The Order Brings One of Our Region’s Darkest Chapters to the Big Screen

Our own backyard: a new movie looks at a white supremacist group in Washington.

In the history of the Pacific Northwest, there is a grim, oft-forgotten chapter written in blood and defined by poisonous hate. In the early 1980s, a militant white supremacist group known as the Order carried out armed attacks with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the government and killing anyone they deemed an enemy to their racist cause. 

Led by Robert Jay Mathews, a neo-Nazi who relocated to the state after serving time for tax fraud, the group ran a counterfeiting operation, robbed a video porn store, a bank, and armored cars, and once

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