Three Illinois Nazis IDed in/around Chicago:

Three members of a local white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.

Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat, an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38). Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three men.

The Windy City Active Club (WCAC) is responsible for numerous white supremacist propaganda incidents across Chicago and the west suburbs, some of which caught the attention of local media and police departments. This includes a vast amount of stickering, leaving flyers on vehicles, displaying banners over highways, and demonstrations at holiday events.

https://unraveledpress.com/exposed-white-nationalist-group-responsible-for-hate-spree-across-chicagoland/

Robert Boman, the last defendant in the neo-nazi Rise Above Movement (RAM) riot case from 2017, has been found guilty in a jury trial. Sentencing won't be till August.

https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/jury-convicts-man-for-racist-rally

A self-proclaimed “tribe” of racist heathens is building a compound on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. This group overlaps with Patriot Front (PF), a fascist organization with members nationwide, and the “Church of Aryanity,” a racist cult that refers to Adolf Hitler as “the Great One.” The leader of the Tennessee “tribe” is Brian Culpepper, who spent a decade in the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was its PR Director for several years.

In 2022, Patriot Front used the large property—mostly woodland but with cleared areas—to train its members for street demonstrations. Last year, PF members traveled to work construction on the property, including a large building intended as a combined martial arts dojo, heathen temple, and home for PF member, Ian Michael Elliott. As construction on the land progresses, the property will host increasingly large racist gatherings. At least equally dangerous, the “tribal land” will bring together far-right martial artists, aspiring street brawlers from fascist “Active Clubs,” and some of the most violent fringes of the neo-Nazi scene. It already provides a home for committed PF members. By documenting this compound and revealing its location, we hope to warn eastern Tennessee residents about the white supremacist threat in their midst.

https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/revealed-patriot-front-linked-aryan-tribal-land-in-eastern-tennessee/

On the night of Jan. 4, four avowed white supremacists entered a secure multi-industry property just across the Tennessee River that includes a nuclear power plant.

Two of those men, Aiden Daniel Cuevas, 19, and Aidan Christian Stamper, 19, hail from Madison, Alabama. The other two men are identified as Brandon Dean Crews, 24, of Iuka, Mississippi, and Logan Gulbranson, 18, of Cole Harber, North Dakota.

The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office has charged all four men with felony trespassing and burglary in connection to the incident.

...

“If you look at what these four gentlemen post online about what they believe in, the ideology that they follow, and the belief that they hold in their heart: these are accelerationist neo-Nazis,” Tischauser said. “These are young kids—some of them are still teenagers—committed to bringing about a nationalist socialist society. And they’re willing to use violence to achieve this objective, at least according to their social media posts. It could be bluster, they could be trying to troll people and make people like me look foolish—but I tend to trust what people say, especially when it’s about violence.”

...

“Accelerationist neo-Nazis see attacks against electrical grids and infrastructure as helping to accelerate the collapse of our social system,” Tischauser said. “They think that the race war is right around the corner.”

https://www.alreporter.com/2025/02/25/alabama-white-supremacists-charged-with-trespass-burglary-at-nuclear-power-plant-site/

Nyt #MOT on tutkinut sitä, miten #äärioikeisto houkuttelee alaikäisiä joukkoonsa ja radikalisoi heitä, äärioikeistolaisten alaikäisten tekemiä rikoksia ja löytänyt jopa salaisen kerhotilan Uudeltamaalta.

TV1 klo 20, mutta ohjelma on jo Areenalla:

https://arenan.yle.fi/1-72470158

Artikkeli siihen liittyen:

https://yle.fi/a/74-20144204

This is a pretty big catch in the US white nationalist scene.

Kai Liam Nix (22) is both a member of Patriot Front and the former admin of the Appalachian Archives (AA) channel on Telegram (later rebranded as "American Archives" before it shut down last spring).

AA was really active last year doxxing journalists, researchers, and anyone who was on the outs with the neo-nazi scene. It particularly blew up on Telegram through its collaboration with the Tennessee Active Club (TAC), a prominent, self-proclaimed "actual, literal Nazi," and a sleazy little recruiting crew calling itself Patriot Youth during last year's mayoral race in Franklin, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. (TAC was led at the time by Sean Kauffmann, who had to step down earlier this year after his most recent round of domestic violence charges).

You may recall that race due to candidate Gabrielle Hanson's open acceptance of support from local neo-nazi factions like these.

