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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - NeoNazi
+  - WhiteNationalism
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - GreatReplacementTheory
+  - AntiBlack
+  - SouthCarolina
+  - USA
+  - MassShooter
+date: 2015-06-17
+location: "Charleston, South Carolina"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, received federal and state death sentences, and became the founding saint reference explicitly cited by Brenton Tarrant in his Christchurch manifesto."
+---
+
+On June 17, 2015, [[Dylann Roof]] (21) entered [[Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]] and joined the mid-week Bible study group, sitting with them for approximately an hour before opening fire. He killed nine people, all Black parishioners. He allowed some individuals to survive explicitly so they could report what had happened. He fled and was arrested the following morning in [[Shelby, North Carolina]], after a passing motorist recognized him from surveillance footage and called police. Roof stated that his goal was to start a race war. He was subsequently convicted on 33 federal counts and nine state murder counts, and was sentenced to death in both proceedings. [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s 2019 Christchurch manifesto explicitly cited Roof as a proof of concept, making the Charleston attack the opening event in the documented accelerationist succession extending through Tarrant to [[Payton Gendron]], [[Juraj Krajčík]], [[Nikita Casap]], and [[Cain Clark]].[^1]
+
+### The Attack
+
+Roof arrived at Emanuel AME Church, one of the oldest and most historically prominent Black churches in the American South, during Wednesday evening Bible study. He sat with the group for roughly an hour. He then opened fire on the worshippers.
+
+The nine people killed were the church's senior pastor and South Carolina state senator [[Clementa C. Pinckney]], [[Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd]], [[Susie Jackson]], [[Ethel Lee Lance]], [[Depayne Middleton Doctor]], [[Tywanza Sanders]], [[Daniel Simmons]], [[Sharonda Coleman-Singleton]], and [[Myra Thompson]].
+
+After the attack Roof drove out of state. A motorist in Shelby, North Carolina recognized him from surveillance footage broadcast in the immediate aftermath and called police. He was arrested the following morning without resistance.[^1]
+
+### Radicalization
+
+Roof described his radicalization in a manifesto he posted online before the attack. He stated he had been drawn into white nationalist ideology by reading [[Council of Conservative Citizens]] material online, particularly distorted and fabricated statistics about interracial crime. He wrote that he had decided that someone needed to take action, that no existing organized movement would, and that therefore he would do so alone.
+
+His manifesto cited white South Africa as an aspirational model and framed the attack explicitly as a provocation: a high-profile act of racial violence intended to trigger a white nationalist response and accelerate the collapse of multiracial American society. Roof had no prior criminal record and no documented connection to any organized white nationalist group before the attack.[^2]
+
+### Legal Outcomes
+
+A federal jury convicted Roof on all 33 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death, obstruction of religion resulting in death, and use of a firearm to commit a violent crime. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel sentenced him to death in January 2017. Roof waived counsel for part of the federal proceedings and continued to reject the legitimacy of the charges.
+
+South Carolina state court convicted Roof on nine counts of murder and sentenced him to death on each count.
+
+### Accelerationist Succession
+
+Tarrant's March 2019 Christchurch manifesto argued that Roof's attack had demonstrated that a single individual could shift political conditions through targeted racial violence. Tarrant cited Roof as a precedent and inspiration, retroactively incorporating the Charleston attack into the "saint" framework. The Christchurch attack in turn inspired Gendron (Buffalo, 2022), whose attack was named by Krajčík as his "final nudge" (Bratislava, 2022). The chain continues through Casap (Wisconsin, 2025) and Clark (San Diego, 2026), all of whom cited Tarrant's manifesto as foundational.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Jury Convicts Dylann Roof on All Counts in the Federal Hate Crimes Trial for the Emanuel AME Church Shooting." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-dylann-roof-all-counts-federal-hate-crimes-trial-emanuel-ame-church-shooting
+[^2]: Mother Jones. "Dylann Roof's Manifesto." December 2015. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/dylann-roof-manifesto/
+[^3]: ICCT. "Christchurch Attacks and the Role of Online Propaganda." https://icct.nl/publication/christchurch-attacks-and-the-role-of-online-propaganda/

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - RussianImperialMovement
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Paramilitary
+  - Terrorism
+  - Sweden
+  - Partizan
+  - NordicResistanceMovement
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+start: 2017-01-01
+location: "Gothenburg, Sweden"
+summary: "A series of neo-Nazi bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2017, carried out by two Nordic Resistance Movement members who had received explosives training at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan camp in St. Petersburg, providing the factual basis for the U.S. State Department's 2020 white supremacist terrorist designation of RIM."
+---
+
+Three bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden in January and February 2017 were carried out by members of the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] who had received paramilitary and explosives training at the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]'s [[Partizan]] training camp in [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]], in August 2016. The attacks targeted a refugee shelter, an asylum seeker facility, and a left-wing cafe. Swedish courts convicted three defendants in July 2017. The case subsequently became the primary factual predicate for the [[U.S. Department of State]]'s April 7, 2020, designation of the Russian Imperial Movement as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] entity, the first such designation of a white supremacist organization in U.S. history.[^1]
+
+### Partizan Training (August 2016)
+
+In August 2016, [[Viktor Melin]] (approximately 23 years old) and [[Anton Thulin]] (approximately 20 years old), both members of the Nordic Resistance Movement's Gothenburg cell, traveled to St. Petersburg and attended the Partizan paramilitary training course run by RIM's [[Imperial Legion]] commander [[Denis Gariev]]. The training curriculum covered firearms handling, explosives manufacture and use, close-quarters combat, medical skills, and small-unit tactics. Former Russian military personnel served as instructors.
+
+Swedish prosecutor [[Mats Ljungqvist]] stated at trial: "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."[^2]
+
+### Attacks
+
+On January 17, 2017, a car bomb detonated at a refugee shelter in Torslanda, a district of Gothenburg. A second bombing targeted a shelter for asylum seekers later in January. A third device was detonated outside a cafe frequented by left-wing activists. The bombings caused property damage; there were no fatalities.
+
+DNA from fragments recovered at the Torslanda bombing matched Viktor Melin. The investigation identified Melin, Thulin, and a third individual, [[Jimmy Jonasson]] (approximately 50 years old), as responsible for the attacks.[^2]
+
+### Conviction
+
+On July 7, 2017, the Gothenburg District Court convicted all three defendants. Sentences ranged from 18 months (Thulin) to eight and a half years (Melin). Jonasson received an intermediate sentence. The court accepted the prosecution's argument that the Partizan training was causally connected to the bombing capability: the specific bomb-making technique matched what RIM's course taught.[^2]
+
+### State Department SDGT Designation (April 2020)
+
+When the State Department designated RIM on April 7, 2020, Counterterrorism Coordinator [[Nathan Sales]] explicitly cited the Gothenburg case as the primary factual basis. The SDGT designation under [[Executive Order 13224]] required that RIM had "provided training for acts of terrorism." The Swedish criminal conviction, with its detailed judicial findings linking the Partizan curriculum to the bombs used, supplied the evidentiary record for the designation.[^1]
+
+The designation noted that RIM's [[Partizan]] program was systematically targeting foreign neo-Nazi organizations for recruitment into its training pipeline, and that Gothenburg was not an isolated incident but an instance of the program's intended function. The State Department also noted that graduates of Partizan training from multiple European countries had subsequently joined Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, demonstrating an additional recruitment pipeline feeding into Russian proxy warfare.[^1]
+
+### AWD Training at the Same Facility
+
+The same Partizan facility that trained Melin and Thulin in 2016 provided training to [[Atomwaffen Division]] leaders [[Kaleb Cole]] and [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] in 2018, two years after the Swedish cohort. By the time Cole and Bruce-Umbaugh attended, the RIM designation for the Swedish bombings had not yet occurred (that came in April 2020), but U.S. investigators subsequently used the RIM-AWD training connection as evidence of AWD's transnational organizational structure.[^3]
+
+### 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; State Dept. briefing with Amb. Nathan 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]: 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/
+[^3]: 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

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Murder
+  - Florida
+  - USA
+date: 2017-05-19
+location: "Tampa, Florida"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "On May 19, 2017, AWD member Devon Arthurs killed two fellow members at a shared Tampa apartment, triggering the first national exposure of Atomwaffen Division and leading directly to founder Brandon Russell's first federal arrest."
+---
+
+On May 19, 2017, [[Devon Arthurs]] (18) killed his two [[Atomwaffen Division]] roommates [[Jeremy Himmelman]] (22) and [[Andrew Oneschuk]] (18) inside their shared [[Tampa]], [[Florida]] apartment, while AWD founder [[Brandon Russell]] was away at a [[Florida National Guard]] training exercise. After the killings, Arthurs drove to a nearby smoke shop and held customers at gunpoint before surrendering to police after a standoff of approximately an hour. The subsequent search of the apartment by Tampa police and the FBI revealed explosive materials belonging to Russell, producing his arrest and providing investigators with their first comprehensive inside look at AWD's membership and structure. The Tampa murders were the first major public exposure of AWD as an operational organization and triggered the wave of federal investigative attention that would disrupt it over the following years.[^1]
+
+### Background and the Apartment
+
+Russell had founded AWD on the [[Iron March]] forum in October 2015 and operated it from Tampa while enrolled at the [[University of South Florida]] and serving in the National Guard. The apartment he shared with Arthurs, Himmelman, and Oneschuk functioned as an AWD operational hub. Arthurs had been a committed AWD member before converting to Islam at some point in 2016 or early 2017. His conversion generated escalating conflict with Himmelman and Oneschuk, who remained committed neo-Nazis.
+
+Arthurs later told investigators that Himmelman and Oneschuk had desecrated a Quran he kept in the apartment, and that he had also concluded they posed a threat to his safety because they could expose his prior AWD membership. He framed the killings as a preemptive response to both provocations.[^1]
+
+### The Killings and Hostage Standoff
+
+On the afternoon of May 19, 2017, while Russell was at National Guard training, Arthurs shot and killed Himmelman and Oneschuk inside the apartment. After the killings, rather than fleeing, he drove to a nearby smoke shop and held the customers inside at gunpoint. During the standoff he made statements about wanting to reach a Muslim religious contact by phone and about what he had done. Tampa police arrived and Arthurs surrendered peacefully approximately an hour after the hostage situation began. He was arrested without further violence.
+
+### Discovery of Russell's Explosives
+
+Arthurs cooperated with investigators after his arrest and began providing information about AWD. A search of the apartment revealed explosive materials belonging to Russell: precursor chemicals and components used in the manufacture of HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine). Investigators also recovered AWD propaganda, membership records, and organizational documents. Russell returned from his National Guard training to find law enforcement at the scene and was subsequently arrested on federal explosives charges unrelated to the murders themselves.
+
+The search produced the first law enforcement documentation of AWD as an organized network, naming members across multiple states and revealing the scope of the organization Russell had built since 2015.[^1]
+
+### Legal Outcomes
+
+Devon Arthurs pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in Florida state court and received a life sentence. His cooperation with federal investigators fed into multiple subsequent federal prosecutions of AWD members, making him the primary inside source that enabled the government's case against the organization.
+
+Brandon Russell was convicted on charges of illegal possession of explosive device components and sentenced to five years in federal prison, marking AWD's first documented federal conviction. He was later convicted a second time for conspiring with [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] to attack electrical substations and sentenced to 20 years.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Founder of Violent Extremist Organization Sentenced for Conspiracy to Damage and Destroy Energy Facilities." 2024.

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SiegeCulture
+  - JamesMason
+  - FBI
+  - FBIInformant
+  - OperationErsteSaule
+start: 2019
+location: "Las Vegas, Nevada"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an Atomwaffen Division leadership gathering in Las Vegas organized by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, notable for James Mason's first in-person appearance with AWD and for triggering Operation Erste Saule."
+---
+
+The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an in-person leadership gathering of [[Atomwaffen Division]] held in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] in approximately September 2019 and organized by [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], then serving as a paid [[FBI]] informant whose FBI-provided funds covered member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], author of *[[Siege]]* and the foundational ideological figure of [[Siege Culture|siege culture]] accelerationism, attended and delivered speeches - his first documented in-person appearance with AWD. A propaganda video posted on September 30, 2019 (the birthday of Nazi figure [[Savitri Devi]]) publicized the event. The gathering led directly to [[Operation Erste Saule]], the media harassment campaign that resulted in the February 2020 federal arrests of [[Kaleb Cole]], [[Cameron Shea]], and others.[^1]
+
+### Organization and Funding
+
+Sutter organized the Nuclear Congress under his alias "swissdiscipline." His FBI handlers were aware of and funded member attendance; the FBI payments to Sutter that covered this period totaled $78,133.20 plus expense advances from February 7, 2018 onward, in addition to prior payments stretching back to 2003. This means that federal funds paid by the FBI to its informant were used to organize and facilitate AWD's primary leadership gathering of 2019. This dimension of the Nuclear Congress became public through court documents in the federal prosecution of Kaleb Cole, when motion-to-suppress filings established Sutter's informant status in 2021.[^2]
+
+### Attendees and Content
+
+The propaganda video shows Mason standing with approximately 12 AWD members in military uniforms bearing AWD patches, all masked. Mason spoke about the necessity of murder and "small lone wolf terror attacks" against the government. Members delivered prepared speeches "theorizing about the way forward for the group." The video's binary code translated to "select presentations to be presented to the public," indicating additional content existed beyond the released footage.
+
+Mason's speeches were later published in full on the American Futurist website under the title "The Nuclear Congress Transcripts: Philosophy of Siege." The September 30 release date was chosen to coincide with Savitri Devi's birthday, a calendar date significant in the neo-Nazi occultist tradition AWD had adopted through its ToB relationship.
+
+Mason's Nuclear Congress appearance was notable as his first public in-person meeting with AWD, translating his status as the intellectual godfather of *Siege* culture into a documented physical presence at the organization's leadership summit.
+
+### Operation Erste Saule
+
+Following the Nuclear Congress, [[Cameron Shea]] created an encrypted [[Wire]] messaging group named "[[Operation Erste Saule]]" (German: "First Pillar") to coordinate a campaign of harassment and intimidation against journalists and civil rights organizations who had reported on AWD. The Nuclear Congress is explicitly named in the criminal complaint affidavit for Kaleb Cole's arrest (Western District of Washington, February 26, 2020) as the gathering after which the conspiracy to harass media figures was formulated.
+
+The subsequent campaign - mailing threatening posters bearing swastikas and phrases including "We know where you live" and "Death to Pigs" to journalists and Jewish activists - led to the simultaneous federal arrests in multiple states in February 2020 that effectively dismantled AWD's national leadership.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Vice. "New Video May Signal Dangerous Change For Neo-Nazi Terror Cell Atomwaffen." September 2019. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-video-may-signal-dangerous-change-for-neo-nazi-terror-cell-atomwaffen/; 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]: 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/
+[^3]: The Daily Beast. "Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division's Media Obsession Could Be Its Downfall." March 2020. https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-divisions-media-obsession-could-be-its-downfall/; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDWA. "Arrests in Four States of Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Targeting Journalists and Others." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/arrests-four-states-racially-motivated-violent-extremists-targeting-journalists-and

