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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- NVE
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- CSAM
- ChildExploitation
- RICO
- FederalCase
- TheComNetwork
- Online
start: 2022
location: Online (global)
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: 764 Inferno is the elite inner cell of the 764 network operating a Lorebook CSAM economy, led by Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal at the time of their April 2025 RICO arrests in the District of Columbia.
---
[[764 Inferno]] is the elite inner cell of the [[764 Network|764]] nihilistic violent extremist network, distinguished from the broader 764 ecosystem by its operation of the [[Lorebook]] economy, an internal currency system based on curated collections of [[CSAM]] coerced from victims. Inferno membership requires demonstrating capacity to produce CSAM through 764's coercion model and involves active trading of that material among members to establish and maintain rank. The cell was led by [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] (alias "War") and [[Prasan Nepal]] (alias "Trippy") at the time of their arrests in April 2025 on federal RICO charges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. [[Baron Cain Martin]] (alias "Convict") was named as a co-conspirator in both the DC proceedings and in a separate indictment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in October 2025.[^1]
### Structure and Operations
764 Inferno functions as a gated hierarchy within 764's broader network of approximately 100 active members and hundreds of affiliated chatrooms (as documented in 2025 federal proceedings). Entry into Inferno requires demonstrating coercive capacity through the production of CSAM from new victims, with Lorebook holdings serving as the proof of membership criteria. Inferno members hold authority within the broader 764 ecosystem and direct lower-tier members toward target acquisition.
The network's exploitation model follows a documented escalation sequence: victims are initially recruited through social engineering into producing intimate photographs, then blackmailed with those images into producing self-harm footage (cut signs), then into more severe self-harm footage (blood signs), and in the most extreme documented cases, coerced toward suicidal acts. The footage produced at each stage becomes Lorebook material that the producing member uses to build their Inferno standing.[^2]
Inferno operated across multiple platforms including [[Discord]], [[Telegram]], and encrypted messaging applications. Varagiannis and Nepal coordinated Inferno's activities from the United States (DC area and North Carolina respectively) with co-conspirators and victims internationally. The April 2025 indictment documented at least eight minor victims, some as young as 13 years old.[^1]
### April 2025 Arrests
The FBI arrested Prasan Nepal in North Carolina on April 22, 2025. Leonidas Varagiannis was arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece on April 29, 2025, by Greek authorities acting on U.S. charges. As of mid-2026, Varagiannis was contesting extradition before the Greek Court of Appeals. Nepal was charged in the District of Columbia with CSAM production, distribution, coercion, extortion, and conspiracy, with a potential life sentence.
Both Varagiannis and Nepal were also named as co-conspirators in [[Baron Cain Martin]]'s October 2025 Arizona indictment, connecting the DC proceedings to the broader multi-district 764 enforcement wave.[^1]
### Multi-District Enforcement Coordination
764 Inferno's prosecution represents the DOJ's application of the child exploitation enterprise statute (18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)) and RICO framework to the inner leadership structure of a nihilistic violent extremist network. The Inferno proceedings, the Martin indictment, and the [[Tony Christopher Long]] Eastern District of California case were coordinated components of the multi-district enforcement wave against 764 that produced nine federal arrests and charges between December 2024 and October 2025.
The Martin case added a terrorism count (material support for terrorism) alongside the Inferno-style exploitation enterprise charges, reflecting the DOJ's dual characterization of 764 as both a child exploitation enterprise and a nihilistic violent extremist network.[^3]
### Footnotes
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
[^2]: ISD Global. "764: Networks of Harm." September 2025. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/764-networks-of-harm/; CNA Research. "764 and The Com: Misconceptions and Guidance." April 2026.
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Arizona Leader of Violent Extremist Network '764' Charged with Running a Child Exploitation Enterprise, Supporting Terrorists, Producing and Distributing Child Pornography, and Other Crimes." October 31, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-leader-violent-extremist-network-764-charged-running-child-exploitation-enterprise

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- ViolentExtremism
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- CSAM
- ChildExploitation
- Accelerationism
- O9A
- DomesticTerrorism
- OnlineExtremism
- TheCom
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "764 is a decentralized online child exploitation and coercion network founded around 2020, classified by the FBI as a Tier One terrorist threat with more than 350 active investigations as of 2026, operating within the broader Com ecosystem."
start: 2020
location: "United States (online)"
---
[[764 Network|764]] is a decentralized, transnational network of online groups that engages in the sexual exploitation of minors, production and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), sextortion, coerced self-harm, and the glorification and incitement of real-world violence. The [[U.S. Department of Justice]] (DOJ) classifies 764 and its affiliated groups under the umbrella term "Nihilistic Violent Extremists" (NVEs), defined as individuals who engage in criminal conduct in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals rooted in a hatred of society and a desire to bring about its collapse through chaos and destruction.[^1] As of early 2026, the [[FBI]] was conducting more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and similar networks, with DOJ career officials describing it as "as serious a threat as you can imagine."[^2]
### Origins: CVLT and the Minecraft Server
The immediate precursor to 764 was [[CVLT]], a [[Discord]]-based child exploitation network founded in 2019 by [[Rohan Rane]], a 23-year-old Indian national attending business school in [[Antibes, France]]. Rane built CVLT into a several-hundred-member community in which he lured underage girls from around the world, obtained compromising photographs, and blackmailed victims into escalating self-harm and suicidal acts, all broadcast live over webcam. Rane was arrested in France in 2021.[^3]
The connection between CVLT and 764 runs through a single individual: [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]], a 15-year-old school dropout in [[Texas]] who encountered a CVLT member in a [[Minecraft]] server and absorbed its methods. Cadenhead, operating under the alias "Felix," founded 764 in 2020-2021 and named the group after his local zip code.[^4] He was arrested in August 2021 after investigators traced a CSAM upload on Discord to his mother's apartment, convicted in Texas state court on nine counts of child pornography possession, and sentenced on May 16, 2023 to 80 years in state prison.[^5]
764's founding and early spread coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, which drove vulnerable adolescents deeper into online spaces and created conditions the network exploited for recruitment.
### Ideology: Nihilism, Accelerationism, and O9A Aesthetics
764's ideology carries no coherent political program and affiliates with no single tradition, but it operates within a recognizable environment. At its core, 764 embraces destruction and chaos as ends in themselves, drawing on the [[accelerationism]] current that holds existing social structures must be violently destabilized before any new order can emerge. According to DOJ prosecutors, 764's stated goal is societal collapse and the establishment of a "survival of the fittest" model.[^2]
764 draws heavily on the visual aesthetics and some conceptual apparatus of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), the British occultist neo-Nazi organization. O9A's doctrine of [[Insight Roles]] (in which initiates are required to commit real crimes as a form of spiritual development) maps directly onto 764's content-creation economy, in which members must produce evidence of criminal acts to advance in rank. O9A's published texts, particularly [[Iron Gates]] (published 2014 by [[Tempel ov Blood]] through [[Martinet Press]]), which depicts post-apocalyptic violence including child murder and cannibalism framed as spiritual instruction, circulated through [[Terrorgram]] channels and directly influenced 764's operational environment.[^6] The connection is primarily aesthetic and structural: 764 is not an O9A nexion, and its members do not generally claim O9A affiliation, but both networks share a radicalization pipeline, overlapping personnel, and a common logic of transgression-as-initiation.
### Structure: Hierarchy and Content Economy
764 operates through a nested, cell-based hierarchy that combines operational compartmentalization with a content-production economy. Advancement through the ranks requires documented criminal output:
- Cell Owner: ultimate strategic authority over a given cell
- Council Members: decision-makers on recruitment, promotions, and internal disputes
- Veterans: proven members with substantial histories of producing violent or exploitative content
- Recruits: new members working toward veteran status
- Inner Cells: elite, highly restricted subgroups requiring demonstrated commitment at the veteran level
Internal communications obtained by researchers reveal explicit content quotas. Members seeking advancement were expected to document grooming of minors for self-harm, arson, "brickings" (throwing bricks; three required for advancement), graffiti (five required), and animal cruelty. Animal abuse was characterized within the network as "one of the lowest and easiest transgressive barriers of entry a minor will carry out."[^7] A member identified in court documents as a 764 leader told recruits: "after producing content you'll grow up the ranks, once you hit veteran you'll be invited to the inferno," referring to [[764 Inferno]], the most restricted inner cell and the subject of the [[U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]] RICO case against [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]].[^8]
Operational security within 764 is deliberate: members rotate identities, maintain multiple aliases, use deleted and "ghost" accounts, and create fake "dupe" cells to mislead law enforcement. Cross-cell membership provides resilience against takedowns.[^7]
### Platforms and Recruitment Infrastructure
764 operates primarily across [[Discord]], [[Telegram]], [[Roblox]], and various rotating platforms. Recruiters target online spaces frequented by vulnerable minors, including LGBTQ+ youth, teenagers struggling with mental health issues, and individuals in grief or crisis. The grooming process employs "love bombing" (overwhelming a target with affection and acceptance before obtaining compromising material), followed by escalating blackmail once CSAM is secured.[^1]
The network circulated multiple operational guides: a "Sextortion Handbook" specifying grooming and blackmail techniques, a "Suicide Guide," and a "Dox Guide" for threatening and locating victims. [[Baron Cain Martin]] ("Convict"), the Arizona leader subsequently charged with federal terrorism offenses, wrote and distributed a detailed grooming guide advising 764 members to prioritize victims already struggling with mental health, on the grounds that vulnerability is the primary targeting criterion.[^9]
### Splinter Groups and Network Evolution
After Cadenhead's 2021 arrest and the disruption of 764's original leadership, the network fractured into successor and affiliated groups that researchers and DOJ prosecutors collectively call "[[The Com]]" (short for "the community"). These splinter organizations maintain 764's aesthetic, tactics, and content economy under distinct names. Documented successor groups include [[Harm Nation]], [[CVLTIST]], [[Court]], [[Kaskar]], [[Leak Society]], [[H3ll]], [[6996]], [[7997]], and [[Slit Town]]. Despite operating under separate banners, these groups are considered continuous with 764 due to shared personnel, visual aesthetics, and involvement in child sexual exploitation and online harassment.[^1]
### Federal Prosecutions
The United States government had charged at least 37 people with ties to 764 or affiliated networks as of mid-2026, with more than 350 FBI investigations ongoing.[^2] The most significant cases include:
[[Baron Cain Martin]] ("Convict"), 21, of [[Tucson, Arizona]]: A 29-count superseding indictment returned in the District of Arizona in October 2025 charged Martin with participating in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiring to provide material support to terrorists (the first such charge applied to a 764 member), conspiring to kill or maim persons in a foreign country, five counts of producing CSAM, eleven counts of distributing CSAM, three counts of coercing minors into sexual activity, three counts of cyberstalking, animal crushing, and wire fraud conspiracy. Martin was arrested December 11, 2024 and has been in federal custody since. He allegedly victimized at least nine people, eight of them minors between the ages of 11 and 15. Attorney General [[Pamela Bondi]] and FBI Director [[Kash Patel]] both addressed the case at announcement.[^9]
[[Leonidas Varagiannis]] ("War"), 21, a U.S. citizen residing in [[Thessaloniki, Greece]], and [[Prasan Nepal]] ("Trippy"), 20, of [[North Carolina]]: Charged in the District of Columbia with operating the "764 Inferno" inner cell as a global child exploitation enterprise. Varagiannis was arrested in Greece in April 2025; Nepal was arrested in North Carolina on April 22, 2025. Nepal had been involved with 764 since late 2020, near the network's inception; Varagiannis joined in late 2023. The alleged conspiracy included coercing victims to cut 764 members' names into their bodies, self-immolation, animal abuse, sexual exploitation of siblings, and threats of murder. Victims were as young as 13.[^8]
[[Tony Christopher Long]] ("Inactive," "Inactivee0," "inactivecvx"), 19, of [[Porterville, California]]: A six-count indictment in the Eastern District of California charged Long with animal crushing (two counts), sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of CSAM, cyberstalking, and interstate threats. Long faces a maximum of 69 years in prison and was in state custody on related charges at the time of the federal indictment.[^10]
Additional cases: A former [[U.S. Navy]] petty officer and four others were charged in December 2025 with founding an online extortion group that prosecutors said helped spawn 764. As of April 2026, [[Project Compass]], an operation coordinated by [[Europol]] with participation from 28 countries including all [[Five Eyes]] members, had resulted in the arrest of 30 perpetrators, the partial or full identification of 179 suspects, and the rescue of four victims.[^11]
### Scale of Harm and DOJ Threat Assessment
In the first nine months of 2025, law enforcement received more than 2,000 abuse reports tied to 764, double the rate of the prior year.[^2] Victims have ranged in age from as young as nine years old.
DOJ Trial Attorney [[Justin Sher]] (National Security Division) described 764's content as so extreme that "I don't think Stephen King is dark enough to come up with some of the stuff," noting that members use violent and exploitative content as internal currency to build status.[^2] DOJ Domestic Terrorism Coordinator [[James Donnelly]] characterized the threat as "as serious a threat as you can imagine" and warned that members were "trying to metastasize the evil."[^2] DOJ's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section chief [[Steve Grocki]] noted in rare public comments that current law makes self-harm coercion cases difficult to prosecute and that the government has had to employ creative applications of existing statutes.[^2]
### Documented Attacks and Violence Attribution
As of May 2026, the most direct connection between the 764 ecosystem and lethal real-world violence came through the accelerationist ideological pipeline 764 shares with groups like [[Atomwaffen Division]] and [[Terrorgram Collective]], rather than through a confirmed 764 member committing a mass casualty attack. The two perpetrators of the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting]], [[Cain Clark]] (17) and [[Caleb Vazquez]] (18), cited Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram in their manifestos but had no confirmed direct 764 affiliation. Europe-based groups in the 764 network have been linked to at least three stabbing sprees. The DOJ's terrorism charge against Baron Cain Martin (based on a conspiracy to direct a foreign victim to self-harm and self-kill) represents the first formal legal recognition that 764's coercive violence constitutes terrorism.[^9]
### Footnotes
[^1]: ISD Global. "764." Explainer, 2025. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/764/
[^2]: Sher, Justin; Donnelly, James; Grocki, Steve; Babu, Kavitha. Quoted in: "In rare public comments, career DOJ officials offer chilling warnings about online network 764." *ABC News*, 2026. https://abcnews.com/US/rare-public-comments-career-doj-officials-offer-chilling/story?id=128526657
[^3]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn
[^4]: ADL. "764." Backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
[^5]: CyberScoop. "Leaders of 764, global child sextortion group, arrested and charged." 2025. https://cyberscoop.com/764-leaders-arrested-charged-child-sextortion/
[^6]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization." https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/
[^7]: "Blood, Betrayal, and Branding: Inside 764's Hierarchy of Horrors." *maargentino.com*, 2025. https://www.maargentino.com/blood-betrayal-and-branding-inside-764s-hierarchy-of-horrors/
[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." Press Release, April 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Arizona Leader of Violent Extremist Network '764' Charged with Running a Child Exploitation Enterprise, Supporting Terrorists, Producing and Distributing Child Pornography, and Other Crimes." Press Release, October 31, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-leader-violent-extremist-network-764-charged-running-child-exploitation-enterprise
[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Member of Violent Extremist Network '764' Charged with Animal Crushing, Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Cyberstalking and Interstate Threats." Press Release, October 27, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-violent-extremist-network-764-charged-animal-crushing-sexual-exploitation-minor
[^11]: CyberScoop. "Project Compass is Europol's new playbook for taking on The Com." https://cyberscoop.com/project-compass-the-com-europol/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- IronMarch
- Australia
- SiegeCulture
start: 2016
location: "Australia"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Antipodean Resistance was an Australian neo-Nazi organization announced on Iron March in October 2016 by founding member Tim Heibach, several of whose leadership members were identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak."
---
[[Antipodean Resistance]] was an Australian neo-Nazi organization formed in October 2016 and announced to the [[Iron March]] community on October 10, 2016, in a post inviting Australian Iron March users to contact founding members operating under the usernames "Xav" and "Kehlsteinhaus." It was one of several offline organizations incubated directly by Iron March during the forum's active period, alongside [[National Action]] (UK) and [[Atomwaffen Division]] (US).
### Founding on Iron March
The October 10, 2016 Iron March announcement identified two initial points of contact and described the group as an Australian analog to the transnational neo-Nazi organizations being built elsewhere through the forum's community. The group adopted the slogan "We're the Hitlers you've been waiting for" and incorporated Nazi symbols, skull masks, and accelerationist ideology consistent with the Iron March milieu.[^1]
[[Tim Heibach]], who operated under the username "Xav" and additional aliases "Mathew Baston" and "Matty B," was the founding member identified through the username listed in the original Iron March announcement. The 2019 [[Iron March]] database leak confirmed Heibach, a Melbourne-based individual, as the person behind "Xav." He is considered a founding member of Antipodean Resistance based on his role in the initial announcement and early organizational activity.[^1]
[[Nathaniel Anderson]], operating under the usernames "HalArts" and "Rusty Sandusky," was identified through the database leak as another early Antipodean Resistance member from the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne. [[Jacob Hersant]] was identified as a further member of the founding cohort.[^1]
### Organizational Character
Antipodean Resistance modeled itself on [[National Action]] and [[Atomwaffen Division]], organizing around physical fitness culture, propaganda production, and occasional demonstrations. It circulated printed materials including posters that targeted LGBTQ+ communities, Jewish institutions, and asylum seekers. Like its Iron March sibling organizations, it drew ideologically on [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]* and on the accelerationist framework that Iron March had popularized beginning in 2015.
The group operated during a period when Australian authorities had not yet developed systematic responses to neo-Nazi accelerationist formations. It is not known to have been formally proscribed under Australian law as of 2026.
### Footnotes
[^1]: The White Rose Society. "Antipodean Resistance and the Lads Society." https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/antipodean-resistance-and-the-lads-society; Times of Israel Blogs. "Antipodean Resistance: Australia's New Nazis." https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antipodean-resistance-australias-new-nazis/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- AtomwaffenDivision
- O9A
- TemplovBlood
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- DomesticTerrorism
- Military
- Russia
- RussianImperialMovement
- USA
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Atomwaffen Division was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary network founded by Brandon Russell in 2015, linked to multiple murders and terrorism plots, that received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg, and dissolved through federal prosecutions after 2020."
start: 2015
end: 2020
location: "United States"
---
[[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD, German for "atomic weapons division") was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary organization founded in 2015 by [[Brandon Russell]] and initially announced on the neo-fascist web forum [[Iron March]]. Before it effectively dissolved through a series of federal prosecutions between 2020 and 2022, AWD was linked by law enforcement and journalists to at least five murders and numerous terrorism plots, and it underwent a major ideological transformation beginning in 2017 when the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]] infiltrated its leadership and converted it into an occultist accelerationist organization drawing heavily on the [[Insight Roles]] doctrine and the texts of [[Martinet Press]].
### Founding on Iron March
AWD was officially announced to the Iron March community on October 12, 2015, by Brandon Russell. [[Iron March]] was a neo-fascist web forum founded in 2011 by Russian nationalist [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] (alias "Alexander Slavros") and active until its closure in 2017. It served as the incubator for several neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations in the United States and Europe during that period. Russell had been organizing AWD for years before the Iron March announcement, claiming later that he had been recruiting since at least 2012.
AWD's founding ideology drew heavily on [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, a collection of essays from Mason's 1980-1986 newsletter for the [[National Socialist Liberation Front]], compiled and published as a book in 1992 by Storm Books. *Siege* explicitly advocates lone-wolf terrorism and accelerationist violence, arguing that the collapse of liberal democratic society can be hastened through cascading terrorist attacks. Iron March had rediscovered and popularized *Siege* in 2015, and it became the ideological lodestar for AWD and the broader network of groups that emerged from the Iron March milieu.[^1]
AWD operated through small local cells, maintained a presence across the United States and in several other countries, and conducted "Hate Camp" paramilitary trainings that combined firearms training with ideological instruction. At its peak the organization ran chapters in most major American urban areas.
### The Tampa Murders and Russell's First Arrest
The first major law enforcement action against AWD emerged not from federal counterterrorism operations but from a homicide in Tampa, Florida. On May 19, 2017, [[Devon Arthurs]], an AWD co-founder and roommate of Russell who had converted from neo-Nazism to Islam, shot and killed two fellow AWD members: [[Andrew Oneschuk]] (18) and [[Jeremy Himmelman]] (22), both from Massachusetts. Arthurs told police they had mocked his Islamic conversion and that they were planning terrorist attacks.
When police arrested Arthurs that night and searched the apartment he shared with Russell and the victims, they found ammonium nitrate, nitromethane, homemade detonators, hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD), and two radioactive substances (thorium and americium) in Russell's possession. An FBI bomb technician assessed the materials as powerful enough to destroy an airliner. Russell, then 21, was arrested the same night.[^2]
In September 2017, Russell pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing an unregistered destructive device and illegally storing explosives. In January 2018 he was sentenced to five years in federal prison. He was released in August 2021.
### Additional AWD-Linked Violence
#### Nicholas Giampa (December 2017)
[[Nicholas Giampa]], a 17-year-old from [[Lorton, Virginia]] who was an AWD follower (though not a formal member), shot and killed Scott Fricker and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, the parents of his girlfriend, in their [[Reston, Virginia]] home on December 22, 2017. Giampa maintained a Twitter account under the handle @RyanAtomwaffen that shared AWD propaganda. After the shootings he turned the gun on himself, surviving with severe brain damage. He was indicted in Fairfax County Circuit Court on two counts of first-degree murder. The case never reached trial: Giampa was found incompetent in August 2018, had competency restored briefly, was found incompetent again in 2023, and died in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on August 22-23, 2024.[^8]
#### Samuel Woodward (January 2018)
[[Samuel Woodward]], a [[Newport Beach, California]] resident and AWD member documented through photographs at Texas training camps and encrypted chat logs, murdered [[Blaze Bernstein]], a 19-year-old gay Jewish [[University of Pennsylvania]] student, in Borrego Park in [[Lake Forest, California]] on January 2, 2018, stabbing Bernstein 28 times and burying him in a shallow grave. Bernstein's body was not discovered until January 10. AWD members celebrated the killing in encrypted communications. Woodward was tried in Orange County Superior Court before Judge [[Kimberly Menninger]]; a jury found him guilty with a hate crime enhancement on July 3, 2024. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on November 15, 2024.[^9]
### Tempel ov Blood Infiltration (2017)
Shortly before the Tampa murders, AWD's Texas leader [[John Cameron Denton]] had begun cultivating a relationship with [[Tempel ov Blood]], the American nexion of the [[Order of Nine Angles]], and its leader [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]. Denton was attracted to ToB's synthesis of National Socialism and Satanic occultism. He invited ToB members into AWD in the spring of 2017, and Sutter joined under the alias "swissdiscipline."
Sutter attended AWD's Hate Camps in 2017 and 2018 and organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in Las Vegas in September 2019, using FBI-provided funds to cover member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], author of *Siege* and the ideological godfather of the AWD milieu, made his first documented in-person appearance with AWD at the Nuclear Congress, delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks against the government. At least nine O9A/ToB members came to hold key positions within AWD. Denton made the Martinet Press publications (*[[Iron Gates]]*, *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members, and AWD's online presence began promoting O9A aesthetics and texts alongside the existing *Siege* culture.[^3]
The merger was controversial within AWD. Members who had joined as straightforward National Socialists objected to Satanism as ideological contamination. Several left. Those who remained were exposed to a framework that construed murder as spiritual practice and the group's violence as evidence of O9A-style initiatory transgression.
Sutter was, throughout his entire time in AWD, a paid FBI informant. His informant status and the specific financial details of his arrangement were revealed in 2021 through court documents in the prosecution of Kaleb Cole. The government acknowledged that Sutter's work was "instrumental in the prosecutions" against AWD members.[^4]
### Swatting Campaign and Denton's Arrest
In October 2018 and continuing through at least April 2019, Denton and other AWD members organized a coordinated "swatting" campaign (calling emergency services with false reports of imminent violence to send armed police to an unwitting target's address). The targets included a Virginia university, an unnamed former U.S. Cabinet member, a historic Black church outside [[Washington, D.C.]], an Islamic Center in [[Arlington, Texas]], and members of various minority communities across the United States, in what prosecutors called "the most widespread swatting conspiracy in the country" known to federal law enforcement.
Denton was arrested in a raid on his home in Conroe, Texas, on February 26, 2020. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia in May 2021 to 41 months in prison, with a hate crime enhancement applied. Denton expressed no remorse at sentencing.[^5]
### Cole's Intimidation Campaign and Conviction
[[Kaleb Cole]], the senior AWD figure in [[Washington state]], organized a separate parallel campaign: in January 2020, Cole and associates mailed threatening posters to the homes of Jewish activists and journalists of color. The posters, which included swastikas, skulls, and phrases such as "We know where you live" and "Death to Pigs," were also affixed to victims' homes. Cole was convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Washington on all five counts, including conspiracy to commit hate crimes, mailing threatening communications, and cyberstalking, and was sentenced in 2022 to 84 months (seven years) in prison.[^6]
It was the Cole prosecution that, through motion-to-suppress filings, revealed Sutter's status as an FBI informant. The filings described the confidential informant without naming him, but the details made identification apparent.[^4]
### The Melzer Plot
[[Ethan Phelan Melzer]], a Private in the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy, was arrested in May 2020 after he transmitted classified intelligence about his unit's planned deployment to Turkey to O9A members on [[Telegram]], operating under the alias "Etil Reggad." The classified material included base locations, personnel numbers, defensive capabilities, and satellite imagery, with the stated intention of enabling a mass-casualty attack on American soldiers by a combination of Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces and O9A members. Melzer was convicted in the Southern District of New York, where he described himself as "a traitor against the United States whose conduct was tantamount to treason," and was sentenced in March 2023 to 45 years in prison.[^7]
The Melzer case demonstrated that AWD/O9A influence had penetrated the U.S. military, consistent with earlier reports about [[Jarrett William Smith]], an Army specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas, arrested in 2019 for distributing explosives manuals and discussing attacks on anti-fascist groups and media organizations.
### Military Penetration: Documented Cases
AWD's penetration of the U.S. and allied militaries was not incidental to its ideology. Russell, in a 2016 post on Iron March later cited in a 2020 [[Pentagon]] report to Congress, wrote "I was 100% open about everything with the friends I made at training. They know about it all. They love me too cause I'm a funny guy." The same report noted that AWD and similar groups explicitly targeted veterans and active-duty members for their weapons training and tactical knowledge.[^10]
Russell himself served in the [[Florida Army National Guard]] (Company C, 53rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, [[53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team]], Pinellas Park) from February 2016 while simultaneously leading AWD. Devon Arthurs's statements to detectives revealed to law enforcement that joining the military was an organizational strategy. Russell was dishonorably discharged as a consequence of his 2017 explosives conviction.
[[Vasillios George Pistolis]], a Lance Corporal assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 8, [[2nd Marine Logistics Group]], [[Camp Lejeune]], was identified in May 2018 by [[ProPublica]] as an AWD member who participated in the [[Unite the Right rally|2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally]], where he was photographed beating a protester with a flagpole. He was found guilty at a summary court-martial on June 19, 2018, for failure to obey an order and making a false official statement, and was administratively separated from the Marine Corps on July 11, 2018.[^11]
[[David Cole Tarkington]], an aviation machinist mate's apprentice with [[Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-41]] (the "Black Aces") at [[Naval Air Station Lemoore]], California, was identified in March 2020 via the leaked Iron March data as a prolific AWD recruiter. Operating under the username "The Yank" on Iron March from 2013 to 2016, he attempted to recruit at least twelve Iron March members into AWD. [[NCIS]] investigated following Gizmodo's reporting, and Tarkington was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020. No criminal charges were filed.[^12]
Jarrett William Smith, a Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas, was arrested September 21, 2019. He was an admirer of AWD and a member of [[Feuerkrieg Division]]. He pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing IED and napalm instructions (18 U.S.C. § 842(p)(2)(A)) and was sentenced to 30 months by Judge [[Daniel D. Crabtree]] in the District of Kansas.
Ethan Phelan Melzer, a Private in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, was arrested June 2020. An active O9A and AWD member operating within the [[RapeWaffen Division]] nexion, he transmitted classified unit intelligence to O9A contacts to facilitate a mass-casualty attack on his platoon. He pleaded guilty on June 24, 2022, to attempted murder of U.S. service members (18 U.S.C. § 1114), material support to terrorists ([[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]), and unlawful transmission of national defense information (18 U.S.C. § 793(d)). He was sentenced to 45 years on March 6, 2023, by Judge [[Gregory H. Woods]], S.D.N.Y.
[[Patrik Jordan Mathews]], a master corporal in the Canadian Army Reserve's [[38 Combat Engineer Regiment]], was identified as a [[The Base]] member in August 2019 and fled to the United States, where he was arrested January 16, 2020, in connection with a plot to attack the [[Virginia Citizens Defense League]] rally. He was sentenced to nine years in U.S. federal prison on October 28, 2021.[^13]
A related case not constituting AWD membership but involving AWD-adjacent Iron March networks: [[Liam Collins (AWD)|Liam Collins]] and [[Jordan Duncan]], former Marines from Camp Lejeune, participated with civilian co-conspirators in an Iron March network that planned power grid attacks in the northwestern United States, using AWD skull masks in training videos. Collins was sentenced to 10 years and Duncan to 7 years in the [[Eastern District of North Carolina]] in 2024.[^14]
The Florida Guard's two-page summary investigation of Russell following Arthurs's 2017 arrest contained no mention of Arthurs's warnings about AWD military infiltration and produced no documented alert to other military branches. ProPublica/Frontline's 2018 investigation found no evidence the Guard notified other services. The FBI declined to comment on what steps it took.[^10]
### Russian Imperial Movement Training
AWD's transnational connections included a documented training relationship with the [[Russian Imperial Movement]] (RIM), a [[St. Petersburg]]-based white supremacist paramilitary organization designated a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] entity by the [[U.S. Department of State]] on April 7, 2020.
In 2018, AWD leader [[Kaleb Cole]] and AWD member [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]], both from Olympia, [[Washington state]], traveled to Europe. According to investigative reporting drawing on federal prosecution materials, they crossed into [[Russia]] via the Donbas green corridor in [[Ukraine]] and attended RIM's [[Partizan]] training camp in St. Petersburg. The training covered firearms, explosives, squad movement, and small-unit tactics, conducted by former Russian military personnel. After completing training, Cole and Bruce-Umbaugh passed through Poland and photographed themselves at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp before returning to the United States. Cole continued directing AWD's national leadership until his February 2020 federal arrest. Bruce-Umbaugh was charged in the Northern District of Texas (5:19-cr-00130) and sentenced to 30 months on a firearms count on April 28, 2020.[^15]
In approximately 2020, RIM provided additional training at Partizan to other American nationals affiliated with AWD, in a separate arrangement from the 2018 Cole/Bruce-Umbaugh trip. The [[CTC West Point]] analysis of the skull-mask neo-fascist network documented this second training cohort.[^16]
The RIM connection places AWD within a documented infrastructure of Russian-based paramilitary training for Western neo-Nazis. RIM's Partizan facility was the same camp that trained two members of the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] from Sweden before they carried out bombings in Gothenburg in January 2017, the case that ultimately prompted the U.S. SDGT designation. RIM's paramilitary wing, the [[Imperial Legion]], also sent volunteers to fight alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine from 2014. The co-location of AWD's leadership training with this infrastructure in St. Petersburg, in the same city where [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] (founder of [[The Base]]) relocated in 2017-2018, describes a pattern of Western accelerationist organization access to Russian-based paramilitary resources in a single geographic node.[^17]
### Russell's Second Arrest and Grid Attack Conviction
After his August 2021 release from federal prison, Russell was arrested again in February 2023, this time for planning attacks on electric power substations in the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] area. He was convicted and sentenced on August 7, 2025 to 20 years in federal prison.[^2]
### Organizational Legacy
AWD effectively ceased to exist as a functioning organization through the combination of federal prosecutions against its leadership, Russell's imprisonment, Denton's imprisonment, Cole's imprisonment, and the dispersal of members. The organizational model AWD pioneered (small autonomous cells, *Siege*-style lone-wolf glorification, O9A-inflected occult initiation, Hate Camps, and direct paramilitary training) has been replicated or adapted by successor networks. AWD's influence on [[Terrorgram Collective]] and on the broader accelerationist pipeline that informed the manifestos of [[Cain Clark]] and [[Caleb Vazquez]] in the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting]] is documented in the manifestos themselves, which explicitly cite Atomwaffen Division as an inspiration.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^2]: CNN. "Brandon Russell: Neo-Nazi group leader convicted of plotting Maryland power grid attack." February 4, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/neo-nazi-maryland-grid-attack
[^3]: Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^4]: Vice. "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDVA. "Former Atomwaffen Division Leader Sentenced for Swatting Conspiracy." Press Release, May 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/former-atomwaffen-division-leader-sentenced-swatting-conspiracy
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Sentenced for Plot to Target Journalists and Advocates." https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-sentenced-plot-target-journalists-and-advocates
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush." Press Release, March 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service
[^8]: Washington Post. "A teenager who followed neo-Nazi propaganda online killed his girlfriend's parents. He never stood trial." https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/nicholas-giampa-atomwaffen-death/; Courthouse News Service. "Atomwaffen Follower Nicholas Giampa Dies in Jail Without Trial." August 2024.
[^9]: Los Angeles Times. "Jury finds Newport Beach man guilty of hate crime murder of gay, Jewish college student." July 3, 2024. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-03/samuel-woodward-hate-crime-murder-verdict; Orange County District Attorney. "Samuel Lincoln Woodward Sentenced to Life Without Possibility of Parole." Press Release, November 2024.
[^10]: Roll Call. "Pentagon Report Reveals Inroads White Supremacists Have Made in Military." February 2021. https://rollcall.com/2021/02/16/pentagon-report-reveals-inroads-white-supremacists-have-made-in-military/; ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery; Tampa Bay Times. "How Did Florida National Guard Miss Soldier's Neo-Nazi Leanings?" 2017. https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/how-did-florida-national-guard-miss-soldiers-neo-nazi-leanings/2324930/
[^11]: ProPublica. "U.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups; Marine Corps Times. "Neo-Nazi Marine Found Guilty at Summary Court-Martial." June 19, 2018. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/06/19/neo-nazi-marine-found-guilty-at-summary-court-martial/
[^12]: Gizmodo. "Leak Exposes U.S. Navy Sailor as Once-Prolific Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group." March 12, 2020. https://gizmodo.com/leak-exposes-u-s-navy-sailor-as-once-prolific-recruite-1841149776; Newsweek. "Navy Kicks Out Alleged Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division After Investigation." April 2020. https://www.newsweek.com/navy-kicks-out-alleged-recruiter-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-division-after-investigation-1498704
[^13]: CBC News. "U.S. Judge Sentences Manitoban Ex-Reservist Patrik Mathews to 9 Years in Prison for Role in Neo-Nazi Plot." October 28, 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patrik-mathews-sentencing-1.6226116
[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNC. "Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities." 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
[^15]: Malcontent News. "Washington's Defunct Atomwaffen Division had Deep Ties to the Terrorist Org, Russia Imperialist Movement." July 4, 2022. https://malcontentment.com/washingtons-defunct-atomwaffen-division-had-deep-ties-to-the-terrorist-org-russia-imperialist-movement/; Cipher Brief. "Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages; GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0
[^16]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^17]: U.S. Department of State. "Designation of Russian Imperial Movement and its Leaders as Global Terrorists." April 7, 2020. https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-u-s-department-of-states-designation-of-the-russian-imperial-movement-and-its-leaders-as-global-terrorists/index.html; Soufan Center. "Russia's Links to Neo-Nazi Terrorist Groups Demonstrates its Hybrid Warfare Toolkit." May 8, 2025. https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2025-may-8/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- UK
- Music
- BloodAndHonour
- CombatEighteen
- WhitePower
start: 1987
location: "United Kingdom"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Blood and Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion and distribution network founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in July 1987, whose infrastructure was absorbed by Combat 18 after Donaldson's death in 1993 and which provided the financial base and transnational connections that sustained C18's activities through the mid-1990s."
---
[[Blood and Honour]] (B&H) is a neo-Nazi music promotion and distribution network founded in the [[United Kingdom]] in July 1987 by [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]], frontman of the neo-Nazi band [[Skrewdriver]], and [[Nicky Crane]]. It emerged from a dispute with the [[National Front]]'s [[White Noise Club]], the previous vehicle for right-wing extremist music in Britain, over Donaldson's objection that White Noise Club revenue was being diverted to NF political campaigns rather than retained by the music scene. Blood and Honour grew into the primary global network for white-power music distribution and neo-Nazi concert promotion, spanning multiple countries by the early 1990s. After Donaldson's death in September 1993, [[Combat 18]] absorbed control of the network, using its revenue and transnational infrastructure to sustain C18's paramilitary activities.[^1]
### Founding and Split from White Noise Club
Donaldson had operated under the [[White Noise Club]] since the early 1980s when it was created as a subsidiary of the National Front to manage [[Rock Against Communism]] events and the White Noise Records label. Tensions developed by 1987 over revenue allocation and control. Donaldson's Skrewdriver officially split from White Noise Club in May 1987, and several affiliated bands followed. Blood and Honour was launched as an independent alternative in July 1987, with the first issue of its namesake magazine. Founding associated bands included [[No Remorse]], [[Brutal Attack]], [[Sudden Impact]], and [[Squadron]].[^2]
### Nicky Crane
[[Nicky Crane]] (born 21 May 1958, died 7 December 1993) was B&H's co-founder and served as a key organiser. He had joined the [[British Movement]] in the late 1970s and was one of the most physically imposing figures in the British neo-Nazi scene, appearing on album covers and acting as a concert security figure. A photograph of Crane giving a Nazi salute became widely circulated as an emblem of the British neo-Nazi scene. In July 1992, he came out as gay in a segment of Channel 4's *Out* programme, a disclosure that immediately led to his repudiation by Donaldson and the broader neo-Nazi community. Donaldson, quoted at the time, stated: "I feel more betrayed by him than anybody else." Crane died from an AIDS-related illness on 7 December 1993, the same year as Donaldson's death, aged 36.[^3]
### Combat 18 Takeover
Following Donaldson's death in a road traffic accident in September 1993, [[Charlie Sargent]] and [[Combat 18]] moved to take control of Blood and Honour and its associated record label [[ISD Records]]. The music distribution network provided C18 with a substantial income stream and a transnational organisational infrastructure connecting British neo-Nazis to counterparts in Germany, Scandinavia, and North America. [[Blood and Honour Scandinavia]], which had developed as a semi-autonomous regional affiliate, was involved in the 1997 letter-bomb campaign connected to C18 activity.[^4]
Control of Blood and Honour was one of the central disputes in the feud between Sargent and [[Wilf Browning]] that ended in the murder of [[Christopher Castle]] in 1997. The financial value of the music business made it worth fighting over in ways that purely ideological disputes might not have been.
### Current Status
Blood and Honour continues to operate internationally as a neo-Nazi network, though its UK presence has been disrupted by law enforcement actions. The organisation has been banned in Germany, Russia, Spain, and several other European countries. In the United Kingdom, it has not been proscribed, though individual members have faced charges under existing laws. B&H's transnational reach makes it a continuing conduit for the distribution of extremist material connecting British and continental European neo-Nazi scenes.[^5]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Counter Extremism Project. "Blood and Honour." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/blood-honour-bh; HOPE not hate. "Case file: Blood and Honour." https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-blood-and-honour/
[^2]: Channel 4 News. "Ian Stuart Donaldson and a legacy of hate." https://www.channel4.com/news/ian-stuart-donaldson-a-legacy-of-hate
[^3]: Nicky Crane. Anti-Fascist Archive. "Nicky Crane: The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi." https://antifascistarchive.net/2013/12/09/nicky-crane-the-secret-double-life-of-a-gay-neo-nazi/
[^4]: Lowles, Nick. *White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18.* Milo Books, 2001.
[^5]: Southern Poverty Law Center. "Blood and Honour." https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/blood-honour/; Henry Jackson Society. "Blood and Honour." https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/BLOOD-AND-HNOUR.pdf

