David Duke

**David Ernest Duke** was an American politician and dictator of the Republic of America from 1990 to 2010. After militating in extreme right circles for years, Duke led the White League, a coalition of racist and militant groups, starting in 1976 and, after gathering increasing support among White people, the army and the wealthy, staged the Halloween Coup against the neoconservative President George Bush to prevent desegregation.

### Affiliation

White League (USA) (from 1967)American Independent Party (1970-1992)

National Socialist White People's Party (1965-1967)

### Occupation

President of the Republic of America (from 1990) Commander of the White League (from 1976)

Leader of the White Youth Alliance (1970-1976)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America (currently Union of Socialist Republics of the Plain)

### Place of death

Atlanta, Georgia, Republic of America (currently People's Republic of New Afrika)

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

During his twenty years long rule, Duke was responsable for the American Holocaust, the systemic murder of over 7 milion people between ethnic, religious, sexual and social minorities, as well as political opponents. His action led to the New Afrika Insurgency from 1998 to 2010 and the Great American War from 2009 to 2010, which spelled the end of his regime. Upon defeat, on October 1, he committed suicide with all the higher ups of the government while ordering the remaining troops to empy the nuclear stockpiles and fight guerrilla warfare. The Last Order of Duke resulted in 16 cities being nuked, the largest of which was New York, in the People's Union of America.

His ideology of Dukeism remains influential in the Nation of Freedom, the Knights' Party and other far right circles.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Duke was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1950, as the youngest of two children. His father being an engineer, he frequently moved around to follow his job, and brought his son with him even briefly living in the Netherlands in 1954, until they managed to settle down in New Orleans, in a full-white neighborhood. Childhood was not easy, for Maxìne was an alcoholic, while David Sr left the family in 1966 and moved to Laos due to his new job at the United States Agency for International Development, though he was contributing to their economic well being.

Junior attended a conservative school linked with the Church of Christ, the Clinton L. Ganus School, and here he started his "segregationist awakening", as he described it, in 8th grade by a non well specified school project. Later, Duke transferred to the Warren Easton Senior High, attended his junior year in the Riverside Military Academy of Gainesville, Georgia and then the integrated JF Kennedy High School.

It was during highschool years that he joined the then irrelevant third incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as his more broad political activity by joining, in 1964, one of the Citizens' Council, segregationist committees relatively popular in the South. Here he met scientific racist writer Carleton Putnam and started his more in depth readings of racist literature, citing his book Race and Reason: A Yankee View as a source of "enlightenment".

This search for literature on scientific racism soon brought him to read authors and ideologues of the Nazi Party, and in little time he became a strong (unadmitted) admirer of Hitler and the Third Reich. His anti-black racism expanded to anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and his frequent manifestations of it, up to dressing up as a Brownshirt, even caused him to be criticized and ostracized by some non-anti Semitic segregationists.

Fortunately for him, these were the years of the Bloody Decade, with the most racial violence the continent would see until the nineties, and thus the segregationist movement was increasingly radicalizing and becoming more violent. The small right wing fringes were seeing a quick rise in numbers, funds, public coverage and sympathy in much of the South, clashing repeatedly with the civil rights crowd and Black Panthers cells, as well as lynching and hate crimes. The most famous was the American Nazi Party, later National Socialist White People's Party, led by "The Commander" George Lincoln Rockwell, for whom Duke developed a quasi veneration. Rockwell pioneered the White League in summer 1967 with the Unite The White Rally in Charlottesville, merging the ANP with chapters of the KKK, Aryan Brotherhood and other similar groups. They were strongly linked to the American Independent Party and its leader George Wallace, acting to do the dirty job for them.