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - GreatReplacementTheory
+  - NewZealand
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+date: 2019-03-15
+location: "Christchurch, New Zealand"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in a live-streamed attack, inspiring the founding of the Terrorgram Collective and becoming the most cited precedent event in post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attacks."
+---
+
+On March 15, 2019, [[Brenton Tarrant]] attacked [[Al Noor Mosque]] and [[Linwood Islamic Centre]] in [[Christchurch, New Zealand]] during Friday prayers, killing 51 people and wounding 40. He live-streamed the Al Noor attack on Facebook via a helmet-mounted camera and distributed a 74-page manifesto titled "The Great Replacement" through 8chan and other platforms before the attack began. He was apprehended within 21 minutes of the first shots. Tarrant pleaded guilty to all charges and received life imprisonment without possibility of parole on August 27, 2020, the first such sentence in New Zealand's history.
+
+The Christchurch attack is the single most cited event across the post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attack record. [[Terrorgram Collective]] was co-founded in the summer of 2019 explicitly in response to Christchurch, with [[Pavol Beňadik]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] framing Tarrant's attack as the operational template for subsequent [[Saints Culture|saint]] attacks. The inspiration chain from Christchurch runs through [[Payton Gendron]] (Buffalo, May 2022), [[Juraj Krajčík]] (Bratislava, October 2022), [[Arda Küçükyetim]] (Eskisehir, August 2024), [[Nikita Casap]] (Waukesha, February 2025), and [[Cain Clark]]'s manifesto "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" (San Diego, May 2026).[^1]
+
+### The Attack
+
+Tarrant drove to Al Noor Mosque on Deans Avenue in central Christchurch, New Zealand at approximately 1:40 PM on March 15, 2019, a Friday, during the peak of midday prayers. He opened fire at the entrance and continued through the mosque, killing 50 people. He then drove to Linwood Islamic Centre approximately six kilometers away and killed one additional person. Armed police apprehended him in his vehicle.
+
+The Facebook stream was removed after approximately 17 minutes but was captured and redistributed widely through [[Telegram]] and other platforms. New Zealand immediately moved to criminalize possession of both the footage and the manifesto, making it one of the few countries with specific laws targeting the Christchurch materials.
+
+The 51 victims were worshippers from dozens of countries who had emigrated to New Zealand. The youngest victim was three years old.[^2]
+
+### The Manifesto and Christchurch as Strategic Template
+
+"The Great Replacement" manifesto explicitly positioned the attack as a strategic act intended to inspire future violence rather than as an end in itself. Tarrant wrote that he hoped the attack would provoke government overreaction, demoralize moderates, and demonstrate that a single individual could shift political conditions. He cited [[Dylann Roof]]'s 2015 Charleston church shooting as proof of this possibility.
+
+The manifesto's format - a question-and-answer self-interview covering ideology, strategy, tactics, and inspiration - became a template that subsequent attackers including [[Payton Gendron]] directly copied. Its explicit call for imitation, combined with its operational detail and its live-stream format, made it the most influential single piece of accelerationist content produced in the 2010s-2020s period.[^3]
+
+### Terrorgram's Founding Response
+
+[[Pavol Beňadik]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] co-founded Terrorgram in the summer of 2019, specifically motivated by Christchurch and designed to extend its influence. Beňadik began building his Slovak radicalization network immediately after March 15, identifying Tarrant as the foundational saint whose example his channels would promote. His mentorship of [[Juraj Krajčík]] began in August 2019 - five months after Christchurch. Terrorgram's three major publications all engaged with Christchurch as a foundational event and with Tarrant as the model "saint" whose methodology should be extended.
+
+Canada designated Terrorgram as a terrorist entity on December 10, 2025, in part because its operational purpose was treating Christchurch as a template for ongoing replication.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019. New Zealand Government, 2020.
+[^2]: New Zealand Ministry of Justice. Crown Law Terrorism Case Summary. August 2020.
+[^3]: ICCT. "Christchurch Attacks and the Role of Online Propaganda." https://icct.nl/publication/christchurch-attacks-and-the-role-of-online-propaganda/
+[^4]: 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/; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Brazil
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - MassShooter
+date: 2022-11-25
+location: "Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber."
+---
+
+On November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], Brazil, killing four people and wounding eleven. He attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first and then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]], wearing military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband. The attack was attributed in the prosecution of [[Terrorgram Collective]] leader [[Dallas Humber]] to her guidance: approximately one month before the attack, Humber and co-leader [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil" in a secret Telegram chat, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni, characterizing him as "her kid." The Aracruz shootings are listed as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack in Humber's sentencing documents and as one of the attacks [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s publications helped inspire in his Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026).[^1]
+
+### The Attacks
+
+Castiglioni struck Escola Estadual Primo Bitti first during school hours on November 25, 2022. The four people killed were: [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), a student who was shot while hiding under a desk; [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), a teacher who was attempting to shield students; [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45); and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded across both school sites. Castiglioni was apprehended at or near the scene.
+
+### Terrorgram Attribution
+
+The DOJ's case against Humber established the specific mechanism of Terrorgram's involvement. Court documents confirmed that in a secret Telegram channel on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's planned attack. The one-month gap between that conversation and the Aracruz shootings aligns with the attack date, and prosecutors attributed the event to Humber's guidance. Humber's post-attack creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her affectionate description of him as "her kid" - confirmed the relationship was not purely passive circulation of ideology but active mentorship of the kind Humber had also maintained with the [[Juraj Krajčík|Bratislava]] and other attackers.
+
+This attribution placed the Aracruz attack within Terrorgram's documented operational pattern: the network maintained direct contact with individuals planning attacks, produced saint cards celebrating completed attacks, and used those cards to inspire the next attack.[^2]
+
+### Prosecutions and Sentences
+
+Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022. He was released on supervised release by November 2025. No additional proceedings were reported following his completion of the sentence.
+
+Humber was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison on December 19, 2025, with the Aracruz attack explicitly listed as one of seven attacks or plots linked to her leadership. Althorpe received 20 years in Canadian federal prison on March 27, 2026, with the attack similarly cited in his agreed statement of facts.[^1]
+
+### Terrorgram Propagation
+
+On approximately November 27, 2022, two days after the attack, an unidentified [[Terrorgram Collective]] member using the pseudonym "Wolf Boy Winter" posted a video still from Escola Estadual Primo Bitti attack surveillance footage to a high-traffic Terrorgram channel. The same individual contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of the network's primary propaganda publications, which the [[US Department of Justice]] later cited in the indictment of Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison as a document created as part of a conspiracy to "recruit, radicalize, equip, advise, inspire and solicit others to commit attacks." In this way the Aracruz attack was immediately incorporated into Terrorgram's saint-documentation and propaganda pipeline, with attack footage transformed into promotional content within 48 hours.[^3]
+
+### Brazilian Investigative Response
+
+The [[Espírito Santo]] federal court was the first Brazilian institution to take direct legal action against the platform infrastructure. On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of [[Telegram]] after the platform failed to provide authorities with subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels: the "Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement" (Movimento Antissemitico Brasileiro) and the "Anti-Semitic Front" (Frente Antissemitica). Both channels had been recovered from the phone of the Aracruz perpetrator or a subsequent school-attack suspect, and contained what prosecutors described as murder tutorials, bomb-manufacturing instructions, and violent videos in addition to Nazi content. Judge da Silva ordered Google and Apple to remove Telegram from their app stores and directed mobile carriers to block access; Telegram was simultaneously fined approximately R$1 million (approximately US$198,000) per day until it complied. The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023, after Telegram provided partial data.[^4]
+
+### Michele Prado and ABIN Reporting
+
+In 2023, [[Michele Prado]], founder of the Brazilian NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a formal report to [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil, including a channel associated with the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym. Prado had been monitoring Terrorgram's Brazilian operations since at least 2022 and by 2023 documented more than 40 school-related violent incidents with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. At least two of the Terrorgram-affiliated groups she identified had been created by adolescents.[^5]
+
+### Federal Police Statistics
+
+The Federal Police (Polícia Federal) recorded a 279% increase in investigations of Nazi propaganda on social media platforms from 2022 to 2023, making 2023 the highest year on record for such inquiries. A broader government accounting reported 2,830 ongoing investigations into school violence by June 2023, with over 380 arrests by that date. A GNET analysis published in November 2024 documented 177 Federal Police investigations into Nazi propaganda on social media platforms between January 2021 and February 2024, with 82 still ongoing at that date.[^5][^6]
+
+### Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira
+
+On January 13, 2025, the US State Department designated [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] of Belo Horizonte, [[Minas Gerais]], as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in connection with his role as a Terrorgram channel administrator. Ferreira is the only Brazilian national publicly designated in connection with the Terrorgram Collective. The designation did not specifically allege direct contact between Ferreira and Castiglioni; the direct contact with the Aracruz perpetrator was documented through the Humber prosecution rather than through the Ferreira designation. The US government's naming of a Brazilian administrator confirms that the Terrorgram network had established domestic Brazilian infrastructure, not merely international reach into Brazil.[^7]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html
+
+[^2]: Raw Story. "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
+
+[^3]: Raw Story. "'The Hard Reset': Here's how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/; ProPublica/FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network." https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
+
+[^4]: France 24. "Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe," April 26, 2023. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230426-brazil-court-suspends-telegram-app-in-neo-nazi-probe; TechTimes. "Brazilian Court Orders Temporary Suspension for Telegram Over Neo-Nazi Groups," April 26, 2023. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/290845/20230426/brazilian-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegram-over-neo-nazi-groups.htm
+
+[^5]: 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/
+
+[^6]: Rest of World (Matheus Andrade). "Research links school shootings with extremist online culture, gaming, and memes," 2023. https://restofworld.org/2023/online-extremism-linked-school-shootings-brazil/
+
+[^7]: US 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 Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - AntiLGBT
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - Slovakia
+  - MassShooter
+date: 2022-10-12
+location: "Bratislava, Slovakia"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "On October 12, 2022, Juraj Krajčík killed two people at the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava after Terrorgram mentorship by Pavol Beňadik, becoming the first attack attributed to Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline and Krajčík its first 'saint.'"
+---
+
+On October 12, 2022, [[Juraj Krajčík]] (19) drove to [[Tepláreň]], an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava's Old Town district, and opened fire on its entrance area, killing [[Matúš Horváth]] and [[Juraj Vankulič]] (Vankulič was non-binary) and wounding [[Radka Trokšiarová]]. He fled the scene and died by suicide the following morning. Slovak police recovered his manifesto, which cited [[Terrorgram Collective]] co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] by his alias "Slovakbro" as a direct mentor, and [[Payton Gendron]] (the May 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter) as his "final nudge" to act. The Bratislava attack was the first event formally attributed to Terrorgram's radicalization infrastructure and was immediately designated within the network as a "saint" event - the first in the Terrorgram [[Saints Culture|saints canon]].[^1]
+
+### The Attack
+
+Krajčík drove to Tepláreň on the evening of October 12, 2022, a Wednesday. He fired at the bar's exterior area and entrance, killing Horváth and Vankulič outside the bar. Trokšiarová was wounded. He then fled. Slovak police located his body in a Bratislava park the following morning; he had died by suicide. The attack lasted a matter of minutes.
+
+Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the attack, but the years of prior mentorship he had provided Krajčík were not interrupted by that arrest. Krajčík had been in Beňadik's Telegram channels from approximately August 2019, when he was 15 or 16 years old. By October 2022 the radicalization pipeline was complete.[^2]
+
+### Manifesto and Terrorgram Connection
+
+Krajčík's manifesto, recovered by Slovak police, detailed his ideological development and named his influencers. He cited Beňadik by alias as a direct mentor. He identified Gendron as his "final nudge," indicating the Buffalo attack, which had occurred five months earlier in May 2022, provided the immediate operational trigger. Beňadik's Terrorgram channels had explicitly called for Slovak "saints" to emerge in the [[Saints Culture|saint tradition]] founded by [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s 2019 Christchurch attack.
+
+The manifesto's framing placed the attack squarely within the Terrorgram ideological framework: the attacker as a soldier in an ongoing campaign of acceleration, the attack as a contribution to a chain of violence intended to hasten societal collapse, and the shooter as a willing martyr whose death would be celebrated within the network.[^1]
+
+### Terrorgram Attribution and "First Saint" Designation
+
+Within Terrorgram channels, Krajčík was elevated to "saint" status immediately following the attack. Trading-card-style [[Saints Culture|saint graphics]] were produced and circulated through Terrorgram's Telegram infrastructure, adding Krajčík to the canon of figures whose example the network presented as worthy of emulation. Researchers at the [[RSIS]] and [[CTC West Point]] subsequently identified the Bratislava attack as the first mass-casualty event directly attributable to Terrorgram's operational mentorship structure.
+
+The [[Terrorgram Collective]] Canada designation (December 10, 2025) and the [[Matthew Althorpe]] Canadian sentencing proceeding (March 27, 2026) both identified the Bratislava attack as one of at least six attributed to the network's propaganda and mentorship activities. Justice Jane Kelly, sentencing Althorpe, found a direct connection between his publications and Krajčík's radicalization.[^3]
+
+### Prosecution Outcomes
+
+Because Krajčík died by suicide, he faced no prosecution. His attack fed directly into the proceedings against Beňadik, who had been arrested before the attack but whose channels had provided the years of mentorship Krajčík drew on. Slovak prosecutors cited the Bratislava attack explicitly in Beňadik's trial; he was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic constitutional system and for acts of terrorism.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: 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/
+[^2]: ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava Murders." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate
+[^3]: Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - GreatReplacementTheory
+  - AntiBlack
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - NewYork
+  - USA
+  - MassShooter
+date: 2022-05-14
+location: "Buffalo, New York"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, 2022, livestreaming on Twitch while citing Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, sentenced to consecutive life terms and named by Juraj Krajčík as his 'final nudge.'"
+---
+
+On May 14, 2022, [[Payton Gendron]] (18) drove approximately 200 miles from his home in [[Conklin, New York]] to the [[Tops Friendly Markets|Tops supermarket]] on Jefferson Avenue in the predominantly Black East Side neighborhood of [[Buffalo, New York]] and opened fire, killing 10 people and wounding 3. All 10 killed were Black; Gendron had selected the location specifically for its demographics. He livestreamed the attack through a helmet-mounted camera on [[Twitch]] until the platform removed the stream approximately two minutes into the attack. He had distributed a 180-page manifesto explicitly framed as continuing [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s 2019 [[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch attack]]. Gendron pleaded guilty in November 2022 and received multiple consecutive life sentences without parole in state and federal proceedings. [[Juraj Krajčík]] named Gendron as his "final nudge" before the October 2022 [[2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ Bar Shooting|Bratislava]] attack; [[Nikita Casap]] also cited him before his February 2025 Wisconsin killings.[^1]
+
+### The Attack
+
+Gendron arrived at the Tops supermarket parking lot at approximately 2:30 PM. He was wearing body armor and a helmet with a mounted camera. He opened fire in the parking lot and continued into the store. [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], a retired police officer employed as the store's security guard, fired at Gendron but was unable to penetrate his body armor and was killed. Gendron surrendered to police at the scene after the attack.
+
+The Twitch stream was active for approximately two minutes before the platform removed it. The footage was captured and redistributed widely through [[Telegram]] and other platforms, repeating the redistribution pattern established after Christchurch.
+
+The 10 people killed were: [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], [[Roberta Drury]], [[Margus Morrison]], [[Andre Mackniel]], [[Katherine Massey]], [[Heyward Patterson]], [[Celestine Chaney]], [[Geraldine Talley]], [[Ruth Whitfield]], and [[Pearl Young]].[^2]
+
+### Manifesto and Radicalization
+
+Gendron's 180-page manifesto borrowed Tarrant's format: a question-and-answer self-interview alongside strategic, ideological, and operational arguments. It adopted the "great replacement" conspiracy theory framework Tarrant had drawn from French writer Renaud Camus. The manifesto documented Gendron's radicalization through 4chan's /pol/ board and accelerationist content, included specific targeting research explaining his choice of Buffalo's East Side, and framed the attack as a contribution to ongoing acceleration. He had no documented connection to an organized network prior to the attack.
+
+The Terrorgram Collective circulated Gendron saint-card graphics in the same format as Tarrant materials, incorporating him into the Terrorgram saints canon and presenting his attack as an inspiration pipeline to subsequent consumers of the network's content.[^3]
+
+### Conviction and Sentencing
+
+Gendron was charged in state court with ten counts of first-degree murder as a hate crime and related charges. He pleaded guilty in November 2022. On February 15, 2023, Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan sentenced him to life in prison without possibility of parole on each murder count, to run consecutively.
+
+Federal prosecutors separately charged Gendron with hate crimes, obstruction of religion, and use of a firearm in a hate crime. He pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced to additional consecutive life terms by U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Payton Gendron Sentenced to Multiple Life Terms in Federal Hate Crime Case." 2023. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/payton-gendron-sentenced-multiple-life-terms-federal-hate-crime-case
+[^2]: Buffalo News. "The 10 victims of the Buffalo Tops supermarket shooting." May 2022.
+[^3]: ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava Murders." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - InfrastructureAttack
+  - FederalCase
+  - FISA
+  - Section702
+  - Maryland
+  - USA
+date: 2023-02-03
+location: "Baltimore, Maryland"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal sentences respectively and exposing documented failures of post-conviction supervision and FBI intelligence integration."
+---
+
+In early February 2023, the [[FBI]] arrested [[Brandon Russell]] (then 28, [[Orlando, Florida]]), the founder of [[Atomwaffen Division]], and [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] (then approximately 35, [[Catonsville, Maryland]]) for conspiring to attack multiple electrical power substations in the [[Baltimore]] area simultaneously, with the goal of triggering widespread blackouts they believed would produce social breakdown and accelerate the race war they sought. Both were charged in the [[District of Maryland]]. Clendaniel pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on September 24, 2024; Russell was convicted at trial and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on August 7, 2025. The conspiracy represented Russell's second federal conviction, following his 2018 explosives conviction arising from the [[2017 Tampa Atomwaffen Murders]].[^1]
+
+### Operational Timeline
+
+The conspiracy's operational phase began in June 2022, when Russell made contact through encrypted neo-Nazi [[Telegram]] channels with [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)|Christopher Jackson]], a [[confidential human source]] (CHS) working for the FBI. Jackson was a civilian researcher specializing in extremism and domestic terrorism who had been recruited into FBI informant work through an agent acquaintance.
+
+Between November 2022 and February 3, 2023, Russell and Clendaniel finalized their operational planning through encrypted communications monitored by Jackson. Their methodology called for simultaneous rifle attacks on multiple [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) transformer substations, using the simultaneity to prevent grid operators from rerouting power and inducing a cascading failure across the Baltimore metropolitan area. Clendaniel had scouted specific substations and identified five target sites.
+
+On January 29, 2023, Clendaniel told Jackson in a recorded telephone conversation that the five targeted substations were located near [[Norrisville, Maryland|Norrisville]], [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]], and [[Perry Hall, Maryland|Perry Hall]], with two additional substations near Baltimore City. She described the plan as capable of causing a city-wide blackout: "it would permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully." The plan's explicit framing was accelerationist: destroying infrastructure serving a majority-Black city to ignite racial conflict and social collapse.[^2]
+
+The theoretical framework underlying the conspiracy was AWD's core accelerationist doctrine, derived from [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]* and developed through AWD's organizational history: that infrastructure attacks are catalysts for the collapse of the existing political order, and that collapse creates the conditions for racial reconstitution. The Baltimore power grid attack was the most concrete application of AWD's infrastructure attack theory ever brought to prosecution.
+
+[[Dallas Humber]], who led the [[Terrorgram Collective]] inner circle during the same period, was separately alleged in court documents to have remained in contact with Clendaniel and Russell, though Humber was not charged as a co-conspirator specifically in the substation plot.
+
+### Charges and Case Numbers
+
+Russell and Clendaniel were arrested on February 3, 2023. Both were charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1366(b) (conspiracy to damage an energy facility). The single-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleged that the pair conspired to destroy energy facilities causing damage exceeding $100,000 and causing a "significant interruption and impairment" of the facilities. Federal prosecutors estimated the intended monetary loss at over $75 million.
+
+Clendaniel faced a second count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) for weapons she had acquired in furtherance of the plot despite her felon status.
+
+Case numbers: Russell was docketed as [[United States v. Russell, 1:23-cr-00029 (D. Md.)]] and Clendaniel as [[United States v. Clendaniel, 1:23-cr-00056 (D. Md.)]]. Both cases were assigned to Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]], District of Maryland.[^3]
+
+### The FISA Section 702 Issue
+
+During pretrial proceedings, Russell's defense attorneys [[Kobie Flowers]] and [[Ian Goldstein]] filed a motion on June 10, 2024, arguing that the government had used [[Section 702]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] to surveil Russell and had failed to provide the statutorily required FISA notice. The specific documentary basis was the [[ODNI]]'s "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes," a February 14, 2024 public document released at intelligence.gov to demonstrate Section 702's operational value. One vignette described a 2023 FBI investigation in which U.S. person queries of Section 702 databases showed that "a person located inside the U.S. was in regular contact with an unspecified foreign terrorist group, had acquired the means to conduct an attack and had already identified specific targets in the U.S." The FBI disrupted a "potentially imminent terrorist attack" against critical infrastructure within a month, using "iterative U.S. person queries" as the subject shifted communications platforms. The defense argued Russell's case matched every disclosed detail of that vignette and that no other known open case did.[^4]
+
+The [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]] joined the defense for the limited purpose of pressing the Section 702 challenge. ACLU senior staff attorney [[Ashley Gorski]] stated: "Based on the government's own disclosures, the ACLU has good reason to believe that Mr. Russell was subjected to Section 702 surveillance and his case is a rare and important opportunity to challenge the government's practice of conducting warrantless 'backdoor searches' of its Section 702 databases to locate the communications of Americans."[^4b]
+
+The classified ex parte hearing before Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]] took place on July 23, 2024. Bredar's August 9, 2024 public order stated he was "satisfied" the government would not use FISA-derived evidence at trial and that "there is no basis on which to believe or suspect that the rights of the defendant have been violated in any way with respect to any government activities authorized by FISA." Bredar held Russell was "not entitled to notice." The ruling's critical limitation was its scope: Bredar addressed only whether FISA evidence would be introduced at trial and whether that triggered a notice obligation, and did not resolve whether Section 702 collection had occurred at an investigative stage prior to the FBI informant's June 2022 contact with Russell. The question of whether a Section 702-derived tip initiated the investigation remained publicly unresolved after the verdict.[^4]
+
+### Witness Disguise Ruling
+
+In September 2024, Bredar ruled that the three government witnesses who had operated as undercover sources (CHS-1 Christopher Jackson, CHS-2, and one FBI employee) could testify using "light disguise" (altered hairstyle or facial hair), pseudonyms, and with partial courtroom closure. Members of the public and press were permitted in an overflow room with audio and video feed. The ruling cited Russell's demonstrated capacity to threaten witnesses, finding that "Russell, and those sympathetic to him, present an unusually heightened threat of danger to societal institutions and witnesses seen as cooperating with those institutions." Russell's defense attorney [[Ian Goldstein]] argued the ruling created "a huge impediment to investigating and presenting a defense."[^5]
+
+### Trial
+
+The trial began January 28, 2025, and concluded February 4, 2025, with Russell's conviction on the single conspiracy count. The government presented recorded phone calls, encrypted messages, and testimony from the three disguised witnesses. Jackson testified January 29-30. The government also introduced voluminous material from private [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]] Telegram channels in which Russell, under the pseudonyms "Ouroborus," "Homunculus," and "Raccoon," had shared infrastructure attack instructions, including the Terrorgram publication "Make It Count," and had attempted to recruit Jackson into the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) in fall 2022.[^6]
+
+The prosecution was cited in subsequent terrorism policy discussions as the first major federal case treating AWD-derived infrastructure attack planning as terrorism-level conduct, providing a template for how law enforcement might address similar accelerationist infrastructure plots from successor networks.
+
+### The Undisclosed Payment and New-Trial Motion
+
+On January 27, 2025 (the night of jury selection, two days before Jackson testified), the government paid Jackson an additional $7,180.11. Jackson testified he had received "about $70,000." The [[Department of Justice]] disclosed the additional payment on March 19, 2025, six weeks after the verdict.
+
+Russell moved for a new trial, arguing Jackson had committed perjury and that the failure to disclose the additional payment before testimony violated [[Brady v. Maryland]]. On April 29, 2025, Bredar denied the motion, finding the non-disclosure "unfortunate" but the error insufficient to undermine the verdict given Jackson's limited scope of testimony, corroborating evidence, and the jury's knowledge of Jackson's prior disclosed compensation. The total FBI payments to Jackson across all investigations was approximately $80,000.[^7]
+
+### Clendaniel Plea and Sentencing
+
+Clendaniel pleaded guilty on May 14, 2024. On September 24, 2024, Bredar sentenced her to 18 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Bredar stated the crime was "a means of furthering her violent white supremacist ideology," found the planned attacks "extreme in every respect," and concluded he was "not convinced she wouldn't act on them in the future."[^8]
+
+### Russell Conviction and Sentencing
+
+Russell was convicted February 4, 2025, and sentenced August 7, 2025. Bredar imposed the statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, including close monitoring of electronic devices. Bredar called Russell "the brains" behind the operation, the source of its "intellectual horsepower," and characterized him as "profoundly dangerous," noting: "He seeks to destroy the very fabric of society. As his conduct before and after the conviction demonstrates, there is nothing that will stop him." Bredar also identified Russell as having "significant mental health issues."[^9]
+
+### The FBI Monitoring Gap
+
+The conspiracy took shape during Russell's three-year [[supervised release]] term following his August 23, 2021, release from federal prison on his 2018 explosives conviction. Russell's 2018 sentence from Senior U.S. District Judge [[Susan Bucklew]] in the [[Middle District of Florida]] included three years of supervised release administered by the [[U.S. Probation Office]] in [[Tampa, Florida]]. The conditions imposed no restrictions on Russell's ability to associate with extremist organizations or his former AWD comrades. [[Pete Simi]], a sociologist at [[Chapman University]] who has studied American far-right movements for more than two decades, stated publicly that Russell "could've restarted the Atomwaffen Division without violating the conditions of his release." Requests for comment on Russell's supervision made to the Tampa probation office went unanswered.[^10]
+
+The FBI had monitored Russell's prison communications since at least 2018 and was aware of his correspondence with Clendaniel throughout his incarceration. The June 2022 FBI informant contact with Russell represented proactive deployment of an asset rather than a response to a surveillance alert, suggesting either that monitoring produced no actionable concern before that point or that the FBI's intelligence was siloed from probation authorities in a way that prevented intervention during Russell's free movement in late 2021 and the first half of 2022. No congressional oversight hearing specifically addressed the Russell case monitoring gap; no [[DOJ Office of Inspector General]] report on the supervision failure had been released as of mid-2026.[^10]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "White Supremacist Leader Found Guilty of Conspiring to Destroy Regional Power Grid." https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/white-supremacist-leader-found-guilty-conspiring-destroy-regional-power-grid; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Florida Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiring to Destroy Baltimore Region Power Grid." August 7, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/florida-man-sentenced-20-years-conspiring-destroy-baltimore-region-power-grid
+
+[^2]: ABC News. "Suspected white supremacists arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore." February 6, 2023. https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-arrested-plot-attack-power-stations-destroy-baltimore/story?id=96923380; CBS News. "Baltimore power grid attack plot." February 6, 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-power-grid-attack-plot-fbi-suspects-arrested-sarah-beth-clendaniel-brandon-russell/
+
+[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Federal Indictment Returned Charging Maryland Woman and Florida Man for Conspiring to Destroy Energy Facilities." February 14, 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/federal-indictment-returned-charging-maryland-woman-and-florida-man-conspiring-destroy; CourtListener. United States v. Clendaniel, 1:23-cr-00056 (D. Md.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66811663/united-states-v-clendaniel/
+
+[^4]: ODNI, "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes," February 14, 2024. https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702-documents/FISA_Section_702_Vignettes-20240214_Final.pdf; Baltimore Sun. "Prosecutors will say in secret whether they used controversial spying tool against neo-Nazi accused in Baltimore power grid plot." June 27, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/06/27/prosecutors-will-say-in-secret-whether-they-used-controversial-spying-tool-against-neo-nazi-accused-in-baltimore-power-grid-plot/; Baltimore Banner. "FISA Evidence Won't Be Used Against Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell," August 2024. https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-fisa-evidence-XG2FGX6RCNEY3BPKPHQ4O27SAA/; Baltimore Sun. "Feds will not use evidence from spying program at trial." August 9, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/09/feds-evidence-spying-program-neo-nazi-accused-baltimore-power-grid-plot/
+
+[^4b]: Baltimore Banner. "ACLU Signs On to Defend Neo-Nazi Charged with Power Grid Plot." https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/neo-nazi-baltimore-power-grid-aclu-national-security-defense-PA277N47ANCLPAMBKAFHXNZ45U/
+
+[^5]: U.S. District Court, D. Md. Opinion re: Witness Disguise, Case No. 23-0056. September 2024. https://www2.mdd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Opinions/23-0056%20Russell%20Opinion%20re%20witness%20disguise.pdf; The Daily Record. "Disguised witnesses to testify against neo-Nazi accused of planning MD power grid attack." September 2, 2024. https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/09/02/disguised-witnesses-to-testify-against-neo-nazi-accused-of-planning-power-grid-attack/
+
+[^6]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi network 'Terrorgram' goes to court over planned attack on substation." January 2025. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-network-terrorgram-court-planned-attack-substation/; 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/; Just Security. "Nihilistic Violent Extremism and American Counterterrorism." https://www.justsecurity.org/113463/nihilistic-violent-extremism-american-counterterrorism/
+
+[^7]: The Daily Record. "Neo-Nazi who plotted to destroy BGE substations denied new trial." May 2, 2025. https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/05/02/neo-nazi-baltimore-substation-trial-denial/
+
+[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Maryland Woman and Florida Man Face Federal Charges for Conspiring to Destroy Energy Facilities." February 3, 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-woman-and-florida-man-face-federal-charges-conspiring-destroy-energy-facilities; CBS Baltimore. "Woman sentenced to 18 years." September 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-sentenced-maryland-neo-nazi-plot-destory-maryland-power-grid/
+
+[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Md. "Florida Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiring to Destroy Baltimore Region Power Grid." August 7, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/florida-man-sentenced-20-years-conspiring-destroy-baltimore-region-power-grid; CNN. "Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack." August 7, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/us/neo-nazi-maryland-power-grid-plot-sentencing
+
+[^10]: The Baltimore Banner. "How neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell came to be accused of targeting Baltimore substations." 2023. https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/brandon-russell-neo-nazi-sarah-clendaniel-power-substation-CH6ZNB2FVVDYREOUJEMGTODDCM/; SPLC. "Accelerationism." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/accelerationism

