Identity Evropa



Identity Evropa (IE) was a pretentiously-named identitarian white nationalist group based in the United States that was founded by Nathan Benjamin Damigo in 2016. Damigo (b. May 12, 1986 as Nathan Lodge) is a former US Marine with an  and who served 5 years in jail/prison on a felony charge for armed robbery of a taxi driver whom he erroneously thought was an Iraqi immigrant. He was also known as "Fashy Haircut" for his Hitler Youth-style haircut on Twitter before being banned. Damigo was one of the organizers of the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left three people dead. Previous to Charlottesville, Damigo also organized rallies that resulted in violence in Berkeley, California, including one where he sucker-punched a woman holding a camera. IE membership is not just entirely white, as one would expect, but also overwhelmingly male (2 of the 64 members appear female in their group photo).

IE was a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. IE was known particularly for targeting college campuses for recruitment, though its membership was believed to be relatively small (200-300).

In 2019, following an exposé by Unicorn Riot revealing that they were carrying out an entryist campaign within the Republican Party on Discord and later Slack, IE leader Patrick Casey formally rebranded Identity Evropa into the American Identity Movement (AIM), not to be confused with the American Indian Movement). It was not unlike how former members of Vanguard America rebranded as the Patriot Front, complete with the same American patriotic imagery as that group (i.e. the American flag, Lady Columbia, and the eagle) and a more America-centric focus in contrast to IE's usage of mostly Greco-Roman and Renaissance imagery and fixation on Europe. Regardless, the American Identity Movement/AIM was pretty much the same group with a new coat of paint, doing the same flyering and having most of the same leadership and members as the formally-defunct Identity Evropa.

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One of the other aspects that’s been really missed is Jewish power, Jewish influence. It’s been extraordinarily negative for people of European heritage, for our foreign policy, for our domestic policy. And there has been a lot that’s happened that’s been pretty hurtful that the Jewish community has advocated for that has been very anti-white.
 * IE was opposed to anyone with progressive ideas, and refers to them with the snarl word of Cultural Marxism.
 * IE was a racialist organization that tries to hide it under the guise of "human biodiversity".
 * IE claimed to be censored because some companies have exercised their freedom to disassociate themselves with racist organizations.
 * IE was opposed to (non-white) immigration into the US.
 * IE did not allow Jews or other Semitic people from being members, stating that its membership is open only to (in their own words) non-Semitic Europeans (read whites). Damigo has voiced anti-Semitic statements. While he has refused to state an opinion regarding the Holocaust and its denial,, he has alluded to the International Jewish conspiracy.

Membership
IE tried to present a superficially clean appearance: no visible tattoos, no swastikas and no felony convictions as well as women being allowed to join the organization and a secular approach to religion (such as Christianity and European neopaganism). This is ironic because Damigo himself is a felon.

Known members: • 2