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In his words

鈥淗eather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist. Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time.鈥�
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鈥淟颈办别听Black Lives Matter, militant Islam exists as a call to action for the violent rage some minorities feel towards the white majority.鈥�
鈥� From Jason Kessler鈥檚 novel Esteban Santiago: The Siren Song of Jihad for Immigrants and the Mentally Ill, January 7, 2017

鈥淏ut make no mistake, the age of innocence is over for whites politically. We are becoming a听displaced minority听in our own country thanks to Democrat policies. They tax the hell out of middle class families who might want to have more children while paying for welfare queens to have 5 or 6 babies they can't support. They provide sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants who flood in from south of the border and import Islamists from the most dangerous countries on Earth. The time for supplication is over. We need to fight back!鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he End of Identity Politics: To Ensure Peace, Prepare for War,鈥� December 23, 2016

鈥淚 don鈥檛 understand why they鈥檙e trying to pretend that disproportionate Jewish influence is a conspiracy 鈥� they have this enormous wealth and they鈥檙e using it to wield power.鈥�
鈥� LIVE with Jason Kessler: Unite the Right, July 17, 2017.

鈥淭he Alt-Right is a threat to the establishment. We鈥檙e talking about the people who run the media. We know there鈥檚 disproportionate Jewish influence鈥擨鈥檓 not somebody who sees that that everywhere but I will call them out 鈥� they鈥檙e afraid of that. We鈥檙e talking about the fact that there are biological differences in race. We鈥檒l talk about the fact that white people have a right to organize for their interests just like any other group does and that if we don鈥檛 do so we鈥檙e going to be replaced and there won鈥檛 be a future for our people."
鈥� 鈥淩ebel Yell鈥� Podcast Episode 223: Charlottesville II The Quickening, July 6, 2017

鈥淥ur entire country would be better off if the South had won the Civil War.鈥�
鈥� Appearance at a rally in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2017

About Jason Kessler

A relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene, Jason Kessler first made waves in his 2016 attempt to unseat Charlottesville鈥檚 former vice mayor and only black city councilman and for his status as a bridge between Virginia gubernatorial and senatorial candidate Corey Stewart and the racist 鈥渁lt-right.鈥� Relying on familiar tropes of 鈥渨hite genocide鈥� and 鈥渄emographic displacement,鈥� Kessler sought to parlay his status as a lonely dissenter in the 鈥淐apital of the Resistance鈥� into notoriety on the larger far-right circuit by organizing a second white nationalist rally in Charlottesville after the first, torchlit rally in May of 2017 made headlines.

鈥淯nite the Right,鈥� as the rally came to be known, brought out hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, militia groups and a larger body of counter-protesters. Clashes between far-right groups and counter-protesters led to the declaration of a state of emergency before the permitted event was scheduled to start. One protester, Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 were injured when an event attendee drove his car through a crowd. Although Kessler was ostracized by much of the organized far-right after the event, he has won back some support through his attempts to organize a follow-up rally on the anniversary of 鈥淯nite the Right.鈥�

A 鈥渏ournalist, activist and author from Charlottesville, VA,鈥� Kessler鈥檚 since-deleted LinkedIn account stated that he graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009. He was virtually unknown in the media prior to his crusade against Charlottesville鈥檚 former vice mayor and current city councilman Wes Bellamy.

Arrest records indicate that Kessler was convicted in 2005 for shoplifting, obstructing justice and for a string of failures to appear and register, in addition to numerous traffic violations and citations.

Kessler started his blog 鈥淛ason Kessler, American Author,鈥� toward the end of 2015 and spent the majority of the next year dispensing mindset and lifestyle advice and promoting two books authored during a period of 鈥渨orldwide travel.鈥� The first is a book of poetry titled听Midnight Road, and the second a novel called听Badland Blues听about a 鈥渄runken dwarf,鈥� who is 鈥渦nlucky in love, looks or money.鈥�

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler鈥檚 ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure. Detractors point to involvement in the Occupy movement around 2011 and past support for President Obama. An during his involvement with Occupy alleged Kessler had shown up at then-Lee Park with 鈥渉is own tent and literature,鈥� and noted Kessler was eventually voted out of the group for advocating violence against police using bricks and Molotov cocktails.

