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[[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] (born approximately 1997, [[Olympia, Washington]]) was a member of [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s Washington state cell who, in 2018, accompanied AWD leader [[Kaleb Cole]] on a trip to [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]], where the two received paramilitary training from the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]'s [[Partizan]] camp. He was subsequently arrested in Texas on federal firearms charges and sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.[^1]
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In 2018, Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole traveled from Washington state to Europe on a trip that included multiple stops. According to investigative reporting drawing on federal prosecution documents, the two traveled through [[Ukraine]] using the Donbas green corridor to cross into Russia, reached St. Petersburg, and attended RIM's Partizan training facility. The training at Partizan covered firearms handling, explosives, squad movement, and tactical operations. The same facility had been used by [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] members from Sweden the year prior, whose subsequent bombings in Gothenburg (January 2017) provided the factual basis for the [[U.S. Department of State]]'s April 2020 SDGT designation of RIM.[^2]
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After completing the St. Petersburg training, Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole traveled back through Ukraine into Poland and documented their trip with a photograph taken at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp. The photograph circulated within AWD's closed communications channels.[^2]
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The training in firearms, explosives, squad movement, and terrorist tactics was, according to federal investigators, brought back to Washington state and applied within AWD's organizational activities. The Russia trip is documented in investigative reporting as of 2022 and in court-adjacent materials from federal prosecutions of both Bruce-Umbaugh and Cole, though the precise citation to specific filed documents requires a direct PACER pull of the respective case records.[^3]
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Bruce-Umbaugh was arrested and charged in the Northern District of Texas, case number 5:19-cr-00130, with possessing firearms and ammunition as a prohibited person under federal law. He entered a guilty plea on February 3, 2020. On April 28, 2020, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison before U.S. District Judge Terry Means in Fort Worth, Texas.[^1]
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The firearms charge rather than any terrorism-specific statute reflects the broader pattern of AWD-related prosecutions in 2019-2020, in which the federal government used available weapons statutes against members who could not be charged under the (then-unavailable) domestic terrorism designation framework. The same approach was used in the prosecution of [[Patrik Jordan Mathews]] (illegal alien in possession of a firearm) and others in the AWD network.[^3]
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[^1]: GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, Case 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0; KLTV. "Suspected Neo-Nazi Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Gun Crime." April 28, 2020. https://www.kltv.com/2020/04/29/suspected-neo-nazi-sentenced-years-gun-crime/
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[^2]: 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/
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[^3]: Cipher Brief. "Examining Atomwaffen Division's Transnational Linkages." https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/examining-atomwaffen-divisions-transnational-linkages; GWU Program on Extremism / ADL. "White Supremacist Terror." https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/White%20Supremacist%20Terror%20final.pdf
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summary: "Alexis Aldair Chavez, alias 'Zack8884,' administered the 8884 network within The Com ecosystem and in December 2025 became the first 764-affiliated defendant to plead guilty to federal RICO conspiracy charges."
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[[Alexis Aldair Chavez]] (born approximately 2006, [[San Antonio, Texas]]), known online as "Zack" and "Zack8884," was a leader and administrator of the [[8884 network]], a [[764 Network|764]]-related online child exploitation organization operating within [[The Com]] ecosystem. Chavez directed 8884's operations, which included coercing minors to self-harm on live video, producing and distributing [[CSAM]] (child sexual abuse material), and related exploitation. He pleaded guilty in December 2025 to RICO conspiracy and child exploitation counts in a case brought by the [[U.S. Department of Justice|Department of Justice]], becoming the first defendant in the broader 764/Com ecosystem to face federal racketeering charges. He faces up to 60 years in prison at sentencing.[^1]
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8884's name derives from a member alias. The network operated as a sub-network within The Com's sextortion-and-coercion sphere, using the same foundational methods as 764: recruiting minors through social media and gaming platforms, coercing them into producing CSAM through blackmail and psychological manipulation, and demanding ongoing self-harm on video as continuing proof of control. Chavez held a leadership and administrative role, directing members and managing the network's operations.
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The DOJ brought charges against Chavez in the federal court system. In December 2025, he pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy - a racketeering charge that treats the 8884 network as an ongoing criminal enterprise - alongside child exploitation counts. The RICO charge was notable as the first application of federal racketeering statutes to a 764-affiliated network, framing the organization's distributed online structure as an enterprise under federal law. Chavez was 19 at the time of his plea. His sentencing, scheduled for 2026, carries a maximum of 60 years.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "764 Extremist Group Leader Pleads Guilty to RICO and Child Exploitation Charges." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/764-extremist-group-leader-pleads-guilty-rico-child-exploitation-charges
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- Accelerationism
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location: "Bath, Somerset, England"
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summary: "Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years."
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[[Andrew Dymock]] (born May 14, 1997, [[Bath]], Somerset, England) founded the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN) and subsequently the [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the two most significant organizational successors to [[National Action]] after its proscription in December 2016. SRN was itself proscribed in 2017 and SKD in 2019. Dymock was arrested in December 2018 at Gatwick Airport and tried at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in London. A jury found him guilty on all 15 counts in June 2021 and on July 21, 2021, Judge [[Mark Dennis QC]] sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment plus 3 years extended licence, describing him as "dangerous" and posing "a significant risk of serious harm" to the public.[^1]
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After National Action's proscription Dymock founded SRN as a successor organization. Following internal disputes within SRN over the degree of [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A)-affiliated occultism to incorporate into the ideology, he founded the Sonnenkrieg Division in 2018. SKD was explicitly modeled on [[Atomwaffen Division]], incorporating O9A philosophy heavily, making it one of the most O9A-proximate proscribed organizations in the UK ecosystem. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD in 2019.
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Dymock operated SRN's website and its associated [[Twitter]] account, using both to disseminate terrorism content including calls for the extermination of Jewish people and encouragement of lone-actor attacks.[^2]
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A BBC News investigation exposed Dymock as the founder and leader of SRN and SKD. He was arrested in December 2018 at Gatwick Airport, where police found him carrying extremist literature and neo-Nazi insignia. The case was prosecuted at the Old Bailey over a jury trial. The verdict was returned in June 2021; sentencing followed on July 21, 2021.
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Judge Mark Dennis QC noted in sentencing that Dymock had shown no remorse and posed a continuing danger.[^1]
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[^1]: Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi student to be sentenced for terrorism and hate offences." 2021. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-student-to-be-sentenced-for-terrorism-and-hate-offences/; Algemeiner. "British neo-Nazi who called for extermination of Jews sentenced to 7 years." July 2021. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/07/22/british-neo-nazi-who-called-for-extermination-of-jews-sentenced-to-7-years-in-jail/
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[^2]: Tracking Terrorism. "Andrew Dymock, Sonnenkrieg Division leader, convicted on 15 counts." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/right-wing-extremism-andrew-dymock-sonnenkrieg-division-skd-leader-convicted-15-counts-sente/
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||||||
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||||||
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summary: "Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell."
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[[Ashley Gorski]] is a senior staff attorney in the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]], where she focuses on government surveillance, national security prosecutions, and racial and religious discrimination in the national security context. She has been the ACLU's primary litigator pressing Fourth Amendment challenges to the practice of "backdoor searches" of [[Section 702]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] databases using U.S. person identifiers.
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### United States v. Russell
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Gorski led the ACLU's intervention in [[United States v. Russell, 1:23-cr-00029 (D. Md.)]], the prosecution of [[Brandon Russell]] for conspiring to attack the [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] power grid. The ACLU joined Russell's defense team "for the limited purpose of challenging the government's secretive warrantless surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," a posture that allowed the organization to press the constitutional question without endorsing Russell's conduct or ideology.
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Gorski stated publicly: "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."[^1]
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The ACLU's basis for inferring Section 702 collection was an [[ODNI]] document, "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes" (February 14, 2024), which described an FBI investigation matching the disclosed profile of the Russell case. The challenge sought to establish a right to notice and to contest the constitutional adequacy of warrantless database searches of Americans' communications collected incidentally under a foreign intelligence authority.[^1]
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### United States v. Hasbajrami
|
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||||||
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Gorski and the ACLU National Security Project also represented [[Agron Hasbajrami]] in the extended constitutional litigation in the [[Second Circuit]] and the [[Eastern District of New York]] over whether Section 702 backdoor searches require a warrant. The Second Circuit's 2019 ruling in that case held that U.S. person queries constitute "separate Fourth Amendment events," and the subsequent January 2025 district court ruling (the first federal decision imposing a warrant requirement on Section 702 queries) was a direct product of the ACLU's litigation strategy in Hasbajrami.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### ACLU v. NSA and Related FOIA Work
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Gorski has led ACLU FOIA litigation seeking the public release of classified FISC opinions addressing Section 702 surveillance. This work produced the release of two FISC opinions in September 2023 documenting compliance failures including improper querying of racial justice protesters, January 6 Capitol breach suspects, a sitting state court judge, congressional campaign donors, and journalists. A further FOIA suit filed April 2024 sought additional withheld opinions.[^3]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
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||||||
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[^1]: 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/; Baltimore Sun, 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/
|
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|
||||||
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[^2]: United States v. Hasbajrami, 945 F.3d 641 (2d Cir. 2019); 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
|
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|
||||||
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[^3]: ACLU, "Government Releases New Court Opinions Highlighting Further Abuse of Warrantless FISA Surveillance Program," September 2023. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/government-releases-new-court-opinions-highlighting-further-abuse-of-warrantless-fisa-surveillance-program; ACLU v. United States (SDNY, filed April 2024). https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-25-Complaint-Filed.pdf
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||||||
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---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- CSAM
|
||||||
|
- ChildExploitation
|
||||||
|
- Texas
|
||||||
|
- NetworkFounder
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
summary: "Bradley Chance Cadenhead, alias 'Felix,' is the Texas teenager who founded the 764 network around 2020 after encountering CVLT methods in a Minecraft server, currently serving an 80-year Texas state sentence."
|
||||||
|
born: 2005
|
||||||
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location: "Texas"
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]], known online as "Felix," is the founder of the [[764 Network|764]] online extremist network, which he created in 2020-2021 at approximately 15 years of age after encountering and absorbing the methods of the predecessor [[CVLT]] network. He is currently serving an 80-year sentence in [[Texas]] state prison following his May 2023 conviction on nine counts of child pornography possession.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Background and Introduction to CVLT
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cadenhead was a school dropout living in Texas at the time he encountered CVLT. His entry point into the sextortion and child exploitation milieu was a conversation with a CVLT member in a [[Minecraft]] server, through which he learned the basic methods of online grooming, compromising-image collection, and blackmail escalation that CVLT founder [[Rohan Rane]] had pioneered. Cadenhead adapted and extended these methods through the network he subsequently built.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Founding 764
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Cadenhead founded 764 in 2020 and it became publicly known by 2021. He named the group after his local zip code. Using [[Discord]] as the primary platform, Cadenhead recruited members into a community structured around the production and sharing of CSAM and the coercion of victims into self-harm and animal cruelty, using obtained compromising material as leverage. The methods he established became the operational template that later 764 leaders, including [[Baron Cain Martin]], elaborated into the formalized handbook system and tiered hierarchy documented in court filings. Following Cadenhead's August 2021 arrest, 764 continued under successor leaders, eventually fracturing into [[The Com]] ecosystem of splinter groups; by mid-2026 the FBI was conducting more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and its affiliates, with the broader prosecution encompassing at least 37 defendants across multiple federal districts alongside an international [[Europol]] operation.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Arrest and Prosecution
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
In August 2021, after investigators traced a CSAM upload on Discord to his mother's apartment, Cadenhead was arrested. He was 15 or 16 years old at the time. The case was prosecuted in Texas state court. Cadenhead pleaded guilty to nine counts of possession of child pornography and on May 16, 2023, was sentenced to 80 years in Texas state prison. He is currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn
|
||||||
|
[^2]: ADL. "764." Backgrounder. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
|
||||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cain Clark.md
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||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- SiegeCulture
|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||||
|
- Terrorgram
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- AntiMuslim
|
||||||
|
- Shooter
|
||||||
|
- SanDiego
|
||||||
|
- California
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
summary: "Cain Lee Clark was a San Diego teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, co-authoring an accelerationist manifesto citing Siege, Atomwaffen Division, and Terrorgram, and dying at the scene."
|
||||||
|
born: 2008
|
||||||
|
location: "Clairemont, San Diego, California"
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Cain Clark|Cain Lee Clark]] was a 17-year-old resident of the [[Clairemont]] neighborhood of [[San Diego, California]] who, on May 18, 2026, co-perpetrated the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting|attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego]] alongside [[Caleb Vazquez|Caleb Liam Vazquez]]. Three people were killed in the attack. Clark subsequently shot Vazquez twice in the head inside their vehicle at Vazquez's request, then killed himself. He co-authored a 75-page manifesto titled "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" that cited [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], and [[The Base]] and described himself as a "Christian ecofascist."