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+---
+category: "Modern Incident"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - Brazil
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - LegalProceeding
+  - Telegram
+date: 2023-04-26
+location: "Espírito Santo, Brazil"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge Wellington Lopes da Silva of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of Telegram and daily fines of approximately US$198,000 after the platform refused to produce subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels, 'Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement' and 'Anti-Semitic Front,' which had been recovered from a school shooting suspect's phone; the suspension was lifted April 28, 2023 after partial compliance."
+---
+
+On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] of the Federal Court in [[Espírito Santo]] ordered a nationwide suspension of the messaging platform [[Telegram]] throughout Brazil, citing the platform's refusal to produce subscriber data demanded by the [[Federal Police]] (Polícia Federal) in connection with a neo-Nazi extremism investigation linked to the wave of Brazilian school attacks that began with the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]].[^1]
+
+### The Order
+
+Judge da Silva's order required Google and Apple to remove Telegram from their app stores in Brazil and directed mobile carriers to block access to the platform nationwide. Telegram was simultaneously assessed a fine of R$1 million (approximately US$198,000) per day until it produced the required data. The order followed Telegram's partial non-compliance with a prior judicial demand: the platform had provided user data for the administrator of the "Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement" (Movimento Antissemitico Brasileiro) channel but had declined to provide data on the channel's members or any data from a second channel, "Anti-Semitic Front" (Frente Antissemitica).[^1]
+
+### Evidence Basis
+
+Both channels had been recovered from the phone of a school shooting suspect. Brazilian investigators found murder tutorials, bomb-manufacturing instructions, violent videos, and Nazi content within the channels. The investigation formed part of Brazil's federal-level response to the school violence surge of late 2022 and early 2023, during which approximately 60% of the total count of Brazilian school attacks recorded over two decades occurred within a two-year period.[^2]
+
+### Resolution
+
+The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023, approximately 48 hours after it was imposed, after Telegram provided partial compliance with the court's data production requirement. The fine assessment was not publicly quantified after the lifting of the order.[^1]
+
+### Terrorgram Channel Infrastructure
+
+The Espirito Santo order is the most specific documented instance in which Brazilian judicial process was applied to the platform infrastructure underlying the Terrorgram Collective's Brazilian operations. The two named channels (Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement and Anti-Semitic Front) are not publicly confirmed to be Terrorgram Collective channels in the strict sense, but they operated within the same Telegram ecosystem that [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]]'s channels inhabited, and their documented content (murder tutorials, bomb instructions, Nazi propaganda) is consistent with the Terrorgram propagation model documented in the [[Dallas Humber]] prosecution and in [[Michele Prado]]'s 2023 [[ABIN]] report.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: France 24. "Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe," April 26, 2023. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230426-brazil-court-suspends-telegram-app-in-neo-nazi-probe; TechTimes. "Brazilian Court Orders Temporary Suspension for Telegram Over Neo-Nazi Groups," April 26, 2023. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/290845/20230426/brazilian-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegram-over-neo-nazi-groups.htm
+
+[^2]: The Lancet Regional Health (Americas). "The rise of school shootings and other related attacks in Brazil," March 27, 2024. PIIS2667-193X(24)00051-6. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(24)00051-6/fulltext
+
+[^3]: 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: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - NVE
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - TrueCrimeCommunity
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - Wisconsin
+  - USA
+  - SchoolShooting
+date: 2024-12-16
+location: Madison, Wisconsin
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: On December 16, 2024, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in an attack traced to radicalization through WatchPeopleDie and 764/Terrorgram-adjacent content.
+---
+
+On December 16, 2024, [[Natalie Rupnow]] (15) attacked [[Abundant Life Christian School]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]] during a mixed-grade study hall, killing substitute teacher [[Erin M. West]] (42) and fellow student [[Rubi P. Vergara]] (14) and wounding six others before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during transport to hospital. Investigators recovered a manifesto titled "War Against Humanity" from her home. The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) classified her as a [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism|nihilistic violent extremist]] whose radicalization ran from the [[WatchPeopleDie]] gore website through [[764 Network|764]]-affiliated and [[Terrorgram Collective]]-adjacent content.
+
+### The Attack
+
+Rupnow entered Abundant Life Christian School during school hours and opened fire in a study hall that contained students from multiple grades. West and Vergara were killed at the scene. Six additional students and one teacher sustained wounds; two students were hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Rupnow died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to hospital.
+
+She used firearms owned by her father, [[Jeffrey Rupnow]] (43), who kept them in a safe but had shared the combination with her. The day before the attack he removed a Sig Sauer pistol from the safe and asked her to clean it.
+
+### Radicalization and Online Network
+
+ISD and [[ADL]] researchers documented that Rupnow held 16 social media accounts, nearly all containing references to past mass shooters. Her documented radicalization pathway ran from [[WatchPeopleDie]] (account created June 2023) through white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic online spaces, into 764-affiliated content and a [[Telegram]] group connected to [[Arda Küçükyetim]]'s August 2024 [[2024 Eskisehir Mosque Stabbing|Eskisehir mosque stabbing]] livestream, which was itself affiliated with Terrorgram Collective.
+
+Her manifesto described humanity as "filth" and expressed admiration for past mass shooters, fitting the misanthropic nihilist profile that ISD uses to distinguish [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism|NVE]] cases from ideologically coherent [[Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism|IMVE]]. The [[True Crime Community]] (TCC) fandom and the SAVF ([[Soyjak Attacker Video Fandom]]) subculture, both of which treat mass killers as cultural figures for consumption and glorification, were documented as central to her online activity.
+
+### Rupnow and Solomon Henderson
+
+The WatchPeopleDie account registration dates and social media overlaps placed Rupnow in the same online milieu as [[Solomon Henderson]], the 17-year-old who killed one student at [[Antioch High School]] in Nashville, Tennessee on January 22, 2025. Both created WatchPeopleDie accounts in June 2023, and the two had followed each other on [[X (Twitter)|X]]. PBS Wisconsin reported that their online presence overlapped in at least the WatchPeopleDie and X contexts.
+
+Nashville Metropolitan Police Department's January 2026 investigation into Henderson found no evidence of co-conspirators or direct coordination between Rupnow and Henderson. The shared online spaces reflected convergent radicalization through the same platform ecosystems rather than a coordinated connection.[^1]
+
+### Legal Outcomes
+
+Because Rupnow died at the scene, she faced no criminal proceedings. In May 2025, Dane County prosecutors charged her father Jeffrey Rupnow on two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A Dane County Court Commissioner ordered him to stand trial on July 24, 2025. The charges carry a combined maximum of 18 years in prison.
+
+Rupnow's mother died of an apparent suicide following the shooting.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: 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/; 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/
+[^2]: PBS Wisconsin. "Judge orders Abundant Life shooter's father to stand trial." https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/judge-orders-abundant-life-shooters-father-to-stand-trial/; WPR. "Mother of Abundant Life shooter dies of apparent suicide." https://www.wpr.org/news/mother-abundant-life-christian-school-shooter-apparent-suicide