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- CVLT
- ChildExploitation
- CSAM
- Sextortion
- 764Predecessor
- France
- OrderOfNineAngles
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "CVLT was a Discord-based child exploitation network founded in 2019 by Rohan Rane that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model later replicated by the 764 network, making it 764's direct organizational predecessor."
start: 2019
end: 2022
location: "Antibes, France"
---
[[CVLT]] was a [[Discord]]-based child exploitation network founded in 2019 by [[Rohan Rane]], a then-23-year-old Indian national attending a top business school in [[Antibes, France]]. CVLT developed and deployed the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model that [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]] subsequently adapted when founding the [[764 Network|764]] network in 2020-2021. CVLT is documented by researchers as the direct organizational predecessor of 764, connected to it through a single contact between Cadenhead and a CVLT member in a [[Minecraft]] server.[^1]
### Founding and Methods
Rane founded CVLT in 2019. Beginning with a small community of a few hundred members, he recruited underage girls from around the world into a Discord community, obtained compromising sexual photographs and videos from them through social engineering, and then used that material as leverage to blackmail victims into escalating acts of self-harm, up to and including suicidal behavior. The acts were recorded on webcam and broadcast live within the CVLT Discord server, functioning both as content and as internal currency establishing Rane's status and the network's cohesion.[^1]
The indictment (United States v. Rane et al., [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)|2:25-cr-00040]]) refers to the platform as "Platform D," understood to be Discord. Coercion tactics documented in DOJ filings and press releases included compelling victims to cut themselves, drink their own urine, punch themselves, use racial slurs against themselves, and carve CVLT members' names into their skin with razor blades. The terminal escalation was pressuring victims to kill themselves on a video livestream. The group targeted vulnerable girls, often those with a history of mental health struggles or prior sexual abuse, exposing them first to neo-Nazi and violent extremist content to normalize degradation before direct coercion began.[^2]
CVLT operated from at least 2019 to 2022. Federal prosecutors charged that Rane, [[Collin Walker]], and [[Kaleb Merritt]] acted as leaders and administrators, hosting and running CVLT servers, controlling membership and access, and directing victims during the creation of extortion videos. [[Clint Borge]] participated as a member and directed and instructed victims during coercion sessions. Two unnamed minor co-conspirators are referenced in the indictment, one of whom was also a victim.[^3]
Early CVLT leaders including Walker and Merritt adopted [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]]-influenced online aliases: Walker used "WRATH/O9A.WRATH" and Merritt used "eTerror/o9a.evil," signaling the group's integration of neo-Nazi occultism alongside nihilism and pedophilia as core ideological principles.[^4]
### Transmission to 764 and Downstream Networks
Cadenhead, a 15-year-old school dropout in [[Stephenville, Texas]], encountered a CVLT member in a Minecraft server and through that conversation absorbed CVLT's methods. Cadenhead then founded 764 in 2020-2021, naming it after local ZIP codes 76401/76402 and using Discord as his initial platform. The CVLT-to-764 transmission through Minecraft is the documented origin event of 764 as a distinct network.[^1]
Following Cadenhead's 2021 arrest and the 2025 federal prosecution of CVLT's leadership, a splinter group called [[CVLTIST]] emerged as a named downstream entity within [[The Com]] ecosystem. CVLT's victim count and operational methods were explicitly cited by [[NCITE]] (National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha) alongside CVLT's contemporaneous precursor [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg) in documenting 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes across the three connected networks as of December 2025.[^5]
### French Investigation and Rane's Arrest
An [[FBI]] agent became aware of CVLT in spring 2020 while investigating a 15-year-old American girl who had unsuccessfully attempted suicide under coercion. The FBI passed findings to [[Police Nationale]] (France), which initiated a judicial investigation on October 6, 2020 through the [[OCRVP]] (Office Central pour la Répression des Violences aux Personnes). Rane was arrested in France on April 6, 2021, and has been in French custody since 2022. In France he faces charges of "acts of torture and barbarity," "corruption of minors in an organized gang," and "extortion in an organized gang." As of May 2026 he remains in French custody pending extradition to the United States.[^3]
### Federal Prosecution (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
The federal investigation was conducted by [[Homeland Security Investigations]] (HSI) Los Angeles, HSI Cherry Hill (New Jersey), and HSI Honolulu, in collaboration with the [[Los Angeles Police Department]], [[San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office]], [[Henry County Sheriff's Office]] (Virginia), [[Iowa State University Police Department]] (ISUPD), and Police Nationale (France).[^3]
The Iowa State link was critical. In November 2020, an Iowa State University freshman reported to ISUPD that she was being blackmailed with images taken when she was 16. ISUPD Officer [[Kami Feld]] conducted the investigation, issuing subpoenas to electronic service providers including Google, PayPal, Venmo, Instagram, and Facebook. When the subpoenas returned IP activity from Hawaii, Oregon, and California, and revealed a digital wallet address at 4 Goldfield Road in Honolulu, Feld cross-referenced the address and identified it as the residence of Clint Borge, the fourth core leader, whose Discord alias "Whoops" had been known to federal investigators without a real-world identity.[^6]
The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025, in the [[Central District of California]]. The indictment was unsealed approximately February 4-5, 2025. All four defendants were charged in a single count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]], carrying a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. The enterprise theory required proof that the defendants (1) violated specified child exploitation statutes, (2) across three or more separate incidents, (3) involving more than one victim, (4) in concert with three or more other persons. The four named defendants and two unnamed minor co-conspirators together constituted the enterprise.[^3]
Walker and Borge were physically arrested in New Jersey and Hawaii respectively when the indictment was unsealed. Merritt was already incarcerated in Virginia. Rane remained in French custody pending extradition.[^3]
### Plea Record
Collin Walker pleaded guilty in October 2025. Clint Borge pleaded guilty in December 2025. Kaleb Merritt pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026. All three pleaded to one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g). Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] of the Central District of California scheduled all three sentencing hearings: Walker for January 29, 2026; Borge for March 12, 2026; Merritt for January 7, 2027. Walker and Borge sentencing outcomes had not been publicly announced by DOJ as of May 2026 (their hearings having preceded the Merritt plea). Rohan Rane, as of May 2026, remains in French custody awaiting extradition and has not entered a US plea.[^7]
### Footnotes
[^1]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn; Marc-Andre Argentino. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.maargentino.com/cvlt-historical-threat-assessment-of-the-precursor-to-764/
[^2]: Rolling Stone. "Violent Online Group CVLT Coerced Kids to Self-Harm, DOJ Says." February 2025. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/violent-online-group-cvlt-indicted-1235258786/
[^3]: HSI. "HSI Los Angeles, Cherry Hill, and Honolulu special agents arrest members of online neo-Nazi group on child exploitation enterprise charges." ICE.gov, February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo; U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Four Members of Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Minors Charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse
[^4]: Medium/chokingonsignal. "Com, Extortion Groups, and the Order of Nine Angles." https://chokingonsignal.medium.com/com-extortion-groups-and-the-order-of-nine-angles-9fe1f8419526; ADL "764" backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
[^5]: NCITE. "Prosecuting 764: An Examination of Federal and State Charges." University of Nebraska Omaha, December 2025. https://www.unomaha.edu/ncite/news/2025/12/764-landing-page.php
[^6]: Iowa State Daily. "How ISUPD uncovered a Neo-Nazi sexual predator ring." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/335620/news/how-the-isupd-uncovered-a-neo-nazi-sexual-predator-ring/; Iowa State University News Service. "A call for help leads ISU Police to sexual predator, international investigation." February 12, 2025. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2025/02/12/isu-police-exploitation
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Children into Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." March 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-participating-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-children-producing-child; United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040 (C.D. Cal.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69613728/united-states-v-rane/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- UK
- TerroristOrganization
- Proscribed
- CombatEighteen
- BloodAndHonour
- UDA
- SpecialBranch
start: 1992
end: 1998
location: "United Kingdom"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Combat 18 was a British neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation founded in 1992 as a BNP stewarding group, responsible for numerous violent attacks and linked to international neo-Nazi networks and loyalist paramilitaries, proscribed by the UK Home Office in February 2020 under S.I. 2020/200."
---
[[Combat 18]] (C18) was a British neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation founded in early 1992 by [[Charlie Sargent]] and [[Wilf Browning]], initially as a stewarding group for the [[British National Party]] to protect its events from anti-fascist counter-demonstrators. The name is a numerical reference to the initials of [[Adolf Hitler]] (A=1, H=8). C18 quickly developed an independent identity as an organisation committed to open violence rather than electoral politics, split from the BNP in 1993, and maintained documented connections to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] and international neo-Nazi networks throughout the mid-1990s. Its core leadership was destroyed by an internal feud that resulted in the murder of [[Christopher Castle]] in 1997 and the life imprisonment of Sargent and his associate [[Martin Cross]] in January 1998. The organisation was proscribed by the UK Home Office under the [[Terrorism Act 2000]] (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2020, S.I. 2020/200, which came into force in February 2020.[^1]
### Founding and BNP Split
The BNP formed C18 in 1992 primarily to provide muscle against [[Anti-Fascist Action]] and other left-wing counter-demonstration groups. Charlie Sargent, who had previously been the flatmate of [[Blood and Honour]] founder [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]], was a founding figure. Sargent rejected the BNP's electoral strategy as ineffective and in 1993 broke decisively from the party, transforming C18 into an autonomous paramilitary grouping. Following Donaldson's death in a car crash in September 1993, C18 took control of [[Blood and Honour]], the neo-Nazi music promotion network Donaldson had founded in 1987, along with its associated label [[ISD Records]]. The music business generated revenue that funded C18's activities.[^2]
### Blood and Honour
[[Blood and Honour]] was founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson and [[Nicky Crane]] in July 1987 as a neo-Nazi music promotion and distribution network, emerging from a split with the [[National Front]]'s [[White Noise Club]]. Donaldson, frontman of the band [[Skrewdriver]], had co-operated with the White Noise Club until 1987, when disputes over revenue allocation led to a break. Blood and Honour launched with its first magazine issue in July 1987 and became the primary vehicle for distributing white-power music across Europe. After Donaldson's 1993 death and Crane's death from an AIDS-related illness in December 1993, C18 absorbed the network. Blood and Honour subsequently served as the economic infrastructure for C18's activities and as a transnational distribution channel linking British neo-Nazis to continental European counterparts.[^3]
### David Myatt's Role
[[David Myatt]], who would later found the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]] and is attributed by most scholars as the founder of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] under the pseudonym [[Anton Long]], was active in C18's ideological circles in the early 1990s. The [[Observer]] newspaper described him as the "ideological heavyweight" behind Combat 18. [[Searchlight Magazine]] documented his involvement, describing his return to the neo-Nazi scene in the early 1990s as a "harder and more determined man." [[Nick Lowles]] characterises him in *White Riot* as "one of Britain's foremost post-war national socialist thinkers."[^4]
Myatt's specific relationship to C18's formal structure is ambiguous in the published record. He is consistently associated with its ideological direction rather than its operational violence. After [[Charlie Sargent]]'s conviction in January 1998, one account states Myatt "took over the leadership of Combat 18," though by this point the organisation had effectively fractured. Myatt had resigned as NSM leader in March 1998 and converted to Islam in September 1998, so any such leadership role would have been brief. C18 was effectively defunct as a coherent organisation by then.[^4]
### UDA Connection and Loyalist Links
C18 maintained close ties to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] on the Northern Ireland mainland. [[Johnny Adair]], the UDA's Lower Shankill Road commander, regularly attended C18 events in England. C18 and the London UDA were, according to Statewatch, "very close at one point," with C18 "supplying the manpower to counter demonstrations by Irish republican supporters." C18 also reportedly helped the UDA with weapons-related logistics from the mainland. This UDA connection was one of the specific intelligence subjects that [[Charlie Sargent]] is alleged to have been reporting to [[Special Branch]] on.[^5]
### The Danish Letter-Bomb Campaign
In 1997, C18 organised a campaign in which parcel bombs were sent from Denmark to various anti-fascist activists and celebrities in the United Kingdom. The campaign linked C18 to continental neo-Nazi networks including elements connected to [[Blood and Honour Scandinavia]]. During the planning of this campaign, C18's core leadership deliberately withheld an updated target list from Sargent because they suspected him of leaking information to the police. An outdated version of the target list subsequently appeared in the press, and an undercover police officer who had infiltrated C18 confirmed to ITV's [[World in Action]] that the names could only have come from Sargent.[^5]
### The Internal Feud and Collapse
The mutual suspicion between the Sargent and Browning factions escalated through 1996 and 1997 around disputes over control of Blood and Honour's music revenues and accusations of police informing. In October 1997, [[Christopher Castle]], a Blood and Honour supporter acting as an intermediary between the two factions, visited Sargent's home. [[Martin Cross]] stabbed Castle to death with a nine-inch knife. Charlie Sargent was convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 of Castle's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Cross was sentenced to life imprisonment for carrying out the stabbing.[^6]
The conviction destroyed C18 as an operative organisation. Sargent's brother [[Steve Sargent]] and [[David Myatt]] had already split away in June 1997 to found the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]]. The remaining C18 elements, led by Browning, continued in a diminished form through the late 1990s but had no significant public presence thereafter.
### State Monitoring and the Darren Wells Question
A key question about C18's history is the extent of state infiltration. The documented confirmed state asset is [[Darren Wells]] (alias McKenzie), who co-authored the C18 booklet with Browning and acknowledged in 2002 that he had been working as a Searchlight/Special Branch informant, handled through Nick Lowles. Wells was described by Lowles as "one of the most important moles Searchlight has ever run."[^4] The C18 booklet he co-authored was one of the primary C18 recruitment and propaganda documents.
[[Larry O'Hara]] of [[Notes From The Borderland]] argues that Wells's confirmed presence as an informant is the key to understanding C18's self-destruction: by positioning himself close to Browning while allowing Browning to believe Sargent was the informant, Wells created the conditions of mutual suspicion that produced the Castle murder. On this reading, the documented state intervention in C18 operated through a genuine infiltration asset (Wells) who generated a COINTELPRO-style disruption that tore the organisation apart from within, without requiring any direct handling of Sargent himself.[^4]
Whether Sargent himself was also a police informant, as alleged by the World in Action documentary and confirmed by no official source, remains unresolved. The allegation is widely cited but unproven.
### Proscription
The UK Home Office proscribed Combat 18 under The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2020, S.I. 2020/200. This came into force in February 2020, more than 22 years after C18's effective dissolution through the Sargent conviction. Germany had banned C18 in January 2020; Canada had listed it as a terrorist entity in June 2019. The UK proscription is legally significant because it creates membership offences under Section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for anyone knowingly belonging to or professing membership of C18, and dissemination offences for distributing C18 material.[^1]
The proscription of Combat 18 is notable in the context of O9A: the organisation in which [[David Myatt]] served as ideological figure was banned in 2020, while O9A, attributed to Myatt as its founder, has not been proscribed as of mid-2026.
### Footnotes
[^1]: The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2020, S.I. 2020/200. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/200/contents/made; Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations, GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2
[^2]: Lowles, Nick. *White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18.* Milo Books, 2001.
[^3]: Counter Extremism Project. "Blood and Honour." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/blood-honour-bh; Channel 4 News. "Ian Stuart Donaldson and a legacy of hate." https://www.channel4.com/news/ian-stuart-donaldson-a-legacy-of-hate
[^4]: Notes From The Borderland (Larry O'Hara). "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." https://borderland.co.uk/combat-18-mi5-some-background-notes/; Lowles, *White Riot.*
[^5]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leader was police informer," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leader-was-police-informer/; Statewatch. "UK: Far right-loyalist links strengthened." https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-far-right-loyalist-links-strengthened/
[^6]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leaders get 'life' for murder," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leaders-get-life-for-murder/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- NeoNazi
- UK
- Yorkshire
- Nexion
- Occultism
- Satanism
- SiegeCulture
location: "Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "The Drakon Covenant is an Order of Nine Angles nexion based in Yorkshire, England, led by Ryan Fleming under the pseudonym A.A. Morain, which maintained documented ties to the American nexion Tempel ov Blood and served as the principal channel of O9A ideology into National Action during 2015 to 2017."
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The Drakon Covenant is an [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) nexion (autonomous cell) based in [[Horsforth]], Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was led by [[Ryan Fleming]], a regional organiser for [[National Action]]'s Yorkshire branch, operating under the O9A pseudonym "A.A. Morain." The Drakon Covenant is the principal documented mechanism through which O9A ideology entered National Action's internal culture during the period 2015 to 2017, and it maintained direct editorial connections with the American O9A nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]] (ToB).
### Leadership and Pseudonymous Identity
Fleming operated the Drakon Covenant under the pen name "A.A. Morain," a pseudonym confirmed by journalist [[Jake Hanrahan]] on 11 February 2021 and by [[HOPE not hate]]'s "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter in the *State of Hate 2020* report.[^1] Under this name Fleming authored at least two published O9A texts distributed within the O9A publishing ecosystem:
*Scithain: Vampyric Witchcraft of the Drakon Covenant*: a text positioned within the O9A doctrinal tradition on the [[Acausal realm]] and transgressive spiritual practice, with specific focus on vampyric initiation rites framed as [[Left-Hand Path]] occultism.
*Codex Aristarchus*: a second published text, the foreword of which was written by a figure identified as "Czar Azag-kala" of Tempel ov Blood, establishing a documented editorial relationship between the Yorkshire and American O9A formations.[^2]
### Iron March and International Connections
Fleming was an active poster on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum, where he promoted O9A doctrine and recruited for the Drakon Covenant. His Iron March presence connected the nexion to other O9A-affiliated formations internationally. The [[Middlebury Institute of International Studies]] Counter Terrorism and Extremism Center (CTEC) documented the Drakon Covenant-Tempel ov Blood connection in its "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action" profile, noting the foreword relationship in *Codex Aristarchus* as evidence of a direct transatlantic O9A editorial network.[^2]
### National Action Penetration
The Drakon Covenant operated simultaneously with Fleming's role as Yorkshire regional organiser for National Action, allowing O9A doctrine to be introduced to National Action members through internal channels rather than external recruitment. Police searches of National Action members' properties during the prosecution waves of 2018 to 2020 recovered materials bearing O9A symbols, attributed by investigators and journalists to Fleming's influence.[^3] The precise number of National Action members who were also Drakon Covenant participants has not been established in any public court document.
O9A doctrine's [[Insight Roles]] framework, first set out in "Insight Roles: A Guide" (1989, collected in *[[Hostia]]: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.*, Vol. I, 1992), frames infiltration of political organizations, law enforcement, and armed forces as spiritually meritorious initiatory practice. The presence of O9A texts and symbols in searches of National Action members' homes is consistent with Drakon Covenant recruitment into National Action as an insight-role activity, but this has not been established as the operative mechanism in any published court record.
### Law Enforcement Status
No UK law enforcement press release, charging document, or court judgment has named the Drakon Covenant as a formal entity under investigation or prosecution as of mid-2026. All documentation of the nexion is secondary, derived from journalistic identification, anti-fascist research, and Fleming's own published works. The Drakon Covenant has not been proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom, and no application to designate it as an alias of O9A under proscription review has been publicly announced.
Fleming himself has not been charged with terrorism offences in connection with his National Action organising or Drakon Covenant leadership. His criminal record consists of three child sexual abuse convictions: 2012 (false imprisonment, torture, and sexual abuse of a boy), 2017 (rape of a 14-year-old girl, three-year sentence), and February 2021 (breach of a sexual harm prevention order by messaging teenagers, six months). The full record is documented in the [[Ryan Fleming]] vault entry.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan). "Fleming runs a Yorkshire based cell (or nexion as they call it) of the O9A. It's called the Drakon Covenant. Under the nom de guerre 'AA Morain', Fleming has written some mental books about O9A vampyrism." 11 February 2021. https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1360317804600324096; HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020.* https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
[^2]: Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5
[^3]: Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." (Citing O9A symbol recoveries in National Action searches.) https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Forum
- Accelerationism
- IronMarch
- SiegeCulture
- USA
start: 2018
end: 2020
location: "Online"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Fascist Forge was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 as an explicit Iron March successor, reaching over 1,500 users before its hosting registrar took it offline in February 2020."
---
[[Fascist Forge]] was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 by a user operating under the name "Mathias," explicitly framed as a replacement for the defunct [[Iron March]] and intended to "continue where they left off." It was the most prominent immediate successor platform for the international neo-fascist accelerationist community that had organized on Iron March between 2011 and 2017.
### Founding and Structure
Fascist Forge replicated several of Iron March's distinctive operational features, most importantly its vetting process. Prospective members were required to submit ideological essays as a condition of full forum access, a mechanism designed to filter out casual observers, law enforcement monitors, and individuals deemed insufficiently committed to neo-Nazi ideology. This essay requirement had been one of Iron March's distinguishing features and was credited by researchers with maintaining the forum's relatively high commitment level relative to its small size.
The founder "Mathias" framed the platform's purpose explicitly in a founding note, positioning it as an organizational continuation rather than a fresh start. Former Iron March members migrated to Fascist Forge, and the forum drew on the same international community of users who had built organizations on Iron March.[^1]
### Growth and Closure
By February 2020, Fascist Forge had accumulated more than 1,500 registered accounts, exceeding [[Iron March]]'s peak registered user count of 1,207 in under two years of operation. The forum's hosting registrar took the platform offline in February 2020, and no clear successor forum emerged immediately. Activity dispersed into encrypted messaging applications, [[Telegram]] channels, and alternative platforms that did not offer the persistent, searchable community structure that Iron March and Fascist Forge had provided.[^2]
The [[ADL]] and [[GNET]] (Global Network on Extremism and Technology) documented Fascist Forge's operation. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] noted that the absence of a strong consolidated successor to Fascist Forge following its takedown diffused rather than eliminated the network, as former members spread across multiple decentralized communication channels. A later forum called "Fash Front" emerged in 2025 and positioned itself as the latest in the Iron March lineage.[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: ADL. "Fascist Forge: A New Forum for Hate." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/fascist-forge-new-forum-hate; GNET. "From Iron March to Fascist Forge: How the Global Far Right Makes Use of Social Networking." December 31, 2019. https://gnet-research.org/2019/12/31/from-iron-march-to-fascist-forge-how-the-global-far-right-makes-use-of-social-networking/
[^2]: Vice. "Fascist Forge, the Online Neo-Nazi Recruitment Forum, Is Down." February 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/43zn8j/fascist-forge-the-online-neo-nazi-recruitment-forum-is-down; Counter Extremism Project. "Will a Fascist Forge Successor Emerge?" https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/will-fascist-forge-successor-emerge

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- Online
- Forum
- AtomwaffenDivision
- IronMarch
- Transnational
summary: "FashFront is an accelerationist neo-Nazi web forum that emerged in mid-2025 positioning itself as the successor to Iron March and Fascist Forge, with 941 registered users as of late 2025 and documented connections to former Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram Collective members."
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
start: 2025
location: "Online (global)"
---
FashFront is an accelerationist neo-Nazi web forum that emerged in mid-2025, positioning itself explicitly as the ideological and organizational successor to [[Iron March]] (2011-2017) and [[Fascist Forge]] (2018-2020). The forum operates at the domain fashfront.st (and a secondary domain fashfront.org), runs a companion [[Telegram]] channel under the handle @FashFrontSt, and distributes video content through [[Odysee]], a platform that permits extremist material that [[YouTube]] removes. The [[Global Project Against Hate and Extremism]] (GPAHE) published the primary research report on the forum in 2025, identifying 941 registered users, a transnational membership spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, Greece, and several South American countries, and documentary connections to former members of [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the [[Terrorgram Collective]].[^1]
### Origins and Ideology
The forum was founded by an administrator using the alias "Aspien," with a second administrator known as "Kriegstreiber" (also referred to as "Krieg"). The [[GPAHE]] described its design as a "stark black layout" with white text blocks and stylized "FF" iconography, deliberately echoing Iron March's aesthetic. The forum presents itself as a "home for developing the philosophy of modern neo-Nazism" and a "place of learning" for individuals interested in [[Siege Culture]] and militant accelerationism.
The ideological lineage it claims is direct: Iron March, then [[Fascist Forge]], then [[Terrorgram Collective]], then FashFront. Content on the forum includes glorification of white supremacist mass killers framed as "saints" (a practice formalized by the Terrorgram Collective), calls for race war, promotion of societal collapse as prerequisite for a fascist ethnostate, and distribution of [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]* as foundational text. AWD propaganda videos circulate on the forum's Odysee channel, and forum threads discuss [[Atomwaffen Division]] history in detail.[^1]
### User Base and Membership
As of late 2025, FashFront had 941 registered users, placing it significantly below Iron March's 1,887 registered users at its 2017 closure, but above [[Fascist Forge]]'s documented active membership. Multiple users identified themselves in introduction posts as high school-age. Others identified as former Iron March members; in 2025, [[Decoherence Media]], an anti-fascist research outlet, compiled an archive of Iron March data through its [[FashyLeaks]] database (which covers both Iron March and [[Rope Culture]] datasets), surfacing previously unidentified Iron March users and enabling cross-referencing with FashFront membership.[^1]
Documented organizational users of the forum include the [[H.I.V.E. Syndicate]] (Honor, Identity, Virtue and Endurance Syndicate), a U.S. and Canadian accelerationist street-organizing group that uses FashFront to publish updates and coordinate local meetups. H.I.V.E. explicitly models its tactics on [[NSC-131]] in New England, seeking street presence alongside online activity. H.I.V.E. has posted that it considers FashFront "the future" of accelerationist organizing infrastructure, preferring the forum to Telegram for internal coordination.[^1]
[[Ryan Hatfield]] (alias "Ryan Arthur"), a Colorado Springs man identified as a former Atomwaffen Division cell leader and the operator of the [[American Futurist]] blog, which had been the primary public-facing outlet of [[National Socialist Resistance Front]], maintains an active writing thread on FashFront as of 2025. The [[NSRF]] formally dissolved on November 8, 2024, and Hatfield's continued activity on FashFront represents a documented line of continuity between AWD's fourth organizational iteration and the forum ecosystem.[^1][^2]
### Platform Architecture
Outside the primary forum, FashFront operates:
- A Telegram channel (@FashFrontSt) for distribution and community announcements
- An Odysee channel hosting AWD propaganda videos, forum audio productions, and an interview series called "The Washington Report"
- An X (formerly Twitter) account (suspended as of GPAHE reporting)
- A BitChute channel
The "Washington Report" podcast, hosted on the forum's Odysee channel, featured a forum member interviewing founding administrators Aspien and Krieg about the forum's purpose and structure (episode TWR 28). The podcast episode was also posted as a thread on fashfront.st.[^1]
### Leadership Change: November 2025
On November 12, 2025, founding administrator Aspien posted a "Transfer of Ownership" announcement on the forum, stating that "due to certain things coming to light" he was transferring all control of the forum, including social media accounts, email accounts, and servers, to a new administrator using the alias "John Smith." The announcement described the transfer as "peaceful" and intended "to protect the future of the forum." The post outlined plans for changes to moderation standards, content quality requirements, and outreach to additional organizations. The specific circumstances that prompted Aspien's departure were not publicly clarified.[^3]
### Post-Terrorgram Positioning
The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) described the Terrorgram Collective as "effectively defunct" as an organized structure by late 2024, following the arrests of [[Dallas Humber]], [[Matthew Robert Allison]], and [[Matthew Althorpe]]. FashFront emerged in the same period and is positioned, in GPAHE's framing, as filling the organizational vacuum that Terrorgram's collapse created in the Iron March succession lineage.
Whereas Terrorgram operated primarily through Telegram channels, FashFront functions as a persistent web forum, combining Terrorgram's propaganda aesthetics with Iron March's forum-style networking model. The [[ADL]] assessed in 2025 that "if this growth continues, FashFront could become an important digital space for the movement." No law enforcement action against FashFront or any of its identified administrators has been publicly announced as of May 2026.[^1][^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/
[^2]: Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists. "Ryan Hatfield aka 'Ryan Arthur': Atomwaffen Division / American Futurist." November 14, 2023. https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/14/ryan-hatfield-atomwaffen-division-colorado/
[^3]: FashFront forum. "Transfer of Ownership," thread 1835, November 12, 2025. https://fashfront.st/threads/transfer-of-ownership.1835/
[^4]: ADL. "Extremely Newsletter." 2025. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/extremely-newsletter