At any rate, that whole nazi circuit operating in Middle Tennessee was getting very aggressive for a while last year, though I haven't kept up more recently. And what's more disturbing is that Nix, the AA admin, is in the US Army, 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. According to this report, he has been charged with “illicit sales of firearms and lying on a background check," which is an indication of the actual danger a little shit like this poses.

Solid article here. Worth reading.

#PatriotFront #ActiveClub #HateWatch #fascism #NeoNazis #fcknzs #Tennessee #82ndAirborne #GabrielleHanson #FranklinTennessee #NorthCarolina #PaulGancarz #USArmy #Appalachia #AppalachianArchives

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/08/19/we-will-fight-soldier-waging-war-against-america-fort-liberty

Shifting our focus from fascist politicians and fascist political policy for a moment, I'd like to share this short explainer by the White Rose Society about the growing street nazi organizational tactic known as "Active Clubs," updated from an original submission to an Australian Senate Committee investigating right wing extremist movements in that country.

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/active-clubs-and-accelerationists-neo-nazi-tactics-and-strategies-in-australia

Active Clubs & Accelerationists – Neo-Nazi tactics and strategies in Australia

"Active clubs rally their members around the motto “Tribe and Train,” portraying themselves as contemporary Aryan warriors preparing for a racial conflict while advocating for “White unity” in support of their perceived communities. There are active clubs throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Latin America and New Zealand. Currently, all active clubs in Australia fall under the umbrella of the European Australian Movement and the National Socialist Network, though there have been other short-lived independent active clubs in Australia over the last two years."

As the above quote indicates, while this material was originally produced for a government inquiry in Australia (that seemed more worried about obscuring the existence of violent fascist organizations or gangs there,) the Active Club model is a Pig Empire-wide phenomenon. In the past, I've written a little bit about Active Clubs and the American creator of the organizational model, Robert Rundo, but it now seems clear that despite Rundo's legal troubles in the United States, nazi Active Clubs are a problem that's here to stay. If your local street nazi crews have started to organize around MMA training, custom active wear, and militant accelerationism, there's a pretty good chance you're looking at the Active Club model in action.

On one hand, what we're really talking about here are white identarian, neo-Nazi street gangs and it does no good to aggrandize them. On the other hand, Rundo himself created the Active Club model after fleeing to Europe and hooking up with numerous other violent nazi groups to swap tips, tricks, and organizational techniques. Furthermore the growth of Active Clubs in the street nazi scene all over the Pig Empire makes it clear that these groups are a plague that is both persistent, and spreading.

Although I've repeatedly told you that fascism itself is a legalist, top-down political philosophy and that fascist regimes are invariably installed by nazis bearing official papers and wearing badges, the truth is that brownshirts have to come from somewhere and even street nazi gang violence is still violence; and thus a danger to anyone who opposes these ideas, or simply doesn't look like the street nazis themselves. It never hurts to know your enemy, and recognizing a nascent neo-Nazi Active Club in your area might just be the difference between stopping it, and being a victim of the violence these groups inherently bring.

Yle terästänyt otettaan.

#ActiveClubFinland ei enää ole #kansallismielinen vaan #äärioikeistolainen.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20100269

Ehkä antamani - ehkä teidänkin antamanne? - tiukkasanainen palautekin auttoi asiaan?

Niin, Ylelle kannattaa aina laittaa palautetta

Pystyy tehdä nimettömänä linkin lomakkeella:

https://asiakaspalvelu.yle.fi/csp

Ei somessa märiseminen auta. Ei se medioiden boteillekaan märiseminen. Ne on, niin, botteja.

It's worth noting the court's reasoning here. In overturning the prior dismissal of the case, they challenged Judge Carney's comparison of the neo-nazi defendants with antifascist arrestees on three grounds:

1. The nazis were serial perpetrators who went to multiple rallies and assaulted people, whereas the antifascists who had been arrested at a rally weren't and didn't.

2. The nazis "behaved like leaders of an organized crime group" insofar as they "coordinated combat training sessions; created materials to recruit others; and planned cross-country travel to commit their acts."

3. Prosecutors simply had a much stronger case against the nazis, given their prior assault convictions and the fact that they bragged about it online, handing prosecutors useful evidence.