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SaintsCulture
+  - AntiMuslim
+  - Turkey
+  - HateCrime
+date: 2024-08-12
+location: "Eskisehir, Turkey"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "On August 12, 2024, Arda Küçükyetim stabbed five worshippers outside a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey while livestreaming on Kick, in an attack confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian proceedings and resulting in a 75-year Turkish sentence."
+---
+
+On August 12, 2024, at approximately 18:22 local time, [[Arda Küçükyetim]] (approximately 18) approached [[Tepebaşı Mosque]] in [[Eskisehir, Turkey]] wearing a tactical vest, helmet, and glasses bearing the [[Black Sun]] symbol, and stabbed five worshippers. All five survived their wounds. He livestreamed the attack via a body-mounted camera on the platform [[Kick]]. Prior to the attack he had created a [[Telegram]] group through which a contact distributed his manifesto, photographs, and supporting documents. The manifesto cited [[Terrorgram Collective]]-associated "[[Saints Culture|saints]]" by name, including [[Brenton Tarrant]], Anders Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, and Stephen Paddock. The attack was confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in two separate criminal sentencing proceedings: the U.S. sentencing of [[Dallas Humber]] on December 19, 2025, and the Canadian agreed statement of facts for [[Matthew Althorpe]] on March 27, 2026. Turkish courts sentenced Küçükyetim to 75 years and 5 months on September 24, 2025.[^1]
+
+### The Attack
+
+Küçükyetim arrived at Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir on the evening of August 12, 2024 and began attacking worshippers outside the mosque's entrance. The five victims were [[Tevfik Arslan]] (73), [[Cumali Özemek]] (57), [[Naşit Özyürek]] (89), [[Metin Korkmaz]] (66), and [[Cemal Altıntaş]] (53). All survived their stab wounds, though several required hospitalization. Turkish police apprehended Küçükyetim at or near the scene.
+
+The Kick livestream was active during the attack and was shared through the Telegram group Küçükyetim had established beforehand. The stream link was also posted in a Terrorgram Collective group chat, placing the attack's documentation directly within Terrorgram's distribution infrastructure.[^2]
+
+### Manifesto and Ideology
+
+Küçükyetim's manifesto adopted accelerationist framing and the Terrorgram saints framework precisely, using the word "saint" to describe Tarrant, Breivik, McVeigh, and Paddock as inspirational models. It argued: "This system will eventually collapse... My actions and yours will accelerate this collapse and sooner or later the country, and then the world, will be covered in anarchy." The manifesto package also contained [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, Ted Kaczynski's manifesto, and [[Atomwaffen Division]] logos.
+
+The package included the "Haters Handbook," a [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) propaganda document. Researchers noted Küçükyetim drew from multiple overlapping accelerationist content ecosystems, but he is not documented as a formal MKY member. His confirmed network attribution, established through U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings, is Terrorgram.[^2]
+
+[[Natalie Rupnow]], who carried out the December 2024 [[2024 Abundant Life Christian School Shooting|Abundant Life Christian School shooting]] in Madison, Wisconsin, had browsed Küçükyetim's Telegram chat prior to her own attack.
+
+### International Proceedings and Terrorgram Attribution
+
+On September 5, 2024, 24 days after the Eskisehir attack, FBI agents arrested Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] in California in a coordinated operation connected to the broader Terrorgram investigation. Turkish media reported at the time that investigators were connecting the U.S. arrests to the Küçükyetim case.
+
+In the Humber sentencing in the Eastern District of California on December 19, 2025, DOJ prosecutors cited Küçükyetim's attack as one of several inspired or guided by Terrorgram's operational infrastructure under Humber's leadership. In Althorpe's agreed statement of facts before Ontario Superior Court on March 27, 2026, Canadian prosecutors documented that his publications had inspired "the stabbing of five people at a mosque in Turkey in 2024."[^1]
+
+### Turkish Sentencing
+
+On September 24, 2025, a Turkish court sentenced Küçükyetim to 75 years and 5 months, comprising four 15-year sentences for attempted murder, one sentence of 11 years and 8 months, and 3 years and 9 months for creating public panic.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: PPSC. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html; Daily Sabah. "US arrests white supremacists inspiring Turkish attacker." September 2024. https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/us-arrests-white-supremacists-inspiring-turkish-attacker/news
+[^2]: ADL. "Turkey Attacker Inspired by Accelerationism and Mass Killers, Manifesto Shows." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/turkey-attacker-inspired-accelerationism-and-mass-killers-manifesto-shows; GNET. "Dead Society: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey." August 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/08/16/dead-society-tracing-the-online-dimension-of-a-militant-accelerationist-inspired-attack-in-turkey/
+[^3]: Hurriyet Daily News. "Court sentences young man to 75 years for stabbing spree." September 2025. https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/court-sentences-young-man-to-75-years-for-stabbing-spree-213956

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - ManiacMurderCult
+  - NVE
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Tennessee
+  - USA
+  - MassShooter
+date: 2025-01-22
+location: "Nashville, Tennessee"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Solomon Henderson (17) killed one student and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville on January 22, 2025, leaving a manifesto citing Maniac Murder Cult; police found no direct MKY coordination or co-conspirators."
+---
+
+On January 22, 2025, [[Solomon Henderson]] (17) opened fire at Antioch High School in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], killing student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] (also called "Dayana") and wounding one other student before dying by suicide in the school hallway. Henderson left a manifesto that cited [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) as an ideological influence and named MKY leader [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] by his alias "Commander Butcher." The [[Nashville Metropolitan Police Department]] conducted an investigation and issued an update in January 2026 concluding that Henderson had no co-conspirators and that there was no evidence of direct operational direction or coordination with MKY.[^1]
+
+### The Shooting
+
+Henderson carried out the attack on January 22, 2025, at Antioch High School in the Antioch neighborhood of south Nashville. He killed Josselin Corea Escalante, a fellow student, and wounded one additional student before turning the weapon on himself. The attack was over within minutes of Henderson entering the school.
+
+The manifesto Henderson left was recovered by law enforcement and analyzed for connections to known extremist networks. It explicitly cited MKY and named Chkhikvishvili, framing the attack in the language of MKY's "saint" tradition and indicating Henderson had consumed MKY content. At the time of the attack, Chkhikvishvili was awaiting extradition from Moldova on U.S. federal charges; he was extradited to the United States in May 2025 and pleaded guilty in November 2025.
+
+### Investigation and MKY Attribution
+
+The ADL's analysis of the Antioch attack identified Henderson's manifesto as drawing from "broad extremist beliefs and previous mass killers," with MKY content among the influences. The investigation did not produce evidence that Henderson had been in direct contact with Chkhikvishvili or other MKY members.
+
+Nashville MPD's January 2026 update explicitly addressed public speculation about MKY direction, concluding that Henderson acted alone and without co-conspirators. This places the Antioch attack in a category distinct from cases like the Aracruz, Brazil school shootings - where [[Dallas Humber]] had direct documented Telegram contact with the perpetrator in the month before the attack - and instead reflects MKY's reach through publicly circulated ideological content rather than operational mentorship.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: 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
+[^2]: Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. Antioch High School shooting investigative update. January 2026. (MNPD public records)

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - Ukraine
+  - TheBase
+  - Russia
+  - FSB
+  - Assassination
+  - WhitePhoenix
+summary: "The July 10, 2025 killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv was claimed by The Base's Ukrainian cell White Phoenix and separately attributed by Ukrainian authorities to FSB-directed Russian operatives, leaving unresolved whether the two attributions describe a single coordinated operation or competing claims."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+start: 2025-07-10
+location: "Holosiivskyi district, Kyiv, Ukraine"
+---
+
+On July 10, 2025, [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] was shot and killed in the [[Holosiivskyi]] district of [[Kyiv]]. An unidentified assailant approached Voronych and fired five aimed shots with 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.[^1]
+
+### Competing Claims
+
+Two separate attributions were made within days of the killing.
+
+[[White Phoenix]], the Ukrainian operational cell of [[The Base]] neo-Nazi network, issued a Telegram statement claiming it had carried out "a carefully planned" operation against Voronych as a "warning to the regime" of President [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]. The claim praised its "comrades" for the killing.
+
+The [[SBU]] announced separately that it had identified and killed two Russian operatives, a man and a woman, whom Ukrainian investigators said had been directed by Russia's [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) to surveil Voronych and had subsequently been directed to a weapons cache containing a silenced firearm used in the killing. The SBU framed its response as attribution to Russian state actors.[^2]
+
+### Assessment of Attribution
+
+The two claims are not mutually exclusive. Counterterrorism sources told the [[Kyiv Independent]] they considered the White Phoenix claim credible. Possible interpretations include: that White Phoenix members conducted the killing as directed or facilitated by Russian intelligence, operating as a cutout; that White Phoenix made a false claim of responsibility for a killing conducted entirely by FSB-directed operatives; or that overlapping networks conducted the operation with dual knowledge.
+
+No Ukrainian government statement publicly confirmed The Base's involvement or linked White Phoenix to the FSB operatives the SBU described. The [[United States]] government made no public attribution regarding the killing.[^3]
+
+### Concurrent Activity
+
+The killing occurred in the same period that [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] had publicly posted cash-bounty offers on Telegram for attacks on Ukrainian officials, infrastructure, and security forces. The White Phoenix graffiti campaign across Ukrainian cities had been documented since late March 2025. If the claim was genuine, the Voronych killing would represent the first confirmed assassination attributable to The Base anywhere in the world.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: CBS News, "Ukrainian spy agency officer shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv, reports say." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-spy-agency-officer-killed-kyiv-reports-ivan-voronych/; Kyiv Post, "Russo-American Neo-Nazi Group Claims Responsibility for Assassination of SBU Colonel in Kyiv." https://www.kyivpost.com/post/56428
+
+[^2]: 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/; 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
+
+[^3]: Novaya Gazeta Europe, "Ukraine wing of Russia-linked neo-Nazi group claims involvement in killing of security service colonel," July 2025. https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/07/16/ukraine-wing-of-russia-linked-neo-nazi-group-claims-involvement-in-killing-of-security-service-colonel-en-news

