Preamble
Ryan Michael Roy (born April 9th, 1989) is an American neo-Nazi. Roy first came to prominence due to his visible presence at 2017’s Unite the Right in Charlottesville VA. He’s known to be a long-time member of Patriot Front Network 7, and seems to act as a recruiter and point person for Network 7 in Vermont.
Roy may have been a member of the Traditionalist Worker Party before its collapse, and joined contingents of TWP members during at least two out-of-state events. [μ]
Roy’s last-known locale of residence is Enosburg Falls VT. He previously lived in Essex VT. [♣] [1]
Roy previously went by “RexLexus” over Discord, and “whitetaliban” on Instagram. His Patriot Front handle is “Rex VT,” and his serial number is PF-8672.
This dossier is not intensely concerned with what Roy believes. This dossier’s remit revolves around collecting information about Roy and cataloging his major activities in regards to his white supremacist activism.
Changes since last revision will be highlighted as such. Notes and citations will be provided throughout the document in the form of links to external websites, represented by bracketed numbers. Wherein a set of brackets contains a symbol other than a number, this is meant to represent either a physical document with no online copy (such as a police report or court case), or a database that cannot/will not be cited in a specific manner (such as the ADL’s HEAT Map, or social media accounts operated by known fascists). Find these corresponding citations in the “External citations” section.
Other reference documents
- Unicorn Riot: “Southern Front Logs Expose Neo-Nazi Extremist Cell,” “‘We’re Americans, and We’re Fascists’: Inside Patriot Front,” “A Guide To Patriot Front’s Leaked Media Files,” “Patriot Front Leaks Reveal Group’s Ideology: ‘Jews attack all things good in this world,’” “Patriot Front Meetings Spell Out Racist Network’s Plans & Hateful Operations”
- Rose City Antifa: “Patriot Front Member Gallery”
- Confronting White Supremacists in New England, by Radio Antifa: New England: “Patriot Front”
- FashAlert MA: “Patriot Front”
Contents
- Dossier preamble
- Early life
- Timeline of activities
- Lookbook [in progress]
- Quotes
- Personal life
- External citations
- Changelog
Early Life
Roy claims to have been raised by a “liberal mother” and a “conservative father.” As a teenager, Roy attended Essex High School in Vermont and claims to have been a part of his local punk scene. He graduated with the Class of 2007. [1] [2] [3]
Timeline of activities
While Patriot Front Network 7 has held a large number of events in Vermont that more likely involved Roy than not, attempts will be made to only include events where proof exists Roy may have been present, whether by his own admission or through plausible identifications of him through Patriot Front’s own propaganda materials.
Note that this is also not a comprehensive timeline of Roy’s activity, given the wide variety and patchwork nature of Patriot Front material to sift through.
2017
On August 12th, James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of protesters during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville VA. His attack left one dead and 35 injured. Fields had been marching with Vanguard America during the morning, before the city declared a state of emergency and canceled the planned rally at noon. This specific event led to Thomas Rousseau, at the time a high-ranking organizer with Vanguard America, splitting off to form Patriot Front, which Roy would later join. While not involved in the attack, Roy was photographed in the company of Augustus Invictus the morning of the attack, and recorded attending the torch march through Charlottesville the night previous. Roy also brought his family down to Charlottesville for the event, and claims they were there to meet Invictus and Chris Cantwell. [1] [2] [3]
On August 13th, Roy indicated that he and other UTR attendees were involved in a fight in a Waffle House somewhere around Charlottesville. [1]
Some time during his trip home from Unite the Right, Roy confronted two black women, one an employee, at a PNC Bank in Morristown NJ, and told them “they need to get the f███ out of our country.” He would later solicit information about the employee from a Discord server he was in, in the hopes he could use said information to get her fired. [1]
On August 15th, Roy was fired from his job at Uno’s Pizzeria in South Burlington VT, for his participation in Unite the Right. He was interviewed by some number of local publications, including the Burlington Free Press and Seven Days Vermont, in light of a social media campaign to notify staff at the Uno’s location about his UTR participation. Said campaign was led by a local bassist who recognized Roy. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Also on the 15th, Sam Wormer, a friend of Roy’s since high school, submitted a report to police that he was assaulted and stabbed with a knife, outside his home, by multiple assailants, for defending Roy in the wake of his outing as a neo-Nazi. Wormer’s own photos show clean, shallow, purposeful cuts to his abdomen. In social media posts, Wormer claimed the knife attack was “social justice, apparently,” implying local militant leftists assaulted him. According to Roy, who believed his friend was telling the truth, Wormer claimed the attack was a “false flag” by local right-wingers meant to discredit local leftists. [1] [2]
On August 21st, Roy solicited a Discord channel for employment opportunities. [1]
On August 22nd, Roy claimed Augustus Invictus had offered to write him an affidavit to the effect against claims made that Roy had brought his children to the Unite the Right rallies, likely meaning the marches, themselves. [1]
By September 7th, Roy acquired another job. He claimed that he had been listening to an audiobook of “Mein Kampf” at work in a conversation with Kevin Cottle, aka “HueTheHand,” who at the time was a member of the Traditionalist Worker Party. [1]