Roaming in the growing League, Duke got more and more involved in the far right fringe, getting to know the leader of the National Alliance, William L Pierce, a lifelong influence for him. He joined the Leagye in 1967, then, after enrolling into the Louisiana State University, he formed in 1970 the White Youth Alliance, a far right student organization soon associated with the WL and de facto its youth wing. His activism included calling for the gassing of the Chicago 7, a convicted group of anti war activists, and accusing their lawyer William Kunstler of being a communist Jew, and going to a ANP conference in Virginia with other two white supremacists who’d end up in the League: Joseph P Franklin and Don Black. Duke allegedly spent 9 months in Laos with his father in 1971, where he briefly got a job teaching English before being dismissed for drawing a Molotov cocktail on the blackboard. Duke also claimed to have used the time to drop rice to anti-communist insurgents from planes about 20 times, a claim disproven by experts as highly unlikely.

Returning to New Orleans, Duke resumed his activities, manifesting with Klan robes and Confederate flag in front of the Robert E Lee Memorial together with the New Orleans major and perennial gubernatorial candidate Addison Roswell Thompson and racist mentor Rene LaCoste. As Black Panthers confronted them, the police intervened to protect them. Duke worked for Wallace’s presidential campaign funds and to store weaponry and inflammable liquids for the League’s arsenal. After graduating from university, he took a bigger role in the organization, particularly in the more politically well placed and well funded part which included someleaders of the police department, national guard, the AIP and even a couple military officers, he helped found their Louisiana section. Duke turned out to be a very capable man of power, not showing himself as the classic insane and ridiculous Klansman but as a young and serious politician who intended to run for office in the future. He increasingly avoided using the uniform in public and preferred instead a suit, he forged stronger ties with the actual spheres of power than his fellow neo Nazis like Pierce and the ANP ever could, without however cutting ties with them and instead helping normalize them. His abilities allowed Duke to become the Commander of the White League in 1976, after leading an in-party strike against Matthew Koehl (who succeded Rockwell after his death in 1972). His period in charge would be focused on rebranding the Klan after the end of the Bloody Decade, specifically by doubling down on the political fight against communism and leftism, racism and antisemitism being turned into more of instruments to gain support for the cause than the cause itself. He also toned down the anti-Catholic spirit of the previous years by encouraging anti-communist white Catholics to join and stopping propaganda against Irish or Italian Americans.

Nonetheless, he maintained Protestantism as the official religion of the League and confirmed his dedication to the theology of Christian Identity, which saw White Anglo Saxon Protestants as the chosen people of God, destined to rule or destroy the others. Collaboration with the ANP, the National Alliance, the neo confederate Southern Party and others increased, and Duke’s influence for the first time became palpable in the North, thanks to funding agreements with local businessmen to help against increasingly violent leftist groups. Some of the most well known episodes include the murder of 5 Communist Workers’ Party members  in Greensboro, North Carolina, during their protests against him, in 1978 and the Saint Louis Massacre of 1980, where 11 student activists were killed by a group of White suprematists with knifes and guns during a illegal march against the Vietnam War, while the police only later intervened to stop the fight and arrested several students. As the crisis deepened, things for Duke could only get better: The more economic downturn, the more popular unrest and communist activity. The more communist activity and unrest, the more funds to him from bosses. The more funds he got, the more broke and bigot Whites were incentivized to join the Klan or the other far right groups, which increasingly provided at least a slight economic boost to their members.