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Background
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Clark grew up in Clairemont, attended Kate Sessions Elementary School, and later the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. He was a member of the wrestling team at Madison High School in the 2024-2025 school year and was on track to graduate in June 2026. From 2021 onward he was schooled partially online. No significant prior disciplinary record was reported beyond a single elementary school incident in 2015. His social media was described by investigators as reflecting "possible associations with nihilistic violent extremist ideology," though no prior law enforcement contact with Clark was on record.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Clark met [[Caleb Vazquez]] online before the two discovered they both lived in the [[San Diego]] area and began meeting in person. The radicalization environment he and Vazquez shared was described by experts as consistent with accelerationist white supremacist online networks that require intentional seeking out, though initial exposure can happen on mainstream platforms.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Manifesto Content
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Clark contributed a section to the 75-page manifesto "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant," which the two co-authored. Clark's section described himself as a "Christian ecofascist." Both sections together cited [[Brenton Tarrant]] (the 2019 Christchurch shooter) as an inspiration - the manifesto title explicitly frames the attack as continuing Tarrant's "momentum" - and cited [[James Mason]]'s *Siege* and William Luther Pierce's *The Turner Diaries* as texts that "should be read almost biblically by all soldiers of the white race."
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The manifesto stated the attack was carried out for Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base. It drew extensively on [[Great Replacement Theory]], framing the attack as a response to Muslim "invasion" of the United States, and expressed systematic antisemitism, with Jews described as "the universal enemy." Physical evidence found on the shooters' equipment included an Atomwaffen Division logo and Sonnenrad patch, linking the attack's aesthetics to the visual grammar developed by AWD and distributed through Terrorgram channels.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Clark also left a suicide note that was separately leaked; it contained explicit writing about "racial pride."[^2][^3]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### The Attack and Aftermath
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Clark and Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego on the morning of May 18, 2026, shooting three victims outside the mosque before security guard [[Amin Abdullah]] engaged them in a gun battle that delayed their advance and allowed approximately 150 students in the attached school to shelter safely. The two fled and drove away; during the escape they fired on a landscaper, whose bullet was deflected by his helmet. They were found dead approximately three-tenths of a mile from the mosque. Vazquez had asked Clark to kill him; Clark shot Vazquez twice in the head and then killed himself. No criminal prosecution is possible given both perpetrators' deaths.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: NBC News. "San Diego mosque suspects' writings reveal influence of online extremism." May 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/san-diego-mosque-shooting-extremism-online-accelerationist-livestream-rcna346066
|
||||||
|
[^2]: 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
|
||||||
|
[^3]: Daily Beast. "Leak Reveals Mosque Gunman Cain Clark's Disturbing Racial Pride Suicide Note." May 2026. https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-reveals-mosque-gunman-cain-clarks-disturbing-racial-pride-suicide-note/
|
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||||||
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---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- O9A
|
||||||
|
- 764Network
|
||||||
|
- UK
|
||||||
|
- TerroristConviction
|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
- Satanism
|
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summary: "Cameron Finnigan was a 19-year-old from Horsham convicted in January 2025 at the Old Bailey of possessing a terrorism manual and encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide, sentenced to six years as a member of the 764 network, which Counter Terrorism Policing described as posing an immense threat."
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Cameron Finnigan, 19, of Horsham, West Sussex, joined the [[764 Network|764]] online extremist network in late 2023. [[Counter Terrorism Policing]] became aware of him in March 2024 following intelligence about his online activity. He pleaded guilty on 4 October 2024 to five counts. He was sentenced at the [[Central Criminal Court]] (Old Bailey) on 16 January 2025 by Mr Justice Jay to six years' imprisonment followed by three years' extended licence.[^1]
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One count of possessing a document for terrorist purposes under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]]: an 11-page PDF document outlining how to carry out vehicle ramming ("truck attacks") and providing attack planning information for knife and firearm mass-casualty events.
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One count of doing an act capable of encouraging or assisting suicide under section 2 of the [[Suicide Act 1961]] as amended: Finnigan had communicated with a young woman via [[Telegram]], encouraging her to die by suicide and asking her to livestream the act to members of his online group.
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Mr Justice Jay applied a 25% reduction to the overall sentence to account for Finnigan's youth and documented mental health issues. He assessed Finnigan as posing a high risk of serious harm to the public, including children. The sentencing remarks are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^1]
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Counter Terrorism Policing issued a public statement in connection with the sentencing describing 764 as posing "an immense threat" and characterising its ideology as "Satanic extremist" with "militant accelerationist (extreme right wing)" characteristics.[^2]
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764 is a decentralised online network documented extensively in the [[764 Network]] vault entry. Its connection to [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) is ideological and aesthetic rather than organisational: 764 adopted O9A visual symbolism and the structural logic of O9A's [[Insight Roles]] concept, in which committing crimes functions as a form of spiritual initiation. The [[ISD]] characterised O9A materials as having "directly influenced the operational practices of 764." Finnigan's case is the first publicly named 764-specific UK terrorism conviction where the defendant was prosecuted under section 58 for possession of attack-planning material rather than for content relating to a proscribed organisation.
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[^1]: R v Cameron Finnigan, Sentencing Remarks, Central Criminal Court, 16 January 2025. Mr Justice Jay. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/R-v-Finnigan.pdf; Sussex Police. "Man sentenced for terror offences." January 2025. https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/man-sentenced-for-terror-offences/
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[^2]: Counter Terrorism Policing. "Cameron Finnigan Sentencing." LinkedIn, January 2025. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/counter-terrorism-policing_cameron-finnigan-sentencing-activity-7285970499417849858-0K5p; Counter Terror Business. "'Satanist' teenager jailed for terrorism offences." January 17, 2025. https://counterterrorbusiness.com/news/17012025/satanist-teenager-jailed-terrorism-offences
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summary: "Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda."
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Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira (born August 27, 1987, [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil) is a Brazilian national designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) on January 13, 2025, pursuant to [[Executive Order 13224]], as amended by [[Executive Order 13886]], in connection with his role as an administrator of the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was one of three foreign nationals designated simultaneously alongside [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia) and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa), the same action that formally designated the Terrorgram Collective itself as a terrorist organization. No Brazilian criminal charges arising from his Terrorgram activity have been publicly confirmed as of mid-2026; the designation is a US Treasury [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) civil sanction, not a criminal indictment.[^1]
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The [[US Department of State]] press release of January 13, 2025, described Ferreira as "a Terrorgram channel administrator" and "a Brazilian national residing in Brazil." The simultaneously issued [[Federal Register]] notice (Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, published January 15, 2025) formalized the OFAC designation, assigning him SDN entry number 52486 on the [[Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List]]. The OFAC record lists his address as Rua Maranhao, 1566 Apto 502, Funcionarios, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; his Brazilian passport number FD621325; and his National ID number 08388816616. His alias in the SDN list is "Ciro Daniel Ferreira."[^2]
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As a result of the designation, all property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction belonging to Ferreira are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from transactions with him. The designation activates secondary sanctions risk under section 1(b) of the executive order.[^1]
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The State Department described Ferreira as an administrator of at least six [[Telegram]] channels, operating under the broader [[Terrorgram Collective]] network of more than 200 Telegram channels that collectively produce and disseminate accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda. The Terrorgram Collective provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including against critical infrastructure and government officials. Ferreira also maintained an active presence on [[Substack]], [[X (formerly Twitter)]], [[YouTube]], and [[Quora]], with an inactive [[Instagram]] profile, consistent with the Terrorgram ecosystem's use of multiple platforms to preserve redundancy against takedowns.[^1][^3]
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In 2023, Brazilian researcher [[Michele Prado]], founder of the NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to Brazil's [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] that identified Telegram channels linked to Ferreira and other members of the Terrorgram network operating in Brazil. This report represented one of the first formal institutional flaggings of Ferreira's channels to Brazilian authorities.[^3]
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Brazilian state-level records, as reported by Brazilian media following the 2025 designation, indicate that Ferreira has two prior prison records from units in [[Minas Gerais]], for crimes including theft, bodily injury, and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned twice, in 2015 and 2016, receiving court-issued release warrants in both instances. These offenses predated his documented Terrorgram activity and are unrelated to extremism or terrorism charges.[^4]
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According to OSINT sources cited in contemporaneous Brazilian and Latin American coverage, Ferreira previously directed a space in Belo Horizonte "dedicated to the promotion of the interests and rights of children and adolescents through information and communication technologies," an activity consistent with a civic or educational technology orientation before his documented involvement in accelerationist networks.[^4]
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The US government did not publicly detail in the January 2025 designation documents whether Ferreira had direct contact with [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]], who carried out the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] on November 25, 2022. The State Department's broader Terrorgram designation cited the Aracruz attack as one of the attacks motivated and facilitated by the Terrorgram network, alongside the October 2022 LGBTQ+ bar shooting in [[Bratislava]] and subsequent attacks. The Aracruz connection to Terrorgram was most specifically documented through [[Dallas Humber]]'s prosecution: Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning a racially motivated school attack approximately one month before the attack, and Humber subsequently created saint cards for Castiglioni.[^5]
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A figure using the [[Terrorgram]] pseudonym "[[Wolf Boy Winter]]" posted a video still from Aracruz attack surveillance footage to a major Terrorgram channel approximately two days after the November 25, 2022 attack, and contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of Terrorgram's primary propaganda publications. Michele Prado's 2023 ABIN report identified channels linked to "Wolf Boy Winter." No public source has established the identity of "Wolf Boy Winter" as Ferreira; the two remain separately documented nodes in publicly available records.[^3]
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The January 13, 2025, action designated Terrorgram as a terrorist organization and simultaneously named three foreign administrators in three different countries, a structure reflecting the network's explicitly transnational character. Noah Licul (Croatia), designated as a "senior member," had been active in the network since at least 2019 under the alias "buntovnik" and is documented in the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] to Terrorgram personnel lineage. Hendrik-Wahl Muller (South Africa) was described as a channel administrator, parallel to Ferreira's role description.[^1]
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The Terrorgram Collective had already been designated by the [[United Kingdom]] (April 2024, SI 2024/569), [[Australia]] (F2025L00762), and [[Canada]] (SOR/2025-263) before and following the US action. None of these proscription instruments publicly named Ferreira specifically. The US action of January 13, 2025 was the first government designation to name a Brazilian national as a Terrorgram Collective administrator.[^1][^6]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: 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/
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[^2]: Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective, Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, Noah Licul, and Hendrik-Wahl Muller," 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; OFAC SDN Entry 52486, sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=52486
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[^3]: GNET (Global Network on Extremism and Technology). "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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[^4]: CNN Brasil. "Quem e o brasileiro que integra a lista de terroristas do governo dos EUA," January 2025. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/mg/quem-e-o-brasileiro-que-integra-a-lista-de-terroristas-dos-eua/; Infobae. "Un brasileno declarado terrorista por EEUU es uno de los lideres de 'Terrorgram'," January 16, 2025. https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2025/01/16/un-brasileno-declarado-terrorista-por-eeuu-es-uno-de-los-lideres-de-terrorgram-la-red-supremacista-de-telegram/
|
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[^5]: US Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder," December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and
|
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|
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[^6]: UK SI 2024/569, Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024; Canada Gazette SOR/2025-263, December 17, 2025; Australia F2025L00762, legislation.gov.au.
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|
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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- FederalCase
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||||||
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|
||||||
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location: "Pahoa, Hawaii"
|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-21
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|
||||||
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summary: "Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases 'Whoops' and 'Jordan', was a CVLT member from Pahoa, Hawaii who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and whose identity was established through an ISUPD subpoena investigation linking a fraudulent Honolulu address to his Pahoa residence."