On October 28th, Roy posted in the Traditionalist Worker Party Discord server that he was in Shelbyville TN, like many other members of the server. TWP figurehead Matt Heimbach led a contingent of TWP members during the “White Lives Matter” event in Shelbyville this day, which also included contingents from the League of the South and the Nationalist Social Movement. [1] [2] [3]
On or before December 10th, Roy took part in an anti-immigration standout in Burlington VT. [1]
2018
On February 10th, members of Patriot Front flyered and held a flash rally in Burlington VT. Roy and Anthony Chandler of Network 10 were present. [1]
On March 12th, Roy registered an account on the new Patriot Front Rocketchat server. This is not indicative of Roy’s join date, given his participation in events in February of this year and the nascency of the Rocketchat server. [1]
2019
On July 6th, about 17-20 members of Patriot Front held a flash rally in Bunker Hill’s Monument Square, in Charlestown MA. They unfurled a banner and lit flares, later fleeing in vehicles tied to Lowell MA and NY state. Hood claimed over internal chats that the rally included members from Texas, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Vermont. Patriot Front Network 9 member Victor Staab, aka “Victor MD,” indicated that Roy was present, and took a falling drone to the face. [‡] [1]
On or before July 16th, members of Patriot Front conducted a promat flyering in Leominster MA. In internal PF chats, Roy and fellow Network 7 member Mark Hayden, aka “Bill MA,” both indicated that nearly 100 posters were put up by 8 members split in two teams. [1]
2020
On June 13th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members stenciled promat graffiti in Burlington VT and Swanson VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant in both. [∗]
On June 27th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted a flower-laying promat event at the grave of Ethan Allen in Burlington VT. Photos suggest Roy was present. [∗]
On October 6th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported that members hiked Mount Ethan Allen in Vermont. Photos suggest Roy was present. [∗]
2021
On April 2nd, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members stenciled promat graffiti in Burlington VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
On August 9th, the Nationalist Social Club of New England, led by ousted Patriot Front member Chris Hood, protested outside of the Nashua Board of Education building. Among them was Roy; according to local antifascists, he responded to being called by name. [∗] [1] [2]
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| Possibly Roy in Nashua NH, based on his build, height relative to other members, choice of boot-tuck, and maybe his watch, August 2021. Facial shape does not seem consistent (could be down to the mask being black instead of white), and no other images of Roy depict him wearing a decorative ring on his right hand. | |
On October 22nd, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted promat flyerings in Burlington VT. Photos suggest Roy committed the activity. [∗]
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| Possibly Roy in Burlington VT, based on his build and height relative to the door in the first photo, October 2021. | |
Sometime during November 11th or 12th, Roy committed a promat activity in Richford VT. [1]
On November 13th, Roy attended a “Let’s Go Brandon” Trump rally to hand out Patriot Front “Strong Families, Strong Nation” flyers. [1] [2]
On November 16th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted promat flyerings in St. Albans VT. Photos suggest Roy committed the activity. [∗]
On November 17th, Roy committed a promat activity in Brandon VT. [1]
On November 21st, Roy committed a promat activity in South Burlington VT. [1]
On November 24th, Roy committed a promat activity in Enosburg Falls VT. [1]
On November 26th, Roy recounted giving a speech, about “Americans as a Chosen race,” at a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s likely he made this speech to his family. [1]
On December 4th, Roy and an “intermediate” member of Patriot Front committed a promat activity at the University of Vermont Medical Center, in Burlington VT. The intermediate was likely “Mason VT,” a re-admitted member of Patriot Front and long-time friend of Roy’s. [1] [2]
On December 9th, Patriot Front NW7 member Matt Smaller, aka “Jim MA,” committed a promat campaign on the Framingham State University campus. A series of tips from the public and federal law enforcement led FSU police to ID Smaller. FSU PD named Patriot Front NW7 scribe Alex Beilman, aka “Tyler CT,” and NW7 quartermaster Brian Harwood, aka “Henry MA,” as conspirators based on Unicorn Riot’s leaked RocketChat logs. The three have since been charged and arraigned in Framingham District Court; the trial is ongoing. In the FSU PD incident report for Smaller’s vandalism, Roy and Patriot Front as a whole are named as involved parties. According to the report, FSU PD requested identification assistance from the Vermont Intelligence Center in identifying the member known as “Rex VT,” and the VIC responded by supplying FSU PD with Roy’s identity. The report states that “Roy is known to Vermont law enforcement.” [♣] [1] [2]
Also on December 9th, Roy committed promat activities in Essex Junction & Milton VT. [1]
On December 10th, Roy took part in a Mumble call between several chapters of Patriot Front, meant to discuss the results of the recent Washington DC march. [1]
On December 11th, Roy and “Mason VT” dropped a banner over the Shadow Cross Bridge in Colchester VT. [1] [2]
On December 14th, Roy committed a promat activity in Richford VT. He also refused to commit to a Patriot Front event in Massachusetts for the 19th, citing his baby son’s birthday. [1] [2]
On December 15th, Roy committed a promat activity in Essex VT. [1]
2022
