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Dustin Ray Hamby Exposed as Nazi Leader Chef Goyardee

The following is being posted on behalf of Central Texas ARA:

Dustin Ray Hamby, aka “Chef Goyardee”, is an Austin-based Neo-Nazi and cook who now serves as the Austin area Network Directing Officer for the fascist group Patriot Front. His most notable activities include leading the Texas fascist delegation to the Nazi “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and coordinating security for a Richard Spencer talk in Florida.  Dustin was previously doxxed by Autonomous Student Media here, but no connections were made to his identity as Chef Goyardee or the extent of his involvement in fascist activity. Flyers have been posted around his apartment and surrounding neighborhood in Austin this week with information about Dustin’s Nazi activity.

Prior to his current role with Patriot Front, Hamby was a member of more casual fascist clubs like the “Edelweiss Order”, aka the “Whomsters”, and the “Kek Group”. His activism took a more serious turn when he helped plan the June 17th, 2017 “Texas Is Ours” event for Vanguard America. He also participated in the Austin “March Against Sharia” event June 10th of the same year alongside Paul Gray, and attended the disruption of the Houston Anarchist Bookfair.  

Hamby then became the key Texas organizer for the deadly “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville. He coordinated van rentals, carpools, and hotel reservations for Texas Nazis. His username “Chef Goyardee” also appeared in a Charlottesville related lawsuit. Additionally, Dustin designed and sold the Red White and Blue Sonnenrad flag (pictured below) which has been flown by erratic Nazi, domestic abuser, and kidnapper William Fears, among others.

In October 2017 he accompanied Richard Spencer to the University of Florida in Gainesville, serving as a security coordinator. After the speech, Texas Nazis Tyler Tenbrink and the Fears brothers were arrested for firing a pistol at protesters.

Dustin Hamby doing security at a rally.

As his alias implies, Chef works in the food industry. He consistently alienates his coworkers with his racism and immoral behavior: at Black Star Co-Op he had his “MAGA” hat tossed into the fryer, and at The Hightower (now closed) he was reported to have groped male coworkers without their consent – despite being in a long-term relationship with fellow fascist Connor Graham. He has previously written fantasies about insulting and scalding his immigrant coworkers, though there are currently no indications he’s actually followed through yet.

Below, you can see some of the types of things Dustin posts about under his alias:

It speaks to Patriot Front’s fear and decay that they have chosen a drunken abuser as their leader for Central Texas. His days of fascist organizing will be brought to a sudden end soon.

– Central Texas Anti-Racist Action | centexara@protonmail.com
Dustin Hamby’s Information

Personal details moved to pastebin for now.

 

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“ANTICOM” Nazi Brendon West Exposed in Central Texas – Updates

NOTE: The below article contains updates to a post made by Central Texas ARA earlier this week.
Summary

Photographer Brendon West has been exposed by Central Texas ARA as a highly active member of Alt-Right circles who has been working to compile and publish doxx about various leftists, both locally around Central Texas and Nationally. (link above)

“Brendon West (aliases include Vlka Fenrika, Fenrika Foxtrot, and Foxtrot DEVGRU) is an alt-right activist and leader of “Anticommunist Action” (ANTICOM). He has photographed and attempted to dox NLG volunteers and others in Central Texas. West led the effort to dox Spenser Rapone, a West Point student expelled from the Army for anti-imperialist statements.”

Updates
The Professional associates of Brendon West (alias Fenrika Foxtrot, Vlka Fenrika, etc.) have attempted to cast doubt on the ItsGoingDown article documenting Brendon’s fascistic behavior. Jacob Stone of Phantom6Productions went so far as to call the article “fake”. 

Jacob Stone did not make clear what particular piece of information he considered false, but we will conclusively demonstrate here that:

    1.) Fenrika Foxtrot is Brendon West

    2.) Brendon West has been involved in the doxing of legal aid volunteers, anti-confederate protestors, and others.

    3.) Brendon West has disseminated fascist material including podcasts from FashTheNation and The Daily Shoah, articles from The Daily Stormer, and more. 
    
    Our fight is not with Brendon’s professional contacts. We are not accusing Phantom6Productions or Jacob of any racist activity. All they are asked to do is make clear they will cease association with Brendon. If they insist instead on lying, defending Brendon, and forcefully denying reality we will be unable to help them. 
    

   1.) Fenrika Foxtrot is Brendon West

   
   This is undeniable. Brendon West has been tagged and named numerous times as Fenrika Foxtrot, as shown below. Brendon is pictured wearing a campaign t-shirt for the alt-right candidate Paul Nehlen. Here and in numerous other instances Brendon is tagged by Fairy Godmother Ninja productions as Fenrika Foxtrot. 
  

