My Neighbors, the White Nationalists.

• Date: 01 December 2021
• Author: Cohen, Jamie Beth

The text from my friend, a fellow local social justice activist, came through on a Saturday afternoon. I was in the basement of my townhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was the end of a long week, one that marked three years since I had returned home to Pittsburgh to attend my relatives' funeral. They were killed at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life mass shooting in 2018. Eleven worshippers had been shot and killed by a man shouting antisemitic slurs.

My friends text included a link to an article in our local newspaper. The headline read: "A group of notorious white nationalists met secretly in historic Lancaster County barn last year. Why here?"

Apparently, in August 2020, a new political entity called the National Justice Party was launched less than eight miles from my house, less than five minutes from my children's school, and right down the street from the convenience store where my former student's immigrant parents serve the best egg rolls in town.

The article reported that the National Justice Party's leader, Mike Peinovich, in his speech in the barn, made clear the purpose of the new party. "You cannot have a nation of justice, a nation of liberty, without a white majority forever," he said. According to Peinovich, the new party's...