National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell making $10,000 a month through online crowd-funding website GiveSendGo
Australia’s most notorious far-right extremist earned $10,000 a month through an online campaign to “create a home for white people” and transition to a full-time leadership role.
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The neo-Nazi who initially refused to be bailed over the Australia Day protests earns $10,000 a month from online crowd-funding – intending to “transition into a full-time” leadership role and create a whites-only commune.
National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell is the operator of the “White Australia Supporters” fundraiser on the GiveSendGo website.
The site, founded in 2014, says it is “committed to sharing the Hope of Jesus through crowd-funding.”
Mr Sewell writes that the campaign aims to raise $10,000 a month – and raised $10,933 in January – to “create a home for White (sic) people in Australia”.
“The tyrannical Australian government does everything in its power to silence and threaten the activists, community members and families of those who advocate for our folk,” he writes.
“This will be an ongoing campaign, although it may need to be re-made from time to time as the Anti-White government has requested in the past that GiveSendGo stop helping White people raise money for White people.”
A chart on the GiveSendGo page shows Mr Sewell’s campaign has received 82 donations, been shared 11 times, and been given two prayers by supporters.
A person who donated $14 wrote “God bless the NSN”, while a $1000 donor said they “hope to be part of the movement in the near future”.
Other donors denounce SA Police as “race traitors” for “harassing” the NSN during its Australia Day march, while one wrote “free Thomas and the Australia Day 16”.
One woman donated $2000 “in support of the people and nation that gave my family political asylum based mostly on good faith”.
“Without it, my parents would have lost their lives so, in their memory and honour, for the future of your and my children, and with heartfelt gratitude and respect on my part, I thank you,” she wrote.
Mr Sewell, 31, of Wantira South in Victoria, was one of 16 members of the NSN arrested on Australia Day.
He has yet to plead to one count of loitering and one count of displaying a Nazi symbol – police allege the NSN’s insignia breaches the state’s tough anti-Nazi laws.
On Tuesday, Mr Sewell was granted bail but declined to sign his agreement, which would have prevented him from entering the Adelaide CBD or communicating with other NSN members.
“I do not acknowledge nor accept your jurisdiction under the Constitutional laws of this court … this is outright political persecution by corrupt SA Police officers,” he told the court.
However, Mr Sewell subsequently signed his bail papers – agreeing to abide by the conditions imposed – and was released.
The group was arrested the day after a five-month Advertiser undercover investigation revealed the NSN intended to hold a three-day national conference in Adelaide.
That same investigation revealed the NSN was trying to start a commune as part of their “mission” to “save” the white European race from extinction.
The planned Fleurieu Peninsula commune, the Advertiser has learned, would worship a pagan God named Odin.
The NSN’s mission statement, meanwhile, is derived from a convicted terrorist who believed he was the Anti-Christ.
In his posts on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Sewell says “I am not a Christian” and “I am of Odin”.
“I think Jesus was killed by you guys because he wasn’t as Jewish as you lot wanted him to be,” he writes.
In his post on GiveSendGo, Mr Sewell writes that the “majority remainder of the money” donated will go toward that “community land project” – after other expenses were covered.
“A portion of the money will go to each State and Branch to improve their respective operations,” he writes.
“A portion of the money will go towards the most pressing legal matters, as the corrupt State police forces are trying to unconstitutionally stop us from publicly demonstrating on the grounds that we are against our replacement.
“A portion of the money will go towards basic living expenses allowing myself, the leader, to transition into a full-time role.”
GiveSendGo describes itself as a “worldwide leader” in “simple, reliable fundraising”, started by three siblings in 2014.
In a 2017 interview, they said GoFundMe “has taken a stance against Christians and has been taking down campaigns that they did not agree with”.
GiveSendGo has previously hosted fundraisers benefiting Kyle Rittenhouse – who killed two Black Lives Matter protesters – and the Canada convoy protest.
The Advertiser has sought comment from GiveSendGo.
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