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- AtomwaffenDivision
- International
- Estonia
- SiegeCulture
- ParamilitaryNetwork
- TerroristOrganization
start: 2018
end: 2020
location: "Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia (online, international)"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Feuerkrieg Division is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded in October 2018 in Estonia, proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK, Australia, and Canada, and responsible for documented prosecutions in at least eight countries before and after its formal dissolution in February 2020."
---
[[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist organization founded in October 2018 in [[Estonia]] by an individual identified in public reporting only as "Commander," who was 13 years old at the time his identity was confirmed by Estonian authorities in January 2020. FKD operated as an affiliate of [[Atomwaffen Division]] while maintaining organizational independence, reaching peak membership of between 30 and 80 individuals across more than 12 countries at its height. Estonian authorities intervened in January 2020 and the organization announced its dissolution in February 2020, but it resurfaced on [[Telegram]] in May 2021. Three FKD members were convicted by an Estonian court in January 2025 for membership in and recruitment for a terrorist organization.[^1]
### Founding Geography and Co-Founders
FKD's founding leadership was concentrated on the Estonian island of [[Saaremaa]], specifically the town of [[Kuressaare]], where several early members reportedly resided. The organization was co-founded by two individuals: the Estonian teenager known publicly only as "Commander" (alias "Commander FKD" and "Kriegsherr," German for "Warlord") and a Dutch national known only as "Wolfram." The two connected on a Dutch nationalist [[Discord]] server in 2018, where they networked with other neo-Nazis before launching FKD in October 2018.[^4]
"Wolfram" served as one of FKD's original public spokespeople and sought to build a worldwide national socialist organization whose members would engage in real-world violence. By June 2019 he had departed the organization under circumstances that were not publicly clarified.[^2]
FKD was structured as a decentralized franchise: members in different countries operated semi-autonomously under the FKD name and ideological framework. FKD's documented membership included individuals in Estonia, the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, and Russia. The network maintained contact with AWD members and shared operational concepts.[^2]
### AWD Relationship and Merger Offer
FKD was founded and operated as part of the broader "skull mask" neo-fascist network described in the [[CTC West Point]] analysis of the [[Iron March]] ecosystem. It shared AWD's foundational ideology (James Mason's [[Siege]], leaderless resistance, lone-wolf violence as acceleration catalyst) and maintained communications with AWD chapters and members.
AWD leadership made a documented offer to merge FKD into AWD's organizational structure. Commander rejected the offer explicitly, prioritizing FKD's organizational independence. Internal FKD communications revealed feelings of competition and rivalry with AWD rather than subordination. The relationship was characterized as one of ideological affiliation and shared personnel rather than command hierarchy.[^5]
Commander also maintained direct communications with the leader of [[The Base]] (Rinaldo Nazzaro) and with unnamed American AWD members, consistent with FKD's position as a node in the "skull mask" neo-fascist international rather than a franchise unit.[^6]
### Estonian Intervention and Dissolution
In January 2020, the [[Estonian Internal Security Service]] (KAPO) identified "Commander" and intervened, contacting his parents. Because he was 13 years old at the time of the identification (below Estonia's minimum criminal liability age of 14), Estonian law precluded criminal prosecution; KAPO's actions addressed his activities through non-criminal means. Multiple press reports confirmed the 13-year-old's identity as FKD's founder from the island of Saaremaa; his legal name has not been publicly disclosed. Eesti Ekspress was the primary Estonian publication that identified the Commander.[^4]
In February 2020, FKD announced its dissolution. The organization resurfaced on Telegram in May 2021, continuing to operate under the FKD name with reduced capacity.[^1]
### Post-Commander Leadership
After KAPO's January 2020 intervention and Commander's withdrawal, AWD member [[Taylor Parker-Dipeppe]] took over some organizational functions. Parker-Dipeppe was a low-level AWD figure from Spring Hill, Florida who had participated in AWD's 2020 journalist-targeting campaign (the Kaleb Cole swatting conspiracy). He was charged in 2020 alongside AWD members, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to mail threatening communications and cyberstalking, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge [[John C. Coughenour]] in Seattle to time served after a tearful apology.[^7]
[[Nicholas Welker]] (alias "King ov Wrath"), of [[San Jose, California]], later served as a self-identified FKD leader. Welker was an [[Order of Nine Angles]] adherent who reportedly joined FKD as an "[[Insight Roles|insight role]]," consistent with O9A's practice of infiltrating and using existing extremist organizations as vehicles for initiatory criminal activity.[^8]
### UK Proscription
The UK Home Office, acting under recommendations from [[Counter Terrorism Policing]], proscribed FKD on 13 July 2020 under the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020, SI 2020/743, with effect from 17 July 2020. FKD was the third neo-Nazi organization proscribed in the UK within six months of 2020, following [[National Action]] (already proscribed) and [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (proscribed February 2020). Membership or support of FKD became punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment and an unlimited fine.[^9]
FKD was also designated a terrorist organization by [[Australian Security Intelligence Organisation|Australia]] and [[Canada]] (proscribed under Canada's Criminal Code, specific gazette date not confirmed in open sources).[^9]
### Estonian Convictions (2025)
In January 2025, Harju County Court in Estonia convicted three FKD members for membership in and recruitment for a terrorist organization. All three had been minors at the time of their offenses. The court imposed obligations rather than custodial sentences as part of a plea agreement. Their names were not publicly disclosed under juvenile protections.[^1]
### UK Prosecutions
#### Cornwall Teenager (2019 arrest, 2021 sentence)
A boy from [[Cornwall]], first arrested in July 2019 by Devon and Cornwall Police and [[Counter Terrorism Policing South West]] after posting online about building a firearm, was identified as head of the UK cell FKD_GB, which he had joined at age 14. Police seized digital devices and found bomb-making and firearms-manufacture manuals, over 50 ideological texts, and extreme-right propaganda. He pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating a terrorist publication (Terrorism Act 2006, s. 2) and 10 counts of collecting material of use to a terrorist (Terrorism Act 2000, s. 58), and was sentenced to a 24-month youth rehabilitation order at the [[Old Bailey]] in February 2021. The Crown Prosecution Service described him as Britain's youngest terrorist.[^10]
#### Luke Hunter (2019 arrest, December 2020 sentence)
[[Luke Hunter]], 23, of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], was arrested in October 2019. His [[Telegram]] channel had over 1,200 subscribers and disseminated content produced in affiliation with FKD. He created a white supremacist website through which he circulated terrorist handbooks, instructional material on surveillance and guerrilla warfare, and explicit calls for the extermination of Jewish and LGBTQ people. He admitted seven charges (encouragement of terrorism, dissemination of terrorist publications, and broadcasting violent material) and was sentenced to four years and two months at [[Leeds Crown Court]] on 23 December 2020.[^11]
#### Paul Dunleavy (2020 conviction, November 2020 sentence)
[[Paul Dunleavy]], 17, of [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, was unanimously convicted by a [[Birmingham Crown Court]] jury in October 2020 of preparing for acts of terrorism between April and September 2019. Dunleavy distributed firearm-conversion manuals and gave operational advice on building viable firearms to FKD members online. The court heard that three members to whom Dunleavy had provided "significant advice and encouragement" had since been convicted of terrorist offences in Germany, Lithuania, and the United States. Judge [[Paul Farrer QC]] sentenced him to five years and six months' detention, with a concurrent two years for possessing terrorist documents.[^12]
#### Luca Benincasa (2022 arrest, January 2023 conviction)
[[Luca Benincasa]], 20, of [[Cardiff]] (specifically [[Whitchurch, Cardiff]]), was arrested in January 2022 by counter-terror police who raided his separated parents' homes and found a tactical vest, camouflage clothing, an [[SS]] officer's dagger and flag, a Nazi Party armband, and masks. Benincasa had served as a self-styled recruiter and "prominent member" of FKD. He pleaded guilty at [[Winchester Crown Court]] in July 2022 to membership of a proscribed organization and four counts of collecting information useful to a terrorist (including bomb-making instructions), and in August 2022 pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent images of children (ages 4 to 7), one count of possession of extreme pornography, and one count of possession of a prohibited image of a child. He was sentenced in January 2023 by Judge [[Jane Miller]] to nine years and three months (five years seven months for terrorism, eight months consecutive for CSAM), to be served in a young offenders institution. He was the first person convicted under the proscription of FKD.[^13]
### US Prosecutions
#### Conor Climo (2019 arrest, 2020 sentence)
[[Conor Climo]], 23, of [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], was arrested on 8 August 2019 after the [[FBI]]'s [[Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force]] began investigating him in April 2019 following intelligence about his encrypted communications with FKD members. Climo communicated with FKD members beginning in late 2017 and discussed attacking a synagogue and an LGBTQ bar. FBI agents and an informant posing as fellow extremists documented his attack planning. A search of his home uncovered bomb components and two rifles. He pleaded guilty in February 2020 to possession of an unregistered firearm (the component parts of a destructive device) in the [[District of Nevada]], and was sentenced on 13 November 2020 to two years in federal prison followed by six months' home confinement by U.S. District Judge [[James Mahan]].[^14]
#### Jarrett William Smith (2019 arrest, 2020 sentence)
In September 2019, [[Jarrett William Smith]], a U.S. Army Specialist at [[Fort Riley]], Kansas, was arrested after his FKD membership was established. Smith had distributed IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents and discussed potential attack targets. He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on August 19, 2020, in the [[District of Kansas]].[^3]
#### Nicholas Welker (2023 arrest, 2024 sentence)
Nicholas Welker, alias "King ov Wrath," of San Jose, California, was arrested on 21 March 2023 and charged in the [[Eastern District of New York]] with conspiracy to make interstate threats. Welker had served as a leader of FKD and on 28 March 2023 posted a death threat against a Brooklyn-based journalist who had reported on FKD, including a photograph of the journalist with a gun aimed at his head and the words "Race Traitor." He pleaded guilty in September 2023 and was sentenced to 44 months' imprisonment on 19 April 2024 by U.S. District Judge [[Pamela K. Chen]].[^15]
### Lithuania
[[Gediminas Beržinskas]] was detained on 15 October 2019 after placing a homemade explosive device outside the offices of [[Western Union]] in [[Vilnius]] on 14 October 2019. He had spray-painted "FK Division," "Siege," and a swastika on the building wall on 6 October 2019. Lithuanian law enforcement found bomb-making materials and a firearm in his possession. [[Vilnius Regional Court]] convicted him of plotting a terror act, illegal possession of explosives and a firearm, and attempting to commit a crime. The sentence was reduced by one-third under the court's expedited procedure, and Beržinskas received a net term requiring approximately 18 more months' custody after his pre-trial detention. The case concluded in September 2020.[^16]
British authorities separately prosecuted Paul Dunleavy for providing Beržinskas and other FKD members with firearm-conversion advice and explosive-device guidance.
### Denmark
A Danish male was arrested in April 2022 after police confirmed his membership in FKD. At a first-instance hearing (district court in [[Holbaek]]), the 16-year-old was convicted of attempting to recruit a classmate to FKD and distributing bomb-making and weapons manuals via Telegram, and was sentenced to five and a half years in a youth facility in May 2023. The court acquitted him of the main terrorism charge on the ground that he was unlikely to commit acts in the long term. The prosecution appealed to the [[Eastern High Court]] (Ostre Landsret). In May 2024 the Eastern High Court found the defendant guilty of terrorism, with sentencing scheduled for a later date.[^17]
### Austria
An Austrian national was arrested following a house search in May 2023 in which police found firearms, a bulletproof vest, a knife, a gas mask, and neo-Nazi propaganda material and memorabilia. His FKD-related activity consisted of online incitement from December 2019 to February 2020, calling for attacks against Jewish institutions, Muslims, and other minorities. On 1 July 2024 an Austrian court convicted him on charges including neo-Nazi reactivation, criminal association, incitement, and solicitation of punishable acts. The unconditional portion of the two-year sentence was five months; he had turned 21 at the time of sentencing.[^18]
### FKD as Bridge: AWD to 764-Era Networks
FKD's organizational trajectory after its nominal dissolution in February 2020 documents a direct connective arc between the AWD-era accelerationist structure and the Terrorgram-era ecosystem that incubated [[764 Network|764]] and [[The Com]].
When FKD reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, its leadership actively built coalition infrastructure within the "Terrorgram" network. A co-leader identified in the [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] joint 2022 report by the alias "Hergle Zelea" used the FKD platform to establish himself as a central figure in the [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]] community and as a core organizer of two coalition structures that emerged on Telegram in early 2021: the [[United Acceleration Front]] and the [[National Socialist Coalition]]. Zelea recruited [[InJekt Division]] (a Texas-based neo-fascist accelerationist group founded by [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]], arrested May 2021 for a Walmart mass-shooting threat), [[Vorherrschaft Division]], and [[Totenwaffen]] as the primary coalition partners. FKD already maintained a public alliance with Vorherrschaft Division prior to the UAF launch, distributing joint propaganda. The partnership was announced publicly on Telegram and used FKD's established network and aesthetic machinery to build the United Acceleration Front.[^19]
The CTEC and Tech Against Terrorism joint study, which collected data from June 2021 through February 2022, documented 21 distinct entities within the resulting network, all operating through Terrorgram channels that would, in the following year, become recruitment and radicalization infrastructure for the networks feeding into 764 and The Com. The CTEC report noted that domain analysis of websites run by entities within the network suggested the apparent strength may have been artificially inflated; the organizing leadership likely created multiple nominally distinct entities to project a larger footprint than actually existed. The key mechanism was identical across the network: encrypted Telegram servers, youth recruitment targeting adolescents, accelerationist violence framed as catalytic rather than instrumental, and the glorification of mass-casualty attackers as "saints." FKD provided this ideological and communication infrastructure two to three years before the 764 prosecutions documented the same methods being used at scale.[^19][^20]
No documentary evidence yet confirms named individuals who were members of both FKD and 764 or CVLT. That linkage, if it exists, remains an open research thread.
### Intelligence Agency Involvement
Documented agency involvement in FKD investigations:
- [[KAPO]] (Estonian Internal Security Service): intervened with the Commander's parents in January 2020, described in press reporting as acting on "suspicion of danger." KAPO has not publicly disclosed the Commander's legal name. No criminal referral was made because the Commander was below Estonia's minimum criminal liability age of 14.[^6]
- [[FBI]] Las Vegas [[JTTF]]: initiated investigation of Conor Climo in April 2019; used undercover agents and at least one informant; arrested Climo in August 2019.[^14]
- FBI undercover operation, District of Kansas: involved in the Smith investigation (covered in the [[Jarrett William Smith]] page).[^3]
- [[Counter Terrorism Policing South West]] (UK): arrested the Cornwall teenager in July 2019.
- Counter Terrorism Policing (UK, broader): coordinated the investigations of Luke Hunter, Paul Dunleavy, and Luca Benincasa; recommended FKD for proscription.
- Kaitsepolitsei (KAPO, Estonia): confirmed FKD as a proscribed terrorist organization in public statements accompanying the January 2025 Harju County Court conviction.
No parliamentary testimony or congressional hearing records referencing FKD have been identified in open sources. [[EUROPOL]] has not published a named operation targeting FKD specifically, though FKD members appear in the broader European far-right prosecution landscape. [[SUPO]] (Finnish Security Intelligence Service) has not published named FKD cases in its open annual reports, despite KAPO's intervention having taken place partly through contact with the Commander's parents in Finland.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Estonian World. "A global neo-Nazi organisation led by a 13-year-old Estonian schoolboy." April 2020. https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/; ERR News. "Estonian court convicts three right-wing extremists." January 2025. https://news.err.ee/1609583332/estonian-court-convicts-three-right-wing-extremists
[^2]: ADL. "Feuerkrieg Division (FKD)." Backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/feuerkrieg-division-fkd
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice. "Army Soldier Sentenced for Distributing Information About Explosive Devices." August 19, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/army-soldier-sentenced-distributing-information-about-explosive-devices
[^4]: Eugene Antifa. "Feuerkrieg Division Exposed: International Neo-Nazi Terrorist Network." February 24, 2020. https://eugeneantifa.noblogs.org/post/2020/02/24/feuerkrieg-division; Estonian World. "A global neo-Nazi organisation led by a 13-year-old Estonian schoolboy." April 2020. https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/
[^5]: BuzzFeed News. "An International Neo-Nazi Group Thought To Have Been Dissolved Is Recruiting Again In The US." Christopher Miller, 2021. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/neo-nazi-feuerkrieg-division-returns-recruiting-us
[^6]: Fox 11 Online (via AP). "13-year-old boy led neo-Nazi group linked to bomb plots." April 2020. https://fox11online.com/news/nation-world/13-year-old-boy-led-neo-nazi-group-linked-to-bomb-plots; Washington Times. "He led a neo-Nazi group linked to bomb plots. He was 13." April 11, 2020. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/11/he-led-a-neo-nazi-group-linked-to-bomb-plots-he-wa/
[^7]: BuzzFeed News. "A Transgender Former Neo-Nazi Won't Go To Prison For Harassing Journalists." Christopher Miller, 2021. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/no-prison-transgender-neo-nazi-parker-dipeppe
[^8]: Counter Extremism Project. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/feuerkrieg-division; Vice. "Neo-Nazi Leader 'ilovehate5150' Charged for Threatening to Kill Journalist." March 2023. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-nicholas-welker-arrested-feuerkrieg-division/
[^9]: UK Legislation. The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020, SI 2020/743. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/743/article/2/made; Counter Terrorism Policing. "Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) proscribed as terrorist group." July 2020. https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/fkd-proscribed/
[^10]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Youngest British terrorist sentenced for neo-Nazi manuals stash." Press release. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/youngest-british-terrorist-sentenced-neo-nazi-manuals-stash; Counter Terror Business. "Cornwall teenager sentenced for terrorism offences." February 2021. https://counterterrorbusiness.com/news/09022021/cornwall-teenager-sentenced-terrorism-offences
[^11]: Hope Not Hate. "LUKE HUNTER: profile of a Nazi terror propagandist." December 23, 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/12/23/luke-hunter-profile-of-a-nazi-terror-propagandist/; Campaign Against Antisemitism. "British Neo-Nazi Who Called for 'Eradication' of Jews Sentenced to 4-Year Jail Term." December 2020.
[^12]: Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/; Far-Right Criminals. "Rugby teenager Paul Dunleavy jailed for terror offences." November 6, 2020. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2020/11/06/rugby-teenager-paul-dunleavy-jailed-for-terror-offences/
[^13]: Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi Luca Benincasa jailed for terrorism offences and child abuse images." January 2023. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-luca-benincasa-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-and-child-abuse-images/; ITV News Wales. "Neo-Nazi, 20, from Cardiff jailed for being member of far-right terror group." January 26, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-01-26/dangerous-neo-nazi-jailed-for-being-a-member-of-far-right-terror-group
[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Nev. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components; Las Vegas Sun. "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
[^15]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNY. "Leader of White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Journalist." September 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/leader-white-supremacist-group-pleads-guilty-conspiring-make-death-threats-against; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNY. "White Supremacist Leader Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Brooklyn Journalist." April 19, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/white-supremacist-leader-sentenced-44-months-prison-conspiring-make-death-threats
[^16]: LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). "Lithuanian neo-Nazi receives 28-month sentence for attempting terror attack." September 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1235208/lithuanian-neo-Nazi-receives-28-month-sentence-for-attempting-terror-attack; LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist
[^17]: The Local Denmark. "Danish court gives 16-year-old five years in prison after terror conviction." May 11, 2023. https://www.thelocal.dk/20230511/danish-court-gives-16-year-old-five-years-in-prison-after-terror-conviction; anews.com.tr. "Danish teenager who called himself Hitler's soldier found guilty of terrorism." May 27, 2024.
[^18]: Vienna.at. "Viennese 'Fire Warrior' Receives Another Prison Sentence, No Longer Has to Go to Jail." July 2024. https://www.vienna.at/viennese-fire-warrior-receives-another-prison-sentence-no-longer-has-to-go-to-jail/9176371; Counter Extremism Project. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/feuerkrieg-division
[^19]: ADL. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/feuerkrieg-division-fkd; Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study; Tech Against Terrorism / CTEC. "Accelerationism Report." 2022. https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/hubfs/CTEC__TAT-Accelerationism-Report-.pdf
[^20]: Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." June 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study; full PDF: https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/hubfs/CTEC__TAT-Accelerationism-Report-.pdf

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- GreggyCult
- ChildExploitation
- NVE
- Online
- USA
start: 2020
end: 2021
location: Online (United States)
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: Greggy's Cult was an online child exploitation network that operated on Discord from January 2020 to January 2021, using blackmail and CSAM coercion methods that directly informed the founding of 764.
---
[[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the "Cult of Greg") was an online child exploitation network that operated primarily on [[Discord]] and gaming platforms from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. It recruited minor victims through gaming servers and social media, coerced them into producing [[CSAM]] (child sexual abuse material) through blackmail and psychological manipulation, and demanded ongoing self-harm through the same coercive mechanisms. These methods became the operational template for the [[764 Network]], which emerged in late 2020 and early 2021. [[NCITE]] (National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha) tracked 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes across Greggy's Cult, [[CVLT]], and 764 as of December 2025, treating the three as a connected prosecutorial and organizational lineage.[^1]
### 764 Founding Lineage
[[Bradley Chance Cadenhead|Bradley Cadenhead]], who founded 764 as a 15-year-old in Stephenville, Texas, was connected to Greggy's Cult before building 764. The operational model Cadenhead established for 764 - recruitment through gaming platforms, CSAM coercion, blackmail, demands for self-harm - directly mirrored Greggy's Cult's methods. Law enforcement and researchers describe Greggy's Cult as one of the "predecessor groups" that "helped spawn" 764, alongside [[CVLT]].
[[Rumaldo Valdez]], a U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class stationed in Wahiawa, Hawaii, was a documented Greggy's Cult member. His devices contained CSAM described in federal sentencing documents as among "the most extreme child-abuse images in existence." Valdez was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison in March 2026 and faces additional charges in the [[Eastern District of New York]] alongside four co-defendants including [[Camden Rodriguez]], [[Zachary Dosch]], [[David Brilhante]], and [[Hector Bermudez]].[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: NCITE. "Prosecuting Nihilistic Violent Extremism: An Examination of Federal and State Charges Against 764 and Related Networks." University of Nebraska Omaha, December 2025. https://www.unomaha.edu/ncite/news/2025/12/764-landing-page.php
[^2]: ABC News. "DOJ charges former Navy petty officer, 4 others in child exploitation case." https://abcnews.com/US/doj-charges-former-navy-petty-officer-4-alleged/story?id=128072704

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- TheCom
- NVE
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- ChildExploitation
- CSAM
- AnimalCrushing
- FederalCase
- USA
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Harm Nation is a 764 splinter network that emerged around 2022, characterized by CSAM production and animal crushing content, with Kyle Spitze of Maryville, Tennessee as its most documented prosecuted member."
start: 2022
location: "Online (global)"
---
[[Harm Nation]] (also abbreviated HN or stylized as HarmNation) is a splinter group within [[The Com]] ecosystem that emerged around 2022 from the fragmentation of the [[764 Network]] following the arrest and conviction of 764 founder [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]]. Researchers and the [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] consider it continuous with 764 due to shared aesthetics, methods, and personnel. It engages in sextortion, production and distribution of [[CSAM]] (child sexual abuse material), psychological coercion of minors, and animal crushing content. Harm Nation appears alongside [[Kaskar]], [[Court]], [[Leak Society]], [[H3ll]], and [[CVLTIST]] as one of the named post-2021 764 successors documented by the [[ADL]], [[ISD Global|ISD]], and the [[Global Project Against Hate and Extremism|GPAHE]].[^1]
### Origins
Harm Nation formed during the 2022 period of 764 leadership disruption, when Cadenhead's arrest and internal infighting caused the original network to fracture and members to reconstitute under new names. The specific founder of Harm Nation has not been publicly identified in court documents or law enforcement press releases available through mid-2026. Researchers from ISD and GPAHE characterize Harm Nation as part of a cluster of successor groups that carried forward 764's operational methods while operating under distinct branding.
One account in the research literature describes members of other large Com chat rooms discussing an individual with the handle "Cxrpse" (the founder of [[No Lives Matter]]) and another individual known as "Kush" starting their own groups under the 764 umbrella after the original founder's arrest, though neither of these individuals has been publicly identified as a Harm Nation founder specifically.[^2]
### Operations and Methods
Harm Nation operates within the broader Com content economy: members produce documented criminal acts as prerequisites for status advancement. As with 764, the network's content includes coerced self-harm imagery (specifically "blood signs" and "cut signs" in which victims carve symbols into their bodies), CSAM production, and distribution of animal abuse content. The animal crushing element, while present across multiple 764 successor groups, is a particularly consistent feature of documented Harm Nation cases.
### Kyle William Spitze
The most documented Harm Nation prosecution involves [[Kyle Spitze|Kyle William Spitze]], 26, of [[Maryville, Tennessee]] (Blount County), who used the online alias "Criminal" (and variants including "CRIMINALOLI") across Telegram and related platforms.
Spitze was arrested and initially charged at the state level in Blount County. A superseding federal indictment was filed on March 2, 2024, in the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee]], at Knoxville, returning eight counts:
- Three counts production of child pornography
- Three counts distribution of animal crushing videos (depicting a mutilated chicken)
- One count enticement of a minor
- One count possession with intent to view child pornography
Court documents describe Spitze sharing sexual videos of young children to a Telegram channel, some of which included variations of his online username written in blood or carved onto the bodies of minor victims. Separate videos documented the mutilation of a chicken, with the animal's intestines arranged to spell out his username.
On December 16, 2024, Spitze entered a guilty plea before District Judge [[Thomas A. Varlan]] to Counts 1, 6, 7, and 8 of the superseding indictment (one production count, all three animal crushing counts, and the possession count). The remaining four counts were dropped pursuant to the plea agreement. The two production counts to which he pleaded carry a sentencing range of 15 to 30 years each, and the plea agreement subjects him to a potential aggregate sentence of 30 years to life.
Sentencing was scheduled for January 8, 2026, before Judge Varlan, then cancelled by court order dated December 23, 2025 and rescheduled by separate order. No sentencing date had been publicly set as of mid-2026.[^3]
A secondary prosecution arose from Spitze's father, [[Michael W. Spitze]], 60, of [[Maryland]], who was separately charged with and pleaded guilty to one count of witness tampering. Michael Spitze sent a message to a 12-year-old victim instructing her to delete any evidence she held and to encourage others to do the same. He was sentenced in the United States District Court in Knoxville; his sentencing was scheduled for May 20, 2026.[^4]
### Current Status
No publicly identified Harm Nation members beyond Kyle Spitze had been named in court documents or DOJ press releases available through mid-2026. The group was included in FBI and DOJ descriptions of the broader 764 network under active investigation. As of April 2026, the FBI was conducting more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and related networks; Harm Nation and the other named successor groups are subsumed within that figure rather than tracked separately in public reporting.
### Footnotes
[^1]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764; ISD Global. "764." https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/764/; Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization." https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/
[^2]: Unicorn Riot. "Sextortion Coms: Inside a Vile Child Exploitation Cult Run by Nazi-Linked Teens." 2024. https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/
[^3]: WBIR. "Blount Co. man signs plea deal after being accused of violent, sexual crimes against children." December 2024. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/kyle-spitze-pleads-guilty-blount-county/51-f6ba606c-479d-4c74-aa11-bf839732a437; The Daily Times (Maryville, TN). "Federal judge reschedules Spitze sentencing hearing." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/federal-judge-reschedules-spitze-sentencing-hearing/article_ca8a75c8-8325-48a4-91c1-be09520f478f.html; CourtListener. "United States v. Spitze-TV1, 3:24-cr-00025, Eastern District of Tennessee." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68361688/united-states-v-spitze-tv1/; Ali Winston / X. March 21, 2024. https://x.com/awinston/status/1770949384538087652
[^4]: WBIR. "Dad who tried to get child victim to delete evidence against his son faces May sentencing." 2026. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/dad-who-tried-to-help-blount-co-son-accused-in-online-sex-case-reaches-plea-agreement-with-feds/51-57106d7b-af46-46a8-9b71-e6f7ede631d9

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- Telegram
- ClericalFascism
- Texas
- TerroristNetwork
start: 2021-02
end: 2021
location: "Kerrville, Texas (online, national)"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "InJekt Division is a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization founded in February 2021 by Coleman Thomas Blevins of Kerrville, Texas, serving as a founding node in the United Acceleration Front coalition before Blevins's arrest in May 2021 for a mass-shooting threat targeting a Walmart."
---
InJekt Division (ID) is a neo-Nazi accelerationist organization founded in February 2021 by [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]] of [[Kerrville, Texas]], operating primarily through a public [[Telegram]] channel and espousing an ideology its members called "clerical fascism," a blend of accelerationist violence, antisemitism, misogyny, and elements of Islamic extremist framing. Blevins was arrested in May 2021 on state terroristic threat charges shortly after the group emerged, and was sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison on a felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm count in the [[Western District of Texas]]. The group is documented by the [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] as a founding node in the [[United Acceleration Front]], one of two militant accelerationist coalitions that built the organizational bridge between the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) post-2020 revival and the broader Terrorgram-era network that incubated [[764 Network|764]] and [[The Com]].[^1]
### Founding and Ideology
Blevins founded InJekt Division in February 2021 and served as its primary public face under the alias "Korb" (also spelled "Kørbe"). In a February 2021 Telegram post, Blevins described the group's inner circle as led by the "Shock Waffen Twins" (SWT), two members (of whom Blevins was one; the second was not publicly identified by any law enforcement document or named press report) who directed group activity, membership sponsorship, and the group's ideological output. A man using the name Korb was described as the president of InJekt Division during a far-right podcast.[^2]
The group's accelerationist ideology centered on the phrase "pray for rain," used as shorthand for the desired nuclear fallout that would collapse civilization and permit a fascist reconstruction. InJekt Division embraced the label "clerical fascism," a self-coined ideological marker blending national socialist accelerationism with religious and misogynist framing that the group treated as distinct from the occult or Satanist currents within other Terrorgram-affiliated networks. InJekt Division explicitly opposed networks including [[Order of Nine Angles]] adherents, [[Harm Nation]], and [[764 Network|764]] on the grounds that those groups functioned as fronts for child exploitation; InJekt documented that opposition through doxxing activity targeting individuals it identified as pedophiles within the broader neo-Nazi scene.[^2][^3]
### Geographic Reach
Documented membership was geographically dispersed: Texas (founding base), New Hampshire, Louisiana, Massachusetts, California, and the New York-Pennsylvania-New Jersey tri-state area. The group operated via cell structure with no formal hierarchical coordination outside the SWT inner circle.[^3]
### Relationship to FKD and the United Acceleration Front
[[Feuerkrieg Division]] reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, in the immediate aftermath of InJekt Division's founding and Blevins's arrest. A co-leader of the revived FKD, identified in the CTEC/TAT report by the alias "Hergle Zelea," used the FKD platform to establish himself as a central figure in the broader Terrorgram community and as the primary organizer of two coalition structures: the United Acceleration Front and the [[National Socialist Coalition]] (also described in some sources as the "National Socialist Alliance"). InJekt Division and FKD provided what CTEC described as "established networks and aesthetic machinery" to build the UAF. The partnership was announced publicly on Telegram.[^4]
The CTEC and Tech Against Terrorism joint study, which collected data from June 2021 through February 2022, identified 21 distinct entities within the resulting coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram channels. The report noted that the network's apparent strength may have been artificially inflated by domain-record analysis, suggesting the organizing leadership created multiple nominally distinct entities to project a larger footprint.[^4]
Additional Telegram-based groups operating in the same UAF coalition network alongside InJekt Division and FKD included [[Vorherrschaft Division]] and [[Totenwaffen]]. FKD already maintained a "very public alliance" with Vorherrschaft Division prior to the UAF launch, distributing joint propaganda. Totenwaffen, an eco-fascist accelerationist group founded in November 2020 by Lukas Fast (alias "Luthias Fast"), a 17-year-old from [[Potsdam, Germany]], operated in the same coalition space until approximately 2022.[^5]
### Blevins Arrest and Federal Prosecution
On May 27, 2021, Blevins posted to social media: "I'm going to Walmart," followed by a photograph of himself holding a black AR-15, then the message, "I have no problem spending the rest of my life in prison for Shootings [sic] up Walmart." Kerr County authorities executed a search warrant on May 28, 2021. Officers found 556 rounds of ammunition at Blevins's apartment and an AR-15 with four magazines in a vehicle belonging to his roommate.[^6]
The federal case, USA v. Blevins, was filed April 6, 2022, as case number 5:22-cr-00169 in the Western District of Texas. Blevins pleaded guilty on November 28, 2023, to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge in the Western District sentenced him to 60 months (five years) in federal prison in May 2024.[^7]
No other InJekt Division members were publicly charged in connection with the group's Telegram activities as of May 2026. The identity of the second member of the "Shock Waffen Twins" inner circle was not confirmed in any public law enforcement document.
### Position in the AWD-to-764 Pipeline
The organizational arc that CTEC documented in the 2022 report runs: AWD (2015-2020), then FKD (2018-2020, revived 2021) plus InJekt Division (2021), then UAF/NSC coalition (2021-2022), then Terrorgram channel infrastructure (2022-2024). The 764 Network and The Com emerged from overlapping recruitment infrastructure during the same 2021-2022 period when the UAF was operational. No court document or law enforcement filing as of May 2026 names a specific individual confirmed as a member of both the UAF/InJekt ecosystem and 764 or The Com. The CTEC report identifies the mechanism of continuity (Telegram channel infrastructure, youth recruitment aesthetics, leaderless accelerationism) but stops short of naming specific personnel bridges.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: ADL. "Texas Man Arrested for Terrorist Threats Targeting Local Walmart." June 2021. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/texas-man-arrested-terrorist-threats-targeting-local-walmart; SPLC Hatewatch. "Texas Man Arrested on Charges of Terroristic Threats Ran White Power Telegram Channel." June 16, 2021. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/06/16/texas-man-arrested-charges-terroristic-threats-ran-white-power-telegram-channel
[^2]: Raw Story. "The Kerrville Nazi who threatened to shoot up Walmart started a martyrdom cult and fantasized about a nuclear holocaust." https://www.rawstory.com/coleman-thomas-blevins/
[^3]: Philly Fash Watch / Anarchist Federation. "InJekt Division and Its Local Membership." https://phillyfashwatch.noblogs.org/injekt-division-and-its-local-membership/ ; https://www.anarchistfederation.net/injekt-division-and-its-local-membership/
[^4]: Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." June 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study; full PDF: https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/hubfs/CTEC__TAT-Accelerationism-Report-.pdf
[^5]: Tracking Terrorism (TRAC). "Interconnectivity Between Accelerationist Networks: Totenwaffen, Vorherrschaft Division, The InJekt Division, and Feuerkrieg Division." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/interconnectivity-between-accelerationist-networks-totenwaffen-vorherrschaft-division-the-injekt-division-and-feuerkrieg-division/; TRAC. Totenwaffen profile. https://trackingterrorism.org/group/trac-profile-totenwaffen-aka-totenwaffe/
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDTX. "Kerrville Man Who Made Terrorist Threats Sentenced on Firearm Charges." May 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/kerrville-man-who-made-terrorist-threats-sentenced-firearm-charges; CBS News. "Texas man arrested after authorities say they intercepted plans for a mass shooting at Walmart." May 30, 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coleman-blevins-planned-walmart-mass-shooting-texas/
[^7]: PacerMonitor. USA v. Blevins, 5:22-cr-00169, Texas Western District Court. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/44455132/USA_v_Blevins; KSAT. "Coleman Thomas Blevins, 31, sentenced on firearm charges." May 9, 2024. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/05/09/kerrville-man-accused-of-making-terroristic-threats-sentenced-to-5-years-on-felony-firearm-charges/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- IronMarch
- NeoNazi
- AtomwaffenDivision
- SiegeCulture
- Forum
- Russia
- DatabaseLeak
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Iron March was a Russian neo-fascist web forum founded by Alisher Mukhitdinov in 2011 that served as the primary incubator for Atomwaffen Division and several other neo-Nazi organizations until its closure in 2017, after which a 2019 database leak exposed 1,207 user accounts and enabled identification of military personnel, law enforcement employees, and organizational moderators across multiple countries."
start: 2011
end: 2017
location: "Russia (online)"
---
[[Iron March]] was a neo-fascist web forum founded in 2011 by [[Russia|Russian]] nationalist [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] (operating under the alias "Alexander Slavros") and active until its closure in 2017. During its six years of operation, it served as the primary international incubator for a new generation of neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations, most significantly [[Atomwaffen Division]], and played a critical role in popularizing [[James Mason]]'s 1992 book *[[Siege]]* among a younger generation of online militants beginning in 2015.
### Founding and Character
Mukhitdinov launched Iron March in 2011 as an explicitly neo-fascist and neo-Nazi discussion community. The forum's character distinguished it from older white nationalist online spaces by its emphasis on international fascist solidarity rather than American white nationalism specifically, its embrace of philosophical and esoteric neo-Nazism alongside more conventional political content, and its willingness to host members from across the world who were organizing actual offline groups.
The forum attracted members who were simultaneously producing theory, building organizations, and planning operations, which made it unusually consequential relative to its size. Members who later committed acts of violence, founded violent organizations, or were prosecuted on terrorism-related charges had all been active participants in the Iron March community.
### Predecessor: International Third Positionist Federation
Iron March was not the forum's original identity. On June 26, 2010, an unidentified individual using the username "Kacen" created a forum called the "International Third Positionist Federation" (ITPF) on [[Bizhat]], an India-based hosting service offering ready-to-use forum templates. ITPF showed no activity until April 2011, when Mukhitdinov joined and began creating content. In September 2011, the ITPF administrators migrated the forum to a new domain, ironmarch.org, using [[Invision Power Services]] software, and shut down the ITPF instance. An Iron March moderator using the screen name "Woman in Black" referenced unspecified technical issues as the reason for migration in private messages recovered from the database. The identity of "Kacen" and of "Woman in Black" has not been established in open-source reporting.[^1]
### Forum Administration and Named Moderators
Mukhitdinov ("Alexander Slavros") is the only forum administrator whose real identity has been fully established. [[BBC News Russian]] identified Mukhitdinov in January 2020, following an investigation that located him still living in southwest Moscow in a prefabricated apartment block. His parents had met as students at the [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] (MGIMO), an institution with documented ties to Russian state security agencies. His father was a businessman and CEO of a charitable foundation. A close relative on his father's side, [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]], was a senior Soviet official who led the Uzbek government under Khrushchev and served as an ambassador. BBC Russia investigated claims that Alisher Mukhitdinov had been pressured by Russian authorities for alleged fundraising for the [[Azov Battalion]] (designated a terrorist organization in Russia) but found no evidence the fundraising occurred. He has not been prosecuted in any jurisdiction as of May 2026.[^2]
[[Benjamin Raymond]], the co-founder of [[National Action]], was a named Iron March administrator. Raymond's administrative role on Iron March predated National Action's founding in 2013, and he served as the organization's primary propagandist. The Iron March database confirmed Raymond's Iron March presence in records surfaced after the 2019 leak.[^3]
[[John Cartwright II]], operating under the username "Blood and Iron," joined Iron March in September 2011, immediately after the forum's founding, and served as a moderator. Database records and private message content identified him as a U.S. Navy member last known to be residing in Millersville, Maryland. He participated in Skype groups with other early-period Iron March members. His moderator role placed him within the core administrative cohort alongside Slavros from the forum's inception.[^4]
### Atomwaffen Division
The most significant organizational product of Iron March was [[Atomwaffen Division]], announced to the community on October 12, 2015 by founding member [[Brandon Russell]]. Russell had been organizing AWD for years before the formal announcement, claiming active recruitment since at least 2012, and AWD's ideological foundation in *Siege* and [[accelerationism]] reflected the content environment Iron March had cultivated.[^3]
The forum's 2015 rediscovery and promotion of *Siege* was the critical event in *Siege*'s resurgence as an influential text. James Mason's essays had been largely ignored since the 1992 compilation, but Iron March gave them a global neo-Nazi audience that included the membership base from which AWD recruited.[^5]
### Organizations Incubated by Iron March
Beyond Atomwaffen Division, the forum directly produced or provided the founding membership for:
[[National Action]] (UK, 2013): Founded by Benjamin Raymond (Iron March administrator) and [[Alex Davies]], who used the username "Daddy Terror" on Iron March. National Action was the first offline organization to emerge directly from Iron March and served as a model for subsequent formations.[^3]
[[Antipodean Resistance]] (Australia, October 2016): Founded by [[Tim Heibach]] (username "Xav") and announced to the Iron March community on October 10, 2016, encouraging Australian Iron March users to contact "Xav" and "Kehlsteinhaus." The Iron March database later exposed Heibach's real identity. Other identified founding-era members included [[Nathaniel Anderson]] (username "HalArts," also "Rusty Sandusky") and [[Jacob Hersant]].[^6]
### Database Leak: Technical Record
The Iron March SQL database was uploaded to the [[Internet Archive]] on November 6, 2019, by a user operating under the handle "antifa-data," implying an activist motivation. The leaker's identity has not been established in any public record. The Internet Archive removed the dataset shortly after it was posted, but torrent links published by [[Bellingcat]] kept it circulating among researchers and journalists.
The leaked archive contained a complete snapshot of the forum as it existed shortly before the site went offline in November 2017. Specific data fields included: member IDs, usernames, registration email addresses, IP addresses used at registration and login, registration timestamps (Unix format), two-factor authentication logs, all public forum posts, all private message threads (approximately 22,000 conversations), and forum administration data. The SQL dump required a database viewer such as MySQL Workbench or DB Browser for SQLite, but the same torrent included exported spreadsheets organized by field, lowering the technical barrier for non-specialist researchers.[^7]
The researcher operating under the handle "Jewish Worker" built an independent searchable website from the raw data, making the dump accessible to non-technical journalists and activists who could query usernames, email addresses, and post content without managing their own SQL environment.[^8]
Bellingcat published a how-to guide for accessing and interpreting the data on the same day as the leak, November 6, 2019, and separately produced an interactive map geolocating all forum activity originating from IP addresses near U.S. military installations. Bellingcat also compiled a spreadsheet of all private message threads involving users who identified themselves as active-duty military.[^7]
The [[MIT Media Lab]] undertook a computational analysis of the forum corpus using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling and network analysis, finding that Iron March grew through social bonding rather than ideological convergence, a finding with implications for counter-extremism strategy.[^9]
### Forum Statistics and Geographic Distribution
At the time of its 2017 closure, Iron March had 1,207 registered user accounts. Those users produced more than 195,000 public posts and approximately 4,500 to 22,000 private message threads (sources vary in granularity). The median self-reported age of the user base was 26, and the average was 28, based on data from 183 users who disclosed their age.
Among the 1,185 accounts that did not mask their IP addresses with a VPN or proxy, the dominant geographic concentrations outside the English-speaking world were the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Brazil. Within the English-speaking world, U.S.-based registrations dominated, followed by the [[United Kingdom]] (approximately 9 percent), [[Canada]] (approximately 7 percent), and [[Australia]] (approximately 5 percent).[^10]
### Verified Real-Name Mappings: Military and Government Personnel
The database leak directly enabled identification of active-duty military and government employees whose extremist activity had been pseudonymous. The following cases are documented in published investigative reporting:
[[David Cole Tarkington]] used the username "The Yank" and was active on Iron March from 2013 to 2016, at which point he was serving as an aviation machinist mate's apprentice with [[Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-41]] at [[Naval Air Station Lemoore]], California. Private message records showed he attempted to recruit at least 12 Iron March members into Atomwaffen Division. [[Gizmodo]] reporters identified him in March 2020 and notified the Navy. [[NCIS]] opened an investigation. Tarkington was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020. No criminal charges were filed.[^11]
[[Travis Frey]] used the username "In Hoc Signo Vinces" and joined Iron March in 2013. He posted at least a dozen times between 2016 and 2017 while working as head of security at a [[CoreCivic]] jail in Indianapolis. By the time of his identification in January 2020, he had been promoted to captain at the [[Nevada Southern Detention Center]], a CoreCivic facility contracted with [[ICE]]. Database records included Frey's personal email address, phone number, birthday, and place of residence, enabling [[Vice News]] to identify him directly. Forum posts showed Frey describing himself as a "fascist" and expressing interest in organizing for the [[Traditionalist Workers Party]] in Indiana. CoreCivic placed him on administrative leave following Vice's January 2020 reporting. U.S. Senators called for a federal investigation into the Nevada facility.[^12]
[[Thomas Adam Guba]], using the username "22goy," registered with the email address tguba2004@hotmail.com, enabling his identification as a Navy employee at the [[Naval Medical Logistics Command]] in Baltimore, Maryland. His photograph appeared in the Naval Medical Logistics Command journal "Logistically Speaking" in its October-December 2017 issue, shortly after he had gone inactive on Iron March. Previously he had served as an aviation structural mechanic.[^13]
[[Van Ramsey Laws-Spencer]] was linked to two Iron March accounts: "Ozymandias" (registered with email pentaghast123@gmail.com, active October 2013 to April 2016) and "Turok" (email including Laws-Spencer's name, active August to October 2012). Multiple social media profiles operating under the "pentaghast123" username corroborated the identification. At the time of identification, Laws-Spencer was an active-duty Marine stationed at [[Camp Pendleton]], California.[^14]
[[Boris Mihajlovic]] posted on Iron March in 2016, encouraging other Canadian users to enlist in the armed forces for weapons training. [[CBC News]] identified him and confirmed he had been promoted to leading seaman in April 2018 and was working as a supply technician for [[HMCS Tecumseh]], a naval reserve establishment in Calgary. When contacted, Mihajlovic acknowledged the posts and stated he had left extremist activity behind.[^15]
### Verified Real-Name Mappings: Other Notable Identifications
[[Raivis Zeltits]], the Secretary-General of Latvia's [[National Alliance]] party from 2014 to 2020, was identified through the database on November 12, 2019, as the user "Latvian_Integralist." Zeltits acknowledged the account in a Facebook post, stating he had written those posts at age 20 and no longer held those views. He remained in contact with Iron March administrator Benjamin Raymond as late as 2015. The identification triggered calls for his resignation within Latvian political circles.[^16]
[[Benjamin Hannam]], a probationary constable with the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] (London), was identified through Iron March database records as a member of [[National Action]] before he applied to join the police. He had signed up to Iron March when he joined National Action's London branch in March 2016, more than two years before his police application. He was convicted on April 1, 2021 at the [[Old Bailey]] of National Action membership, two counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of possessing terrorist documents, and possession of a prohibited image of a child. He was sentenced to four years and four months, the first serving UK police officer convicted of terrorism-related offenses. The Iron March database was the mechanism through which his connection to National Action was first established.[^17]
[[Nicholas Waugh]] (username "HaggiSS"), a Scottish businessman from Aberdeenshire, was identified by a joint investigation by [[The Ferret]] and [[Daily Record]]. The database showed Waugh had attempted to order National Action stickers, messaged fascists in Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Australia to build international links, and encouraged members to attend demonstrations in the UK. He operated an Etsy shop named "Wodenstone" selling handcrafted traditional jewelry. He was identified as a significant figure in Scottish National Action and [[Scottish Dawn]] before proscription.[^18]
### Airbnb Platform Response
In December 2019, [[Airbnb]] cross-referenced its identity-verification database against the leaked Iron March member list and banned more than 60 confirmed Iron March users from the platform. All identified Iron March accounts on Airbnb had been guest accounts rather than host accounts.[^19]
### Successor Forum: Fascist Forge
In April 2018, approximately six months after Iron March's closure, a user operating under the name "Mathias" launched [[Fascist Forge]], explicitly described in a founding note as a replacement for Iron March intended to "continue where they left off." Fascist Forge replicated Iron March's vetting process, requiring prospective members to submit ideological essays before gaining full access. By February 2020 the forum had more than 1,500 registered users. Fascist Forge's hosting registrar took the site offline in February 2020. No strong successor consolidation forum emerged immediately, though the network's activity dispersed into encrypted messaging applications and alternative platforms.[^20]
### Footnotes
[^1]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^2]: Meduza. "How a Moscow man from an Uzbek family started the world's biggest neo-Nazi forum." February 4, 2020. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/02/04/how-a-moscow-man-from-an-uzbek-family-started-the-world-s-biggest-neo-nazi-forum
[^3]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^4]: Iron March Dossiers. "John Cartwright II, aka Blood and Iron, Moderator of Neo-Nazi Forum Iron March." March 13, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/03/13/john-cartwright-ii-moderator-of-neo-nazi-forum-iron-march/
[^5]: SPLC. "Atomwaffen Division." Extremist Files. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/atomwaffen-division/
[^6]: The White Rose Society. "Antipodean Resistance and the Lads Society." https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/antipodean-resistance-and-the-lads-society; Times of Israel. "Antipodean Resistance: Australia's new Nazis." https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antipodean-resistance-australias-new-nazis/
[^7]: Bellingcat. "Massive White Supremacist Message Board Leak: How to Access and Interpret the Data." November 6, 2019. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/
[^8]: Gizmodo. "Neo-Nazi Web Forum Iron March Has SQL Database Dumped on the Internet Archive." November 7, 2019. https://gizmodo.com/neo-nazi-web-forum-iron-march-has-sql-database-dumped-o-1839721580
[^9]: MIT Media Lab. "Investigating the Iron March Forums with Computational Tools: Far-Right Forum Network and LDA Analysis." Project overview, October 2020 to June 2023. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/investigating-the-iron-march-forums-with-computational-tools-far-right-forum-network-and-lda-analysis/overview/
[^10]: Lawfare. "The Iron March Data Dump Provides a Window Into How White Supremacists Communicate and Recruit." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/iron-march-data-dump-provides-window-how-white-supremacists-communicate-and-recruit; CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^11]: Gizmodo. "Leak Exposes U.S. Navy Sailor as Once-Prolific Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group." March 12, 2020. https://gizmodo.com/leak-exposes-u-s-navy-sailor-as-once-prolific-recruite-1841149776; Newsweek. "Navy Kicks Out Alleged Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division After Investigation." April 2020. https://www.newsweek.com/navy-kicks-out-alleged-recruiter-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-division-after-investigation-1498704
[^12]: Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain Was on a Neo-Nazi Website and Wanted to Start a White Nationalist Group." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-was-on-a-neo-nazi-website-and-wanted-to-start-a-white-nationalist-group/; Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain With Neo-Nazi Ties Was Just Placed on Leave." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-with-neo-nazi-ties-was-just-placed-on-leave/
[^13]: Iron March Dossiers. "Thomas Adam Guba: Samuel Shapiro, Naval Medical Logistics Command Employee and Fascist Iron March User." February 27, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/02/27/thomas-adam-guba-naval-medical-logistics-command-member-and-fascist-iron-march-user/
[^14]: Iron March Dossiers. "Van Ramsey Laws-Spencer: Neo-Nazi Organizer on Iron March and Active Marine." March 4, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/03/04/van-ramsey-lawsspencer-neo-nazi-organizer-on-iron-march-and-active-marine/
[^15]: CBC News. "Leak of thousands of posts from defunct neo-Nazi forum offers clues to identify Canadian members." November-December 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/iron-march-message-board-canadian-forces-1.5353201
[^16]: Baltic Word / LSM. "Latvian Senior National Alliance figure apologises." November 2019. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/senior-national-alliance-figure-apologises-for-cloud-of-far-right-messages.a338044/
[^17]: ITV News. "Neo-Nazi police officer Ben Hannam guilty of belonging to terror group National Action." April 1, 2021. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-04-01/neo-nazi-police-officer-ben-hannam-guilty-of-belonging-to-terror-group-national-action
[^18]: The Ferret. "Named: the Scots businessman linked to neo-Nazi groups." 2020. https://www.theferret.scot/neo-nazi-haggiss-iron-march/
[^19]: Gizmodo. "Airbnb Bans Over 60 White Supremacists After Iron March Forum Database Leak." December 2019. https://gizmodo.com/airbnb-bans-over-60-white-supremacists-after-iron-march-1840420392
[^20]: ADL. "Fascist Forge: A New Forum for Hate." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/fascist-forge-new-forum-hate; Vice. "Fascist Forge, the Online Neo-Nazi Recruitment Forum, Is Down." February 2020. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/43zn8j/fascist-forge-the-online-neo-nazi-recruitment-forum-is-down