Kessler himself has placed his 鈥渞ed-pilling鈥� around December of 2013 when a PR听听for a tasteless Twitter joke about AIDS in Africa.

Regarding the incident, Kessler stated 鈥溾�� so it was just a little race joke, nothing that big of a deal, she didn鈥檛 have that many followers, she probably didn鈥檛 think anybody was gonna see it,鈥�

Regardless of Kessler鈥檚 past politics, the rightward shift in his views was first put on display in November 2016 when his tirade against Wes Bellamy began.

Bellamy, then a teacher at Charlottesville鈥檚 Albemarle High School teacher and vice mayor, first drew Kessler鈥檚 ire after organizing a press conference to call for the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in downtown Charlottesville on March 22, 2016. After a face-to-face encounter at a second rally protesting a听听as a听racist group, Kessler set his sights on having Bellamy removed from office.

That November, Kessler posted an expose revealing lewd and offensive tweets and retweets made by Bellamy prior to entering office. Beneath a photo captioned with a reference to the racist 鈥淜angz鈥� meme white nationalists employ to mock the Black Egyptian hypothesis, Kessler asserted that Bellamy鈥檚 tweets were proof of 鈥渁nti-white bias.鈥�

Kessler went on to assert that Bellamy attained his position on the Charlottesville Board of Education because 鈥淒emocrats 鈥� are political elitists, hiding behind Wes Bellamy 鈥� Bellamy is untouchable to them, no matter how ridiculously anti-white he is.鈥�

Kessler鈥檚 unearthing of Bellamy鈥檚 sexist, homophobic and bigoted tweets did garner some coverage on the national scene. Relishing in the spotlight, Kessler pressed the attack.

In December 2016, Kessler announced a petition demanding Bellamy step down or be removed 鈥淸i]n light of recently revealed anti-white, racist and pro-rape comments.鈥�

On January 22, 2017, Kessler was听听after he punched a man while gathering signatures for his petition against Bellamy. Kessler initially filed assault charges against the man but dropped them after video footage revealed that Kessler had swung without physical provocation.

鈥淢an to man, yell in a man's face and expect to get punched in the face," Kessler said of the incident.

"He and his buddy came over, they scribbled on my petition and vandalized it. [The victim] didn't want to have a conversation with me 鈥� and he called me a name. I felt threatened and I hit him to get him away from me."

Kessler pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service later that May.

Filed in February 2017,听听in March of that year.

Unity & Security for America

As Kessler was filing his failed petition, Unity & Security for America, a nativist, white nationalist group he founded, launched its website.

In a GoFundMe started by one of Kessler鈥檚 Unity & Security for America cohorts to fund the 鈥渕an hours to prepare for [protests], body armor to protect our journalist from a knife to the ribs, a professional quality microphone for interviewer [sic] the protestors and much more,鈥� the group is described as 鈥渁 revolutionary right-wing grassroots movement. Founded by author and activist Jason Kessler who broke the Wes Bellamy Twitter scandal, USA is transformational movement within the Cultural Marxist hell that is Charlottesville.鈥�

鈥淐ultural Marxism鈥� refers to a conspiracy听that a group of Jewish leaders escaped Nazi Germany and have since sought to 鈥渆rode Western values鈥� through cultural influence.

Kessler and Unity & Security for America spent the early part of 2017 supporting the campaign of pro-Confederate Virginia gubernatorial candidate听, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors who drew headlines for referring to an opponent as a 鈥渃---servative鈥� and whose Wikipedia page had听听out by Stewart鈥檚 campaign staff. Stewart has done little to distance himself from Kessler in the aftermath of 鈥淯nite the Right,鈥� instead denigrating other Republicans as being 鈥渟oft鈥� for condemning the alt-right.

Kessler and his group appeared at Stewart campaign stops in 2017 alongside known members and affiliates of the听League of the South, a听neo-Confederate听hate group听that wants to bring about a theocratic white nationalist state in the South.

Regarding the League of the South, Kessler听, 鈥淒r. Michael Hill from the League of the South, these are good confederate voices 鈥� because this is about the Confederacy which is an American ethnic group,鈥� reflecting the League鈥檚 bizarre conception of 鈥渨hite Anglo-Celtic Southerners鈥� as a separate and distinct ethnic polity from the rest of America.

