“The only thing holding me back is a partner…I don’t want to do it alone or die alone.” – Aidan Harding, discussing mass killings in Instagram DM’s.
On October 18, 2024, META made an emergency disclosure to the Pittsburgh FBI office regarding messages DMs and chats involving both Aidan Harding and Noah Cron, kicking off a series of events that ended in an FBI dawn raid on Aidan Harding’s house in December of 2024. As a result, Harding was charged with possession of marijuana and had numerous firearms and electronic devices seized.
In early February though, Aidan Harding wasn’t in court for his “activism” as a white supremacist, but for possession of CSAM (child sexual abuse material), all as part of his bid to be welcomed into Nazi Satanist cult and off-shoot of the Order of Nine Angles, “764.” The CSAM was found on his devices that were seized in the December raid. Harding was later arrested on firearms transfer/falsification charges on January 16, 2025 and while under arrest, remanded into federal custody because of the CSAM charges.
The judge allowed evidence showcasing Aidan’s Nazi and white supremacist ideologies to be admitted, because they are deeply relevant to his possession of CSAM. Members of 764 seek to manipulate, blackmail, and otherwise extort minors — often children of color and LGBTQ kids — into acts of self-harm and mutiliation, animal abuse, bestiality, violence, sexual exploitation, and even suicide on-camera or livestream — all of which they document in photographs and video. This “content” then serves to gain 764 members increasing clout within their cult.
Aidan Harding was quickly identified earlier this year after he and Noah Cron “demonstrated” on the Liberty Bridge, waving swastika flags, shouting epithets and slurs, and threatening drivers with mace. Their actions thus far — from waving flags to spray painting Patriot Front graffiti under a bridge in the south hills — seem relatively mild, but the evidence presented in court on February 12 of this year points to a pattern of escalation.
Evidence showed Aidan’s house filled with white supremacist and Nazi flags (including a giant poster of Hitler) all over the walls. Aidan and Noah also apparently have a years-long history of serial killer and mass shooter worship, specifically the Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The two dressed up as Harris and Klebold and posed in front of a swastika flag, visited the Columbine memorial and took video of themselves doing a Nazi salute in front of it, drew pictures of the Columbine killers, and discussed how best to modify a Daniel Defense rifle to get “high kill count attacks.” According to Aidan Harding, “Eric and Dylan were kickstarting a revolution.” It’s clear that Aidan Harding and Noah Cron have been egging each other on, escalating closer and closer toward planning a mass killing, toward directly exploiting minors (if they haven’t already done so themselves), and bringing their violent ideologies to life.
At the hearing, prosecution’s evidence showed a message from Aidan in which he described himself as being a member of three local activist groups, including Patriot Front. There are also photos of a man appearing to be Aidan at WLM events as well. This association, of course, means that known Millvale Nazi Brandon Cahall also is an associate of Aidan Harding.
The evidence from this hearing shows that when you see some Nazi kids waving flags on a bridge, that there is much more going on under the surface. Graffiti and small public demonstrations are just a warm-up, sometimes a warmup to extreme violence. If we tolerate the small flag-wavings and stickers and spray painted scrawlings of local Nazis, we’re only making room for further escalation.