Northwest Front

The Northwest Front is a U.S. white supremacist group founded by neo-Nazi Harold Covington in 2009. The Northwest Front seeks to bring about the destruction of the U.S. government and establish an independent state for white supremacists in the Pacific Northwest, a goal known as the "Northwest Imperative" or "Northwest Territorial Imperative." In the early 1970s, Covington joined the U.S. Army and later lived in South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when both countries were governed by racist white-rule regimes. After Covington’s death in 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center assessed that the group was likely to become defunct.