Pownal, Vermont – A prominent leader and organizer of the anti-White extremism movement, commonly referred to as “Antifa,” has gained “general supervision and control” over a small, predominantly White town, the Justice Report has learned.

According to the town’s official webpage, 53-year-old anarchist Jeannie Malena Biffle Ray—also known as Jeannie Alexander—has been elected as “select person 5” of the town board of Pownal, Vermont, after running unopposed early this year.

Alexander, a veteran militant with ties to street violence, anarcho-communism, and prison abolition, is linked to numerous antifascist terror cells across multiple states. Her reign of street terror would culminate in a gang ambush during an Antifa riot in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 2020.

In recent years, Mrs. Alexander has enjoyed life in rural Vermont, occasionally taking time to write for local media, including one article where she attacked the Palestinian resistance movement and reaffirmed Israel’s actions in the Middle East. In it, she would even refer to the ongoing genocide in Gaza as a mere consequence of Israel’s God-given “right to self-defense.”

Alexander is openly affiliated with several Antifa cells, including the Tennessee Radical Collective and the FLOWER coalition, and has personally fought alongside an accused drug trafficker and his sister, whom she considered close comrades.

A consummate panhandler, Alexander recently relocated from the Nashville, Tennessee area to Pownal, preferring the relative safety of a pro-Trump enclave with just a few hundred majority-White residents.

Alarmingly, Alexander was only able to uproot herself and her trans-identified “wife” thanks to thousands of crowdfunded dollars from fellow Antifa aimed at establishing an armed anarchist compound in Bennington County.

However, her extremist politics are no secret. On social media, Mrs. Alexander has regularly advocated for violence against so-called “Nazis,” up to and including shooting those who disagree with far-left political issues: such as unfettered abortion access, open borders policies, and the ever-nebulous issue of “trans rights.”

“Between anti-mask legislation, anti-trans laws, and $10,000 bounties for people taking part in an abortion after six weeks, it appears Texas has declared war,” cried Jeannie in a Facebook post dated September 2021. “It’s an open carry state,” she continued, posting a picture of a red target.

“Feeling kinda cute. Might punch a nazi. #alwaysantifascist #Blacklivesmatter,” She commented in a nude photo posted to her Facebook profile page in 2020.

Earlier this year, Alexander set her sights on Pownal’s Select Board and ultimately won the seat unopposed. During this time, Alexander never disavowed nor directly addressed her extremist past or history of “activism” with several openly violent Antifa members and cells.

Such extremists include her male-to-female transgender spouse, Christopher “Alaina” Alexander nee Cobb, who is erroneously portrayed in local media as Jeannie’s female partner.

According to the Town of Pownal’s website, members of the Select Board have various responsibilities, including passing or revising town ordinances and policies, overseeing budget plans, and supervising town operations.

In addition to the Select Board, Alexander is also a member of Pownal’s Conservation Commission and was confirmed within the same month of her move. This position grants her a supervisory role in classifying the town’s untamed lands and natural resources.

Unless recalled, the militant anarchist will serve in this public service role until 2026, according to a website maintained by the town of Pownal.

In late 2023, Jeannie Alexander advised Facebook followers that a move to Vermont was imminent, driven primarily by Tennessee’s increasingly moderate stance on transgender issues. The move appears to have been motivated by the chosen lifestyle of her transgender spouse, Christopher.

Her relocation to the Green Mountain State is believed to have occurred by the end of 2023 or early 2024 and involved several members of the Alexander family.

Since relocating, Alexander has endeavored to shore up local power positions and establish an anarchist compound/ collective known as “Earthfire Abbey (EA).”

By February 2025, “Pastor” Jeannie Alexander had been speaking to the press about her Select Board candidacy, all while maintaining a leadership role at EA.

According to its website, EA was established on the “ancestral land of the Mahican people” as a regional rallying point for antifascists and other anti-White extremists, presenting itself as an “antiracist, interfaith Christian church” initiative. Established in Nashville, EA was relocated to Pownal, where Jeannie now serves as the collective’s lead Reverend.

It seeks to “explore, examine, and commune with God as earth and community cultivators, activists, abolitionists, writers, and lovers of all things holy.”

The Alexanders’ Vermont home is being billed as a “place of worship” and a safe space for anarchist detritus. However, a cursory look reveals that it’s merely a front for a budding anarchist compound hidden along Vermont’s idyllic New York border. The home was described as having four bedrooms, with plans to add five more to better “help people on their way to a new life in a safe place.”

The Alexanders’ plan to convert EA into an anarchist boarding house was revealed through an online fundraiser launched to support their relocation. Of the 113 donors, many contributed thousand-dollar gifts, bringing the grand total to at least $15,420 at the time of press.

Alexander has been involved with a wide range of radical leftist communities and organizations in the past, the most prominent—and perhaps most violent—being the Tennessee Radical Collective (TRC).

