In an interview with the Guardian in May, a Vanguard America organizer from Texas, who would identify himself only as a vice commander called Thomas, said that a huge percentage of Vanguards members are college-aged, and that many are in their early twenties. Members must be aged between 18 and 45.
Like Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group, Vanguard America attempts to recruit men that are more professional, clean-cut, rebranding organizing. Neck tattoos and neck, for example, are discouraged, and one organizer said that men would be disqualified from joining.
Because our ideology is one of purity and strength and self explanatory we also maintain standards of grooming and dress and fitness, he said.
Thomas would not offer any details about the groups process other. A questionnaire once employed by the team for screening, which was obtained by the Guardian, asked for details of applicants professions, beliefs and histories. It asked how long youve pilled and how often they consumed alcohol or tobacco, a phrase used on the far-right to mean mindful of truths that were difficult that were supposed.
Vanguard America has drawn attention by placing up posters on college campuses in areas like Maryland, Washington DC and Texas.
In May, there was a school student stabbed to death by a white man on the University of Marylands campus. Richard Collins III, was about to graduate, and had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US military.
The alleged killer was part of a Facebook group called Alt-Reich, authorities said. The Vanguard America spokesman objected to links between made between Collinss stabbing.
There are murders of all ideologies, he said, going on to state: We dont encourage this kind of action.