Duke himself, in spite of the young age, had successfully run for mayor of New Orleans against the civil rights activist Ernest N Morial and, thanks to his money and thugs, essentially ruled the city like a king. His attempt at being elected governor in 1980 and 1984 however pathetically failed, as segregationist Republican Dave Treen was instead, and later Democrat Edwin Edwards. In general, Duke failed to gain control over his own state, as the spheres of power remained in the hands of Democrats and Republicans. Duke managed to attract back groups that had previously split off from the League like the Southern Party and the New Order, as well as the more peaceful far right circles like the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This was, for the smaller ones, a way to benefit from Duke's financial support, for the ideologically divergent Southern Party a way to achieve the commonly held values in the short term, for the League a way to take the most unhinged groups under their wing. Duke also exploited the chance to complete his rebranding: The White League's uniform would be representative of the race war ideal, with white shirt and dark jeans, a black beret and a badge, both with the movement flag on It.. Duke also had to contend with some heated topics like religion, due to not insignificant numbers of catholics, atheists and even neo pagans, but also the even more profoundly protestant Southern Party.  Their numbers and status skyrocketed, numbering nearly a million members by the time of the collapse
In January 1988, when the collapse of the country was clear, Edwards unilaterally declared independence and moved elections for a few months. Duke organized a large wave of nationalist protests, calling to join the RA instead, especially after Edwards completed his long fought program of desegregation of the state. He couldn't however run in the little state, because he had already moved in the RA to campaign for President, he left Don Black to run in his place. The elections of that year were very contested, Duke ran against former VPOCUS George W Bush and he fared pretty well, but inevitably lost to the still conservative but more moderate option. In Louisiana, it was initially expected that a AIP-GOP ticket could be formed, before Edwards came to a compromise with the Republicans by promising to initiate talks for unification. Defeated both there and in the Republic, though by a slim margin, Duke prompted Black to stage a coup by claiming that the results had been fraudulent and that he was the rightful governor. Taking control of New Orleans, he hoped the army would launch a coup for him, instead the situation stayed silent for almost three months before they launched an assault on the city, easily crushing the League and forcing Black, who by then had been preparing, to escape to the RA with all his officials. Despite the emotional hit of this setback, Duke's power and influence was rising quickly, with over a million League militants and having reached just below 31% against Bush and Clinton. In 1988, he was elected Senator , while his companions Don Black and Micheal Hill Governors of South Carolina and Alabama, all three running for the AIP.

The Republic was tarnished by the rise of the New Black Panthers, an anti-segregationist Black Power group which distinguished itself from the previous ones for the use of terroristic tactics like bombings and civilian hostage taking. As both Louisiana and Texas had passed desegregation bills, the current among the GOP towards it got stronger, arguing It was a necessary step to restore order. The country was more than ever polarized between those who thought segregation should be abolished and those who thought it wasn't defended well enough. The NBP attempted their biggest hit yet on July 16 by seizing a great deal of hostages, including several wealthy people, in a hotel in Atlanta. The progressive Republicans pushed Bush to come to terms with them, and the President, on the fifth day of siege, publically proposed to Congress the first version of the bill, completely copy pasted from that of Louisiana due to lack of time. The announcement was obviously met with violent protests by the White League and the AIP governors, but the majority public initially agreed, believing it to be necessary.

As months of discussions ensued, and people realized that desegregation was actually going to happen, the police went on strike, while the League's protests were joined by more and more civilians, many AIP governors openly said they wouldn't apply the bill. While this was going on, Duke had already been meeting with higher ups of the army and especially the corporate world to discuss the situation of the country. They lamented the incapacity by Bush to kickstart the industry after the crisis, the fact that desegregation would risk increasing the price of labor in such a moment of scarcity and that he was too weak in dealing both with Black unrest and with the increased unionization of White workers (rarely in communist organization) in the mines and agricultural industry, which was making it harder to slash wages and fire people. The idea that all of them agreed on was that a new increase in military spending could kickstart the industry in the South and make it comparable to the lost Great Lakes industry, while also providing the necessary means to crush the communist threat. Of course, to achieve this, there would have been the need to force through hard felt measures to reduce the cost of labor and increase the money for investment in the industrialists' hand. In October, after three months of heated discussions, despite almost everyone expecting It to be overturned, the bill was passed by a single vote in both the House and the Senate. Just later, on October 31, Bush was to sign it into law, while the League had organized a massive march in the streets of Atlanta against it.

## **DICTATORSHIP**

Entering the Atlanta White House, Duke announced the army had overthrown Bush for his "unconstitutional actions against the White people of America" and that he would serve as interim President for the remainder of the term. Despite the situation, the midterm elections a few days later were not suspended, and were predictably won by the AIP with 65% of votes, both due to actual popularity and to voter intimidation by the paramilitaries.

