As Neo-Nazi ‘Active Club’ Grows, Charges Against Its Founder Dismissed
Known hate group Active Club has seen explosive growth while the groupās founder was nearly released by a federal judge last week.
Tag: neo-Nazi
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A Decade After the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the Battle Against Fascism Remains Urgent in Greece
Athens, Greece – As on every September 18 since 2013, thousands of people marched in memory of the antifascist musician Pavlos ‘Killah P’ Fyssas and filled the street renamed in his honor, Pavlos Fyssas Avenue. Starting at the memorial site where Fyssas was murdered by…
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Nazis of Color
In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder similar to innumerable school shootings. But when it came out that he identified as a neo-nazi, outrage spread: calling a Latino…
š¦ LGBTQ+, Racism & Far-Right
Anti-LGBTQ Far-Right Continues Harassing Santee YMCA
[UPDATE: On January 23 news broke that Joshua Cantor, the owner of Evolve Custom Automotive Restoration in Santee, CA, was arrested and charged with grooming and sexually assaulting two underage girls. Cantor previously hosted Mike Forzano’s group Exiled Patriots at his business for a June…
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GOP Politicians Join White Supremacists at YMCA Hate Rally in Santee
Santee, CA – On Wednesday in suburban San Diego County, Republican officials promoted an apparent hoax falsely painting transgender people as violent predators. Among their supporters were clearly identifiable Proud Boys and at least one man with Nazi imagery tattooed on his head.
A 17-year-old…
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Neo-Nazi Group Golden Dawn Makes Resurgence in Greece
After many years in hiding, on Dec. 18, 2022, the far-right, neo-Nazi organization of Golden Dawn (GD) made its public reappearance and organized a march and rally in Florina, Northern Greece. Dozens of Golden Dawn members, many serving in the Greek Parliament, were convicted in 2020, in the largest Nazi trial since Nuremberg, of heading a criminal organization.
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The Far-Right’s Fascination with the U.S. Electric Grid
Over the past two years, government agencies have been warning that white supremacists and far-right extremists are the most significant domestic threat to American security.
Moore County, NC experienced a blackout in early December 2022 that affected more than 45,000 residents after two local substations…
Patriot Front Nazis Who Destroyed Arthur Ashe Mural Identified
Richmond, VA – New evidence identifies two men behind the racially-motivated vandalism of a mural portraying Black tennis legend Arthur Ashe last October.
Previously unpublished photos and videos, leaked from inside the neo-nazi organization Patriot Front, show members of the group destroying several paintings in…
š¦ Racism & Far-Right
Patriot Front Neo-Nazis Tied To Springfield, IL Hate Crime
Springfield, IL – Shortly after midnight on November 14, 2021, previously unreported leaked footage shows members of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front running up to the side of the Phoenix Center, a nonprofit providing housing, services and education to at-risk LGBTQ+ youth in central Illinois.…
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Two Patriot Front Members Charged For Defacing Gay Pride Mural
Olympia, WA – Two members of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front face new misdemeanor charges stemming from the destruction of a gay pride mural last October.
Colton Michael Brown, 23, and Spencer Thomas Simpson, 20, both face charges of Aiding & Abetting or ‘Complicity With’…
š¦ Racism & Far-Right
Patriot Front Meetings Spell Out Racist Network’s Plans & Hateful Operations
22 audio files obtained by Unicorn Riot reveal the inner workings and deeply bigoted shared mindset of members of Patriot Front, the largest fascist organization currently operating in the United States. Roughly 17 hours of regional network chapter meetings, national meetings, and informal hangouts in…
Patriot Front Leaks Reveal Groupās Ideology: āJews attack all things good in this worldā
Documents newly obtained by Unicorn Riot reveal the underlying beliefs and intentions of the fascist and white nationalist group Patriot Front. Through examining the organizationās initiation process and the ideological standards it seeks to maintain, itās clear that their attempts at having a professional image…
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Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns
The detailed inner workings and operations of neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front have come to light after a massive leak from their chat servers. The exposed communications show coordination with their leader Thomas Rousseau to deface murals and monuments to Black lives across the United States,…
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Charlottesville Lawsuit Defendants Implicated In Premeditated Violence
Charlottesville, VA – After four weeks of testimony, the trial in the federal lawsuit against organizers of the deadly Unite The Right rally is set to go to a jury after closing arguments on Thursday, November 18. 13 individuals and 9 organizations are named in…
Romania: Bucharest Pride Under Siege
Bucharest, Romania – For the first time in 15 years, the yearly pride march organized by the LBGTQI+ NGO Accept has faced cancellation. Romania, the former east bloc European country whose claim to fame is a highly restrictive communist dictatorship followed by a televised revolution…
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Patriotwave’s Boogaloo: Engineering an Aesthetic of Violence
CONTENT ADVISORY: Bigotry, violence, sexual assault
Whether Proud Boys in their Fred Perry uniforms āstanding back and standing by,ā or white men in polo shirts and khakis holding torches, modern white supremacy violence has a specific look and feel to it. The latest trend in…
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Canada’s Navy Reinstates Sailor Exposed for Neo-Nazi Ties
Calgary, Alberta – An internal video message sent to sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy announced that the Navy has opted to keep on, rather than expel, a sailor who was exposed last year as a prolific user on neo-nazi forum site Iron March.