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- TheCom
- NVE
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- ChildExploitation
- CSAM
- Sextortion
- PsychologicalManipulation
- Online
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Kaskar is a 764 splinter group founded around 2022 by a figure known as 'Courtbox,' characterized by sadistic sextortion and psychological manipulation targeting children aged 9 to 17, with no publicly named prosecutions as of mid-2026."
start: 2022
location: "Online (global)"
---
[[Kaskar]] is a subgroup within [[The Com]] ecosystem and one of the documented splinter organizations that emerged from the disruption of the [[764 Network]]'s original leadership structure around 2022. Its name is an acronym standing for "Kill All Sluts, Kill All Retards," consistent with the misogynistic and nihilistic internal aesthetics of the broader 764 network. Kaskar operates alongside [[Harm Nation]], [[Court]], [[Leak Society]], [[H3ll]], and [[CVLTIST]] as one of the named post-2021 764 successors documented by the [[ADL]], [[ISD Global|ISD]], the [[Global Project Against Hate and Extremism|GPAHE]], and researcher [[Marc-Andre Argentino]] of the Accelerationist Research Consortium.[^1]
### Founding
Kaskar was founded by a figure operating under the alias "Courtbox," who was initially a member of 764 before leaving during the period of internal fragmentation. The 2022 disruption of 764 leadership caused by [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead|Cadenhead]]'s arrest and internal infighting led multiple departing members to create distinct successor groups; Courtbox was one of these figures. Courtbox simultaneously operated a large public chat server on [[Telegram]] and [[Discord]] known as "Court," which functioned as a recruitment and member channel distinct from Kaskar itself but connected to it through Courtbox's dual role.[^2]
Courtbox's real-world identity has not been publicly confirmed in court documents or law enforcement press releases available through mid-2026. Research accounts note that Courtbox remains unidentified by name in any public charging document.
Some research accounts attribute Kaskar's co-founding to two individuals: Courtbox and a figure known as "Cxrpse" - the primary alias of [[Justin B.]], the Dutch national from [[Eindhoven, Netherlands]] who founded [[No Lives Matter]] and was arrested in the Netherlands on terrorism charges in July 2025. Chat logs reviewed by researchers show Cxrpse active in 764 spaces and indicate an affinity with Kaskar; however, the extent to which Cxrpse was a co-founder of Kaskar as a distinct group versus an associated figure within the broader Com ecosystem is not established in public court records.[^3]
### Character and Methods
Kaskar's primary operational signature, as described across research accounts, is extreme psychological manipulation as a tool of sextortion. The group targets victims in the 9 to 17 age range, with a documented preference for children from marginalized backgrounds or with mental health vulnerabilities. The targeting logic is consistent with the broader 764 network's operational guidance, which explicitly identified psychological vulnerability as the primary selection criterion for victims.
Kaskar's methods as described by GPAHE and Argentino include:
- Sadistic sextortion: obtaining compromising material through grooming, then weaponizing it for escalating coercion
- Coerced self-harm: directing victims to perform and document acts of self-harm on camera
- Acts of cruelty designed for psychological domination and control, consistent with the broader 764 content economy
The "Court" server operated by Courtbox served as an avenue for victim recruitment and new member onboarding distinct from Kaskar's internal operations, giving the network a two-tier structure of a more visible public-facing recruitment channel and a closed operational group.[^2]
### 764 Network Classification
ISD, GPAHE, and the ADL collectively treat Kaskar as part of the 764 network rather than an independent organization, citing shared aesthetics, overlapping personnel, and continuity of method. The [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]]'s umbrella designation of "Nihilistic Violent Extremists" (NVEs) applies to 764 and its affiliated splinter groups including Kaskar.
The overlap between Kaskar's membership and 764 predates the formal split; Courtbox's presence within 764 before founding Kaskar, and the movement of personnel between named groups throughout The Com, make distinct organizational boundaries analytically difficult to maintain. FBI and DOJ documentation of the broader 764 network as of 2025-2026 encompasses Kaskar within the larger investigative scope rather than treating it as a discrete target.[^1]
### Law Enforcement Actions
No criminal prosecution specifically naming Kaskar as an organization, or charging a defendant specifically as a Kaskar member, had been publicly announced through mid-2026. Individuals affiliated with Kaskar are understood to fall within the more than 350 active FBI investigations tied to 764 and related networks reported as of April 2026, but Kaskar has not been the subject of a standalone DOJ press release or named indictment comparable to the [[764 Inferno]] prosecution of [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] (April 2025) or the prosecution of [[Baron Cain Martin]] in Arizona.
The closest publicly documented connection is through Cxrpse/Justin B., who has demonstrable connections to the Kaskar ecosystem and was arrested in the Netherlands on terrorism, child exploitation, and incitement charges; the Dutch case, however, proceeded under No Lives Matter charges rather than Kaskar-specific charges.
### Footnotes
[^1]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764; ISD Global. "764." https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/764/; Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization." https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/; Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Understanding the Relationship Between 764 And The Com Network." https://www.maargentino.com/understanding-the-relationship-between-764-and-the-com-network/
[^2]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Understanding the Relationship Between 764 And The Com Network." https://www.maargentino.com/understanding-the-relationship-between-764-and-the-com-network/
[^3]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "Founder of No Lives Matter Arrested on Child Abuse and Terrorism Charges." https://globalextremism.org/post/founder-of-no-lives-matter-arrested-on-child-abuse-and-terrorism-charges/; Unicorn Riot. "Sextortion Coms: Inside a Vile Child Exploitation Cult Run by Nazi-Linked Teens." 2024. https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- MKY
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- Ukraine
- NVE
- TerroristOrganization
- TheComNetwork
- SaintsCulture
start: 2017
location: "Dnipro, Ukraine (online, global)"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi accelerationist network whose 'Murder Points' system rewards escalating real-world violence, proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025, with leader Michail Chkhikvishvili sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison in 2026."
---
[[Maniac Murder Cult]] (also known as MKY, MKU, MMC, Maniacs Murder Cult, and Maniacs: Cult of Killing) is a neo-Nazi accelerationist organization founded in [[Dnipro]], [[Ukraine]], approximately 2017-2018 by [[Yegor Krasnov]] ("Maniac") when he was approximately 16 years old. It combines explicit national socialism, theistic Satanism, and extreme misanthropy into an ideology it calls [[Racial Holy War|RaHoWa]] (Racial Holy War), and it implements a tiered "Murder Points" reward system that incentivizes escalating real-world violence as a form of organizational advancement. The group's self-declared terrorist identity and its encouragement of livestreamed attacks distinguishes it analytically from purely nihilistic networks within [[The Com]] ecosystem. The UK proscribed MKY as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2025; Canada listed it alongside [[764 Network|764]] and [[Terrorgram Collective]] on December 10, 2025.[^1]
### Origins in Dnipro
Krasnov founded the group in Dnipro after an alleged expulsion from another far-right formation, taking approximately 15 members with him. The group's first branded content (short videos of street attacks) appeared on the Russian imageboard 2chan in 2018, then migrated to VK and [[Telegram]] in 2019. The name derives from Krasnov's alias and the group's ideological framing of murder as a spiritual and political act.
Ukrainian authorities arrested Krasnov in 2020, after which [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] assumed operational leadership. Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian national who used the alias "Commander Butcher," expanded the network's international reach and shifted its recruitment toward Telegram and [[Wire]]/[[Matrix]] for encrypted internal communications distinct from its public-facing channels.[^2]
### Ideology and Murder Points System
MKY's ideological framework combines three elements: neo-Nazi accelerationism (the belief that mass violence against Jews, racial minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals will precipitate societal collapse and enable a fascist reconstitution), theistic Satanism drawn from [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]]-adjacent traditions, and a misanthropic exaltation of serial killers and mass murderers as exemplary figures. Venerated "saints" include the 2019 [[Brenton Tarrant|Christchurch]] attacker, [[Ted Kaczynski]] (the Unabomber), and the [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]] - three Ukrainian teenagers who filmed and distributed murders in 2007.
The "Murder Points" system operationalizes this ideology through a formal rank structure: crimes earn different point values (higher for more severe acts), with accumulated points translating to elevated rank within the network. A documented tier hierarchy means members progress from vandalism through assault to arson to terrorism and murder, with the network's internal status architecture rewarding escalation. This distinguishes MKY from the largely status-driven nihilism of other Com subgroups: MKY's violence serves both internal rank and stated ideological goals.[^3]
### International Reach and Attributed Violence
Though Ukrainian in origin, MKY expanded internationally through Telegram recruitment, with documented members in at least a dozen countries by 2024. Real-world violence directly attributed to MKY or members acting on its direction includes:
[[Romania]] (2022): A 17-year-old member livestreamed the murder of an elderly woman as an MKY initiation ritual and separately injured an 82-year-old man. Romanian courts convicted the perpetrator in August 2023 to 14 years imprisonment.
[[Turkey]] (August 2024): An 18-year-old neo-Nazi livestreamed stabbing multiple people near a mosque in [[Eskisehir]]. The attack has been attributed to MKY by researchers; it is also cited in the Canadian sentencing proceedings of [[Terrorgram Collective]] co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]] as a Terrorgram-inspired attack, reflecting the substantial ideological overlap between these networks.
[[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]] (January 22, 2025): [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School before dying by suicide. Henderson's manifesto cited MKY and named Chkhikvishvili specifically. Nashville Metropolitan Police Department's January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and that there was no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY.
[[Sweden]] (2024): A 14-year-old known online as "Slain764" stabbed two elderly individuals; at least six additional attacks were recorded and promoted on Telegram by this individual before their arrest in September 2024. The ISD and ADL attribute this activity to the intersection of 764 and MKY networks.[^4]
### Prosecutions and Designations
The primary prosecution of MKY leadership was brought by the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] against [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] in the Eastern District of New York. Chkhikvishvili was indicted in July 2024 for soliciting hate crimes and planning a mass casualty attack in New York City. He was arrested in [[Chisinau]], Moldova in July 2024 and extradited to the United States in May 2025. He pleaded guilty in November 2025 and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in May 2026.
Yegor Krasnov, the founder, was arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020. His subsequent legal status under Ukrainian law has not been reported in English-language sources.
Alongside the U.S. prosecution, the UK proscribed MKY as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2025, making membership a criminal offense in England and Wales. Canada designated MKY as a terrorist entity on December 10, 2025, in the same order that designated 764 and Terrorgram Collective.[^5]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Argentino, Marc-Andre, Gay, Arthur, and Bastin, Naomi. "Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence." CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. August/September 2024. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/
[^2]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult." GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/
[^3]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
[^4]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers; ISD. "From sextortion to violence: The threat of the 764 network in the US." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/from-sextortion-to-violence-the-evolving-threat-of-the-764-network-in-the-us/
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; Government of Canada. "Government of Canada Lists Four New Terrorist Entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- TemplovBlood
- NeoNazi
- Publishing
- Satanism
- AtomwaffenDivision
- FBIInformant
- USA
- SouthCarolina
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Martinet Press is the Tempel ov Blood publishing imprint operated by Joshua Caleb Sutter and Jillian Hoy, which published Iron Gates in October 2014, more than a decade into Sutter's tenure as a paid FBI informant, and whose operations were partially funded by those informant payments."
start: 2014
location: "Lexington, South Carolina"
---
[[Martinet Press]] is the publishing arm of [[Tempel ov Blood]], the primary American [[nexion]] of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), operated by [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and his wife [[Jillian Hoy]] from their base in [[Lexington, South Carolina]]. The press published the O9A texts that reached the widest American extremist audience - principally the ultraviolent novel *[[Iron Gates]]* (2014), along with *Liber 333* and *Bluebird* - which were subsequently adopted as required reading within [[Atomwaffen Division]] following Sutter's 2017 infiltration of that organization, and distributed through [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels into the broader accelerationist ecosystem.
In a documented paradox that has received significant attention from researchers and journalists, Martinet Press's operations were partially funded by FBI informant payments made to Sutter between 2003 and at least 2021. The FBI paid Sutter more than $140,000 for intelligence work, including infiltrating AWD, while those funds partly supported the publication of texts that radicalized the AWD members Sutter was being paid to monitor.[^1]
### Publications
Martinet Press's primary publications, all drawn from O9A source material and produced under Tempel ov Blood's collective authorship, include:
*Iron Gates* (October 18, 2014; ISBN 9780692306581; 406 pp.): An ultraviolent novel depicting a post-collapse race war and mass genocide, framed within O9A's [[Insight Roles]] doctrine as spiritually necessary transgression. Became required AWD reading after Sutter's infiltration; its distribution through Terrorgram channels gave it reach far beyond the original O9A audience. The book is available through the [[Internet Archive]] in full text and was carried by multiple commercial booksellers including WORD Bookstore, ThriftBooks, and Better World Books.
*Liber 333*: An O9A initiation text containing practical instructions for the Seven Fold Way, including descriptions of the Insight Roles doctrine and guidance for the initiate's progression through transgressive acts.
*Bluebird*: An O9A text addressing specific operational themes; circulated alongside *Iron Gates* within AWD and through Terrorgram.
Additional works published in the 2019-2020 period include *Choronzon IV* (April 2019), *Goetia Daemonium* (June 2019), *Egregoroi* (July 2020), and *PREDATOR* issues (a Tempel ov Blood restricted circular).[^6]
All three primary texts were cited in federal prosecutions as evidence of defendants' ideological commitments and as material that law enforcement linked to radicalization and incitement to violence.[^2]
### Publication Timeline vs. Informant Relationship
The relationship between Martinet Press and Sutter's FBI informant status is a matter of documented chronology:
- February 2003: Sutter arrested in [[Uwchlan Township, Pennsylvania]] by [[Philadelphia JTTF]]
- May 2003: Guilty plea entered, [[United States v. Sutter (2003)]], 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 ([[Eastern District of Pennsylvania]])
- 2004: Released from federal prison; informant deployment as "deep-cover" source begins
- 2014: *Iron Gates* published by Martinet Press (October 18, 2014; ISBN 9780692306581; 406 pp.)
- 2017: Tempel ov Blood members integrated into AWD; Sutter joins AWD as "swissdiscipline"
- February 7, 2018: FBI payment period specifically associated with the AWD investigation begins ($78,133.20 in payments + $4,378.60 expenses)
- 2019-2020: Martinet Press publishes additional works including *Choronzon IV*, *Goetia Daemonium*, *Egregoroi*, and *PREDATOR* issues[^6]
- August 2021: Sutter's informant status publicly revealed through Cole suppression motion
- 2022: Rolling Stone reports Sutter "is a free man and still selling Satanist books"[^7]
*Iron Gates* was therefore published eleven years after Sutter began cooperating with the FBI. The book, and the publishing apparatus around it, existed entirely within the informant relationship.
### The FBI Paradox
Sutter was recruited as a paid FBI informant following his 2003 arrest on weapons charges. His FBI handler, Special Agent [[Bill Moser]] of the [[FBI Columbia Field Office|Columbia, South Carolina field office]], paid him a total documented sum of more than $140,000 between 2003 and 2021. Of this total, approximately $78,133 was specifically documented as payment for work conducted from February 7, 2018 onward - work that included Sutter's activities inside AWD as "swissdiscipline."
The court documents disclosing Sutter's informant status, obtained and published by investigative journalist [[Ali Winston]] in the federal case against AWD leader [[Kaleb Cole]], showed that during the same period the FBI was paying Sutter for intelligence work inside AWD, Sutter and Hoy were using Martinet Press to publish and distribute *Iron Gates* and other O9A texts to AWD members. The FBI's awareness of the press's operations during this period, and any internal discussion of whether funding the publisher of radicalizing material was consistent with its informant mission, has not been established in available documents.[^1]
### Court Description of the Publishing Operation
In the August 13, 2021 [[motion to suppress]] filed in [[United States v. Shea et al.]], 2:20-cr-00032 ([[Western District of Washington|W.D. Wash.]]), Cole's defense described the CI, without using Sutter's name, as: "a convicted felon and currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings." This language appeared in defense papers that the government read and responded to.[^3]
The government's response focused on the legal sufficiency of the warrant affidavit. It did not assert that the CI's publishing activities were authorized by the FBI, did not dispute the characterization of the press as distributing "white supremacist writings," and did not address whether the FBI knew about or supervised the publishing operations. Judge [[John C. Coughenour]]'s ruling denying the suppression motion similarly addressed credibility and warrant sufficiency but not the substance of the publishing activities.[^4]
The affidavit itself, which was attached to the motion as Exhibit A, had not previously been public; it was the first time the original search warrant application against Cole's home was released. The motion describes the CI's material contributions to the investigation without disclosing that the same CI was actively publishing radicalization material.
### Authorized or Not: The Unresolved Question
No document in the public record, whether from PACER, the Cole trial proceedings, the FBI, or any congressional inquiry, establishes that the FBI explicitly authorized Martinet Press's operations as part of Sutter's informant tasking, or that the FBI explicitly prohibited them and Sutter proceeded anyway.
The court record establishes two facts: first, that during the informant relationship the FBI paid Sutter money while he operated the press; second, that the affidavit used to obtain the Cole search warrant omitted disclosure of the CI's publishing activities. Neither fact establishes authorization or prohibition.
Rolling Stone reported in 2021 that the FBI "declined to comment on whether it knew about or approved Sutter's publishing activities."[^1] This non-response is the public record's endpoint.
### Martinet Press After Revelation
Martinet Press continued operating after Sutter's informant status was publicly confirmed in August 2021. The WordPress presence at martinetpress.wordpress.com remained active as of 2022, and the press continued to list books for sale. The press's protonmail contact (martinetpress@protonmail.ch) remained published.[^6]
### Distribution Through Terrorgram
Martinet Press publications achieved their widest distribution not through direct sale or the O9A organizational network but through Terrorgram Collective's Telegram channels, which distributed them alongside other accelerationist propaganda to an audience that included individuals with no prior AWD or O9A connection. This secondary distribution made Martinet Press texts - especially *Iron Gates* - standard reference points within the broader [[Siege Culture]] and [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism|nihilistic violent extremism]] ecosystem, contributing to the ideological environment in which the [[764 Network|764]] network and its predecessor [[CVLT]] operated, and shaping the content cited in the manifestos of self-radicalizing attackers including the perpetrators of the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting]].[^5]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Ali Winston. Investigative reporting on Joshua Caleb Sutter and FBI informant payments, derived from Kaleb Cole federal court documents. 2021. Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^2]: ICCT. "Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine." https://icct.nl/sites/default/files/2022-12/siege-culture-neo-nazi-terrorist-doctrine.pdf
[^3]: Defense motion to suppress and Exhibit A (original search warrant affidavit), United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), August 13, 2021. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/kaleb-cole-august-13-2021-motion-to-suppress-1
[^4]: Order Denying Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Case No. CR20-0032-JCC (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021). Leagle.com: infdco20210901708.
[^5]: ISD Global. Research reports on Terrorgram and Martinet Press distribution networks.
[^6]: Martinet Press WordPress site. https://martinetpress.wordpress.com/ (accessed 2026-05-22).
[^7]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- NeoNazi
- Paramilitary
- Accelerationism
- International
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Russia
start: 2013
location: "Belarus/Ukraine (online, global)"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Misanthropic Division is a transnational neo-Nazi organization founded in Belarus in 2013 by Dmitry Pavlov, declared extremist by Russia in 2015, with documented cells in 19 countries and connections to Ukraine's Azov Battalion and the broader accelerationist network."
---
[[Misanthropic Division]] (M.D., also known as Division Phoenix following a 2016 rebranding, and in Russian-language usage as M.K.U., standing for Maniaki: Kult Ubiyts or "Maniacs: Cult of Killers") is a transnational neo-Nazi organization founded in October 2013 by [[Dmitry Pavlov]], a [[Belarus|Belarusian]] citizen. The organization combines neo-Nazism, antisemitism, neo-pagan National Socialism (the motto "Toten fur Wotan," meaning "Kill for Odin/Wotan"), Evolianism (the esoteric fascist philosophy of Julius Evola), and extreme misanthropy. It operates as a decentralized network with no rigid central structure, functioning through autonomous cells and affiliated organizations using the M.D. brand. By 2017 it had documented cells in at least 19 countries. It was declared an extremist organization by Russian authorities on July 17, 2015. Three of its members were convicted on terrorism-related extremism charges in Russia in June 2017. A Misanthropic Division Telegram channel with over 4,300 participants was documented in the 2025 federal case against [[Nikita Casap]] in Wisconsin.[^1]
### Origins and Donbas Period
Pavlov founded the organization in 2013, initially operating primarily through [[VKontakte]] (the Russian social network), where M.D. chapters posted content advocating racial violence and celebrating neo-Nazi imagery. The organization took on a more international and militarized character following the 2014 Euromaidan revolution in [[Ukraine]], when some M.D. members joined the conflict in [[Donbas]] on the Ukrainian side, fighting alongside [[Azov Battalion]] forces. The Azov formation subsequently took internal steps to limit M.D.'s influence within its ranks after the relationship became a political liability, though individual M.D. members had already used the association to advance the organization's international recruitment.
### Ideology and Structure
The organization's ideological framework combines several distinct elements: neo-Nazi racial politics and antisemitism, neo-paganism centered on Norse and Germanic symbolism (the "Toten fur Wotan" motto), Evolianism (the occult-inflected fascism of Julius Evola, which intersects with [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]]-adjacent traditions), and a misanthropic glorification of violence as inherently valuable. Researcher Natalia Yudina documented that M.D. has "neither a rigid structure nor permanent leaders," operating instead through autonomous cells that use the brand and ideological framework independently.
### International Connections
By 2017 M.D. had cells or affiliated organizations in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany, France, Poland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and multiple South American countries. Its connections included [[White Rex]] (the neo-Nazi clothing and MMA organization used as a European white supremacist networking platform) and, through the broader Iron March network, organizations including [[National Action]] (UK), [[CasaPound]] (Italy), and [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (which was also an [[Atomwaffen Division]] affiliate). Italian recruiter Francesco Saverio Fontana made documented visits to the UK to recruit for the M.D. and Azov-adjacent foreign fighter circuit.[^2]
### Russian Prosecutions
The Krasnoyarsk Territorial Court declared M.D. an extremist organization on July 17, 2015, banning all activities in Russia. Criminal proceedings followed in multiple Russian jurisdictions. In Moscow, three members were tried and sentenced by the Moscow District Military Court in June 2017: Vitaly Tsaruk received 3 years and 2 months in a penal colony, Victor Pekhterev received 3 years and 6 months, and Cyril (Kirill) Khalepo received 3 years in a penal colony settlement. All were convicted of nine instances of terrorist and extremist activity, specifically for creating and administering VKontakte groups publishing content advocating racial violence. Russia's Supreme Court upheld the sentences in September 2017. Separate convictions were recorded in Stavropol Territory, and criminal cases were opened against M.D.'s alleged founder Pavlov and against [[Ruslan Pavlyuk]], the alleged head of the Rostov-on-Don cell, in 2016-2017.[^3]
### U.S. Case Documentation
A Misanthropic Division Telegram channel with over 4,300 participants was one of at least five extremist Telegram channels that [[Nikita Casap]] of Waukesha, Wisconsin was active in prior to his February 2025 murders of his mother and stepfather and his planned assassination of President Trump. The FBI's March 18, 2025 search warrant affidavit identified his M.D. channel membership alongside his documented [[Terrorgram Collective]] publication citations and [[Order of Nine Angles]] affiliation. The specific nature of his engagement within the M.D. channel context versus those other affiliations was not separately assessed in public court documents.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Euromaidan Press / REFT & Light. "Misanthropic Division: A Neo-Nazi Movement from Ukraine and Russia." https://reftlight.euromaidanpress.com/2016/09/30/misanthropic-division-a-neo-nazi-movement-from-ukraine-and-russia/; CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the Skull Mask Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^2]: Hope Not Hate. "Russian court sentences members of a neo-Nazi terror group also active in the UK." June 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/06/22/russian-court-sentences-members-neo-nazi-group-also-active-uk/
[^3]: RAPSI. "Misanthropic Division members sentenced to up to 3.5 years." June 2017. https://www.rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20170620/279013245.html; RAPSI. "Misanthropic Division members' sentence for extremism upheld." September 2017. https://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20170907/280069915.html
[^4]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired a Teen to Murder His Parents." https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- UK
- TerroristOrganization
- IronMarch
- Proscribed
start: 2013
end: 2016
location: "United Kingdom"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "National Action was a British neo-Nazi organization proscribed in December 2016 as the UK's first banned terrorist group since World War II, producing more than a dozen criminal convictions for membership and terrorism offenses between 2018 and 2022."
---
[[National Action]] was a British neo-Nazi organization founded in late 2013 by [[Alex Davies]] and [[Benjamin Raymond]], both university students at the time. It was the first organization outside [[Northern Ireland]] to be proscribed as a terrorist group in the [[United Kingdom]] since World War II, banned by Home Secretary [[Amber Rudd]] on December 16, 2016 under the Terrorism Act 2000 after the organization publicly celebrated the murder of Labour MP [[Jo Cox]] and made death threats to multiple other left-wing politicians. More than a dozen individuals were convicted of membership in or facilitation of National Action in trials spanning 2018 to 2022, with sentences ranging from 3 years to life imprisonment.[^1]
### Founding and Iron March Connection
Davies and Raymond founded National Action in late 2013. Raymond was an active administrator on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum and National Action was the first offline organization to grow directly out of Iron March, making it a model and predecessor for the transnational accelerationist network that would later produce [[Atomwaffen Division]] and its international affiliates. In 2015, AWD founder [[Brandon Russell]] personally visited London and met Raymond in a documented encounter that linked the British and American accelerationist ecosystems directly.[^2]
### Proscription
The primary catalysts for proscription were National Action's public celebration of the June 2016 murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by [[Thomas Mair]] and subsequent explicit death threats to other MPs. Earlier incidents had already drawn police attention: member [[Garron Helm]] was sentenced in October 2014 to four weeks in prison for sending an antisemitic tweet to MP [[Luciana Berger]]. Zack Davies, identified by police as a National Action member, was convicted in September 2015 of the attempted murder of Sikh dental student [[Sarandev Bhambra]] in Mold, Flintshire and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 14 years.
On December 16, 2016, Rudd described National Action as "a racist, antisemitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology." Successor organizations [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN) and [[Scottish Dawn]] were separately proscribed in 2017; the [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), founded by former SRN leader [[Andrew Dymock]], was proscribed in 2019.[^1]
### Prosecutions
#### Wave 1 (Old Bailey, July 2018)
[[Christopher Lythgoe]] (31, Warrington), the post-proscription leader: convicted of membership, sentenced to 8 years (Judge: Mr Justice Jay). [[Matthew Hankinson]]: convicted of membership, sentenced to 6 years.
#### Jack Renshaw (separate proceedings, 2018-2019)
Renshaw pleaded guilty on June 12, 2018 to preparing an act of terrorism (planning to murder MP [[Rosie Cooper]] with a machete as a prelude to suicide, intended to prevent the police investigation into his child sex offences from proceeding) and threatening to murder the detective investigating him. He was also convicted in 2018 of four counts of inciting children aged 13-15 to engage in sexual activity. On May 17, 2019, Mrs Justice McGowan sentenced him to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.[^3]
#### Wave 2 (Birmingham Crown Court, December 2018)
[[Adam Thomas]] (21, Banbury): convicted of membership and possessing terrorist information, sentenced to 6 years 6 months. [[Claudia Patatas]] (38, Banbury, Thomas's partner, who had named their child after Hitler): convicted of membership, sentenced to 5 years. [[Daniel Bogunovic]] (26, Leicester): convicted of membership, sentenced to 6 years 4 months. [[Darren Fletcher]] (28, Wednesfield): pleaded guilty, sentenced to 5 years. [[Nathan Pryke]] (26, Cambridge): pleaded guilty, sentenced to 5 years 5 months. [[Joel Wilmore]] (24, Hazel Grove, Stockport): pleaded guilty to membership and possession of terrorist information, sentenced to 5 years 10 months.
#### Wave 3 (Birmingham Crown Court, June 2020)
[[Alice Cutter]] (23, Sowerby Bridge): convicted of membership, sentenced to 3 years (Judge: Paul Farrer QC). [[Mark Jones]] (25, Sowerby Bridge): convicted of membership, sentenced to 5 years 6 months. [[Garry Jack]] (24, Birmingham): convicted of membership, sentenced to 4 years 6 months. [[Connor Scothern]] (19, Nottingham): convicted of membership, detained in youth custody 18 months.
#### Wave 4 (Central Criminal Court, 2021)
[[Benjamin Hannam]] (22), serving Metropolitan Police constable of Edmonton, north London, a probationary officer: convicted on 1 April 2021 at the [[Central Criminal Court]] (Old Bailey) of National Action membership under section 11 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], two counts of fraud by false representation under sections 1 and 2 of the [[Fraud Act 2006]] (lying on his Metropolitan Police Service application form and vetting form about BNP or similar organisation membership), two counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (Anders Breivik's manifesto and a knife-attack instructional manual, both found on a USB stick at his home), and one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child under section 62 of the [[Coroners and Justice Act 2009]]. He pleaded guilty to the child image count. Sentenced by Judge [[Anthony Leonard QC]] on 4 May 2021 to four years and four months plus one year extended licence. A [[Serious Crime Prevention Order]] restricting internet use was imposed for two years post-release. A 10-year terrorism notification period was also imposed.
Hannam became the first serving UK police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence. He was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police via an accelerated gross misconduct hearing in April 2021, prior to sentencing.
Hannam had attended his first National Action meeting on 6 March 2016 at a pub in Paddington, joining the London branch. He continued with the organisation through summer 2017, including attending a post-proscription meeting in [[Swindon]] in January 2017, confirmed by CCTV footage, travel records, and financial transactions. He registered on Iron March under the username "Anglisc" shortly after joining National Action in March 2016. He applied to join the Metropolitan Police on 19 July 2017, falsely denying BNP-or-similar membership on both his application and vetting forms. His school had raised internal concerns about his views on immigration but was not contacted by the vetting unit.
He was identified by [[Counter Terrorism Command]] in February 2020 through the November 2019 Iron March database leak, and arrested on 5 March 2020. The prosecution described him as an "active recruiter" for National Action's London branch.[^5]
#### Wave 5 (Winchester Crown Court, May 2022)
[[Alex Davies]], co-founder (Swansea): found guilty on May 17, 2022 of membership between December 17, 2016 and September 27, 2017, sentenced to 8 years 6 months.[^4]
### O9A Integration via Ryan Fleming
The principal documented channel through which [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) ideology entered National Action was [[Ryan Fleming]], a regional organiser for the Yorkshire branch who simultaneously led the O9A-affiliated [[Drakon Covenant]] nexion. Operating under the pseudonym "A.A. Morain," Fleming wrote and published O9A texts including *Scithain: Vampyric Witchcraft of the Drakon Covenant* and *Codex Aristarchus*, with the latter's foreword contributed by a figure from the American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]]. Police searches of National Action members' properties during the prosecution waves recovered materials bearing O9A symbols. Fleming was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2012, 2017, and again in February 2021, in each instance for offences against minors.[^6]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Members of banned British neo-Nazi group jailed." 2018. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/members-banned-british-neo-nazi-group-jailed; Home Office. "National Action proscription announcement." December 16, 2016.
[^2]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^3]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Life sentence for white supremacist MP murder plot." May 2019. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/life-sentence-white-supremacist-mp-murder-plot
[^4]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Co-founder of right-wing terror group convicted." May 2022. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/co-founder-right-wing-terror-group-convicted; Counter Terrorism Policing. "Year in review 2018 - National Action convictions." https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/draft-a-year-in-review-2018-national-action-convictions/
[^5]: R v Hannam, Sentencing Remarks, Central Criminal Court, 4 May 2021. Judge Anthony Leonard QC. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/R-v-Hannam-Setencing-Remarks.pdf; CPS. "Former police officer jailed for National Action membership." 4 May 2021. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/former-police-officer-jailed-national-action-membership
[^6]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed! National Action paedophile behind bars." 29 July 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/07/29/jailed-national-action-paedophile-behind-bars/; Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan). Twitter, 11 February 2021. https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1360317804600324096

