Continuing our series on the neo-Nazis of the so-called White Art Collective (also known as “WAC”), we present to you in this piece the fedora-wearing fascist “Lord Wolfshield,” or for tax purposes, Joshua Ben-Israel Randle of Grand Rapids, Minnesota and his wife/accomplice who goes by the moniker “Lady Wolfshield.” Together this cringey couple makes music and short films for the White Art Collective. While they have been quite happy to represent this neo-Nazi art collective publicly showing their actual faces, they are shy about publicizing their names. Let’s rectify that, shall we?
At first glance, Josh Randle’s content as “Lord Wolfshield” appears to be merely amateurish music and videos by a guy who thinks he looks good in a fedora, rather than overt white nationalist content. This is in line with WAC founder Benjamin Arvin‘s (aka “Jeff Winston“) strategy to make white nationalism more accessible to prospective recruits. But when your friends are all neo-Nazis and you represent and provide content for a neo-Nazi group then you are very likely a neo-Nazi. Which he is. Josh Randle has performed with other white nationalist musicians at the various “WAC Fests,” or live concerts organized by the white art collective, like the neo-Nazi dumpster fire that is Emily Youcis, and WAC headliner Mandi Gillespie, who uses the alias “Hiraeth.” Randle is also involved with monetizing WAC’s efforts by producing compilation CDs of WAC musicians, entitled “Lord Wolfshield’s Fedora Favorites,” to be sold on the WAC web store.
Josh Randle is a frequent collaborator with other members of the White Art Collective in both music and film projects, as well as writing and performing his own music and videos. Taste is subjective, but Randle has an uncritical audience amongst this circle of white nationalists and neo-Nazis, who seem to praise any sort of amateurish drivel they produce because it is, in their words, “pro-white.” Unlike many of his peers, Randle’s productions are generally low-key when it comes to the alt-right signalling. Nevertheless, the hints are there, like in Randle’s song “Dance the Blackpills Away” (“blackpill” is alt-right jargon for nihilism and has associations with extremist violence).
Is Randle’s lack of overt white nationalist messaging a virtue? No. A Nazi is still a Nazi. Randle’s flavor of white nationalism is just less apparent (and so gosh-awful it makes you wince) and its non-obvious presentation is just as dangerous as the more in-your-face varieties of white nationalism.
One dumb short film he made, entitled “No Country For Bigfoot,” was a story about cryptozoologists searching for Bigfoot. Innocuous at face value, the film celebrated a guest appearance by neo-Nazi Emily Youcis, crediting her as “Special Guest Star EMILY FUCKING YOUCIS!” Also in the credits was an antisemitic jab, crediting the Executive Producer as “Lord Rothbergsteinshield,” a reference to stereotypes of Jewish names. His wife, Ashley Randle, and a number of her family members also appear in this video, though we are not specifically identifying them because we haven’t ascertained their level of involvement in white nationalist circles. It is fair to say, though, that if one chooses to appear in a video, however innocuous, featuring known white nationalists, then it isn’t “good, clean fun”; it’s promoting white nationalism and the violence that results from that bigotry.
On social media, Randle mostly promotes his own work and that of other WAC performers, but he also often boosts posts from other well-known white nationalist groups like Patriot Front and the National Justice Party. Randle’s “@LordWolfshield” Twitter account was suspended, but like a lot of other racist Twitter accounts, it was reinstated by spoiled billionaire man-child Elon Musk when he bought the social media platform. On his newly-reinstated account, Randle wrote, “Film is the most powerful art form, one we must take back,” referring to the white nationalist notion that the film industry is overrun with Jewish people, LGBTQ+ people, and other minorities.
While Randle is careful to avoid blatant white nationalist messaging, his Twitter timeline before he got suspended was far more overt in its racism, as we can see from tweets archived at Archive.org’s Wayback Machine. These Twitter posts include frequent examples of racism and antisemitism, often grieving about the number of Jewish people in the film industry and perceived “anti-whiteness” in America. In one Twitter post Randle even stated that he owns a signed copy of a book by KKK leader David Duke. We are aware of the argument that “everyone someone disagrees with is called a ‘Nazi’,” but Joshua Randle has made enough social media posts featuring actual Nazis that we feel it’s safe to characterize this doofus as such. In one Twitter post he referred to Adolf Hitler as “Our Uncle.” In another post he made light of the Nazi death camps that killed so many Jews and others whom the Nazis felt were undeserving of life.
