Exclusive: White supremacist messages linked to NH crisis pregnancy center

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An anonymous social media account spreading white supremacist and antisemitic messages, on a platform popular with white nationalists and neo-Nazis, is linked to the executive director of a prominent New Hampshire anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center.

Posting on Gab under the pseudonym ConcernedFrogNH, the author describes himself as a "White defender," a National Socialist, and a "Noticer" (a term used by antisemitic conspiracy theorists) and regularly amplifies neo-Nazi messages and antisemitic tropes.

ConcernedFrogNh messages celebrate slavery ("If it wasn't for certain groups crying about it everytime we try to help these people act like they should, I'd think we could pretty easily whip them back into shape…) and display a casual racism ("They honestly give me the creeps…").

ConcernedFrogNH calls himself a Calvinist Christian but his white supremacist, antisemitic, "God is racist" views more closely align with Christian Identity theology, which asserts that white people are descendants of the ancient Israelites and are therefore God's "chosen people."

ConcernedFrogNH recently promoted a crisis pregnancy center in Littleton, NH, and praised its "very pro-white" leader. Our review of his 300+ Gab posts points to Samuel Mealey, executive director of Pathways Pregnancy Care Center in Littleton, as both author and subject of the post.

Mealey declined to comment for this story — “I don't speak to reporters that believe hate speech exists and attempt to separate it from free speech as protected by the First Amendment” — but shortly after we contacted him, ConcernedFrogNH’s May 12 post disappeared from Gab.

ConcernedFrogNH left a trail of digital breadcrumbs that led us to Mealey. For starters, ConcernedFrogNH wrote that he was diagnosed with diabetes 14 years ago at the age of 12, making him 26 years old today. Voter registration data indicates Mealey is 26 years old.

ConcernedFrogNH describes himself as a former public school teacher. According to the NH DOE Educator Search page, Mealey holds a New Hampshire Beginning Educator License and taught the 4th grade in Haverhill, NH during the 2022-23 school year.

ConcernedFrogNH posted a message stating that he lives in a northern New Hampshire town "of less than 700 people." The 2022 Census estimate for Mealey's hometown of Sugar Hill, where he lives with his parents, was 668 residents.

ConcernedFrogNH wrote that he has lived in the town for 15 years "on the property right beside the [two-acre] field lot" he farms. Property records indicate Mealey's mother purchased the Sugar Hill family home, which sits on a 3.05-acre lot, in 2007.

On March 16, ConcernedFrogNH wrote: "This weeks town meeting showed me just how far gone 80% of [the town's residents] are." Earlier that week, Mealey lost his bid for town selectman at the Sugar Hill town meeting when 82% of the voters cast ballots for his opponent.

Finally, Mealey shared a Facebook message denouncing conservatives who say Christians should avoid the phrase "Christ is King," and the next day ConcernedFrogNH referenced his Facebook message when commenting on a Gab post about "‘right wingers’ who have a problem with 'Christ is King.'"

Pathways Pregnancy Care Center, which Mealey leads, is an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center that presents itself as an unbiased reproductive health care provider but is, in fact, a Christian ministry that works to dissuade people from accessing abortion care.

Pathways receives public funding from area towns, but earlier this year Littleton voters rejected a $3200 funding proposal. Mealey blamed the action on "a select few" who "disagree with our religious beliefs" and vowed the “options counseling” would continue.

Mealey is not an aberration. Reproductive rights advocates say the "anti-abortion movement is very much a white supremacy movement" and have called crisis pregnancy centers “a key component in white supremacist efforts to obstruct abortion access."

As Guardian columnist Moira Donegan notes, "The white supremacist and anti-choice movements have always been closely linked. But more and more, they are becoming difficult to tell apart."