State Department official accused of running white nationalist chapter

A U.S. State Department official has been accused of overseeing a chapter of a white nationalist group in Washington D.C., hosting white nationalists at his home and publishing propaganda online under fake names. 

Matthew Q. Gebert, a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Energy Resources, has allegedly been using the pseudonym ‘Coach Finstock’ to share his racist views online, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch reports. 

Gebert joined the State Department in 2013 and he is believed to have become radicalized in the white nationalist movement by about 2015. 

Since then, he has used at least 10 different Twitter handles spanning from 2015 to spring 2019 to spread white supremacist propaganda online and push for a whites-only country.

In a length investigation, the SPLC uncovered many of his social media posts, which included racist memes about Jews and interactions with other white nationalists. 

It is not clear if Gebert, under his alias Coach Finstock, was posting on social media during his workdays at the State Department. 

He would not comment about his alleged white nationalist pseudonym.  

Sources also told the publication that Gebert’s wife Anna Vuckovic also expressed white nationalist views online under the alias Wolfie James.  

Gebert has shared his views on multiple podcasts, declaring under his alias: ‘I consider myself a white nationalist’. 

‘(Whites) need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split,’ Gebert said in one 2018 podcast. 

‘That’s all that we need. We need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.’ 

He said in one podcast that he attended the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

He has used at least 10 different Twitter handles spanning from 2015 to spring 2019. Many of his social media posts included racist memes about Jews and interactions with other white nationalists

Gebert is foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Energy Resources and has been working with the State Department since 2013

Gebert said, under his alias, that he wore a hat and sunglasses to avoid being recognized.   

‘I came back in one piece. Un-doxxed. Knock on wood,’ he said. ‘Un-arrested. Just with some mild war wounds that frankly I’m kind of proud of.’

One one podcast, Gebert acknowledged how his beliefs could impact his career. 

‘There are bigger things than a career and a paycheck and I don’t want to lose mine,’ he said in 2017.

SPLC sources said Gebert and his wife had hosted white nationalists in the past at their home in Leesburg near Washington D.C to recruit members to the chapter.

The pair also reportedly attended a dinner with Holocaust denier David Irving at a Washington D.C. hotel in 2017 where Gebert is said to have introduced himself as a State Department official. 

Gebert also used his real name last year when he made a $200 donation to white supremacist and ex-Republican candidate for Congress Paul Nehlen. 

The State Department has yet to reply to Dailymail.com’s request for comment. However, they told the Southern Poverty Law Center the department is ‘committed to providing a workplace that is free from discriminatory harassment and investigates alleged violations of laws, regulations, or Department policies, taking disciplinary action when appropriate.’

He said in one podcast that he attended the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia (above) but wore sunglasses and a hat to avoid recognition