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General => Frauds => Topic started by: educatedindian on March 15, 2019, 02:27:44 pm

Title: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: educatedindian on March 15, 2019, 02:27:44 pm
This seems to be a professional token being promoted by right wing sites. Trying to track down her legal name and alleged actual tribe, which she's keeping hidden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfuiJHGqIA
Turning Point USA, her sponsor, has a long history of racism but they're best known for trying to silence and intimidate left of center professors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA

http://picdeer.com/mikaela_bearpaw
https://www.pinterest.com/mikaelamomentz/

Here goes by Martinez
http://keeperofstories.blogspot.com/2012/10/artistry-of-mikaela-martinez.html
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 09:41:17 pm
Mikaela Lyrea "A photographer and stylist based out of West Hollywood."

https://www.rawartists.org/mikaelalyrea

The owner of Mikaela Lyrea Photography is Mikaela Verstraete. Married to Willem Verstraete. Her maiden name is Martinez.

Gleaned from her Mikaela Verstraete Facebook page:

Education

    Le Cordon Bleu London
    Class of 2014 · Patisserie Chef · London, United Kingdom
    Baylor University
    Class of 2011 · Arabic · Film and Digital Media · Waco, Texas
    LSU
    Jul 2007 to Dec 2008 · Arabic · International relations · Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Religious views

Christians

Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 09:45:55 pm
Wedding photo from here https://www.theknot.com/us/mikaela-martinez-and-willem-verstraete-jul-2018 - link may eventually disappear
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 09:55:56 pm
Her stylist and photography page https://www.modelmayhem.com/MikaelaLyreaPhotography

The genres she works in include: acting, cosplay, fetish, performance art.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 10:05:12 pm
In this she says she was born in Bishop California, "and a member of a Southern California Native American tribe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfuiJHGqIA&feature=youtu.be

I found her in public records. Birth name Mikaela Lyrea Martinez, born 1989, Inyo, California. Mother's maiden name Chacon.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 10:12:06 pm
Past attempt to be a  "Native American singer/songwriter/pianist" https://ourstage.com/epk/lyrea

Southern gospel music with her sisters https://ourstage.com/tracks/DESFMLFNTJRX-to-be-like-you

Tennis profile https://www.tennisexplorer.com/player/martinez-477a7/?annual=all
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 15, 2019, 11:00:25 pm
Willem Verstraete refers to his wife on social media as "my sweet native american prinsess" and "trophy wife".

They look to be wealthy. New Year's Eve in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. A lot of world travel.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 16, 2019, 01:06:15 am
Her parents are the evangelists Marty and Debbie Martinez of World Harvest Ministries http://www.worldharvestministries.net/about-whm/the-leadership/

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Enjoy the beautiful trio of voices from Mikaela, Mary Beth, and Moriah Martinez, the daughters of Evangelist Marty Martinez

CD https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstore/my-treasure/
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Sparks on March 16, 2019, 02:21:11 am
She has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MikaelaPhotography/

The About section there points to her web page (which I presently cannot access for technical reasons):

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CONTACT DETAILS
mikaelalyreaphotography@gmail.com
http://mikaelalyrea.com

MORE INFO
About
Photographer and Stylist based out of Hollywood, CA.
Winner of "Photographer of the Year" 2012.
Please visit her website to book http://mikaelalyrea.com/

Awards — Photographer Of The Year 2012 Hollywood
Gender — Female
categories — Artist · Photographer
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez
Post by: Piff on March 17, 2019, 04:12:46 pm
Mikaela Lyrea Martinez (now  Mikaela Verstraete) parents are Marty Martinez and Deborah K (Chacon) Martinez. Her maternal grandfather is Roy Glenn Chacon.

Her parents and maternal grandfather have all worked extensively with Jimmy Swaggart ministries. She and her family all are substantial contributors to various Republican political campaigns.

I've spent some time looking over Mikaela and her extended family. She seems to be the only one claiming Native American ancestry. Everyone who has a racial designation in public records is listed as either Hispanic American or W(white).
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 19, 2019, 04:15:09 am
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Mikaela Lyrea (@mikaela_bearpaw) • Instagram photos and videos
https://www.instagram.com/mikaela_bearpaw/
2082 Followers, 532 Following, 23 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mikaela Lyrea (@mikaela_bearpaw) ... Bear Paw Tribal Citizen

So in the past she claimed that she was a "Bear Paw Tribal Citizen".