I'd like to think that the second point might establish a precedent applicable to basically the entire Active Club network and possibly others, but the reality is that it's at least as likely to be applied to groups like JBGC or any activists who do actual self-defense classes together.

The third one really should be an object lesson to all of us. As the lawyers say: Shut The Fuck Up. Don't talk about what you did or didn't do and sure as hell don't brag about it. It's just not worth it.

Anyways, an interesting turn. And Judge Carney has just recently (semi-?)retired, so maybe Rundo will finally go to trial. (From what I hear, Boman has left that whole scene and expressed regret about it all. I have no insight into whether or not this is true or, if so, whether or not he's sincere. In either case, regret isn't, unto itself, a literal or metaphorical Get Out of Jail Free card. Still, an ex-nazi is better than an active nazi, and I'd rather he make a sincere effort and get the support he needs in getting out of that scene. We'll see...)

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From the article:

For the second time, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated an indictment against a pair of Southern California white supremacists, overruling a federal judge who said the men were singled out for selective prosecution.

The appellate panel rejected the conclusion of Senior U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, who said federal prosecutors went after the two members of the white-supremacist Rise Above Movement while ignoring similar violence by members of far-left groups. The pair was accused of chasing down and violently attacking counter protesters at Make America Great Again rallies.

By looking broadly at the collective conduct of groups like antifa and weighing it against the individual conduct of the two defendants, Robert Rundo and Robert Boman, Carney was comparing apples to oranges, the Ninth Circuit panel said.

#Rundo #RiseAboveMovement #NeoNazis #Antifa #NinthCircuit #ActiveClub

https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-again-reinstates-rioting-charges-against-two-white-supremacists/

VOI SAATANAN SAATANA tätä suomalaisen median #eufemismi sairautta!

Nyt ei saada kakaistua näppäimistöltä sanaa #äärioikeisto edes #natsi en ylläpitämästä #ActiveClubFinland ista, vaan se on - oletteko valmiita -

#KANSALLISMIELINEN!

Koska on totta kai kansallismielistä opetella järjestäytyneesti hakkaamaan poliittisesti erimieltä olevia ja vähemmistöön kuuluuvia.

#natsit "#journalismi" #media #normalisointi #kieli #sanat #yhteiskunta #väkivalta #ActiveClub

https://yle.fi/a/74-20099206

This is sort of peripherally related to the article yesterday about Terrorgram being banned in the UK (two of these choads were associated with the Terrorgram crew).

From the report:

Fast facts:

* Nationalist-13 has around 15-20 members

* 13 in their name stands for AC or “Aryan cult”

* Members are from Hamilton, Brantford, Niagara, St Catherines, and Southwestern Ontario

* Steel City Nationalist Club (Hamilton) and Bell City Nationalists (Brantford) were two failed splinter groups comprised of members of Nationalist-13

* The Proud Boys were listed as a terrorist entity in 2021

* Active Club Canada has three members with current terrorism charges, Patrick MacDonald, Kristopher Nippak, and Matthew Althorpe.

* Nationalist-13 support Diagolon and appear to be trying to improve that relationship

#ActiveClub #NeoNazis #fcknzs #Canada #Ontario #alerta

https://redtablecollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/23/nationalist-13-unmasking/

#Antifa Norwegian #filternyheter uncovers #nazi-network #ActiveClub #Norway recruiting juveniles for #MartialArt. Text in norwegian #norsktrut https://filternyheter.no/filter-avslorer-dette-er-nordmennene-som-rekrutterer-unge-til-hoyreekstrem-kamptrening-i-active-club/

When writing about fascism in our society, I generally folks on the fascist-enabling activities of our ruling classes; billionaires, the media they own, the politicians they buy, the academies they found and so forth. This is because on the whole, I'd like to believe that *most* people already know that open street nazis are a problem, and are unlikely to be "tricked" into supporting roving gangs of dangerous fascists patrolling our neighborhoods to enact violence on behalf of a fascist ruling order.

