Paul Craig Cobb’s plans to create a white power haven in Leith, N.D., are being thwarted by local residents. Two years ago he began buying up more than a dozen properties in Leith with the hopes of creating his white supremacist enclave, and currently lives in a house without running water or sewer service, along with three other white men and two children. Now, the townspeople are fighting back by trying to get two ordinances passed: one that would require him to put a water and sewer line on his property, and another which would prevent people from camping out on his properties for more than 10 consecutive days. 

Leith has only 23 residents, and the town’s sole black resident–Bobby Harper–says he and his wife will remain in the town even if the white supremacists do arrive, because it is his home. The townsfolk have been fiercely opposed to Cobb’s plans since they came to light, and recently a group of Native Lakota and Dakota women burned a Nazi flag in protest. Councilman Lee Cook said plainly they would do everything they could to prevent Cobb from seeing his plan through. 

In addition to his current white supremacist project, Cobb is also wanted in Canada for "willful promotion of hatred," though the Canadian government will not extradite him for this crime. He has been explicit about his intentions to take over city government in Leith.