Besides keeping The Daily Stormer online, Auernheimer’s “hacktivism” has included hijacking printers on college campuses to make them print out swastika-bedecked fliers and leaving a voicemail for a Jewish woman in Montana that called her a “fucking kike whore” and informed her that “this is Trump’s America now.” Auernheimer also set up a crowdfunding campaign for Anglin on a far-right platform so that Anglin could hire a lawyer for a court case brought by that same Montana woman. The trial was recently set for January 2019.

According to O’Brien, Auernheimer was an active user of a private chat server for Stormers, where, among other things, he forbade any members from talking to the police, coordinated a plan to send Nazis to Heather Heyer’s funeral, and wrote:

All I want is to see [Jews] screaming in a pit of suffering on the soil of my homeland before I die ... I don’t want wealth. I don’t want power. I just want their daughters tortured to death in front of them and to laugh and spit in their faces while they scream.

In a podcast hosted by Christopher Cantwell in December, Auernheimer blamed Jewish people for the loss of a dot-com home for The Daily Stormer. He said, “If you don’t let us dissent peacefully, then our only option is to murder you. To kill your children. To kill your whole families.”

Last month, Newsweek reported that, despite his vitriol against Jews, Auernheimer is in fact of Jewish descent.

As of December, Auernheimer was living in Transnistria, a Russia-backed breakaway region in Moldova on the border with Ukraine. Last year, Auernheimer claimed that he was moving The Daily Stormer’s forum to “a much beefier server in the Russian Federation.” Although Anglin, the site’s founder, claims that he has no Russian government support, The Daily Stormer has been found to be supported by a network of bots and Twitter accounts with false identities—virtually all of which are inactive between midnight and 6:30 a.m. on Moscow time.

Norton has written for several other news organizations, including this magazine. Her October tweet explained, “Some of my friend (sic) are terrible people, and also my friends.”

We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.