Kessler has railed against 鈥渃arpetbaggers鈥� in Richmond, Charlottesville and the state as a whole, much as the League of the South rails against Yankees 鈥渇illing up Dixie.鈥� Nevertheless, 鈥淐opperheads鈥� who agree with their pro-Lost Cause icon agenda, like the Minnesota-born Stewart, are apparently granted a pass.

In April 2017, Kessler retweeted a post by a Twitter account associated with The Right Stuff (TRS). The post shared a听听penned by Identity Dixie, a neo-Confederate offshoot of the white nationalist TRS, titled 鈥淭he Shadow Over Charlottesville.鈥� The piece outlined Kessler鈥檚 efforts to dislodge Bellamy over Bellamy鈥檚 problematic tweets and retweets and referred to Bellamy as a 鈥減avement ape鈥� and 鈥淐ouncilman Dindu,鈥� while also disparaging a federal judge as a 鈥渏------鈥� and 鈥減inko-commie f---鈥� in the city of Charlottesville.

That same month, Kessler penned his first article for听VDare, a xenophobic, nativist publication started by听Peter Brimelow. Kessler has since written four additional blogs for the publication, including the听听on June 19, 2017, titled 鈥淵es, Virginia (Dare), There Is Such A Thing As White Genocide.鈥�

Kessler has also written for GotNews.com, a website established by white nationalist internet troll听Chuck Johnson.

Uniting the right

On May 13, 2017, a group of white nationalists descended upon Charlottesville for a day-long protest over the efforts to remove the Lee and Jackson statues in city parks. The event culminated in a torch-lit march to the statue of Robert E. Lee, which generated a great deal of coverage noting the visual similarities between the torch-lit rally and cross-lightings at Ku Klux Klan gatherings where Civil War veterans gathered to strike back against Reconstruction.

Kessler has maintained that he was not involved in the organization of the May 13 march and nighttime torch-lit rally. This account was contradicted by an of the run-up to, and day of, the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally conducted by law firm Hunton & Williams which maintains, 鈥淪pencer and Kessler joined forces to organize 鈥�two events on Saturday, May 13.鈥�

Kessler was arrested at a protest at the Lee statue the following evening for failure to obey an officer鈥檚 commands, scarcely weeks after entering his guilty plea for misdemeanor assault. Kessler went to the location of the May 14 protest and began removing signs from Lee鈥檚 statue when he and two other individuals were arrested following a dispersal order.

The next day conservative news outlet听The Daily Caller posted an article on the protest penned by Kessler.

The Daily Caller听later issued a correction noting that Kessler鈥檚 take on the day鈥檚 events was听听gathering of pro-monument supporters, praised several racist organizations and called for a second Civil War.

The incident was indicative of the problems associated with Kessler鈥檚 self-styled brand of 鈥渋ndependent journalism,鈥� which typically consists of attending local protests with a bullhorn and provocative signs, then decrying coverage by reputable news outlets.

The听Caller听stated of Kessler 鈥淸I]n light of his activism on the issue, we have mutually agreed to suspend our freelance relationship with him.鈥� Per a deposition of Kessler, he earned $240 as a writer for the Daily Caller.

Regarding the torch-lit march, Kessler attempted to elide the controversy by claiming in a tweet that 鈥淓uropean people have a long history of torch-lit funeral processions to honor the dead See: Vikings鈥�

Nevertheless, Kessler admitted the use of torches was in some way intended to cause controversy in the press.

鈥淲hen they saw the torches that we did in the evening there was a mass triggering that took place.鈥�

Kessler began organizing a follow-up rally in response to 鈥渉yperbolic rhetoric by the media鈥� shortly thereafter, creating a Facebook event in early June.

On May 30, 2017, Kessler submitted his permit application for the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally on August 12, 2017. The permit was approved on July 27, 2017.

