They lost a ton including the 200 member Chicago area pool party recently (also lots of members from Wisconsin and Minnesota) for were disgusted with the Antelope Hill coverup and how they treated Gordon Kahl.
Incorrect, the losses occurred over the NJP support group transition and required payments. AFAIK when those screenshots were posted by the ex PP leader of Chicago, he claimed they built up the group grassroots, not with TRS feeding them vetting requests. SD walked specifically, Chicago was ~200, which isn't unusual for certain groups. Texas, for example, is so big that Houston and Austin have their own separate pool parties each of which are massive, afaik, albeit those split between paying and non-paying members because the leaders didn't have the heart to kick them out. How the transition was handled varied group to group, some went whole hog and purged people incrementally prior to the transition, some allowed people to stay, some are delinquent and others like the midwest jumped out.
Pulling the rug on a tenuous organization at best really fucked up their grassroots, but from what I understand they really mostly care about numbers at meetings to brag about as that's the only public metric they give for their orgs membership and involvement.
So either the midwest is much more invovled than the SE, and they lost by far their biggest pool party, like 4 x's larger than any other, or the numbers are way off.
Most of the people I know who were/are involved are in the northeast, texas, or the southeast. The largest southeast groups are in Georgia and Florida (40-100 each), at least in terms of east coast states. SE is less involved generally. I don't know how the transition effected those 2 groups.
Beermin said on LEZ that the Southeast regional meetup had only 20 attendees.
That meetup was too close to an NJP meetup in ohio and the organizer wanted people to drive up to ohio instead if they had money to go to a meetup. Ambrose acts like top dog in the southeast from what I've heard, and tries to get as much focus on national as possible.
If anything is the final nail in the coffin of the NJP, it will be gas prices, IMO.
PS: Despite "literally being rusty" I don't know shit about the bund outside of rumors I can't verify, and most stories about the drama seem contradictory. I will say the TRS position is that Rusty jew jacketed nam to oust him, AFAIK.