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||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
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[[Clint Borge]] (full name Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases "Whoops" and "Jordan") is a member of [[CVLT]] and the [[764 Network|764]] network, based in [[Pahoa, Hawaii]] on the Big Island. He was 41 at arrest and 42 at his December 2025 guilty plea. The investigation that identified him as the fourth core CVLT member was conducted by [[Iowa State University Police Department]] Officer [[Kami Feld]], who subpoenaed IP and payment records that linked a fictitious Honolulu address to his actual Pahoa residence.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Identification and Arrest
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Federal investigators at [[Homeland Security Investigations]] (HSI) had identified three of the four CVLT core leaders before Borge's real-world identity was established. His Discord alias "Whoops" was known; his identity was not. In November 2020, an Iowa State University student reported ongoing blackmail to ISUPD, and Officer Kami Feld's investigation led to subpoenas to electronic service providers. One subpoena response returned IP activity across four locations, including Hawaii. A digital payment account associated with the IP trail used the address 4 Goldfield Road, Honolulu. Feld's verification search found that address linked to several suspicious businesses but no verifiable physical location. The investigation traced from the Honolulu address to Borge's actual residence in Pahoa, Hawaii. HSI Honolulu conducted the physical arrest when the indictment was unsealed in February 2025.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
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At Borge's initial appearance, a federal magistrate denied bail. He was remanded to U.S. Marshals custody and transported to Los Angeles for proceedings before District Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] in the [[Central District of California]].[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### Federal Case (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025. Borge faced one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. DOJ filings described Borge as a member of the enterprise who participated in and directed victims during the creation of CVLT extortion videos and other CSAM. He was distinguished from [[Rohan Rane]], [[Kaleb Merritt]], and [[Collin Walker]], who were charged as leaders and administrators who also hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership.[^3]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Borge pleaded guilty in December 2025. Judge Vera scheduled his sentencing for March 12, 2026. As of May 2026, no DOJ press release announcing Borge's actual sentence had been published, suggesting the hearing may have been continued. He faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.[^4]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^1]: Iowa State Daily. "How ISUPD uncovered a Neo-Nazi sexual predator ring." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/335620/news/how-the-isupd-uncovered-a-neo-nazi-sexual-predator-ring/; Iowa State University News Service. "A call for help leads ISU Police to sexual predator, international investigation." February 12, 2025. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2025/02/12/isu-police-exploitation
|
||||||
|
[^2]: 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/; Honolulu Star-Advertiser. "Puna man accused of neo-Nazi sexploitation, 'horrific acts against children.'" February 1, 2025. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/02/01/hawaii-news/puna-man-accused-of-neo-nazi-sexploitation-horrific-acts-against-children/
|
||||||
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[^3]: 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
|
||||||
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[^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
|
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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||||||
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- Accelerationism
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- InJektDivision
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||||||
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- Texas
|
||||||
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- Convicted
|
||||||
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born: 1989
|
||||||
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location: "Kerrville, Texas"
|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-22
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||||||
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||||||
|
summary: "Coleman Thomas Blevins is the founder of InJekt Division, a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization, who was arrested in May 2021 after threatening a mass shooting at a Walmart and sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison on a felon-in-possession count."
|
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Coleman Thomas Blevins (born approximately 1989, Kerrville, Texas) is the founder of [[InJekt Division]], a neo-Nazi accelerationist [[Telegram]] organization he established in February 2021. He operated under the alias "Korb" (also "Kørbe") and served as one of two members of the group's self-described inner circle, the "Shock Waffen Twins." Blevins was arrested in May 2021 after posting a mass-shooting threat targeting a [[Kerrville]] Walmart on social media, and was sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison following a guilty plea to one count of felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm in the [[Western District of Texas]].[^1]
|
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|
||||||
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### InJekt Division Founding
|
||||||
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||||||
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Blevins founded InJekt Division in February 2021. Using the Telegram alias Korb, he developed the group's ideology (which he and members called "[[clerical fascism]]," a blend of accelerationist national socialism, religious framing, and misogyny) and its signature slogan, "pray for rain," referencing a desired nuclear event that would collapse civilization. During at least one far-right podcast, a person using the name Korb identified himself as the president of the organization. Blevins appeared in promotional photographs holding firearms alongside InJekt Division imagery.[^2]
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|
||||||
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In a February 2021 Telegram post, Blevins described the inner circle as led by the "Shock Waffen Twins" (SWT), two individuals who directed all group activity and membership decisions. Photographs in InJekt Division's Telegram channel confirmed Blevins as one of the two; the second SWT member's identity was never publicly confirmed in any court document or named press account.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[[Feuerkrieg Division]] re-emerged on Telegram in May 2021 specifically to promote and network with InJekt Division, publicly announcing a strategic partnership. InJekt Division and FKD together served as the primary organizing infrastructure for the [[United Acceleration Front]], one of two militant accelerationist Telegram coalitions documented by the [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] in their 2022 joint report on neo-fascist coalition-building.[^3]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### Arrest and Federal Case
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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On May 27, 2021, Blevins posted publicly to social media: "I'm going to Walmart," followed by a photograph of himself holding a black AR-15 rifle, and then the message, "I have no problem spending the rest of my life in prison for Shootings [sic] up Walmart." Kerr County, Texas authorities executed a search warrant on May 28, 2021. Officers found 556 rounds of ammunition in Blevins's apartment and an AR-15 with four magazines in a vehicle belonging to his roommate, consistent with the weapon in the photograph.[^1]
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||||||
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The federal case, USA v. Blevins (case number 5:22-cr-00169), was filed in the [[Western District of Texas]] on April 6, 2022, on the single count of felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm. Blevins entered a guilty plea on November 28, 2023. A judge in the Western District sentenced him to 60 months (five years) in federal prison in May 2024. The prior felony that triggered the felon-in-possession charge was not specified in the available press releases.[^1][^4]
|
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|
||||||
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No federal terrorism or material support charges were filed in connection with InJekt Division's Telegram activities.
|
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|
||||||
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### Footnotes
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||||||
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|
||||||
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDTX. "Kerrville Man Who Made Terrorist Threats Sentenced on Firearm Charges." May 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/kerrville-man-who-made-terrorist-threats-sentenced-firearm-charges; KSAT. "Coleman Thomas Blevins, 31, sentenced on firearm charges." May 9, 2024. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/05/09/kerrville-man-accused-of-making-terroristic-threats-sentenced-to-5-years-on-felony-firearm-charges/
|
||||||
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[^2]: ADL. "Texas Man Arrested for Terrorist Threats Targeting Local Walmart." June 2021. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/texas-man-arrested-terrorist-threats-targeting-local-walmart; Raw Story. "The Kerrville Nazi who threatened to shoot up Walmart started a martyrdom cult and fantasized about a nuclear holocaust." https://www.rawstory.com/coleman-thomas-blevins/
|
||||||
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[^3]: Middlebury Institute CTEC / Tech Against Terrorism. "Militant Accelerationism Coalitions: A Case Study in Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Coalition Building Online." June 2022. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/militant-accelerationism-coalitions-case-study
|
||||||
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[^4]: PacerMonitor. USA v. Blevins, 5:22-cr-00169, Texas Western District Court. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/44455132/USA_v_Blevins; CBS News. "Texas man arrested after authorities say they intercepted plans for a mass shooting at Walmart." May 30, 2021. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coleman-blevins-planned-walmart-mass-shooting-texas/
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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||||||
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|
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summary: "Conor Climo was a Las Vegas white supremacist and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2020 for possessing bomb-making components after an FBI undercover operation documented his plans to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and LGBTQ bar."
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Conor Climo was a resident of [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] who communicated with members of [[Feuerkrieg Division]] beginning in late 2017 and developed plans to conduct arson and explosive attacks against Jewish and LGBTQ targets in the Las Vegas area. He was arrested on 8 August 2019 by the [[FBI]]'s [[Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force]] and pleaded guilty in February 2020 to federal charges in the [[District of Nevada]]. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison on 13 November 2020 by U.S. District Judge [[James Mahan]].[^1]
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Climo first made contact with FKD members through encrypted internet communications in late 2017, predating the formal founding of the organization in October 2018 and suggesting early involvement with the proto-FKD online milieu. The FBI began investigating him in April 2019 after receiving intelligence about his encrypted chats with FKD members. The investigation used undercover agents posing as fellow extremists and at least one confidential informant to document Climo's operational planning.[^2]
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Climo's target list was specific and geographic. He spoke of wanting to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue, described a scenario in which others would shoot people exiting the building as he lit the incendiary device, and compiled a journal with sketches depicting gunmen attacking an LGBTQ bar. The target list also included a fast food restaurant and a Las Vegas office of the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. In October 2017, before formal FKD communications, Climo had already attempted to recruit a homeless person to conduct surveillance on a synagogue.[^2]
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On 8 August 2019, FBI agents searched Climo's Las Vegas home and found bomb components and two rifles, consistent with the planning documented in his communications. He was charged with one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, specifically characterized as the component parts of a destructive device under federal explosives law. The framing of the charge around firearm possession rather than terrorism-specific statutes was consistent with the Department of Justice's prosecution strategy for FKD-adjacent cases in that period: the same approach was used in the contemporaneous [[Jarrett William Smith]] prosecution in Kansas.[^1]
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U.S. Attorney [[Nicholas A. Trutanich]] for the District of Nevada described the investigation in a press release as protecting Las Vegas's faith-based and LGBTQ communities from hate-motivated violence.
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Climo pleaded guilty in February 2020. His sentencing on 13 November 2020 drew attention because prosecutors had recommended 30 months, consistent with the Smith case, but Judge Mahan sentenced Climo to 24 months. He also received six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring to follow his release. Climo apologized at sentencing. No terrorism enhancement was applied.[^1]
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The case was one of two documented US prosecutions arising from FKD membership in 2019, alongside Smith's. The absence of a terrorism enhancement in both cases distinguished them from later prosecutions of [[Atomwaffen Division|AWD]] and [[764 Network|764]] members, where enhanced charges (including the first-ever material-support terrorism count against a 764 member in 2025) became the prosecutorial standard.
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D. Nev. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components; Las Vegas Sun. "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
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[^2]: Times of Israel. "White supremacist jailed for 2 years over plot to bomb Las Vegas synagogue." November 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-supremacist-jailed-for-2-years-over-plot-to-bomb-las-vegas-synagogue-adl/; Washington Blade. "Nevada man guilty in plot to shoot up LGBTQ bar." February 2020. https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/02/11/nevada-man-guilty-in-plot-to-shoot-up-lgbtq-bar/
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summary: "David Brilhante, aliases 'Knight' and 'CS:GO,' was a San Diego, California leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
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[[David Brilhante]], aliases "Knight" and "CS:GO," is a resident of [[San Diego, California]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1997 and was 28 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
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### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Brilhante alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Zachary Dosch]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], and [[Camden Rodriguez]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]], conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^1]
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Greggy's Cult operated using coercion methods that directly informed the [[764 Network|764]] network's operational model. The group recruited minor victims through gaming platforms and social media, coerced them into producing [[CSAM]] on video, and blackmailed them with that material. [[NCITE]] tracked Greggy's Cult alongside [[CVLT]] and 764 as one of three connected precursor-successor networks accounting for 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes through December 2025.
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No guilty plea or sentencing outcome for Brilhante was publicly reported as of May 2026.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
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location: "Streatham, London, England"
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created: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Declan George-Candiani was a 26-year-old actor from Streatham convicted in October 2024 at the Old Bailey of two terrorism possession counts after being stopped at Stansted Airport, who told police he had developed an interest in the Order of Nine Angles after they found extreme right-wing material on his devices."
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Declan George-Candiani (born 9 September 1999), 26, of Streatham, London, was stopped at [[Stansted Airport]] on 13 August 2024 by officers from [[Counter Terrorism Command]] exercising Schedule 7 powers under the [[Terrorism Act 2000]]. His mobile phone was analysed at the stop, and he was arrested. A subsequent search of his home yielded an iPad, also seized. He was convicted at the [[Old Bailey]] on 3 October 2024, following a jury trial, of two counts of collecting material likely to be useful to a terrorist under section 58(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000. The jury acquitted him of two further counts of the same offence. He was sentenced on 28 November 2024 to 23 months' imprisonment, plus one year on licence, plus a 10-year terrorism notification requirement.[^1]
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### Materials Found and O9A Connection
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Examination of George-Candiani's iPhone and iPad revealed a cache of extreme right-wing material including manifestos of mass killers, documents advocating the use of serious violence to achieve white supremacist goals, and guides for committing lone-wolf attacks. In police interview, he attributed his downloading of the material to an interest in [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), describing O9A to officers as a group advocating "traditional Satanism." He also told police that he had "made a pact with the devil" and was "possessed," a statement that attracted press characterisation of him as a self-described Satanist.[^2]
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The materials specifically convicted on were "guides on how to commit 'lone wolf' attacks," categorised as information likely useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism.[^1]
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### Schedule 7 Stop
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George-Candiani was an actor by occupation. The stop at Stansted was a Schedule 7 examination, a non-arrest power that allows Counter Terrorism Policing to stop and search individuals at ports and airports for up to six hours without arrest. The phone analysis during that stop generated the grounds for arrest and the subsequent home search. His case is one of two O9A-adjacent UK cases in 2024-2025 (alongside [[Cameron Finnigan]]) that established the continued active enforcement posture of Counter Terrorism Command toward individuals with documented O9A interest, in the absence of O9A's own proscription.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Metropolitan Police. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop-501766; Metropolitan Police. "Man jailed for offences under the Terrorism Act." https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-offences-under-the-terrorism-act-503818; Counter Terrorism Policing. "Man convicted of terrorism offences after schedule 7 stop." https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/man-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-schedule-7-stop/
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[^2]: LBC. "'Devil pact' satanist actor jailed for terror material." November 2024. https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/satanist-actor-jailed-for-23-months-right-wing-documents-5HjdNdF_2/; Yahoo News UK. "'Satanist' actor found with extreme right-wing material guilty of terror charges." October 2024. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/satanist-actor-found-extreme-wing-180625834.html; HS Today. "Self Proclaimed Satanist Convicted of Terrorism Offences After Questioning at London Airport." 2024. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/self-proclaimed-satanist-convicted-of-terrorism-offences-after-questioning-at-london-airport/
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- Tampa
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- FederalCase
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||||||
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created: 2026-05-21
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||||||
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|
||||||
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summary: "Devon Arthurs was an Atomwaffen Division member who converted to Islam and in May 2017 murdered two fellow AWD members in their shared Tampa apartment, an act that directly triggered Brandon Russell's arrest and AWD's national exposure."