Within TRC, there appears to be a close link between Jeannie, Christopher “Alaina” Cobb, and the fanatically antifascist Lemley family.

Siblings Victoria and Corey Lemley, along with the Alexanders, attended the Stone Mountain riot in the summer of 2020. All but Corey wore identical Iron Front shirts, with Corey himself having a tattoo of the Iron Front logo. In other Antifa rallies attended by Corey Lemely, he would wear the same t-shirt.

Per reporting by News2Share, the group was heavily supported by regional Antifa under the FLOWER coalition, which includes the alleged domestic terror front, Atlanta Antifascists, and the Black power militia, the NFAC. At the time, all four Antifa were heavily armed.

During Stone Mountain, a melee broke out when Corey Lemley appeared to steal a microphone while armed with a long gun. In the ensuing chaos, Black Bloc members could then be seen assaulting protestors with closed fists and baseball bats to the back of their heads.

Jeannie Alexander was identified among the mob of violent rioters at Stone Mountain despite wearing a mask meant to conceal her identity. She was recognized by visible tattoos and confirmed via public statements.

Alexander could also be seen carrying a knife during the riot. She is visible within a swarm of Black Bloc that surrounded and assaulted an individual Corey Lemley had stolen property from, though she does not appear to have physically assaulted anyone herself during the video.

Her “wife,” Christopher “Alaina Alexander” Cobb, openly credited the Stone Mountain riot—and the microphone theft—to the TRC, using it to solicit monetary donations through a now-deleted X, formerly Twitter account.

Afterward, Alaina boasted he “ended up with a free microphone outta [sic] it.” In the same video of the event, Alaina could be seen stalking perceived “racists” with a pistol on their hip.

In a 2021 interview, the transsexual stated that he is “not non-violence, I am anti-violence…” and described his so-called activism as a legitimate form of “community defense.”

During the same interview, Alaina professed that he had transitioned into the opposite sex after “God” had spoken to them directly, adding that his spiritual journey concluded that becoming a ‘woman’ was “… being true to the image of god that [he] was given… “

Despite their adherence to a so-called “Christian” faith, Alaina and Jeannie appear to go out of their way to mock Biblical traditions. In a 2023 blog post written by the Bennington Museum, both Jeannie and Alaina can be seen dressed as witches during an event honoring the death of Widow Kreiger, Vermont’s only accused Witch during the Salem Witch trials.

Members of the Lemley family were easily identified through publically available information and an analysis of media coverage of the Stone Mountain riots. In addition to promoting their own actions online, their mother confirmed the masked pair’s presence at the event, stating she was “very proud…”

At the time of press, Jeannie Alexander’s comrade Corey Lemley appears to be on pre-trial release, facing ten separate charges related to felony weapons possession and drug distribution, including fentanyl.

Victoria Lemley, Corey’s sister, also appears to lead a troubled personal life, with some of her income seemingly derived from self-produced pornography.

Both the Lemleys and Alexanders have attended multiple Antifa “direct actions,” up to and including regular protests against Jared Taylor’s annual American Renaissance (AmRen) conference in Tennessee.

In 2019, accused drug trafficker Corey Lemley was arrested at an AmRen event for disorderly conduct, though it remains unclear whether he was convicted or if charges were ultimately dropped. Jeannie Alexander had also faced arrests for her political activism. In 2018, she was one of twenty Antifa arrested for chaining themselves to prison property in Nashville, Tennessee, costing the city thousands and delaying 911 calls for hours.

The ties that bind the two families appear deeper than their shared taste for left-wing extremism. When a personal friend of Victoria Lemley had passed away, Reverend Jeannie and “Alaina” Alexander presided over the funeral service.

It is currently unknown how Jeannie Alexander plans to use her newfound power and influence inside the local government structure of Pownal, Vermont. It is also unknown to what extent Alexander’s “Earthfire Abbey” anarchist compound will grow or what danger it will present to the nearly 33,000 White Americans currently living in Bennington County.

This story is developing, and the Justice Report will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as they become available.

No Exceptions

Like many Antifa, the events of October 7th, 2023, have proven to be a particular point of consternation for Jeannie Alexander. After three Palestinian students had been targeted by a libertarian anarchist in an alleged hate crime shooting in nearby Burlington, Jeannie would go on to pen an article in defense of Israel for a local paper regarding the Palestinian genocide.

In it, she would engage in a politically incoherent diatribe that she described as “not an argument about moral equivalency, but a search for moral clarity.”

Her article takes a measured approach to pro-Palestine activism, namely by singling out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a uniquely corrupt individual and an imminent threat to “democracy.”

This laser focus on Netanyahu as the sole figure behind Israel’s current ills ignores other figures, such as Itamar Ben-Gvir, a Jewish man who represents a significant portion of the Israeli voter base unsatisfied with any pause in the genocide of Palestinians.