Initially, Duke stressed how he wasn't trying to seize dictatorial power but merely to restore order, and that his emergency powers were only to that end. Few Whites made a fuss for the bloody repression of Black riots after the coup, which reached a level superior to the Bloody Decade with over a thousand people dying in just a few months. Puerto Rico and Washington DC declared secession. While the latter was protected by the PUA and untouched, the former was soon subject to months of terroristic bombing upon all it's vital infrastructures, before amphibious forces occupied. Already before Duke took over, the prison industrial complex of the Republic was both thriving and in tumultuous expansion, with its owners being among the White League's main source of funding, but also barely keeping up with the high number of inmates. As arrests sharply multiplied, prisons were unable to contain everyone, which allowed Duke to justify the opening of the first concentration camp for Black terrorists near the Great Falls Dam in Tennessee, Camp Gabriel, where tens of thousands of people arrested for association with the NBPP were transferred to and put to work to maximize the energy production of the dam. Duke kept this delicate balance until about late 1992, when, in time for the elections, he started chopping heads on both the Republican Party, the most moderate parts of the AIP, the neo pagans and the neo confederates. He ostracized them from candidating, removed their imagery, arrested their leaders, until the elections didn't see Duke as essentially the only candidate, winning the college of every single state. Day one after this victory, the purge really took off:

In a few months, tens of thousands of government officials, White League officials, military officials, governors, mayors, professors and intellectuals,White trade unionists and leftists were either murdered by the paramilitaries or sentenced to execution, many more were arrested, building the first White concentration camp on the Gulf coast of Georgia, Camp Cain (called this way as it was meant for the traitors of the White Race). As crackdowns on homosexuals also skyrocketed, they were deported together with other people considered to be "social deviants" to Camp Sodoma, adjacent to Cain. Arrests became even more commonplace after Duke's old friend, Joseph P Franklin, after a campaign of violence in the wake of failure of reunification talks, was allowed to run and gain a plurality in Louisiana. Unable to gain an absolute majority, Franklin declared martial law and asked the RA to intervene, which promptly happened leading to the annexation of the state. In total, the Dukite Purge's death count ranges from 40 to nearly 100 thousand victims depending on the source in the span of a little over a year. Almost immediately, Duke assigned himself virtually unlimited power, including that of choosing and changing every government official at a whim, which he used for example to make Pierce governor of South Virginia.

With trade unions abolished, Duke could start his 4 Years Plan for rearmament, which included longer working hours, loosening restrictions, including those on child labor, and investment of public money to starkly increase the industrial capacity of the countries. While working conditions worsened, the extremely high unemployment rate plummeted thanks to this project, solidifying vast support for the regime. Taxes were lowered to medium and high income, and increased on the very bottom, which was mostly comprised of Black people anyway. People unable to pay taxes would be required to do what essentially amounted to forced labor for companies that had signed contracts with the state for it, and they were deprived of voting rights.The voting age for other non-White people was brought to 25 too, alleging that their minds developed slower and less. The growth of the economy allowed for a better welfare state towards White workers, such as public healthcare and affordable housing, meant to keep support high in spite of worsening overall conditions. In a few years, the Republic became highly industrialized, but it was essentially all heavy industry. It's massive and ever expanding army needed to be used somewhere, which is why, using the victory of the Communist Party of Florida as a casus belli, a special military operation was launched in the peninsula in 1994. It was too early, however, as the process in the Republic wasn't yet completed and Florida received aid from all over the world, plus the threat of the PUA intervening if the RA sent more forces. A ceasefire was signed in 1995, splitting the state into a Republican puppet in the North and a socialist state in the South. The actions of Duke had by 1996 essentially returned Black people to slavery under a different name. The leadership of the NBPP had been mostly destroyed by 1994, except for the ones dating back to the original Panthers, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who had found refuge in the PUA, and the most expert and talented of them. By 1996, however, new leaders emerged and reorganized the party, merging with other Black Power cells like Nation of Islam to form the New Black Liberation Army. After years of organizing, dating back to a project of the NBPP since 1989, the Army successfully launched a general uprising in 1996.

