Jason Kessler

Jason Eric Kessler (born September 22, 1983) is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi.Part of the alt-right, he is known for being the main organizer of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer after a car was driven into a crowd of counter-protestors of the rally. 2Background Jason Kessler graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of arts in psychology in 2009. Prior to his involvement in political extremism, Kessler wrote he was employed in various working class jobs as a dishwasher, gym technician, truck driver and handyman.In late 2015 Kessler started his original blog JasonKessler.net. The site was used to publish and take credit for the work of another Jason Kessler, which included a noir crime novel, Badland Blues, as well as a work of poetry, Midnight Road.In November 2016, he revealed lewd and offensive tweets made by Charlottesville vice-mayor and councilman Wes Bellamy. Bellamy, who is also a teacher at Charlottesville's Albemarle High School, first drew criticism from Kessler when he called a press conference to call for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville in March 2016. In December, Kessler began circulating a petition demanding that Bellamy resign or be removed from office. During the ensuing investigations, Bellamy voluntarily resigned from his teaching position at Albemarle High School in December 2016.In January 2017, while attempting to gain signatures for his petition Kessler was arrested for misdemeanor assault after punching a man in the face. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.In April 2017 Kessler was contracted to write two pieces for the Daily Caller. He wrote another piece in May about the first protests in Charlottesville over the statue of Lee. Kessler has also written several posts for the anti-immigrant white nationalist site VDar