A Fort Liberty soldier was discharged from the Army on Tuesday, a day after he was exposed as a major online white supremacist activist and accused of lying to the federal government and trying to sell stolen guns.
Pvt. Kai Liam Nix, 20, was discharged from the Army on August 20, just a week after he was charged on August 14. On August 19, online watchdog organization Hatewatch published an investigation that identified Nix as one of the main contributors to an online personality operating in white supremacist circles.
“On August 20, Pvt. Nix was administratively discharged from the Army,” a Fort Liberty Task & Purpose spokesperson told Task & Purpose in an email. Nix joined the Army in 2022 and arrived at Fort Liberty in 2023, the official said.
Nix is charged in federal court with four counts, including trafficking in weapons, making false statements to a U.S. government agency and two counts of possessing or selling a stolen weapon. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
Nix was arrested on August 15 and appeared in court on Monday, August 19, the same day the Justice Department announced the charges against him.
According to court documents, Nix lied on his Security Clearance Application Standard Form (SF) 86, dated August 2, 2022, by writing that he had never been a member of any group dedicated to violent insurrection against the government. The documents do not indicate which group Nix is alleged to be a member of. However, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch reported on August 19 that Nix is a member of the white nationalist and neo-Nazi Patriot Front. When a New Yorker reporter asked him about another article, Nix denied being a member of the extremist group.
Hatewatch documented in its article a trail of online fingerprints behind an online persona named Patrick NC that led to Nix. Patrick NC, Hatewatch said, was active in online circles of Patriot Front, a white supremacist group. Nix also used a Telegram channel to “post sensitive personal information about perceived political enemies, including their names, photos, phone numbers, and addresses. Their targets included nine journalists, a business owner who spoke about how anti-Semitism affected their community, activists from left-leaning groups, lawyers, and cybersecurity analysts,” Hatewatch reported.
In addition, Nix, who authorities said also used the name Kai Brazelton, is accused of spending several months illegally selling weapons. In December 2023, he allegedly sold a gun that he knew was stolen, and a month later, he sold another.