More organized, funded with good quality weaponry by the PUA and with their intelligence, with complete support from the non-White population of the country, the Uprising wasn't a bloody failure like the previous riots, but rather seized entire swaths of territory, defeated, captured or killed tens of thousands of paramilitaries, policemen and national guards in little time and then resisted the full might of the Republican army, beginning a phase of stalemate. The next 13 years would see a back and forth between the two, slowly but surely tilting in favor of the Liberation Army, until the Great American War. During this time, Duke would throw any facade of moderation and give in to the demands for a full scale genocide issued by Pierce. It would start in late 1998, when Camp Isabella in Puerto Rico was expanded and restructured into what was defined officially as a Resettlement Camp. Instead of just bringing in rebels, the Camp would be used for criminals, unregistered people, suspects and people unable to pay taxes, regardless of the age and accompanied by the respective families. The stated goal was to make the Camp a whole separate community to allow the remaining, loyal people to live in peace.

In reality, Isabella was an experiment of death camp: the structure was not nearly sufficient to provide for all the people it aimed at resettling, but using engineered scarcity, epidemic, unreasonably strict rules, excessive work hours and overcrowding, the camp's population was repeatedly wiped out and replaced with new comers every time. Children, elderly and disabled were required the same quotas of labor as healthy adults, and punished with the inevitable failure often with death. Alternatively, they were used for human experimentation. The completion of Isabella and its testing took some time, but it was considered a resounding success and several Resettlement Camps had popped up in the mainland. In 2002, the facade of only targeting criminals was officially dropped and it was stated that the camps served to completely resettle the non-White population away. This project was dubbed "the Great Redemption", both of the people deported who would be redeemed of their crimes against the White Race through work and of the White people themselves for having tolerated the situation so long. In 1998, the State Religion Act established special privileges to the Federation of Evangelical Churches of America, a sort of coalition of all the churches that had sided with the League, and forced every other Protestant strand to join it, giving the state control over it's ranks. Jewish rabbis and many Catholic priests were arrested and sent to Camp Samuel and Camp Cain respectively. The crackdown on Jews would increase until in 2002 they were officially included among the ones to resettle and Samuel was officially converted into an all-Jew Camp, together with the brand new Camp Samaritan. Even White Protestants weren't safe, as disabled people unable to work were considered traitors of the race and deported to either Cain or, in case of mental illnesses, Sodoma, where they'd almost always die. 1998 was also the year when, abandoned the hopes of swiftly taking back the territory seized by the Liberation Army, Duke adopted the strategy known as "grass-cutting":

A ritualistic terror bombing of New Afrikan territory, even using napalm, meant to destroy their capability of settling in peace in the region. By this point, Duke had complete control of the state apparatus and had well established his cult of personality, with propaganda comparing him to Washington, and people around him report him to have gradually become more and more delusional and comfortable in his position. Even in 2009, in the face of imminent defeat, Duke was ranting about the impossibility of it happening due to him being destined by God to victory. The extreme austerity, exhausting working hours with little pay, reappearance of child labor, lowering of the draft age to 16 and increased lawlessness, with White League paramilitaries controlling entire counties like gangs, gradually eroded his popularity, yet Duke remained deaf to it and went forward as usual. Instead, as the welfare state collapsed and healthcare with it, disabled people multiplied, and Cain became more and more crowded. To host the new inmates, two more White camps were built near: Camp Brutus and Camp Macbeth.

During this time is when Duke's mental health would start to decline. He got more paranoid, started building bunkers in and around Atlanta, and sheltered himself off from most people. While at this stage it was not that bad, his decline would still start. His appearance also changed, noticeably gaining weight and greying hairs, though it's possible he did not even notice it, as the cult of personality was so bad, criticizing him would almost certainly get you in a concentration camp.

