The Rise of Idaho's Aryan Bros

Richard Butler’s vision returns, repackaged by a new generation of white supremacists running a social media propaganda machine.

The Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake is gone, bulldozed after a multi-million dollar lawsuit ended Richard Butler’s white supremacist enclave. But his vision—a white Christian homeland in the Northwest—never fully vanished. Some who embraced it stayed. Others arrived later. Now, armed with social media and political allies, a new generation is work…