 

Brendon West is also listed as the owner of Libertus7 productions on LinkedIn and elsewhere. Here is Fenrika Foxtrot taking credit for Libertus7 videos, further proving that Fenrika Foxtrot is Brendon West.

  

  2.) Brendon West doxxing people

  “Vlka”, one of Brendon’s aliases screenshotted earlier (Vlka Fenrika III), is referred to in the “Front and Center” Patriot Front Discord server here.

  Below, Brendon brags on multiple occasions about doxing Spenser Rapone, and posts photos of National Lawyer’s Guild members:

  3.) Brendon West sharing fascist material and associating with Nazis

  Below, Brendon shares a FashTheNation podcast featuring antisemitic candidate Paul Nehlen:

      

  Below, Brendon shares an image (perhaps of his own creation) celebrating “Unite The Right”, the rally in Charlottesville that lead to injury and death just two days before his posting. 

  

  Below, Brendon (with Camera) attends a political rally alongside Neo-Nazi Ken Reed (Red Hat):

  

  Below, Brendon shares an article from the DailyStormer, a site so racist multiple companies have refused to host it: 

   

   It is undeniable that Brendon West is an active fascist. 

   

   

With all that said, why defend him? His friends know this. His professional contacts know this. Some, who have chosen to defend him, apparently find children getting tear gassed at the border to be funny, and consider him to be the “ultimate internet troll.”

We are here to remind Brendon and all who would foolishly defend him that we don’t consider Nazis very funny at all. His professional contacts are not, for now, our primary concern. We do not have reason to believe that Stone himself is involved in any political activity or overt racism and we do not consider him a fascist. But attempting to deceive the public, and calling the truth a lie, in the defense of a Fascist can change their situation as rapidly as they wish.
All statements made in the original article are factual, none of it is false, and there is no denying the truth of these claims. 
   
If Brendon cared about his friends, he would simply own up to his errors publicly and make a real correction to his behavior instead of making colleagues tell embarrassing, disgraceful lies that help no one.    
   
For now, do your part to alert the following sites to Brendon’s far-right proclivities:
    
    
Please contact these studios on Facebook and ask them to publicly explain their (current or prior) association with Brendon and to clarify that it will not continue:
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Harris Media Designer Ariel Gherman Tied to Alt-Right White Supremacists

Update (4/15/2018): We received word from an employee at a neighboring business that Ariel was quickly fired when Harris Media learned of her Nazi activities. In addition, on Friday, Harris Media posted a job ad on facebook looking to hire a new graphic designer. 

Summary: Ariel Michelle Gherman is a 24-year-old white supremacist living in Austin, Texas. In August 2017 she participated in the white supremacist “Unite the Right” demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, where fellow white supremacist James Fields murdered anti-racist protester Heather Heyer. She also helped organize logistics for the group of Texas fascists and white supremacists who traveled to the “Unite the Right” demonstrations, and is connected to numerous Texas neo-Nazis and white supremacist organizations on social media. She works at a mainstream right-wing graphic design and media strategy firm in Austin called Harris Media LLC.

Ariel Michelle Gherman (aka “Ariel Sherman”)

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Charlottesville

In August 2017, a group of fascists and white supremacists from Texas organized a caravan of vehicles to travel to the white supremacist “Unite the Right” (UtR) demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to inside information, one van picked up people in Austin and Houston, then met two other vehicles from north Texas in Texarkana. The group included notorious Texas neo-Nazis like William Fears (subsequently arrested in October for involvement in a shooting outside a Richard Spencer event in Gainesville, Florida), “Azzmador” (Robert Warren Ray, a contributor to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer), and Thomas Rousseau (founder and leader of the white supremacist group “Patriot Front”).

The Texas group also included Ariel Gherman. She had RSVP’d as “Going” on the UtR Facebook event page several months prior along with other Texas fascists like Colton Fears (arrested with his brother William in Florida) and Ken Reed. Upon arriving in Charlottesville, they planned to stay at an AirBnb which had been rented under Ariel’s AirBnb account and with Ariel’s credit card. They over-stuffed the AirBnb house with Texas white supremacists, but wanted to be careful not to draw unnecessary attention and reminded each other to only perform Nazi salutes inside the house, not outside. After all, they were planning to bring a variety of weapons including poles, torches, pepper spray, and concealed handguns.