She's changed her Instagram bio several times since.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 19, 2019, 05:34:48 am
Now that I look this over more, I can't tell if she called herself "Bear Paw Tribal Citizen" or "Bear Paw" "Tribal Citizen".

In the past she used the Twitter handle @PocahontasnLA . That account is closed but remnants of conversations she had with it remain available through a search.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: educatedindian on March 19, 2019, 01:48:07 pm
Her fake NDN name is one more sign she's either a very poor imitator, or has no idea about her supposed heritage. No tribe or rez has Bear Paw in their name. Bear paw as a symbol or name is most common in northern plains tribes.

There's no sign Vertstraete ever lived on a rez or is part of any tribal nation, esp any California tribe. Lives the high life in Hollywood. Says she was born in Waco TX.

Verstraete's video seems to be backfiring. Comments on Youtube mostly negative. She's apparently deleted some, so I'll repost the rest before they're gone too.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfuiJHGqIA
Red VonMunster
6 hours ago
I'll LITERALLY pay for you to take a high school government and economics class because what you've described is the result of racism and capitalism. Are you a plant for the right??

Natasha Movesian
5 hours ago (edited)
FRAUD! She’s not native, her real name is Mikaela Verstraete/Martinez. Her parents are Marty Martinez and Debbie Chacon, they’re Lead Evangelist and associate Pastors at World Harvest Ministries. The jewelry she’s wearing is not even authentic, it’s from a Nevada based jewelry company called Michael and Sons. “cannot name tribe for privacy” in her IG bio lmaoo she clearly doesn’t understand anything about tribal citizenship. Also Nataanii Means, the Son of Russel Means; who she is quoting in this video has called her out and said she was spreading far right propaganda.?

wahya Carnes
1 day ago
First of all, learn what socialism is. Secondly, the reservation system is not an example of socialism, thirdly, you mention capitalistic practices by the examples you gave when you mentioned the tribes in OR. Your message rings hollow and smells of right wing tactics. Your message mentions little in the way of how Native peoples will begin to become independent. Please.?

Crystal M
1 day ago
Pretendian with a non-Native agenda. NEXT!?

Terry Bradley
1 day ago
she’s not even native. She’s Mexican. She’s a pretindian. Native twitter did some digging. Proved her to be a fraud.?

barnes92196
2 days ago
Fake Native backed by the right wing media.?

ericbird61
1 day ago
Why Delete Others Comments Mikaela?! You Even Blocked Me.. I Simply Asked Why Delete Stuff.. I Dont Think Asking That Wards A Block...?

Adilene Ochoa
21 hours ago
You are a fraud.?


F. Cabral
1 day ago
This is misleading information as an Apache (Native American); I disagree with her statement. Plus, she is using Nataanii father words without permission to promote a political agenda. Disappointed! And Disrespectful!?
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 20, 2019, 01:50:36 am
The State of Texas vs MIKAELA LYREA MARTINEZ
Case No. 32010.2808

Case Type:   Traffic
Date Filed:   10/25/2010

Female White


http://public.co.comal.tx.us/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=544014

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Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 20, 2019, 03:22:22 pm
"Twitter blasts Benny Johnson over heinous Native American ‘socialist’ reservations take"

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/benny-johnson-socialist-indian-reservations/?tw=dd

One of the tweets mentioned includes a nice link to NAFPS https://twitter.com/heather28df/status/1107375300487217152

In a recent video Mikaela says that "Bear Paw" is a nickname from her family.

Mikaela Lyrea Martinez Verstraete equates research and discussion of her public claims as bullying and witch hunts.

Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Sparks on March 20, 2019, 04:36:03 pm
One of the tweets mentioned includes a nice link to NAFPS https://twitter.com/heather28df/status/1107375300487217152

The link is to "Recent Posts": http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?action=recent

A link to the present thread would have been better: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5348.0
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Sparks on March 21, 2019, 03:32:11 am
She is on Twitter since January 14, 2019 as MikaelaBearPaw @MikaelaPaw

https://twitter.com/MikaelaPaw [Tweets 148 Following 56 Followers 252 Likes 141]

More than 90% of all comments here are against her. Quoting most of them while they still are there:

Quote from: https://twitter.com/MikaelaPaw/media
MikaelaBearPaw @MikaelaPaw
If I’m fraudulently claiming Native blood and enrollment in a tribe, sue me. I love to win #NativeTwitter … Careful, abandoning due process can leave you and your beliefs on even shakier ground than when you began your witch hunt.
4:51 PM - 18 Mar 2019 — 27 replies 2 retweets 21 likes — New conversation


Blood Quantum Entanglement @LammaticHama Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Because "I'll get in trouble with my tribe if I name them" is 100% bullshit.
Tribal governments can barely enforce Social Media policies on tribal employees. They're not out here gag ordering individual members because they have neither the right nor the responsibility to do so.

