Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names K)

One hundred and seventy five (175) area residents engage with Kanab Patriots FB page promoting hate, bigotry, disinformation, personal attacks, business attacks, extremism, war cries, carry weapons against neighbors, public health disregard and defense of criminal behavior including embracing locals who went to DC January 6th to attack democracy. This is the fourth alphabetical post in the KURW “Patriot Series”.

This post features 14 people with last names beginning with the letter K who engage with Kanab Patriots. Kanab Patriots with last names other than beginning with K can be seen at KURW posts in the “Patriot Series” : A-C. D-F, G-J, and L-M (N-Z in progress 2024).

As always, use KURW resources for Reforming Extremists on Hatewatch and email mgalaria@protonmail.com for corrections or support.

A few of the 175+ Kanab Patriots do not meet the criteria so are not included on KURW Hatewatch with 400+ of their neighbors and are marked “Insufficient for Hatewatch” or “Not on Hatewatch”. Some of the Kanab Patriots are included in the 60+ Red Level Neighbors for their extensive hate/extremism/bigotry, including the founders of Kanab Patriots: USMC Veteran Jeff Schwilk and partner Ly “Tana” Kou pictured above and detailed in slideshow in section 2 of 3 below.

The 14 Kanab Patriots, pictured above, with last names beginning with the letter K are featured in this post presented in three sections:

1. A Google Presentation of interacting slides for each of the 14 with information from their public posts on Facebook categorized by extremism, violence, conspiracy, politics, politicians, bigotry.
2. A Google Presentation of the founders of Kanab Patriots
3. Links to other KURW posts related to Kanab Patriots

1 of 3: Google Presentation of These 14 Kanab Patriots with last names K

Of these 14 Kanab Patriots, ALL support the J6 Insurrection or some call of war for 2020-2024 (Revolutionary or Civil) and :

• 6 are US Veterans and/or spouses of US Veterans
• 5 are in public service including 1 elected official & 1 spouse of elected official, 1 retired Sheriff’s Deputy and 1 in-law of active City Police Sergeant, and 1 EMT
• 3 are business owners or in a management position
• 3 are designated “Red Level Neighbors” for the depth & breadth of their public posts & public activism of extremism & bigotry
• ALL support at least one other extremist group or figure including: Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network, Truckers Convoy, Oath Keepers, Rittenhouse & Q’Anon

Toggle through the Google Presentation Slides below that display the content of public posts for each person, in alphabetical order. The content is categorized by extremism, violence, conspiracy, politics, politicians, bigotry, etc. indicated in the top left corner of each slide.

Easy navigation between slides: jump from title slide to a person of interest and back to title slide using the yellow “Return to First Slide” box on each slide and the slide number links on the title slide as displayed below

2 of 3: Google Presentation of the Founders of Kanab Patriots

Co-founders Jeff Schwilk & Tana Kou moved to Kanab from Southern California in 2018. Jeff had some legal battles with hate groups that he founded and/or led there and already had other FB extremists pages before starting his first local page “Kanabians for Slow, Sensible Growth” then “Kanab Conservative Activism” now “Kanab Patriots.” The Southern Poverty Law Center (non-profit U.S. organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists) exposed Schwilk’s activities from 2007-2018.

Click links in this slide presentation to learn more and/or see KURW feature posts

• “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists or
• Kanab Veterans Bigotry/Extremism: Clifford Smart, Kenneth Guinn, Jeff Schwilk, James Head, Jim Torgerson, Dan Watson, Amos Lofing

3 of 3: Other KURW Post Related to Kanab Patriots

• Kanab at DC Capitol Riot (Crosby, Vetere, Corson +8)
• Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names A-C) and Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names D, E, F)
• Kane County Commissioner Calls Kanab Patriots a Hate Group, But They Are Not the Fringe
• “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists
• Calls to Fight: Against Neighbors & Against US Government
• Bigotry LGBTQ+ (Part Two of Three)
• Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Recruitment in Kanab. Kudos Kane County Office of Terrorism