Every once in a while however, these two forces will intersect in a very public way that exposes that the street nazis, and the rich empowered fascists, are in fact working together on a larger fascist project in a very tangible way; and that's where this article by Arturo Dominguez over on Unicorn Riot comes in:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/as-neo-nazi-active-club-grows-charges-against-its-founder-dismissed/

On the surface, this story is about the activities of a man named Robert Rundo, who is unquestionably a neo-nazi organizer who engages in street violence to further fascist political causes. He founded the "alt-right" Rise Above Movement (RAM), and is now working on an increasingly popular type of KKK-inspired neo-nazi organizing known as Active Club; you can read more about what an Active Club is in this article, but the short version is "a violent neo-nazi street gang that organizes and recruits online." This is all very useful information for anti-fascists, and at this point pretty much everyone in our society who isn't a fascist, should be an anti-fascist first and foremost - or we're probably all cooked.

Crucially however, Dominquez also takes this analysis a step further to talk about the larger social forces, and institutional support working to empower street nazis like Rundo, and violent expressions of fascist organizing like Active Club. For example, the article notes that a US District Court Judge (Cormac Carney) in California recently dismissed all charges against Rundo for "a series of violent attacks at political rallies in 2017, including events in Huntington Beach, Berkeley, and San Bernardino" - attacks which included assaulting a police officer. The judge's "reasoning" for doing so explicitly referenced common fascist propaganda about the "selective state punishment" of nazi violence, and he ultimately let the guy walk because, I kid you not, "what about ANTIFA?" I couldn't make that up if I tried; the decision is of course being appealed, but here you have a US District Court judge adopting a fascist conspiracy theory, to release a violent neo-nazi organizer who has actively admitted he *did* the crimes he's being charged with; and society at large, barely even blinked.

As the article notes however, this goes far beyond the clearly fascist inclinations of a single judge. The larger society normalization of fascist propaganda, ideas, and hate speech towards a broad swathe of the population the fascists are trying to marginalize and even eliminate, has a direct connection to the recruiting efforts of neo-nazi thugs like Rundo, and neo-nazi groups like Active Club. In part this effect is being driven by the turn towards open fascism in right wing American politics, and fascist political leaders like Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and of course elected reps all over the Republican Party (Marjorie Taylor-Green, Lauren Boebert, Steve Scalise, etc.) But it's also being fueled by an American media complex more than happy to trade in fascist conspiracy theories, and reactionary rhetoric against groups who ultimately represent the targets of these violent fascist street gangs. Furthermore, it would be a mistake to assume that this demonization of targeted groups and normalization of fascist propaganda is coming entirely from the American right. After all, whether you call migrants at the American border an "invasion" or a "crisis" you are still accepting the neo-nazi framework that "brown people coming to our country" is in fact a larger social problem that must be addressed; an inherently fascist, white supremacist idea if there ever was one.

Päivänä, jolloin #natsit saivat luvan marssia Töölössä, mutta #antifasistit eivät, uutisissa #USA:sta levinneestä #rasisti sesta ja #väkivalta isesta #ActiveClub ista, joka värvää nuoria miehiä.

Tutkija #TommiKotonen toteaa, että leviämisvauhti ollut nopea, ja, että

"Konkreettisempi huolenaihe tällä hetkellä on #itsenäisyyspäivä n mielenosoitus. Siellä voi tulla yhteenottoja vastamielenosoittajien ja poliisin kanssa, #Kotonen sanoo"

#äärioikeisto #rasismi #yhteiskunta

https://yle.fi/a/74-20062635

VICE News can reveal the identity of the man who is behind the spread of neo-Nazi groups across Canada, as well as his ties to a terrorist group.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjban/meet-the-entrepreneur-of-hate-behind-the-rise-of-canadian-neo-nazi-fight-clubs?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #TheExtremismDesk #Canada #activeclub #neo-nazi #Atomwaffen #terrorism

GOP Mayoral Candidate Says She Won’t ‘Discriminate’ Against White Supremacists

Franklin, TN has exploded into a political firestorm in the wake of an alliance between conservative mayoral candidate #GabrielleHanson and a white supremacist “#ActiveClub.”

Last week, Hanson arrived at a candidate forum with members of the #Tennessee Active Club acting as her escort…an emerging form of open-network groups that blend martial arts and combat training with #WhiteSupremacist ideology

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gabrielle-hanson-defends-white-supremacist-active-club-tennessee-1234851308/

An anti-LGBTQ+ mayoral candidate in a town outside of Nashville is getting rather aggressive support from the local "Active Club" and at least one self-identified "actual literal Nazi" with a big ol' Proud Boys tattoo across his face.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/white-supremacist-group-delivers-show-of-force-for-franklin-mayoral-candidate-gabrielle-hanson