In early 2002, when I was taking
a college course on machine tools, I walked into class
one day wearing a Skrewdriver t-shirt. This caught the
eye of one of my classmates, who I later found out was
a National Alliance member.
I attended my first Alliance meeting on St. Patrick's
Day of that year and filled out a membership application
the following month.
A few months later, Dr. William Pierce died of cancer
and the attendance at meetings began to dwindle.
I was asked in December 2002 to assume responsibility
for the Arizona Unit. I was not confident that I was
capable of such a task, so I was quite reluctant. I
agreed to do so, however, until another person who was
more capable than me stepped forward.
A couple of months later, the number of meeting attendees
dwindled to three and stayed there, with one or two
exceptions, for several months. We always maintained
a positive outlook, however--we didn’t focus on
how bad things were getting or on what we could do with
more members, but on what we could do with the resources
that we had at our disposal.
We began to distribute leaflets, sell books at gun
shows, and we acquired a weekly public access TV show.
Slowly, our numbers grew. We met one reliable person--a
few months later, another. We met still another several
months later.
In July of 2004, I was appointed the official Unit
Coordinator in Phoenix. Nine months later, most of the
finest activists decided that they had enough of the
Alliance's "leadership" and formed an organization
known as National Vanguard.
The National Office of this new organization unfortunately
never got its act together, causing two of the best
units that we had to leave and form still another organization.
We here in Arizona stuck with National Vanguard, hoping
that things would work out.
Locally, our numbers and resources continued to grow
at an exponential rate. The National Office of National
Vanguard, however, still accomplished very little.
A few months ago, it was decided that National Vanguard
would be disbanded as an organization.
Over the past few years, many competent and dedicated
activists have fallen out of sight as a result of everything
negative that has happened. Still more have, as a result
of personal differences, ceased working with one another.
It is my sincere hope that, at some point in the future,
everybody will be working together again. This may take
some time, and we cannot sit on our hands waiting for
it to happen. For that reason, members of the Arizona
unit have decided to join the Nationalist Coalition.
Denver and Tampa easily have two of the finest units
that have ever existed, and this is where we feel we
belong: making advancements in the area of local activism
and, most importantly, always moving forward.
