Promotional image for one of the books in the series.
A series of novels written by white nationalist Harold A. Covington. In the series of books, a bunch of white separatists who refer to themselves as the Northwest Volunteer Army (NVA) launch an insurgency against the United States federal government and establish a Northwest American Republic (NAR). Beginning as a political movement, it morphs into a military organization after the 'Coeur d'Alene' which was the federal government trying to take children from a white nationalist family and transferring to yuppies, which sparks a rebellion. Eventually, the Northwest Republic is formed. In a second war, it expands and seizes, then governs "the entire states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as well as hefty chunks of Northern California, western Montana, Alberta, British Columbia and Alaska".It can be thought of as something of a successor to William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries, an earlier and more famous work of white supremacist literature. Like that novel, Northwest Front is meant to promote the author’s white supremacist ideology and to provide a road map for fellow travelers to put their racist beliefs into practice. Specifically, the Northwest Front novels promote the Northwest Territorial Imperative, a white supremacist scheme to build a neo-Nazi white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. Covington presents this as a more feasible plan compared to Pierce’s apocalyptic fantasies of global genocide.
Provides examples of:
- Airstrip One: The Northwest Republic is referred to the 'Racist Entity' by the American government, reflecting Arab countries in referring to Israel as the Zionist Entity, refusing to diplomatically recognize it.
- Artistic License – Law: America has implemented hate speech laws which proscribe draconian penalties, up to and including execution, for use or slurs and possession of racist literature. How this squares with the First Amendment, which should flatly rule out any such law, is a mystery.
- Baby Factory: Girls in the NAR are strongly pressured to start families after they turn 16.
- Bury Your Gays: Gays are one of those killed by the NVA and NAR.
- Clipboard of Authority: When scouting the Kodak Theater in preparation for an op, several Northwest Volunteers go in dressed as air-conditioning techs, complete with uniforms and false ID from a real air-conditioning company.
- The Conspiracy: The Jews in connection to old British money are responsible for the state of the world and its decadence.
- Cop Killer: The NVA targets law enforcement as part of their terrorist campaign. They’re especially hostile to the feds, but even local cops are killed, especially if they’re not white.
- Crapsack World: The US is portrayed as such, and the general outlook of people in this world, racist or not, regardless of faction is that the US is in a state of economic decline.
- Dragon Lady: RaBang Miller, a Filipino prostitute who becomes an FBI Agent via manipulation (read: sleeping her way to power).
- Death Ray: The NAR builds Death Rays to shoot down aircraft to deny air cover to their enemies.
- Final Solution: Under the NAR’s General Order Number Four, all Jews, non-whites, gays, and “race-mixers” are to leave its claimed territory or die. In theory, the NVA is to kill them all on sight, and they would very much like to. In practice, it is acknowledged that their insurgency doesn’t have the strength for that, so they carry out targeted attacks with the intent of forcing these groups to leave.
- Friendly Sniper: Cat-Eyes Lockhart. Off-duty, he's laid-back, unpretentious, approachable and a likeable sort. On duty, on the other hand, he's one of the NVA's deadliest assets all by himself.
- Government Agency of Fiction: ONR, or Office or Northwest Recovery. Their objective it to reintegrate the Northwest American Republic back into the United States
- Harmless Villain: The federal government is incompetent in its suppression of the rebellion and is heavy-handed which gives the rebels more support. Subverted, in Freedom's Sons where the federal government is willing to attempt to nuke the NAR to put down the republic.
- La Résistance: The NVA is portrayed as one. The NVA fought against loyalist militias as well as anti-NVA groups in some cases.
- Last Disrespects: The day after the Oscars Night Massacre, the NVA publishes a parody of the official casualty list, with a biography of each victim curated to portray them in as bad a light as possible. Curiously, the security personnel killed in the massacre are spared this post-mortem humiliation.