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+---
+category: "Terrorism"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - MassShootingUSA
+  - AntiMuslim
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - SiegeCulture
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - Terrorgram
+  - TheBase
+  - SanDiego
+  - California
+  - 2020s
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "On May 18, 2026, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people and leaving an accelerationist manifesto citing Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base; both perpetrators died at the scene."
+date: 2026-05-18
+location: "San Diego, California"
+---
+
+On May 18, 2026, [[Cain Clark|Cain Lee Clark]] (17) and [[Caleb Vazquez|Caleb Liam Vazquez]] (18) attacked the [[Islamic Center of San Diego]] (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, located on Eckstrom Avenue in the Clairemont neighborhood. Three people were killed and one was wounded. Both perpetrators died at the scene - Clark shot Vazquez and then himself in their getaway vehicle approximately three-tenths of a mile from the mosque. The two had left a 75-page manifesto titled "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" drawn explicitly from [[Siege Culture|siege]] accelerationist ideology and citing [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], and [[The Base]] as organizations they were acting in support of.
+
+### Timeline
+
+At approximately 9:42 a.m., Clark's mother contacted San Diego police to report her son missing and raise concerns that he was suicidal. At approximately 11:43 a.m., police received active shooter calls at the ICSD. Officers arrived within four minutes. Three victims were shot outside the mosque in the initial attack; security guard [[Amin Abdullah]] engaged the shooters in a sustained gun battle, delaying their entry into the building and allowing staff and approximately 150 students in the attached school to shelter in place. The shooters fled after Abdullah's resistance. During their escape, they carried out a drive-by shooting that struck a landscaper with a bullet deflected by his helmet, causing no serious injury.
+
+At approximately 12:43 p.m. police confirmed the scene was contained. By 1:07 p.m. the threat was neutralized. Both suspects were found dead in a white BMW three-tenths of a mile from the ICSD. According to subsequent investigation, [[Caleb Vazquez]] had encouraged [[Cain Clark]] to shoot him; Clark shot Vazquez twice in the head inside the car and then killed himself.[^1]
+
+### Victims
+
+Three people were killed at the scene. Two victims were named in reporting as [[Mansour Kaziha]] and [[Nader Awad]]; a third victim was not immediately identified publicly. No children in the attached school were harmed.[^2]
+
+### The Manifesto: "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant"
+
+The 75-page manifesto took its title from [[Brenton Tarrant]], the 2019 Christchurch shooter, framing the San Diego attack as a continuation of Tarrant's "momentum." It was explicitly accelerationist, arguing for indiscriminate violence to accelerate the collapse of liberal democratic society.
+
+The text explicitly named [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], and [[The Base]] as organizations the attack was carried out for. It cited [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]* and William Luther Pierce's *[[The Turner Diaries]]* as works that "should be read almost biblically by all soldiers of the white race." It praised [[Robert Bowers]] (the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooter) alongside Tarrant as models.
+
+Ideological content included explicit [[Great Replacement Theory]], describing Muslims as "invaders" and "existential threats"; pervasive antisemitism, framing Jews as "the universal enemy"; expressed incel ideology from both authors; and explicit rejection of mainstream conservatism, including anti-Trump positions consistent with the accelerationist critique of electoral politics. [[Cain Clark]] described himself in his section as a "Christian ecofascist." [[Caleb Vazquez]] praised Adolf Hitler as "the greatest man to ever walk this Earth."
+
+Physical evidence recovered from the scene included an SS logo on a fuel container found in the suspects' vehicle, a Sonnenrad patch and Atomwaffen Division logo on one shooter's tactical vest, and hate speech scrawled on one of the weapons.[^3][^4]
+
+### Prior Warning Signs
+
+In 2025, the Chula Vista Police Department received a tip from an acquaintance of Vazquez expressing concern about his interest in "extremist ideology and mass-casualty attacks." Officers reviewed his social media, which was described in police reporting as "littered with neo-Nazi rhetoric," but determined the situation did not meet the legal threshold for arrest. No charges were filed at that time.
+
+Clark's social media was described by investigators as reflecting "possible associations with nihilistic violent extremist ideology." No prior law enforcement contact with Clark was reported. The two perpetrators met online before meeting in person, having found each other through online spaces associated with accelerationist ideology.[^5]
+
+### Law Enforcement and Political Response
+
+The FBI opened a federal hate crime investigation. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl praised security guard [[Amin Abdullah]] as "pivotal" in preventing additional casualties. President Donald Trump issued a statement condemning the attack. No co-conspirators or third-party accomplices were identified; both perpetrators were deceased, precluding criminal prosecution.
+
+Trump adviser Laura Loomer drew significant criticism for social media posts following the attack that falsely characterized the victims and called for immigration enforcement actions targeting the ICSD and American Muslims. CAIR issued a statement calling the attack a product of rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the political environment.[^6]
+
+### Ideological Lineage
+
+The attack's documented ideological genealogy connects it directly to the research subject of this vault. The manifesto's citations trace to the [[Siege Culture]] lineage: [[James Mason]]'s *Siege* (1992, compiled), popularized by [[Iron March]] beginning in 2015 and adopted as foundational text by [[Atomwaffen Division]] (founded on Iron March, October 2015). Terrorgram, cited in the manifesto as a recipient of the attack's dedication, distributed [[Martinet Press]] and [[Tempel ov Blood]] material through its channels. The manifesto's aesthetic - Sonnenrad imagery, AWD logo, Saints-culture format - reflects the visual grammar developed by Terrorgram and its predecessor networks.
+
+No confirmed connection to the [[764 Network|764]] network or [[Order of Nine Angles]] was established in reporting through May 21, 2026.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: NBC 7 San Diego. "Three killed, two suspects dead." May 18, 2026. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-police-responding-to-reports-of-an-active-shooter-at-the-islamic-center-of-san-diego/4025204/
+[^2]: Al Jazeera. "Mansour Kaziha, Nader Awad identified as victims in San Diego mosque attack." May 19, 2026. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/19/mansour-kaziha-nader-awad-identified-as-victims-in-san-diego-mosque-attack
+[^3]: ADL. "San Diego Mosque Shooters' Apparent Manifestos Reveal Anti-Muslim Extremism." May 2026. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/san-diego-mosque-shooters-apparent-manifestos-reveal-anti-muslim-extremism
+[^4]: i24NEWS. "San Diego mosque shooters left 75-page neo-Nazi manifesto." https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-san-diego-mosque-shooters-left-75-page-neo-nazi-manifesto-blaming-jews-for-world-s-problems
+[^5]: 10News. "Chula Vista police had prior contact with one suspect from Monday's shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego." May 2026. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/south-bay-news/chula-vista-police-had-prior-contact-with-one-suspect-from-mondays-shooting-at-islamic-center-of-san-diego
+[^6]: Fox 5 San Diego. "Trump responds to San Diego mosque attack." May 2026. https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/trump-responds-san-diego-mosque-attack/

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+---
+category: "Modern Incident"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - DomesticTerrorism
+  - Military
+  - USA
+  - WhiteSupremacy
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - Policy
+start: 2021-02-05
+end: 2021-12-20
+location: "Washington, D.C."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "The DoD Extremism Stand-Down was a 60-day Department of Defense-wide initiative ordered by Secretary Austin in February 2021 following the January 6 Capitol attack, culminating in a December 2021 working group report and multiple Inspector General evaluations documenting persistent gaps in tracking and prosecuting extremism in the military."
+---
+
+The DoD Extremism Stand-Down was a [[Department of Defense]] initiative ordered by Secretary of Defense [[Lloyd Austin]] on February 5, 2021, in response to revelations of active-duty and veteran participation in the January 6, 2021 attack on the [[U.S. Capitol]] and to longstanding concerns about white supremacist infiltration of the armed forces. The stand-down directed commanding officers across all services to conduct a one-day discussion session focused on extremism within a 60-day window. It produced a working group, a December 2021 report, and triggered two subsequent [[DoD Inspector General]] evaluations. No AWD-specific cases were publicly identified as surfacing directly from the stand-down process.[^1]
+
+### Austin's Order
+
+Secretary Austin signed the stand-down memorandum on February 5, 2021, less than three weeks after taking office. He wrote that the military's ability to defend the nation depends on the "oath of office to which we are all bound" and that extremist activities by service members "run counter to our core values." The memorandum directed each service to select one day within 60 days for leadership at all levels to conduct discussions covering: the importance of the oath of office; impermissible behaviors; and reporting procedures for suspected extremism.[^2]
+
+### Results of the Stand-Down
+
+The stand-down produced limited publicly documented outcomes. The [[Marine Corps]] reported 16 substantiated extremism cases over the prior three years, mostly social media posts. The [[FBI]] informed the Pentagon that it had 143 ongoing investigations involving current or former military members, with 68 pertaining to domestic extremism. The Defense Department did not centrally track extremism cases at the time and acknowledged this structural gap. By year's end, the department reported identifying roughly 100 service members involved in substantiated acts of extremism in 2021, but no AWD-specific cases were publicly attributed to the stand-down's disclosure process.[^3]
+
+### The Countering Extremist Activity Working Group (CEAWG)
+
+Austin established the [[Countering Extremist Activity Working Group]] (CEAWG) in April 2021 to develop policy recommendations. On December 20, 2021, the DoD released the CEAWG's "Report on Countering Extremist Activity Within the Department of Defense," a 21-page document summarizing: 294 allegations of extremist activity between January and September 2021; 281 opened investigations; 92 punitive or administrative actions; 75 unsubstantiated allegations; and 86 ongoing investigations. The report provided six recommendations across four lines of effort: Military Justice and Policy, Support and Oversight of the Insider Threat Program, Investigative Processes and Screening Capability, and Education and Training.[^4]
+
+The report did not name specific extremist organizations in its public version. The October 2020 Pentagon report to Congress (compiled under the Trump administration but not published until Roll Call reported on it in February 2021) had explicitly cited [[Atomwaffen Division]] by name, including a screenshot of a post by AWD founder [[Brandon Russell]] from [[Iron March]] bragging about sharing white supremacist views with fellow Guard members. That earlier report recommended that the Pentagon work more closely with the [[FBI]]'s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CARU) and [[National Gang Intelligence Center]] to identify extremist tattoos during recruitment, and that security clearance questionnaires include clearer screening for white supremacist links.[^5]
+
+### DoD Inspector General Reports
+
+The DoD IG produced two significant reports from this period. DODIG-2022-042, released December 2, 2021, was the first annual report to Congress required by Section 554 of the Fiscal Year 2021 [[National Defense Authorization Act]] (NDAA). It assessed the DoD's progress toward standardized policies for reporting and tracking extremism allegations, finding mixed implementation across services.
+
+DODIG-2022-095, released May 12, 2022, was a full evaluation of DoD efforts to address ideological extremism within the armed forces. Its project announcement had been made in January 2021. The report, available in [redacted form](https://media.defense.gov/2022/May/12/2002995443/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2022-095_REDACTED.PDF), found that the DoD had not implemented consistent policies and procedures across the services. The full text of the redacted version specifies findings on the service branches' relative compliance but does not name specific individuals or organizations in its publicly available portions.[^6]
+
+Subsequent annual NDAA Section 554 reports have continued documenting gaps: DODIG-2023-034 (released December 1, 2022) and DODIG-2024-034 (released November 30, 2023) each found persistent problems with how the services track and report extremism cases.
+
+### HASC Hearing: H.A.S.C. No. 117-14
+
+On March 24, 2021, the [[House Armed Services Committee]] convened a full committee hearing titled "Extremism in the Armed Forces," designated H.A.S.C. No. 117-14, chaired by Representative [[Adam Smith]] (D-WA). Three witnesses testified:[^7]
+
+Dr. [[Audrey Kurth Cronin]], Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology at [[American University]], testified on the structural and historical dimensions of military extremism.
+
+Ms. [[Lecia Brooks]], Chief of Staff of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], testified that SPLC had "identified dozens of former and active military personnel among the membership of some of the country's most dangerous and violent white supremacist groups," including [[Atomwaffen Division]]. Her testimony cited at minimum seven AWD members with confirmed military service records identified through the Iron March data and other research.
+
+Mr. [[Michael Berry]], General Counsel of the [[First Liberty Institute]], testified primarily on First Amendment concerns around enforcement of extremism policies.
+
+The hearing record included the 2020 Pentagon report's cited transcript of Brandon Russell bragging on Iron March about sharing white supremacist views with fellow service members during National Guard training.
+
+### Policy Changes
+
+Following the stand-down and CEAWG report, the DoD issued updated guidance in December 2021 revising [[DoD Instruction 1325.06]], which governs handling of protest, extremist, and criminal gang activities among service members. The update broadened the definition of prohibited extremist activities and established clearer procedures for reporting and investigating allegations. It also formalized partnerships with the FBI for security clearance screening and tattoo/imagery review. The full scope of implementation across services remained inconsistent through subsequent IG audits.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: NPR. "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Signs Military 'Stand Down' Memo To Address Extremism." February 6, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/06/964828770/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-signs-military-stand-down-memo-to-address-extremi
+
+[^2]: DoD Memorandum. "Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks." February 5, 2021. https://media.defense.gov/2021/Feb/05/2002577485/-1/-1/0/STAND-DOWN-TO-ADDRESS-EXTREMISM-IN-THE-RANKS.PDF
+
+[^3]: Military Times. "Defense Secretary Orders 60-Day Stand-Down to Confront Extremism in the Military." February 3, 2021. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/02/03/defense-secretary-orders-60-day-stand-down-to-confront-extremism-in-the-military/
+
+[^4]: DoD, Countering Extremist Activity Working Group. "Report on Countering Extremist Activity Within the Department of Defense." December 20, 2021. https://media.defense.gov/2021/Dec/20/2002912573/-1/-1/0/REPORT-ON-COUNTERING-EXTREMIST-ACTIVITY-WITHIN-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE.PDF
+
+[^5]: Roll Call. "Pentagon Report Reveals Inroads White Supremacists Have Made in Military." February 16, 2021. https://rollcall.com/2021/02/16/pentagon-report-reveals-inroads-white-supremacists-have-made-in-military/; NBC News. "Pentagon Report Warns of Threat from White Supremacists Inside the Military." February 2021. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/pentagon-report-warns-threat-white-supremacists-inside-military-n1258871
+
+[^6]: DoD IG. "Department of Defense Progress on Implementing Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA Section 554 Requirements Involving Prohibited Activities of Covered Armed Forces." DODIG-2022-042. December 2, 2021. https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/2858895/department-of-defense-progress-on-implementing-fiscal-year-2021-ndaa-section-55/; DoD IG. "Evaluation of Department of Defense Efforts to Address Ideological Extremism Within the Armed Forces." DODIG-2022-095. May 12, 2022. https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/article/3028919/evaluation-of-department-of-defense-efforts-to-address-ideological-extremism-wi/
+
+[^7]: Congress.gov. "Extremism in the Armed Forces, H.A.S.C. No. 117-14." March 24, 2021. https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/LC67998/text; GovInfo. CHRG-117hhrg45011. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CHRG-117hhrg45011; American University. "Audrey Kurth Cronin Testifies Before HASC on Extremism in the Armed Forces." https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/security-technology/audrey_kurth_cronin_testifies_before_a_full_hearing_of_the_house_armed_service_committee_on_extremism_in-the_armed_forces.cfm

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - Brazil
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - ICE
+  - LawEnforcement
+  - ICEHSI
+date: 2021-12-16
+location: "Seven Brazilian states (RJ, MG, SP, PR, SC, RS, RN)"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests across seven Brazilian states, disrupting neo-Nazi cells planning mass casualty attacks including a planned bombing of the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant."
+---
+
+Operation Bergon was a joint law enforcement operation conducted on December 16, 2021, by [[US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] Homeland Security Investigations ([[ICE HSI]]) and the [[Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] (MJSP), targeting neo-Nazi cells operating on US-based online platforms and planning mass casualty attacks against Jewish and Black civilians, schools, and critical infrastructure in Brazil. The operation resulted in 31 search warrants executed simultaneously across seven Brazilian states and four arrests, with homemade explosives, weapons, and attack planning materials seized.[^1]
+
+### Investigation Background
+
+The investigation originated in May 2021 when ICE HSI identified criminal neo-Nazi groups using US-based online platforms to coordinate violence and recruit members in Brazil. Between May and November 2021, HSI passed a series of investigative leads to the MJSP Secretariat for Integrated Operations' [[Cyber Laboratory]]. The Cyber Laboratory coordinated with state police and prosecutors' offices across the seven affected states (Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, and Rio Grande do Norte) in advance of the simultaneous December 16 execution of warrants.[^1]
+
+### The December 2021 Operation
+
+On December 16, 2021, Brazilian state police and prosecutors across seven states executed 31 search warrants and four arrest warrants. Evidence seized included homemade explosives, conventional weapons, Nazi paraphernalia, and detailed plans for future attacks. One named suspect, identified publicly as Matheus Hades NS, a 43-year-old security guard from [[Campinas]], Sao Paulo, was alleged to have attempted to recruit young people to bomb the [[Angra dos Reis]] nuclear power plant, located in the Rio de Janeiro state coastal area. Matheus Hades NS reportedly stated his intent to "kill and then commit suicide." Other individuals in the cells were planning attacks against public areas including schools, as well as hate crimes against Jewish and Black civilians. One perpetrator intended to use explosives at a New Year's Eve celebration in Sao Paulo state.[^1][^2]
+
+### US-Brazil Cooperation Framework
+
+Operation Bergon is the most documented instance of pre-2022 US-Brazil law enforcement cooperation specifically targeting neo-Nazi accelerationist networks, predating the wave of Brazilian school attacks that began with the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] by approximately eleven months. The ICE HSI role was to identify online activity on US-hosted platforms and pass leads to Brazilian counterparts; the arrest and search warrant execution authority remained with Brazilian state and federal agencies. The operational model, in which HSI served as an intelligence-sharing partner rather than a direct enforcement actor, mirrors the framework ICE HSI has used in similar operations in other Latin American countries.[^1]
+
+No public record of prosecution outcomes for the four arrested individuals has appeared in English-language sources as of mid-2026. Whether Matheus Hades NS was formally charged and tried in Brazilian courts is not established in the public record.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ICE HSI. "Brazil, ICE HSI investigation prevents a neo-Nazi group's planned mass casualty attack on New Year's Eve." Press release. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/brazil-ice-hsi-investigation-prevents-neo-nazi-groups-planned-mass-casualty-attack
+
+[^2]: HSToday. "ICE HSI, Brazilian Police Stop Neo-Nazi Plans for New Year's Eve Mass-Casualty Attack." https://www.hstoday.us/federal-pages/dhs/ice-hsi-brazilian-police-stop-neo-nazi-plans-for-new-years-eve-mass-casualty-attack/