Alone on the Plateau @BadSalishGirl Mar 18
Yes exactly, you can give political views and make disclaimers that they don't represent your Tribe, place of employment but STILL be tribally affiliated.

April JK @april_kellinger Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Congrats on being THE embarrassment of the tribe you made up. This counts as a paradox. Name your tribe, so they CAN sue you if you're not a member. That's why you won't.

PyrettaBlazeJustice @PyrettaJ Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
PyrettaBlazeJustice Retweeted cyberobserver
This seems like a rather good sized mountain to overshadow your mole hill. You may want to consider quiting while you still have some room to run my dear. Don’t be a fool your WHOLE life

cyberobserver @OSINTResearcher
Mikaela BearPaw, real name Mikaela Martinez, from Bishop, California, is the daugther of Evangelist Marty and Debbie Martinez who administer the World Harvest Ministries.

dandan the transient @DanDanTransient Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Zee blood!!! Zeee blood, I've come for zeeee blood.

G3arH3@d #FreeMattDehart @XDEVASTATEDX 23 hours ago Replying to @MikaelaPaw
No self respecting Indigenous person would A) claim to speak for all of us. I speak ONLY for myself as an Indigenous person. B) work for Turning Point USA. Also, that mess of a squash/earring mash up. No Diné I know would mismatch turquoise like that...THEN we can get to the rest

dandan the transient @DanDanTransient Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
"Sue me" cause that's how natives determine enrollment, smdh

Lee T. @buananoche Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Seriously? We're asking who claims you, you refuse to tell us so yeah, we don't believe your lying ass. The bullshit you spout is crap even without you being a pretendian. Your ideas are bullshit, the way you're presenting is bullshit, and you pretending to be native is bullshit.

April JK @april_kellinger Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Liar. Faker. Nobody claims or knows you. You're a propagandist for the koch brothers who are rich off oil. You're inherently anti indigenous when you're shilling for the oil industry. Sicko.

@missusbrian Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
You call yourself witch. Got it. Repent and Seek the Lord

Forrest Stokes @ForrestStokes86 Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Are you part of any federally recognized tribes of the US if not do shut the hell up. Fight for Mexico’s Natives who don’t receive federal recognition.
[…]
Glenn Hunt @BadAssLumbee Mar 19
What people is she representing? She can't name any tribal affiliation and no Nation claims her. So, who is she speaking for?

Fina Venko @prsaucer Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
The USA #census allows self-identitification with matters to #race and #ethnicity. All Americans who sincerely believe that they are #NativeAmerican even without proof should identify themselves as native American on the next census. #nativetwitter #Maga #endndnsovereignty

Four Corners Nomad @Krysis_ Mar 18
Lmaoooo shut up, punk.

Zapp Brannigan @Zapp_Branigann Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Just get a 23andMe test, publish the results, and shut these people up.

@caciasunshine Mar 18
When it comes to Native identity, DNA tests prove nothing. Native identity is cultural, rather than based on on blood quantum. Having a high percentage of “Native” blood doesn’t mean much if you aren’t part of your Native community.

@caciasunshine Mar 18
(I’m not saying she’s not Native, I just want to clear up the misconception that you can take a DNA test and suddenly become or “prove” your Native-ness. That’s not how it works.)

Zapp Brannigan @Zapp_Branigann Mar 18
Understood.  But she's the one using the phrase "Native blood" while not providing proof of tribal membership, either -hence my sarcastic suggestion to her.

Dragging Keanu in My Own Private Chickamauga @plainsrover Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
You can quote Donald Rumsfeld all day. It won't change the fact that you're a fraud pretendian. What Nation claims you?

Muinskw @muinskw Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Due process! Due process! Thats what whites yell when they use the corrupt legal systems to steal our lands, our identities, our ideas, etc.  It never changes. The content of your stupid video is lying about us whether you are indigenous or not. You are seriously misinforming ppl

Greg Jackson @TVFHBlog Mar 19
Wow, nice commercial recitation. A current med of yours maybe.

Dragging Keanu in My Own Private Chickamauga @plainsrover Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
There's no due process for identification. We are asking you to identify yourself to us the way in which we identify. Who claims you? Who are your people? Where are you from?

