‘Victory or Death’: Inside the Dark Activism of White Lives Matter
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HE WAS CHARGED with attempting to firebomb a liberal church in Chesterland, Ohio. According to court documents, Aimenn Penny was a member of White Lives Matter, Ohio — and the church was preparing to host a pair of drag events.
Even before his March arrest for tossing Molotov cocktails at the place of worship, Penny was known to local police for distributing WLM hate literature, allegedly telling local cops that he needed to spread the “word” that Black people were the “problem.” Aimenn told police that “he looks forward to the civil war coming between races” and “expressed his belief that the United States will not prosper until all the other races, or ‘weaknesses’ as he called them, are gone.”
White Lives Matter is a white power group, founded in 2021 and organized on the Telegram social media network. Rolling Stone has obtained a copy of the group’s White Lives Matter Activist’s Manual, the details of which are reported here for the first time. Part manifesto, part how-to guide, the manual lays bare the strategy and motivations of the group, as well as its extreme devotion to white nationalism.
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