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- AtomwaffenDivision
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- USA
summary: "The National Socialist Resistance Front was the final organizational iteration of the Atomwaffen Division lineage, founded by Ryan Hatfield in September 2022 as a successor to the National Socialist Order and formally dissolved in November 2024."
start: 2022
end: 2024
location: "United States"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
---
The National Socialist Resistance Front (NSRF) was the fourth organizational name in a lineage running from [[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD, 2015) through AWD's dissolution, the [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO, 2020), and a split within NSO to the NSRF (2022). It was founded and led by [[Ryan Hatfield]] (alias "Ryan Arthur") and operated primarily through the propaganda website [[American Futurist]]. NSRF was formally dissolved on November 8, 2024.
### Founding
On September 7, 2022, American Futurist severed ties with the NSO. On September 12, 2022, Hatfield announced the formation of NSRF via a blog post, citing displeasure with [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) ideological infiltration of NSO as the reason for the organizational break. The NSRF explicitly identified itself as a return to the original AWD mission before the [[Tempel ov Blood]] infiltration that began in 2017.
### Russell's Recruitment Activity
AWD founder [[Brandon Russell]], then on [[supervised release]] in [[Orlando, Florida]] following his August 2021 prison release, attempted to recruit a confidential FBI informant ([[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)|Christopher Jackson]]) into NSRF in fall 2022, telling Jackson that prospective members included individuals from Maryland and the Carolinas. This recruitment activity was presented at Russell's 2025 trial as evidence of his continued organizational involvement in the AWD successor network during the same period he was planning the [[2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy|Baltimore substation conspiracy]].[^1]
### Dissolution
Ryan Hatfield announced NSRF's formal dissolution on November 8, 2024, via American Futurist, citing organizational difficulties and characterizing the dissolution as the end of the AWD lineage as an organizational structure, while maintaining that the ideological project would continue in dispersed form.
### Footnotes
[^1]: SPLC Hatewatch, Hannah Gais. "Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder's Path to Terror Plot." February 2023. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot/; Tracking Terrorism. "National Socialist Order Announces Reformation as National Socialist Resistance Front." September 12, 2022. https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/national-socialist-order-nso-reforms-as-national-socialist-resistance-front-nsrf-trac/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- TheCom
- 764
- Terrorism
- OnlineExtremism
- Netherlands
- Sweden
start: "2022"
summary: "No Lives Matter (NLM) is a misanthropic, accelerationist violent extremist network founded by Dutch national Justin B. (alias 'CXRPSE') as a 764 splinter group, linked to stabbing attacks across Europe and designated a terrorist organization by Dutch prosecutors."
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
---
No Lives Matter (NLM) is a violent extremist network operating within the broader criminal ecosystem known as [[The Com]], described by [[Wired]] in March 2025 as "a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764." Founded by a Dutch national identified in Dutch court proceedings only as Justin B. (alias CXRPSE), NLM emerged from the [[764]] child exploitation network and distinguished itself by prioritizing real-world physical violence over sextortion. The Dutch [[Public Prosecution Service]] designated NLM a terrorist organization, and its activities have been linked to stabbing sprees in [[Sweden]], disrupted plots in [[Italy]], and law enforcement investigations across [[Europe]] and the [[United States]].
### Background: The Com Ecosystem
NLM cannot be understood apart from [[The Com]] (short for "The Community"), a decentralized, transnational network of interconnected chatrooms, groups, and individuals engaged in wide-ranging criminal activity. Researchers divide The Com into three operational pillars:
- Cyber Com (also called Hacker Com): The network's historical origin point, focused on cell phone fraud, corporate computer intrusions, and large-scale hacking. [[Scattered Spider]] is the most prominent group associated with this pillar.
- Extortion Com: Groups that conduct sextortion and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) operations; [[764]] was founded in this pillar.
- Offline Com: Groups that embrace accelerationist and neo-Nazi ideologies and emphasize physical, real-world violence. NLM and Maniac Murder Cult (MKY, also written M.K.Y.) are the primary groups in this pillar.
[[764]] itself was founded circa 2020 by an American teenager in Stephenville, Texas, whose postal code was 764 - the group's namesake. He is now serving an 80-year prison sentence for child pornography offenses. NLM emerged as a splinter from 764, eventually breaking formally with the parent network: in May 2024, NLM announced on Telegram that its alliance with 764 "had ended a while ago," citing distrust of 764's current leadership and NLM's desire to distance itself from sextortion and CSAM operations.[^1]
### Founding and Leadership
NLM was founded by a figure known online as CXRPSE, a name tattooed on his wrist. In Dutch court proceedings, he was identified only as Justin B., a 25-year-old man from [[Eindhoven]], [[Netherlands]]. His full surname has not been publicly disclosed under Dutch legal practice, which routinely uses only initials for criminal defendants. No credible source has reported his full surname as of the time of writing.
The precise founding date of NLM is not definitively established in the open-source record. The network appears to have coalesced circa 2022-2023. The third edition of a document called the "Haters Handbook," released in 2023, already references alliances between MKY, NLM, and Satanic neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, suggesting NLM was operationally active by that point. Justin B.'s own statements in Dutch police interviews confirmed he founded NLM, though his defense argued at the October 2025 preliminary hearing that others built the organization around him and his online persona as he became its de facto figurehead.[^2]
Justin B. relinquished operational ownership of NLM at some point around 2023, according to reporting in the Dutch press. He told Dutch police he had converted to Christianity and had "just gotten his life together" when police raided his Eindhoven home in late July 2025.
### Ideology
NLM's core ideology combines radical nihilism, misanthropy, and accelerationism. The group's name is a deliberate inversion of the Black Lives Matter movement, repurposed as a statement that no human life has value. NLM explicitly rejects ideological consistency, embracing violence as an end in itself rather than as a means to political goals - a characteristic that researchers at the [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) have classified under the broader category of "nihilistic violence," defined as violent acts driven by a misanthropic worldview rather than coherent political ideology.
NLM has drawn ideological material from neo-Nazism, Satanism, and the true crime community, though it does not maintain doctrinal fidelity to any of these. A publication released in partnership with NLM and signed with the alias "Nepal" stated the group's purpose as "the purification of all living things through endless attacks committed by the cult." NLM has glorified mass shooters including [[Brenton Tarrant]], the perpetrator of the 2019 [[Christchurch mosque attacks]] that killed 51 people.[^3]
### Publications and Tactical Guides
NLM has produced a series of written operational documents distributed primarily via [[Telegram]]:
- Terror Guide (released June 2024): Instructions for constructing improvised explosive devices, poisons, and incendiary tools; operational security (OPSEC) practices; and weapons selection. Draws on material from Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Anarchist Cookbook, and the IRA Green Book.
- Manhunt Guide (released June 2024): Instructions for stalking, selecting, and attacking victims; OPSEC practices including wearing disposable clothing, shaving body hair, and using duct tape to seal gloves and sleeves to evade forensic detection; "manhunt requirements" including the recording of "brutal" beatings.
- Kill Guide: A streamlined operational text covering knife attacks, vehicle assaults, and the filming of killings. Borrows instructional material from jihadist and paramilitary sources.
- NLM x 764 Classified: A document forging alliance with the 764 network and combining calls for murder with psychological manipulation techniques.
- Evil Has No Limit: An additional propaganda and ideological text.
- Haters Handbook (multiple editions): A broader ideological-operational hybrid document; the third edition (2023) references NLM's alliance network.
The [[New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness]] (NJOHSP) issued an unclassified threat assessment on August 21, 2024, specifically addressing NLM's publication of these tactical guides and the group's updated extremist messaging. The NJOHSP bulletin noted that NLM operates primarily via Telegram, partners with white racially motivated extremists (WRME), and that the July 2024 update to group entry requirements on NLM's Telegram channel specified that prospective members must attack "the mundane," commit arson, or commit vandalism as entry acts.[^4]
### Recruitment and Operations
NLM recruits primarily through [[Telegram]] channels with limited content moderation, though [[Discord]] has also been used in affiliated networks. Recruitment targets vulnerable young people, often boys aged 11-17. The group operates through a status economy: members commit and document acts of violence, upload recordings to NLM and 764 chatrooms to gain standing, and use the resulting footage as propaganda to attract further recruits.
Entry requirements escalate: documented acts range from vandalism and arson through beatings and stabbings to murder and mass murder. Recording and livestreaming attacks is a core requirement. This documentation-as-status dynamic, which researchers have compared to the "Columbine Effect" of copycat inspiration, is the mechanism by which NLM converted online activity into real-world violence across multiple countries.[^5]
In July 2024, NLM announced a formal alliance with Mordwaffen Division (MWD), a European neo-Nazi group. The Swedish branch of NLM operates under the name Mordwaffen ("mord" is Swedish for "murder"). NLM has also maintained ties to Maniac Murder Cult (MKY/M.K.Y.), a Ukrainian-origin nihilistic network founded circa 2017-2018 by the pseudonymous "Egor Yakovlev" (identified by Russian authorities as Yegor Krasnov, a Ukrainian national). NLM is described in some analyses as the English-language hub of MKY's international network.[^6]
### Relationship to 764 and Scattered Spider
NLM is distinct from 764 in operational focus: 764 centers on sextortion and coercion into CSAM as its core criminal activity, while NLM centers on real-world physical violence and the glorification of mass casualty attacks. NLM formally severed its alliance with 764 in May 2024. Both networks exist within The Com's broader Offline Com pillar, however, and personnel overlap has been documented.
[[Scattered Spider]] operates in The Com's Cyber Com pillar and has no direct documented operational relationship with NLM. The connection is structural: both are products of the same decentralized Com ecosystem, not affiliated organizations with shared leadership or operational coordination. Researchers at SANS have noted that Cyber Com, Extortion Com, and Offline Com share cultural markers and personnel pipelines, but NLM's specific activities are not cyber-focused and no credible source has documented a direct Scattered Spider-NLM operational link.[^7]
### Documented Violence
#### Sweden - Hässelby, Stockholm (July and September 2024)
A 14-year-old boy, known online as "Slain764," who claimed to lead the Swedish NLM cell operating under the name Mordwaffen, carried out multiple unprovoked knife attacks in the Hässelby suburb of [[Stockholm]]. Swedish state broadcaster SVT reported at least six to eight separate attacks in the area. Documented incidents include:
- An attempted murder of an elderly woman in July 2024.
- An attempted murder of an 80-year-old man in September 2024, who was stabbed multiple times, suffered a punctured lung, and was hospitalized. The victim later described himself as "grateful to be alive."
All attacks were filmed and uploaded to Telegram to gain status within NLM and 764 networks. Because the attacker was under 15 years of age at the time, he could not be held criminally responsible under Swedish law. An administrative court ordered him placed into care under Sweden's Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act. Swedish prosecutors classified the case as terrorism-related due to its intent to spread public fear.[^8]
#### Sweden - Borås (January 2025)
A separate 14-year-old boy with documented connections to 764 and NLM stabbed a woman in the back while she was walking her dog. The attack was livestreamed on the internet. The attacker later confessed during an evidence hearing at Borås District Court. Prosecutor Louise Bremander confirmed the boy's connections to both 764 and NLM. The attacker told police he had difficulty making friends and wanted to gain status in the online group, and claimed other group members had pressured him to commit the attack. He was subsequently found guilty of the assault. The case has been examined in the context of The Com's cross-border influence on Nordic youth.[^9]
#### Other Jurisdictions
ISD research linked nihilistic violence subcultures including NLM to at least four school shooters and five disrupted school shooting plots, as well as a foiled plot in Italy involving a 15-year-old who planned to murder a homeless person and livestream it. A man in Virginia was arrested in possession of approximately 150 explosive devices; his backpack displayed a "#NoLivesMatter" patch, indicating ideological alignment. The FBI has stated it opened more than 250 investigations into related cases spanning all 55 of its field offices across the United States.[^10]
### Arrest and Prosecution of Justin B.
In late July 2025, a specialized Dutch police unit raided Justin B.'s home in [[Eindhoven]] and arrested him. Police found footage of extreme violence on his data carriers, including a video he had forwarded of a person being shot in the head with the accompanying message: "I really want to do that to someone's head. Brain on my shoes, everything." He also glorified multiple mass shooters on his devices.[^2]
Justin B. was remanded into pre-trial detention at Penitentiaire Inrichting (PI) Vught, a maximum-security prison facility in the [[Netherlands]] with a dedicated wing for terrorism-related suspects and convicts.
#### October 28, 2025 - First Public Preliminary Hearing, Rotterdam
Justin B. appeared for his first public hearing in the extra-secured courtroom in Rotterdam, where terrorism cases are heard. His attorney admitted on the record that his client was "CXRPSE," confirming the alias. Justin B. himself stated he had left the Com shortly before his arrest, and claimed he had converted to Christianity and had "just gotten his life together" when police arrived.
The [[Dutch Public Prosecution Service]] (Openbaar Ministerie, OM) presented the following formal suspicions against B.:
- Founding and leading No Lives Matter as a terrorist organization
- Instructing victims to commit self-harm
- Participation in or facilitation of animal crushing
- Distribution of extreme violent and terrorist material
- Production and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
The OM characterized NLM as "a terrorist organization aimed at committing or commissioning murder and other serious violence." Prosecutors cited B.'s glorification of [[Brenton Tarrant]] and other mass killers.
B.'s defense argued that he had a history of mental health problems since youth, that others had built NLM's structure around him and his online persona, and that he was not the active operational leader the prosecution characterized him as.[^2]
#### Expanded Charges (March 2026)
The OM subsequently expanded the indictment against Justin B. to include: rape of an underage ex-girlfriend between November 2019 and June 2020; possession, creation, and distribution of child pornography in May 2020; and forcing a girl to submit to indecent acts later in 2020. These charges preceded NLM's formation and concern personal conduct rather than organizational leadership. The trial was scheduled to continue in June 2026.[^11]
As of the time of writing, no subsequent court proceedings beyond the October 28, 2025 preliminary hearing and the March 2026 expanded charge filing have been reported in English-language sources. Justin B. remains in pre-trial detention at PI Vught.
### Other Arrests
No Lives Matter members beyond Justin B. have been arrested in connection with NLM-specific charges. The broader 764 network has seen extensive law enforcement action: between 2020 and 2025, 191 members of 764 or affiliated groups across 28 countries were arrested for sextortion, CSAM possession, or violent attacks. The two Swedish teenage attackers described above were subject to administrative rather than criminal proceedings due to their ages. No other named NLM members have been reported as arrested on NLM-specific terrorism charges as of this writing.[^6]
### Academic and Policy Research
The following institutional analyses of NLM are cited in the secondary literature:
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD): Multiple reports including "Terror without ideology? The rise of nihilistic violence" (2025) and "From sextortion to violence: The threat of the 764 network in the US."
- Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC): "Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence."
- Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE): "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization" and coverage of the Justin B. arrest.
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL): Entry in the Glossary of Extremism and Hate; background on 764.
- New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP): Unclassified threat assessment, August 21, 2024.
- Marc-André Argentino (Accelerationist Research Consortium): Multiple analyses including "Nihilism and Misanthropy Unleashed: The 764 Network and No Lives Matter's NEW Ideological Manifesto and the Hässelby Attack."
- Stockholm University (DIVA portal): "No Future, Only Violence: Unpacking the Propaganda of No Lives Matter (NLM)" (2025).
### Footnotes
[^1]: Ali Winston, "The Violent Rise of 'No Lives Matter,'" *Wired*, March 13, 2025. https://www.wired.com/story/no-lives-matter-764-violence/ (paywalled; summarized via WIRED social media post https://x.com/WIRED/status/1899867013868085440).
[^2]: "Eindhoven suspect says he left sadistic online 'Com' shortly before his arrest," *NL Times*, October 28, 2025. https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/28/eindhoven-suspect-says-left-sadistic-online-com-shortly-arrest. See also Weening Strafrechtadvocaten case summaries: https://www.strafrechtadvocaten.nl/en/verdachte-achter-sadistische-onlinegroep-bekeerde-zich-en-had-leven-net-op-orde-rtl-nl/
[^3]: "Founder of No Lives Matter Arrested on Child Abuse and Terrorism Charges," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/founder-of-no-lives-matter-arrested-on-child-abuse-and-terrorism-charges/
[^4]: "No Lives Matter Updates Extremist Messaging and Publishes Tactical Guides," New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, August 21, 2024. https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2. Archived: https://archive.org/details/no-lives-matter-nlm
[^5]: "No Future, Only Violence: Unpacking the Propaganda of No Lives Matter (NLM)," Stockholm University DIVA portal. https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1979977/FULLTEXT01.pdf
[^6]: "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult," GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/
[^7]: "Defending Against SCATTERED SPIDER and The Com with Cybercrime Intelligence," SANS Institute. https://www.sans.org/blog/defending-against-scattered-spider-and-the-com-with-cybercrime-intelligence/
[^8]: TRAC Incident Report: "14-Year-Old Boy Taken Into Custody on Suspicion of Carrying Out a Knife Attack on a Woman and an Elderly in the Name of the No Lives Matter (NLM) and Satanic 764 Groups, Hässelby, Stockholm, Sweden - 19 October 2024." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/boy-knife-attack-satanic-764-hasselby-stockholm-sweden-trac/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Nihilism and Misanthropy Unleashed: The 764 Network and No Lives Matter's NEW Ideological Manifesto and the Hässelby Attack." https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleashed-the-764-network-and-no-lives-matters-new-ideological-manifesto-and-the-hasselby-attack/
[^9]: "Teen Found Guilty in Borås Sect-Related Knife Attack," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/teen-found-guilty-in-boras-knife-attack-linked-to-violent-network. See also "Online Sect's Influence on Teen Knife Attacks Faces Court Scrutiny," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/online-sects-influence-on-teen-knife-attacks-faces-court-scrutiny
[^10]: "Terror without ideology? The rise of nihilistic violence," Institute for Strategic Dialogue. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/terror-without-ideology-the-rise-of-nihilistic-violence-an-isd-investigation/
[^11]: "Sadistische Justin B. ook verdacht van verkrachting en kinderpornobezit," *Omroep Brabant*. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6004745/sadistische-justin-b-ook-verdacht-van-verkrachting-en-kinderpornobezit. See also *Omroep Brabant*: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4770072/sadistische-justin-b-uit-eindhoven-was-oprichter-terreurnetwerk-volgens-om

