Stern came to our attention when he was mentioned in an article about Patriot Front in the Huffington Post, “Inside Patriot Front: The Masked White Supremacists On A Nationwide Hate Crime Spree.” Chris Mathias and Ali Winston wrote:

Videos showing Patriot Front’s retreat included footage of a rental number on the side of one of the trucks. HuffPost has obtained a copy of that truck’s corresponding rental agreement on July 3. It shows that it was rented by a man named Zachary Stern, who listed an address in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, about a two-hour drive north in the Poconos, as his residence. Public records show Zachary Stern owning a house at that same address.

Looking into Stern’s background, we found some interesting parallels with a Patriot Front member who used the code-name “Ryan-PA,” and whose member number is “PF-2575.” Zachary Stern is a tattoo enthusiast and his arms are extensively covered with tattoos. However, Zachary Stern also has a distinctive tattoo on the third finger of his left hand. A detailed examination of the imagery of the individual suspected to be Stern also reveal that this individual has an identical tattoo in an identical location.

Zachary Ross Stern of Bushkill, Pennsylvania has a lengthy involvement in white nationalist circles, but what is disturbing is that this is despite having a Jewish background. Zach Stern registered a music distribution company called Vanguard Productions out of his parent’s Piscataway, New Jersey home. This company catered to Nazis and White Nationalists. He quickly earned himself a “Hate Group” designation from the SPLC. Vanguard Productions distributed Nazi music, books, & merch: Self describing thusly: “VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS is not a commercial label and thus remains unapologetic for the right wing/fascist views expressed on many of its releases. Herd/weak mentalities will find no welcome here”

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Dalton Woodward AKA “Jesse AR” of Chester, AR

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Dalton Woodward (left) at Patriot Front training event, October 2021. Graham Whitson (“Mason TX”) on right.

Dalton Russell Woodward (“Jesse AR”) is the current “Interview Coordinator” for Patriot Front (PF), a white supremacist organization operating across the US. Atlanta Antifascists first exposed Woodward as a white nationalist in 2019, while he was an active-duty Georgia National Guardsman stationed in Afghanistan. Following media attention and the return of Woodward’s unit to the US, the National Guard eventually removed him. Woodward currently lives in Chester, Arkansas.

As Patriot Front’s national Interview Coordinator, Woodward organizes the initial interview sessions in which applicants submit to questioning by trusted PF members. These first interviews are conducted over a voice call and aim to identify potential infiltrators and to ensure ideological consistency. If a prospective member passes this first test, an in-person meetup is scheduled for further scrutiny, including a physical search and examining the contents of their phone. Woodward’s work as Interview Coordinator is a key part of PF’s security structure and is crucial to maintaining PF’s internal culture of fascism, white supremacy, and antisemitism.

Dalton Woodward as vanguard shield section leader, PF rally, December 4, 2021, Washington, DC.
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Jeff Daniel AKA “Leo AZ” of Arizona

Read more at Steven Monacelli’s Twitter Thread (Archive here)

Thanks to the help of a tipster I am able to identify a pseudonymous member of a White Lives Matter rally in Fort Worth, Texas last year who spewed white supremacist talking points. Apparently, he was a member of Patriot Front and doesn’t live in Texas.

At the time, he gave a fake name. I later found social media accounts associated with his pseudonym, which included anti-Semitic memes on Facebook and pro-Hitler apologia on Quora.

Jeff Daniel runs a naturopathic business in Arizona. The Facebook page for the business includes blatant Covid-19 misinformation and one meme that looks extremely odd out of context but makes more sense when you know about Jeff’s political hobby.

As I said then, I will say now: the most vocal members of the White Lives Matter rally in Fort Worth, like Jeff Daniel, clearly harbored racist or white supremacist beliefs, which they poorly tried to conceal with watch-words and concern trolling about victims of violence.

Leo AZ, PF-935510, not present in chat logs, left Patriot Front between 11/21/2021 and 12/8/2021.
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Victor Krvaric AKA “Interviewee-441215” of San Diego, CA

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Yesterday we identified a Patriot Front prospect as San Diego local Victor Krvaric. Victor is corporal in the Marine Corps Reserve, and he also works as a contracted security guard for the Department of Homeland Security. According to leaked Patriot Front chat documents obtained by @UR_Ninja, an unnamed 21-year-old prospect (#441215) from San Diego was interviewed on 12/7/2021. In the interview, the person admits he “was” in the marines & did contract work for DHS.

Victor’s Instagram and LinkedIn profile show he works as a contracted security guard for DHS since Jan 2020 & has been in the US Marine Corps since July 2018. The interviewee admits he was doxxed because of a BLM protest. We first learned about Victor in 2020 when he threatened BLM activists with his car at a protest in Scripps Ranch. Victor’s face and name were spread around the Internet due to the threats.