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born: 1999
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[[Devon Arthurs]] was a member of [[Atomwaffen Division]] who converted to Islam, then on May 19, 2017 killed his two AWD roommates, [[Jeremy Himmelman]] and [[Andrew Oneschuk]], at the apartment they shared in Tampa, Florida with [[Brandon Russell]]. The killings and Arthurs's subsequent cooperation with law enforcement constituted the first major public exposure of AWD as an operational organization, resulted in Russell's arrest for possession of explosive materials, and triggered the sustained law enforcement attention that would disrupt the organization over the following years.
|
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### Conversion and Departure from AWD
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Arthurs had been a committed AWD member and a participant in the organization's accelerationist ideology before converting to Islam at some point in 2016 or early 2017. His conversion generated conflict within the apartment with Himmelman and Oneschuk, who remained committed neo-Nazis. Arthurs later told investigators that the two men had desecrated a Quran he kept in the apartment, and that he had also come to fear they would expose his prior AWD membership to others, a threat to his safety he believed required a preemptive response.[^1]
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|
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### Murders and Hostage Standoff
|
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|
||||||
|
On the afternoon of May 19, 2017, while Russell was away at a [[Florida National Guard]] training exercise, Arthurs shot and killed both Himmelman (22) and Oneschuk (18) inside the Tampa apartment. After the killings, rather than fleeing, Arthurs drove to a nearby smoke shop and held customers at gunpoint inside the store while he attempted to reach a religious leader by phone. He made statements to the hostages about wanting to speak with a Muslim contact and about the crimes he had committed.
|
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|
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|
Tampa police responded to the hostage situation and Arthurs surrendered peacefully after a standoff lasting approximately an hour. He was arrested without further violence.[^1]
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|
||||||
|
### Investigation, Russell's Exposure, and AWD Military Warnings
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
After Arthurs was taken into custody and began cooperating with investigators, Tampa police and the FBI searched the apartment. The search revealed explosive materials belonging to Russell, specifically precursor chemicals and components used in the manufacture of HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine). Investigators also recovered AWD propaganda materials, membership lists, and other organizational documents.
|
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|
||||||
|
Russell returned from his National Guard training to find law enforcement at the apartment and was subsequently arrested on explosives charges. Arthurs's cooperation directly enabled this arrest and provided investigators with their first detailed inside look at AWD's structure, membership, and activities.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
During his police interrogation, Arthurs told detectives that Atomwaffen Division "had attracted U.S. military personnel as members and was aiming to recruit more." He specifically identified Russell as having joined the [[Florida Army National Guard]] with deliberate strategic intent, stating that Russell "joined specifically for the knowledge and the training, and he wants to use that training against the government." Russell served in Company C, 53rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, [[53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team]], based in Pinellas Park, Florida. Arthurs warned that AWD members "join the military specially to get training. To get access to equipment."[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### The Florida Guard Non-Response
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Florida Guard conducted a two-page summary investigation within three weeks of the Tampa murders. [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS Frontline]]'s 2018 investigation, based on a review of that document, found that it "contains no references to Arthurs's statements to authorities about other possible Atomwaffen members in the military" and showed "no evidence that the Guard had alerted officials in other military branches to the potential presence of Atomwaffen in their ranks." Russell had announced the creation of Atomwaffen Division on [[Iron March]] in October 2015, months before he enlisted in the Guard in February 2016; during the Guard's recruitment vetting, a radiation trefoil tattoo on his neck was documented but did not trigger further inquiry. The FBI declined repeated requests to discuss the case and what steps it took in response.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Legal Outcome
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Arthurs pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Florida state court. His cooperation with federal investigators as part of plea negotiations produced information that fed into multiple subsequent federal prosecutions of AWD members.[^3]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
|
||||||
|
[^2]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery; Tampa Bay Times. "How Did Florida National Guard Miss Soldier's Neo-Nazi Leanings?" 2017. https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/how-did-florida-national-guard-miss-soldiers-neo-nazi-leanings/2324930/
|
||||||
|
[^3]: Tampa Bay Times. Coverage of Devon Arthurs sentencing. 2018.
|
||||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
- Brazil
|
||||||
|
- SaintsCulture
|
||||||
|
- MassShooter
|
||||||
|
born: 2006
|
||||||
|
location: "Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
summary: "Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards."
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (born approximately 2006, [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil]]) was 16 when he attacked two schools in Aracruz on November 25, 2022, killing four people and wounding eleven. He wore military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband, and had been active in online neo-Nazi accelerationist communities including [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels. In the prosecution of [[Dallas Humber]] in the [[Eastern District of California]], DOJ prosecutors documented that on or around October 23, 2022 - one month before the attack - Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] had discussed in a secret Telegram chat a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil." Prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to Humber's guidance, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni and referred to him as "her kid." Castiglioni was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention - the maximum penalty available for minors under Brazilian law at the time of sentencing in December 2022.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### The Aracruz Attacks
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
On November 25, 2022, Castiglioni attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first, then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]]. Four people were killed: student [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), who was shot while hiding under a desk, teacher [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), who was attempting to shield students, [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded.
|
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|
||||||
|
Castiglioni had been active on social media displaying admiration for Nazi ideology and claimed to have begun planning the attack in 2019 following a period of bullying, placing his radicalization in the same post-[[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch]] window as many other Terrorgram-linked cases. No separate written manifesto was publicly confirmed; his documented online activity constituted his ideological record.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Terrorgram Connection
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Humber prosecution established the most direct documented link between Terrorgram and the Aracruz attack. Court documents confirmed that on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's plans in a secret Telegram channel. Humber's subsequent creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her characterization of him as "her kid" - indicates a relationship extending beyond passive inspiration to something closer to the mentorship dynamic she had also maintained with prospective attackers in other countries.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Aracruz attack is listed in Humber's sentencing documents as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack to that point. It is also cited explicitly in [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026) as one of the attacks his publications helped inspire.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
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### Brazilian Legal Outcome
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022, representing the maximum penalty available under Brazilian law for a minor at the time. He completed the sentence and was placed on supervised release by November 2025.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder." 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]: CBS News. "Teen suspect in Brazil school shootings wore swastika armband, police say." November 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-suspect-brazil-school-shootings-4-killed-wore-swastika-police-say/
|
||||||
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||||||
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---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
- Lithuania
|
||||||
|
- TerroristConviction
|
||||||
|
- Europe
|
||||||
|
location: "Vilnius, Lithuania"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian Feuerkrieg Division member convicted by Vilnius Regional Court in September 2020 for planting a homemade explosive device outside a Vilnius Western Union office in October 2019, representing one of the first European criminal convictions of an FKD member."
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian national and [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) member who planted a homemade explosive device outside a [[Western Union]] office in [[Vilnius]] on 14 October 2019 and spray-painted "FK Division," "Siege," and a swastika on the building's wall on 6 October 2019. He was detained on 15 October 2019, convicted by [[Vilnius Regional Court]], and sentenced to a net approximately 18 further months of custody under an expedited procedure that reduced the underlying term by one-third.[^1]
|
||||||
|
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Beržinskas's two acts of political violence in Vilnius in October 2019 were ideologically consistent with [[Siege Culture]] and FKD's propaganda: the spray-painted messaging explicitly invoked both FKD's name and James Mason's [[Siege]], the foundational accelerationist text that underpins FKD's ideology. The bomb placement was an act of domestic terrorism aimed at financial infrastructure, consistent with the [[Atomwaffen Division]] accelerationist playbook of attacking institutional targets to precipitate societal collapse.
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Lithuanian law enforcement found bomb-making materials and a firearm in Beržinskas's possession at the time of his detention. Vilnius Regional Court convicted him of plotting a terror act, illegal possession of explosives and a firearm, and attempting to commit a crime. The case was examined under an expedited procedure.[^1]
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During the period of Beržinskas's attack planning, he was in contact with [[Paul Dunleavy]], a 17-year-old FKD member from [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, who provided him and other FKD members with firearm-conversion manuals and device-building guidance. Dunleavy's provision of that guidance was prosecuted in the United Kingdom as preparation for acts of terrorism. Dunleavy's November 2020 sentencing at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] specifically referenced the convictions in Lithuania, Germany, and the United States of three FKD members to whom Dunleavy had given assistance. British authorities separately noted the cross-border causal chain in public statements.[^2]
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Beržinskas's case therefore sits at the junction of two national prosecutions: the first-instance conviction in Lithuania and the downstream conviction of his UK-based adviser. The cases represent the most clearly documented instance of transnational criminal causation within the FKD network's documented history.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). "Lithuanian neo-Nazi receives 28-month sentence for attempting terror attack." September 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1235208/lithuanian-neo-nazi-receives-28-month-sentence-for-attempting-terror-attack; LRT. "Neo-Nazi admits to plotting terror attacks in Lithuanian capital." 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1222876/neo-nazi-admits-to-plotting-terror-attacks-in-lithuanian-capital
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[^2]: LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist; Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/
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summary: "Hector Bermudez, aliases 'Fiasco,' 'Rogue,' and 'Diablo,' was a Queens, New York leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
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[[Hector Bermudez]], aliases "Fiasco," "Rogue," and "Diablo," is a resident of [[Queens, New York]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1996 and was 29 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
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### Greggy's Cult and the 764 Lineage
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Greggy's Cult operated using methods that would define the [[764 Network|764]] network: recruiting minor victims through gaming platforms and social media, coercing them into producing [[CSAM]], and blackmailing victims with the material to compel ongoing compliance including self-harm. [[NCITE]] tracked Greggy's Cult alongside [[CVLT]] and 764 as three connected networks accounting for 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes through December 2025. Prominent members of 764 and related successor networks were also members of Greggy's Cult, per the DOJ's December 2025 press release.[^1]
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### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Bermudez alongside four co-defendants: [[Zachary Dosch]] (26, Albuquerque, New Mexico), [[Rumaldo Valdez]] (22, Wahiawa, Hawaii), [[David Brilhante]] (28, San Diego, California), and [[Camden Rodriguez]] (22, Longmont, Colorado). The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC).[^2]
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The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^2]
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No guilty plea or sentencing outcome for Bermudez was publicly reported as of May 2026.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; 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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[^2]: United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/; DOJ USAO-EDNY. "Five Members of Greggy's Cult Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/five-members-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet
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created: 2026-05-21
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summary: "John Cameron Denton, known online as 'Rape,' was Atomwaffen Division's propaganda chief and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign targeting journalists and civil rights organizations, convicted in federal court and sentenced to 41 months."
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[[John Cameron Denton]], known online as "Rape" and under additional aliases including "Torque," was [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s primary propaganda organizer and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign that targeted journalists and civil rights organizations who had reported on or tracked AWD's activities. He was arrested by the FBI and convicted in federal court, receiving a 41-month sentence.
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### AWD Propaganda Role
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Denton served as a key organizer of AWD's propaganda and online operations from his base in Texas. In that role he coordinated the production and distribution of AWD's recruitment materials, maintained the network's online presence across multiple platforms, and helped manage the organization's internal communications infrastructure. His work made AWD's propaganda some of the most recognizable neo-Nazi extremist content circulating on the early-to-mid 2010s internet, with its distinctive skull mask aesthetic and accelerationist messaging.[^1]
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### Swatting Campaign
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Beginning in late 2018 and continuing into 2019, Denton organized and executed a coordinated swatting campaign targeting individuals and organizations he and other AWD members viewed as enemies. Documented targets included a Virginia university, a former U.S. Cabinet member, a historic Black church outside Washington, D.C., an Islamic Center in Arlington, Texas, and journalists and civil rights organizations that monitored extremist activity. Federal prosecutors described it as "the most widespread swatting conspiracy in the country" known to law enforcement. Swatting - the practice of making false emergency reports to law enforcement to trigger armed police responses at a target's location - constitutes a serious felony and carries the risk of lethal violence against victims; several people in the United States have been killed by police in swatting incidents.
