 Looking in from afar, it could easily be mistaken for a family reunion, but it wasn't. In Letcher County Friday evening, the National Socialist Movement and the Traditionalist Worker Party, both white supremacist groups, gathered for a banquet, a prelude to Saturday's planned rally in Pikeville. It was a friendly low-key gathering early on with dinner and fellowship. EKB News, along with a handful of national and international media, was invited to Friday's gathering under several conditions, including not divulging the exact location of the event. The event saw a large turnout, and those present, by a large margin, out-of-state visitors from all over the country and Canada, were not shy about their beliefs. People have been taught their whole lives that to be white is to be this evil, oppressive figure. This is what's called cultural Marxism. It's basically an attack on Western civilization via pop culture and media and the established sources on those kinds of things. We believe nationalism as a concept works for every group of people. We are not a hate group in any way. We don't hate anyone else. It's just that we have a sense of identity with our own race, which all people have the right to have. I would advocate for any other racial group, and I would be allies with any other racial group that insisted on having a nationalist worldview over the globalism and the forced multiculturalism that we live with today. You know, I'd prefer if going down the road, demographic road we're going down, we're going to be a minority someday. So it's better sooner rather than later that we start advocating for our own interests. From the inside looking out, it was hard to escape the message of the TWP and the National Socialist Movement. Some ask not to be photographed, but no one hid from the group's beliefs. We don't hate ourselves, you know, we want to have rights just like everyone else to advocate for our own interests. Any other group can advocate for their people. Like if this was a Black Pride event, none of those people would have any problem with it. They would have no problem whatsoever with us being out here raising money for the people. If this was, say, a Black Lives Matter rally in Detroit, and they were trying to help the poor there, the media would definitely have a different approach to it. One man from North Dakota said he hopes to take notes about community organizing from the events Friday and Saturday. I came down to support NSM because it seems like they're the only people telling the truth about a lot of the issues that are out there. And I figured this is a good way to learn community organizing skills that I can bring back to North Dakota. And as the rally loomed over Pikeville, all, including those at Friday's event, hoped for the best. From Letcher County, Chris Anderson, EKB News.