For over two years I have been posting the coming showdown in Montana with Dead Artists of bygone days. White Supremists having been making a home in Montana for years. Richard Spencer is not welcome in Whitefish.

Jon Presco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

https://www.facebook.com/PioneerLittleEuropeUSA/

https://www.facebook.com/PioneerLittleEurope/

“A number of year ago some people moved into the Flathead Valley, into Kalispell particularly, and moved here because the area was not ethnically diverse,” said Ina Albert of Love Lives Here. “And they wound up creating a Nazi organization cell to create a community here called Pioneer Little Europe.”

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One Whitefish group is taking aim at a local resident who leads an organization they are calling a hate group.

“There’s a long definition that the FBI gives of what a hate group is and National Policy Institute fits that definition,” said Rabbi Allen Secher of Love Lives Here.

Richard Spencer, President of the National Policy Institute lives in Whitefish, a fact many residents find hard to swallow.

At Monday’s Whitefish City Council meeting more than 100 Love Lives Here members petitioned the council to ban his organization.

“One of our major goals is to have the city of Whitefish pass a no hate ordinance, that one may not disseminate hate in this community. Organizer Richard Spencer has every right to speak, we all have every right to speak but what I don’t want him to do is proselytize,” said Secher.

Spencer says just because he lives in Whitefish does not mean his organization has anything to do with the area.

In an op-ed earlier this month in the Whitefish Pilot he wrote, “NPI has never been “Montana-based” in the conventional sense. Our corporate charter is in Virginia, and we’ve never involved ourselves in Montana politics nor held a conference here-nor will we.”

“I want to gather as many of my fellow residents to say no, no, no, we do not want a white supremacist organization functioning in our community,” Secher said.

This latest move is aimed at NPI but it isn’t the only group in the Flathead with similar view-points.

“A number of year ago some people moved into the Flathead Valley, into Kalispell particularly, and moved here because the area was not ethnically diverse,” said Ina Albert of Love Lives Here. “And they wound up creating a Nazi organization cell to create a community here called Pioneer Little Europe.”

In total the Southern Poverty Law Center lists eight hate groups in Montana, including the National Policy Institute, four of which are in the Flathead.

We reached out to local law enforcement and the Whitefish City Attorney’s office but they declined to comment.

At first glance the Pioneer Little Europe website seems like it could be the work of the Montana Office of Tourism. Photographs depict the rugged beauty of the Flathead Valley region near Glacier National Park in northwest Montana.

One image shows a young blond-haired girl playing in a meadow overlooking Kalispell, the largest town in the area, with a population around 20,000.

The site also features short news items about the Northwest Montana State Fair and a wildflower beautification program along with Kalispell job postings.

But then there’s this: A scan of a full-page advertisement in a recent edition of the Flathead Beacon, the local paper, with photographs of 47 babies newly delivered in the Kalispell Regional Medical Center. All but one are fair-skinned with light-colored hair. “Wonderful white babies being born in Kalispell,” the website reads. “What do the babies look like being born in your town?” Another item on the Pioneer Little Europe site depicts white families relaxing on the shore of a lake. A caption reads,”This is how white our beaches are, and I’m not talking about sand.”

And that little girl in the meadow? Her name is Dresden Hale. That’s Dresden for the German city firebombed by the Allied forces in World War II, and Hale for the 1990s leader of the neo-Nazi group World Church of the Creator, Matt Hale, who’s doing 40 years in prison for soliciting the murder of a federal judge.

Dresden Hale is the youngest daughter of Kalispell resident and neo-Nazi activist April Gaede, the public face of the Pioneer Little Europe (PLE) movement. Launched in 2008, PLE invites “racially conscious” white Americans to relocate to the Flathead Valley to help create a heavily-armed Aryan homeland.

(Gaede’s other two daughters, Lynx and Lamb, are identical twins who gained widespread media attention by performing neo-Nazi folk ballads as the musical act Prussian Blue. They have since renounced white supremacism.)

The PLE movement has brought dozens of white supremacists to the Flathead Valley. They are increasingly making their presence known by staging public events, openly recruiting and distributing racist literature, stocking up on firearms at area gun shows while dressed in neo-Nazi clothing, working for local anti-gun control and anti-abortion campaigns (according to Gaede), and issuing violent threats to perceived enemies, including Media Matters, which is now under “indictment” for treason to the white race.

The growing numbers of PLE white supremacists in the Flathead Valley parallels a recent influx to the area of ultra right-wing “Patriot” movement leaders and their followers. Their combined forces are rapidly transforming the region into the hottest flash point of right-wing extremism in the country.