Chuck Darwin<p>For those who have just discovered the increasingly visible white nationalist movement in the U.S., <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spencer</span></a> is one name that generally rises to the fore, </p><p>thanks to the glut of press attention he received around Trump’s presidential candidacy. </p><p>Spencer, who splits his time between Montana and Virginia, <br>runs a “think tank” called the "National Policy Institute" ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/NPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPI</span></a> ), <br>as well as the primary white nationalist periodical, "Radix Journal."</p><p>The Virginia-based NPI, founded in 2005, claims to be an <br>“independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.” </p><p>Spencer has used NPI to push both rank <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiSemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiSemitism</span></a> and dreams of <a href="https://c.im/tags/monoracial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monoracial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/statehood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statehood</span></a> in America, </p><p>stating that the creation of a whites-only state is his “grand goal.” </p><p>He’s said that such a state will be crafted through <br>“peaceful” ethnic cleansing, although he has admitted that such “peaceful” ethnic cleansing could involve bloodshed.</p><p>As a 2016 New York Times article described, Spencer spent a celebratory post-election rally in Washington <br>“rail[ing] against Jews” and declaring that <br>the U.S. “belonged to white people, <br>whom he called the ‘children of the sun.’” </p><p>At the same event, Spencer led supporters<br>—many of whom responded to Spencer with Nazi salutes<br>—in denouncing the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/L%C3%BCgenpresse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lügenpresse</span></a>,” <br>a Nazi-era descriptor for the media, <br>before leading his followers in chants of “Hail, Trump!”</p><p>Spencer’s preferred policies also echo the Kremlin directly. </p><p>To wit, he has lifted language from Moscow in describing Ukraine’s 2014 EuroMaidan revolution<br>—which he has claimed was financed by liberal American philanthropist George Soros<br>—as a “coup,” and has called to break up NATO. </p><p>Spencer has also noted that he “admire[s]” Putin, <br>and has described Russia as the “sole white power in the world.”</p><p>Spencer has additionally begun writing for Dugin’s website, <br>including a recent article describing the </p><p>“purpose and meaning of the Alt-Right movement.” </p><p>Further, in 2014, Spencer attempted to organize a white nationalist conference in Budapest <br>featuring a number of European white nationalists and neo-fascists, <br>including members of Hungary’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jobbik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jobbik</span></a> party<br>—a party that supplied putative <br>“election observers” to the 2014 Crimean <br>“referendum” on joining Russia. </p><p>(The referendum, as mentioned above, was recognized by only a handful of autocracies and Russian client-states.) </p><p>Spencer invited none other than Dugin to speak at the conference, <br>but Western sanctions prevented Dugin from entering the country.</p><p>Spencer is also married to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kouprianova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kouprianova</span></a>, who was born in the Soviet Union and educated in Canada. <br>(The two are currently separated.) </p><p>Kouprianova, who writes under the nom de plume Nina <a href="https://c.im/tags/Byzantina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Byzantina</span></a><br>—and is occasionally identified as Nina Spencer<br>—has not only spent the past few years defending regressive Kremlin policies on her popular social media accounts, <br>but has additionally translated Dugin’s work into English. </p><p>Indeed, the only books Kouprianova lists among those she’s translated are those by Dugin.</p><p>While she says that she has never met Dugin, Kouprianova has called him a <br>“well-educated scholar” unfairly maligned by the “Western media.” </p><p>Kouprianova has been outspoken in defense of the Kremlin’s anti-liberal policies, <br>as well as her husband’s neo-fascist ideas, </p><p>and has defended Moscow’s militarized policies in both Chechnya and eastern Ukraine, <br>the latter of which she has consistently referred to as a “liberation war.”</p><p>(3/N)</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alexander</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dugin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eurasianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eurasianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eternal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eternal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jones</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InfoWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoWars</span></a></p>