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- DefenseContractor
- NeoNazi
- TheBase
- GovernmentContracting
- NewYork
- USA
summary: "Omega Solutions International LLC was a New York-registered defense contracting firm operated by Rinaldo Nazzaro that held a federal CAGE code and marketed intelligence and counterterrorism software to U.S. government agencies, but produced no confirmed prime contract awards."
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
start: 2009
location: "244 Fifth Avenue, Suite N230, New York, NY 10001"
---
Omega Solutions International LLC, doing business as OSI Division, was a New York-registered limited liability company operated by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] as its sole publicly identified member and point of contact. The company marketed itself as a provider of [[command, control, and intelligence]] (C2I) services specializing in [[homeland security]], counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and [[psychological operations]], drawing on Nazzaro's claimed background in U.S. government national security work. OSI held a federal [[Commercial and Government Entity]] (CAGE) code and maintained registration in the federal government contracting system, but no confirmed prime contract awards appear in public contracting databases, and FOIA requests to multiple federal agencies produced no responsive contract records.[^1]
### Corporate Registration
OSI is listed with a business establishment date of 2009 in vendor databases, while its CAGE code (61PL9) registration in the government contracting system dates to June 24, 2010. The company is recorded by [[OpenCorporates]] under New York entity number 3860294. It also registered as a foreign entity in the [[District of Columbia]]. Its registered address was 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite N230, New York, NY 10001-7604, a shared virtual office suite common among small consulting firms. The company's website operated at osihq.com (offline as of 2026). The company's [[DUNS number]] was 962794702.[^2]
OSI listed nine [[NAICS]] codes in its SAM.gov vendor profile, spanning custom computer programming services (541511 primary), scientific consulting, social-science research and development, translation and interpretation services, security guard and patrol services, and computer training. Ten [[Product Service Codes]] (PSC) in its profile included categories for research and development services, intelligence studies, surveillance services, and education and training programs.[^3]
### WATCHTOWER Product
OSI developed a software product called [[WATCHTOWER]], which Nazzaro trademarked under serial number 86974351 (USPTO Registration Number 5370774). The trademark application describes the product as "downloadable cloud-based and client-based server software for use in a proprietary computer system for providing unified operational intelligence awareness to command centers and intelligence analysts via automated information sharing and data processing." The trademark records a first use in commerce of December 1, 2008, predating the formal LLC registration, indicating Nazzaro was developing the product before establishing the corporate entity. FOIA requests filed in 2020 specifically sought records of any government agency that had evaluated or purchased WATCHTOWER technology; all agencies queried returned no responsive documents.[^4]
### CAGE Code and Federal System Registration
CAGE code 61PL9 was assigned to OSI and shows an active record status, last modified December 11, 2017, with a last update date of February 20, 2020. The CAGE code expiration date is February 15, 2022, suggesting the company was not renewed in the federal contracting system after that point. The OSI entry in the [[System for Award Management]] (SAM) vendor database describes the firm as a "Non-Manufacturer" and classifies it under the NAICS code for custom computer programming services, with Nazzaro listed as the primary point of contact.[^2]
### Marketing and Claimed Credentials
OSI's marketing materials described the company as having access to "a network of security professionals" with hands-on experience in intelligence, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations across government agencies. The company claimed its staff held or had held government security clearances, including top-secret-level clearances, and was described in press coverage as "cleared by the federal government for defense contracting." Nazzaro's claimed credentials included his stated work at the [[Department of Homeland Security]] [[Office of Intelligence and Analysis]] (2004-2006), [[U.S. Marine Corps]] intelligence roles, and contractor deployments in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]] through approximately 2014.[^5]
### Federal Contract Record
No prime contract awards to Omega Solutions International LLC appear in the [[USASpending.gov]] database under DUNS 962794702 or CAGE 61PL9. A series of six FOIA requests filed in January 2020 by journalist Jason Wilson through [[MuckRock]] queried the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[Defense Contract Management Agency]] (DCMA), [[Department of Defense]] Freedom of Information Policy Office, [[Department of Justice]] National Security Division, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], and [[U.S. Department of State]]. The CIA, DoD, and DOJ National Security Division each returned "No Responsive Documents" determinations. The FBI, State Department, and DCMA rejected the requests outright. DCMA's partial response noted that it administers only contracts assigned to it by individual military services and defense agencies and asked for a specific contract number to facilitate any search, indicating no DCMA-administered contract existed for OSI.[^1]
[[Special Operations Command]] (SOCOM) public affairs officer [[Ken McGraw]] separately stated in January 2020 that SOCOM was "unable to find any information about a contractor named Rinaldo Nazzaro briefing any senior Special Operations Forces leaders on counterterrorism in [2014]" and confirmed that SOCOM had no contracts with Omega Solutions. The absence of SOCOM direct contracts does not rule out subcontract arrangements routed through prime contractors, which are not publicly indexed in government databases.[^6]
### Dissolution
The CAGE code for OSI expired February 15, 2022 and was not renewed. Nazzaro relocated to [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] by 2018, and The Guardian's January 2020 investigation identifying him as the founder of [[The Base]] accelerated any wind-down of the company's public profile. The osihq.com website was offline as of 2026.
### Footnotes
[^1]: MuckRock, "Omega Solutions International LLC/Rinaldo Nazzaro Contracts," multi-agency FOIA request by Jason Wilson, submitted January 30, 2020. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/multirequest/omega-solutions-international-llcrinaldo-nazzaro-contracts-80373/
[^2]: NATO Support and Procurement Agency CAGE Program, "Details 61PL9 OMEGA SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL LLC." CAGE record, last modified December 11, 2017. https://cage.report/NCAGE/61PL9; Government Contractor Database, SAM vendor ID SAM00000000001245016. https://www.govcb.com/government-vendors/profile-SAM00000000001245016-omega-solutions-international-New-York-NY.htm
[^3]: Government Contractor Database, SAM vendor profile, Omega Solutions International LLC, NAICS and PSC code listings. https://www.govcb.com/government-vendors/profile-SAM00000000001245016-omega-solutions-international-New-York-NY.htm
[^4]: United States Patent and Trademark Office, WATCHTOWER trademark, serial number 86974351, registration number 5370774, owner Omega Solutions International LLC. https://trademarks.justia.com/869/74/watchtower-86974351.html; MuckRock, "Omega Solutions International LLC/Rinaldo Nazzaro Contracts (Defense Contract Management Agency)," FOIA response May 11, 2020. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/omega-solutions-international-llcrinaldo-nazzaro-contracts-defense-contract-management-agency-87225/
[^5]: Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/
[^6]: Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020, quoting SOCOM public affairs officer Ken McGraw. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- NeoNazi
- Satanism
- Occultism
- ViolentExtremism
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- UK
- DomesticTerrorism
- Proscription
- BritishIntelligence
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "The Order of Nine Angles is a British neo-Nazi occultist organization whose Insight Roles doctrine of committing crimes as spiritual initiation made it a foundational influence on Atomwaffen Division, Tempel ov Blood, and the broader accelerationist ecosystem, and which has never been proscribed in the UK despite eight terrorism convictions linked to it in two years."
start: 1980
location: "United Kingdom"
---
[[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A or ONA) is a British neo-Nazi occultist organization whose doctrine of transgressive initiation, decentralized cell structure, and explicit advocacy for criminal violence has made it one of the most structurally influential extremist ideologies of the contemporary era. Its documented membership in the early 2020s was estimated at roughly 2,000 adherents globally, yet O9A's influence on militant accelerationism in the United States and abroad far exceeds what those numbers suggest, driven principally by its American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]] and that nexion's infiltration of [[Atomwaffen Division]].[^1] O9A's published texts, particularly the novel [[Iron Gates]] (2014), circulated through [[Terrorgram]] channels and directly shaped the radicalization ecosystem in which [[764 Network|764]] and its predecessor [[CVLT]] operated.
### Founding and Claimed History
O9A claims to have been established in the 1960s by a woman in the [[Welsh Marches]] of western England who presided over a secretive pre-Christian tradition. According to O9A's own account, a man known as [[Anton Long]] was initiated into this group in 1973 and subsequently became its grand master, merging O9A's predecessor elements (the Camlad tradition, the [[Noctulians]], and Long's own [[Temple of the Sun]]) into the modern organization.[^2]
Scholars who have examined the historical record are skeptical of this account. The first verifiable O9A publication is the manuscript *[[Naos]]: A Guide to Becoming* (1989, 127 pages), a guide to the septenary magical system and hermetic workings that constitutes the foundational O9A text. The organization rose to wider public attention in the early 1980s. The claimed 1960s origin appears to serve a rhetorical function, grounding the organization in an antique pre-Christian tradition rather than in its documentable origin in the British neo-Nazi milieu of the 1970s.[^2]
### David Myatt and the Anton Long Identity Question
The identity of "Anton Long" is the central contested question in O9A studies. Most researchers who have examined the evidence in depth attribute the Anton Long pseudonym to [[David Myatt]], a British neo-Nazi activist with a documented decades-long career in violent far-right politics. O9A denies this, and Myatt has denied writing the O9A texts under the Anton Long name.
The case for the Myatt-Long attribution rests on: shared philosophical concepts (the "acausal" realm, the division of history into distinct aeons, support for space colonization, the "[[Star Game]]"); stylistic overlap between Myatt's neo-Nazi writings and O9A texts; historical proximity (Myatt was active in the same West Midlands neo-Nazi milieu in the 1970s where O9A emerged); and an identification published as early as 1998 in the anti-fascist magazine [[Searchlight Magazine]]. That 1998 identification predates any O9A interest in constructing a counter-narrative, giving it some evidentiary weight.[^3]
Dissenting scholars, including [[Jeffrey Kaplan]], have argued the attribution remains circumstantial and that Myatt and Long may be separate individuals. The full biographical entry for [[David Myatt]] documents his parallel career and provides additional context for the attribution debate.
### Ideology: The Seven Fold Way
O9A's core initiatory framework is the [[Seven Fold Way]] (or Septenary System), a hierarchical progression of seven stages through which the individual is supposed to develop through increasingly transgressive experience. The stages, described in esoteric terminology, are Neophyte, Initiate, External Adept, Internal Adept, Master/Mistress, Grand Master/Grand Mistress, and Immortal. The full journey is supposed to span many years and require substantial personal transformation.[^4]
The most operationally significant element of the Seven Fold Way for law enforcement purposes is the [[Insight Roles]] concept. O9A doctrine holds that initiates at certain stages must undertake "insight roles," periods typically lasting three to six months in which they adopt and fully live out a specified lifestyle or role that is alien to their normal existence and forces transgressive personal experience. O9A published "Insight Roles: A Guide" in 1989, subsequently collected in *[[Hostia]]: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.* Volume I (1992), O9A's second major text.[^4]
The roles enumerated in O9A texts are criminal in ordinary-language terms. Practitioners are encouraged to live as a street criminal, a drug dealer, a hired killer, a soldier or mercenary, a practitioner of Satanic rituals, or, in materials distributed through American affiliate [[Tempel ov Blood]], to commit acts of violence against targeted victims described as "culling." O9A frames this not as crime but as a method of confronting personal limitation, developing genuine knowledge of the "sinister" aspects of existence, and accumulating "esoteric experience." The practical consequence is that O9A doctrine explicitly authorizes and encourages criminal violence as a spiritual practice, which distinguishes it structurally from other extremist ideologies that arrive at violence through political argument.[^1]
### Acausality and the Sinister Dialectic
O9A's metaphysical framework rests on a distinction between the "causal" world (the ordinary, physical, time-bound realm) and the "acausal" realm (described as timeless, non-physical, and accessible through occult practice). The organization uses this distinction to situate its violence within a cosmic framework: acts of violence and transgression are positioned as perturbations of causal reality that release "acausal energy" and advance what O9A calls the "sinister dialectic," a long-term project of destabilizing existing civilization to create conditions for the emergence of a post-human, O9A-aligned order.[^2]
The eschatological figure at the center of this project is [[Vindex]], described in O9A texts as a future warrior-leader who will overthrow existing institutions and establish a new civilization based on O9A's Aryanist, Social Darwinist principles. Vindex is not a specific named individual but a role O9A adherents are encouraged to aspire toward or to help bring into being through accelerationist violence.[^2]
### Structure: Nexions
O9A deliberately avoids centralized organizational structure. The basic unit is the [[nexion]] (O9A's term for a local cell or working group), intended to be autonomous and self-directing. Nexions are connected by shared texts, aesthetics, and doctrine rather than by formal hierarchical command. This decentralization makes O9A resistant to decapitation by law enforcement and allows it to absorb and influence other organizations without formal merger, as it did with [[Atomwaffen Division]] through the Tempel ov Blood nexion beginning in 2017.[^1]
O9A's American publishing arm, [[Martinet Press]], operated under the direction of [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and his wife [[Jillian Hoy]] and distributed O9A texts internationally. The most significant Martinet Press publication in terms of documented radicalization impact is *Iron Gates* (2014), a 312-page novel set in a post-nuclear-war America centered on a gang of Satanists committing acts of extreme violence including infanticide, cannibalism, rape, and torture. The book was written as "spiritual instruction" for O9A adherents and became required reading for Atomwaffen Division new members under [[John Cameron Denton]].[^5] Sutter, the publisher, was simultaneously a paid FBI informant who received $78,133.20 from the FBI specifically in connection with his Atomwaffen Division work, in addition to prior payments totaling more than $140,000 since 2003.[^6]
### Primary Texts
O9A has produced an extensive body of written material, hosted on o9a.org and distributed through various channels. Key texts include:
*Naos: A Guide to Becoming* (1989, 127 pp.): The founding manuscript, described by O9A as "a guide to hermetic workings, basic septenary system and the Star Game," establishing O9A's core magical framework.
*Hostia: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.* (Vol. I, 1992): Contains the 1989 text "Insight Roles: A Guide," O9A's first formal articulation of the insight roles concept.
The Deofel Quintet (novels, 1976-1992): Five O9A novels functioning as esoteric instruction through fiction, including *Falcifer* (103 pp.) and *Temple of Satan* (109 pp.).
*The Requisite ONA* (981 pp.): A comprehensive practical guide to the Seven Fold Way through the Internal Adept stage, containing facsimile versions of *Naos*, *The Black Book of Satan*, and *The Grimoire of Baphomet*, plus the complete Deofel Quintet.
*Iron Gates* (Tempel ov Blood / Martinet Press, 2014, 312 pp.): Violent post-apocalyptic fiction written as spiritual instruction for American adherents; required reading for Atomwaffen Division members under Denton. Available at the Internet Archive.[^7]
### Atomwaffen Division and O9A Integration
The most consequential real-world application of O9A doctrine in the United States came through Tempel ov Blood's infiltration of Atomwaffen Division beginning in 2017. Sutter joined AWD in the spring of 2017 under the alias "swissdiscipline," after AWD leader [[John Cameron Denton]] invited ToB members into the group. Sutter attended AWD "Hate Camp" paramilitary trainings in 2017 and 2018 and the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]], which also drew [[James Mason]], the author of *[[Siege]]*. At least nine O9A/ToB members held key leadership positions in Atomwaffen Division at the peak of this relationship.[^5]
Denton made Sutter's books (*Iron Gates*, *Liber 333*, and *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members. This ideological shift provoked internal controversy and drove out members who rejected Satanism as a contamination of their National Socialist politics, but it also deepened AWD's capacity for violence by giving members a framework in which murder was construed as spiritual service.[^1]
### UK Terrorism Convictions: Documented Cases
Between April 2019 and April 2021, [[HOPE not hate]] documented eight individuals linked to O9A who were convicted of terrorism offences in the United Kingdom. The majority were teenagers. The full named record from 2019 to early 2025 is as follows, incorporating those eight plus subsequent cases.[^8]
[[Michael Szewczuk]], 19, of Leeds (Sonnenkrieg Division co-founder), and [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]], 18, of West London (Sonnenkrieg Division member), were sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] on 18 June 2019 by Judge [[Rebecca Poulet QC]]. Szewczuk pleaded guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism under section 1 of the [[Terrorism Act 2006]] and five counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], including the White Resistance Manual and the Al Qaeda Manual. He was sentenced to four years and three months in a Young Offenders' Institute. Dunn-Koczorowski pleaded guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism and received an 18-month Detention and Training Order. Both operated personal accounts on the [[Gab]] social media platform under pseudonyms and shared control of the Sonnenkrieg Division's Gab page, posting propaganda encouraging lone-actor terrorism including imagery targeting Prince Harry as a "race traitor." The sentencing remarks were delivered by Judge Poulet QC.[^23]
[[Jacek Tchorzewski]], 18, a Polish national residing in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was stopped at [[Luton Airport]] on 20 February 2019 under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 by officers from the [[Eastern Region Specialist Operation Unit Counter Terrorism Policing]] (ERSOU CTP) before he could board a flight to Poland. Phone analysis uncovered a cache of terrorist manuals and bomb-making guides. He pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on 21 June 2019 to 10 counts of possession of information likely useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and was sentenced on 20 September 2019 to four years' imprisonment. A subsequent prosecution at [[Harrow Crown Court]] on 23 July 2020 for indecent images offences resulted in a concurrent 8-month sentence. Tchorzewski was described as holding deep neo-Nazi and Satanist beliefs; he was linked to Sonnenkrieg Division and had expressed a "dream" of carrying out a mass-casualty attack. He was also subject to a deportation order.[^24]
[[Jack Reed]], 16, of New Brancepeth, County Durham, was convicted at [[Manchester Crown Court]] in November 2019 of six terrorism offences: preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006, disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a terrorist purpose, and three counts of possessing a document useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. An O9A symbol was hand-drawn on his handwritten manifesto, which he titled "Storm 88 - A Manual For Practical And Sensible Guerrilla Warfare Against The Kike System In The Durham City Area, Sieg Heil" and which listed schools, pubs, council buildings, and post offices as targets, alongside planned arson attacks on local synagogues. The prosecution described his ideology as "occult neo-Nazism." Judge [[David Stockdale QC]] sentenced Reed in January 2020 to six years and eight months' detention in a Young Offenders' Institute with a five-year extended licence, ordering that he serve two-thirds before Parole Board consideration. A separate concurrent sentence of 18 months' Detention Training Order was imposed on 23 December 2020 for five sexual assaults against a schoolgirl. Reed's anonymity order was later lifted following a successful application by journalists, and he was publicly named in January 2021.[^25]
[[Harry Vaughan]], 18, of Kingston-upon-Thames, a grammar school student at [[Tiffin School]] who had achieved A-grade A-levels in maths, further maths, physics, and history, was arrested on 19 June 2019 in a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into [[Fascist Forge]], an online extremist forum. He was charged with one count of encouraging terrorism (section 1, Terrorism Act 2006), one count of disseminating a terrorist publication (section 2, Terrorism Act 2006), 12 counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist (section 58, Terrorism Act 2000), and two counts of possessing indecent images. He pleaded guilty on all counts. The documents on his devices included Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda of his own creation, bomb-making manuals, and a guide to killing people. Sentenced at the Old Bailey in November 2020 by Mr Justice Sweeney, who described him as "a dangerous offender," he received a two-year detention sentence suspended for two years, a result that drew criticism from counter-extremism researchers.[^26]
The cases of the unnamed Cornish teenager ([[Feuerkrieg Division]] UK leader, sentenced February 2021) and [[Benjamin Hannam]] (Metropolitan Police constable, sentenced May 2021) are documented in the existing page and in the [[National Action]] vault entry respectively. The unnamed Cornish defendant received a 24-month youth rehabilitation order; the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] press release confirmed that a copy of [[Iron Gates]], the O9A-affiliated novel published by [[Martinet Press]], was found during the 2019 police search of his home.[^27]
[[Danyal Hussein]], an 18-year-old Iraqi Kurd from [[Wembley]], was convicted on 6 July 2021 at the [[Old Bailey]] of the murders of sisters [[Bibaa Henry]] (46) and [[Nicole Smallman]] (27) in [[Fryent Country Park]], London, on 6 June 2020. Hussein had signed a handwritten contract in his own blood addressed to the demon [[Lucifuge Rofocale]], pledging to kill six women every six months in exchange for lottery winnings. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 35 years. Investigators found that he had been in contact with an individual closely associated with the Order of Nine Angles. The case was cited by [[Stephanie Peacock MP]] in October 2021 in renewed calls for O9A's proscription.[^11]
[[Ben John]], 21, of Lincoln, a criminology student at [[De Montfort University]] Leicester, was convicted at Leicester Crown Court on 12 August 2021 of one count of possessing a document useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing's East Midlands unit found a hard drive containing the Anarchy Cookbook, alongside white supremacist and antisemitic literature and material relating to O9A. Judge [[Timothy Spencer QC]] sentenced John on 31 August 2021 to two years' imprisonment suspended for two years, ordering him to read works of classic literature including Dickens and Austen, a direction that attracted widespread press criticism. Solicitor General [[Alex Chalk QC MP]] referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the [[Criminal Justice Act 1988]] as unduly lenient. On 19 January 2022, the Court of Appeal increased the sentence to two years' immediate custody plus one year on licence.[^28]
[[Luca Benincasa]], 20, of Cardiff, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on 26 January 2023 by Judge [[Jane Miller KC]] to five years and seven months for terrorism charges and an additional consecutive eight months for child images offences, with a three-year extended licence on the terrorism counts, for a total custodial term of approximately nine years and three months. He had pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court on 15 July 2022 to one count of membership of the proscribed organisation Feuerkrieg Division under section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and four counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist under section 58, including improvised explosive device and pipe-bomb manuals. Benincasa was the first person convicted of FKD membership since that group's proscription in July 2020. He had described himself as the "UK cell leader" of FKD and one of its key recruiters; Judge Miller KC found him to be "a prominent member." Press coverage described him as a "prominent ONA member," though the published sentencing remarks' specific language on O9A has not been independently verified and constitutes an open thread.[^29]
[[Ashley Podsiad-Sharp]], 42, a prison officer at [[HMP Armley]] in Leeds, was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of one count of possessing terrorist material under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (acquitted of a second count of dissemination). He was sentenced on 31 August 2023 by Judge [[Jeremy Richardson KC]] to eight years' imprisonment plus five years' extended licence. His devices contained the White Resistance Manual, a 200-page publication containing sections on arson, poisoning, infrastructure sabotage, bomb-making, and evading police capture. He had been a former member of [[National Action]] before its proscription and had subsequently founded the [[White Stag Athletics Club]], which required members to hold white-supremacist and antisemitic views. Podsiad-Sharp showed, in the judge's assessment, "not one iota of remorse." The sentencing remarks are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^30]
[[Declan George-Candiani]], 26, of Streatham, was stopped at [[Stansted Airport]] on 13 August 2024 by Counter Terrorism Command officers using Schedule 7 powers. His phone was analysed and he was arrested; an iPad was also seized from his home. He was convicted at the Old Bailey on 3 October 2024 of two counts of collecting material likely useful to a terrorist under section 58(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (acquitted of two further counts), and sentenced on 28 November 2024 to 23 months' imprisonment plus one year on licence, plus a 10-year terrorism notification requirement. Devices contained extreme right-wing manifestos, mass killer writings, and lone-wolf attack guides. In police interview, George-Candiani told officers he had developed an interest in O9A's "traditional Satanism," attributing his downloading of the material to that interest.[^31]
[[Cameron Finnigan]], 19, of Horsham, West Sussex, joined the [[764 Network|764]] online extremist group in late 2023. Counter Terrorism Policing became aware of him in March 2024. He pleaded guilty on 4 October 2024 to five counts: one count of possessing a document for terrorist purposes under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (an 11-page PDF outlining truck, knife, and firearm mass-casualty attack planning), one count of doing an act capable of encouraging or assisting suicide under section 2 of the [[Suicide Act 1961]] as amended (encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide to his Telegram group), two counts of criminal damage, and one count of possessing indecent images. He was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court on 16 January 2025 by Mr Justice Jay to six years' imprisonment plus three years' extended licence. The judge assessed him as posing a high risk of serious harm to the public, including children, and applied a 25% reduction for youth and mental health. The sentencing remarks are published on the judiciary.uk website.[^32]
### Criminal Cases Linked to O9A: International
Documented individuals who committed or planned violence while affiliated with or influenced by O9A include:
[[Ethan Phelan Melzer]], a U.S. Army Private in the 173rd Airborne Brigade who, under the alias "Etil Reggad," transmitted classified information about his unit's planned deployment to Turkey to O9A members on [[Telegram]], conspiring to facilitate a mass-casualty attack on his own soldiers. Arrested May 2020 in Vicenza, Italy; convicted in the Southern District of New York; sentenced March 2023 to 45 years in prison.[^12]
[[Guilherme Von Neutegem]], a Canadian O9A adherent charged with murder for killing a victim outside a mosque in Toronto in 2020.
[[Jarrett William Smith]], a U.S. Army specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas, arrested in 2019 for distributing explosives manuals online and discussing plans to attack anti-fascist groups and a media outlet. Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 30 months.[^5]
[[Andrew Dymock]], a British neo-Nazi charged with 15 terrorism and hate-related counts in the United Kingdom, with documented O9A affiliation.
[[David Copeland]], who detonated three nail bombs targeting London's Black, Asian, and LGBTQ communities in 1999, killing three and injuring 139, was found in possession of writings by [[David Myatt]].[^3]
### The Proscription Non-Decision
O9A has not been proscribed in the United Kingdom as of mid-2026. The [[Home Office]] proscription criteria under Section 3 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]] require the Home Secretary to believe that an organisation is "concerned in terrorism," meaning it: (a) commits or participates in acts of terrorism; (b) prepares for terrorism; (c) promotes or encourages terrorism; or (d) is otherwise concerned in terrorism. If the statutory test is met, the Home Secretary then applies discretionary factors including the nature and scale of the organisation's activities and the need to support the international counter-terrorism community.[^13]
The legal and structural problem O9A presents for proscription is its deliberate decentralisation. O9A has no formal membership rolls, no governing body, no public leadership structure, and no legal entity. Its basic unit is the autonomous nexion, connected by shared texts rather than hierarchy. Proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000 operates on the premise that there is an "organisation" whose members can then be charged with membership offences under Section 11. If the Home Office concludes that O9A's structure is too diffuse to constitute an "organisation" in the statutory sense, the proscription mechanism becomes legally uncertain even if the substantive test of concern in terrorism is met. This structural problem does not appear to have been definitively addressed in any published government document, but it is widely cited by counter-extremism researchers as the most likely non-political reason for the non-decision.[^14]
### Parliamentary Campaign for Proscription: Timeline
March 2020: [[HOPE not hate]] formally called for O9A proscription in its *State of Hate 2020* report, characterising O9A as "an incubator of terrorism."[^15]
March 2020: [[Yvette Cooper]], chair of the [[Home Affairs Select Committee]], called on the Home Secretary to "immediately" refer O9A to the proscription review group, following the New Statesman investigation that documented O9A materials being held under restricted access at the [[British Library]].[^16]
19 April 2021: [[HOPE not hate]] published "Government misses opportunity to proscribe Order of Nine Angles" on the same day the Home Office announced the proscription of [[Atomwaffen Division]] and [[The Base]] under the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021. Hope not Hate CEO [[Nick Lowles]] stated: "The government's counter-terrorism strategy against the far-right threat remains deeply troubling." The statement argued that O9A had been recommended for proscription over a year earlier and that its influence on proscribed groups including Atomwaffen Division made the omission incoherent.[^17]
13 July 2021: Parliamentary debate, "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism" (HC Deb), featuring extended discussion of O9A. [[Stephanie Peacock]] (Labour, Barnsley East) and [[Stephen Doughty]] (Labour, Cardiff South and Penarth) both called on the Home Secretary to proscribe O9A. The minister's response was the standard formula: the government "will not provide any commentary on which groups are or are not being considered for proscription by the review group" and that "the proscription review process is robust and working as it should."[^18]
October 2021: Peacock renewed her call for proscription in response to the Danyal Hussein conviction, citing his contact with an O9A-associated individual as evidence that O9A's influence was translating into direct harm on British streets.[^11]
18 July 2023: CONTEST 2023, the fourth iteration of the UK counter-terrorism strategy, identified extreme right-wing terrorism as accounting for approximately 22 per cent of UK attacks since 2018 and approximately 25 per cent of MI5's caseload. It listed proscribed far-right organisations including [[Feuerkrieg Division]], [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Sonnenkrieg Division]], and [[The Base]], but did not name O9A in accessible sections as either proscribed or under active review.[^33]
15 September 2023: The Home Office Proscription Factsheet described the proscription review process and criteria in general terms but made no reference to O9A.[^34]
2 July 2025: The House of Commons debated the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025, which proscribed three new organisations: [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (a US-based accelerationist group with documented O9A and 764 connections), [[Palestine Action]], and the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]. The Order was approved by 385 votes to 26 after a division. O9A was not included. During the debate, the parliamentary chair of [[HOPE not hate]] again urged the government to consider O9A proscription; the minister's response was the standard formula that the government does not comment on groups under or not under consideration. The Order bears SI number 9780348273373.[^35]
No proscription of O9A has been announced as of mid-2026. The government's consistent refusal to explain the non-decision stands in contrast to the public reasoning given for other proscriptions. When [[National Action]] was proscribed in December 2016, [[Amber Rudd]] made a public statement characterising it as "a racist, antisemitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology." No equivalent statement characterising O9A as below the threshold, or as failing the statutory test on structural grounds, has been published.
### Proscription Comparisons
The gap between O9A's legal status and that of its downstream networks is substantial. The following proscribed organisations have documented O9A connections:
[[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (proscribed 2019): explicitly modelled on O9A philosophy and [[Atomwaffen Division]]; five members convicted of terrorism charges in the UK.[^19]
[[Atomwaffen Division]] (proscribed April 2021): ideologically shaped by O9A through [[Tempel ov Blood]] and [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]; considered O9A texts required reading.[^17]
[[The Base]] (proscribed April 2021): structurally influenced by O9A's nexion model; [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] incorporated O9A aesthetics and doctrine.[^17]
[[Combat 18]] (proscribed February 2020, S.I. 2020/200): the organisation in which [[David Myatt]], O9A's attributed founder, served as "ideological heavyweight." Proscribed while O9A itself is not.[^20]
### New Zealand Designation
New Zealand designated O9A as a terrorist organisation in 2025, making it one of the few countries to have taken formal legal action against the organisation itself rather than merely prosecuting individual adherents. The OpenSanctions database records the NZ listing; the specific New Zealand Gazette reference and enabling legislation have not been retrieved in this research run and constitute an open thread.[^21]
### O9A Texts and the British Library
A specific detail from the March 2020 New Statesman investigation: O9A materials were being held in a secure, supervised section of the [[British Library]], accessible only under controlled conditions. This is a standard British Library procedure for materials assessed as potentially harmful rather than a formal legal restriction, but it was cited in the Yvette Cooper proscription call as evidence of the state's implicit recognition of O9A's dangerous character while formal proscription remained absent.[^16]
### O9A and the 764 Ecosystem
O9A's influence on [[764 Network|764]] is documented but operates at one remove. 764 is not an O9A nexion and its members do not generally identify as O9A adherents. The connection works through three channels: first, aesthetic adoption, as 764 groups took on O9A visual symbolism and nomenclature; second, structural parallel, as the insight roles doctrine of committing crimes as spiritual progression mirrors 764's content economy in which criminal acts are required for advancement; third, distribution pipeline, as *Iron Gates* and other O9A texts circulated through Terrorgram channels that overlapped with the 764 radicalization environment. The ISD characterized O9A materials as having "directly influenced the operational practices of 764."[^22]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization." https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/
[^2]: Mappingmilitants.org (Stanford). "Order of Nine Angles AT A GLANCE: Overview, Organization, Strategy, Major Attacks." https://mappingmilitants.org/files/group-profiles/order_of_nine_angles.pdf
[^3]: Religion Media Centre. "Factsheet: The Order of Nine Angles." https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/factsheets/factsheet-nine-angles/
[^4]: O9A. "Insight Roles: A Guide." In *Hostia: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.*, Vol. I. 1992. Archived at o9a.org.
[^5]: Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^6]: Vice. "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
[^7]: Internet Archive. *Iron Gates* (Tempel ov Blood). https://archive.org/details/tempel-ov-blood-iron-gates-text
[^8]: ISD Global. "The Order of Nine Angles." Explainer, August 2022. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/the-order-of-nine-angles/ Full report: https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/O9A-ISD-External-August2022.pdf
[^9]: Pirate FM / planetradio.co.uk. "Teenager from Cornwall becomes one of Britain's youngest convicted terrorists." February 2021; Washington Examiner, "Neo-Nazi teenager becomes UK's youngest person to be convicted of terrorism charges," 2021.
[^10]: Crown Prosecution Service / National Action case records. See National Action vault entry for full Hannam prosecution details.
[^11]: GB News. "Campaigners renew call to ban Nazi-occultist group following Satanist murders of two sisters." 2021. https://www.gbnews.com/news/campaigners-renew-call-to-ban-nazi-occultist-group-following-satanist-murders-of-two-sisters/149664; Stephanie Peacock MP website. https://www.stephaniepeacock.org.uk/stephanie_calls_on_home_secretary_to_proscribe_murderous_nazi_occultist_group/
[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush." Press Release, March 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service
[^13]: Section 3, Terrorism Act 2000. https://www.lawglobalhub.com/section-3-terrorism-act-2000-uk/; Home Office Factsheet: Proscription, September 15, 2023. https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/15/factsheet-proscription/
[^14]: Northumbria Journal of Law and Practice. "The law relating to Proscription of terrorist organisations." https://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/sjppar/article/download/873/1276/2703
[^15]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism. State of Hate 2020." https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
[^16]: New Statesman. "A Nazi-satanist cult is fuelling far-right groups — overlooked by the UK authorities," March 2020. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2020/03/nazi-satanist-cult-fuelling-far-right-terrorist-groups-overlooked-uk-authorities-order-nine-angles
[^17]: HOPE not hate. "Government misses opportunity to proscribe Order of Nine Angles," April 19, 2021. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/19/atomwaffen-order-nine-angles/; Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021, UK Statutory Instrument 2021/9780348229288.
[^18]: Hansard, HC Deb, 13 July 2021, "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism." https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-13/debates/673D4D8F-D90C-450B-B7E8-26B63018E5D3/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism
[^19]: Counter Terrorism Policing. "Neo-Nazi Group Sonnenkrieg Division Proscribed." https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/neo-nazi-group-sonnenkrieg-division-proscribed-counter-terrorism-police/; Middlebury CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Sonnenkrieg Division." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-2
[^20]: The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2020, S.I. 2020/200. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/200/contents/made
[^21]: OpenSanctions. "Order of Nine Angles (O9A)." https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/nz-terr-order-of-nine-angles-o9a/
[^22]: Rise to Peace. "The 764 Network and the Architecture of Digital Nihilism." February 2026. https://www.risetopeace.org/2026/02/11/the-764-network-and-the-architecture-of-digital-nihilism/fellows/
[^23]: Washington Post. "Two British teens just convicted for promoting far-right terrorism online." June 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/18/two-british-teens-just-convicted-promoting-far-right-terrorism-online/; HOPE not hate. "Jailed neo-Nazi Satanists were a legacy of National Action." June 18, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/06/18/jailed-neo-nazi-satanists-legacy-national-action/
[^24]: Campaign Against Antisemitism. "Hitler-loving neo-Nazi who said it was his 'dream' to create a bloodbath arrested at Luton Airport and sentenced to four years." September 2019. https://antisemitism.org/hitler-loving-neo-nazi-who-said-it-was-his-dream-to-create-a-bloodbath-arrested-at-luton-airport-and-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison; HS Today. "Police Find Sexual Abuse Images on Phone of Convicted Right-Wing Extremist." 2020. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/police-find-sexual-abuse-images-on-phone-of-convicted-right-wing-extremist/
[^25]: ITV News Tyne Tees. "Neo-Nazi teenager convicted of preparing to commit terrorist acts." November 20, 2019. https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2019-11-20/neo-nazi-teenager-convicted-of-preparing-to-commit-terrorist-acts; Enfield Independent (PA). "Nazi terrorist named after judge rejects anonymity bid." 2021. https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/19002125.nazi-terrorist-named-judge-rejects-anonymity-bid/
[^26]: ITV News London. "Teenage Satanist neo-Nazi avoids jail after admitting 14 terror offences." November 2, 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/london/2020-11-02/teenage-satanist-neo-nazi-harry-vaughan-sentenced-for-terror-offences; Far-Right Criminals. "Harry Vaughan: Neo-Nazi teenager sentenced." November 2, 2020. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2020/11/02/harry-vaughan-neo-nazi-teenager-sentenced/
[^27]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Youngest British terrorist sentenced for neo-Nazi manuals stash." February 2021. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/youngest-british-terrorist-sentenced-neo-nazi-manuals-stash
[^28]: GOV.UK. "Ben John's sentence increased following personal intervention by the Solicitor General." January 2022. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ben-johns-sentence-increased-following-personal-intervention-by-the-solicitor-general--3; ITV News Central. "White supremacist Ben John told to read books by Judge who spared him jail imprisoned upon appeal." January 19, 2022. https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-01-19/white-supremacist-ben-john-told-to-read-books-by-judge-who-spared-him-jail-imprisoned-upon-appeal
[^29]: ITV News Wales. "Neo-Nazi, 20, from Cardiff jailed for being member of far-right terror group." January 26, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-01-26/dangerous-neo-nazi-jailed-for-being-a-member-of-far-right-terror-group; Tell MAMA. "Neo-Nazi Luca Benincasa jailed for terrorism offences and child abuse images." 2023. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-luca-benincasa-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-and-child-abuse-images/
[^30]: R v Ashley Podsiad Sharp, Sentencing Remarks, Sheffield Crown Court, 31 August 2023. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/R-v-Ashley-Podsiad-Sharp.pdf; ITV News Calendar. "Leeds Prison officer Ashley Podsiad-Sharp jailed over 'white supremacist murder manual'." August 31, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-08-31/prison-officer-had-white-supremacist-murder-manual
[^31]: Metropolitan Police. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop-501766; Metropolitan Police. "Man jailed for offences under the Terrorism Act." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-offences-under-the-terrorism-act-503818; Counter Terrorism Policing. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop/
[^32]: R v Cameron Finnigan, Sentencing Remarks, Central Criminal Court, 16 January 2025. Mr Justice Jay. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/R-v-Finnigan.pdf; Sussex Police. "Man sentenced for terror offences." January 2025. https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/man-sentenced-for-terror-offences/
[^33]: Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) 2023. Home Office / GOV.UK, 18 July 2023. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1186413/CONTEST_2023_English_updated.pdf
[^34]: Home Office. "Factsheet: Proscription." 15 September 2023. https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/15/factsheet-proscription/
[^35]: Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025. SI 9780348273373. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273373; Hansard, HC Deb, 2 July 2025, "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism." https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-07-02/debates/6C9338E8-E516-494A-81A2-B3FEF549DD48/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- AtomwaffenDivision
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- DomesticTerrorism
- USA
- UK
summary: "RapeWaffen Division was a Telegram-based O9A nexion promoting rape and murder as ideological weapons, whose membership included U.S. Army soldier Ethan Phelan Melzer, convicted in 2022 for transmitting classified military intelligence to enable a mass-casualty attack on his unit."
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
---
RapeWaffen Division was a decentralized online cell operating within the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) framework, organized primarily through encrypted [[Telegram]] channels. The name combined the neo-Nazi accelerationist branding of [[Atomwaffen Division]] with O9A's doctrinal claim that rape and murder are weapons in its pursuit of ideological and civilizational collapse. The group is most significant in the public record as the nexion in which U.S. Army soldier [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]] was active when he transmitted classified intelligence about his unit's deployment to O9A contacts in 2020.[^1]
### Structure and Ideology
O9A's organizational model uses the term "nexion" for local cells, which operate with significant autonomy under a shared ideological framework derived from the writings of O9A founder [[David Myatt]] and subsequent O9A texts. RapeWaffen Division was a nexion that combined the [[Insight Roles]] doctrine (which instructs initiates to commit criminal acts as a form of spiritual progression) with Atomwaffen-style accelerationism and an explicit embrace of sexual violence as a weapon. The group's stated beliefs were "O9A satanism and Esoteric Rapistism," according to investigative mapping of extremist Telegram channels.[^2]
The RapeWaffen Division Telegram channel appears to have functioned as a radicalization and recruitment environment for individuals simultaneously affiliated with or adjacent to Atomwaffen Division. Melzer described himself as having "already self-initiated" into O9A before joining the channel, using the alias "Etil Reggad." He became sufficiently active in the channel's leadership that he is described in court documents as having taken on a leadership role within it.[^1]
### The Melzer Case
Melzer's participation in RapeWaffen Division is the basis for the most significant documented case of O9A military penetration in the public record. In May 2020, while with the [[173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team]] in [[Vicenza, Italy]] and preparing for a deployment to [[Turkey]], Melzer transmitted classified information about his unit's locations, personnel strength, troop movements, and defensive capabilities to RapeWaffen Division members via Telegram. The channel's CC-1, a UK-based O9A contact identified only by the CC-1 designation in court documents, relayed the intelligence to a second co-conspirator, CC-2, with the stated purpose of enabling a mass-casualty attack combining O9A members and Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces.
The FBI had embedded an operative in the RapeWaffen Division channel. The operative, whom Melzer believed was a fellow O9A member with operational access to jihadist networks, was the primary recipient of Melzer's intelligence disclosures. The FBI arrested Melzer on June 10, 2020, before the planned deployment. Melzer was charged in [[Southern District of New York]] case 1:20-cr-00314-GHW and pleaded guilty on June 24, 2022. He was sentenced to 45 years by [[U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods]] on March 6, 2023.[^3]
### UK Nexus and Uncharged Co-Conspirators
The superseding indictment described CC-1 as UK-based. No UK co-conspirator was publicly charged in an open-court proceeding in the United States as of 2026. Whether UK counter-terrorism authorities pursued parallel proceedings has not been confirmed in open sources. O9A has historically been permitted to operate openly in the United Kingdom, and multiple UK prosecutions of O9A-adjacent individuals have occurred, but none have been publicly linked to the RapeWaffen Division Telegram channel specifically.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Terrorism Offenses For Planning Deadly Ambush On Service Members In His Unit." June 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his
[^2]: Vice News. "US Soldier Jailed for Satanic Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Troops in Al Qaeda Attack." 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/order-of-nine-angles-neo-neo-nazi-ethan-melzer-arrest/
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush." March 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service; United States v. Melzer, 1:20-cr-00314-GHW (S.D.N.Y. 2022).
[^4]: New Statesman. "A Nazi-Satanist Cult Is Fuelling Far-Right Groups, Overlooked by UK Authorities." March 2020. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2020/03/nazi-satanist-cult-fuelling-far-right-terrorist-groups-overlooked-uk-authorities-order-nine-angles

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- Russia
- NeoNazi
- Paramilitary
- TerroristDesignation
- SDGTDesignation
- Accelerationism
- WhiteSupremacy
- TrainingCamp
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
start: 2002
location: "St. Petersburg, Russia"
summary: "Russian Imperial Movement is a St. Petersburg-based ultranationalist paramilitary organization, designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department in April 2020, that operated the Partizan training camp and provided weapons and explosives training to Western neo-Nazis including members of Atomwaffen Division."
---
[[Russian Imperial Movement]] (RIM, in Russian: Ruskoye Imperatorskoe Dvizhenie) is a [[Russia|Russian]] ultranationalist and white supremacist paramilitary organization headquartered in [[St. Petersburg]]. It was founded in approximately 2002 and operates an ideology combining Orthodox Christian monarchism, Russian imperial nationalism, and white supremacist pan-Europeanism. Its paramilitary wing, the [[Imperial Legion]], runs a training program called [[Partizan]] that has provided weapons handling, explosives, and tactical instruction to neo-Nazis from Sweden, Germany, the United States, and Finland. On April 7, 2020, the [[U.S. Department of State]] designated RIM and three of its leaders as [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) entities under [[Executive Order 13224]], the first time the United States had ever applied a terrorist designation to a white supremacist organization.[^1]
### Organization and Leadership
RIM was founded by [[Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev]], who serves as its overall leader. The organization's paramilitary infrastructure was built by [[Denis Valiullovich Gariev]] (also transliterated as "Gariyev"), who created the [[Imperial Legion]] in 2008 and directs it as its head. [[Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov]] serves as RIM's coordinator for external relations, managing recruitment of and networking with foreign white supremacist organizations. All three were designated SDGTs in the April 2020 State Department action alongside the organization itself.[^1]
The organization describes its aims as re-establishing Russia as a "mono-ethnic state" and restoring the Russian empire, preferably under a restored Romanov dynasty. Although RIM thus formally opposes Putin's government as insufficiently monarchist, the organization has been allowed to operate freely in Russia, to maintain paramilitary training facilities, and to recruit internationally, without Russian government interference. This tolerance is what a 2026 peer-reviewed case study (published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, drawing on eleven expert interviews and three years of open-source collection) describes as "tacit home-state toleration" that allowed paramilitary infrastructure to function as an international training hub.[^8]
### Partizan Training Camp
The Imperial Legion operates a training facility known as Partizan, located south of Heinäsenmaa island on the outskirts of [[St. Petersburg]]. Partizan was created by Denis Gariev and has offered courses in firearms handling, explosives manufacture and use, close-quarters combat, military medicine, military topography, urban warfare, and small-unit assault-and-clearing tactics. Former Russian military personnel serve as instructors. The [[UK Home Office]] has assessed that the Partizan program "aims to increase the capacity of attendees to conduct terrorist attacks."[^4]
Attendance at Partizan was not restricted to Russian nationals. Foreign recruits from Western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America attended the camp during the period it operated freely, typically arranged through RIM's external relations coordinator Trushchalov. RIM did not charge fees for training; instead it positioned Partizan as a solidarity offering to like-minded organizations abroad, in exchange for networking relationships and the propagandistic value of demonstrating global white supremacist cooperation.[^2]
### Swedish Gothenburg Bombings (2017)
The designated use case for the State Department's SDGT action was the participation of two members of the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] in Partizan training before they carried out a series of bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In August 2016, [[Viktor Melin]] (age approximately 23) and [[Anton Thulin]] (age approximately 20), both members of the Nordic Resistance Movement's Gothenburg cell, traveled to [[St. Petersburg]] and attended the Partizan training course. The training included explosives instruction. Upon returning to Sweden, Melin and Thulin, along with a third defendant [[Jimmy Jonasson]], carried out three bombings in early 2017: a car bomb at a refugee shelter in Torslanda on January 17; a bomb at a shelter for asylum seekers in January; and a bomb at a cafe frequented by left-wing activists.
Swedish prosecutor [[Mats Ljungqvist]] stated in court: "Attending this paramilitary camp in St. Petersburg was a key step in Melin and Thulin's radicalization. We also believe it may be the place where they learned to manufacture the bombs that they used in Gothenburg." On July 7, 2017, Gothenburg District Court convicted all three; sentences ranged from 18 months to eight and a half years. DNA from bomb fragments matched Melin. The Swedish prosecutor's explicit attribution of the Gothenburg bombings to Partizan training provided the primary factual basis for the U.S. State Department's April 2020 SDGT designation.[^3][^4]
### Atomwaffen Division Training
RIM's most directly documented American nexus involves members of [[Atomwaffen Division]]. In 2018, AWD leader [[Kaleb Cole]] of Olympia, [[Washington state]], and AWD member [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]], also of Olympia, traveled to Europe on a trip that included, according to multiple investigative accounts, passage through [[Ukraine]] via the Donbas green corridor into [[Russia]], followed by attendance at Partizan training in St. Petersburg. The two subsequently traveled through Ukraine, entered Poland, and photographed themselves at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp. Cole later returned to the United States and continued directing AWD's operational activities until his February 2020 federal arrest.[^5]
Bruce-Umbaugh was arrested and charged in the Northern District of Texas. He pleaded guilty on February 3, 2020, to possessing firearms and ammunition as a prohibited person, and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on April 28, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Terry Means in Fort Worth. The federal court record (5:19-cr-00130, N.D. Tex.) is the documentary basis for the Russia trip detail appearing in the government's prosecution materials.[^6]
Cole was separately prosecuted in the [[Western District of Washington]] (case 2:20-cr-00032) for the [[Operation Erste Saule]] harassment campaign. He was convicted on five counts including civil rights conspiracy and sentenced to 84 months. The Russia trip appeared in government submissions in his case as background on AWD's transnational connections.[^5]
In approximately 2020, RIM provided additional training to other American nationals affiliated with AWD at its St. Petersburg facilities, in a separate arrangement from the 2018 Cole/Bruce-Umbaugh trip. This is documented in [[CTC West Point]] reporting on the skull-mask neo-fascist network's transnational structure.[^7]
### German Training Operations
In 2020, RIM provided training at Partizan to members of the youth wings of two German far-right political parties: the [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD) and [[Der dritte Weg]] (The Third Path). Participants received instruction in firearms, explosives, and close combat. The training was documented by German investigative reporting and confirmed by [[Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty]]. Several graduates of the Partizan training, including German and Finnish participants, subsequently joined [[Russian-backed separatist militias]] fighting in eastern Ukraine.[^4]
### U.S. Government Designations
On April 7, 2020, the State Department designated RIM, Vorobyev, Gariev, and Trushchalov as SDGTs under [[Executive Order 13224]]. This was the first white supremacist terrorist designation in U.S. history. Counterterrorism Coordinator [[Ambassador Nathan Sales]] explained at a press briefing that the designation was grounded in RIM providing training "for acts of terrorism" specifically through Partizan, citing the Gothenburg bombings as the documented case. The designation triggers asset-blocking and transactional prohibitions under U.S. law for anyone who deals with these individuals or the organization.[^1]
On June 15, 2022, the [[U.S. Treasury Department]]'s [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) designated two additional supporters of RIM as SDGTs, pursuant to [[Executive Order 13224]]. Treasury's press release (jy0817) documented this supplemental designation. The identity of the two individuals named in the June 2022 action was not reproduced in available open-source summaries consulted for this entry; the OFAC SDN list entry and Treasury press release contain the authoritative names.[^9]
### UK Proscription
The [[United Kingdom]] proscribed RIM as a terrorist organization in 2025, following a multi-year debate in which parliamentary questions in the Commons had raised the matter. [[Searchlight Magazine]] reported on the UK Home Office proscription order, which extended to RIM the same legal framework applied to other proscribed organizations under the [[Terrorism Act 2000]]. The exact Statutory Instrument number and date of the UK proscription are not confirmed in materials reviewed for this entry; see open thread in _NOTES.md.[^10]
### Russian State Tolerance and the Non-Prosecution Pattern
RIM formally opposes Putin's government on monarchist grounds, and this has been used to argue that it operates independently of state direction. However, three structural facts bear on the question of state tolerance:
First, RIM operated Partizan as an international training hub for years while Russian security services took no action, despite Russia's explicit designation of multiple of RIM's Western trainees' organizations as extremist.
Second, RIM participated in the conflict in the Donbas by sending its [[Imperial Legion]] volunteer fighters to eastern Ukraine in 2014, fighting alongside Russian-backed separatists. This participation was not prosecuted.
Third, RIM is based in St. Petersburg, where [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] (The Base founder) also relocated in 2017-2018. The co-location of two designated terrorist organizations with Western recruitment mandates in the same city, with neither facing Russian prosecution, describes an environment of consistent state tolerance.
The 2026 peer-reviewed article in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism concludes that RIM's transnational expansion was enabled by the convergence of permissive conflict arenas, shared ideology as a substitute for ethnic kinship in recruiting, and "tacit home-state toleration" enabling Partizan to function as an international terrorism-training hub. The article stops short of asserting direct state direction.[^8]
### Footnotes
[^1]: U.S. Department of State. "The U.S. Department of State's Designation of the Russian Imperial Movement and its Leaders as Global Terrorists." April 7, 2020. https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-u-s-department-of-states-designation-of-the-russian-imperial-movement-and-its-leaders-as-global-terrorists/index.html; U.S. Embassy in Georgia, "Briefing With Coordinator for Counterterrorism Amb. Sales." April 7, 2020. https://ge.usembassy.gov/briefing-with-coordinator-for-counterterrorism-amb-sales-on-the-u-s-designation-of-russian-imperial-movement-and-its-leaders-as-global-terrorists/
[^2]: Counter Extremism Project. "Russian Imperial Movement (RIM)." https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/russian-imperial-movement-rim
[^3]: BuzzFeed News (Lester Feder). "These Swedish Nazis Trained In Russia Before Bombing A Center For Asylum Seekers." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/these-swedish-nazis-trained-in-russia; The Daily Beast. "Russian Extremists Are Training Right-Wing Terrorists From Western Europe." https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-extremists-are-training-right-wing-terrorists-from-western-europe/
[^4]: VICE News. "German Neo Nazis Are Getting Explosives Training at a White Supremacist Camp in Russia." https://www.vice.com/en/article/german-neo-nazis-are-getting-explosives-training-at-a-white-supremacist-camp-in-russia/; RFE/RL. "Report: German Neo-Nazis Training At Russian Terrorist Camp." https://www.rferl.org/a/german-neo-nazi-training-in-russia/30655860.html
[^5]: Malcontent News. "Washington's Defunct Atomwaffen Division had Deep Ties to the Terrorist Org, Russia Imperialist Movement." July 4, 2022. https://malcontentment.com/washingtons-defunct-atomwaffen-division-had-deep-ties-to-the-terrorist-org-russia-imperialist-movement/; Cipher Brief. "Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages
[^6]: GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, Case 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0
[^7]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
[^8]: Journal of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. "Ideological affinity, state toleration and the transnational expansion of the far-right Russian imperial movement." Published online January 22, 2026. doi:10.1080/17440572.2026.2618779. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17440572.2026.2618779
[^9]: U.S. Department of the Treasury, OFAC. "U.S. Sanctions Members of Russian Violent Extremist Group." Press release jy0817. June 15, 2022. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0817; OFAC Counter Terrorism Designations, April 6, 2020 action: https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20200406
[^10]: Searchlight Magazine. "UK bans far-right Russian terror group." July 2025. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/07/uk-bans-far-right-russian-terror-group/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- TheCom
- CyberCom
- Cybercrime
- SIMSwapping
- Ransomware
- Phishing
- CryptocurrencyTheft
- FederalCase
- USA
- UK
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Scattered Spider is a Cyber Com cybercriminal group of English-speaking teenagers and young adults known for SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and ransomware against major corporations, with at least eight members charged or convicted as of mid-2026."
start: 2021
location: "Online (USA/UK primarily)"
---
[[Scattered Spider]] is a loosely organized cybercriminal group operating within the Cyber Com sphere of [[The Com]] ecosystem. It is composed predominantly of English-speaking teenagers and young adults based in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]], who coalesced through online gaming communities and criminal forums. Scattered Spider became the highest-profile Cyber Com group through a series of attacks on major corporations between 2022 and 2025, culminating in the 2023 ransomware attacks on [[MGM Resorts]] and [[Caesars Entertainment]]. The group is also tracked under the aliases 0ktapus, Roasted 0ktapus, UNC3944, Octo Tempest, Storm-0875, and Starfraud, with different aliases assigned by different cybersecurity research firms. As of mid-2026, at least eight individuals had been charged in the United States or United Kingdom in connection with Scattered Spider operations.[^1]
### The Com Connection
[[SANS Institute]] and [[CyberScoop]] both document Scattered Spider as a product of The Com's Cyber Com sphere, describing the group as having "evolved out of The Com" with "a common set of intrusion techniques observed across multiple high-profile breaches." The Com's Cyber Com sphere uses SIM swapping, IP grabbing, doxxing, and swatting as shared tradecraft across groups; Scattered Spider adopted and industrialized these methods at scale. The broader Com ecosystem includes participants in the Sextortion Com sphere (dominated by [[764 Network|764]]) and the Offline Com sphere; Scattered Spider's operations are confined to the Cyber Com sphere, though its members overlap socially with the broader community. Law enforcement intelligence documents obtained by CyberScoop confirm the FBI investigates the Com as a unified threat rather than as separate phenomena.[^2]
### History and Operations
Scattered Spider is believed to have first coalesced around May 2021-2022, initially focusing on attacks against telecommunications companies and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms to enable SIM swapping. The group ran a [[Telegram]] channel from approximately 2022 that served as a hub for SIM-swapping operations targeting major wireless carriers in the U.S. and UK.
#### 2022: The 0ktapus Campaign
In summer 2022, Scattered Spider executed a mass SMS phishing campaign against more than 130 organizations, building convincing spoofed [[Okta]] login pages to harvest credentials and session tokens at scale. Documented victims included [[Twilio]], [[Cloudflare]], [[DoorDash]], [[Mailchimp]], and [[LastPass]]. The campaign was named "0ktapus" by security researchers after the fake Okta infrastructure used. The November 2024 federal indictment covers the period September 2021 through April 2023 and charges the five defendants with attacking at least 45 companies and stealing at least $11 million in cryptocurrency from at least 29 victims.
#### 2023: MGM and Caesars
In September 2023, Scattered Spider executed its most consequential operations. For the [[Caesars Entertainment]] attack, the group used social engineering to gain access, obtained sensitive data, and extorted Caesars for a $15 million ransom payment (half the original demand of $30 million). For the [[MGM Resorts International]] attack, attackers used voice phishing (vishing) to impersonate an IT helpdesk employee, conducted SIM swapping, obtained MFA reset codes, gained network access, and deployed [[ALPHV]]/BlackCat ransomware across MGM's ESXi servers. The MGM attack caused approximately one week of operational disruption and an estimated $100 million in lost revenue and recovery costs.
#### 2025: UK Retail Attacks
Scattered Spider or affiliated actors attacked three major UK retailers in 2025: [[Marks and Spencer]], [[Harrods]], and [[Co-op]]. The Marks and Spencer attack caused significant operational disruption. The UK [[National Crime Agency]] (NCA) and [[City of London Police]] arrested four individuals in connection with these attacks in July 2025.
#### 2025: Healthcare and Infrastructure
The September 2025 DOJ indictment against [[Thalha Jubair]] alleged participation in at least 120 cyberattacks between May 2022 and September 2025, including against [[SSM Health Care Corporation]] and attempted attacks against [[Sutter Health]], with aggregate ransom payments from victims of at least $115 million.[^3]
### Tactics
Scattered Spider's documented methods include:
- SMS phishing ("smishing"): mass text campaigns mimicking IT help desks and single sign-on portals
- Voice phishing ("vishing"): impersonating employees or IT staff in calls to corporate help desks
- SIM swapping: bribing or deceiving telecom employees to transfer a victim's phone number, enabling MFA bypass
- MFA push bombing: repeatedly sending authentication requests to exhaust and confuse a target
- Social engineering of IT help desks to issue MFA resets to attacker-controlled devices
- Ransomware deployment (via ALPHV/BlackCat partnership) after network access achieved
- Cryptocurrency theft via compromised exchange accounts
- Data exfiltration and extortion independent of ransomware
### Members and Legal Proceedings
#### November 20, 2024 Indictment (Central District of California)
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California unsealed charges against five defendants on November 20, 2024, covering the period September 2021 through April 2023. All five were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy, and aggravated identity theft (maximum 20 years per conspiracy count; mandatory 2-year consecutive term for aggravated identity theft):
- [[Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy]], 23, of College Station, Texas (alias "AD"): still facing charges as of mid-2026
- [[Evans Onyeaka Osiebo]], 21, of Dallas, Texas: still facing charges as of mid-2026
- [[Noah Michael Urban]], 20, of Palm Coast, Florida (aliases "King Bob," "Gustavo Fring"): pleaded guilty; sentenced
- [[Joel Martin Evans]], 26, of Jacksonville, North Carolina (alias "joeleoli"): still facing charges as of mid-2026
- [[Tyler Robert Buchanan]], 22, of the United Kingdom (alias "tylerb"): pleaded guilty; sentencing pending
[[Noah Michael Urban]] pleaded guilty in April 2025 in the Middle District of Florida (Jacksonville) and Central District of California. He was sentenced on August 20, 2025, by U.S. District Judge [[Harvey Schlesinger]] in Jacksonville, Florida, to 120 months (10 years) in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and $13,049,490.64 in restitution to 59 victim individuals. Urban was the first Scattered Spider member to be sentenced. Prosecutors had requested eight years; Urban's defense requested five years; Judge Schlesinger exceeded both recommendations.
[[Tyler Robert Buchanan]] was arrested by Spanish authorities in June 2024 while attempting to board a flight to Italy. He was extradited to the United States and entered federal custody in April 2025. Buchanan pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, admitting his role in the 2022 SMS phishing campaign against major technology companies. He received an additional wire fraud count compared to the other four November 2024 defendants, giving him a potential maximum term of approximately 22 years. Sentencing is scheduled for August 21, 2026.
[[Remington Goy Ogletree]], 19, of Texas and Florida, was charged on October 30, 2024 with wire fraud in connection with conduct between October 2023 and May 2024. He was arrested in California shortly after charges were filed. Ogletree is alleged to have phished nearly 150 employees of a U.S. financial institution, gained unauthorized access to telecommunications company networks, and used that access to deliver more than 8.6 million SMS phishing messages targeting [[Gemini]] and [[KuCoin]] cryptocurrency exchange users, enabling theft of over $4 million in cryptocurrency. He is at least the sixth Scattered Spider member to face federal charges.
[[Thalha Jubair]], 19, of East London, was arrested at his home on September 16, 2025, by the NCA and City of London Police. The District of New Jersey unsealed charges against Jubair on September 18, 2025: conspiracy to commit computer fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and substantive computer fraud counts. Jubair is alleged under the alias "EarthtoStar" (also "Brad," "Austin," "@autistic," and "Operator") to have participated in at least 120 network intrusions affecting at least 47 U.S. organizations between May 2022 and September 2025, generating at least $115 million in ransom payments to the group. He also faces UK charges under the Computer Misuse Act for the Transport for London (TfL) attack and under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act for refusing to disclose device passwords. He and co-defendant Owen Flowers denied the TfL charges at Southwark Crown Court. If convicted on all U.S. counts, Jubair faces a maximum of 95 years in prison.
[[Owen David Flowers]], 18, of Walsall, West Midlands, was arrested alongside Jubair on September 16, 2025. Flowers used the hacker handles "bo764," "Holy," and "Nazi" and was alleged to have participated in the September 2023 MGM attack; he gave anonymous media interviews about the MGM hack in the days following the attack. Flowers and Jubair denied the Computer Misuse Act charges at Southwark Crown Court.
#### July 2025 UK Arrests
The NCA arrested four individuals in July 2025 in connection with the 2025 UK retail attacks (Marks and Spencer, Harrods, Co-op). Of the four arrested, a 20-year-old woman, two 19-year-old men, and a 17-year-old were charged with computer misuse, extortion, money laundering, and membership in a criminal organization. The names of the July 2025 arrestees other than Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers (arrested in September) were not publicly released in available reporting as of mid-2026.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: CISA/FBI. "Cybersecurity Advisory AA23-320A: Scattered Spider." November 2023. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-320a; Krebs on Security. "UK Arrests Four in 'Scattered Spider' Ransom Group." July 2025. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/uk-charges-four-in-scattered-spider-ransom-group/
[^2]: SANS Institute. "Defending Against SCATTERED SPIDER and The Com with Cybercrime Intelligence." https://www.sans.org/blog/defending-against-scattered-spider-and-the-com-with-cybercrime-intelligence/; CyberScoop. "Scottish man pleads guilty to attack spree that created Scattered Spider's notoriety." April 2026. https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-scattered-spider-hacker-tyler-robert-buchanan-guilty-plea/
[^3]: Krebs on Security. "Feds Tie 'Scattered Spider' Duo to $115M in Ransoms." September 2025. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/feds-tie-scattered-spider-duo-to-115m-in-ransoms/; Fortune. "London teenager orchestrated 'help desk' extortion scheme against 47 U.S. companies." September 20, 2025. https://fortune.com/2025/09/20/teenager-scattered-spider-extortion-ransom-arrested/
[^4]: Krebs on Security. "'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty." April 2026. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/scattered-spider-member-tylerb-pleads-guilty/; DataBreaches.Net. "Noah Urban aka 'King Bob' of Scattered Spider, sentenced to 10 years in prison, $13 million restitution." August 21, 2025. https://databreaches.net/2025/08/21/noah-urban-aka-king-bob-of-scattered-spider-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-13-million-restitution/; SecurityWeek. "Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty." https://www.securityweek.com/suspected-scattered-spider-hacker-pleads-guilty/; The Hacker News. "U.K. Arrests Two Teen Scattered Spider Hackers Linked to August 2024 TfL Cyber Attack." September 2025. https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/uk-arrest-two-teen-scattered-spider.html