In the run-up to the August 2017 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally, Kessler made rounds with white nationalists, racists and reactionaries of all stripes, all in the name of 鈥渇ree speech.鈥�

Kessler鈥檚 newfound popularity among the far right caused some of his former associates to distance themselves from him. Two fellow members of Unity & Security for America publicly denounced Kessler, with one, 鈥淗e鈥檚 affiliated himself with people who are 鈥� to put it mildly 鈥� ideologically distasteful. And now he鈥檚 associated with people involved with organized crime. It鈥檚 turning into a rabbit hole. And I want nothing to do with that.鈥�

Those at the Charlottesville 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� event included Richard Spencer, who spoke at the first Charlottesville rally, Mike Peinovich aka Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff, Matthew Heimbach of the white nationalist Traditionalist Worker Party, Augustus Invictus, a pagan neo-fascist who has pledged to bring about a second Civil War, ex-Klansman David Duke, white supremacist shock jock Chris Cantwell, Tim Gionet AKA Baked Alaska, podcast host John Ramondetta AKA Johnny Monoxide, former Business Insider CTO and Michael Hill of the League of the South. A rancorous within the far right over Kessler鈥檚 refusal to let Robert Ray aka 鈥�Azzmador,鈥� a Texas-based representative of the Daily Stormer speak, due to Kessler鈥檚 fears that Ray鈥檚 militant racism and Nazism would generate bad publicity.

In a July 5, 2017 meeting with law enforcement, Kessler declined to tell authorities how many attendees he expected at the event.

On July 11, 2017, Kessler appeared before Charlottesville鈥檚 town hall to promote his rally and to distance himself from a rally the previous weekend by the Loyal White Knights of the KKK. The Klan rally took place in front of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in an attempt to capitalize on the spotlight shining on Charlottesville. Flanked by members of the Warlocks Motorcycle Club, Kessler railed against the media, local anti-racist group Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) and Black Lives Matter.

When pressed on whether he disavowed the KKK rally, Kessler stated, 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want them here.鈥�

As for his motive in organizing the event, Kessler stated: 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 do it, Wes Bellamy did.鈥�

On August 7, 2017, days before the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally was scheduled to take place, City officials attempted to force a venue change from Emancipation Park, the site of the Lee statue, to McIntire Park, located in a less crowded part of the city. Kessler declined and insisted on proceeding with the planned location. He was aided by the in submitting a cease and desist letter against the City of Charlottesville, which was denied by the Charlottesville city attorney. On August 11, 2017, a United States District Court ruled in favor of Kessler, the ACLU and The Rutherford Institute in an emergency lawsuit to prevent the venue change.

Late in the evening on August 11, 2017, a column of white nationalists organized by Kessler and others marched from a nearby field to the University of Virginia鈥檚 rotunda. Hundreds of white nationalists bearing Tiki torches and chanting 鈥淛ews will not replace us鈥� surrounded a small group of counter-protesters who had clustered around the rotunda鈥檚 statue of Thomas Jefferson. The torch-bearing marchers began shouting and pushing the counter-protesters. A brawl broke out and several protesters were injured, resulting in a lawsuit against Christopher Cantwell.

Early on August 12, a large group of 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� demonstrators gathered in McIntire park. The protesters marched toward Emancipation Park just before 10 a.m. Kessler was among a group of VIPs who had a coordinated security detail assigned to protect them during the event. By 11:30 a.m., a local state of emergency was declared as brawls broke out between demonstrators, counter-protesters and anti-fascist activists. By the end of the day three people were dead 鈥� Heather Heyer and two Virginia State troopers involved in a helicopter crash 鈥� and dozens were injured. Numerous lawsuits stemming from the violence that day are ongoing.

Post-rally

On August 13, 2017, Kessler held a press conference outside of Charlottesville City Hall to deflect blame for the disastrous rally onto the Charlottesville city government and police. As Kessler spoke a crowd pressed swarmed toward him, causing him to flee into a nearby government building.

Two days after the rally, Kessler was a guest on 鈥淭he Gavin McInnes Show.鈥� Although Kessler and host McInnes, founder of the 鈥淲estern chauvinist鈥� hate group Proud Boys, had appeared chummy in the days leading up to 鈥淯nite the Right,鈥� McInnes claimed that Kessler had joined his group to recruit members to the alt-right and that Kessler had been ejected from the Proud Boys 鈥渙nce his racist views became known.鈥�

In the early hours of August 19, Kessler a disparaging tweet about dead counter-protester Heather Heyer. The tweet contained a link to an article on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Facing immense backlash on social media, Kessler claimed that his account had been hacked and then blamed his actions on intoxication and sleep deprivation before deleting his account. Kessler was excoriated in the press and much of the far-right sought to further distance itself from him.

