National Policy Institute is not a one-man operation. Meet Austin Saucier, a computer programmer who has a long association with paleoconservative hate groups – and the law.

One People’s Project

Last week in Whitefish, Montana, the vote was unanimous among its City Council when they passed a resolution supporting diversity and tolerance in the community, although they avoided enacting anti-discrimination legislation aimed at barring hate groups from operating within the town, which was something that some residents asked for. The effort all stemmed from white supremacist Richard Spencer and his Whitefish-based National Policy Institute (NPI), both of which over the past year has seen some media attention due to Spencer’s activities from holding a shadow conference during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), to getting arrested and thrown out of Hungary after attempting to hold a white supremacist conference there, to getting into a dustup at a local ski resort with a Washington insider that like him was a member, but resigned in protest of the resort keeping Spencer as a member, Spencer himself resigning his membership as well.

Spencer has been the face of the National Policy Institute that many in Whitefish are familiar with, and to date no one has known of any others there that have been working with him. However, a person that Spencer once refered to as “my partner-in-crime-think” is also in Whitefish, having moved there from Florida some time ago. Austin Saucier is the brother of Devin Saucier, a onetime vice-president of the now-defunct white supremacist group Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). According to the website Imagine 2050, Austin Saucier is a web designer who through his company ProDezign created the websites for not only YWC and Spencer’s one-time website Alternative Right. When he moved to Whitefish, he brougt ProDezign with him, and although the company’s Twitter account has little if any activity, it does have six followers, one of them Richard Spencer. ProDezign reportedly closed up shop in June, according to Saucier’s Facebook page, and in July he went to work at another Whitefish firm called Old Town Creative, which according to their website provides superior marketing and communication tools for the outdoor recreation, environmental, tourism and travel market. We provide effective and innovative solutions for connecting people with the outdoors and compelling places. Saucier is listed as their User Interface Developer. In addition,

A Manta profile for a company called Parallel 48, LLC lists Austin Saucier as the President, and lists an address of 98 Elk Highlands Drive, Whitefish, the same address used by NPI.

But Saucier has another company he is associated with, one called Airlock. Saucier is the co-founder of the corportation and in an interview he explained what the company’s purpose is. “When I was a security consultant I built a number of custom security solutions, but only large corporations with massive budgets could afford true, enterprise-level security in the cloud,” he told the website Right Startups. Airlock provides a solution for small businesses, developers and startups, and includes the superior security features they need to reliably protect their sites and apps.”

Austin Saucier’s associations within white supremacist circles would not be the only thing that should cause alarm looking at him for internet security. An search online revealed that in early 2008 he was arrested on burglary and weapons charges in both Hillsborough and Pasco Counties in Florida. While it is unknown at the time of this article what led to the charges, Saucier had to serve at least three years on probation. His Linkedin page lists him as having moved to Whitefish in January 2008, although the incidents seemed to have taken place in Florida from January through March.

Nothing has been mentioned publicly by Saucier or Spencer about the arrest records or of Saucier’s current status, nor it is known if his current employer is aware of them.

Hillsborough Cases (PDFs)

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