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- UK
- Journalism
- AntiFascist
- Investigative
- NeoNazi
- SpecialBranch
start: 1962
location: "London, United Kingdom"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Searchlight is a British anti-fascist investigative magazine founded in 1962 that ran informants inside Combat 18 and the British neo-Nazi movement throughout the 1990s, published the first identification of David Myatt as Anton Long in April 1998, and worked with BBC Panorama to document David Copeland's links to the National Socialist Movement."
---
[[Searchlight Magazine]] is a British [[anti-fascist]] investigative magazine founded in 1962 and based in [[London]]. It specialises in documenting far-right extremism in the United Kingdom and internationally. Searchlight ran informants inside [[Combat 18]], [[Blood and Honour]], and related neo-Nazi organisations throughout the 1990s, most notably [[Darren Wells]] (alias McKenzie), who co-authored the C18 booklet with [[Wilf Browning]] and acknowledged in 2002 that he had been working as a Searchlight/Special Branch informant. The magazine published the first public identification of [[David Myatt]] as the founder of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] under the pseudonym [[Anton Long]] in its April 1998 cover story. In 1999, Searchlight journalists worked with BBC *Panorama* to investigate the links between [[David Copeland]] and Myatt's [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]].[^1]
### Founding and Format
Searchlight was founded in 1962, initially as an activist newsletter, and developed over subsequent decades into a specialist investigative publication. Its editorial approach combines journalism with a network of informants embedded in far-right organisations. Its long-run investigation of the British neo-Nazi scene in the 1980s and 1990s produced some of the most detailed primary-source reporting on those organisations available in the public record. In the early 2000s, editor [[Gerry Gable]] and journalist [[Nick Lowles]] were its most prominent public voices. Lowles subsequently left Searchlight to co-found [[HOPE not hate]].[^2]
### The Darren Wells Operation
[[Darren Wells]], operating under the alias McKenzie, was Searchlight's most significant informant inside Combat 18. He was embedded in the Wilf Browning faction of C18 and co-authored the C18 booklet, one of the organisation's primary propaganda and recruitment documents. Wells became Browning's trusted associate and travelled with him to meet ITV's [[World in Action]] journalists in 1997. During that period he developed an independent relationship with Nick Lowles and, according to Lowles's own account, eventually became one of the most important informants Searchlight had ever run. In 2002, Wells publicly acknowledged his informant role.[^3]
Larry O'Hara of [[Notes From The Borderland]] has analysed Wells's role critically, arguing that Searchlight's handling of Wells represents an ambiguous case of state-adjacent intelligence operations by a private anti-fascist organisation. O'Hara contends that Wells's position within the Browning faction, combined with allegations against Sargent, created the mutual suspicion that escalated into the [[Christopher Castle]] murder in 1997. The magazine has disputed this analysis.[^3]
### The April 1998 Cover Story: Myatt and O9A
Searchlight's April 1998 issue carried a cover photograph of David Myatt taken at a Combat 18 demonstration in London, with the headline "The Most Evil Nazi in Britain." The five-page cover story identified Myatt as Anton Long, the founder of the Order of Nine Angles, and described O9A as "a secret society that prides itself on following traditional Satanism... formed by Myatt himself in the 1980s." This was the first public identification of the Myatt/Long connection in any publication. The attribution predated any O9A interest in constructing a counter-narrative, which gives it evidential weight in the scholarly attribution debate.[^4]
The story drew on Searchlight's monitoring of Myatt through the C18 period and described his trajectory in neo-Nazi politics from [[Colin Jordan]]'s [[British Movement]] through the [[National Democratic Freedom Movement]], his involvement in C18, and his founding of the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]] with [[Steve Sargent]] in June 1997.[^4]
### BBC Panorama Joint Investigation (1999)
Following [[David Copeland]]'s April 1999 nail-bomb campaign, Searchlight and BBC *Panorama* conducted a joint investigation into the links between Copeland and the NSM and the degree to which he had been influenced by Myatt's writings. The investigation documented that Copeland had studied "[[A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution]]" and had been welcomed into the NSM as Southern Regional Organiser by [[Tony Williams]], the leader who succeeded Myatt. The joint programme ran on the BBC after Copeland's trial and contributed to public pressure for Myatt's prosecution, which did not result in charges.[^5]
### O9A Coverage
Searchlight has continued to document O9A as a current terrorism threat. In June 2023, the magazine published "What is the Order of the Nine Angles?" and in April 2025 an anniversary piece on the Copeland attacks, maintaining its long-run documentation of the Myatt nexus. The magazine has consistently supported calls for O9A proscription.[^6]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Notes From The Borderland. "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." https://borderland.co.uk/combat-18-mi5-some-background-notes/
[^2]: Hope Not Hate. "About." hopenothate.org.uk (Nick Lowles co-founder background).
[^3]: Notes From The Borderland (Larry O'Hara). "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." https://borderland.co.uk/combat-18-mi5-some-background-notes/; O'Hara, Larry. *Turning Up the Heat: MI5 After the Cold War.* Phoenix Press, 1994.
[^4]: Searchlight Magazine, April 1998. Cover story: "The Most Evil Nazi in Britain." Documented via secondary sources; original issue in Searchlight archive.
[^5]: Searchlight Magazine. "25 years on: The hunt for the London nailbomber," April 2024. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2024/04/25-years-on-the-hunt-for-the-london-nailbomber/
[^6]: Searchlight Magazine. "What is the Order of the Nine Angles?" June 2023. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2023/06/what-is-the-order-of-the-nine-angles/; "Remembering the Admiral Duncan attack," April 2025. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/04/remembering-the-admiral-duncan-attack/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- Brazil
- Accelerationism
- CounterExtremism
- NeoNazi
location: "Brazil"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Stop Hate Brasil is a Brazilian NGO founded by researcher Michele Prado that monitors far-right extremist networks online, with a particular focus on the Terrorgram Collective's Brazilian infrastructure, and has served as a consulting partner to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security since 2023."
---
Stop Hate Brasil (also rendered Stop Hate Brazil) is a Brazilian non-governmental organization founded by [[Michele Prado]] to identify, document, and counter far-right extremist content on digital platforms in Brazil, with particular emphasis on the radicalization of children and adolescents through online channels. The organization is funded in part by the [[Social Change Initiative]] and maintains a formal voluntary consulting relationship with Brazilian government agencies including [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]].[^1]
### Activity
Stop Hate Brasil's primary documented contribution to the investigation of Brazilian accelerationist networks was Prado's 2023 formal report to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice identifying Telegram channels linked to [[Terrorgram Collective]] members operating in Brazil, including channels associated with the pseudonym "Wolf Boy Winter" and with [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]], subsequently designated by the US government as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in January 2025. The organization has also documented the network's exploitation of gaming platforms (including [[Roblox]], [[Fortnite]], and [[Minecraft]]) and YouTube recommendation algorithms to introduce adolescents to extremist content.[^2]
By 2024, Stop Hate Brasil had identified more than 40 violent incidents in Brazilian school settings connected to some degree with online extremist networks over a three-year span, and had flagged that at least two [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels active in Brazil had been created by adolescents rather than adults, indicating that the network had successfully recruited Brazilian minors into its content-production infrastructure. Stop Hate Brasil issued public-facing reports, referred to as the "Sons do Odio" (Sons of Hate) report series, documenting these findings for civil society audiences.[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Social Change Initiative. "Michele Prado." https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/michele-prado
[^2]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- O9A
- NeoNazi
- Satanism
- TemplovBlood
- MartinetPress
- AtomwaffenDivision
- USA
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "Tempel ov Blood is the American O9A nexion whose 2017 infiltration of Atomwaffen Division reshaped that network toward occultist violence, operating the Martinet Press publishing arm that distributed Iron Gates and related texts into the accelerationist ecosystem."
start: 2004
location: "Lexington, South Carolina"
---
[[Tempel ov Blood]] (ToB) is the primary American [[nexion]] (local cell) of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), operating in the United States as an autonomous organizational unit within the O9A's decentralized global structure. Under the leadership of [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and through its publishing arm [[Martinet Press]], Tempel ov Blood produced the O9A texts that reached the widest American audience, infiltrated and effectively took over [[Atomwaffen Division]] beginning in 2017, and supplied the ideological framework that AWD subsequently transmitted through [[Terrorgram]] channels into the broader accelerationist ecosystem from which the [[764 Network|764]] network drew aesthetics and radicalization material.
### Structure and Identity
Tempel ov Blood presents itself as an O9A nexion oriented specifically toward an American context, emphasizing a synthesis of National Socialist political commitments and Satanic occult practice. Within the O9A's decentralized framework, ToB is formally autonomous, connected to the broader O9A tradition through shared texts, aesthetics, and the initiatory doctrine of [[Insight Roles]], rather than through any chain of command from a British parent organization.
ToB operates Martinet Press as its publishing and distribution vehicle. Martinet Press was co-directed by Sutter and his wife [[Jillian Hoy]]. The press published physical books sold through neo-Nazi and occult channels and distributed digital versions through the O9A's own website (o9a.org) and through Atomwaffen Division's online platforms.[^1]
### Martinet Press Publications
The three most significant Martinet Press publications in terms of documented distribution and radicalization impact are:
*[[Iron Gates]]* (2014, 312 pp.): A novel set seventy years after a global nuclear war and centered on a gang of Satanists moving through a post-apocalyptic American landscape while committing acts of extreme violence. Within the first fifty pages the book depicts infanticide, cannibalism, rape, sodomy, torture, and pedophilia, all framed within an O9A initiatory context. [[John Cameron Denton]] made *Iron Gates* required reading for new Atomwaffen Division members. The book is preserved in full at the Internet Archive.[^2]
*Liber 333*: An O9A instructional text authored and published through Martinet Press.
*Bluebird*: An O9A text published through Martinet Press.
A 2024 academic analysis of the Martinet Press catalog described the books as glorifying "mass murder, terrorism, sadism, and child abuse" in a sustained literary form intended to desensitize readers to extreme violence as a preparation for O9A-style initiatory transgression.[^1]
### AWD Infiltration
Tempel ov Blood's takeover of Atomwaffen Division was accomplished through the personal relationship between Sutter and Denton. Denton invited ToB members into AWD in the spring of 2017, attracted to the combination of National Socialist politics and Satanic occultism. Sutter joined AWD under the alias "swissdiscipline" and rapidly became a senior figure. Through his influence, at least nine O9A/ToB members held key positions in AWD at the peak of the relationship.[^3]
The takeover was contested. AWD members who objected to Satanism as ideological contamination of their National Socialism left the group. Those who remained were reshaped by the ToB framework, which construed the group's violence as evidence of initiatory transgression rather than merely political action. This reframing deepened the group's capacity for violence by giving it a sacred dimension: killing was not just strategically useful but spiritually required for those pursuing the O9A Seven Fold Way.
The ToB influence on AWD directly shaped [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]]'s plot to facilitate a mass-casualty attack on his own Army unit by transmitting classified information to O9A contacts. Melzer operated in what court documents described as the "RapeWaffen" subgroup, which combined AWD and O9A identity and whose assigned reading included *Iron Gates*, *Liber 333*, and *Bluebird*.[^3]
### Distribution Pipeline
Tempel ov Blood's documented role in the radicalization pipeline from O9A ideology to 764-adjacent networks runs through Martinet Press. The books ToB published circulated through Terrorgram channels, which were cited in the manifestos of [[Cain Clark]] and [[Caleb Vazquez]], the perpetrators of the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting]]. The pipeline from O9A doctrine to ToB publication to AWD required reading to Terrorgram distribution to contemporary lone-actor inspiration is one of the best-documented radicalization chains in the current American extremist landscape.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^2]: Internet Archive. *Iron Gates* (Tempel ov Blood / Martinet Press, 2014). https://archive.org/details/tempel-ov-blood-iron-gates-text
[^3]: SPLC. "Atomwaffen Division." Extremist Files. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/atomwaffen-division/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- SaintsCulture
- Telegram
- DomesticTerrorism
- International
- TerroristDesignation
- AWD
- FashFront
summary: "Terrorgram Collective was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi Telegram network linked to attacks in multiple countries, generating prosecutions across the US, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark, and Australia with sentences totaling over 75 years of imprisonment across named defendants as of May 2026."
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
start: 2019
location: "Telegram (online)"
---
[[Terrorgram Collective]] was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi network that coalesced on [[Telegram]] during the summer of 2019, co-founded by [[Pavol Beňadik]] of [[Slovakia]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] of [[Canada]], in the immediate aftermath of [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s Christchurch mosque attacks. At its peak, the network operated through approximately 400 channels and 200 group chats, produced three major zine-format propaganda publications and a documentary-style video series, developed and distributed the "Saints Culture" framework glorifying mass shooters as martyrs, and was linked by a joint [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] investigation to 35 attacks and plots internationally. The [[United Kingdom]] became the first country in the world to proscribe it as a terrorist organization on April 26, 2024; the [[United States]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]] followed with formal designations in 2025.
### Formation and Origins
The Terrorgram Collective emerged directly from the deplatforming wave that followed the March 2019 Christchurch massacre, as accelerationist networks displaced from mainstream platforms migrated to Telegram. Beňadik (born approximately 2000, alias "Slovakbro"), then approximately 19 years old, created at least five neo-Nazi Telegram channels in the immediate post-Christchurch period and began assembling what became the Terrorgram ecosystem. He was joined in this effort by Althorpe (born approximately 1996, Thorold, [[Ontario]]), a Canadian who had previously served as a propagandist for [[Atomwaffen Division]] from approximately 2018 before transitioning to Telegram-based operations.
Terrorgram was the primary successor space to [[Iron March]] (2011-2017) and Fascist Forge (2018) in the international accelerationist online ecosystem, inheriting those forums' membership base and their shared commitment to [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]* as foundational text and to lone-wolf terrorism as the preferred operational mode.[^1]
[[Brandon Russell]], the imprisoned AWD founder, was documented using multiple Telegram pseudonyms to participate in Terrorgram-adjacent channels and to share PDFs encouraging acts of terrorism, documenting his continued reach into the ecosystem from prison.
### Propaganda Publications
Between June 2021 and July 2022, the Terrorgram inner collective produced three major publications that became the network's most operationally consequential output:
*Militant Accelerationism: A Collective Handbook* (136 pp., June 16, 2021): An ideological and tactical primer framing terrorism as "the language of the unheard" and providing guidance for lone-wolf attacks. Contained explicit calls for violence and instructions for identifying targets.
*Do It For The Gram: The Collected Writings of Terrorgram* (268 pp., December 16, 2021): A text-only compilation maintaining and elaborating the first publication's operational argument.
*The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production* (261 pp., July 14, 2022): The network's most operationally specific publication, with upgraded visual design and detailed instructions for violent attacks and critical infrastructure sabotage including guides for bomb-making and destruction of electrical substations. Its production marked the formalization of the inner collective's structure under [[Dallas Humber]] and [[Matthew Robert Allison]]. The FBI's September 2024 indictment identified all three publications as the principal evidence of material support.[^2]
Audiobooks of all three publications were produced and distributed through the Terrorgram channel network.
### Saints Culture
Terrorgram's most influential ideological contribution to the accelerationist ecosystem was the formalization and industrial-scale production of "Saints Culture" content: trading-card-style graphics profiling far-right mass shooters with their death tolls, methods, photographs, and attack dates, framing them as martyrs worthy of veneration and emulation. Monthly calendars marked anniversaries of past attacks and perpetrators' birthdays. After the October 2022 Bratislava shooting by [[Juraj Krajčík]], Humber posted on Terrorgram: "St. Juraj Krajčík, Tarrant's sixth disciple and Terrorgram's first saint," formalizing the post-attack canonization ritual.
The Saints Culture framework drew on Tarrant's self-framing as a "saint" in his own manifesto and on earlier [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) and Atomwaffen Division cult-of-martyrdom aesthetics, but Terrorgram systematized and scaled it.[^3]
### Federal Prosecution: United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257
The primary U.S. prosecution was filed in the [[Eastern District of California]] as case number 2:24-cr-00257 ([[United States v. Humber]]). The 37-page indictment, filed September 5, 2024 and unsealed September 9, 2024, named Humber and Allison as joint defendants on all 15 counts: conspiracy (1 count); soliciting hate crimes (4 counts); soliciting the murder of federal officials (3 counts); doxing federal officials (3 counts); threatening communications (1 count); distributing bombmaking instructions (2 counts); and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (1 count). Combined maximum exposure was 220 years.
The material support charge under § 2339A (which, unlike § 2339B, is not limited to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations) was described by [[Lawfare]] as a significant application of the statute to an online white-supremacist content network. The prosecution was handled jointly by DOJ's [[Civil Rights Division]], [[National Security Division]], and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California.
Humber pleaded guilty to all 15 counts on August 8, 2025. U.S. District Judge [[Dena Coggins]] sentenced her to 360 months (30 years) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release on December 19, 2025. Allison pleaded not guilty; his trial remained pending in the Eastern District of California as of May 2026.[^4]
### All Named Defendants: Full Prosecution Record
#### United States
[[Dallas Humber]] (Elk Grove, California, age 35 at sentencing): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded guilty to all 15 counts August 8, 2025. Sentenced December 19, 2025, to 360 months (30 years) plus lifetime supervised release by Judge Dena Coggins. No public cooperation agreement.
[[Matthew Robert Allison]] (Boise, Idaho, age approximately 37 at arrest): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded not guilty. Trial pending as of May 2026.
[[Noah Lamb]] (age 24 at indictment, Eastern District of California): Indicted June 26, 2025, unsealed July 2, 2025, on eight counts: conspiracy (1), soliciting murder of federal officials (3), doxing federal officials (3), threatening communications (1). Maximum exposure: 85 years. "The List" targeted U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists. Investigated by the [[FBI Sacramento Field Office]]. No plea or trial outcome as of May 2026.
[[Alexander Lightner]] (Venice, Florida, age 27 at sentencing): Original charges filed January 2024 in the [[Middle District of Florida]] included interstate transmission of a threat to injure (threatening a mass casualty event) and unlawful possession of a silencer. Pleaded guilty March 11, 2025, to the firearm count only. Sentenced June 12, 2025, to 51 months (4 years 3 months) in federal prison.
[[Andrew Takhistov]] (East Brunswick, New Jersey, age 18 at arrest): Charged in the [[District of New Jersey]] in July 2024 with one count of soliciting destruction of energy facilities (maximum 10 years). Pleaded not guilty. Plea status unresolved as of May 2026.
[[Nikita Casap]] (Waukesha, Wisconsin, age 17 at arrest, 2025): Charged in Wisconsin state court with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and eight other felonies for the February 2025 murders of his mother, [[Tatiana Casap]], and stepfather, [[Donald Mayer]], committed to fund a planned drone assassination of President Trump. Pleaded guilty January 8, 2026 to the two homicide counts; remaining counts dismissed under plea agreement. Sentenced March 6, 2026 by Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge [[Ralph Ramirez]] to two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole. Federal investigation separately documented an assassination plot involving approximately $8,700 in Bitcoin transfers and contacts with Russian-speaking co-conspirators; no federal indictment publicly announced as of May 2026. DOJ identified him as "N.C." in Humber's August 2025 guilty plea factual basis, describing his murders as committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official."
[[Skyler Philippi]] (Columbia, Tennessee, age 24 at plea): Charged in the [[Middle District of Tennessee]] with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (18 U.S.C. § 2332a) and attempting to destroy an energy facility in Nashville using a drone equipped with what he believed to be C-4 explosive. Pleaded guilty September 9, 2025. Sentencing scheduled January 8, 2026; outcome not yet publicly reported as of May 2026. Philippi disclosed prior affiliation with Atomwaffen Division and the [[National Alliance]] during an August 2024 conversation with an undercover employee.
#### Canada
[[Matthew Althorpe]] (Thorold, Ontario, age approximately 27 at arrest): Arrested December 8, 2023. Charged under the Criminal Code of Canada with facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group (8 original counts reduced to 3 on guilty plea). Pleaded guilty in Toronto. Sentenced March 27, 2026, to 20 years by Ontario Superior Court Justice [[Jane Kelly]], parole-eligible at 10 years. Justice Kelly found his propaganda inspired at least six attacks.
[[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] (East York, Ontario): Arrested December 8, 2023, alongside Althorpe following an 18-month RCMP investigation covering alleged offenses from April 2018 onward. Charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Bail denied twice; subsequently granted bail with conditions. Judge-alone trial in Toronto scheduled to begin January 2026.
#### Denmark
[[Jeremy Meilhac]] (Copenhagen area, French-Danish national, born approximately 1995/1996): Charged by the [[Public Prosecution Service of Denmark]] with terrorism-related offenses under the Danish Penal Code for activities between approximately June 2023 and December 2024. Convicted by the [[Glostrup District Court]] on approximately April 21, 2026. Sentenced to six years in prison; Danish citizenship revoked; ordered expelled from Denmark following sentence. Found to have played an "active and significant role" in Terrorgram operations, collaborating with Humber to produce "saint cards" and distributing attacker manifesto audio recordings through the network. This was the first Danish court finding that Terrorgram constitutes a terrorist organization. Verdict appealed to the [[Danish High Court]]; outcome pending as of May 2026.[^13]
#### Slovakia
[[Pavol Beňadik]] (Slovakia, born approximately 2000): Arrested May 2022. Charged with inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, including publishing bomb-making and firearms-manufacture instructions and directly mentoring Juraj Krajčík. Sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison in November 2022.
#### International SDGT Designations (Not Criminal Charges)
Three individuals received U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designations from the State Department on January 13, 2025, under Executive Order 13224: [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] (Brazil, Terrorgram channel administrator); [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia, senior Terrorgram member and former participant in [[Feuerkrieg Division]]-linked chats circa 2019-2020 under alias "buntovnik," where he described meeting with Croatian FKD cell members and claimed credit for vandalizing a WWII memorial); and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa, Terrorgram channel administrator).[^5][^6]
### Attributed Violence
A joint ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation published in 2025 identified 35 crimes linked to the Terrorgram network. DOJ prosecutors linked Humber specifically to seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership.
The Bratislava attack of October 12, 2022: [[Juraj Krajčík]] (19) shot three people at Tepláreň, an LGBTQ+ bar, killing two and wounding one, then died by suicide. Krajčík had been radicalized through Terrorgram from age 16, directly mentored by Beňadik, and cited him by alias in his manifesto; he also cited the [[Payton Gendron|Buffalo supermarket shooter]] as his "final nudge."[^7]
The Aracruz school shootings of November 25, 2022: Gabriel Castiglioni (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Brazil]], killing four and wounding eleven while wearing a swastika patch. Humber had communicated with a user planning a racially motivated school attack in Brazil one month prior.
The Eskisehir mosque stabbing of August 12, 2024: [[Arda Küçükyetim]] (18) livestreamed himself stabbing five civilians outside a mosque in [[Eskisehir, Turkey]], possessing all three Terrorgram publications and a 16-page manifesto bearing Nazi symbols.
Nashville energy substation drone plot, November 2024: Skyler Philippi attempted to attach C-4 to a drone and fly it into a Nashville-area electrical substation.
Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: An unnamed Wisconsin plot to murder two individuals as part of a broader scheme to assassinate a federal official was among seven attacks attributed to Humber's guidance.
Waukesha parricidal attack, February 2025: Nikita Casap murdered his mother and stepfather to fund a planned Trump assassination plot, leaving a manifesto recommending Terrorgram publications including *The Hard Reset*.[^8]
### Wisconsin Murder-for-Hire Plot: Full Identification
The "Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot" referenced in Humber's indictment and in DOJ press releases was identified in the factual basis of Humber's August 2025 guilty plea as the February 2025 murders of Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer by Nikita Casap ("N.C."), committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official" (Trump). The designation "federal official" in the plea's language reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 framing; Trump as president-elect and then president qualifies. The DOJ framing of these murders as one of seven attacks "inspired or guided by" Humber's leadership represents the full scope of prosecutorial attribution available in the public record as of May 2026.[^14]
### Europol Coordination
[[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]] (ECTC) supported investigations in both the Canadian (Althorpe/Nippak) and Danish (Meilhac) proceedings. Its May 1, 2026 press release on Meilhac's conviction described its supporting role across multiple national investigations and noted that "over two dozen Terrorgram cases around the world" had been identified as of that date.[^13]
### AWD and O9A Connection
The Terrorgram Collective's genealogical connection to Atomwaffen Division and the [[Order of Nine Angles]] runs through both personnel and doctrine. Althorpe had served as an AWD propagandist before joining Terrorgram's founding efforts. Nippak had produced AWD videos before creating Terrorgram content. Brandon Russell used multiple Terrorgram pseudonyms to distribute accelerationist content from prison. [[Taylor Parker-Dipeppe]], who briefly took over some FKD organizational functions following KAPO's 2020 intervention with FKD's teenage Commander, was also documented in the AWD-to-Terrorgram ecosystem.
[[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and [[Tempel ov Blood]]'s 2017 infiltration of AWD carried O9A ideology (treating murder as spiritual service, transgressive violence as initiatory progression) into the broader accelerationist space. [[Martinet Press]] O9A texts including *[[Iron Gates]]* circulated through Terrorgram channels reaching audiences with no prior direct AWD or O9A connection.[^9]
### FKD/InJekt Division Bridge
When [[Feuerkrieg Division]] reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, a co-leader established himself as a central figure in the Terrorgram community and as a core organizer of two coalition structures: the [[United Acceleration Front]] and the [[National Socialist Coalition]]. FKD partnered specifically with [[InJekt Division]], a Texas-based group founded by [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]] (arrested May 2021 for a Walmart mass-shooting threat, sentenced to 60 months). The [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] documented 21 distinct entities within this coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram channels, establishing the infrastructure link between the FKD era and the 764/CVLT era.[^10]
[[Noah Licul]], one of the three individuals receiving SDGT designations alongside Terrorgram in January 2025, had been previously identified as active in FKD-linked chats in Croatia circa 2019-2020, representing a documented named individual who participated in both FKD-adjacent networks and subsequently Terrorgram.
### Formal Designations
United Kingdom: Proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024, S.I. 2024/569, laid April 22, 2024, approved by Parliament April 24-25, 2024, in force April 26, 2024. Membership or support carries up to 14 years imprisonment. The UK was the first country in the world to proscribe Terrorgram.
United States: SDGT designation of Terrorgram Collective and three individuals (Ferreira, Licul, Muller) under Executive Order 13224 on January 13, 2025. Published in the Federal Register as 90 FR 3987 on January 15, 2025.
Australia: Counter-terrorism financing sanctions imposed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 in February 2025, making Terrorgram the first entirely online entity subjected to Australian CT financing sanctions. Formally listed as a terrorist organization under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 via Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation, Terrorgram) Regulations 2025, F2025L00762. Penalties up to 25 years imprisonment.
Canada: Listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code via Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities, SOR/2025-263, published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 159, No. 26, December 17, 2025. Order in Council P.C. 2025-914, December 8, 2025. Listed alongside [[764 Network|764]], [[Maniac Murder Cult]], and Islamic State-Mozambique.[^11]
### Status After Arrests
The Terrorgram Collective's inner organizational core was effectively dismantled by late 2025. Humber (30 years), Althorpe (20 years), Beňadik (6 years, from 2022), and Meilhac (6 years, from 2026) were imprisoned; Allison remained in federal custody awaiting trial; SDGT sanctions targeted three international figures; Lightner (51 months) and Casap (two consecutive life terms, March 2026) were also removed from the network. [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] described the network as "effectively defunct" as an organized structure.
Violence attributed to Terrorgram-inspired individuals continued post-arrests. The network's content, once released, proved impossible to fully remove from the accelerationist ecosystem.
[[FashFront]], a neo-Nazi web forum launched in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, emerged as the most developed successor infrastructure. It modeled itself on [[Iron March]]'s forum architecture while maintaining a companion [[Telegram]] channel and [[Odysee]] video distribution. With 941 registered users as of late 2025, including former Iron March members and at least one identified former AWD cell leader ([[Ryan Hatfield]], alias "Ryan Arthur"), FashFront represented the most significant consolidation of post-Terrorgram accelerationist organizing infrastructure as of May 2026. No law enforcement action against FashFront or its administrators has been publicly announced.[^12][^15]
### Platform Migration After the September 2024 Indictment Unsealing
The unsealing of the Terrorgram indictment on September 9, 2024, combined with the August 24, 2024 arrest of [[Pavel Durov|Telegram CEO Pavel Durov]] and Telegram's resulting announcement of law-enforcement cooperation, produced a documented migration wave. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] documented white supremacist Telegram channels immediately discussing the need for alternative platforms with better encryption. The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] monitored a large number of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups migrating to a new decentralized, encrypted platform (which ISD declined to name); within 24 hours of ISD's September 25, 2024 monitoring period, users in those channels had posted calls for three political assassinations and multiple race-war declarations.[^16]
### Footnotes
[^1]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network." March 25, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
[^2]: ARC Research. "Terrorgram's Propaganda: An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks." https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/terrorgrams-propaganda-an-overview-of-publications-designed-to-incite-accelerationist-terrorism-attacks; GNET. "Analysing Terrorgram Publications." September 12, 2022. https://gnet-research.org/2022/09/12/analysing-terrorgram-publications-a-new-digital-zine/
[^3]: ARC Research. "Terrorgram's First Saint: Analyzing Accelerationist Terrorism in Bratislava." 2023. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6193e52959704a0c3b5b4b0c/t/6421ecf5721fc579c2799737/1679944949837/ARC_Terrorgrams+First+Saint_Bratislava.pdf; ADL. "Terrorgram Collective: International Terrorists Promoting Violence and White Supremacy." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/terrorgram-collective-international-terrorists-promoting-violence-and-white
[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; DOJ OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; CourtListener. United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69144957/united-states-v-humber/
[^5]: U.S. Department of State. "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders." January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/; Federal Register. 90 FR 3987, January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/
[^6]: Posts from Underground. "'Don't let them find you': The U.S. Comes for Terrorgram." 2025. https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/the-choice-is-yours-white-man-th/
[^7]: RSIS. "Bratislava Shooting: The Making of Terrorgram's First Saint." https://rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/bratislava-shooting-the-making-of-terrorgrams-first-saint/; ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava murders, neo-Nazi online hate." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate
[^8]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "After Downfall, Terrorgram Still Inspires Violence." April 18, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline; DOJ OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Attempting to Destroy an Energy Facility in Nashville." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-attempting-destroy-energy
[^9]: ARC Research. "The Three Phases of Terrorgram." https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/the-three-phases-of-terrorgram; Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
[^10]: Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study; ADL. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/feuerkrieg-division-fkd
[^11]: UK Home Secretary. Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024, S.I. 2024/569. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348260656/pdfs/ukdsiem_9780348260656_en_001.pdf; Australia. Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation, Terrorgram) Regulations 2025, F2025L00762. https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2025L00762/asmade; Government of Canada. "Government of Canada Lists Four New Terrorist Entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html; Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 159, No. 26. SOR/2025-263. December 17, 2025. https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2025/2025-12-17/html/sor-dors263-eng.html
[^12]: ISD Global. "Dismantling Digital Terror: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Terrorgram." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/dismantling-digital-terror-lessons-learned-from-the-collapse-of-terrorgram/
[^13]: Europol, European Counter Terrorism Centre. "'Terrorgram' network dealt another blow as member sentenced in Denmark." May 1, 2026. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/terrorgram-network-dealt-another-blow-member-sentenced-in-denmark; The Local (Denmark). "Denmark jails man and revokes citizenship for promoting terror on social media." April 21, 2026. https://www.thelocal.dk/20260421/denmark-jails-man-and-revokes-citizenship-for-promoting-terror-on-social-media
[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Pleads Guilty." August 8, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-pleads-guilty-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder
[^15]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/
[^16]: ISD Global. "Neo-Nazi accelerationists seek new digital refuge amid looming Telegram crackdown." September 2024. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/neo-nazi-accelerationists-seek-new-digital-refuge-amid-looming-telegram-crackdown/; Counter Extremism Project. "Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Telegram Channels Identify Need for Alternative Platform After State Department's Terrorgram Collective Designation." 2025. https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-white-supremacist-telegram-channels-identify-need-alternative