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Denton's campaign involved directing other AWD members to make false reports about specific targets, coordinating the timing and choice of victims, and using VoIP services and other tools to disguise the origin of the calls. The campaign represented AWD's use of harassment and intimidation as an organizational tactic alongside its advocacy for direct violence.[^2]
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### Arrest and Conviction
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The FBI investigated Denton's swatting operation and he was arrested in a raid on his home in Conroe, Texas, on February 26, 2020. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia in May 2021 to 41 months in federal prison, with a hate crime enhancement applied. Denton expressed no remorse at sentencing. The case was among the first federal convictions of an AWD member following [[Brandon Russell]]'s 2018 explosives conviction and was part of the sustained law enforcement campaign that dismantled AWD's leadership between 2018 and 2022.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. Federal conviction and sentencing records for John Cameron Denton.
|
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Cartwright II.md
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||||||
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||||||
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|
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||||||
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||||||
|
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|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-22
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|
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|
summary: "John Cartwright II, username 'Blood and Iron,' was an Iron March moderator who joined the forum in September 2011 at its founding and was identified through the 2019 database leak as a U.S. Navy member residing in Millersville, Maryland."
|
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|
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|
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[[John Cartwright II]], operating under the username "Blood and Iron," was a moderator of the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum and a member of the [[United States Navy]] identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Forum Role and Timeline
|
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|
||||||
|
Cartwright joined Iron March in September 2011, immediately following the forum's launch on ironmarch.org, making him one of the earliest members of the permanent community. His early arrival gave him extensive interaction with [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] ("Alexander Slavros") and the forum's core organizers across the full span of the platform's operation.
|
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|
||||||
|
His moderator status placed him within the administrative tier that included [[Benjamin Raymond]], co-founder of [[National Action]], and other senior figures whose presence shaped the forum's content policies and community norms. As a moderator, Cartwright had administrative access to the forum's backend functions beyond those available to regular users.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
Database records and private message content from the leaked SQL dump established his identity. He participated in a Skype group organized by [[Jacob Rutledge]] (username "American Blackshirt"), an Indianapolis-based Iron March organizer, where he offered to contribute articles on the Occupy movement and on "shabby modern art" as topics of interest.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Identification
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The [[Iron March Dossiers]] project identified Cartwright in a post published March 13, 2020. The identification used the combination of his registered email address, self-disclosed personal details in private messages, and cross-referenced social media footprints accumulated over his years of Iron March activity. At the time of identification, he was reported to be a U.S. Navy member living in Millersville, Maryland. No criminal charges followed the identification, and no public record confirms any Navy investigation or administrative action in his case.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: Iron March Dossiers. "John Cartwright II, aka Blood and Iron, Moderator of Neo-Nazi Forum Iron March." March 13, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/03/13/john-cartwright-ii-moderator-of-neo-nazi-forum-iron-march/; Anarchist Federation. "John Cartwright II, aka Blood and Iron, Moderator of Neo-Nazi Forum Iron March." https://www.anarchistfederation.net/john-cartwright-ii-aka-blood-and-iron-moderator-of-neo-nazi-forum-iron-march/
|
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kaleb Cole.md
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||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- Intimidation
|
||||||
|
- FederalCase
|
||||||
|
- Washington
|
||||||
|
- Russia
|
||||||
|
- RussianImperialMovement
|
||||||
|
- USA
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Kaleb Cole was a Washington state-based Atomwaffen Division leader who received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg in 2018, ran a coordinated intimidation campaign against journalists and activists, and was convicted of civil rights conspiracy and sentenced to 84 months in federal prison."
|
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|
location: "Washington State"
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Kaleb Cole]] was a Washington state-based [[Atomwaffen Division]] leader who rose to prominence within the organization following [[Brandon Russell]]'s 2018 imprisonment and ran a sustained intimidation campaign targeting journalists, civil rights workers, and others who reported on or monitored AWD's activities. In 2018 he traveled to [[Russia]] for paramilitary training with the [[Russian Imperial Movement]] at their [[Partizan]] camp in [[St. Petersburg]]. He was convicted in federal court of civil rights conspiracy charges and sentenced to 84 months (seven years) in federal prison.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Rise Within AWD
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cole became one of AWD's most operationally active members in the period after Russell's initial incarceration. He worked to maintain the organization's cohesion and continued its recruitment and propaganda activities while Russell was imprisoned. His role in AWD's operations placed him at the center of the organization's internal communications and gave him visibility into the network's full scope of activities.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Russia Training Trip (2018)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In 2018, Cole traveled to Europe with fellow AWD member [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] of Olympia, Washington, on a trip that included passage through [[Ukraine]] via the Donbas green corridor into Russia, followed by attendance at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan paramilitary training facility in St. Petersburg. The training covered firearms, explosives, squad movement, and tactical operations. Former Russian military instructors ran the program. The same facility had trained members of the [[Nordic Resistance Movement]] from [[Sweden]] in 2016, who subsequently carried out bombings in Gothenburg in 2017, the case that formed the basis for the U.S. State Department's 2020 designation of RIM as an SDGT entity.[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
After completing Partizan training, Cole and Bruce-Umbaugh traveled back through Ukraine into Poland and documented the trip with a photograph at [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp. The Russia trip is referenced in federal prosecution materials from both Cole's case (2:20-cr-00032, [[Western District of Washington]]) and Bruce-Umbaugh's case (5:19-cr-00130, [[Northern District of Texas]]), and is documented in investigative reporting on AWD's transnational connections.[^3]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The RIM training represents the most documented instance of a senior AWD leader receiving in-person foreign paramilitary training from an organization later designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. government. The [[CTC West Point]] analysis of the skull-mask neo-fascist network notes that RIM also trained additional U.S. nationals affiliated with AWD at Partizan in approximately 2020, beyond the 2018 Cole/Bruce-Umbaugh trip.[^4]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Intimidation Campaign
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Following the [[2019 AWD 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 workers who had reported on AWD. Cole participated in that campaign's physical execution: he and associates mailed threatening posters to the homes of Jewish activists and journalists of color, bearing swastikas, skulls, and phrases including "We know where you live" and "Death to Pigs"; the materials were also physically affixed to victims' homes and property. The campaign combined doxxing with the implicit threat of violence against AWD critics.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Federal Investigation and Conviction
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The FBI investigated Cole's intimidation operations. He was arrested in 2020 as part of the broader federal crackdown on AWD leadership that also ensnared [[John Cameron Denton]], [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]], and others during that period.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cole was convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Washington on all five counts: conspiracy to commit hate crimes, mailing threatening communications, cyberstalking (two counts), and a fifth related count. He was sentenced to 84 months (seven years) in federal prison. The case drew national attention in 2021 when motion-to-suppress filings revealed that [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], who had infiltrated AWD as a senior leader, had been an FBI informant throughout his entire tenure inside the organization.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Member of Violent Extremist Group Sentenced to 84 Months for Civil Rights Conspiracy." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-violent-extremist-group-sentenced-84-months-civil-rights-conspiracy
|
||||||
|
[^2]: 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
|
||||||
|
[^3]: GovInfo. USA v. Bruce-Umbaugh, 5:19-cr-00130 (N.D. Tex.). https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130/USCOURTS-txnd-5_19-cr-00130-0
|
||||||
|
[^4]: CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- LawEnforcement
|
||||||
|
- CVLT
|
||||||
|
- ChildExploitation
|
||||||
|
- Iowa
|
||||||
|
- ISUPD
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Kami Feld is an Iowa State University Police Department officer whose 2020 investigation of a student blackmail complaint surfaced the identity of CVLT's fourth core member, completing the federal case that led to indictments in January 2025."
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Kami Feld]] is an officer with the [[Iowa State University Police Department]] (ISUPD) whose independent investigative work in 2020-2021 identified [[Clint Borge]], the previously unknown fourth core leader of [[CVLT]], completing the information picture that [[Homeland Security Investigations]] needed to seek a federal indictment against all four defendants.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Iowa State Investigation
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In November 2020, an Iowa State University freshman approached ISUPD to report that she was being blackmailed with sexual images taken of her when she was 16. A patrol officer initially interviewed the victim, and Officer Kami Feld took up the investigative work.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Feld issued subpoenas to electronic service providers including Google, PayPal, Venmo, Instagram, and Facebook. The subpoena responses returned IP activity across four different locations, including [[Hawaii]], [[Oregon]], and [[California]]. Feld also issued a search warrant.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
At this point, Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles was already investigating CVLT and had identified three of the four core leaders. The fourth was known only by the Discord alias "Whoops." Feld's subpoena results, combined with a digital wallet account associated with the target's IP activity, returned an address: 4 Goldfield Road, Honolulu, Hawaii. Feld ran a verification search and found the address linked to several questionable businesses with no verifiable physical location. Further investigation traced the activity not to Honolulu but to [[Pahoa, Hawaii]] on the Big Island, establishing the real-world identity as [[Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge]].[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Feld's investigation connected to the existing HSI case. Once HSI confirmed the Borge identification, investigators proceeded to the January 17, 2025 grand jury indictment. Borge, [[Collin Walker]], [[Kaleb Merritt]], and [[Rohan Rane]] were indicted in [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)|United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040]], [[Central District of California]].[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Recognition
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Iowa State University and ISUPD credited the original student complainant and Feld's investigative work publicly in February 2025, when the indictment was unsealed. Multiple news accounts identified the Iowa State case as the investigative link that broke open the fourth identification and allowed the federal prosecution to proceed against the full leadership of the enterprise.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: Iowa State Daily. "How ISUPD uncovered a Neo-Nazi sexual predator ring." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/335620/news/how-the-isupd-uncovered-a-neo-nazi-sexual-predator-ring/; Iowa State University News Service. "A call for help leads ISU Police to sexual predator, international investigation." February 12, 2025. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2025/02/12/isu-police-exploitation; Iowa State Daily. "Student report to ISUPD leads to charges for neo-Nazis." 2025. https://iowastatedaily.com/310219/news/student-report-to-isupd-leads-to-neo-nazi-charges/
|
||||||
|
[^2]: 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
|
||||||
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Liam Collins (AWD).md
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|
||||||
|
---
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summary: "Liam Collins was a former U.S. Marine and Iron March leader who co-conspired with other AWD-adjacent Iron March members to attack power infrastructure in the northwestern United States, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Eastern District of North Carolina in July 2024."
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Liam Collins was a former United States Marine who served at [[Camp Lejeune]], North Carolina, and a leader on the [[Iron March]] neo-Nazi forum. After leaving the Marines, Collins organized with [[Paul James Kryscuk]], [[Jordan Duncan]] (a fellow former Marine), [[Joseph Maurino]] (a New Jersey National Guardsman), and [[Justin Wade Hermanson]] in an accelerationist network that planned attacks on power grid infrastructure in the northwestern United States. The group's propaganda video featured participants in [[Atomwaffen Division]] skull masks. Collins was convicted in the [[Eastern District of North Carolina]] and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on July 25, 2024.[^1]
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Collins and Kryscuk met through Iron March, the neo-fascist forum that served as AWD's founding platform, and used the forum to recruit additional members before it closed in late 2017. Their group is described by prosecutors as having "ties to racially motivated violent extremists" including AWD and using the same iconography, including AWD skull masks during training sessions and a "black sun" symbol in propaganda videos. Whether Collins was a formal AWD member is not confirmed in court documents; the government's characterization is that the group was Iron March-derived and AWD-adjacent rather than AWD-structured.[^2]
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From approximately 2017 to 2020, Collins's network communicated through encrypted messaging applications, conducted paramilitary training in the desert near [[Boise, Idaho]], and planned attacks on power grid components in Idaho and surrounding states. The group researched a prior power substation attack (executed by an unknown group) as a model. In October 2020, federal agents found a handwritten list in Kryscuk's possession identifying approximately a dozen intersections and locations in the Pacific Northwest containing power grid infrastructure. Collins allegedly stole military gear during his Marine service for use in the plot; Duncan shared a military-derived library containing information on firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins.[^2]
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Joseph Maurino, then a New Jersey Army National Guard infantryman, supplied untraceable "ghost guns" and silencers to other network members, according to the superseding indictment. Maurino communicated via text messages recovered by the FBI in which he offered an "untraceable Glock" for $600.
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The five defendants received a third superseding indictment in the Eastern District of North Carolina in August 2021 that added a charge of conspiracy to damage the property of a United States energy facility under 18 U.S.C. § 1366. Their sentences, imposed in July and October 2024, were:[^3]
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Liam Collins: 120 months (10 years), aiding and abetting interstate transportation of unregistered firearms.
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Jordan Duncan: 84 months (7 years), manufacturing a short-barrel rifle in violation of the National Firearms Act.
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Paul James Kryscuk: 78 months (6.5 years), conspiracy to damage an energy facility.
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Joseph Maurino: 21 months, conspiracy to manufacture firearms.
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Justin Wade Hermanson: 21 months, conspiracy to manufacture firearms.
