Andrew Anglin

Anglin was born in 1984, and grew up in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.{{cite web|title=Andrew Anglin|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/andrew-anglin|access-date=2023-01-16|archive-date=July 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729052544/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/andrew-anglin|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Anglin|first=Andrew|date=August 25, 2017|title=I was born in 1984|url=https://andrewanglinblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/i-was-born-in-1984/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620222951/https://andrewanglinblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/i-was-born-in-1984/|archive-date=June 20, 2018}} According to both Anglin and his childhood classmates, he was liberal as a youth.{{Cite web|first=Shane Dixon|last=Kavanaugh|date=March 20, 2014|title=Here's America's leading Millennial Neo-Nazi. Ugh -->|url=https://www.vocativ.com/usa/race/man-bringing-back-nazi-movement-america/|access-date=January 23, 2021|website=Vocativ|language=en-US|archive-date=December 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227112405/http://www.vocativ.com/usa/race/man-bringing-back-nazi-movement-america/|url-status=dead}} He attended the Linworth Alternative Program and the Worthington Kilbourne High School from 1999 to 2003, where he was remembered as a JNCOs-wearing dreadlocked atheist vegan who often wore a hoodie with a "fuck racism" patch.{{Cite web|first1=Joel|last1=Oliphint|first2=Andy|last2=Downing|title=The White Nationalist from Worthington|url=https://www.columbusalive.com/entertainment/20170208/white-nationalist-from-worthington|access-date=January 23, 2021|website=Columbus Alive|language=en|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726131906/http://www.columbusalive.com/entertainment/20170208/white-nationalist-from-worthington|url-status=dead}} His friends in high school report that his behavior changed during his sophomore year at Linworth, where he exhibited self-harming behavior, and began promoting conspiracy theories. After high school, Anglin took classes at Columbus State Community College in 2003, and studied English at Ohio State University for one quarter in 2004.

In 2006, Anglin launched a conspiracy theory website, Outlaw Journalism, which he claims was modeled after the works of Alex Jones and Hunter S. Thompson, whom Anglin admired.

According to Anglin, he left the United States in 2007 and moved to Asia, which he described as an "awesome" experience where he developed "affinity for the Asian races".{{Cite web|date=August 15, 2014 |title=Andrew Anglin Addresses the Attacks on His Person |url=http://www.totalfascism.com/andrew-anglin-addresses-the-attacks-on-his-person/|access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815153550/http://www.totalfascism.com/andrew-anglin-addresses-the-attacks-on-his-person/ |archive-date=August 15, 2014}} In 2008, after posting on Outlaw Journalism that the only way for humanity to survive was to return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, Anglin began traveling around Southeast Asia, eventually ending up in Davao City. In 2011, he spent several weeks with a Tboli village in southern Mindanao, where he initially intended to stay permanently, selling some of his possessions to raise money for a dowry to marry two local Muslim women. In 2012, Anglin wrote that he found the locals to be "a civilized, non-aggressive and industrious people" but he eventually came to consider them too "primitive", became lonely and only wanted to associate with members of his own race, and "By the Grace of God, I found Adolf Hitler."

In 2012, Anglin launched another website, Adventure Quest 2012, which discussed conspiracy theories such as the existence of reptilian humanoids. He described the aim of the site as seeking to "mend the wounds produced by modern society ... and [help] the reader transcend these physical bonds and reach total ascendancy. To mend these wounds, the world must learn to embrace diversity and color". Later in 2012, he launched his first neo-Nazi website, Total Fascism. Feeling that Total Fascism was not appealing to a younger demographic and had articles that were too long, Anglin launched The Daily Stormer on July 4, 2013, with shorter articles and a more provocative style.

