Freedom Convoy “Stage Manager” Appears on Stream For American Neo-Nazi Group Blood Tribe

Peter Smith
Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Screenshot taken during Chris Pohlhaus’s live stream showing a Canadian woman known only as Posty. Source: Rumble

Three Canadians recently appeared on the live stream of the leader of a US neo-Nazi organization Blood Tribe. 

Bethan Nodwell, Christine Loughead, and a final unidentified member who goes by “Posty,” host their own stream which they use to promote neo-Nazi ideology, anti-2SLGBTQ+ rhetoric, and target any non-white immigration — which they blame on Jews. The three joined Christopher Alan Pohlhaus, also known as the Hammer, on his livestream. 

Pohlhaus, a former US marine and tattoo artist, is the founder and leader of US-based Blood Tribe. He is popular with the Canadian far-right due to his group's ability to muster dozens of uniformed neo-Nazis into attention-grabbing protests. 

Unmistakable as a neo-Nazi show, the introduction video is an over four-minute series of clips of Hitler’s soldiers fighting and training during the Second World War, interspersed with pictures of Blood Tribe carrying out protest actions with black flags emblazoned with white swastikas. 

The same flags flank Pohlhaus in the office he uses to record during the stream. 

“We have a fentanyl problem that is out of control because we have a J**t (a slur for South Asian people) problem that is out of control, a drug trafficking problem, and that’s the soft genocide,” Nodwell told listeners. 

She adds that the three started to speak out after “watching our people be killed.”

Nodwell is part of Diagolon’s white supremacist network and has worked as an organizer for far-right events in Canada. She enjoyed a measure of notoriety in the media after allegedly serving as a stage manager during the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” blockade protests in Ottawa. 

Nodwell has been quoted by major media outlets about the protests and appeared on the podcast of Tammy Peterson, Jordan Peterson’s wife. Once one of three owners of Trinity Productions, she helped bring the far-right Member of the European Parliament, German AfD MEP Christine Anderson, to Canada on multiple speaking tours. 

She also attempted to organize a tour for UK Islamophobic activist Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson. She lost out as Yaxley-Lennon chose instead to allow Rebel to plan his tour. Nodwell would later claim that Rebel and Yaxley-Lennon had conspired to purposefully have him arrested to raise more money. She also alleged that he ingested cocaine at an Indian restaurant and was later found at an erotic massage parlour. 

Yaxley-Lennon denied the allegations, also claiming that Nodwell made antisemitic comments during a group dinner they shared. 

She did not respond to a request for comment sent to her X account.

Loughead, better known as CandianGirl, revels in her racism, wearing it like a badge of honour.  She describes herself as an “uber racist” during the interview. Arrested by Chilliwack RCMP in August 2024 after posting a series of videos showing her harassing South Asian people, typically yelling slurs and expletives at them from a vehicle. 

During the interview, Loughead talked about her experience allegedly working with Indigenous communities. She referred to them as generally having an “IQ that must be around 60. They’re incredibly r******d.”

After mocking the community for substance abuse problems, she continued. 

“We’re talking about so stupid they will stand there like just drooling on themselves,” she said. “You’re looking at them like going like what the fuck, is this like is this thing even human at this point, right?”

Pohlhaus interjected that his solution would be to send Indigenous people to Mexico, while one of the Canadians suggested Mongolia. 

“Empathy and compassion come from white European people,” she said on the topic, later adding “One dog is worth more than any of those Indians’ lives in the entire culture.” 

When reached for comment by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Loughead responded with a quote from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King objecting to the "intermixture of foreign strains of blood" and claims that allowing too many Jews into Canada would cause "riots."

She did not respond to any of the questions posed by CAHN. 

The final Canadian, Posty, has not been identified, though she was the only one to appear on camera during the interview. She could not be reached for a request for comment.  

A screen capture of Posty taken from her appearance on Chris Pohlhaus’ live stream. Source: Rumble

Appearing to be a woman around middle age, her X account is filled with praise and reposts for far-right activists in North America, Australia, and Europe. She often reposts reports of crimes committed by people who are not white, blaming Jews for their presence in the country. 

During the interview with Pohlhaus, she complained that Canada had donated $5 million to the Ukrainian war effort after US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

She also added that nothing had been done to secure the Canadian border, despite the over $1 billion committed by the government to bolster border security resources, staff, and equipment.

Moving the Window

A large portion of the interview also focused on how the four feel that being radicals in media is “changing the conversion,” echoing a concept often referred to as moving the “Overton window” — referring to the range of topics and opinions that is considered acceptable speech in mainstream politics. 

Pohlhaus has attempted to impact this issue in numerous ways, the least of which is his live stream. Founded in 2021, Blood Tribe is best known for its large and loud public protests. Besides Pohlhaus, attendees rarely show their faces, instead dressing in black masks and red shirts, emblazoned with the group's logo. 

Blood Tribe also attempted to set up an all-white community in rural Maine when Pohlhaus purchased a plot of land. Despite embarking on a fundraising campaign to pay for the property, he later sold it, citing threats from his opposition as making the property unsafe for families.

During the recent interview, Pohlhaus also asked for donations, saying nothing is spent by the group without being approved by the Blood Tribe board of directors.  

The podcast run by the three Canadians is often a tool for connecting with activists abroad. Primarily run through social media site X’s “Spaces” function—an audio conference call feature that allows large and small groups of people to listen and speak—sessions get reposted to a low moderation video sharing site after being recorded. 

Other guests have included long-time Canadian white nationalist Paul Fromm, Australian neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell, and numerous others. Their open conference calls often include notable influences from among Canada’s extreme right, including Diagolon leaders Jeremy MacKenzie and Alex Vriend — Nodwell credited Vriend with teaching her well-worn conspiracy theories about Jews being responsible for immigration into Western countries. 

Prompted by Pohlhaus, the others also outlined their backgrounds and how other far-right content creators brought them into the fold. 

Claiming that her YouTube channel of 95,000 subscribers was shut down, Loughead said, “I went over and I looked over at X and got banned really quickly. I came back after Elon took over, I came across these posters like ‘Jews are responsible for blah blah blah.’”

She went on to explain that after speaking with Jon Eugene Minadeo II, better known as Handsome Truth, the creator of the flyers, that her belief the Jews were responsible for the decline of society was cemented. Minadeo is the founder of another openly National Socialist organization, called the Goyim Defense League (GDL). 

Like Blood Tribe, the GDL engages in aggressive and confrontational protests where they shout about pedophilic Jewish plots to replace white populations in Europe and North America. An Ontario man, Ryan Scott McCann, was arrested in July 2024 after travelling to Nashville to protest with the GDL and a fight broke out during the demonstration. McCann was shown on a video posted by the GDL striking someone with a flagpole. 

During the Pohlhaus stream, Posty claimed to have formerly worked in health care and that it was while supplying communities with free medical supplies that she grew to resent and revile Chinese and Indian people who she feels have an inherently different morality than others. 

Likewise, she also attributes coming to X and talking with Minadeo as contributing to her conversion.