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - MetropolitanPolice
+  - VettingFailure
+  - UK
+  - PoliceMisconduct
+  - PoliceUpliftProgramme
+  - OperationJorica
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Operation Jorica was a Metropolitan Police internal review of vetting and hiring practices covering the ten years prior to April 2023, published in January 2026, which found that nearly 90 per cent of 5,073 recruits examined had not been subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening during the Police Uplift Programme recruitment period."
+---
+
+Operation Jorica was an internal [[Metropolitan Police Service]] review of vetting and hiring practices examining the decade prior to April 2023. Its report was published in January 2026 and presented to the [[London Assembly]] Police and Crime Committee. The review was initiated by Commissioner [[Mark Rowley]] following a series of high-profile misconduct and criminal convictions involving serving Metropolitan Police officers, including the conviction and imprisonment of [[Wayne Couzens]] for the murder of [[Sarah Everard]] in 2021 and the conviction of [[David Carrick]] in 2023.
+
+### Scope and Methodology
+
+The review examined the vetting records of 5,073 recruits who joined the Metropolitan Police during the ten-year period ending April 2023. This covered the entirety of the national [[Police Uplift Programme]] (PUP), which ran from July 2019 with the aim of adding 20,000 officers across England and Wales by March 2023. The Metropolitan Police's PUP target was 4,557 additional officers, creating significant pressure on the vetting unit's throughput capacity during the programme's peak years of 2020 to 2022.[^1]
+
+### Key Findings
+
+The most operationally significant finding was that nearly 90 per cent of the 5,073 recruits reviewed had not been subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening as part of their vetting. The review attributed this gap to the pace and scale of recruitment under the PUP, combined with pressures to improve workforce diversity and respond to rising violent crime in London. These pressures led, in the review's language, to "deviations from national vetting guidance and police regulations."[^2]
+
+The review also found that 505 individuals had been refused jobs as a result of the vetting process but that 114 of those refusal decisions had been overruled by a diversity panel.
+
+Of the recruits who remained with the force after the review, 39 required full re-vetting. Eight of that group were referred into the [[Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025]] process, which can result in removal of vetting clearance and dismissal.[^3]
+
+### Hannam Vetting Failure
+
+The Hannam vetting failure in 2017 pre-dates the PUP period reviewed by Operation Jorica but is directly relevant to its findings. [[Benjamin Hannam]] applied to join the Metropolitan Police on 19 July 2017 and subsequently passed vetting despite being a member of [[National Action]], a proscribed terrorist organisation. The vetting unit did not seek a school reference, and the [[Iron March]] forum database that would have established his extremist online activity was not publicly available until November 2019. The [[HMICFRS]] thematic inspection published in 2022 and the Operation Jorica review together represent the institutional post-mortem on the vetting conditions that allowed Hannam's employment.[^4]
+
+### Institutional Response
+
+The Metropolitan Police response to Operation Jorica included the implementation of the Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025 across all force vetting decisions, investment in technology-assisted vetting tools, and re-vetting of all officers identified through the review as having received clearance under the weakened procedures documented. The force described the period covered as producing "the biggest clear-out in the force's history," with more than 1,500 officers and staff exited over the three years preceding the report's publication on grounds of falling short of conduct standards.[^5]
+
+The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee received the Operation Jorica report in January 2026 as a formal agenda item (document reference 06a). The Assembly's formal written questions to the Mayor on Met officers and banned far-right groups, raised in April 2021 following the Hannam conviction, were an earlier iteration of the same accountability mechanism.[^6]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Metropolitan Police. "Operation Jorica Report." London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, January 2026. https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngovmb/documents/s84725/06a%20-%20MPS%20Operation_Jorica_Report%20-%20January_2026.pdf
+
+[^2]: Emergency Services Times. "Rapid recruitment drive weakened vetting checks, Met review finds." 9 January 2026. https://emergencyservicestimes.com/2026/01/09/rapid-recruitment-drive-weakened-vetting-checks-met-review-finds/
+
+[^3]: Metropolitan Police. "Met continues drive to raise standards following historical vetting review." January 2026. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-continues-drive-to-raise-standards-following-historical-vetting-review-504908
+
+[^4]: HMICFRS. "An inspection of vetting, misconduct, and misogyny in the police service." 2022. https://hmicfrs.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/publication-html/an-inspection-of-vetting-misconduct-and-misogyny-in-the-police-service/
+
+[^5]: Metropolitan Police. "Met continues drive to raise standards following historical vetting review." January 2026.
+
+[^6]: London Assembly. "Met Police Officers and Banned Far-Right Groups (1)." 2021. https://london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/met-police-officers-and-banned-far-right-groups-1

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - TheBase
+  - NeoNazi
+  - FederalCase
+  - HateCrime
+  - USA
+  - ConspiracyAgainstRights
+summary: "Operation Kristallnacht was a September 2019 coordinated campaign organized through The Base's online channels by Richard Tobin that directed members to vandalize synagogues across the United States, resulting in federal civil rights convictions in New Jersey and Wisconsin."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+start: 2019-09-13
+end: 2019-09-21
+location: "United States (New Jersey organized; Wisconsin, Michigan executed)"
+---
+
+Operation Kristallnacht was a coordinated vandalism campaign organized through [[The Base]]'s online channels during September 13-21, 2019, named after the Nazi pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. [[Richard Tobin]], a New Jersey resident, used The Base's encrypted group chats to recruit and direct members to spray-paint antisemitic graffiti, swastikas, and The Base's symbol on synagogues in multiple U.S. states.[^1]
+
+### Organization and Execution
+
+From September 13 through 21, 2019, Tobin and other Base members communicated through online channels about targeting synagogues and threatening Black and Jewish communities. Participants agreed through these channels to vandalize Jewish houses of worship as a coordinated act of intimidation. The campaign was explicitly framed within The Base's accelerationist ideology as a direct invocation of Nazi Germany.
+
+[[Yousef O. Barasneh]], 22, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, traveled to Beth Israel Sinai Congregation in [[Racine, Wisconsin]], on September 21, 2019, and spray-painted antisemitic language, a swastika, and The Base's symbol on the building's exterior. A separate vandalism occurred at a [[Michigan]] synagogue, [[Temple Jacob]] in [[Hancock, Michigan]], for which another perpetrator was convicted of a federal hate crime.
+
+### Federal Prosecutions
+
+Barasneh was arrested January 17, 2020, and charged in the [[Eastern District of Wisconsin]] with conspiring to violate citizens' rights to use property free from threats and intimidation under 18 U.S.C. § 241, case 2:20-cr-00026. He pleaded guilty August 12, 2020, and received a sentence of two months probation.[^2]
+
+Tobin was charged federally in [[New Jersey]] with conspiracy against rights for organizing the campaign. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced on November 16, 2021, to one year and one day in federal prison plus three years of supervised release. Prosecutors described him as the campaign's director, who had coordinated the nationwide effort through Base channels.[^3]
+
+### Nazi Historical Reference
+
+Tobin's use of the name "Operation Kristallnacht" in Base communications was documented in prosecution materials and described by The Forward and other outlets. The name choice reflected The Base's explicit embrace of Nazi historical symbolism and its effort to frame vandalism as the first stage in an accelerationist escalation campaign modeled on historical Nazi violence.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: The Forward, "'The Base' called synagogue vandalism 'Kristallnacht,'" 2020. https://forward.com/news/453870/synagogue-vandal-in-racine-wis-called-it-operation-kristallnacht/
+
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of Wisconsin, "Oak Creek Man Who Vandalized Racine Synagogue Pleads Guilty," August 2020. United States v. Barasneh, 2:20-cr-00026 (E.D. Wis.). https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/oak-creek-man-who-vandalized-racine-synagogue-pleads-guilty
+
+[^3]: Daily Voice, "NJ Neo-Nazi Gets Year, Day For Masterminding Nationwide 'Kristallnacht' Attack On Blacks, Jews," November 2021; Upper Michigan's Source, "New Jersey man sentenced to prison for directing vandalism of Temple Jacob in Hancock," November 18, 2021. https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2021/11/18/new-jersey-man-sentenced-prison-directing-vandalism-temple-jacob-hancock/

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+---
+category: "Modern Incident"
+tags:
+  - Concept
+  - Accelerationism
+  - Telegram
+  - PlatformMigration
+  - NeoNazi
+  - InfrastructureAdaptation
+  - PostTerrorgram
+start: 2024
+location: "Online (global)"
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration describes the documented shift in neo-Nazi accelerationist network infrastructure following Pavel Durov's arrest in August 2024 and the September 2024 Terrorgram Collective federal indictment unsealing, which prompted accelerationist channels to migrate toward encrypted decentralized platforms and persistent web forums."
+---
+
+Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration describes the documented shift in neo-Nazi accelerationist network infrastructure following two events in 2024: the arrest of [[Telegram]] CEO [[Pavel Durov]] in [[France]] on August 24, 2024, which prompted Telegram to announce cooperation with law enforcement regarding illegal content on the platform; and the September 2024 U.S. federal indictment unsealing in the [[Terrorgram Collective]] case (case 2:24-cr-00257, [[Eastern District of California]]). The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD), the [[Counter Extremism Project]] (CEP), and [[ProPublica]] all independently documented accelerationist Telegram channels discussing the need for platform migration in the immediate aftermath of these events.
+
+### Telegram Cooperation Shift (August-September 2024)
+
+Following Durov's arrest on August 24, 2024, Telegram publicly acknowledged that criminals had abused the platform and announced that it would begin sharing the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate platform rules "in response to valid legal requests." Durov's statement represented a significant departure from Telegram's prior posture of non-cooperation with law enforcement regarding content.
+
+ISD analysts monitoring neo-Nazi accelerationist channels in this period found that a large number of groups immediately began posting about the need to migrate to alternative platforms. A neo-Nazi [[OPSEC]] channel that ISD monitored noted that the Terrorgram Collective designation was "another example" of why the white supremacist online community needed an alternative to Telegram offering better encryption and security. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] published contemporaneous documentation of channels advising members on how to avoid detection and migrate infrastructure.[^1][^2]
+
+### The September 2024 Migration Wave
+
+ISD documented that following the Durov arrest and the Terrorgram indictment unsealing, a large number of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups began migrating to a new decentralized, encrypted platform, which ISD declined to name in its published reporting to avoid amplification. ISD described the platform's distinguishing features: end-to-end encryption activated by default for all messages, and being, in its own marketing, "the first chat platform that circumvents the need for user IDs," assigning no unique identifiers to users. ISD characterized using it as analogous to "having a different burner email or phone for each contact, and no hassle to manage them."
+
+ISD observed that during a single 24-hour period on September 25, 2024, three instances of users in channels assessed by ISD called for the assassination of then-Vice President [[Kamala Harris]], and one instance called for the assassination of former President [[Donald Trump]]. Multiple users called for a race war framed as a precursor to seizing the United States by force.[^3]
+
+### What Moved Where
+
+Documented accelerationist infrastructure that emerged or adapted in this period:
+
+[[FashFront]], a persistent web forum launched in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, represents the most significant new organizational infrastructure, deliberately modeling itself on [[Iron March]] and operating outside Telegram. FashFront combines forum-style networking with a companion Telegram channel and [[Odysee]] video distribution.
+
+ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE documented that Terrorgram's content, once distributed, proved impossible to fully remove from the broader accelerationist ecosystem. Legacy publications including *[[The Hard Reset]]*, *[[Militant Accelerationism: A Collective Handbook]]*, and *Do It For The Gram* continued to circulate on Telegram channels, archived platforms, and file-sharing services regardless of the status of the Terrorgram Collective as an organization.[^4]
+
+The [[Decoherence Media]] outlet's 2025 compilation of the Iron March database through its [[FashyLeaks]] interface represented a separate infrastructure development: the systematic archiving and cross-referencing of historical accelerationist forum memberships enabled current-generation forums like FashFront to identify and recruit former Iron March and [[Fascist Forge]] users.[^5]
+
+### Channels That Migrated vs. Those Taken Down
+
+[[ISD]] noted that much of the activity on the unnamed migration platform "revolved around resurrecting legacy documents and artwork from neo-Nazi accelerationists such as the Terrorgram Collective and other groups." The pattern was consistent with prior post-deplatforming behavior: migrate the archive, rebuild the community around shared historical artifacts.
+
+Accelerationist channels that advised migration to alternatives mentioned in press reporting included [[Signal]] (dismissed by some users as potentially monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies), [[Briar]] (a peer-to-peer encrypted messenger), and [[Session]] (a decentralized messenger). The ISD-documented unnamed platform's specific description (no user IDs, default end-to-end encryption) is consistent with SimpleX Chat, which launched its user-ID-free design as a flagship security feature in this period; ISD did not confirm or deny this identification.
+
+No systematic law enforcement deplatforming operation targeting post-Terrorgram successor infrastructure has been publicly announced as of May 2026. The [[Tech Against Terrorism]] knowledge-sharing database continues to circulate identified accelerationist content hashes to member platforms, but the decentralized nature of the migration makes systematic takedown substantially harder than the Telegram channel-takedown paradigm that was used against centralized Terrorgram infrastructure.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ISD Global. "Dismantling Digital Terror: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Terrorgram." 2024. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/dismantling-digital-terror-lessons-learned-from-the-collapse-of-terrorgram/; 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
+[^2]: 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/
+[^3]: 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/
+[^4]: 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
+[^5]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - LawEnforcement
+  - Europol
+  - TheComNetwork
+  - NVE
+  - International
+  - ChildExploitation
+start: 2025
+location: "International (Europol ECTC)"
+created: 2026-05-21
+updated: 2026-05-21
+summary: "Project Compass is a Europol-coordinated 28-country law enforcement operation against the Com network and its 764 subgroup, launched in January 2025, that by February 2026 had produced 30 arrests and identified 179 perpetrators."
+---
+
+[[Project Compass]] is a coordinated law enforcement operation led by [[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]] (ECTC) targeting [[The Com]] and its subgroup [[764 Network|764]], launched in January 2025. As of its first formal operational results announcement on February 27, 2026, the operation had resulted in 30 arrests, the identification of 179 perpetrators, the identification of 62 victims, and the direct safeguarding of 4 victims across 28 participating countries. Project Compass is the largest coordinated multinational law enforcement operation targeting the Com network documented in public reporting.[^1]
+
+### Scope and Structure
+
+Project Compass is structured as an ongoing operational framework rather than a single coordinated raid, producing rolling arrests across participating countries as individual investigations mature. The 28 participating countries include the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and multiple European Union member states. The operation is coordinated through Europol's ECTC, which provides intelligence analysis, secure information sharing, and operational coordination for national law enforcement agencies.
+
+The operation targets the full Com ecosystem including [[The Com]] network's three operational pillars (cybercrime, sextortion, and offline violence), 764 and its [[764 Inferno|Inferno]] inner cell, and related splinter networks including [[No Lives Matter]], [[Kaskar]], and other documented Com subgroups.[^2]
+
+### Documented Arrests
+
+Among the individuals arrested in connection with Project Compass or in concurrent national operations coordinated through Europol:
+
+- [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] (21, alleged 764 Inferno leader) - arrested Greece April 2025
+- [[Prasan Nepal]] (20, alleged 764 Inferno leader) - arrested North Carolina April 2025
+- [[Tony Christopher Long]] - indicted Eastern District of California October 2025
+- [[Alexis Aldair Chavez]] - federal plea to RICO charges December 2025
+- [[Jeffrey Roussel]] - charged Quebec City April 2026
+
+Additional arrests in the United States and internationally were announced as part of the February 2026 results without naming individual defendants.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Europol. "Project Compass: First operational results against Com network." February 27, 2026. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/project-compass-first-operational-results-against-com-network; BleepingComputer. "Police crackdown on The Com cybercrime gang leads to 30 arrests." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-crackdown-on-the-com-cybercrime-gang-leads-to-30-arrests/
+[^2]: CyberScoop. "Project Compass: Europol's sustained campaign against The Com." https://cyberscoop.com/project-compass-the-com-europol/

