Why Glendale Extremist Network Exists
- concerned citizen
- 58 minutes ago
- 4 min read
Last week a mother of 3 was publicly executed by an armed agent of the state and then immediately cast by government officials as a "terrorist." Despite ample video evidence showing the harmless actions of Renee Nicole Good, state propaganda efforts and the radicalized movement who believe them, immediately latched onto victim blaming and histrionic claims of supposedly militant "wine moms."
Normal people everywhere watched the multiple video angles of the murder of Good and felt anger and fear at her senseless death. In Glendale, local reactionary extremists on the other hand, took to Elon Musk's mass CSAM-generating X platform to blame the victim and demonstrate the extent of their bigotry-poisoned minds.
For those new here, Jordan Henry's reactionary bigotry and attempts to radicalize parents against public schools and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum was the reason this site was created. When Jordan Henry tried to present himself as a centrist city council candidate, concerned community members collected his years of public comments and social media posts to show the public the extreme beliefs and hatred that inform his political positions.
Now, years (and 2 failed political campaigns) later Jordan and his local allies are again trying to publicly present themselves as "moderate" or simply "conservative." Jordan Henry, Patrick Murphy, Alex Balekian - the players rotate but the tactics remain the same.
For the June 2026 campaign, the extremists in Glendale and La Crescenta are stoking fear among older homeowners who want to freeze the community (and its racist racial covenants, red-lining, and history as home to the KKK and American Nazi Party) in time, they're quieter with their shrieks about "communism and transgenders in public schools" and louder about opposing construction of bike lanes and new housing.
As public sentiment swings against the blatant violence and authoritarian threats of the current administration, people like Henry and Balekian who tried to push those efforts forward at the local level are trying to disguise their collaborationist participation. To do this, they cast liberals and progressives as the real threat. (Well some of them-- local mom/propagandist Jill Simonian's PragerU posted an act of Proud Boy vandalism as a call for support for ICE/DHS. Simonian seems all in on the extrajudicial kidnapping and murder of Americans.)
Part of this reversal includes public mischaracterization of this blog by elected officials and candidates for public office, along with false accusations of authorship against members of Glendale's LGBTQ+ community.
Two men have been repeatedly and publicly accused of running this site-- men who are unknown to the actual authors, except as publicly known members of the LGBTQ+ community. To the authors, this appears to be a continuation of the years-long campaigns of targeting and harassing publicly LGBTQ+ individuals by people like former mayor Ara Najarian, his sister Maro Yacoubian, and current and former candidates for public office (Alex Balekian, Mike Mohill, and Beth Brooks.)
These individuals and others have claimed GEN is a "hate group" advancing a "harassment campaign" and used that as justification to post the name and employment of a local gay man, exposing him to false accusations, specious claims, and threats to his well-being.
One candidate especially, Beth Brooks, appears fixated both on this site and the man she falsely believes runs it- posting repeatedly with increasingly paranoid intensity.
Beth is happy to use the language of progressive inclusion when it comes to her own feelings but seems incapable of critical thinking around the serious charges she is advancing.
Some notes:
A blog is not a hate group. The author's would wager that those threatened by this site are willing subscribers to Mike Mohill's fact-free hallucinatory newsletter rants.
A hate group is: An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. Candidates for public office, elected officials and social media influencers-- the subjects of this blog-- do not fall under any of these protected groups. The targets of those scrutinized here typically do however!
Publishing the publicly posted words and actions of elected officials, candidates for public office, and social media influencers is not "harassment" or "cyberbullying"-- it is documentation in the public interest. If ya don't want your hate speech on this site, don't do it on the public record at City Council meetings.
This website is not the product of any "group" "organization" or political entity. We do not endorse candidates or engage in political work beyond describing the words and actions of those who seek power and influence.
Glendale Extremist Network is a public watchdog site run anonymously by community members concerned by the organized reactionary extremism that dominates Glendale local politics and divides the community. The site was started to document the public words, actions, and social media activity of individuals seeking political power and influence through attacks on public schools, teachers, labor unions, the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. The intention of the site is to provide the public with a record of the words, actions, and priorities of those individuals, along with documentation of the support networks-- media entities, legal "ministries", non-profits, and political party orgs that provide training, organization, amplification, and funding for the anti-democratic, anti-inclusive political project that has come to dominate right wing efforts for control and influence, in California and nationwide.
While the site isn't anything Beth or Ara claim it is, it makes sense they're concerned about its potential impact to their pursuit of power and influence-- we'd be nervous too if we had a social media record like this...
