Morning Briefing: Christian Crowdfunding Website Used to Raise Funds for Deceased Notorious Neo-Nazi Leader
Morning Briefing: Christian Crowdfunding Website Used to Raise Funds for Deceased Notorious Neo-Nazi Leader
Campaigns on GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding website, have raised more than $9,500 for Leo Anthony Cullinan, the recently deceased leader of a neo-Nazi White Supremacist group.
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Morning Briefing: Members of the Nationalist Social Club (NSC-131), a neo-Nazi White Supremacists group, “disrupted a drag story hour in New Hampshire over the weekend, another in an escalating series of threats and attacks against the LGBTQ community in recent months.”
Leo Anthony Cullinan, the leader of the New Hampshire chapter of NSC-131, reportedly died “just one day after the group protested a drag queen story hour at Teatotaller cafe in downtown Concord.”
A pair of campaigns on GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding website, have raised more than $9,500 for funeral cost of Cullinan. The largest donation of $1,500 was donated to the campaign under the name “Kaleb Cole,” which is the name of the leader of the neo-Nazi accelerationist terrorist group Atomwaffen Division.
The crowdfunding campaigns have been widely shared in far right online forums and on several Telegram channels including Right Side News, White Lives Matter, and Steve Bannon’s War Room channel.
Coby Dale Green, who reportedly used neo-Nazi and White Supremacist rhetoric, was “arrested on federal charges for his role in a violent attack against a Tulsa doughnut shop because it supports the LGBTQ+ community.”
The Aryan Freedom Network, the Texas-based neo-Nazi group, reportedly distributed White Supremacists propaganda throughout Grays Harbor, Washington, and the flyers included messages “from anti-immigrant to anti-LGBTQ to anti-minority, all with a link to a misspelling-laden white supremacist website.”
Antisemitic and anti-LGBTIQ flyers were reportedly found “lawns of homes throughout areas of Sacramento, including two East Sacramento neighborhoods.”
Local law enforcement has requested the public’s assistance in “identifying who distributed racist fliers over the weekend in Ridley Township, Delaware County.”
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