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### Military Background of Defendants
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Collins and Duncan were both former Marine infantrymen previously assigned to Camp Lejeune. Maurino was an active National Guardsman at the time of his offense. The combination of Marine training (Collins and Duncan) and National Guard access to military equipment (Maurino) in a single conspiracy network exemplifies the type of military-skills-to-extremist-network pipeline that the 2021 [[DoD Extremism Stand-Down (2021)|Defense Department stand-down]] sought to address.[^4]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNC. "Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities." July 25, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNC. "Group With Ties to Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Including Two Former Marines Facing Additional Charge of Targeting Energy Facilities." August 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/group-ties-racially-motivated-violent-extremists-including-two-former-marines-facing
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[^3]: Military.com. "Neo-Nazi Plot to Attack Power Grid Leads to Prison Sentences for 2 Former Camp Lejeune Marines." July 26, 2024. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/07/26/2-former-marines-get-prison-sentences-neo-nazi-plot-attack-power-grid-us-northwest.html; Military.com. "Marine Veteran Connected to Neo-Nazi Power Grid Attack Plot Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison." October 29, 2024. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/29/marine-veteran-connected-neo-nazi-power-grid-attack-plot-sentenced-7-years-prison.html
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[^4]: Stars and Stripes. "Marine Veteran Pleads Guilty in Neo-Nazi Plot to Damage Power Grid." June 25, 2024. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-25/nazi-iron-march-firearms-plot-guilty-14291621.html
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created: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed organization and possession of bomb-making materials."
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Luca Benincasa, 20, of [[Cardiff]], specifically the [[Whitchurch, Cardiff|Whitchurch]] area, was the first person convicted in the United Kingdom of belonging to [[Feuerkrieg Division]] following its proscription under [[The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020]] (SI 2020/743) on 17 July 2020. He pleaded guilty at [[Winchester Crown Court]] on 15 July 2022 and was sentenced on 26 January 2023 by Judge [[Jane Miller KC]] to nine years and three months in a young offenders institution.[^1]
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Counter-terrorism police raided both of Benincasa's separated parents' respective homes in [[Cardiff]] in January 2022. The searches produced a tactical vest, camouflage clothing, an [[SS]] officer's dagger and hat, a Nazi Party armband, masks, and a large quantity of white supremacist literature. Additionally, his digital devices contained bomb-making instructions and other material classified as information likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism.[^1]
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Benincasa had served as a recruiter and described himself as a "prominent member" of FKD. He was identified as a key figure in FKD's UK operations in the period after the organization's reconstitution on [[Telegram]] in May 2021.
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At Winchester Crown Court, Benincasa entered guilty pleas to:
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- four counts of collecting or possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism (Terrorism Act 2000, s. 58), covering bomb-making instructions, on or before 1 February 2022
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In a subsequent hearing, he also pleaded guilty to:
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The CSAM and terrorism charges were prosecuted together, following the pattern documented in multiple [[764 Network|764]] and FKD cases in which CSAM possession coincides with and reinforces violent accelerationist activity.[^2]
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### Sentence
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Judge Miller KC imposed a total sentence of nine years and three months: five years and seven months for the terrorism offences, a consecutive eight months for the CSAM offences, plus a three-year extended licence on the terrorism counts. The sentence was to be served in a young offenders institution. Miller KC told Benincasa: "By 1st February 2022 you were calling yourself the UK cell leader of FKD and one of its recruiters," and concluded: "You were clearly a prominent member of the organisation." She described Benincasa as presenting a "serious risk" to the public.[^1]
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The nine-year sentence was the longest imposed on any FKD-connected defendant in the UK to that point, exceeding [[Luke Hunter]]'s four-year-and-two-month term (2020), the Cornwall teenager's 24-month rehabilitation order (2021), and [[Paul Dunleavy]]'s five-and-a-half-year term (2020).
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Press coverage of the case, including ITV News Wales and Tell MAMA reporting, described Benincasa as a "prominent ONA member." Whether the published sentencing remarks specifically use that language has not been independently verified from the primary text and constitutes an open thread.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi Luca Benincasa jailed for terrorism offences and child abuse images." January 2023. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-luca-benincasa-jailed-for-terrorism-offences-and-child-abuse-images/; ITV News Wales. "Neo-Nazi, 20, from Cardiff jailed for being member of far-right terror group." January 26, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-01-26/dangerous-neo-nazi-jailed-for-being-a-member-of-far-right-terror-group; Nation.cymru. "Cardiff man becomes first person convicted of belonging to neo-Nazi Feuerkrieg Division." https://nation.cymru/news/cardiff-man-becomes-first-person-convicted-of-belonging-to-neo-nazi-feuerkrieg-division/
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[^2]: Counter Extremism Project. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/feuerkrieg-division
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- NeoNazi
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||||||
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||||||
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- Canada
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||||||
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- TerroristConviction
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updated: 2026-05-21
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summary: "Matthew Althorpe is a Canadian co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who previously served as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, co-authored its three major publications, and was sentenced to 20 years in Canadian federal prison in March 2026."
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location: "Niagara, Ontario, Canada"
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[[Matthew Althorpe]] (born approximately 1996, Niagara region, [[Ontario]], Canada) co-founded the [[Terrorgram Collective]] alongside Slovak co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] in the summer of 2019 after serving as a propagandist for [[Atomwaffen Division]] from approximately 2018. He co-authored Terrorgram's three major zine-format publications and co-ran its Telegram channels until his arrest on December 8, 2023. On March 27, 2026, Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly sentenced him to 20 years in Canadian federal prison (parole-eligible at 10 years) following his guilty plea to three terrorism charges, finding that his propaganda had directly inspired at least six attacks including the [[Juraj Krajčík|October 2022 Bratislava shooting]] and a 2024 mosque stabbing in Turkey.[^1][^2]
|
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|
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|
### Background and AWD Connection
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|
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Before co-founding Terrorgram, Althorpe had been active within Atomwaffen Division's propaganda infrastructure from approximately 2018, producing accelerationist content in that context. He also had documented involvement with [[Active Club Canada]], the Canadian branch of the far-right physical fitness and organizing network founded by American white nationalist Robert Rundo. His pre-Terrorgram history placed him at the nexus of the post-AWD accelerationist diaspora that coalesced on Telegram following AWD's partial disruption by federal prosecutions and the deplatforming of platforms like [[Iron March]].
|
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|
||||||
|
### Terrorgram Publications
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
Althorpe co-authored all three of Terrorgram's major publications as part of the collective's inner circle:
|
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|
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*Militant Accelerationism: A Collective Handbook* (136 pp., June 2021), framing terrorism as "the language of the unheard" and providing ideological and tactical guidance for lone-wolf attacks.
|
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|
||||||
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*Do It For The Gram: The Collected Writings of Terrorgram* (268 pp., December 2021), maintaining and extending the first publication's operational argument.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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*The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production* (261 pp., July 2022), the network's most operationally specific work, with detailed instructions for attacks and critical infrastructure sabotage.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
These publications became the Terrorgram Collective's most widely cited and distributed output, circulating through the broader accelerationist Telegram ecosystem and reaching individuals who had no prior direct AWD or Terrorgram connection.[^3]
|
||||||
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|
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|
### Arrest and Prosecution
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Althorpe was arrested on December 8, 2023 in Canada and charged with three terrorism offenses under the Criminal Code of Canada: facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group. He pleaded guilty to all three charges.
|
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|
||||||
|
On March 27, 2026, Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly sentenced Althorpe to 20 years in Canadian federal prison, with parole eligibility at 10 years. Justice Kelly found that Althorpe's publications had directly inspired at least six attacks, including the October 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting by [[Juraj Krajčík]] and the August 2024 [[Arda Küçükyetim|Eskisehir mosque stabbing]] in Turkey. The [[Public Prosecution Service of Canada]] described the sentence as reflecting the severity of publishing propaganda that served as an operational guide for mass violence.[^1][^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
The sentence made Althorpe one of the most heavily sentenced Terrorgram figures in any jurisdiction, behind only [[Dallas Humber]]'s 30-year U.S. federal sentence.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^1]: 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]: CBC News. "Niagara man sentenced for terrorism after guilty plea in Terrorgram Collective case." March 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/niagara-matthew-althorpe-terrorism-9.7144637
|
||||||
|
[^3]: ARC Research. "Terrorgram's Propaganda: An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks." https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/terrorgrams-propaganda-an-overview-of-publications-designed-to-incite-accelerationist-terrorism-attacks
|
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||||||
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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- FederalCase
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||||||
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- Idaho
|
||||||
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- USA
|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
summary: "Matthew Robert Allison is a Boise, Idaho DJ and Terrorgram Collective co-leader who served as the network's primary video producer under the alias 'BTC' (BanThisChannel), arrested September 2024 and facing 15 federal counts in the Eastern District of California with trial pending as of May 2026."
|
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born: 1987
|
||||||
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location: "Boise, Idaho"
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Matthew Robert Allison (born approximately 1987, raised in [[Perris, California]], longtime resident of [[Boise, Idaho]]) co-led the [[Terrorgram Collective]] with [[Dallas Humber]] and was the network's primary video producer, creating approximately 120 videos over five years including the quasi-documentary "White Terror," which glorified more than 100 far-right killers as models for emulation. He operated under the alias "BTC" (short for BanThisChannel). He was arrested on September 5, 2024, in the same [[FBI]] operation that apprehended Humber, charged in case [[United States v. Humber|2:24-cr-00257]] in the [[Eastern District of California]] on 15 federal counts, and pleaded not guilty. His trial remained pending as of May 2026.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
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|
### Early Life and Radicalization
|
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|
||||||
|
Allison was the first of four children, grew up in Perris, California, and showed musical aptitude early. He turned down a college offer to follow a friend to [[Boise, Idaho]], where he spent 17 of the next 19 years. He worked a succession of low-wage service jobs (convenience stores, bakeries) while DJing electronic dance music sets on Saturday nights. Friends described him as gentle and socially inclusive; he maintained a long-term romantic relationship with a male coworker from approximately 2013 onward. His father, [[John Allison]], later refused cooperation with FBI investigators.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
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Federal prosecutors stated that from approximately age 10, Allison had exhibited interest in graphic violent material, including beheadings. His documented radicalization path unfolded across three phases:
|
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|
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2018: Allison began posting content under the BanThisChannel name on [[YouTube]], initially featuring conservative political material (Tucker Carlson clips, similar fare). The content grew progressively more racist, homophobic, and antisemitic. YouTube removed him following a post of the [[Nazi Party]] anthem.
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2020: Following a romantic breakup and his brother's imprisonment on drug charges, Allison left Idaho. He stayed briefly in Nevada caring for his brother's children, then six months with his father in Utah, where he reportedly spent most of his time on his computer. He asked his father for help launching a Nazi propaganda website; his father refused. He returned to Boise.
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2021 onward: Allison migrated to [[Telegram]], where he operated with minimal platform enforcement for approximately five years. By December 2021, he had boasted that 50 of his channels had been banned; they consistently reappeared under modified names.[^2]
|
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### Content Production and Propaganda
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||||||
|
Allison's documented video production for Terrorgram channels comprised approximately 120 videos. His video content complemented the publications that Humber and [[Matthew Althorpe]] had co-authored, providing audiovisual material to accompany the written propaganda. His two most significant works:
|
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"Last Battle" (approximately 6 minutes): deployed white-victimhood framing through a montage of imagery depicting drag queens, immigrant arrivals, Black crime, interracial marriage, and an alleged "Jewish communist takeover."
|
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||||||
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"White Terror" (approximately 24 minutes): a quasi-documentary celebrating 105 individuals who had committed far-right terrorism, presenting them as a coherent tradition of resistance and providing narration, graphics, and archival material designed to frame their violence as heroic.[^2]
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Allison also produced a 51-second clip providing specific guidance on disabling electrical transmission lines, which was identified by prosecutors as a direct vector for infrastructure radicalization. [[Andrew Takhistov]] (East Brunswick, New Jersey), charged in July 2024 with soliciting the destruction of [[PSE&G]] substations, was documented as having watched Allison's electrical line sabotage video before planning his own attack.[^2]
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He distributed "trading card"-format hit lists featuring targets' home addresses and photographs of their residences, a production format shared with [[Noah Lamb]]'s "The List" work and the broader [[Saints Culture]] framework. He also distributed guides for producing napalm, thermite, chlorine gas, pipe bombs, and dirty bombs through the Terrorgram channel network.[^2]
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|
||||||
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Following the October 2022 [[Bratislava]] shooting by [[Juraj Krajčík]], who killed two people at an LGBTQ+ bar, Krajčík was documented as having sent his manifesto to Allison before the attack. Prosecutors presented this as evidence of Allison's direct contact with an attacker in his network's radicalization pipeline.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Arrest Evidence
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The FBI arrested Allison on September 5, 2024, at his Boise residence. Items found in his backpack at arrest included zip ties, duct tape, ammunition, a firearm, a knife, lockpicking equipment, two phones, and a thumbdrive. His apartment contained an assault rifle, two laptops, and a "go bag" stocked with $1,500 cash, a black balaclava, and skull masks associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]].
