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On September 13, 1926, approximately thirty thousand Klan members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol Building toward the White House.

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Another view of the September 13, 1926, Ku Klux Klan gathering, with the Capitol dome in the background.

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The first flag used by the Confederate States of America.

Although the Confederate battle flag never represented the Confederate States of America, it was used by the Klan to stress the fact that the South would someday rise to fight again.

The glove I wore to hold the torch to light the cross, in my capacity as Grand Knighthawk at cross burnings during my second infiltration of the Klan, which began in 2013.

Me, at the age of six, in 1977, holding a toy rifle.

Me and my sister, aged eight and four.

Graduating from army basic training in 1996, at Fort Benning in Georgia, in my dress uniform.

My recon platoon, including snipers, in 1998. I’m in the front, lower left.

A Barrett M107A1 .50-caliber sniper rifle like the one I trained on, which the Klan was planning to use to assassinate Barack Obama during a Kissimmee, Florida, campaign stop on October 29, 2008.

Mug shots of (left to right) Thomas Driver, David Moran, and Charles Newcomb, taken April 1, 2015, following their arrests.

The actual “blood oath” document I signed on October 13, 2013, upon being “naturalized” into my second Klan chapter in Bronson, Florida.

A typical KKK cross burning. The figure cloaked in black, second from the left, is the chapter’s Knighthawk.

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Klan Imperial Wizard Charles Denton (aka “Cole Thornton”) in June 2005 outside a Mississippi courthouse, where Edgar Ray Killen was tried and convicted of having arranged the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964.

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Then presidential candidate Barack Obama, with former president Bill Clinton in the background, on October 29, 2008, in Kissimmee, Florida. The Klan planned to assassinate Obama after this event.

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Klan Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona at a cross burning in Missouri.

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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos interviewing me for the December 2022 Hulu documentary film Grand Knighthawk.

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Maintaining my skills on a Florida shooting range in 2022.

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My wife, Shannon, and me on our wedding day.

On a Florida beach with two of my kids after catching a redfish.

My wife and me at the beach in Jacksonville, Florida, in December 2023.