In April 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Tanya Gersh, accusing Anglin of instigating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against Gersh, a Whitefish, Montana, real estate agent.Kirkland, Allegra (April 18, 2017). [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/splc-files-lawsuit-andrew-anglin-anti-semitic-harassment "Lawsuit: Neo-Nazi Led Anti-Semitic Harassment Campaign Against Montana Woman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822184147/https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/splc-files-lawsuit-andrew-anglin-anti-semitic-harassment |date=August 22, 2021 }}. Talking Points Memo. Retrieved May 16, 2017Robertson, Adi (April 17, 2018). [https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/18/15341368/splc-tanya-gersh-andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-harassment-lawsuit "White supremacist website hit with lawsuit over harassment campaign"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822182638/https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/18/15341368/splc-tanya-gersh-andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-harassment-lawsuit |date=August 22, 2021 }}. The Verge, Retrieved May 15, 2017 In July 2019, a judge issued a $14 million default judgment against Anglin, who is in hiding and has refused to appear in court.{{cite news |last1=Storey |first1=Kate |title=Tanya Gersh Was the Target of a Neo-Nazi 'Troll Storm.' Then She Fought Back—and Was Awarded $14 Million. |url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28797463/tanya-gersh-daily-stormer-andrew-anglin-neo-nazi-troll-storm-14-million/ |access-date=September 17, 2019 |work=Esquire |date=August 29, 2019 |archive-date=September 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904033238/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28797463/tanya-gersh-daily-stormer-andrew-anglin-neo-nazi-troll-storm-14-million/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Neo-Nazi website founder owes $14 million to woman he urged readers to harass |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neo-nazi-website-founder-owes-14-million-woman-he-urged-n1040671 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |work=NBC News |agency=Associated Press |date=August 9, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814133633/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neo-nazi-website-founder-owes-14-million-woman-he-urged-n1040671 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=O'Brien |first1=Luke |title=Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin's Lawyers Want To Ditch Him In High-Profile Harassment Case |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-andrew-anglins-lawyers-want-out-of-high-profile-harassment-case_n_5cc119e1e4b01b6b3efc7408 |access-date=September 17, 2019 |work=HuffPost |date=April 25, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=September 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916192323/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-andrew-anglins-lawyers-want-out-of-high-profile-harassment-case_n_5cc119e1e4b01b6b3efc7408 |url-status=live }} On November 9, 2022, a warrant was issued for Anglin's arrest for ignoring the judgment against him.{{cite web |title=Judge in Montana orders arrest of neo-Nazi website founder |url=https://apnews.com/article/technology-religion-arrests-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-712adca6c327a2ceb2a21507e1f4697f |website=AP News |access-date=7 September 2024 |language=en |date=9 November 2022}}

In August 2017, radio presenter Dean Obeidallah sued The Daily Stormer in an Ohio federal court. Anglin had published fake images which purported to show Obeidallah, who is Muslim, celebrating the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. The lawsuits cleared a longstanding hurdle in March 2018, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch declared that there was sufficient evidence of Anglin being domiciled in Ohio despite living abroad.{{cite news|last1=Kunzelman|first1=Michael|title=Lawsuit against Neo-Nazi site's founder clears legal hurdle|url=https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/03/22/lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-sites-founder-clears-legal-hurdle/448342002/|access-date=April 2, 2018|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Cincinnati.com|date=March 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402101738/https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/03/22/lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-sites-founder-clears-legal-hurdle/448342002/|archive-date=April 2, 2018|url-status=live}} In July, the court found in Obeidallah's favor, with neither Anglin nor his representatives present in court.{{cite news |last1=Adely |first1=Hannan |title=Court sides with Paramus-born comedian in lawsuit against neo-Nazi website |url=https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/paramus/2018/07/03/court-sides-pacourt-sides-paramus-native-lawsuiramus-native-lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-website/756288002/ |access-date=July 4, 2018 |publisher=North Jersey |date=July 3, 2018 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308103833/https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/paramus/2018/07/03/court-sides-pacourt-sides-paramus-native-lawsuiramus-native-lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-website/756288002/ |url-status=live }}

{{see also|Sines v. Kessler}}

In October 2017, Anglin was named as a defendant in a case brought by nine Charlottesville residents following the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Anglin was named alongside Robert "Azzmador" Ray as responsible for The Daily Stormer website, as well as Moonbase Holdings.{{Cite court|litigants=Sines v. Kessler|court=W.D. Va.|url=https://casetext.com/case/sines-v-kessler-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104124844/https://casetext.com/case/sines-v-kessler-1/|url-status=live}} A default judgement was entered against Anglin who did not participate in the trial.{{Cite web|last=Hammel|first=Tyler|date=October 24, 2021|title=UTR rally organizers return to Charlottesville, but this time as defendants|url=https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/utr-rally-organizers-return-to-charlottesville-but-this-time-as-defendants/article_556cdee6-2d3a-11ec-9091-6ff2a8f72421.html|url-status=live|access-date=October 29, 2021|website=The Daily Progress|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025072417/https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/utr-rally-organizers-return-to-charlottesville-but-this-time-as-defendants/article_556cdee6-2d3a-11ec-9091-6ff2a8f72421.html |archive-date=October 25, 2021 }}