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+---
+category: "Intelligence Scandal"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - USGovernment
+  - Russia
+  - SDGTDesignation
+  - OFAC
+  - StateDepartment
+  - ODNI
+  - AcceleratoristNetwork
+  - WhiteSupremacy
+  - RussianImperialMovement
+  - TheBase
+  - TerroristDesignation
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "U.S. government formal actions identifying the Russian state-adjacent accelerationist nexus span 2020-2025 and include the State Department's first-ever white supremacist SDGT designation (Russian Imperial Movement, April 2020), ODNI's 2021 DVE assessment acknowledging transnational white supremacist connections, and the 2025 FTO debate over The Base."
+---
+
+This page catalogs the U.S. government's official formal actions documenting the nexus between Russian-based or Russian-adjacent actors and the accelerationist network. It draws on publicly released primary documents. It excludes analytical assertions from non-governmental researchers, which are documented elsewhere (e.g., the [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] and [[Russian Imperial Movement]] pages).
+
+### State Department: Russian Imperial Movement SDGT Designation (April 7, 2020)
+
+On April 7, 2020, the [[U.S. Department of State]] designated [[Russian Imperial Movement]] (RIM), its founder [[Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev]], Imperial Legion commander [[Denis Valiullovich Gariev]], and external relations coordinator [[Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov]] as [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] entities under [[Executive Order 13224]], as amended by [[Executive Order 13886]].
+
+This was the first time in U.S. history that the State Department had designated a white supremacist organization as a terrorist entity. Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador [[Nathan Sales]] explained at a press briefing that the designation was premised on RIM "providing training for acts of terrorism" through its [[Partizan]] training camp, specifically citing the case of two [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] members from [[Sweden]] who attended Partizan in 2016 and subsequently carried out bombings in Gothenburg in January 2017. The Swedish court proceedings and the Swedish prosecutor's explicit attribution of the bombing skills to the Partizan training formed the factual record for the designation.
+
+Legal authority: E.O. 13224, Section 1(b), blocking property of persons who have "committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism" or who "assist in, sponsor, or provide financial, material, or technological support for" or "services to or in support of" such acts. Gariev's individual designation was published in the Federal Register, 85 FR 20803-20804 (April 14, 2020).
+
+The designation triggers asset-freezing and transaction-prohibition consequences under U.S. law for any person who knowingly provides material support to RIM or its designated leaders. It does not constitute a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation, which would trigger the additional criminal prohibition on material support under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B; SDGT designation under E.O. 13224 is a civil regulatory action, not a criminal statute.[^1]
+
+### Treasury/OFAC: Supplemental RIM Designation (June 15, 2022)
+
+On June 15, 2022, the [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]'s [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) designated two additional supporters of RIM as SDGTs under E.O. 13224. The Treasury press release (jy0817) documented the action. The identities of the two individuals named have not been independently confirmed from the OFAC SDN list for this entry; the OFAC website (home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0817) and the SDN list search tool (sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov) are the authoritative records.[^2]
+
+### ODNI: Domestic Violent Extremism Assessment (March 17, 2021)
+
+On March 17, 2021, the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] (ODNI), the [[Department of Justice]], and the [[Department of Homeland Security]] jointly released an unclassified summary of the intelligence community's assessment of domestic violent extremism, titled "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021."
+
+The unclassified summary identified white supremacist extremists as the domestic violent extremist (DVE) actors with "the most persistent and concerning transnational connections" because of "like-minded individuals" existing outside the United States, and noted that "a small number" of racially or ethnically motivated extremists had "traveled abroad to network." The summary did not name specific organizations (RIM, [[The Base]], [[Atomwaffen Division]]) or Russia by name in the released unclassified text.
+
+The document was the first ODNI threat assessment to include domestic violent extremism as a formal category. Classified versions were briefed to congressional oversight committees (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence). The unclassified summary is available at: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/UnclassSummaryofDVEAssessment-17MAR21.pdf[^3]
+
+### House Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing (July 16, 2020)
+
+The [[House Committee on Homeland Security]] Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism held a hearing titled "Assessing the Threat from Accelerationists and Militia Extremists" on July 16, 2020 (116th Congress, CHRG-116hhrg43866). Witnesses included JJ MacNab (GWU Program on Extremism), [[Heidi Beirich]] (GPAHE), and John Donohue (Rutgers Miller Center). The Base and Atomwaffen Division were covered as accelerationist threats. The hearing transcript, available at govinfo.gov, does not in its open portions designate Russia as a state sponsor, though analysts in the witness testimony noted The Base's Russian-resident leadership as a structural concern.[^4]
+
+### Federal Prosecutors: "Russian Government" Framing (December 2019)
+
+In a December 2019 detention hearing in the Eastern District of Maryland related to [[Patrik Jordan Mathews]] and other Base members, federal prosecutors stated in open court that the Russian government was "actively using highly trained U.S. neo-Nazis and white supremacists to stoke racial and social division." This was not a formally released intelligence assessment or designated finding, but it represents on-record government attorney characterization of The Base's Russian context in a federal courtroom.[^5]
+
+### Just Security: FTO Designation Argument (2025)
+
+Following the claimed assassination of [[SBU]] Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] by [[The Base]]'s Ukrainian cell ([[White Phoenix]]) in July 2025, the legal analysis website Just Security published an argument that The Base now qualifies for designation as a [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] under Section 219 of the [[Immigration and Nationality Act]]. The argument turns on whether The Base's foreign nexus (Nazzaro's Russian citizenship, Russian platform use, foreign cells conducting targeted killings) satisfies the INA's "foreign organization" requirement. As of May 2026, the State Department has not made this designation.[^6]
+
+### What Has Not Been Officially Released
+
+As of May 2026, no U.S. government agency has publicly released a declassified assessment definitively attributing direct Russian state direction (as opposed to state toleration) to accelerationist network operations. The pattern of official action has been to designate RIM as a terrorist entity (SDGT), to acknowledge white supremacist transnational connections in IC products, and to use courts to prosecute individual members, but not to issue a formal intelligence community judgment equivalent to the 2017 ICA on Russian election interference that names the accelerationist-Russia nexus as a directed state operation.[^7]
+
+### 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; Federal Register. 85 FR 20803-20804. April 14, 2020. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/04/14/2020-07857/designation-of-denis-valiullovich-gariyev-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist
+[^2]: U.S. Department of the Treasury, OFAC. Press release jy0817. "U.S. Sanctions Members of Russian Violent Extremist Group." June 15, 2022. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0817; OFAC SDN list search: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=28703
+[^3]: ODNI / DOJ / DHS. "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021." Unclassified Summary. March 17, 2021. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/UnclassSummaryofDVEAssessment-17MAR21.pdf
+[^4]: GovInfo. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism. "Assessing the Threat from Accelerationists and Militia Extremists." July 16, 2020. CHRG-116hhrg43866. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-116hhrg43866/html/CHRG-116hhrg43866.htm
+[^5]: Facing South. "Far-right accelerationists hope to spark the next U.S. civil war." February 2021 (citing December 2019 detention hearing). https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/02/far-right-accelerationists-hope-spark-next-us-civil-war
+[^6]: Just Security. "It's Time to Designate The Base as an FTO." 2025. https://www.justsecurity.org/118427/designate-base-fto/
+[^7]: 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: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - LegalCase
+  - FISA
+  - Section702
+  - FourthAmendment
+  - BackdoorSearch
+  - ACLU
+  - SecondCircuit
+  - EasternDistrictNewYork
+  - Terrorism
+  - Surveillance
+  - CivilLiberties
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "United States v. Hasbajrami is the federal prosecution that produced the first judicial rulings requiring a warrant for Section 702 backdoor searches of Americans' communications, with the Second Circuit's 2019 decision and the district court's 2025 ruling establishing the leading Fourth Amendment framework for FISA database querying."
+---
+
+United States v. Hasbajrami is a federal prosecution in the [[Eastern District of New York]] that has, over more than a decade of constitutional litigation, produced the two most significant judicial rulings on whether "backdoor searches" of [[Section 702]] databases require a Fourth Amendment warrant. The case is the principal litigation vehicle through which the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]] has pressed the warrant requirement argument, and the January 2025 district court ruling in the case was the first federal ruling to impose a warrant requirement on warrantless U.S. person queries of [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] Section 702 data.
+
+### The Prosecution
+
+[[Agron Hasbajrami]], a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was arrested on September 6, 2011, attempting to board a flight from [[JFK Airport]] to Turkey en route to Pakistan. He was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He pleaded guilty in 2012 and was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.
+
+### FISA Disclosure and Litigation Origins
+
+While Hasbajrami was serving his sentence, prosecutors disclosed that some evidence they would have introduced at trial was acquired through FISA orders predicated on information the government collected under Section 702, and later retrieved through queries of the collected data. The disclosure triggered a legal challenge: Hasbajrami argued that the use of this material, and specifically the querying of Section 702 databases using his U.S. person identifier, violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches without a warrant.
+
+### Second Circuit, 2019
+
+On December 18, 2019, the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] issued its decision in United States v. Hasbajrami, 945 F.3d 641. Judge [[Gerard Lynch]], writing for a unanimous panel, ruled that Section 702 collection of the communications of a U.S. person's foreign contacts was permissible as incidental collection. However, the court also held that querying the resulting databases using a U.S. person identifier constitutes a "separate Fourth Amendment event" from the initial collection, and must independently comport with the Fourth Amendment. The Second Circuit remanded to the district court to determine whether a warrant was required for the specific queries at issue.[^1]
+
+The ruling rejected the government's argument that the "foreign intelligence exception" to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement justified warrantless U.S. person queries of Section 702 databases. The court declined to find a categorical exemption, requiring instead a case-specific Fourth Amendment analysis.
+
+### District Court Ruling, January 2025
+
+Following the Second Circuit remand, the district court conducted an in camera review and eventually issued its ruling in declassified form on January 21, 2025. The court held that warrantless queries of Section 702 databases using U.S. person identifiers violated the Fourth Amendment and required a warrant. The decision was the first federal ruling to impose this requirement. The court rejected the government's argument that the "foreign intelligence exception" could justify warrantless querying of data already in government databases, and found that the querying constituted a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant absent exigent circumstances or another recognized exception.[^2]
+
+The ACLU, through senior staff attorney [[Ashley Gorski]], characterized the ruling as a significant victory: "For more than a decade, the government has argued that it should be able to warrantlessly search through a database containing Americans' private communications, just because the government called it a 'foreign intelligence' database. Today's ruling rejects that position."
+
+### The Russell Challenge and Fourth Circuit Gap
+
+The Hasbajrami framework was directly relevant to the Section 702 challenge raised in [[United States v. Russell, 1:23-cr-00029 (D. Md.)]]. Russell's defense team, joined by the ACLU, argued that Section 702 backdoor searches had initiated the investigation. [[James K. Bredar|Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar]]'s August 2024 ruling in that case resolved only whether Section 702 evidence would be used at trial, not whether Section 702 collection had occurred at an investigative stage, leaving the Hasbajrami framework's application to domestic extremism cases unresolved.[^3]
+
+The Hasbajrami district court's January 2025 ruling, issued after Bredar's August 2024 order but before Russell's February 2025 conviction, did not constitute binding precedent in the Fourth Circuit, which encompasses the District of Maryland. No Fourth Circuit decision on the warrant requirement for Section 702 queries had issued as of mid-2026.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: United States v. Hasbajrami, 945 F.3d 641 (2d Cir. Dec. 18, 2019). Lawfare analysis: "The Second Circuit Rules in United States v. Hasbajrami," https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/second-circuit-rules-united-states-v-hasbajrami; Just Security analysis: https://www.justsecurity.org/60505/happened-court-hasbajrami-oral-argument-section-702-fisa-fourth-amendment/
+
+[^2]: United States v. Hasbajrami, 11-cr-00623-LDH (E.D.N.Y.), Memorandum and Order (declassified Jan. 21, 2025). ACLU press release: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-warrantless-section-702-searches-violated-the-fourth-amendment; ACLU court document: https://www.aclu.org/documents/section-702-memorandum-and-order-u-s-v-hasbajrami-11-cr-00623-ldh; EFF analysis: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional
+
+[^3]: Baltimore Sun, August 9, 2024. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/09/feds-evidence-spying-program-neo-nazi-accused-baltimore-power-grid-plot/