LA Knight @LA_Knight89 Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Shut up.

Glenn Hunt @BadAssLumbee Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Lmao at your empty threats. They're just as full of bullshit as you are, Michaela Martinez. No Indigenous person would EVER be ashamed, afraid or even hesitant to name their Nation. You're a 100% fraud just like your Turning Point partners Charlie and Candace.

AleyKat @AlexandriaEliz7 Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Are you enrolled in that fake tribe that recently enrolled Elizabeth Warren?

Your soft boi Jei Herald-Zamora @JayGrrl 23h23 hours ago
Ah yes! The great Waanaabii nation.

Bixa Rabbit @RabbitThoughts Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
"Due Process"?
1) You meant 'due diligence'.
2) asking you basic info about your tribe *is* due diligence.
3) If twitter is an interrogation, you must never talk to your aunties.

NFG @ayiman_ Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Or you could just be honest. Start by using your real name.

niigaanaasnok @ChelseyMooner Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Even if you really are an enrolled member
You’re clearly still dumb as f ck

River Rivers @Catch22Fiction Mar 18 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Your parents are Mexican evangelists. stfu.

b?d w?lf @mackysmoke Mar 19 Replying to @MikaelaPaw
Oh my goooodddDDDDD SHUT UPPP
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Sparks on March 21, 2019, 03:57:15 am
Quote from: https://twitter.com/MikaelaPaw/media
MikaelaBearPaw @MikaelaPaw
If I’m fraudulently claiming Native blood and enrollment in a tribe, sue me. I love to win #NativeTwitter
Careful, abandoning due process can leave you and your beliefs on even shakier ground than when you began your witch hunt.

Looking here https://twitter.com/hashtag/nativetwitter I found this (click the link to see an image about protected Tweets):

Quote from: https://twitter.com/SoutheastNative/status/1107365883947696128
SoutheastNative @SoutheastNative
@MikaelaPaw couldn’t handle #NativeTwitter calling her out as a #pretendian.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Sparks on March 21, 2019, 05:22:28 am
Verstraete's video seems to be backfiring. Comments on Youtube mostly negative. She's apparently deleted some, so I'll repost the rest before they're gone too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfuiJHGqIA

That video is still up. What's more, she recently added another one:

Quote from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqHA28dG7w
MESSAGE FROM MIKAELA LYREA
Messenger for Change
Mikaela Lyrea
Published 19 March 2019
My name is Mikaela Lyrea, & I’m here to fight for change and abandon failed mindsets that bring zero solutions. Will you join the discussion of ideals in the search for solutions? Or will you continue to fight your fellow man? Only one of these options will bring real change.

The video is much about why she will not divulge her tribal affiliation, and about her names and her nickname. Also about her jewelry, etc. All in all, her responses to comments to her first video and other posts. She then incessantly talks about "us … Native Americans", etc. — I guess it must be the video referred to here:

In a recent video Mikaela says that "Bear Paw" is a nickname from her family.
Mikaela Lyrea Martinez Verstraete equates research and discussion of her public claims as bullying and witch hunts.

Her YouTube channel (two videos so far): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSbwPXWJQMuSDV7JUlWubg
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 22, 2019, 08:12:04 pm
Mikaela Verstraete, through snarky memes on Twitter, says she is "from the Yuhaaviatam clan". She is so far not answering questions about whether she herself is enrolled in The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.

This matches what I've found possible on her maternal grandfather Roy Chacon. But even if he is enrolled, that does not necessarily mean that she is.

Who claims her?

In my opinion, she has not handled questioning very well at all. She's actually damaged her own reputation. Although perhaps this sells well to her chosen audience of Turning Point USA.

Her and her husband post about cryptocurrency - I would not advise doing any business dealings with them.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: educatedindian on March 23, 2019, 01:21:09 am
If she is San Manuel Band or her family was, she's incredibly ignorant of their history.

It was capitalism that nearly wiped them out, a massacre in 1867 of her possible people by white colonists greedy for gold and land.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2017/02/294997.php

It wasn't capitalism that made them prosperous today. Tribaly owned enterprises don't operate for private profit but for tribal wide prosperity. That seems to have worked for the SMB, ended their unemployment and they have to hire outsiders.