|
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||||||
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Investigators also recovered handwritten documents titled "Commit Homicide" and "Post-Mortem Disembowelment," which contained graphic written fantasies involving murder and sexual assault. Allison's defense team argued these were high school lyrics for a death metal band called "Putrid Flesh."[^1][^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Legal Proceedings
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Allison was extradited from Idaho to California to face trial in the Eastern District of California before U.S. District Judge [[Dena Coggins]]. He pleaded not guilty to all 15 counts. Against the advice of defense counsel, he granted two jailhouse interviews while awaiting trial, characterizing himself as a video "artist" and asserting that his work was protected by the [[First Amendment]]. He called the indictment "offensive" and denied that he had incited violence, describing himself as a chat participant rather than an organizational leader.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
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The 15 counts charged against Allison are identical to those charged against Humber: one count of conspiracy; four counts of soliciting hate crimes; three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials; three counts of doxing federal officials; one count of threatening communications; two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions; and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]. Combined maximum exposure is 220 years.[^1]
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||||||
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As of May 2026, no trial date had been publicly announced. Allison remained the most senior Terrorgram figure facing unresolved proceedings in the United States following Humber's December 2025 sentencing to 30 years.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
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|
### Footnotes
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; KIVI-TV (Boise). "Boise man accused of leading online terrorist group will face trial in California." https://www.kivitv.com/downtown-boise/boise-man-accused-of-leading-online-terrorist-group-will-face-trial-in-california
|
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[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "Secret Life of Matthew Allison: Goofy DJ, Accused Terrorgram Leader." March 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber
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summary: "Michail Chkhikvishvili (alias 'Commander Butcher') is a Georgian national who led Maniac Murder Cult after its founder's arrest, extradited from Moldova in 2025 and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026."
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[[Michail Chkhikvishvili]], operating under the alias "Commander Butcher," is a Georgian national who assumed operational leadership of [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) after the network's Ukrainian founder [[Yegor Krasnov]] was arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020. Under Chkhikvishvili's direction, MKY expanded internationally through [[Telegram]] recruitment and continued its pattern of soliciting and glorifying real-world violence as both ideological expression and organizational initiation. He was indicted in the [[Eastern District of New York]] in July 2024, arrested in [[Chisinau]], [[Moldova]] in the same month, extradited to the United States in May 2025, and pleaded guilty in November 2025. U.S. District Judge [[Carol Bagley Amon]] sentenced him to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026.[^1]
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Chkhikvishvili assumed MKY leadership following Krasnov's 2020 detention and expanded the network's geographic reach beyond its Ukrainian origins. He maintained MKY's core operational model - the "Murder Points" rank system that assigns numerical values to criminal acts escalating from vandalism through assault to terrorism - while recruiting internationally through Telegram channels and using encrypted [[Wire]] and [[Matrix]] applications for internal communications.
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Under his leadership, MKY members were linked to several real-world attacks, most significantly the 2022 Romanian case in which a 17-year-old livestreamed the murder of an elderly woman as an initiation act (the perpetrator was convicted in August 2023 to 14 years), and the August 2024 [[Eskisehir]] mosque stabbing in Turkey.
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His alias was cited by name in the manifesto left by [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, who shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] on January 22, 2025, before dying by suicide. The [[Nashville Metropolitan Police Department]]'s January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and found no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY.[^2]
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] indicted Chkhikvishvili in July 2024 on charges of soliciting hate crimes and planning a mass casualty attack in New York City. Moldovan authorities arrested him in Chisinau the same month.
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The [[U.S. Department of Justice]] announced his extradition from Moldova in May 2025. He pleaded guilty in November 2025 and was sentenced by Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026, with the DOJ describing the case as part of a broader prosecution of transnational online networks that solicit real-world political violence.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges of Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-extradited-moldova-face-charges-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass
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[^2]: 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
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summary: "Nicholas Giampa killed his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia in December 2017 after they banned their relationship over his neo-Nazi activity, survived a self-inflicted head wound with brain damage, and died uncharged in the Fairfax County jail in 2024."
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[[Nicholas Giampa]] was a 17-year-old resident of [[Lorton, Virginia]] (Fairfax County) who on December 22, 2017 shot and killed [[Scott Fricker]] and [[Buckley Kuhn-Fricker]], the parents of his girlfriend, at their home in [[Reston, Virginia]]. He then shot himself in the head. He survived but with severe brain damage. The murders occurred after the Fricker-Kuhn family had discovered Giampa's neo-Nazi social media activity and ordered their daughter to end the relationship.
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Giampa was never tried. He was found incompetent to stand trial in August 2018 due to his injuries, restored to competency in 2019, declared incompetent again in 2023, and died at the [[Fairfax County Adult Detention Center]] on the night of August 22-23, 2024, before a trial could take place. Foul play was not initially suspected.
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Giampa's connection to [[Atomwaffen Division]] was established through public social media activity rather than confirmed formal membership. Under the alias "Kevin Gallo," he maintained a Twitter account ([@doctorpepper35]) that documented extensive neo-Nazi beliefs including heavy sharing of AWD propaganda and explicit praise for the James Mason text *[[Siege]]*. He praised a Twitter user identified as @RyanAtomwaffen. [[HuffPost]] documented and identified the account. He is described in contemporary reporting as an AWD "follower" rather than a confirmed cell member.
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Earlier in 2017, Giampa had mowed a 40-foot swastika into a community athletic field in Lorton, Virginia.
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The Fricker-Kuhn family had confronted their daughter about Giampa's neo-Nazi social media presence and had forbidden her from continuing the relationship. According to prosecutors, Giampa and the daughter had entered a suicide pact and had discussed "wounding her parents if they tried to intervene."
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On December 22, 2017, Giampa entered the family home at 2600 Black Fire Court in Reston during the early morning hours and shot both parents. He then shot himself in the head. He was found at the scene alongside the bodies. He survived but the gunshot wound caused severe brain damage that would permanently affect his cognitive functioning and became the central obstacle to his prosecution.
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Giampa was indicted in 2019 in [[Fairfax County Circuit Court]] on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was tried as an adult. In August 2018, a court found him incompetent to stand trial due to the effects of his brain injury. A 2019 ruling found him restored to competency and scheduled an adult trial. By 2023, competency proceedings again found him unable to stand trial. No trial ever took place.
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He was found unresponsive in his cell at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center at approximately 1:58 a.m. on August 22-23, 2024 and was pronounced dead. Initial investigation did not suspect foul play.[^1]
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[^1]: HuffPost. "Neo-Nazi Teen Allegedly Killed Girlfriend's Parents After They Tried to Stop the Relationship." January 2018. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780; NBC Washington. "Man Charged in 2017 Double Homicide Found Dead at Virginia Jail." August 2024. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/man-charged-in-2017-double-homicide-found-dead-at-virginia-jail/3700783/; PBS FRONTLINE. "Three Murder Suspects Linked to Atomwaffen: Where Their Cases Stand." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/
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summary: "Nikita Casap is a Waukesha, Wisconsin man sentenced to two consecutive life terms in March 2026 for murdering his mother and stepfather in February 2025 to fund a planned assassination of President Trump, with the FBI documenting extensive Terrorgram radicalization and contacts with European co-conspirators."
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[[Nikita Casap]] (born approximately 2007, [[Waukesha, Wisconsin]]) was a 17-year-old neo-Nazi who on approximately February 11, 2025 shot and killed his mother, [[Tatiana Casap]], and his stepfather, [[Donald Mayer]], at the family's home in Waukesha County. His stated purpose was to acquire the funds and means to assassinate President [[Donald Trump]] and trigger the accelerationist collapse of American society. He lived with the bodies for approximately two weeks before fleeing with stolen cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather's firearm, the family dog, and the household Volkswagen Atlas. He was apprehended in [[Kansas]] and charged in Waukesha County. He pleaded guilty on January 8, 2026, and was sentenced on March 6, 2026, to two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole by [[Waukesha County Circuit Court]] Judge [[Ralph Ramirez]].[^1]
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Casap killed Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer in their Waukesha home and then remained at the residence with the bodies for approximately two weeks, during which time he continued his online activity and assassination planning. Before departing he took approximately $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, Mayer's firearm, the family pet, and the family vehicle.
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Federal investigators, working from a search warrant affidavit filed March 18, 2025, documented that Casap had been communicating on [[Telegram]] with a contact using the username "Angel of Death" about the assassination plan and with a separate contact in Russia about plans to overthrow the U.S. government. A third contact, whose phone number was registered to Vodafone Ukraine and whose name transliterates from Cyrillic as "POMaH BiKTOBHH," had allegedly provided Casap with detailed instructions for concealing the bodies, evading law enforcement, and executing a post-assassination escape to Ukraine, where he planned to live in hiding for approximately a decade.[^2]
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He was intercepted by law enforcement and arrested in Kansas before he could leave the country.
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### Manifesto and Assassination Planning
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Casap left a three-page manifesto titled "Accelerate the Collapse" with an explicit accelerationist argument: that Trump's assassination would foment a political revolution and "save the white race" from what the document called "Jewish controlled politicians." The operative sentence, quoted in court documents and widely reported, was: "Do absolutely anything you can that will lead to the collapse of America or any country you live in. This is the only way we can save the White race." The manifesto also contained the phrase "HAIL HITLER HAIL THE WHITE RACE HAIL VICTORY" alongside imagery of Adolf Hitler.[^2]
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His assassination method evolved from an initial plan to mount an AK-47 on a commercially available drone to a revised plan involving dropping explosives from a drone above Trump. To fund the drone and explosives acquisition, Casap transferred approximately $8,700 in [[Bitcoin]] from his stepfather's account to individuals he believed were supplying the equipment. Those individuals were scammers; no actual drone or explosives were ever delivered.[^1][^3]
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Casap was active in at least five extremist Telegram channels at the time of his arrest. Documented affiliations included a [[Russia|Russian]]-language neo-Nazi chat that distributed instructions for building explosives and poison, and a channel run by or associated with [[Misanthropic Division]] that had more than 4,300 participants. He operated on these platforms under the aliases "accelerationist14" and "Awoken."
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His manifesto cited unnamed [[Terrorgram Collective]] publications, which federal investigators described as including instructions for building bombs and sabotaging critical infrastructure. He also explicitly cited the writings of [[Juraj Krajčík]], the Slovak neo-Nazi who killed two people at the [[Tepláreň]] LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022 as a Terrorgram "saint." Court documents also documented an affiliation with the [[Order of Nine Angles]].[^2]
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In the factual basis for [[Dallas Humber]]'s August 8, 2025 guilty plea, DOJ described the Wisconsin murders as one of seven attacks attributed to Humber's guidance, referencing Casap as "N.C." and describing him as having "murdered two people in Wisconsin in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official." The designation of Trump as a "federal official" in this framing reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 language used in the prosecution. This document constitutes the primary legal record in the public domain connecting Humber directly to Casap's radicalization pathway.[^4]
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### Arrest and Sentencing
|
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State charges in Waukesha County included two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, identity theft, theft, and two counts of hiding a corpse. Under the terms of his January 8, 2026 plea agreement, the non-homicide counts were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea to both homicide charges.
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Judge Ralph Ramirez imposed two consecutive life terms with no parole eligibility at the March 6, 2026 sentencing, explicitly ruling out any future parole consideration. Casap was 18 at sentencing, having turned 18 after the murders but before the plea proceedings.[^1]
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As of May 2026, no federal indictment against Casap had been publicly announced. The FBI search warrant affidavit, cited in press reporting, stated that probable cause existed to believe he committed federal offenses including conspiracy to assassinate the president (18 U.S.C. § 1751) and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. The state life sentences reduced the legal urgency of federal prosecution, but the identities of his European co-conspirators, including the Russian-speaking contacts documented in the affidavit, remained publicly undisclosed as of May 2026. Investigative reporting as late as March 2026 described the assassination-plot network as still "shrouded in mystery."[^3]
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[^1]: Spectrum News 1. "Nikita Casap gets life in prison with no parole for parents' murder and Trump assassination plot." March 6, 2026. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/03/06/nikita-casap-life-in-prison-trump-assassination-plot--sentencing; Washington Post. "Wisconsin man who killed his parents to fund Trump assassination attempt gets life in prison." March 5, 2026. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2026/03/05/wisconsin-deaths-trump-assassination-plot-casap/04cc7a2c-18e6-11f1-aef0-0aac8e8e94db_story.html
|
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[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired a Teen to Murder His Parents to Fund a Plot to Assassinate Trump." April 18, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline
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[^3]: Daily Caller. "Trump Assassination Plot That Took Two Innocent Lives Still Shrouded In Mystery." March 19, 2026. https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/19/trump-assassination-plot-that-took-two-innocent-lives-still-shrouded-in-mystery/; Spectrum News 1. "Nikita Casap pleads guilty to homicide." January 8, 2026. https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2026/01/08/nikita-casap--plea-deal--trump-assassination-plot--murder
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[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Pleads Guilty." August 8, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-pleads-guilty-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder
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- O9A
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- TerroristConviction
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- Accelerationism
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- London
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location: "West London, England"
|
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created: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski was an 18-year-old from West London who was a Sonnenkrieg Division member sentenced in June 2019 to an 18-month Detention and Training Order at the Old Bailey for two counts of encouraging terrorism via Gab posts supporting Anders Breivik and calling for ethnic cleansing."
