Fash Watch Ohio
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Monitoring fascist networks in the state of Ohio. Tips: fascist.watch.ohio@proton.me
On August 10th, 2024 Perrin March participated in an amateur MMA bout for the sports promotion "Born for Battle Brawlers" based in Cincinnati. This event preceded their first sanctioned event in January of 2025.
Perrin March is currently working at the Cincinnati based barbershop Bourbon & Blade under the pseudonym Magnus, where he takes walk-in clients. It's unclear to us whether his employer is aware of his activities in the white nationalist organizing space.
We then discovered his Instagram account, under the username @/magnus_victoria_94, which features an image of himself wearing the same mask worn during that training.
We were able to connect Perrin March to this video through an Instagram reel, wherein he can be seen wearing the same article of clothing as he did during that training session.
We first noticed Perrin March in an image from that training session posted on April 27th, 2026 to Ohio Nationalist Network's telegram channel. The image had been photoshopped to remove participants' tattoos.
It's our displeasure to re-introduce 31 year old Perrin George March V of Cincinnati, Ohio. A participant in a recent training session held by Ohio Nationalist Network likely held in April of 2026.
The operator of the Ohio Nationalist Network X account, likely Benjamin Stanton, claimed on May 7th to have acted as a regional lead for the Casey Putsch campaign, and in subsequent posts signaled a similar sentiment.
Given his proximity and access to the Portsmouth area, we believe Lafe Blanton to be the member of ONN responsible for the stickerings in the area, as well as the removal of No Kings flyers preceding the most recent demonstration in March.
Lafe is currently 19 years old, was an attendee at the Scioto County Career Technical Center where he was on the honor roll during his Junior year, and his last known address was in Wheelersburg, Ohio. He also has a LinkedIn account listing him as unemployed and his location as Portsmouth.
Lafe Blanton also operates the account @/swishersweetsbaron on the platform Instagram. And has interacted with NOVA content from their Oktoberfest event held at the Wayne County fair event center in October of 2024.
We became aware of Lafe Blanton through his active social media usage, primarily on Facebook. Where he has interacted with the white nationalist outlet "The Noticer," was a member of a Casey Putsch supporters group, and claimed to have known 2119 member Waylon Fowler.
Ohio Nationalist Network's images were recently featured in this 60 Minutes segment, soooo, meet Ohio Nationalist Network member Lafe Blanton.
John McGilvray has a history of competing with the War Horse armored combat group called "War Horse Events," and because of this we believe him to possibly be the member of Ohio Active Club removed for stickering at Celtic Fest Ohio in June of 2023.
We know that Mrs. McGilvray shares her husband's beliefs, because alongside her husband she herself met with the operator of the white nationalist apparel distributor Writhe Strength Cult in March of this year.
Similarly, we were able to determine that Jack is a pseudonym through marriage records in Franklin County, where John McGilvray previously lived, matching the name of "Jack's" wife. We will not be sharing the name of John McGilvray's wife, although she does hold the same beliefs as her husband.
Further corroboration came from OAC's claims in a post made to their Telegram channel in March of 2024, suggesting a member of the group is an EMT. As shown on his Instagram account, John McGilvray is a certified EMT in Hamilton County. We've verified his certification through public records.
We initially took interest in John McGilvray, as his tattoos matched now deleted images from the Cincinnati Active Club Telegram channel. Unfortunately, we do not have saved versions of those. But, locations in his tagged images from Instagram match images still posted to the OAC Telegram channel.
We first became aware of John McGilvray through the followers list of Shane Clow's Stronghold Muscle account on Instagram, where John operates the account @/prey_to_the_world using the pseudonym Jack. His facebook account uses the same pseudonym.
Say hello to Ohio Active Club/Ohio Nationalist Network member John McGilvray of Cincinnati, Ohio.
As a bonus, enjoy this image showing how Ben Stanton has been balding since the ripe old age of 18.
More recently, Ben Stanton has developed relationships with Timothy Dumas and Unite The Right participant Daniel Borden. Timothy Dumas and Daniel Borden are both convicted felons who have engaged in violence for their nationalist beliefs.
Benjamin Stanton is also a proponent of the use of anabolic steroids, which other Active Club affiliated groups have trafficked in the past. And in March of 2023, he discussed his intent to begin using steroids on his Poast Account in a conversation thread with the account "Superlutheran."
Ben Stanton was also flagged in at least one TRS Telegram channel by the bot "@/groomerremover," a bot created to flag accounts with affiliations to accelerationist networks that focus on the grooming of children. Through this we learned that the ONN vetting account was previously named Based Ohio.
Through direct messages available in the Poast leaks, we discovered that Benjamin Stanton was a previous member of National Justice Party, and was a member of the Ohio Pool Party chat during his time affiliated with the group. He was a devout listener of multiple TRS associated podcasts.
We will not be sharing the name of Ben Stanton's wife as we do not know about her politics, but during our search we did learn that she is a devout Catholic. We also learned that Benjamin Stanton, who struggles with maintaining employment operates an unregistered landscaping business in Batavia.
Because of our previous familiarity, we recalled that the bassist for the band UnKured was named Benjamin Stanton, so we began to dig with that name. We learned that the timeframe of his marriage matched with that of the Poast account and that Benjamin Stanton was the same age as the Poast user.
With that uncertainty, we let it breathe for awhile. Until April of 2024, when Benjamin Stanton was a part of a twitter space held by Thomas Sewell, where he introduced himself by his first name.