While the PUA was funding New Afrika, Duke too had been funding all throughout the former United States cells of nostalgics and racists, often involved with the League itself before the Collapse, and helped them unify and organize thanks to the Freenet and the money of former business owners turned mob lords, promising them the hope for a future reunification of America in exchange for intelligence services. This efforts led to the birth of the Organization for the Restoration of America some time in the nineties, before the Capitol Suicide Bombings of 1999. By 2009, It was clear that the endless supplies provided by almost the whole Planet, but especially the Assembly of Democratic Communists, made the ultimate defeat of New Afrika impossible and was instead giving them the upper hand. In particular, they were starting to receive large numbers of new generation planes which could challenge air supremacy of the RA and were already starting to weaken the grass-cutting strategy. Their morale was as high as ever in spite of adversities, whereas that of the Republic was fading. Duke nonetheless held incredible influence over a massive portion of the population, particularly in the deepest South and North Carolina, both regions filled with White refugees from New Afrika, and between the people born between approximately 1985 and 1995. Younger generations were very much influenced by the propaganda they had been fed all life long, but the extreme hardship was gradually shaking them away from it. With surrender to New Afrika not being a option and peace talks being impossible for the ideological fervor on both sides, the RA decided for a desperate measure to win the war before it was too late:

## **GREAT AMERICAN WAR**

On March 15, using their till now untouched air fleet, they organized a huge operation, called Operation Snakehead, to bomb supplies, infrastructures, army units and factories from the PUA to New Afrika, in the hopes of paralyzing them and giving time for a desperate land offensive. The hope was that the PUA wouldn't expect such an attack, brushing it off as an intimidatory movement of planes like there had been many before, and would be completely wrecked and forced to face the fact. There was a bit of hope in this also due to the new democratic socialist government in New York, which had reduced military spending a bit.

It was an overly optimistic strategy at best and completely delusional at worst. While losses were very high, the more technologically advanced planes prevented the Union Army from being destroyed and instead inflicted heavy damages to the Republican fleet. The somewhat pacifistic President overnight became a warhawk and quickly mobilized the Union Army to invade the RA. Of the LFN nations, only Texas openly joined the war.

Duke proved to be a mediocre military strategist, whose only perpetual order was "do not give a inch to the enemy". The war would last over a year and be very bloody, as trenches and urban fighting were commonplace. Every building and inch was taken by blood, but the Republican army was spread wide and thin against both New Afrika and the external enemies, collapsing it's lines eventually and forcing the forces that did not mutiny to retreat into the White temples of the Deep South and North Carolina, bringing with them all the material they could gather, particularly the nuclear stockpiles.

On October 8 2010, with Atlanta now surrounded, Duke had a moment of vague sanity and seemed to realize the war was lost.

With a direct Freenet and radio broadcast to all the Republican forces, he gave his infamous Last Order, informing that he and the tops of the Atlanta government would be committing suicide to avoid being taken prisoners, but giving two directives before dying:

1 Fire all of the remaining nuclear stockpile according to the previously prepared Armageddon Plan on the PUA, New England, USRP and also New Afrika.

2 Go underground, imitating the tactics of the ORA and prepare to rise up later rather than dying now.

The directives were promptly followed, leading to the survival of Dukites in the former RA and the outbreak of insurgencies by the Knights' Party and the Dixie Army just a couple years later, but, fortunately, the sorry states the nuclear stockpiles had been kept in after retreat made most of them fail, while anti-missile defenses stopped others. Nonetheless, a total of 20 cities were destroyed by the Last Order of Duke.

Right after the broadcast, Duke and other leaders like Pierce or Harold Covington joined at a last dinner in the White House, with White League and Klan flags all over, drinking poisoned wine. Only one to survive the poison was Duke's old friend Don Black, due to an insufficient dose.

## **TRIVIA**

* In the first draft of LF, Duke was supposed to die by 1999. This was because the creator Spiraling Universe did not know that he was still alive in current day and imagined he would die early due to stress.
* Duke was actually a centrist voice inside the White League, standing on the right of League of the South and other relatively more moderate sections (who "only" wanted to enforce segregation perpetually) but to the left of William L Pierce's National Alliance (which wanted to immediately exterminate indesirables and reunify the United States).
* Duke went through a brief phase of liberalism in real life during the late eighties and nineties, when he run with the Democratic Party and held a seat in the Louisiana State Congress. In Liberty Fallen, he insteads only becomes more and more extreme overtime.
* There is a long running debate if Duke's ideology should be spelled Dukism or Dukeism in the LF discord server