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- TheBase
- NeoNazi
- Paramilitary
- Accelerationism
- FederalCase
- USA
- Russia
- TerroristDesignation
start: 2018
location: "United States (founded); internationally active"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, designated a terrorist organization by Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU, whose members received over 100 combined years of prison sentences before the group rebuilt as an internationally operating cell network by 2025."
---
[[The Base]] was a paramilitary white supremacist network founded in 2018 by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]], an American operating from [[Russia]] under the alias "Norman Spear." Nazzaro had previously worked in U.S. national security contracting before establishing The Base as a clandestine international organization explicitly modeled on jihadist cell structures, oriented toward eventually attacking U.S. society and precipitating a race war. The network used encrypted online platforms to vet potential members, required in-person meetings and weapons training as part of membership, and maintained chapters across multiple U.S. states and in several foreign countries. A wave of federal arrests beginning in January 2020 effectively dismantled The Base's operational capacity, though several members subsequently appeared in other accelerationist networks.[^1]
### Structure and Recruitment
Nazzaro designed The Base to function as a disciplined clandestine cell network rather than the more diffuse online-to-offline structure of [[Atomwaffen Division]], its rough contemporary. Prospective members underwent encrypted vetting interviews, in which Nazzaro or senior members assessed their ideological commitment and willingness to commit violence. Members who passed vetting were expected to attend in-person training events (called "hate camps" by the FBI and prosecutors) where they practiced firearms and survival techniques.
The network maintained a presence in the [[Pacific Northwest]], [[Mid-Atlantic]] states, [[Georgia]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Michigan]], and internationally. Nazzaro identified himself as directing operations from Russia and explicitly framed the network's goal as preparing for an inevitable race war that Base members would help trigger and survive.[^2]
### Federal Prosecutions: Complete Record
The FBI's 2020 arrest campaign against The Base produced prosecutions in at least four federal districts, plus state-level charges in Georgia. Combined sentences across known cases exceed 100 years of imprisonment.
District of Maryland (8:20-cr-00033-TDC): The core federal case involved [[Patrik Jordan Mathews]], a former [[Canadian Armed Forces]] Reserve combat engineer who had illegally entered the United States after fleeing Canadian authorities, and [[Brian Mark Lemley Jr.]], a U.S. Army veteran. Both were arrested January 16, 2020, four days before a planned [[Virginia Citizens Defense League]] (VCDL) Lobby Day gun rally in [[Richmond, Virginia]], where they had discussed carrying out mass violence. Prosecutors applied a terrorism enhancement at sentencing, the first such application in a white supremacist case in the District of Maryland. [[U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang]] sentenced both defendants to nine years in federal prison on October 28, 2021, followed by three years supervised release. Lemley's charges included illegally transporting a firearm; Mathews's charges included being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm.[^3]
[[William Garfield Bilbrough IV]], 20, of Denton, Maryland, pleaded guilty in December 2020 to conspiring to transport and harbor Mathews after illegally entering the United States. Bilbrough had driven from Maryland to southern Michigan on August 30, 2019, to retrieve Mathews and transport him east. Judge Chuang sentenced Bilbrough to five years in federal prison.[^4]
Georgia (Floyd County Superior Court): Three Base members were arrested January 17, 2020, on state conspiracy-to-murder charges. They had plotted to kill a [[Bartow County]] couple they believed were members of a local antifascist group. [[Luke Austin Lane]], 23, [[Jacob Kaderli]], 21, and [[Michael Helterbrand]], 27, all pleaded guilty in November 2021 before [[Floyd County]] Superior Court Judge [[John Niedrach]]. Lane received six years; Kaderli received thirteen years; Helterbrand received twenty years.[^5]
[[New Jersey]] / Eastern District of Wisconsin: [[Richard Tobin]] of Paulsboro, New Jersey, organized "[[Operation Kristallnacht (The Base)|Operation Kristallnacht]]" through Base channels in September 2019, directing members to vandalize synagogues across the country. [[Yousef O. Barasneh]], 22, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti and The Base's symbol on Beth Israel Sinai Congregation in Racine, Wisconsin, on September 21, 2019, pursuant to the coordinated campaign. Barasneh pleaded guilty August 12, 2020, to conspiring to violate citizens' rights under 18 U.S.C. § 241 in the Eastern District of Wisconsin (case 2:20-cr-00026) and received two months probation. Tobin pleaded guilty federally and was sentenced on November 16, 2021, to one year and one day in prison plus three years supervised release for conspiracy against rights.[^6]
[[Ryan Burchfield]], a U.S. Marine Corps dropout and Base member, traveled to [[Ukraine]] and was deported in 2022 for alleged far-right terrorist activities there. He was not prosecuted in the United States.[^7]
### Nazzaro and Russian Operations
Nazzaro's identity as the founder remained disputed until 2020, when investigative reporting by The Guardian and other outlets confirmed he was Rinaldo Nazzaro, a U.S. citizen with a history in national security and intelligence contracting. His continued operation of a U.S.-targeted white supremacist network from [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] drew attention from counterterrorism researchers who noted the parallels to Russian-origin influence operations, though no direct link to Russian state direction has been publicly established. Nazzaro has not been charged in the United States as of 2026.[^2]
### International Designations
Canada designated The Base as a listed terrorist entity under the Criminal Code through Order in Council P.C. 2021-31, dated February 2, 2021, published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, Volume 155, Number 2 (February 3, 2021). The designation was made alongside [[Atomwaffen Division]], the [[Proud Boys]], and the [[Russian Imperial Movement]].[^8]
The [[United Kingdom]] proscribed The Base under The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021 (Statutory Instrument 2021 No. 1318). The order was debated in the House of Lords on July 15, 2021. The Home Secretary's proscription statement described The Base as "concerned in terrorism" and noted its connections to [[Atomwaffen Division]] and its accelerationist ideology.[^9]
[[Australia]] announced The Base's listing as a terrorist organization on November 24, 2021, through [[Home Affairs Minister]] [[Karen Andrews]]. It was the second far-right designation in Australia after [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (August 2021).[^10]
[[New Zealand]] designated The Base and the [[Proud Boys]] as terrorist organizations in June 2022.[^11]
The [[European Union]] designated The Base on July 26, 2024, through Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055 and Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056, under the EU's CP 931 terrorism sanctions framework. It was the first time the EU had ever designated a far-right group as a terrorist organization.[^12]
The [[United States]] has not designated The Base under any federal terrorism statute. As a U.S.-founded domestic organization, The Base is ineligible for designation as a [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, which applies only to groups designated as foreign by the Secretary of State. The [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) has made no SDN listing for The Base or Rinaldo Nazzaro as of 2026.[^13]
### Congressional Scrutiny
The House Subcommittee on Military Personnel held a hearing titled "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" on February 11, 2020 (116th Congress, CHRG-116hhrg42962), with Subcommittee Chairwoman [[Jackie Speier]] (D-CA) presiding. Speier described The Base as seeking "to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States." Witnesses [[Heidi Beirich]] (SPLC) and [[Mark Pitcavage]] (ADL) testified about the group. Beirich noted that twenty percent of The Base's prospective recruits in recorded vetting interviews had described themselves as active-duty military or military veterans, and noted leadership was based in Russia.[^14]
### 2024-2026 Resurgence and European Operations
Following the collapse of The Base's U.S. operational capacity in 2020-2021, Nazzaro began rebuilding international cells. By November 2023, the group was assessed as operating in at least 18 countries.
Netherlands: On August 20, 2024, Dutch police arrested three individuals (aged 16, 18, and 26, from Westerhoven, Veenendaal, and Hengelo) on charges of incitement to terrorism and membership in The Base. The [[Openbaar Ministerie]] (Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office) announced prosecution demands on March 3, 2025. The OM sought conditional prison sentences and community service for the adult defendants, and a conditional sentence plus community service for the juvenile.[^15]
Italy: In September 2024, two individuals were arrested in Italy on charges including Base membership, incitement to violence, and extorting minors for [[child sexual abuse material]].[^16]
Spain: On November 25, 2025, the [[Spanish National Police]] General Commissariat of Information, supported by [[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]], arrested three suspected Base members in [[Madrid]] and [[Valencia]] during a three-day operation involving five house searches. Firearms, bladed weapons, ammunition, military tactical gear, and neo-Nazi propaganda were seized. Investigators stated the Spanish cell was in direct contact with Nazzaro.[^17]
### White Phoenix: Ukraine Cell
The Base established a Ukrainian-operating cell called [[White Phoenix]] by at least early 2025. The cell posted videos in late March 2025 showing members spray-painting The Base symbol in Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv. In April 2025, Nazzaro announced via Telegram that cash payments were available for attacks on Ukrainian power plants, military and police vehicles, government buildings, and officials. It was the first time The Base had explicitly aligned itself with Russian military objectives.
On July 10, 2025, White Phoenix claimed responsibility for the killing of [[SBU]] Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv (see [[2025 Kyiv SBU Assassination]]). Voronych was shot multiple times with a silenced pistol and died at the scene; he was the highest-ranking SBU officer killed in a targeted Kyiv assassination since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. The SBU subsequently announced it had killed two alleged Russian [[FSB]]-directed operatives implicated in the murder. Whether White Phoenix directed or conducted the killing, or whether the claim was opportunistic, remained contested; counterterrorism sources told the Kyiv Independent the claim was credible, but the SBU did not confirm Base involvement.[^18]
In February 2026, The Base's Ukrainian branch claimed a car bombing in Odesa targeting an officer described as assisting Russia.
### FBI Investigation and 2024 Resurgence
[[Christopher Tarrant]], a supervisory special agent in the FBI's Detroit domestic terrorism unit, confirmed in 2022 that an active FBI investigation into Nazzaro was underway. The [[Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center]] (MCAC), a DHS-affiliated fusion center, noted in an April 2025 advisory that the FBI's reallocation of resources away from domestic terrorism had contributed to The Base's operational resurgence in 2024-2025.[^19]
### Footnotes
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. Multiple press releases, January--December 2020, covering Georgia, Maryland, and New Jersey Base prosecutions. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-alleged-members-white-supremacist-group-charged-conspiracy-murder
[^2]: The Guardian. "Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group." January 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/revealed-the-true-identity-of-the-leader-of-an-american-neo-nazi-terror-group
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, District of Maryland, "Two Members of the Violent Extremist Group 'The Base' Each Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison," October 28, 2021. Case 8:20-cr-00033-TDC (D. Md.). https://www.atf.gov/news/press-releases/two-members-violent-extremist-group-%E2%80%9C-base%E2%80%9D-each-sentenced-nine-years-federal-prison; CBC News, "U.S. judge sentences Manitoban ex-reservist Patrik Mathews to 9 years in prison," October 28, 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patrik-mathews-sentencing-1.6226116
[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, District of Maryland, "Member of 'The Base' Pleads Guilty in Maryland." Case 8:20-cr-00033-TDC (D. Md.). https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/member-violent-extremist-group-base-pleads-guilty-maryland-federal-charges-transporting; CBC News, "Man accused of harbouring Manitoba reservist linked to white supremacist group gets 5 years," December 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/william-bilbrough-the-base-sentencing-1.5833750
[^5]: Vice News, "Neo-Nazis Who Plotted to Kill Antifa Activist Sentenced to Prison," 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazis-who-plotted-to-kill-antifa-activist-sentenced-to-prison/; Northwest Georgia News, "Man pleads guilty to white supremacist group plot to kill Bartow County couple," November 2021.
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of Wisconsin, "Oak Creek Man Who Vandalized Racine Synagogue Pleads Guilty," August 2020. Case 2:20-cr-00026 (E.D. Wis.). https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/oak-creek-man-who-vandalized-racine-synagogue-pleads-guilty; Daily Voice, "NJ Neo-Nazi Gets Year, Day For Masterminding Nationwide 'Kristallnacht' Attack," November 2021.
[^7]: Wilson, Jason. "He Founded an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group. But Will Rinaldo Nazzaro Ever Face US Justice?" *VICE News*, October 2022. https://www.vice.com/en/article/american-terror-rinaldo-nazzaro/
[^8]: Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 155, No. 2, SOR/2021-8, February 3, 2021. https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2021/2021-02-03-x2/html/sor-dors8-eng.html
[^9]: UK Parliament, Hansard, House of Lords, "Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021," July 15, 2021. SI 2021 No. 1318. https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-07-15/debates/69D5AEF9-060F-4315-B0E5-FE694C2EDF9B/TerrorismAct2000(ProscribedOrganisations)(Amendment)(No2)Order2021
[^10]: Washington Post, "The Base, Hezbollah get terrorist designation in Australia," November 23, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-base-hezbollah-get-terrorist-designation-in-australia/2021/11/23/62c015dc-4ce2-11ec-a7b8-9ed28bf23929_story.html
[^11]: Al Jazeera, "New Zealand designates Proud Boys, The Base as 'terrorist' groups," June 30, 2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/30/new-zealand-designates-proud-boys-the-base-as-terrorist-groups
[^12]: Council of the EU, "Sanctions against terrorism: Council renews the EU Terrorist List and designates a new entity," July 26, 2024. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055, Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/07/26/sanctions-against-terrorism-council-renews-the-eu-terrorist-list-and-designates-a-new-entity/
[^13]: Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Combat white supremacist violence using sanctions," May 30, 2022. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/05/30/combat-white-supremacist-violence-sanctions/
[^14]: U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee on Military Personnel, "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" February 11, 2020. 116th Congress. CHRG-116hhrg42962. https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/LC66984/text
[^15]: Openbaar Ministerie, "OM eist voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraffen en werkstraffen voor aanzetten terrorisme en deelname aan The Base," March 3, 2025. https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/03/03/om-eist-voorwaardelijke-gevangenisstraffen-en-werkstraffen-voor-aanzetten-terrorisme-en-deelname-aan-the-base
[^16]: Counter Extremism Project, "EU Arrests Members of Newly-Designated Terrorist Group The Base," 2024. https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/counterpoint-brief-eu-arrests-members-newly-designated-terrorist-group-base
[^17]: OCCRP, "Spain, With Europol Support, Disrupts Far-Right Terrorist Group 'The Base,'" November 2025. https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-with-europol-support-disrupts-far-right-terrorist-group-the-base
[^18]: Kyiv Independent, "US-founded extremist group claims killing of SBU Colonel in Kyiv," July 2025. https://kyivindependent.com/us-founded-extremist-group-claims-killing-of-sbu-colonel-in-kyiv/
[^19]: Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), "US Neo-Nazi Group with Russia-Based Leader Calls for Targeted Ukraine Attacks," April 2025. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2025/04/us-neo-nazi-group-with-russia-based-leader-calls-for-targeted-ukraine-attacks/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- NVE
- NihilisticViolentExtremism
- ChildExploitation
- Accelerationism
- CybercriminalNetwork
- Online
- Transnational
start: 2019
location: "Online (global)"
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "The Com is a transnational online criminal ecosystem spanning three overlapping spheres (cybercrime, child exploitation, and offline violence), with 764 as its dominant sextortion subnetwork and hundreds of active FBI investigations across all U.S. field offices as of 2025."
---
[[The Com]] (short for "the Community," sometimes spelled "the Comm") is a transnational online criminal ecosystem rather than a single organization. The [[Canadian Anti-Hate Network]]'s 2025 report defines it as "an interconnected series of chat servers, websites, and people that come together to boast and collaborate on their illegal actions." Membership and victimization both trend toward younger ages - participants and their victims can be children - and The Com explicitly recruits through gaming platforms, social media, and encrypted messaging applications. The [[FBI]] classified [[764 Network|764]] as a "Tier One" terrorist threat with investigations in every U.S. field office and estimated more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and related networks as of April 2026.[^1]
### The Three Pillars
Researcher [[Marc-Andre Argentino]] of the Accelerationist Research Consortium provides the most analytically precise framework, describing The Com as three overlapping criminal spheres:
#### Cyber Com
Encompasses hacking, ransomware, SIM swapping, doxxing, swatting, and cryptocurrency theft. [[Scattered Spider]] is the best-known Cyber Com group, with documented connections to the broader ecosystem. Law enforcement intelligence documents obtained by CyberScoop confirm The Com uses SIM-swapping and IP-grabbing tools borrowed from the Cyber Com sphere to locate, identify, and harm victims across all platforms.
#### Sextortion Com
The sphere in which [[764 Network|764]] and its splinter groups operate: sextortion, grooming, coercion of minors into producing [[CSAM]] (child sexual abuse material), and psychological manipulation designed to compel self-harm and real-world violence. 764 is the dominant network within this sphere but operates alongside dozens of variously named subgroups with overlapping membership.
#### Offline Com
Involves incitement to and glorification of real-world violence, ranging from vandalism and arson to livestreamed murder and mass casualty attacks. [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) is the most documented Offline Com organization. The boundary between Sextortion Com and Offline Com is porous: 764 cases frequently involve coercion to commit self-harm on camera, and an escalating share of documented cases involve operational planning for real-world attacks.[^2]
### Named Subgroups
The Com contains dozens of named subgroups, many of them short-lived rebrands or sub-servers operating under rotating aliases. The most documented include:
[[764 Network]] and its direct offshoots: 764 was founded approximately 2020 by [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead|Bradley Cadenhead]] in Stephenville, Texas (its numeric name derives from that city's ZIP codes 76401/76402). After Cadenhead's arrest and sentencing to 80 years in 2023, the network fragmented into overlapping successor groups. [[764 Inferno]], led by [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] from Thessaloniki, Greece and North Carolina respectively, continued coercing minors until both were arrested and charged in April 2025.
[[Harm Nation]] was one of the primary 764 splinters emerging from the 2022 disruption of original 764 leadership. [[Kyle Spitze]] ("Criminal"), a Harm Nation member, pleaded guilty to production and possession of CSAM and distribution of animal crushing videos.
[[Kaskar]] was founded by a figure called "Courtbox" and has overlapping membership with 764 from inception. It is characterized by extreme psychological manipulation targeting victims aged 9 to 17.
[[Court]], [[Leak Society]], and [[H3ll]] emerged from the same 2022 fragmentation. Leak Society is documented by [[ISD Global|ISD]] as one of the largest subgroups within the network, primarily focused on distribution of leaked CSAM.
[[8884]], whose numeric name references a member alias, was led by [[Alexis Aldair Chavez]] (19, San Antonio, Texas), who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to RICO charges and child exploitation counts. Chavez's specific crimes included coercing minors to self-harm live on video.
Additional numerically named subgroups documented by the ADL include 6996, 7997, 676, Slit Town, 545, 404, NMK, 303, SR1, XVN, 2992, 555, and CVLTIST - most operating as sub-servers or short-lived rebrands within the larger ecosystem.
[[CVLT]] was the most significant precursor group, founded approximately 2019 by [[Rohan Rane]] (later charged in the United States) and operating until approximately 2021. The even earlier [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the "Cult of Greg") operated January 2020 through January 2021, used nearly identical CSAM coercion methods, and overlapped in membership with the individuals who built 764. NCITE tracked 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes across 764, CVLT, and Greggy's Cult by December 2025.
[[No Lives Matter]] (NLM) is a particularly violent splinter documented by Wired as operating within and adjacent to The Com. It was founded approximately 2023 by [[Justin B.]] (known by the handle "CXRPSE"), a Dutch national from Eindhoven, Netherlands. NLM has been linked to violent incidents in Europe and South America, including stabbing sprees in Sweden. Justin B. was arrested in the Netherlands in July 2025 on terrorism charges; his first Dutch court hearing was October 28, 2025.
[[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) bridges The Com and the broader neo-Nazi accelerationist ecosystem. It was founded in Dnipro, Ukraine, approximately 2017-2018, and is ideologically rooted in neo-Nazi accelerationism and theistic Satanism rather than pure nihilism. It is treated in greater detail in its own entry.[^3]
### Platforms and Recruitment
Primary recruitment and operation platforms documented across law enforcement and research sources include [[Discord]] (primary recruitment, especially of younger targets via gaming servers), [[Telegram]] (propaganda distribution, recruitment, and operational communication for the broader Com), [[Roblox]] and [[Minecraft]] (reaching younger potential victims), [[Instagram]] and [[Facebook]] (initial contact with targets), [[Bluesky]] (emerging activity as of ADL's 2025 reporting), and [[Wire]] and [[Matrix]] (used specifically by MKY for private encrypted communications distinct from its recruitment channels).
The Com's Cyber Com sphere provides the broader network with cybercriminal tradecraft: SIM swapping to obtain phone access, IP grabbing to identify victim locations, and doxxing and swatting as harassment and intimidation tools. FBI and law enforcement intelligence documents confirm this crossover is being investigated as a unified threat rather than separate phenomena.[^4]
### Law Enforcement Response and Designations
The [[FBI]] classified 764 as a Tier One/Category 1 terrorist threat, its highest threat designation, with investigations in all field offices. Over 250 active investigations were reported in May 2025, over 300 in December 2025, and over 350 by April 2026.
The most significant U.S. prosecutions:
- [[Baron Cain Martin|Baron Martin]] (Tucson, Arizona): Indicted April 2026 on 29 counts including the first-ever federal terrorism charge under the material support statute against a 764 member. Trial scheduled June 2026.
- [[Alexis Aldair Chavez]]: RICO and child exploitation guilty plea, December 2025.
- [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]]: Charged April 2025 for leading 764 Inferno; both face life in prison.
- [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] (MKY leader): Sentenced 15 years federal prison, May 2026.
Canada designated 764, MKY, and [[Terrorgram Collective]] as terrorist entities on December 10, 2025. The UK designated MKY as a proscribed terrorist organization on July 2, 2025. The [[RCMP]] arrested [[Jeffrey Roussel]] of Quebec City in April 2026 on terrorism charges for promoting 764 ideology and recruiting teenagers via Telegram - among the first prosecutions under Canada's designation.
The Netherlands arrested the No Lives Matter founder on terrorism charges in July 2025. Romania convicted the MKY-affiliated "Tobbz" to 14 years in August 2023. Sweden recorded at least six attacks recorded and promoted on Telegram by a 14-year-old known as "Slain764" before that individual's arrest in September 2024.[^5]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Com/764: Transnational Abuse, Extortion, and Cybercrime Networks Targeting Youth." August 5, 2025. https://www.antihate.ca/com_764_transnational_abuse_networks_report
[^2]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "The Pillars of the Com Network." https://www.maargentino.com/the-pillars-of-the-com-network/; Argentino. "Understanding the Relationship Between 764 And The Com." https://www.maargentino.com/understanding-the-relationship-between-764-and-the-com-network/
[^3]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization." https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/; ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764; ISD. "Networks of Harm: A Victim-Centric Resource on the 764 Network." https://www.isdglobal.org/publication/networks-of-harm-a-victim-centric-information-resource-on-the-764-sextortion-network-2/
[^4]: CyberScoop. "Feds are probing 764, The Com's use of cybercriminal tactics." https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-cybercrime-violent-crime-fbi-intellignce-report/
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise; Government of Canada. "Government of Canada Lists Four New Terrorist Entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- Telegram
- UnitedStates
start: 2019
location: "Online (United States-based)"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Vorherrschaft Division is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization documented as an organizational ally of Feuerkrieg Division and InJekt Division within the United Acceleration Front coalition, whose most violent documented member, Timothy Wilson, was killed by the FBI during an arrest attempt in March 2020."
---
Vorherrschaft Division (VSD) is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi accelerationist organization that operates primarily through [[Telegram]], named from the German word for "domination" (as in global racial domination). The group peaked at approximately 200 subscribers on Telegram and is documented as an organizational ally of [[Feuerkrieg Division]] and [[InJekt Division]] within the [[United Acceleration Front]] coalition network. The most serious publicly documented violence connected to a Vorherrschaft Division participant was the 2020 hospital bombing plot by [[Timothy Wilson]], who was killed by the [[FBI]] during an attempted arrest in Belton, Missouri in March 2020.[^1]
### Ideology and Structure
VSD operated in the [[Siege Culture]] tradition, endorsing leaderless resistance and the glorification of mass violence as a catalyst for racial civilizational collapse. The [[ADL]] glossary characterizes it as a white supremacist group that has "embraced Siege culture." It operated without a publicly identified formal leadership structure. Its Telegram channel served as a distribution node for accelerationist propaganda materials. A public alliance between VSD and Feuerkrieg Division was announced on Telegram before FKD's 2020 dissolution; the two groups circulated joint propaganda materials. When FKD re-emerged in May 2021, it continued working with VSD and InJekt Division in building the [[United Acceleration Front]].[^2]
The [[Tracking Terrorism]] (TRAC) interconnectivity analysis documented VSD alongside FKD, InJekt Division, and [[Totenwaffen]] as the four primary nodes in this coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram-adjacent Telegram channels.[^2]
### Timothy Wilson (2020)
[[Timothy Wilson]], 36, of Belton, Missouri, was active in VSD's public Telegram channel under the handle "Werwolfe 84" and was simultaneously active in [[National Socialist Movement]] (NSM) channels. Wilson was the subject of a months-long FBI terrorism investigation that revealed him to be, in the FBI's characterization, "a potentially violent extremist, motivated by racial, religious, and anti-government animus." In his Telegram posts, Wilson expressed admiration for [[The Order]], the 1983-1984 neo-Nazi criminal organization.
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson settled on bombing a hospital in the Belton area, writing on Telegram that he believed the pandemic was being used by the government as "an excuse to destroy our people." FBI agents attempted to arrest Wilson at his residence on March 24, 2020. Wilson opened fire on agents, who returned fire; Wilson was killed at the scene. No bomb device was recovered, but the investigation established operational planning. Because Wilson died during the arrest attempt, no criminal prosecution resulted, and the full scope of his VSD activity was not publicly documented in any court record.[^3]
### Status
The VSD Telegram channel operated at least through 2022. No VSD-specific proscription, formal terrorist designation, or criminal prosecution targeting the organization as an entity has been identified in open sources as of May 2026. Its small subscriber base and the death of its most documented violent member limited its operational significance relative to FKD and InJekt Division, but its documented coalition role in the UAF structure makes it a confirmed node in the AWD-to-Terrorgram organizational pipeline.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Tracking Terrorism (TRAC). Vorherrschaft Division profile. https://trackingterrorism.org/group/vorherrschaft-division-accelerationist/; ADL. "Vorherrschaft Division." Glossary of Extremism and Hate. https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/vorherrschaft-division
[^2]: Tracking Terrorism (TRAC). "Interconnectivity Between Accelerationist Networks: Totenwaffen, Vorherrschaft Division, The InJekt Division, and Feuerkrieg Division." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/interconnectivity-between-accelerationist-networks-totenwaffen-vorherrschaft-division-the-injekt-division-and-feuerkrieg-division/; Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." June 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study
[^3]: Nick R. Martin / The Informant. "Heartland Terror." https://www.informant.news/heartland-terror/; TPM. "Alleged Hospital Bombing Plotter Who Died During Arrest Attempt Was Target of FBI Sting." March 2020. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alleged-hospital-bombing-plotter-who-died-during-arrest-attempt-was-target-of-fbi-sting

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Platform
- NVE
- TrueCrimeCommunity
- RadicalizationPathway
- Online
- GoreContent
created: 2026-05-21
updated: 2026-05-21
summary: "WatchPeopleDie is a fringe gore website documented by the ADL as a gateway to white supremacist radicalization and identified as the entry point in the documented radicalization pathways of both Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson."
---
[[WatchPeopleDie]] is a fringe website hosting user-uploaded footage of violent deaths, including homicides, accidents, executions, and war atrocities. The [[ADL]] documented it in a 2024-2025 investigation as functioning as a gateway platform: users drawn in by gore content are progressively exposed to racist commentary, white supremacist recruitment material, and links to more explicitly extremist platforms and communities. The site operates outside mainstream platform moderation frameworks and has migrated across hosting services following removal actions.[^1]
### Gateway Function
The ADL's investigation "From Gore to Hate: How WatchPeopleDie Serves as a Gateway to Extremism" documented the platform's radicalization pipeline in detail. Content posted alongside violent footage routinely includes racist commentary framing the deaths in terms of white supremacist ideology, particularly footage of violence involving non-white perpetrators or victims. The site's community infrastructure, including comments and user profiles, provides entry points to more organized extremist spaces.
The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) identified WatchPeopleDie as the entry point in [[Natalie Rupnow]]'s documented radicalization pathway, which ran from the platform through 764-affiliated and [[Terrorgram Collective]]-adjacent content to Rupnow's December 16, 2024 attack at [[Abundant Life Christian School]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]].[^2]
### Rupnow and Henderson Connection
[[Natalie Rupnow]] created a WatchPeopleDie account in June 2023. [[Solomon Henderson]], the perpetrator of the January 22, 2025 [[2025 Antioch High School Shooting|Antioch High School shooting]] in Nashville, Tennessee, created his own account in the same month. Both had followed each other on [[X (Twitter)|X]].
PBS Wisconsin documented that the two individuals had crossed paths in WatchPeopleDie and X as the earliest identifiable intersection of their online activity, approximately 18 months before their respective attacks. Nashville Metropolitan Police Department's January 2026 investigation into Henderson found no evidence of direct coordination between the two. The shared platform registration and mutual follow reflect convergent radicalization through the same online ecosystem rather than a coordinated relationship.[^3]
The June 2023 WatchPeopleDie registration date places both individuals in the same stage of early radicalization simultaneously, within a platform that ISD treats as a first-step entry point rather than a terminal extremist community. Both moved from WatchPeopleDie into more explicitly ideological online spaces over the following months before their respective attacks.
### Footnotes
[^1]: ADL. "From Gore to Hate: How WatchPeopleDie Serves as a Gateway to Extremism." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/gore-hate-how-watchpeopledie-serves-gateway-extremism
[^2]: ISD. "Terror without ideology: The rise of nihilistic violence." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/terror-without-ideology-the-rise-of-nihilistic-violence-an-isd-investigation/
[^3]: PBS Wisconsin. "Madison and Nashville school shooters appear to have crossed paths in online extremist communities." https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/madison-and-nashville-school-shooters-appear-to-have-crossed-paths-in-online-extremist-communities/; Raw Story. "Horrifying website revealed as gateway that linked school shooters." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/watchpeopledie-teen-school-shooters-both-used-gateway-gore-site-new-report-warns/

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- TheBase
- NeoNazi
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Accelerationism
- TerrorismCell
summary: "White Phoenix is the Ukrainian operational cell of The Base neo-Nazi network that claimed responsibility for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv in July 2025 and has conducted graffiti operations and offered cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure aligned with Russian military objectives."
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
start: 2025
location: "Ukraine"
---
White Phoenix is the designated Ukrainian operational cell of [[The Base]], the neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded and directed by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] from [[St. Petersburg, Russia]]. The cell became publicly active in early 2025 and conducted operations that counterterrorism analysts described as the first instance of The Base openly aligning its activities with Russian geopolitical and military objectives.[^1]
### Emergence and Graffiti Operations
In late March 2025, videos surfaced on Base-affiliated Telegram channels showing individuals spray-painting The Base's symbol and insignia in multiple Ukrainian cities, including [[Kyiv]], [[Odesa]], [[Mykolaiv]], and [[Kharkiv]]. The videos were accompanied by material attributing the activity to members within Ukraine operating under the White Phoenix name. [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) researcher [[Steven Rai]] noted that The Base's use of bot-amplified accounts on [[VKontakte]] to publicize the activities raised questions about state support.[^2]
### Bounty Offers and Ukraine Targeting
In April and June 2025, Nazzaro posted via Telegram offers of cash payments to volunteers for attacks on Ukrainian power stations, military and police vehicles, government buildings, and political officials in Kyiv and other cities. The materials explicitly proposed the creation of a "white nationalist enclave" in the [[Zakarpattia]] region of western Ukraine. [[Colin Clarke]], Director of Research at the [[Soufan Center]], described the targeting package as one that "could very well be a Russian intelligence operation" given Nazzaro's Russian sanctuary, citizenship, and the group's shift to Russian-owned digital platforms.[^3]
### Voronych Killing
On July 10, 2025, White Phoenix claimed responsibility for the killing of [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] in the [[Holosiivskyi]] district of Kyiv. An unidentified assailant approached Voronych and fired five aimed shots from a silenced pistol; Voronych sustained multiple penetrating gunshot wounds and died at the scene. He was the highest-ranking SBU officer killed in a targeted assassination in Kyiv since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
White Phoenix's Telegram claim described the killing as a "carefully planned" operation carried out by its "activists" as a "warning to the regime" of President [[Volodymyr Zelensky]].
The SBU subsequently announced that it had killed two Russian operatives, a man and a woman, whom it said had been directed by Russia's [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) to surveil Voronych and had been led to a pre-positioned weapons cache containing the silenced firearm. The SBU attributed the killing to Russian state direction. Whether White Phoenix served as a FSB cutout, conducted the killing independently, or made a false attribution claim has not been confirmed. Counterterrorism sources quoted by the [[Kyiv Independent]] described the White Phoenix claim as credible; the SBU did not publicly confirm The Base's involvement.[^4]
### Odesa Car Bombing Claim
In February 2026, The Base's Ukrainian branch claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Odesa, stating the target was a border service officer described by the cell as assisting Russia. No independent confirmation of the claim was available as of the research date.[^5]
### Assessment
The White Phoenix cell represents a qualitative shift in The Base's operations: from preparing members in the United States for a future race war to conducting or claiming actual targeted killings in a live conflict zone on behalf of objectives that align with Russian military strategy. The combination of Russian operational direction of the Voronych killing (per SBU) and White Phoenix's claim of credit for the same killing is consistent with either a Russian intelligence cutout arrangement or a coincident opportunistic claim. Neither the U.S. government nor any allied government has publicly attributed White Phoenix's activities to Russian state direction as of 2026.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Prism News, "American Neo-Nazi Leader in Russia Linked to Resurgent Terror Network Across Europe," 2025. https://www.prismnews.com/news/american-neo-nazi-leader-in-russia-linked-to-resurgent
[^2]: Euromaidanpress, "US neo-Nazi leader based in Russia offers payment for attacks on Ukrainian officials," June 4, 2025. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/06/us-neo-nazi-leader-based-in-russia-offers-payment-for-attacks-on-ukrainian-officials/
[^3]: Euromaidanpress, "US neo-Nazi leader based in Russia offers payment for attacks on Ukrainian officials," June 4, 2025. Quoting Colin Clarke, Soufan Center. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/06/us-neo-nazi-leader-based-in-russia-offers-payment-for-attacks-on-ukrainian-officials/
[^4]: Kyiv Independent, "US-founded extremist group claims killing of SBU Colonel in Kyiv," July 2025. https://kyivindependent.com/us-founded-extremist-group-claims-killing-of-sbu-colonel-in-kyiv/; CBS News, "Ukrainian spy agency officer shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-spy-agency-officer-killed-kyiv-reports-ivan-voronych/; CNN, "Ukraine says it killed Russian agents suspected of assassinating intelligence officer," July 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/europe/ukraine-russia-sbu-assassination-intl
[^5]: Prism News, "American Neo-Nazi Leader in Russia Linked to Resurgent Terror Network Across Europe," 2025. https://www.prismnews.com/news/american-neo-nazi-leader-in-russia-linked-to-resurgent

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category: "Organizations"
tags:
- Organization
- AtomwaffenDivision
- NeoNazi
- Accelerationism
- SiegeCulture
- USA
summary: "The White Prison Newsletter is a neo-Nazi accelerationist publication co-organized by Brandon Russell from federal prison, targeting incarcerated persons and endorsed by Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Gregory Bowers."
start: ~2019
location: "United States"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
---
The White Prison Newsletter is a neo-Nazi accelerationist publication organized by [[Brandon Russell]] and other former [[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD) members during Russell's incarceration following his 2018 federal explosives conviction. The newsletter was distributed to incarcerated individuals and promoted AWD-style [[Siege Culture|Siege]] ideology and accelerationism among prison populations.
The newsletter's [[Telegram]] channel listed Russell as a key contributor. [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] is also reported to have contributed at least one opinion piece to the publication. [[Robert Gregory Bowers]], convicted of murdering 11 people at the [[Tree of Life Synagogue]] in [[Pittsburgh]] on October 27, 2018, publicly endorsed the newsletter.
The newsletter represents one documented example of AWD's capacity to sustain ideological production and recruitment during periods when its leadership was incarcerated. Russell and Clendaniel's co-authorship of content for the same publication during their separate incarcerations was one dimension of the relationship they developed through prison correspondence beginning in approximately 2018, a relationship that later produced the [[2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy]].
No criminal charges related specifically to the newsletter's production or distribution had been filed as of mid-2026.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Vice. "Inside the Neo-Nazi Prison Magazine Radicalizing Americans in Their Cells." https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order