On 9/2/23, the Goyim Defense League and Blood Tribe held a march in Orlando, Florida where 55 neo-Nazis waved swastika flags and expressed their intent cleanse the United States of Jewish, LGBTQ+, and people of color.
Both groups are supported by tech companies who provide critical services that allow them to organize and fund their neo-Nazi activism, including campaigns of harassment, intimidation, and extreme religious, ethnic, and racial hatred.
Richard Shawn Barnish (53) of Glendale, Arizona is an active member of neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League. Shawn works with McCarthy Construction as an HVAC technician in the Glendale/Phoenix area where he also distributes neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda.
Shawn is a follower of the deeply anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic The New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB) Movement.
Shawn runs the somewhat popular hackfreehvac channel on YouTube, as well as the Arizona Derelict Watch homeless voyeurism channel.
Shawn is armed and has posted to Telegram about his desire to shoot gay people, Black people, and Jewish people.
Additional information about Shawn Barnish, including his home address, can be found here.
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Christopher Acret of Cohasset, CA is a pro-KKK Goyim Defense League neo-nazi active in Chico, CA and likely the broader Butte/Shasta County area. Acret was first exposed by a report from anewscafe covering his antisemitic fliering of a Jewish Chico state professor’s yard with neo-nazi propaganda and past Chico Proud Boy affiliation. The article tied Christopher Acret to GDL fliering in the area, and showed his past membership in the Chico Proud Boys.
Christopher Acret works for Craig Acret Construction and Keefer Farm Stand. He drives a White 1995 Nissan Pickup.
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Devin Robert Murdock (53) is a neo-Nazi living with his parents in Westminster, CO who has covered the Denver Metro area with thousands of racist and antisemitic flyers. Devin is affiliated with the neo-Nazi organizations Goyim Defense League and 14 First. Devin also participates in prisoner support Nazis caught up in the legal system for “criminal racist crimes.”
Devin is involved in the ferret and reptile communities in the Denver area.
Michael David Weaver (also known as Michael David Carothers) is a violent neo-Nazi who has been active since he was a teenager. Currently, he lives in Cartersville and is engaging in a campaign to spread hate in Georgia. Since late last year, Weaver has distributed copious amounts of antisemitic propaganda, mainly for the antisemitic Goyim Defense League but also for other white supremacist groups. Weaver also holds one-man demonstrations with antisemitic signs outside the Bartow County Courthouse. Weaver has a long history of ideologically driven harassment and violence, including an assault on a Black man in Columbus, Georgia for which Weaver served a one-year sentence. Continue reading for more info on Weaver and actions which community members can take.
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Robert Frank Wilson is the owner of California Audio Visual in Chula Vista, California and is a prominent member of the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League, and the owner of California Audio Video. He is currently facing charges for attacking a man while hurling homophobic slurs at him.
Arizona Right Wing Watch has identified Tyler Wentzel and Sean Gugerty as being responsible for distributing antisemitic Goyim Defense League flyers as well as neo-Nazi vandalisms in Tuscon, Arizona.
Read the full report from Arizona Right Wing Watch here.
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Kelly Johnson of Berkeley, California is the partner of Goyim Defense League leader John Minadeo aka Handsome Truth. Kelly was fired from her position as a yoga teacher at Hella Yoga for her involvement in the group. According to the founder of Hella Yoga, Jeff Renfro, Kelly had helped the Goyim Defense League setup an LLC from the studio’s computers, and has made antisemitic and racist comments around him.
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Jon Minadeo aka “Handsome Truth” is the figurehead and effective leader of the Goyim Defense League. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Read the full report on Jon Minadeo at Northern California Anti-Racist Action.