Joshua Randle is one of the die-hard promoters of the White Art Collective and is an admin in the WAC Telegram chat channel. Make no mistake, the “White Art Collective” is not about “art”; it’s about Nazis and racism, plain and simple. Hitler’s birthday was celebrated in the chat with many posts like the one pictured below.
Forsooth, Methinks the Lord and Lady Wolfshield Hath Been Sloppy With Their Identities
Joshua and Ashley Randle have never been shy about publishing their faces on social media, but at some point they decided that maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to associate their real names with white nationalist movements. Since about 2019, Josh Randle used the moniker “Lord Wolfshield” on Twitter, but prior to that, and for the same Twitter account, he used his real name for his handle, “@randlejosh.” It was a simple matter to conclusively link their prior Twitter handles to handles that followed by associating the unique numerical Twitter IDs of the accounts.
Joshua and Ashley Randle have been married since 2017. No doubt, Ashley Randle has a weakness for a man in a fedora since Joshua Randle has been rockin’ that look for most of his life. He even wore it at the wedding ceremony. His commitment to a signature look is truly remarkable. But his overzealous penchant for brimmed hats is only a crime against fashion, and is overshadowed by the fact that he is a white supremacist.
How did Josh Randle become such a piece of neo-Nazi garbage? It’s sometimes hard to pin down where someone went so wrong. Randle has commented on some aspects of his early life, stating that he was Christian home-schooled as a young person and had no internet availability. He described intercepting Victoria’s Secret catalogues in the mailbox as “the ultimate jackpot to the homeschooled Christian kid with no internet.” He wasn’t allowed to play Pokémon because his parents thought they were “demons or some shit.” Did this upbringing contribute to his descent into white supremacy? Who knows? One thing for sure, he has found acceptance among his neo-Nazi peers in the WAC who uncritically boost his amateurish odes to white supremacy. You don’t have to be talented to be in WAC. You just have to be white and a bigot. But it’s not our jobs to psycho-analyze these Nazi numbskulls. We just expose them!
Despite being “ride or die” with his fedora, Randle has called his wife, Ashley Randle, aka “Lady Wolfshield,” his “ride or die girl.” Her position on white nationalism and Nazi support is apparent. Included in Ashley Randle’s list of Facebook friends is Mandi Gillespie, also known as “Hiraeth,” who has expressed explicit support for white nationalism and admiration for Adolf Hitler. Also on her list of friends is an as-of-yet unidentified WAC musician who goes by the moniker “St. Friendship” and uses a giant Nazi “SS” symbol for the banner image of their own Facebook profile.
No Hat-Tips For This Fedora-Wearing Fascist
Joshua Ben-Israel Randle, aka “Lord Wolfshield” of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, is a first class neo-Nazi doofus who makes crappy films and even crappier music. Why bother with this low-hanging fruit? Because he has shown a multi-year commitment, contributing extensive time and effort to his toxic ideology. It is important to distinguish between hapless and harmless, and while Randle’s image may be disarming, he is heavily involved in promoting and supporting violent extremist ideologies. He truly sucks at everything he does, but beneath the clownish incompetence is an insidious attempt to normalize white nationalism through the “White Art Collective.”
We’re not done with the neo-Nazi losers of the White Art Collective. Stay tuned!
Check out our previous reporting on the White Art Collective through these links!:
- “Jeff Winston” and “Hiraeth” of the White Art Collective Revealed: Ben Arvin and Mandi Gillespie of Bloomington, Indiana
- White Nationalist Comic Illustrator “Donald Kent” aka “American Zarathustra” revealed as Donald Jackson of West Seneca, New York
- Meet “Mama P” of the Alt-Right Folk Duo “The Mamas and the Pepes”: Julie “Jewels” Green of Wallingford, Pennsylvania
- Neo-Nazi Comic Illustrator “JinjerZilla”: Joshua Thayer LeGoff of Cranston, Rhode Island
- White Supremacist Graphic Artist “J. LaDarc”: Jessica LaFlamme, of Marietta, Georgia
- White Art Collective Musician “James Ryan” Revealed: Jamie Ryan Troutman of Harpers Ferry, WV
- Neo-Nazi Creep and White Art Collective Sound Guy Brandon Troutman, aka “ManWithTheHand”
- White Art Collective Neo-Nazi Dirtbag DJ: Joseph Shellabarger Jr, aka “Modernity Leave” / “Boxkhar”