On January 21st, Patriot Front marched through Washington DC along with the annual anti-abortion “March For Life” rally. Photos and video taken of the event suggest Roy was an active participant engaged in screening members of the March For Life and counter-protesters alike from approaching other members of Patriot Front. Roy does not appear much in Patriot Front’s own footage of the event; this is possibly due to his proximity to Capitol Police as they screened civilians for Patriot Front at the front of their march. This is to say: Roy and the rest of the screen team were largely useless besides looking intimidating, as the local cops were doing their work for them. [∗] [1]
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| Possibly Roy in Washington DC based on his build, eyewear, footwear, facial shape, and height relative to the other members, January 2022. | |
On January 28th, antifascist researcher “New York City Antifa” released an alert concerning the wedding of Kyle Morelli and Alyssa Garrity. Leaked Rocketchat logs indicated that Roy, along with several other members of both local and distant networks, was interested in attending. [1]
Also on January 28th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members stenciled promat graffiti in Burlington VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
On May 5th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted promat flyerings in Rutland VT and White Junction VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
On May 9th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted a promat banner-drop from an overpass in Berlin VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
On May 16th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted a promat banner-drop from an overpass in Middlesex VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
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| Possibly Roy in Middlesex VT, based on his build, footwear, and height relative to the other member, May 2022. | |
On May 19th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted a promat banner-drop from an overpass in Morrisville VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
On May 21st, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members conducted a promat banner-drop from an overpass in South Burlington VT, and stenciled promat graffiti in Rutland VT and West Rutland VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
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| Possibly Roy in South Burlington VT, based on his build, footwear, and eyewear (barely visible in the second photo), May 2022. | |
On and possibly after August 4th, Roy staffed a “Right to Life” booth at the Franklin County VT Field Day event. An observer noted that Roy was handing out and placing flyers for Patriot Front while he worked the booth. [1] [2]
On October 10th, the Patriot Front Telegram channel reported members stenciled promat graffiti in St. Albans VT. Photos suggest Roy was an active participant. [∗]
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| Possibly Roy in St. Albans VT, based on his build and height relative to the other member, October 2022. | |
2023
On March 9th, several members of Patriot Front Network 7 met somewhere in Maine to hike and camp in the mountains. The next day they split into three teams, and conducted a variety of promat activities in Falmouth ME, Portland ME, Scarborough ME, and Windham ME. Photos suggest that Roy was an active participant in both a banner-drop from an overpass and stenciling promat graffiti in Falmouth ME. [∗]
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| Possibly Roy in Falmouth ME based on his jacket’s camo pattern, eyewear, footwear, build and height relative to other members, March 2023. | |
On April 4th, Roy was charged in Albemarle County Circuit Court for his participation in Unite the Right’s torchlit march through Charlottesville VA in August 2017. [♣]
On April 29th, members of Patriot Front arrived in Boston MA to protest SatanCon, being held at the Marriott Copley Place. Photos and video taken at the event, taken by both Patriot Front’s own photographers and local antifascist researchers, suggest Roy was present. [∗] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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| Possibly Roy in Boston MA, based on his build, eyewear, footwear, facial shape, and height relative to the other members, April 2023. Note in the second photo that Roy is standing on the same plane of perspective as PF member Alex Beilman aka “Tyler CT” of Meriden CT, marked with the white arrow. Using the building features behind them as a reference point, this suggests Roy stands at Beilman’s height of 6’2″. | |
On May 13th, members of Patriot Front marched through Washington DC. Video, taken at the event by local documentarians, suggest Roy was present and once again acting as a screener between counter-protesters and other members of Patriot Front. [∗] [1] [2]
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| Possibly Roy in Washington DC, based on his build, height relative to other members, facial shape, position as a screener, and choice of eyewear, May 2023. [1] It should be noted that this model of Pit Viper sunglasses are not the ones he usually wears, but are consistent with an older model worn by another member of Patriot Front during a promat graffiti stenciling in South Burlington VT in April 2022. It’s within the realm of possibility that Roy loaned out that pair to the other member for the photo shoot that day. Note also the Betsy Ross flag patch, similar though not identical to one (and admittedly not an uncommon item, seen on roughly a dozen other members) worn by Roy on his sleeve in Boston MA the previous month. | |
Lookbook
[in progress]
Quotes
Quotes from any member of Patriot Front in the context of chat channels are to be taken with a grain of salt, given the reticence of members to fully speak their politics in the face of Rousseau’s tendency to quash more extremist speech.