Given this information & evidence, we have no doubt the San Diego Patriot Front prospect that was interviewed is Victor Krvaric. The interview of Patriot Front Prospect No. 441215 is here and here.

Update from 28 March, 2022: During the course of the investigation into Victor Krvaric’s Far Right connections, the Marines Corps found that he engaged in misconduct for another issue. He’s being processed for administrative separation.

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Riley Johnson AKA “Tyler SD” of South Dakota

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After their recent stint at the March for Life in Chicago, Unicorn Riot released hundreds of chat logs and materials from Patriot Front exposing their inner workings. What we have also learned from combing the leaked chats is that the group also tries to recruit members who have experience with programming and cybersecurity onto their “tech team.” This brings us to Riley Johnson a.k.a Tyler SD. Riley is currently majoring in Computer Science at the University of South Dakota, and has done internships with the defense contractor known as Mantech. He has participated in numerous cybersecurity competitions including one hosted by AT&T.  He is also an avid racist and one of three members of patriot front in South Dakota. He has also worked extensively on Patriot Front’s website and cybersecurity. In the chat logs Riley shows his extensive knowledge of computer science, and frequently helps members with websites they own.

In October of 2021 Riley also attended a hike with Patriot Front members in Michigan. Much like their public appearances, nature hikes are choreographed events, and members typically may take group photos holding an American flag with Patriot fronts logo where the 50 stars would normally be or they may film themselves reading the groups manifesto. On this particular hike the dozen or so fascists including Riley left Patriot front flyers in their wake.

The evening after their hike the group filmed themselves burning LGBT pride flags over an open campfire while chanting the fascist slogan “Blood and soil,” which has its origin in Nazi Germany.

Riley and his fellow Patriot Front members
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Calvin Stow-Ortiz AKA “Arthur FL” of Tallahassee, FL

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We would like to introduce you to Calvin Joseph Stow-Ortiz (born 2003), who is known as “Arthur FL” within Patriot Front (PF). It is easy to identify Stow-Ortiz through the metadata of a Word document included in the PF data leak. That’s right, Stow-Ortiz got “doxed” through his .docx! PF member “Arthur FL” sent his leader, Thomas Rousseau, the Word document containing lyrics for a “marching song” he hoped the organization would adopt. (“Arthur FL” had taken a Finnish marching song and added his own cornball lyrics.) After “Arthur FL” sent his work to Rousseau, he received a terse “Will take a look” reply followed by complete silence, a fact which suggests that the lyrics were too embarrassing even for Rousseau. 

Stow-Ortiz’s leaked communications as “Arthur FL” show that he traveled regularly to promote PF and do “activism” for the group. He mentioned one trip with PF member “Ulysses FL” to southern Georgia, where “We hit Bainbridge, Thomasville, then Valdosta” with PF propaganda. Stow-Ortiz also attended a November 20 training session with Florida PF members and “unaffiliates” (sympathizers who are not formally part of the group). This training session was in preparation for PF’s December 4, 2021 national rally in Washington, DC. PF assigned Stow-Ortiz to the “screen left” shield-bearing section for this masked rally. Stow-Ortiz later commented that during this march, “half our guys [in the organization] weren’t even [marching] in step”.

Metadata to .docx file sent by “Arthur FL” identifies Calvin Stow-Ortiz as author
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Trevor Valescu AKA “Johnny MN” of Southern MN

Read more at the MN United Against Fascism thread here or archived thread here.

Trevor Valescu was identified in September 2020 as “Johnny MN” in the fascist Patriot Front organization. This alias was still active in the Patriot Front chat server leaked by Unicorn Riot in January 2022. Messages by “Johnny MN” indicate that Trevor was still the “Network Director” for Minnesota and the Dakotas in 2021. As a Network Director, Trevor Valescu was recruiting, training, and overseeing the activities of the fascists in his Network. He traveled frequently to Patriot Front pop-up spectacles, appearing in Chicago and Philly. Additionally, he marched with Patriot Front on the US Capitol in DC in December 2021.

Trevor Valescu was active in other fascist circles in Minnesota. He also helped to organize fascist “pool parties” associated with the fascist podcast “The Right Stuff” which also organizes as the “National Justice Party,” a fascist MLM/cult/fake political party.

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Kyle Morelli AKA “Vincent MA/TX/PA” – Location Unknown

Kyle Morelli is a member of the neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front and uses the alias “Vincent”. Kyle has been charged with placing Patriot Front propaganda in Salem, Massachusetts with Alexander Beilman AKA “Tyler CT”.

Kyle’s current location is unknown, if you have any information, reach out at patriotfail@protonmail.com

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