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - FederalCase
+  - TerrorgramCollective
+  - NeoNazi
+  - Accelerationism
+  - EasternDistrictCalifornia
+  - USA
+  - MaterialSupport
+  - DomesticTerrorism
+summary: "United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+---
+
+[[United States v. Humber]], case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the [[Eastern District of California]], is the primary U.S. federal prosecution arising from the [[Terrorgram Collective]] investigation. The case charged [[Dallas Humber]] of [[Elk Grove, California]] and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] of [[Boise, Idaho]] in a 15-count indictment filed September 5, 2024, and unsealed September 9, 2024. It is notable as one of the most significant applications of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (material support to terrorists) to an online white-supremacist content network and produced the longest sentence (30 years) imposed on any Terrorgram defendant globally.[^1]
+
+### Indictment
+
+The 37-page indictment was filed in the Sacramento Division of the Eastern District of California. The charges:
+
+Count 1 - Conspiracy. Counts 2-5 - Soliciting hate crimes (four separate acts targeting individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 249). Counts 6-8 - Soliciting the murder of federal officials (three named or identified federal officials appearing on "The List" hit-list publication). Counts 9-11 - Doxing federal officials (publishing private identifying information with intent to threaten). Count 12 - Interstate threatening communications, 18 U.S.C. § 875. Counts 13-14 - Distribution of information relating to explosives and destructive devices, 18 U.S.C. § 842(p). Count 15 - Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, 18 U.S.C. § 2339A.
+
+Maximum cumulative sentence across all counts: 220 years per defendant.
+
+The prosecution was a joint effort by DOJ's [[Civil Rights Division]], [[National Security Division]] (Counterterrorism Section), and the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California]]. [[Assistant Attorney General]] [[Kristen Clarke]] of the Civil Rights Division delivered remarks at the charging announcement.[^2]
+
+### Statutory Theory: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A
+
+The material support charge under § 2339A was the most legally significant count. Unlike its companion statute, § 2339B, which is limited to designated [[Foreign Terrorist Organizations]], § 2339A broadly proscribes providing material support "knowing or intending that it will be used in preparation for, or in carrying out" specific terrorism-related offenses including assassination (18 U.S.C. § 351), use of weapons of mass destruction (§ 2332a), and destruction of energy facilities (§ 1366).
+
+At the time of the indictment, Terrorgram Collective was not designated as an FTO (which requires a State Department determination; the SDGT designation followed in January 2025). The choice of § 2339A therefore allowed prosecutors to proceed without an FTO predicate. The prosecution's theory was that Humber and Allison provided "services" and "personnel" (including themselves) in furtherance of the specific offenses to which the Terrorgram network's publications and activities were directed.
+
+[[Lawfare]] described the use of § 2339A in this context as significant, noting that while not entirely without precedent, applying it to an online content production operation required the government to prove that propaganda production and distribution constituted "services" in legal contemplation.[^3]
+
+### Evidence Cited
+
+The indictment and DOJ press releases identified specific evidentiary items: Humber's December 2022 post of electrical substation transformer images captioned "for educational purposes only of course"; her January 2023 post praising the Randolph County, [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting as evidence that Terrorgram's "hard work in detailing its effectiveness" had "encouraged" the attack; her October 2022 communications with a [[Telegram]] user planning a Brazil school shooting one month before the [[Aracruz school shootings|Aracruz attack]]; her continued contact from pretrial detention; all three Terrorgram publications (*Militant Accelerationism*, *Do It For The Gram*, *The Hard Reset*); and the "White Terror" video series produced by Allison featuring 105 far-right killers.[^4]
+
+### Outcomes
+
+Humber changed her plea to guilty on August 8, 2025. U.S. District Judge [[Dena Coggins]] sentenced her on December 19, 2025, to 360 months (30 years) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release. The sentence exceeded the 20 years given to Terrorgram co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]] in Canada.
+
+Allison pleaded not guilty and contested the charges. As of May 2026, his trial was pending in the Eastern District of California. He remained in federal custody.
+
+DOJ linked the case to a separately prosecuted Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot targeting a federal official and to the infrastructure sabotage charges against [[Andrew Takhistov]] in New Jersey, as examples of the Terrorgram network's downstream violence.
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: CourtListener. United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69144957/united-states-v-humber/; DocumentCloud. Humber-Allison Indictment. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25598913-humber-allison-indictment/
+[^2]: 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. "Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke Delivers Remarks Announcing Charges Against Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke-delivers-remarks-announcing-charges-against
+[^3]: Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters
+[^4]: Fox 8. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - FederalCase
+  - NVE
+  - DomesticTerrorism
+  - MaterialSupport
+  - TerrorismCharge
+  - Arizona
+  - CSAM
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - 764Network
+summary: "United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+start: 2024-12-11
+location: "District of Arizona, Tucson Division"
+---
+
+United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), is a federal criminal case pending in the [[U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona]], [[Tucson Division]], against [[Baron Cain Martin]], alias "Convict." The case is historically significant as the first federal prosecution to charge a [[764 Network|764]] or related [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism]] (NVE) network member under a federal terrorism statute.
+
+### Procedural History
+
+Martin was arrested on December 11, 2024 on initial charges filed under magistrate case 4:24-mj-11950. A federal grand jury returned a 29-count superseding indictment that was unsealed on October 31, 2025. Martin was arraigned on the superseding indictment on November 21, 2025, and entered a not-guilty plea to all counts.
+
+The case was designated complex by the court. [[Angela M. Martinez|U.S. District Judge Angela M. Martinez]] is the presiding judge; [[Bruce G. Macdonald]] is the assigned magistrate. An original trial date of March 24, 2026 was vacated. A status conference was scheduled before Magistrate Macdonald for May 19, 2026. The current jury trial date is June 30, 2026, with a plea deadline of June 19, 2026.[^1]
+
+Martin has been held in federal pretrial detention continuously since December 11, 2024.
+
+The prosecution is led by [[Justin Sher]] and [[James Donnelly]] of the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] National Security Division's [[Counterterrorism Section]], under the authority of [[U.S. Attorney]] [[Timothy Courchaine]] for the [[District of Arizona]].[^2]
+
+### Charges
+
+The 29-count superseding indictment charges:
+
+- Participating in a child exploitation enterprise (18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)), life maximum
+- Conspiring to provide material support to terrorists ([[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]), 15 years maximum
+- Conspiring to kill, kidnap or maim persons in a foreign country ([[18 U.S.C. § 956|18 U.S.C. § 956(a)]]), life maximum if death results; 35 years for maiming
+- Producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), 5 counts, 30 years per count
+- Distributing CSAM, 11 counts
+- Coercing and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity, 3 counts, life maximum
+- Cyberstalking, 3 counts, up to 20 years per count for offenses resulting in permanent disfigurement
+- Animal crushing and distribution of animal crush videos
+- Conspiracy to commit wire fraud[^2]
+
+### The Terrorism Theory
+
+The terrorism count (2339A conspiracy) is the legally unprecedented element of the case. DOJ charged Martin with conspiring to provide material support, specifically himself as personnel, the "[[Grooming/Manipulation Egirls Guide]]" as expert advice or assistance, and operational direction of other 764 members as services, in furtherance of a conspiracy under 956(a) to kill or maim persons in a foreign country.
+
+The predicate 956(a) conspiracy rests on a September 2022 episode in which Martin and co-conspirators allegedly directed a victim identified as "Victim 7," located outside the United States, to self-harm, self-maim, and die by suicide. DOJ's theory classifies coercing an overseas victim into lethal self-harm as a conspiracy to "kill or maim" within the meaning of 956(a). No [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] designation is required under 2339A.[^3]
+
+The specific form of material support alleged includes three categories:
+1. Personnel: Martin provided himself as an operator directing the 956(a) conspiracy
+2. Expert advice or assistance: authorship and distribution of the grooming guide
+3. Services: operational direction and coordination of 764 network activity
+
+U.S. Attorney Courchaine stated at a press conference that the ideology itself provides the terrorism nexus: "It's terrorism because it was an ideology that specifically motivated violent actions," referring to the stated 764 goal of bringing about societal collapse.[^4]
+
+### Victims
+
+The superseding indictment identifies at least nine victims, eight of whom were minors between the ages of 11 and 15 at the time of the offenses. Victims are not publicly named. Alleged conduct includes coercing victims to produce CSAM, self-harm, self-maim, and harm or kill animals. An additional allegation concerns a 2022 murder-for-hire solicitation in which Martin allegedly offered $3,000 to have the grandmother of a 13-year-old victim killed and provided the grandmother's address alongside the solicitation in a [[Discord]] chat.[^4]
+
+### Precedential Value
+
+The case establishes the first documented instance of 2339A being applied to an NVE network member. The 956(a)/2339A combination is available against any 764 operator where at least one victim can be identified as located outside the United States, a condition routinely met given 764's transnational structure. The case thus creates a replicable terrorism charging template for future 764 prosecutions.
+
+Analysts at the [[GWU Program on Extremism]] described the case as signaling that DOJ "has signaled that NVE networks like 764 are terrorist enterprises engaged in organized campaigns of violence and coercion designed to terrorize, destabilize, and degrade society."[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: CourtListener, United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), D. Ariz. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69535068/united-states-v-martin/; PacerMonitor, USA v. Martin. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56789960/USA_v_Martin
+
+[^2]: 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
+
+[^3]: Baumgartner, Luke, and Barry Jonas. "How the DOJ is Prosecuting Nihilistic Violent Extremism as Domestic Terrorism." *Just Security,* December 9, 2025. https://www.justsecurity.org/126226/prosecuting-nihilistic-violent-extremism-domestic-terrorism/
+
+[^4]: AZFamily. "Tucson case first in nation to pursue federal terrorism charges against member of 764." April 3, 2026. https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/03/tucson-case-first-nation-pursue-federal-terrorism-charges-against-member-764/

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - FederalCase
+  - CVLT
+  - ChildExploitation
+  - CSAM
+  - ChildExploitationEnterprise
+  - CentralDistrictCalifornia
+  - FederalProsecution
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+summary: "United States v. Rane et al. (2:25-cr-00040) is the Central District of California federal prosecution of four CVLT leaders charged in January 2025 with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)."
+---
+
+United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040, is the federal criminal case prosecuted in the [[Central District of California]] before United States District Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] against four members of [[CVLT]], the online child exploitation network that operated from at least 2019 to 2022.
+
+### Indictment
+
+A federal grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025. The indictment was unsealed approximately February 4-5, 2025. The investigating agencies were [[Homeland Security Investigations]] (HSI) Los Angeles, HSI Cherry Hill (New Jersey), and HSI Honolulu, with cooperation from the [[Los Angeles Police Department]], [[San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office]], [[Henry County Sheriff's Office]] (Virginia), [[Iowa State University Police Department]], and [[Police Nationale]] (France).
+
+The indictment named four defendants: [[Rohan Rane]] (Rohan Sandeep Rane, born 1996, Antibes, France), [[Kaleb Merritt]] (Kaleb Christopher Merritt, born approximately 2000, Spring, Texas), [[Clint Borge]] (Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, born 1983, Pahoa, Hawaii), and [[Collin Walker]] (Collin John Thomas Walker, born 2001, Bridgeton, New Jersey).[^1]
+
+The indictment charged all four defendants in a single count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. The enterprise charged covered conduct from at least 2019 to 2022. The indictment alleged at least 16 minor victims worldwide, with at least two in Southern California. Two unnamed minor co-conspirators were also referenced, one of whom was also described as a victim.[^1]
+
+### Statutory Theory
+
+The child exploitation enterprise statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g), requires proof that the defendant: (1) violated underlying child exploitation statutes (including production and distribution of child pornography and sexual exploitation of minors under Chapters 109A, 110, or 117 of Title 18); (2) as part of a series of three or more separate felony violations; (3) involving more than one victim; and (4) in concert with three or more other persons. The mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction is 20 years; the maximum is life imprisonment.
+
+DOJ applied the same statute in the more recent [[764 Network|764]] prosecutions, including United States v. Varagiannis and Nepal (leading [[764 Inferno]]) and United States v. Martin (the first terrorism-enhanced 764 prosecution). The CVLT case was the first application of the enterprise theory to the CVLT organizational lineage.[^2]
+
+### Arrests and Initial Appearances
+
+When the indictment was unsealed, Rane remained in French custody. Merritt was already incarcerated at [[Pocahontas State Correctional Center]], Virginia. Walker was arrested by HSI Cherry Hill in New Jersey, appeared in court, was assigned counsel, and was remanded to [[U.S. Marshals]]. Borge was arrested by HSI Honolulu; a federal magistrate in Los Angeles denied bail at his February 6, 2025 initial appearance.[^3]
+
+### Plea Record and Sentencing Schedule
+
+- Collin Walker: guilty plea, October 2025. Sentencing scheduled January 29, 2026 (outcome not publicly announced by DOJ as of May 2026).
+- Clint Borge: guilty plea, December 2025. Sentencing scheduled March 12, 2026 (outcome not publicly announced by DOJ as of May 2026).
+- Kaleb Merritt: guilty plea, March 26, 2026. Sentencing scheduled January 7, 2027.
+- Rohan Rane: no U.S. plea entered; in French custody pending extradition as of May 2026.[^4]
+
+### Connection to 764 Prosecution Wave
+
+The CVLT indictment was part of the DOJ's multi-case prosecution campaign against [[The Com]] and its predecessor networks. The enterprise statute theory used in 2:25-cr-00040 was the same framework applied in the contemporaneous prosecution of [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] for leading 764 Inferno. [[NCITE]] documented 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes across CVLT, [[Greggy's Cult]], and 764 as of December 2025, treating them as a connected prosecutorial lineage.[^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040 (C.D. Cal.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69613728/united-states-v-rane/; DOJ 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
+[^2]: HSI. "HSI Los Angeles, Cherry Hill, and Honolulu special agents arrest members of online neo-Nazi group on child exploitation enterprise charges." February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo; 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g), Cornell LII. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A
+[^3]: Hawaii Tribune-Herald. "Judge: No bail for alleged CVLT member from Pahoa." February 6, 2025. https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/02/06/hawaii-news/judge-no-bail-for-alleged-cvlt-member-from-pahoa/
+[^4]: DOJ 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
+[^5]: NCITE. "Prosecuting 764: An Examination of Federal and State Charges." December 2025. https://www.unomaha.edu/ncite/news/2025/12/764-landing-page.php

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+---
+category: "Crime Investigation"
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - AtomwaffenDivision
+  - FBI
+  - FBIInformant
+  - FederalCase
+  - USA
+  - Washington
+  - NeoNazi
+summary: "United States v. Shea et al. is the 2020 federal case in the Western District of Washington in which Atomwaffen Division members were charged with conspiring to threaten journalists and activists, and through which Joshua Caleb Sutter's FBI informant status was first publicly revealed."
+created: 2026-05-22
+updated: 2026-05-22
+start: 2020-02-26
+end: 2022-01-11
+location: "Seattle, Washington"
+---
+
+United States v. Shea et al., Case No. 2:20-cr-00032 ([[Western District of Washington|W.D. Wash.]]), is the federal criminal case in which five members of [[Atomwaffen Division]] were charged with conspiring to threaten and intimidate journalists, Jewish community members, and activists through a coordinated poster campaign in January 2020. The case became the primary vehicle through which [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]'s 18-year paid [[FBI]] informant relationship was publicly revealed, through a motion to suppress filed by defendant [[Kaleb Cole]] on August 13, 2021.
+
+### Case History
+
+Five AWD members were arrested on February 26, 2020, in a coordinated operation by [[FBI]] [[Joint Terrorism Task Forces]] spanning four states. The defendants were:
+
+- [[Kaleb Cole]], 24, of Montgomery, Texas (formerly Arlington, Washington)
+- [[Cameron Brandon Shea]], 24, of Redmond, Washington
+- Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe, 20, of Spring Hill, Florida
+- Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Queen Creek, Arizona
+- A fifth defendant from the Dallas, Texas area
+
+The charges centered on a January 2020 campaign in which AWD members delivered and mailed threatening posters to residences and businesses in western Washington, primarily targeting Jewish Washingtonians and journalists covering antisemitism. Posters bore swastikas, skulls, and language including "We know where you live" and "Death to Pigs."
+
+### Guilty Pleas by Co-Defendants
+
+All defendants except Cole pleaded guilty before trial. Cameron Shea pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 36 months in May 2021 by the [[Eastern District of Virginia|E.D. Va.]] in a separately entered plea.[^1] John Cameron Denton, the AWD leader charged in a related case ([[United States v. Denton]], 1:20-cr-00154, [[Eastern District of Virginia|E.D. Va.]]), pleaded guilty in July 2020 to conspiracy and interstate threats and was sentenced to 41 months in May 2021.[^2]
+
+### The Suppression Motion and Informant Revelation
+
+Cole proceeded to trial. His defense filed a motion to suppress evidence on August 13, 2021, arguing that the search warrant affidavit used to search Cole's home was defective under the doctrine of [[Franks v. Delaware]] (1978) because it failed to disclose material information about the confidential informant who provided the basis for the warrant.
+
+The motion described the CI as: "a convicted felon and currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings." It further stated that the CI "has been paid $78,133.20 plus an expense advance of $4,378.60 since February 7, 2018," and that this period "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole."[^3] The motion did not name Sutter, but the details were sufficient for identification.
+
+Investigative journalist [[Ali Winston]] identified Sutter from the motion and published his identification on August 13, 2021, the same day the motion was filed.[^4]
+
+### Government Response
+
+The DOJ's response to the suppression motion acknowledged a disclosure failure but argued it was legally harmless: "Although the defense is correct that certain potential impeachment information about the informant was not included in the affidavit, that omission is hardly fatal."[^3] The government did not assert that the CI's publishing activities were authorized, and did not address the substance of those activities.
+
+### Coughenour's Ruling
+
+Judge [[John C. Coughenour]] denied the motion to suppress and for a Franks hearing in an order dated August 30, 2021. His ruling stated: "The FBI's longstanding relationship with the informant and the compensation it paid to him, approximately $140,000 over a sixteen-year period, does not impugn his credibility." The ruling found the warrant sufficient despite the affidavit's omission of the CI's criminal history and paid status.[^5]
+
+### Trial, Conviction, and Sentence
+
+Sutter was called as a witness at Cole's trial in September 2021. He testified that the [[FBI Columbia Field Office]] handler Special Agent [[Bill Moser]] directed him to join AWD in a "deep-cover capacity" and that he was "instructed to continue the relationships that I had in the right wing."[^6]
+
+Cole was convicted on September 29, 2021, on five counts: one count of interfering with a federally protected activity because of religion, three counts of mailing threatening communications, and one count of conspiracy. He was sentenced to 84 months (seven years) by Judge Coughenour on January 11, 2022.[^7]
+
+### Ninth Circuit Appeal
+
+Cole appealed his conviction. The appeal is docketed as No. 22-30015 in the [[Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]].[^8]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: DOJ USAO-EDVA. "Former Atomwaffen Division Leader Sentenced for Swatting Conspiracy." May 4, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/former-atomwaffen-division-leader-sentenced-swatting-conspiracy
+
+[^2]: UPI. "Ex-leader of neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division sentenced for swatting conspiracy." May 4, 2021. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/05/04/Atomwaffen-Divison-leader-John-Cameron-Denton-sentenced-swatting-conspiracy/5111620181231/
+
+[^3]: Motion to Suppress, 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 Secondary source: Owen, Tess. "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim," *Vice,* 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
+
+[^4]: Winston, Ali. Twitter/X thread, August 13, 2021. https://x.com/awinston/status/1429086087830515717
+
+[^5]: Order Denying Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Case No. CR20-0032-JCC (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021). Leagle.com identifier: infdco20210901708.
+
+[^6]: Trial testimony of Joshua Sutter, United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), September 2021. DocumentCloud doc 22056395: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22056395-trial-testimony-of-joshua-sutter/
+
+[^7]: NBC News. "Neo-Nazi leader sentenced to 7 years for plot to intimidate Jews, journalists." January 11, 2022. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neo-nazi-leader-sentenced-7-years-plot-intimidate-jews-journalists-rcna11837
+
+[^8]: Justia Dockets. USA v. Kaleb Cole, No. 22-30015. https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca9/22-30015