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— Roy to April McCullum of the Burlington Free Press, August 15th, 2017 [1]
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— Roy to Sasha Goldstein of Seven Days Vermont, August 15th, 2017 [1]
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— Roy to the Traditionalist Worker Party with just the most cringe goddamn idea, in reply to a conversation about a purported Marvel Comics event where an unknown Jewish character replaced Frank Castle as the Punisher, October 9th, 2017, Cantwell! A man who claimed he would not be taken alive by police if arrested, who when arrested was found playing Pokemon Go in his home during the dead of night and offered no resistance. That guy. C’mon. [1]
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— Roy emotionally dumping on PF member Colton Brown aka “John WA” concerning Roy’s friend “Mason VT,” and the struggles of recruiting what sounds like a socially-unavailable flake into his white supremacist stickering hobby, a pretty personal conversation that probably shouldn’t have seen the light of day, November 11th, 2021 [1] [2]
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— Roy in conversation with PF member Matt Smaller aka “Jim MA” on using sock-puppet accounts to inflate Patriot Front’s online presence, December 17th, 2021 [1]
Personal life
Roy is married, and the father to a handful of children. [1] [2]
Roy seems to be a practicing Catholic, and has invoked “God’s providence” in relation to the founding of the United States. [1] [2]
Roy also claims that he was previously a LaRouchite (having described LaRouche’s beliefs as a “very niche authoritarianism”), and more recently is aligned with the Libertarian Party. He’s also a supporter of Donald Trump as U.S. president. [1] [2]
Roy claims to be a part of his local punk scene. He also claims to be the vocalist for a local electronic band called “Hate Speech,” with a member of another white nationalist band called “Lone Wolf Insurgent.” [1] [2] [3] [4]
External citations
∗ – See social media belonging to Patriot Front (or, in the case of the August ’21 event in Nashua NH, the Nationalist Social Club of New England). Where possible, dates have been revised to be correct. More robust sources should be found for these events, as a fascist’s accounts of their own activities should be taken with a grain of salt.
‡ – See the Torch Network Patriot Front Rocketchat leaks:
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- For remarks made by members about the Bunker Hill flash rally in July 2019, see see 2019/PF general chat 7.6.19.pdf, 2019/PF general chat 7.7 evening.pdf, and 2019/PF general chat 7.8.19 evening 2.pdf
- For remarks made by members about the mass flyering of Leominster MA in July 2019, see 2019/PF general chat 7.16.29.pdf
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μ – See the UnicornRiot Discord leaks:
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- For Roy’s proximity to the Traditionalist Worker Party, please see his Discord posts. Of 434 messages over Discord between July 9th 2017 and March 4th 2018, 165 were posted to the TWP server. To his admission, he met members and marched with them during Unite the Right, and also joined a contingent of TWP members during a White Lives Matter event in Shelbyville TN later that year.
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♠ – See various police reports:
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♣ – See various court records:
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- For information relating the the arrest of several members of Patriot Front following Smaller’s flyering of the Framingham State University campus during December 2021, see Trial Court of Massachusetts, Framingham District Court cases #2249CR000741, 2249CR000742, & 2249CR000743, Framingham State University Police case #21-0000334 Narrative.
- For information relating to Roy’s arrest for his participation in the ’17 Unite the Right torchlit rally, see Trial Court of Virginia, Albemarle County Circuit Court, Criminal Division case #CR23000146-00.
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Changelog
May 16th, 2023
- Revised notes about Roy’s proximity to the Traditionalist Worker Party to more accurately reflect existing documentation, and added a TWP event from October 2017.
- Removed my assessment on the nature of Wormer’s injuries for multiple reasons, including them not being relevant to the subject matter.
May 15th, 2023
- A number of corrections and tweaks, including two additions to the quotes section, expanding on the assault of Sam Wormer, and adding a photo to the May 2022 banner-drop in South Burlington VT.
May 14th, 2023
- Published this document.
May 1st, 2023
- Created this document.