Undeterred, Kessler continued to seek alliances with various far-right leaders. He appeared on a slew of movement podcasts and attempted to lay the blame for 鈥淯nite the Right鈥檚鈥� collapse and the destruction it caused on other movement figures, particularly Elliot Kline aka Eli Mosely, the now-disgraced leader of Identity Evropa. Kessler stayed in frequent contact with Chris Cantwell, who at the time was jailed in Charlottesville. Cantwell was arrested shortly after the听rally in relation to the August 11 torchlit brawl, where Cantwell allegedly illegally used pepper spray against counter-protesters. Kessler and Cantwell鈥檚 relationship soured by early 2018 and the two have since denounced each other.

Cantwell wrote in June of 2018 that 鈥淎nybody who wants to get assaulted and smeared as a violent Nazi is welcome to follow Jason Kessler.鈥�

Kessler was listed among those named in two federal lawsuits related to the planning and coordination of the rally. Kessler has attended the trials of various other defendants on both the political left and right and continued to make his presence known at Charlottesville City Council meetings.

In late September 2017, Kessler announced the creation of a new organization called 鈥淭he New Byzantium Project,鈥� billed as 鈥渁 premier organization for pro-white advocacy in the 21st century.鈥�

On October 4, 2017, Kessler was related to his complaint filed in January over Kessler鈥檚 spat during his petition campaign against Bellamy.

On November 27, 2017, Kessler filed a permit with the City of Charlottesville for a 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� anniversary rally. The stated purpose of the anniversary event was to 鈥淩ally against government civil rights abuse and failure to follow security plans for political dissidents.鈥�

The City of Charlottesville denied the permit application in December 2017 citing the potential for violence, prompting a lawsuit from Kessler.

In January 2018, Kessler appeared on two episodes of Identity Dixie鈥檚 鈥淩ebel Yell鈥� podcast. In the first, titled 鈥淛ason Kessler, A New Year,鈥� Kessler attempted to parlay 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� as a success and to solicit support from the group for his planned anniversary rally. Host 鈥淢usonius Rufus鈥� took Kessler to task for attempting to pass blame for the rally鈥檚 failure off on other far-right leaders and organizers. Rufus convinced Kessler to acknowledge his responsibility for the outcomes of the fateful weekend.

Quoting Musonius Rufus: 鈥淜essler, will you claim that the buck stops here and that you are responsible for Charlottesville? And that you鈥檙e going to be responsible for the next one, that it鈥檚 all you?鈥�

Kessler responded: 鈥淲ell the next one will definitely be on me鈥�I would say that I handed off the security aspects of that thing.鈥� After Rufus objected Kessler acknowledged, 鈥淭hat still goes back to me because my 鈥� It was inexperience on my part not to know that I needed to control that [security] aspect and micromanage it so in that aspect it is my fault.鈥�

Kessler was unable to garner promises of support from Identity Dixie or many of the other groups that had attended 鈥淯nite the Right.鈥� In his appearance on Rebel Yell, Rufus indicated that Kessler would have to personally ensure that all attendees were committed to not retaliating against counter-protesters, wearing body cameras and that there would be adequate legal backing for any such rally in order to gain the group鈥檚 support. Kessler purportedly had a falling out with the group over his failure to deliver on those expectations.

On March 16, 2018, Kessler was outside of a Charlottesville courthouse. Kessler sued a local woman under a Virginia anti-dueling statute for $500 after she shouted obscenities at Kessler as he attended the trial of 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� counter-protester Deandre Harris. A judge decided in favor of Kessler and awarded him $5 in on June 29, 2018.

听In April 2018, the University of Virginia Law Library to only allow those possessing a university identification card on its premises in response to complaints by students and employees over multiple appearances by Kessler in the library.

In July 2018, an aide to Corey Stewart鈥檚 senatorial campaign was found to have for the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� anniversary rally. Stewart has yet to distance himself from the aide or from Kessler in any meaningful way.

Kessler against the City of Charlottesville over his denied application on July 24, 2018, and has stated his intention to host his anniversary rally at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., where he has received a permit.