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At age 18, Andrew Nary mapped out a white ethnostate in North Carolina, and required his mostly teenage members to pay for it. Six years later the FBI arrested Andrew Nary and his associate Aiden Cuevas after they tried to buy machine guns from an undercover.

Andrew Nary founded Automata in 2020, a white-power militia w/ accelerationist aesthetics & plans for “Skouria” a whites-only micronation on 24 acres in the North Caroline mountains — a self-billed “Totalitarian Theocracy” whose affiliates owed $10/month plus 2% of their pay to “His Lordship” Nary.

"It just occurred to me almost all of us active are underage," a member wrote in 2021. Andrew Nary wanted more "17 and 18 yr olds." One offered $10 every two weeks out of chore money. Another quit when his mom installed monitoring software on his phone.

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social from SPLC told Decoherence Media, “what's notable here is that we don't have more Nary's running around. Because guys like Nary come to imagine their parent's conservatism as being too soft and too cowardly to do what needs to be done to save the white race”

Automata's chats also had an early crossover with the notorious sextortion network 764. At least 3 members sat in a chat alongside 764's founder Bradley Cadenhead, who was sentenced to 80 years in prison for possessing child pornography.

One member of Automata was Kai Nix, an active soldier in 2024 who was indicted for firearms trafficking & lying about his involvement in white supremacist groups. Three years before that, Nix was posting in an Automata chat about assaulting a bystander at a Patriot Front march.

On August 18, 2026, Kai Nix was sentenced by a federal judge to 5 months imprisonment, 5 months home detention, and 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty last September to a charge of selling a stolen firearm.

Automata folded in 2021 before resurfacing in 2023, now sharing considerable organizational overlap with the rapidly growing Active Club network. Nary even tried to start his own Active Club chapter, and networked with other chapters in the Southeast.

Out of that network came the North 'Bama Brigade (NBB), founded by Aiden Cuevas to build a pro-white community in northern Alabama. Members Brandon Crews and Logan Gulbranson were arrested in January 2025 over an alleged break-in at a Mississippi nuclear site

Decoherence Media was able to identify 2 members of the North 'Bama Brigade chat with ties to the transnational neo-Nazi network The Base: a Bulgarian member using the alias “Buron” & another going by “Skin,” from England, who was active in other chats with members from The Base’s Dutch cell.

By 2026 the network was hunting snitches in its own ranks. Cuevas allegedly paid an undercover officer $1,500 for guns with obliterated serial numbers — in part, prosecutors say, to “take out” a former associate. Both pleaded not guilty.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social from @openmeasures.io told us: “Figures, organizations, and stylings of these spaces are highly disposable. The branding and strategies extremist movements adopt are fluid, but the driver of that activity is constant."

Decoherence Media verified five years of Telegram exports, court records and public documents to trace Nary from radicalized high school senior to federal defendant. Research contribution by Appalachia Research Club @appalachiarc.bsky.social