In May 2018, Taylor Dumpson, the first black student body president at American University, sued Anglin for organizing a racist and sexist trolling campaign against her.{{cite news|title=School's First Black Student President was the Target of a Racist Attack. Now she's Suing Over the 'Troll Storm' That Followed|url=http://fox40.com/2018/05/05/schools-first-black-student-president-was-the-target-of-a-racist-attack-now-shes-suing-over-the-troll-storm-that-followed/|access-date=May 17, 2018|agency=CNN|publisher=Fox 40|date=May 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054704/http://fox40.com/2018/05/05/schools-first-black-student-president-was-the-target-of-a-racist-attack-now-shes-suing-over-the-troll-storm-that-followed/|archive-date=May 18, 2018|url-status=live}} She alleges that Anglin had posted her name and picture, as well as links to her Facebook page and the Twitter account of the university's student government, and urged his readers to "troll storm" her, which resulted in many hate-filled and racist online messages directed at her. Although Dumpson and Anglin have not reached a settlement, she settled in December 2018 with one of the people who harassed her, a man from Eugene, Oregon named Evan McCarty who was a neo-Nazi musician and former theatre actor known as "Byron de la Vandal" (named after Byron De La Beckwith, the assassin of Medgar Evers) who served as a member of the fascist Vanguard America and affiliated with the Daily Stormer. McCarty was required to apologize, to renounce white supremacy, to stop trolling and doxing online, and to provide information to and cooperate with authorities in the prosecution of white supremacists.Larimer, Sarah (December 21, 2018) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/12/21/man-who-harassed-black-student-online-must-deliver-sincere-apology-renounce-white-supremacy/ "Man who harassed black student online must deliver ‘sincere’ apology, renounce white supremacy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222125451/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/12/21/man-who-harassed-black-student-online-must-deliver-sincere-apology-renounce-white-supremacy/?utm_term=.813308a36341 |date=December 22, 2018 }} The Washington Post The lawsuit that was brought on her behalf was led by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law which continues to use litigation as a tool to fight extremism and to slow the efforts{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/us/american-university-racist-hate-training.html|title=Student Targeted by 'Troll Storm' Hopes Settlement Will Send Message to White Supremacists|author=Zraick, Karen|website=The New York Times|date=December 21, 2018|access-date=November 10, 2020|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108100625/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/us/american-university-racist-hate-training.html|url-status=live}} of white supremacists.{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/judge-orders-neo-nazi-website-132949851.html|title=Judge orders neo-Nazi website to pay black university graduate nearly £600,000 for racist 'troll storm'|website=news.yahoo.com|date=August 11, 2019|language=en-US|access-date=August 12, 2019|archive-date=August 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812042747/https://news.yahoo.com/judge-orders-neo-nazi-website-132949851.html|url-status=live}}

On August 9, 2019, a Federal judge awarded Dumpson a judgment of over $725,000, to be paid by Andrew Anglin, Brian Andrew Ade, and the shell company which owns The Daily Stormer. The defendants did not show up to contest the lawsuit, so a default judgment was entered against them, consisting of $101,429.28 in compensatory damages, punitive damages of $500,000 and attorney's fees and costs of $124,022.10. A restraining order was also handed down, as was an injunction not to publish anything more about Dumpson. The judgement came only a day after Tanya Gersh was awarded a $14 million default judgment against Anglin.Keeley, Matt (August 9, 2019) [https://www.newsweek.com/black-woman-awarded-725000-lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-who-led-harassment-campaign-against-her-1453614 "A Black Woman Was Awarded $725,000 In a Lawsuit Against A Neo-Nazi Who Led a Harassment Campaign Against Her"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203180343/https://www.newsweek.com/black-woman-awarded-725000-lawsuit-against-neo-nazi-who-led-harassment-campaign-against-her-1453614 |date=December 3, 2022 }} Newsweek{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/neo-nazi-website-daily-stormer-sued-racist-trolls-american-civil-rights-university-graduate-a9052006.html|title=Judge orders neo-Nazi website to pay black graduate £600,000|date=August 11, 2019|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=August 12, 2019|archive-date=August 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811204850/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/neo-nazi-website-daily-stormer-sued-racist-trolls-american-civil-rights-university-graduate-a9052006.html|url-status=live}}

