The Fall of the Old Glory Club: What It Means for American Patriots

On October 19 and 20, two chapters of the Old Glory Club (the Nathanael Greene Society of North Carolina and the Lewis & Clark Society of the Rocky Mountains) announced that they had been told they were no longer part of it. The Nathanael Greene Society said the notification "came as a surprise" but "ultimately has no bearing on the direction or mission of the Society." The Lewis and Clark Society says its notice followed an open letter to the leadership. We have heard the chapters' account and not the leaderships, so we won't guess at anyone's motives. What we can say is this: If these men were kicked for asking where their club draws its lines, they are the men we would like to talk to.

The Old Glory Club described itself as an effort to organize Americans locally and nationally, to carry on American traditions and folkways, and to build a heritage to hand to our children. Those words describe a yearning for the lodges, union halls, veterans' posts, and brotherhoods that once gave working Americans somewhere to stand. A man who wanted a place to meet fellow patriots had every reason to join the Old Glory Club. Many of the club's members are veterans, civil servants, and lawyers who swore an oath to the Constitution. One did not join expecting to be asked to choose between his faith, your neighbors, and your club.

Whether America should send aid to Israel, how much, on what conditions, and whether the 2026 Iran War was worth its cost are questions on which American patriots are allowed disagree. The New Nationalists of America hold that Israel and Taiwan are among America's steadfast allies in hostile regions. Within our own organization, we accept open discussion amongst our own members pertaining to aid levels and burden-sharing, and we discuss those arguments openly. A man can think that America provides Israel with too much aid and say so loudly without hating anyone.

However, when membership turns on a brother based on how hostile a man is to his Jewish neighbors rather than on what he thinks America’s interests require, that is no longer a foreign policy discussion. That is a test on blood and religion. A movement that claims the founders' heritage should not adopt as a membership rule the very thing the founders refused for office. President George Washington told the Hebrew Congregation at Newport in 1790 that the government "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." More than 500,000 Jewish Americans served in the Second World War, and the men beside them did not ask what they worshipped.

America’s grievances have names and numbers. But those ills can be battled against fairly. They have no ethnicity. The moment a movement decides the problem is a people, it stops fighting corruption and begins to teach an honest man to hate his neighbor.

The New Nationalists of America (NNA) is an organization founded upon four principle aims: 1) Reviving America’s production-first economy. 2) Granting organized labor real standing once again. 3) Defending a foreign policy that serves the American worker. 4) Ensuring that the government answers to the governed. Any American who believes in the American way of life and will work for it is welcomed, whatever his faith or ancestry may be. Those who preach hatred of fellow citizens for who they are rather than what they do can never be a true patriot. That line is written in our guiding charter, and it can be appealed by any member. Our organization is led by military servicemen and university students. We are young and still in the process of being built. That is why we want to hear from men who have already been involved in organizational leadership.

Recently, the Nathanael Greene Society signed its statement with North Carolina's motto, Esse Quam Videri: To be, rather than to seem. Every man still in the Old Glory Club, and every man recently kicked out, should ask whether his organization is what it says it is.

If you have questions, be they about the platform, the charter, or what a chapter would look like in your state, write to us at newnationalistsofamerica@protonmail.com.

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