There's no sign Verstraete has ever known rez life, or poverty, or hardship. Swaggart's ministry is notorious for high living.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-14-mn-715-story.html
"Ministry Makes $150 Million a Year : Rich Life Style Reflects Swaggart Empire's Wealth"

No sign also that Verstraete has ever helped anyone in poverty out. Unlike the SMB which has a long history of charity. https://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/charitable-giving/introduction
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 23, 2019, 11:16:09 pm
The hashtage #MikaelaBearPaw is currently in use on Twitter. I've uploaded attachments here of some recent discussion.

A video response to Mikaela Verstraete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ0PMpyK7v4&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on March 23, 2019, 11:25:29 pm
Uploaded attachments here of Mikaela's recent Twitter posts.
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: educatedindian on May 11, 2019, 11:49:01 am
Article on Turning Point USA, the group she's being used by, and its history of white supremacists.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tpusa-college-republican-group-turning-point-has-a-white-supremacy-problem_n_5cd58fdbe4b0796a95dac4f6
College Republican Group Turning Point Has A White Supremacy Problem
A video of a Turning Point USA leader declaring “white power” and flashing a white supremacist sign is just one of many similar incidents for the group.
By Andy Campbell

Turning Point USA, a nationwide organization of student Republicans with more than 1,000 chapters, has an institutional problem with white supremacy and bigotry.

Just after midnight on Friday, the group announced that it had canned its University of Nevada Las Vegas chapter leader, identified as Riley Grisar, after a video surfaced depicting him and a woman on a bed, flashing the white supremacist “OK” sign, declaring “white power” and spouting racial slurs.

“We’re gonna rule the country,” the woman says. “White power, fuck the niggers.”

Turning Point quickly decried the video ? surfaced by the independent outlet It’s Going Down on Thursday night ? as “abhorrent, un-American and disqualifying,” and attempted to distance itself from Gisar’s bigoted commentary.

“TPUSA has a zero-tolerance policy for hate, no matter the medium or how dated the act or comment, and we hold our tens of thousands of students to the highest of standards,” the group stated on Twitter.

However, this isn’t an isolated incident. There’s a demonstrable pattern of extremism and white supremacist ideology in TPUSA’s top ranks.

In March, Vice News reported that Identity Evropa, the violent white nationalist group that helped plan the Unite the Right extremist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, plotted to infiltrate TPUSA to gain clout among student GOP groups.

 It’s not entirely clear how successful the campaign was, though members of Identity Evropa (also known as the American Identity Movement) have very publicly attempted to appeal to the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, in the past. During one of Kirk’s events in October, an Identity Evropa member used a Q&A period to discuss white ethnostates.

Kirk responded: “You are verging on white nationalism, my friend. I want nothing to do with ethnonationalism or anything like that. I condemn, I disavow completely.”

In an interview with Vice News in March, Kirk acknowledged that he had a problem on his hands.

“Groups like this borrow mainstream political language, mix it with hate, in order to confuse students who are maybe unaware of their intentions,” he said. “It’s a moving target but one TPUSA is committed to identifying and calling out when it’s brought to our attention.”

But while Kirk has repeatedly disavowed white nationalism and bigotry, he has failed to remove the ideology from his group. Just a week prior to that interview, white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes reportedly spoke at Iowa State University on the invite of the school’s TPUSA chapter.

And in April, HuffPost revealed a bevy of racists that TPUSA had hired to fill out its national brass. The group’s former national field director, Crystal Clanton, once texted a colleague: “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.” Her replacement, 22-year-old Shialee Grooman, tweeted in 2013, “All I get is nigger dick.” The group’s Midwest regional manager, Timon Prax, was forced out for bigoted statements. The list goes on.

More recently, TPUSA’s communications manager and one of its few black employees, Candace Owens, had to backpedal after defending the term “nationalism” by saying that Adolf Hitler would have been a “fine” leader if he would have just stuck around in Germany.

“The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany,” she said. “He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German.”

Owens stepped down from her position at TPUSA last week, purportedly for unrelated reasons...
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Sparks on May 14, 2019, 11:16:59 pm
She has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MikaelaPhotography/

"Sorry, this content isn't available right now".

She is on Twitter since January 14, 2019 as MikaelaBearPaw @MikaelaPaw
https://twitter.com/MikaelaPaw [Tweets 148 Following 56 Followers 252 Likes 141]

"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"

— Is she hiding her tracks?
Title: Re: Mikaela Lyrea AKA Mikaela Bearpaw AKA Mikaela Martinez AK Mikaela Verstraete
Post by: Piff on May 15, 2019, 02:05:55 pm
At the moment she is using @mikaela_bearpaw for Twitter and Instagram.

Mikaela Verstraete continues to actively build her brand.