Anglin has stated: "The goal is to ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government. Many people also believe that the Jews should be exterminated".{{Cite web|first=Keegan|last=Hankes|date=August 25, 2016|title=Whose Alt-Right Is It Anyway?|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/25/whose-alt-right-it-anyway|access-date=January 23, 2021|work=Southern Poverty Law Center|language=en|archive-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030239/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/25/whose-alt-right-it-anyway|url-status=live}} Anglin also uses The Daily Stormer as a platform to promote misogynistic conspiracy theories, claiming that politically active "white women across the Western world" are pushing for liberal immigration policies "to ensure an endless supply of Black and Arab men to satisfy their depraved sexual desires".{{Cite news|first=David|last=Futrelle|date=January 1, 2019|title=The alt right is fueled by toxic masculinity — and vice versa|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/alt-right-fueled-toxic-masculinity-vice-versa-ncna989031|access-date=January 23, 2021|work=NBC News|language=en|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124173015/https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/alt-right-fueled-toxic-masculinity-vice-versa-ncna989031|url-status=live}} In July 2018, he summarized his misogynistic views, writing: "Look, I hate women. I think they deserve to be beaten, raped and locked in cages."{{Cite magazine|first=Jessica|last=Reaves|date=July 31, 2018|title=Mapping the Male Supremacy Movement: The Alt-Right's Woman Problem|url=https://msmagazine.com/2018/07/31/the-alt-rights-woman-problem/|access-date=January 23, 2021|magazine=Ms.|archive-date=May 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526232745/https://msmagazine.com/2018/07/31/the-alt-rights-woman-problem/|url-status=live}} Anglin has also advocated in the Daily Stormer for the 'legalisation of rape' in America.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-09 |title=On the far right, neo-Nazis, racists hail Brett Kavanaugh's elevation to Supreme Court as open season on women, minority rights in America |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/far-right-neo-nazis-racists-hail-brett-kavanaughs-elevation-supreme-court-open-season-women/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/report/when-women-are-enemy-intersection-misogyny-and-white-supremacy |website=ADL}} Anglin is also a Holocaust denier.{{Cite web|title=Andrew Anglin: Five Things to Know|date=April 25, 2018|url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/andrew-anglin-five-things-to-know|access-date=January 23, 2021|work=Anti-Defamation League|language=en|archive-date=September 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925063446/https://www.adl.org/news/article/andrew-anglin-five-things-to-know|url-status=live}} Although he has espoused neo-Nazi views, he has attempted to rebrand his ideology as "American Nationalism". Anglin stated he agreed with the central tenets of Nazism in 2014, but had reservations over the revival of all aspects of Hitler's regime. A self-proclaimed "troll", Anglin stated that he had been introduced to Nazism on the online imageboard 4chan.{{Cite magazine|first=Keegan|last=Hankes|date=February 9, 2017|title=Eye of the Stormer|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/eye-stormer|access-date=January 23, 2021|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|magazine=Intelligence Report|language=en|archive-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706104035/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/eye-stormer|url-status=live}}

Anglin has received criticism from some other white nationalist organizations, such as the website Counter-Currents, who deem The Daily Stormer lowbrow and do not like its troll-heavy approach.

Anglin was banned from Twitter/X in 2013, but was reinstated weeks after the site was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022.{{cite news|title=Kanye West news – live: Biden says 'silence is complicity' as Elon Musk suspends rapper for posting swastika|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-twitter-banned-fafo-latest-news-b2237597.html|work=The Independent|date=December 2, 2022|author1=Graeme Massie|author2=Rachel Sharp|author3=Alex Woodward|access-date=December 2, 2022|archive-date=December 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202203941/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-twitter-banned-fafo-latest-news-b2237597.html|url-status=live}}Bort, Ryan (January 30, 2023) [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/neo-nazi-andrew-anglin-twitter-rife-misogyny-1234671105/ "Men Must ‘Force’ Women to Submit, Says Neo-Nazi Reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208190011/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/neo-nazi-andrew-anglin-twitter-rife-misogyny-1234671105/ |date=December 8, 2023 }} Rolling Stone. (Retrieved March 8, 2023.) Anglin was banned again in May 2023.{{cite web |title=Evaluating Twitter's Policies Six Months After Elon Musk's Purchase |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/evaluating-twitters-policies-six-months-after-elon-musks-purchase |website=ADL |access-date=26 December 2023 |archive-date=November 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120120943/https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/evaluating-twitters-policies-six-months-after-elon-musks-purchase |url-status=live }}

The Anti-Defamation League says that Anglin is controversial among white supremacists for his past relationships with Asian women during his time as an expat in the Philippines,{{Cite news |last=O’Brien |first=Luke |date=2017-11-14 |title=The Making of an American Nazi |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/ |access-date= |work=The Atlantic |language=en |issn=2151-9463}}{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2017 |title=Eye of the Stormer |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/eye-stormer |access-date= |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}} and for his misogyny, including towards white women.

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