In…
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National Guard Soldier Who Deployed to DC Identified as Neo-Nazi
Columbus, OH – When Ohio sent one hundred National Guard troops to Washington D.C. to assist the Trump administration’s repression of protests, they also sent at least one soldier tied to neo-nazi and white supremacist ideology. Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine confirmed that one…
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Homophobic Stunts in Boston Part of Long-Term Far-Right Pattern
Boston, MA – More than 100 right-wing demonstrators flocked to an August 2019 event promoted as a “Straight Pride Parade” and described more recently as a “white nationalist” gathering by the mayor of a Boston suburb.
Super Happy Fun America (SHFA), the group organizing these…
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Canadian Navy Sailor Advertised Arms Deals on Neo-Nazi Forum
Alberta, Canada – A Serbian man who claimed online to be an arms dealer with connections to racist terror groups in the USA has been outed as a sailor in the Canadian Navy.
Earlier this month, a copy of a web server for the defunct…
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Identity Evropa, Rebranded: Six Months Later
Harper’s Ferry, WV – Identity Evropa, the alt-right neo-nazi group behind the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, renamed itself the American Identity Movement earlier this year. Now, more than half a year after the group attempted to redefine its name and image, we examine…
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South African Nazi Exposed In International Terror Training Network
Cape Town, South Africa ā In information posted online today, antifascists in Eugene, Oregon claim to have identified a man named Francois Kemp as the South African point of contact for a shadowy fascist group called ‘The Base.’
Leaked records of organizing chats held by…
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Man Arrested Planning Vegas Attacks Joined Neo-Nazi Party, Leaked Chats Show
Las Vegas, NV – On Friday, August 9, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of 23-year-old Conor Climo for allegedly planning attacks to kill LGBTQ and Jewish people. According to the criminal complaint, Climo discussed making homemade explosives and intended to bomb synagogues, the offices of…
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Exposed: State Department Official Posted in Nazi Charlottesville Chats
Washington, DC – Today, an investigation by reporter Michael Hayden for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s Hatewatch revealed that US State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been active in the neo-nazi movement over the last several years. Leaked Discord chat logs obtained by…
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Inside the American Identity Movement’s Rocky Mountain Chapter
Denver, CO – Newly leaked chats provide a glimpse inside the Colorado and Rocky Mountain region chapters of Identity Evropa, the neo-nazi alt-right group that recently renamed itself the American Identity Movement.
The chats obtained by Unicorn Riot stretch from March into May 2019 and…
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Charlottesville Car Attack Case Ends in Multiple Life Sentences for Nazi Murderer
Charlottesville, VA – On Monday July 15, 2019 in Virginia state court, the criminal prosecution of James Alex Fields, Jr. drew to a close. The 22-year-old white supremacist had previously been sentenced to life in federal prison for his deadly car attack after the Unite…
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Neo-Nazi Gets Multiple Life Sentences In Federal Prison for Charlottesville Car Attack
Charlottesville, VA – Last Friday, June 28, 2019, James Alex Fields appeared for sentencing in federal court on charges related to his deadly car attack after the neo-nazi Unite The Right rally on August 12, 2017. Fields, now age 22, had already pleaded guilty to…
š¦ Racism & Far-Right
Leaked American Identity Movement Chats Show Poorly Hidden Racism
Washington, DCĀ – After rebranding as the ‘American Identity Movement’, the alt-right and neo-Nazi group formerly known as Identity Evropa has tried to forge a new path for “mainstreaming” racism in conservative politics. While previous chat leaks published by Unicorn Riot exposed Identity Evropa’s membership…
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Neo-Nazi Group Identity Evropa Using Cash App to Raise Funds
Washington, DC – Unicorn Riot has confirmed that the alt-right neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa, operating through its new front group the American Identity Movement, is using the payment processor Cash App to receive funds.
[Editorial note: Identity Evropa and the American Identity Movement are proven…
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Neo-Nazis Use Discord Chats to Promote New Zealand Copycat Shootings
When an Australian neo-nazi murdered 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, he was playing into a pre-existing online racist subculture that encourage the kind of attack he carried out. The gunman placed himself in a lineage of white…