James Paul Wickstrom (October 7, 1942 – March 24, 2018) was an American white supremacist, far-right activist, and Christian Identity minister.
[1][2] He was strongly anti-communist, and he frequently advocated the genocide of Jews, non-European Americans, "race traitors," homosexuals, and drug addicts.
His affiliation with Christian Identity began in the early 1970s, when he joined Mission of Jesus the Christ Church in Humansville, Missouri, which was co-founded by William Potter Gale.
After several unsuccessful political campaigns, Wickstrom became a full-time activist and minister of Christian Identity and the affiliated Posse Comitatus movement.
[7] During this same period, he drew national attention to the ideology of the Posse Comitatus movement, as an outspoken defender of the rights and concerns of Gordon Kahl, including an appearance on the Phil Donahue Show.
He later hosted a daily Internet radio show called Yahweh's Truth, where he promoted Identity ideology and conducted interviews.
He preached what he referred to as Two Seedline Racial Covenant Identity, an ideology which among other things, postulates the belief that the Caucasian race is made in the image of God.
Wickstrom's racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric frequently drew the attention of activist groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.
He moved to Pennsylvania, and was later arrested for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon and planning to distribute $100,000 (~$257,625 in 2023) in counterfeit U.S. currency to white supremacists who were attending the 1988 Aryan World Congress.