Dylan Roof, the mass-shooter who in June 2015 murdered nine congregants in a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, quoted The Daily Stormer in his later-uncovered manifesto, and evidence suggests that he was a regular poster on the website’s forums. Many of the most notable perpetrators of racist violence have links to The Daily Stormer. These horrific threats hold particular weight in the Trump era, as one act of internet-fueled white supremacist violence follows another. These campaigns of hateful phone-calls and emails included hundreds of death threats filled with racial slurs. As the campaign continued to embolden the Alt-Right, Anglin was able to mobilize “troll-storms” to harass and threaten whoever he deemed an enemy, notably against the small Jewish community of Whitefish, Montana. The candidacy of Donald Trump brought The Daily Stormer’s racist views further into view of the mainstream, and Anglin made a show of endorsing Trump for President in mid-2015. They also serve a role in honing and furthering many of the racist memes found across the internet.

The Daily Stormer, typically maintaining the usual white nationalist and neo-Nazi tropes of Holocaust denial, misogyny and racism, also continues to tap into more mainstream cultural trends, glorifying, for instance, far-right Fox News political commentator Tucker Carlson, who they see as someone who consistently spreads a slightly-disguised version of white supremacist ideological messaging. Anglin, having spent close to a decade participating in edgelord internet forums, attempted to strategically style his website’s editorial prose after the now-defunct news-gossip site Gawker. The Daily Stormerįounded in 2013 by wealthy itinerant tourist and blogger Andrew Anglin as a replacement for his earlier Total Fascism website, The Daily Stormer established itself as a popular forum for neo-Nazis by taking an arch tone in the dissemination of its propaganda. For updates, check or follow along with the hashtags #stormerbreaker and #debaseddoxx. These three, along with Rockhill and Becker, represent the core of the most active and often seen neo-Nazis in the group. In the coming weeks, Rose City Antifa will expose the identities of three more PDX Stormers neo-Nazis: Matthew Blais, Bogdan Gerasimyuk, and Michael Dorsey. In February of 2018, Rose City Antifa publicized the identity of Vancouver, WA neo-Nazi Alexander Wolfgang Becker, also a member of the PDX Stormers. In October of 2017, Pacific Northwest Anti-fascist Workers Collective publicized information about PDX Stormer Jarl Rockhill. They have participated in a large number of Joey Gibson’s far-right rallies, and assaulted counter-protesters. Over the past couple years the PDX Stormers have carried out racist and anti-Semitic propaganda actions in the Portland metro area, in some instances targeting and then exposing even elementary school children to Nazi imagery. Not only do they have a fluctuating membership in the neighborhood of 10 to 20 neo-Nazi participants, they have, more than other groups around the country, moved from the realm of the internet to real-world activities.

The Portland, Oregon DSBC chapter (referred to in this article as the “PDX Stormers”) was until recently one of the largest and most active. Begun on Andrew Anglin’s The Daily Stormer web forum, these groups have allowed white supremacists and fascists in different metropolitan regions to meet and coordinate racist intimidation and violence since 2016. The Daily Stormer Book Clubs (DSBC) are a network of neo-Nazi cells spread throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

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