- Leave No Survivors: American military which invades the Northwest Republic in the second war is not given a chance to surrender, at least not at first. Non-white troops are killed on sight, even after the NAT allows the white troops to surrender, defect or flee. White troops are told to leave the non-whites behind and let them be massacred.
- Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: A Hispanic group translated into English as "The Vanguard of the Race" begins to rebel against the United States after the White Nationalists establish their Northwest Republic. Also stated is that the blacks will attempt to establish New Afrika, Quebecois will secede and all manner of secessionists would begin their clamor after the Federal Government admits in all but name that the Northwest Republic is free.
- Nuke 'em: President of the United States Hunter Wallace is willing to use nuclear weapons to wipe out the Northwest Republic, and also contaminate North America rather than cede territory and admit defeat in the second war.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: The White nationalists shoot ALL "non-whites" - including Jews - within their territory on sight. How they would negotiate with the rump federal state seems to bring up odd questions. They also kill any non-white POWs on sight. Also they kill gays,native americans and they line up Mexican migrant workers and shoot them all in the head (ranging from 15 year old girls to 60 year old men in Freedon's Sons). The Palestinian Diplomatic Delegation are the only non-whites allowed in the Northwest American Republic, as the Palestinians were victims of Israel and their struggle brought them respect by the NAR.
- Pragmatic Villainy: The NVA initially takes pains to avoid the deliberate killing of young non-white children. This is not because they place any value on their lives - they have no moral objection whatever to murdering children for their race - but because doing so is bad for their public image. They prefer targeted attacks over indiscriminate slaughter for basically the same reason.
- The Purge: The NVA kills "non-whites" which they include Jews, homosexuals, "race-mixers" and other "enemies of the white race". This includes massacre of Mexican migrants en masse in cases.
- In response to American reconquest attempts, the NAR uses chemical and biological weapons on American and Aztlan cities, attempting to kill as many people as possible. It is portrayed as a good thing because there are few if any whites in the cities by this time (2040s or so; whites mainly left the cities, US rump state is 25% white)
- Refuge in Audacity: Done literally; After the Northwest Volunteers shoot up the Oscars and start a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the movie industry in general, many Hollywood stars and directors leave town. A NVA guy with Hollywood connections arranges to have their houses house-sat by some of the very NVA members that everybody's hunting. They even get paid for their services as house-sitters.
- The Remnant: After the second war, the United States becomes more of a nominal entity, with American law being seen as "optional" in remote cases in the countryside. A city in Vermont is in effect, the capitol of the United States now. D.C. nominally is still the capitol, with bureaucrats working as if their decisions matter anywhere but in the remaining areas which follow the central government. The mixed and non-white population is contained to cities by the rump United States, with barricades around them. New England and Maine is where the remaining rich liberals and Jews fled to.
- Putting on the Reich: The military uniforms of the NAR are intentionally evocative of Nazi Germany. Swastikas and all.
- Spicy Latina: Elena Martinez of Portland Police Department's Hate Crimes Division. She uses that trait to seduce white men for political favor.
- State Sec: BOSS, Bureau of State Security for the Northwest American Republic. The US has FATPO, Federal Anti-Terrorist Police Force which was designed to suppress the rebel forces.
- Take That!: Several characters in regards to Willian Luther Pierce (national alliance head; author of The Turner Diaries). Also in regards to people who think the U.S. can be turned back into a 'white nation', loyalists who refuse to move to the Northwest. This is based on the idea that conquering and ethnically cleansing the entire country or planet is impossible, and it’s best to stick to workable goals and leave “undesirables” with somewhere to run rather than making them fight to the death.
- Western Terrorists: The NVA is a white supremacist terrorist insurgency trying to carve out a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. They explicitly take inspiration for their tactics from several real-life terrorist and insurgent groups.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The federal government considers the NVA to be terrorist racists (which they are, as admitted in the novel) while the NVA and their supporters consider the Federal government to be an imperialist multi-racial empire (which it is in the novel).
