Evan Thomas Kuettner

Overview

Evan Thomas Kuettner [Evan Thomas / Tom Kuettner] is a veteran white nationalist organizer affiliated with the campus organization Identity Evropa (IE). His organizing dates back to as early as 2006.

Kuettner reportedly denied the Holocaust in a 2005 post on Stormfront.org, where he was an active member.

Kuettner has been affiliated with the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist organization, as early as March 2016.

Kuettner goes by Evan Thomas on Twitter and was known as Tom Kuettner as recently as 2011, when he was president of the Tea Party in Warren, Michigan. He ran for a seat on the Warren City Council in 2011.

Kuettner was reportedly a student on March 7, 2016. He was reportedly 22 years old in June 2007, when he spoke at a white nationalist event in the New York area at which he said he would “give his life” for the movement.

Holocaust Denial

On November 3, 2007, it was reported that Kuettner wrote a Stormfront post in May of 2005 denying the Holocaust. A screenshot indicates that he wrote the post under the name Evan Thomas.

Kuettner reportedly stated: “The truth of course, is that the reason why one can’t find consistency when researching the Holocaust, is because the ‘event’ is for the most part, a sloppily manufactured, fictional story. I’m not implying that some innocent Jews didn’t die at the hands of Nazi executioners. However, I am implying that there was no mass program of intentional genocide concocted by the Germans and that most of the atrocity stories peddled out by the controlled media nearly every day are hugely exaggerated and extremely mythical. And the reasons behind their bogus lies about the Holocaust serve political purposes.”

Early White Nationalist Organizing

On November 3, 2007, Kuettner was reportedly active on Stormfront.org under the username “David Starr Jordan.” One screenshot dated October 14, 2007 shows Kuettner and a compatriot “preparing leaflets for distribution.” He also posted on Stormfront in 2003 and 2007 about being in touch with multiple white nationalist leaders, including David Duke, Jared Taylor, John de Nugent and others.

On April 12, 2008, it was reported that Kuettner held talks in Michigan during 2006 and 2007 for Canadian white nationalist Paul Fromm.

NPI-Affiliated Activism

On November 19, 2016, Kuettner attended an event hosted by NPI in Washington, D.C. The event featured white nationalist leaders like Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald and NPI president Richard Spencer. Kuettner had also attended an NPI event in March of 2016, where anti-Semitic conspiracy theories were reportedly espoused openly.

On May 15, 2017, Kuettner spoke at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where IE joined other white nationalist groups like the Traditional Workers Party (TWP) and the League of the South (LS) — which Kuettner said he was a member of in 2002. The groups protested the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

On August 18, 2017, Kuettner was identified on Twitter as having attended the August 12 “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville. The rally attracted the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and many other white nationalist groups.

Spencer organized the rally to protest the planned removal of the Lee statue. Many supporters brought Confederate flags to the rally. One neo-Nazi who attended the rally drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring at least 19. Another 14 were injured in other fighting between white nationalists and leftist counter-protesters.