Once in Charlottesville, Ariel participated in Friday night’s torch-lit march on the University of Virginia campus. In videos of the event she is seen wearing a white dress that went down to just above her knees, a denim jacket, and white shoes. Her very long dirty-blonde hair was worn in a single braid down her back, and her brown and gold glasses frames are readily apparent. She can be seen carrying a torch for the duration of the march while participants chanted neo-Nazi slogans like “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and soil.” She is also often walking next to and sometimes holding hands with a young man dressed in khakis and a white polo shirt—the uniform of the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America. When the torch march arrived at a Thomas Jefferson statute, the march surrounded a small group of anti-racist counter protesters. The white supremacists then assaulted the anti-racist counter protesters. Ariel was there for all of it.

The UtR weekend culminated the next day when white supremacists James Fields, also seen wearing the white and khaki uniform of Vanguard America, drove his Dodge Charger into a crow of anti-racist counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing Heather Heyer.

In an attempt to avoid surveillance and detection, Ariel, like many of the neo-Nazi participants in the UtR demonstrations, deactivated her Facebook account several days before the rally and didn’t reactivate it for several weeks afterwards. In videos of the event, she is seen trying to hide her face from the cameras. But our memory is long and our resolve is steadfast. Avoiding the limelight and promoting white supremacy and fascism only from the background shadows will not protect you. We don’t forget and we don’t forgive.

Far from being a passive or unsuspecting attendee, Ariel was fully aware of the fascist and white supremacist nature of the rally, as well as the plans for violence.  By using her credit card to book the AirBnb, traveling to Charlottesville in the Texas caravan, and walking in the torch march, Ariel intended to facilitate UtR’s white supremacist agenda, violence, and racist terror.

 

Harris Media LLC

When not helping facilitate racist terror around the country, Ariel works a day job as a graphic designer for Harris Media LLC, a digital media firm in Austin that brags about placing tens of millions of dollars in digital advertising content. But Harris Media doesn’t create media for just anyone, they focus their effort on conservative and right-wing clients. They boast about creating content for the electoral campaigns of candidates like Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as right-wing advocacy groups like Secure America Now (anti-Islam) and Texans for Natural Gas (pro-fracking).

Harris Media is not quite as vocal about their work for groups like the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a nationalist and alt-right affiliated political party in Germany that ran a campaign focused around Islamophobia and anti-immigrant positions.

Harris Media has featured Ariel on their social media as their firm’s “biggest Trump supporter,” but they should probably change it to say “most active alt-right white supremacist.” It’s one more example of mainstream right-wing politics creating fertile political territory for insurgent white supremacy; and how insurgent white supremacists are helping pull the mainstream right-wing even further right. We are really curious how Harris Media’s current and past clients feel about their digital media being created by a firm that hires violent white supremacists!

Background

Ariel grew up with almost every advantage in an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood west of Houston. She went to Texas State University in San Marcos and doesn’t seem to have suffered much setback from her arrest for marijuana possession while in college. Her parents are both college educated professionals in the medical field, but are also Trump supporters and may or may not be surprised or disappointed in their daughter’s neo-Nazi activities. What’s the saying about apples falling from trees?

Facebook Associations

With all this information, it’s unsurprising that Ariel is connected to numerous white supremacists and neo-Nazis on social media, where she sometimes uses the alias “Ariel Sherman.” Whether she’s liking William Fears’ posts about being a neo-Nazi and trying to defend confederate monuments in Dallas or having neo-Nazi Ken Reed liking her profile picture, she is deeply intertwined in the Texas white supremacist movement.

Snapshots of her facebook “Likes” from the summer show her evolution from right-wing libertarian—groups like “Students for Liberty,” “The CATO Institute,” and “Charles Koch Institute”—to alt-right white supremacist—groups like “Identity Europa,” “Traditionalist Workers Party,” and “AltRight.com.”

Conclusion

We imagine this information will invite the usual stammering defenses from Ariel and her less Nazi-inclined friends—that she has “friends” and coworkers who are people of color; that it was all a “joke” or a “misunderstanding;” that she was misled. But the evidence refutes that. The people Ariel is associating and politically organizing with—people like William Fears, Ken Reed, Azzamador, Thomas Rousseau, Syndey Crabtree, Chef Goyardee—make no secret of their vision of creating a whites-only ethno-state and the genocide they fully intend to carry out against everyone else.

It’s the background people like Ariel who lend cover and a veil of legitimacy to this violent racist project—whether using their “good” names and professional salaries to rent houses for racist mobilizations or just dressing neo-Nazism up as regular “mainstream conservativism.”

So happy birthday Ariel. We hope you get fired. We hope your friends don’t like you anymore. We hope everyone who ever googles your name again knows what fucking racist Nazi scum you are.

Source videos for torch march screenshots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWQLbzxAcFQ (06:00-07:45)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=098QwsPVHrM (03:16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwkLqyKpVuQ (41:50 & 43:25)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzLdKWyXDw (00:19 & 00:43-00:48)