So great was Ben-Gvir’s commitment to genocide that he left Netanyahu’s government coalition after a January 2025 ceasefire had been implemented. At that point in time, Netanyahu had supervised a 16-month-long siege that had claimed the lives of over 46,000 Gazans.

Ironically, Mrs. Alexander’s article asserts that Israel has an “absolute right to self-defense” while simultaneously denouncing Hamas and championing foreign regime change in Gaza. Despite this glaring divergence in anarchist principles, Jeannie still considers herself to be a supporter of “Palestinian sovereignty and self-determination…”

According to an analysis of social media posts and other publicly available information, Jeannie Alexander had long been involved in nearly every stripe of antifascist ideology—from Marxism to anarchism to radical American liberalism—before relocating to Pownal, Vermont. All the while, she consistently maintains the explicitly anti-White belief that capitalism and its failures are merely an extension of so-called “White supremacy.”

One of Jeannie’s most publicized accomplishments was a series of interviews she gave as the founder of a prison abolition group called No Exceptions Prison Collective (NEPC). In 2022, NEPC actively campaigned to amend the Tennessee state constitution to prohibit slavery as a form of criminal punishment.

Following the change in language, prisons were required to provide working inmates with a starting wage—reported by one news outlet as 17 cents per hour in Tennessee facilities.

Though arguably a token victory, Jeannie celebrated prisoners earning around $7 for a 40-hour week’s labor as the product of eight years of sustained effort:

“There is no exception anymore to the abolition of slavery in TN. No Exceptions Prison Collective’s name came from the belief that there should be no exceptions to the abolition of slavery. We meant what we said. Time for next steps, but first, I’m going to rest for a minute y’all. Thank you for your love and support over the past 8 years,” she said.

According to the Wayback Machine Web archive, No Exceptions Prison Collective changed its logo sometime between December 2020 and February 2021 to include a symbol quite familiar to Jeannie Alexander: the three “down arrows” of the Iron Front.

According to an FBI domestic terror report released under the Biden Administration, the symbol was found to be indicative of “anarchist violent extremism” alongside other logos like the notorious “circle A.”

It remains unclear whether Jeannie understands the anticommunist origins of the historical Iron Front or the fact that capitalism—which she openly condemns—is deeply tied to the mass migration policies she fully supports.

The Iron Front’s “Three Arrows” logo was created by Russian biologist Sergei Chakhotin in 1931, and today, it retains only some of its original meaning. The three arrows each signify the downfall of an authoritarian archetype, typically represented by monarchism, fascism, and even Marxist-Leninist communism.

Simultaneously, the arrows signified what were to be the three allies within this front: the pro-Republic SPD party, the trade unions, and sports clubs. It was intended that all three were to form an antifascist bulwark against authoritarian rule, which by default would have preserved the exploitative capitalist regime that was the Weimar Republic.

Chakhotin’s anti-Bolshevist tendencies were so well known that in 1917, he was forced to flee the newly formed Soviet Union for the more liberal Germany.

Today, the Iron Front draws little attention to these origins, instead focusing on a more generalized interpretation of an anti-fascist alliance of a broad spectrum of social liberals. There also seems to be an effort to “Americanize” Iron Front’s wholly inorganic resurrection, further cementing its members not as revolutionaries but merely as neoliberal janissaries.

In September of 2023, a bombshell trove of leaked Discord chats stemming from the American Iron Front—a modern version of the organization in the United States—confirmed that the movement’s lead propagandist is a 46-year-old Adam Matthew MacIntyre-Ross, aka “Eightman,” of Chili, New York.

Alarmingly, MacIntyre-Ross—an admitted BLM rioter who once said he was filled with “rage” and wished to kill Trump supporters—is a middle school art teacher for the Rochester City School District.

He would use his artistic talents to draft logos, promotional materials, and merch on behalf of the extremist cell. He would also lend guidance and teach others how to best radicalize the masses.

In one particularly embarrassing chat, the Jewish antifascist presented his virtual comrades with concept art for three versions of a hybridized Iron Front and Antifascist Action logo. Ross believed that the logo should specifically feature an American flag in the hopes that it would drive recruitment among centrists by tapping into their patriotic sensibilities.

One anonymous comrade attempted to steer Ross back into the “revolution” by replacing the American flag with a Soviet-star theme but ultimately was rejected by Ross for lacking American patriotism.

“I want to have the US flag in there somehow,” Ross wrote in 2017 during an internal strategy session.

In September of 2023, a cybersecurity analyst and federal intelligence confidant from Broomfield, Colorado, was also revealed to be a member of the AIF.

Leaked chats revealed that Nathan Edward Shelley and other AIF members regularly discussed their willingness to collaborate with the FBI. This tactic was frequently used by Shelley and his fellows against those perceived to have been January 6th protestors, further demonstrating their absolute devotion to the neoliberal regime.

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