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Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, of West London, was a member of [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the British neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation proscribed in 2019. He was sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] on 18 June 2019 by Judge [[Rebecca Poulet QC]] to an 18-month Detention and Training Order after pleading guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism under section 1 of the [[Terrorism Act 2006]].[^1]
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### Offences
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|
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Dunn-Koczorowski operated a personal Gab account under a pseudonym and shared administrative control of SKD's [[Gab]] page alongside co-defendant [[Michael Szewczuk]]. The Gab posts for which he was convicted included:
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||||||
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Material expressing support for [[Anders Behring Breivik]], the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in the 2011 [[Utoya]] attack and Oslo bombing.
|
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||||||
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Content calling for the ethnic cleansing of Albanians.
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|
||||||
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He pleaded guilty in December 2018 to the two encouraging terrorism counts; sentencing was deferred until June 2019. He did not face possession charges.
|
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|
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
Judge Rebecca Poulet QC described the content produced by both Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk as "abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts."[^2] The lighter sentence compared to Szewczuk reflected both the fewer counts and the lesser volume of material attributed to Dunn-Koczorowski.
|
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|
||||||
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### Sonnenkrieg Division and O9A
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] following his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] and incorporated [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) philosophy heavily into its ideology, distinguishing it from its National Action-successor predecessor. Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk were the first SKD members to face prosecution; their sentences preceded SKD's formal proscription, which followed later in 2019.
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[^1]: Washington Post. "Two British teens just convicted for promoting far-right terrorism online." June 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/18/two-british-teens-just-convicted-promoting-far-right-terrorism-online/; IOL News. "Neo-Nazi teen who called Prince Harry a 'race traitor' jailed." June 19, 2019. https://iol.co.za/news/world/2019-06-19-neo-nazi-teen-who-called-prince-harry-a-race-traitor-jailed/
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|
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[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed neo-Nazi Satanists were a legacy of National Action." June 18, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/06/18/jailed-neo-nazi-satanists-legacy-national-action/
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|
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|
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|
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||||||
|
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||||||
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||||||
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- Accelerationism
|
||||||
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- UK
|
||||||
|
- TerroristConviction
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||||||
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- UKTerrorism
|
||||||
|
born: 2003
|
||||||
|
location: "Rugby, Warwickshire, England"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
summary: "Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian member who later planted a bomb in Vilnius."
|
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|
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||||||
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||||||
|
Paul Dunleavy, 17, of [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, was convicted on 6 October 2020 by a jury at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] of preparing acts of terrorism between April and September 2019, making him one of the youngest people convicted of terrorism-related offences in the United Kingdom. He was sentenced to five years and six months' detention by Judge [[Paul Farrer QC]], with a concurrent two years for possessing terrorist documents.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
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|
### Activity and FKD Membership
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Dunleavy joined [[Feuerkrieg Division]] while 14 years old and became an active participant in its encrypted online networks. His primary criminal activity was the distribution of detailed firearm-conversion manuals and the provision of operational advice on building functional firearms from legally purchased components to other FKD members. The judge described his advice and encouragement to fellow members as "significant."[^2]
|
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||||||
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The trial revealed that three FKD members to whom Dunleavy had provided assistance were subsequently convicted of terrorist offences in Germany, Lithuania, and the United States. The Lithuanian connection is documented in other sources as relating to [[Gediminas Beržinskas]], who placed a homemade explosive device outside a [[Western Union]] office in [[Vilnius]] in October 2019 and was convicted by [[Vilnius Regional Court]] in September 2020. Dunleavy's provision of bomb-making guidance and firearm-conversion advice to Beržinskas and others established his culpability for the broader conspiracy.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Arrest and Conviction
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Dunleavy was first identified through investigative intelligence and was arrested by counter-terrorism investigators in connection with the FKD network. His trial at Birmingham Crown Court was a jury trial rather than a guilty-plea proceeding, distinguishing it from most other UK FKD cases. He was unanimously convicted. The court heard evidence about his extensive collection of ideological texts, his participation in FKD's encrypted communications, and the cross-national impact of the firearms guidance he had distributed.[^1]
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At sentencing, Judge Farrer noted Dunleavy's autism as a factor but said it did not diminish the seriousness of his offences or the real-world danger he created. The judge's characterization of autism as having contributed to an "obsessional interest in firearms" was noted in press coverage and is factually contested by disability researchers.[^1]
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Dunleavy's case is the most clearly documented instance of transnational criminal causation within the FKD network: a UK teenager advising a Lithuanian member whose subsequent bombing constituted one of the first FKD-linked acts of political violence in Europe. The 2021 sentencing by a UK court of a British teenager for providing advice to a Lithuanian terrorist who had already been convicted in Lithuania also represented an early example of parallel prosecution across European jurisdictions in FKD cases.[^3]
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[^1]: Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/; Anadolu Agency. "UK sentences youngest far-right terrorist." https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-sentences-youngest-far-right-terrorist/2137742
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[^2]: Far-Right Criminals. "Rugby teenager Paul Dunleavy jailed for terror offences." November 6, 2020. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2020/11/06/rugby-teenager-paul-dunleavy-jailed-for-terror-offences/; Campaign Against Antisemitism. "Teenager from Rugby linked to neo-Nazi groups jailed for terror offences." https://antisemitism.org/teenager-from-rugby-linked-to-neo-nazi-groups-jailed-for-terror-offences
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[^3]: LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist
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summary: "Pavol Beňadik, alias 'Slovakbro,' was the Slovak co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who mentored Juraj Krajčík before the 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting and was sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting terrorism."
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[[Pavol Beňadik]], operating online under the alias "Slovakbro," is a [[Slovakia|Slovak]] national who co-founded the [[Terrorgram Collective]] in the summer of 2019 alongside Canadian co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]]. He built the initial infrastructure of what became one of the most consequential accelerationist neo-Nazi networks in the world, created at least five neo-Nazi [[Telegram]] channels and two group chats, and directly mentored [[Juraj Krajčík]] - the perpetrator of the October 2022 Bratislava [[LGBTQ+]] bar shooting - from age 16. Beňadik was arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022 and subsequently sentenced to six years in prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, the first major prosecution of a Terrorgram figure.[^1]
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Beňadik began creating neo-Nazi Telegram content in the immediate aftermath of the [[Brenton Tarrant]] Christchurch attacks of March 2019, when the accelerationist community had been partially displaced from [[Iron March]]-successor spaces by deplatforming. At approximately 19 to 20 years of age, he launched channels that drew the growing post-Christchurch accelerationist Telegram ecosystem into a more coherent network. His initial work attracted Althorpe, who had been operating as an [[Atomwaffen Division]] propagandist, and together they formalized the Terrorgram Collective as an inner circle committed to producing professional-quality propaganda.
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Beňadik's channels posted bomb-making instructions, accelerationist ideological content, and the Saints Culture graphics that became Terrorgram's most recognizable output - trading-card-style tributes to far-right mass shooters framed as models for emulation.[^2]
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Beňadik's most consequential documented activity was his sustained personal mentorship of [[Juraj Krajčík]] of Slovakia, who had entered Terrorgram's channels in August 2019 at age approximately 16. Over the following three years, Beňadik mentored Krajčík through the network's radicalization pathway, calling explicitly for the creation of "saints" from Slovakia. Krajčík cited Beňadik by his alias in the manifesto he left before carrying out the October 12, 2022 attack at [[Tepláreň]], an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, in which two people were killed and one wounded.
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The Bratislava attack was identified by Terrorgram community members and researchers as the first "saint" event produced by the network's mentorship activities. Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the attack, but Krajčík completed the act anyway based on the years of prior mentorship.[^1][^3]
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Slovak authorities arrested Beňadik in May 2022 as part of an investigation into his Telegram activities. He faced more than 200 terrorism-related charges under Slovak law. He was convicted and sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic constitutional system and for acts of terrorism. The conviction made him the first Terrorgram Collective figure to be imprisoned and established that at least one jurisdiction was prepared to treat the network's online activities as actionable terrorism offenses.
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His arrest preceded by more than two years the U.S. arrests of [[Dallas Humber]] and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] in September 2024, and the Canadian arrest of Althorpe in December 2023.
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[^1]: Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Terrorgram, a Neo-Nazi Collective, at the Heart of International Arrests." https://www.antihate.ca/terrorgram_neo_nazi_collective_heart_international_arrests
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[^2]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram." 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
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[^3]: 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/
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location: "Conklin, New York"
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summary: "Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, livestreaming the attack and leaving a manifesto modeled on Brenton Tarrant's, sentenced to consecutive life terms and cited as inspiration by subsequent accelerationist attackers."
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[[Payton Gendron]] (born May 27, 2003, [[Conklin, New York]]) attacked the [[Tops Friendly Markets|Tops supermarket]] on Jefferson Avenue in the predominantly Black East Side neighborhood of [[Buffalo, New York]] on May 14, 2022, killing 10 people and wounding 3. All 10 victims were Black; Gendron had driven approximately 200 miles from his home in Conklin specifically targeting Buffalo's East Side because of its demographics. He live-streamed the attack through a helmet-mounted camera on Twitch. He left a 180-page manifesto explicitly framed as continuing [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s 2019 [[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch]] attack, adopting Tarrant's format and ideological argument. Gendron pleaded guilty to all counts in November 2022 and was sentenced to life without parole in state court in February 2023, with federal hate crime convictions adding additional consecutive life terms. [[Juraj Krajčík]] named Gendron as his "final nudge" before the October 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar attack; [[Nikita Casap]] also cited Gendron as an influence before his February 2025 Wisconsin killings.[^1]
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Gendron drove from Conklin to Buffalo on May 14, 2022, arriving at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue at approximately 2:30 PM. He wore tactical gear and a camera, opened fire in the parking lot, and then entered the store. He killed a retired police officer employed as a security guard, [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], who fired at Gendron but was unable to penetrate his body armor. Of the 13 people shot, 10 died. Gendron then surrendered to police at the scene.
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The Twitch stream was active for approximately 2 minutes before the platform removed it. The footage was subsequently redistributed widely through Telegram and other platforms, following the same pattern established after Christchurch.
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The 10 victims were: [[Aaron Salter Jr.]], [[Roberta Drury]], [[Margus Morrison]], [[Andre Mackniel]], [[Katherine Massey]], [[Heyward Patterson]], [[Celestine Chaney]], [[Geraldine Talley]], [[Ruth Whitfield]], and [[Pearl Young]].[^2]
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Gendron's manifesto was structured as an explicit homage to Tarrant's "The Great Replacement," borrowing Tarrant's format of a question-and-answer self-interview alongside strategic and operational arguments. It adopted "great replacement" ideology, citing the same French conspiracy theory framework. Gendron had radicalized primarily through 4chan's /pol/ board and had been consuming accelerationist content from an early age, with no documented connection to a specific organized network prior to the attack.
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His manifesto included specific targeting research (why Buffalo, why this supermarket), tactical guidance, and an explicit framing of the attack as a contribution to an ongoing acceleration campaign. The document's detailed radicalization self-history became a significant data point for researchers studying online radicalization pathways independent of organizational membership.
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Gendron was arrested immediately after the attack without resistance. He 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. In February 2023, Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan sentenced him to life in prison without possibility of parole on each count, to run consecutively.
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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 in 2023 and received additional life sentences from U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford.[^1]
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His documented role in the inspiration chain confirmed by court evidence includes Krajčík's naming him in the Bratislava manifesto and Casap's references in the "Accelerate the Collapse" document before his parents' murders. The [[Terrorgram Collective]]'s channels circulated Gendron saint cards in the same format as Tarrant materials.[^3]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. "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
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[^2]: Buffalo News. "Payton Gendron pleads guilty to all charges in Buffalo mass shooting." November 2022.
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[^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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summary: "Ryan Fleming was a regional organiser for National Action's Yorkshire branch and an O9A nexion leader who ran the Drakon Covenant cell, publishing occultist texts under the pseudonym A.A. Morain while accumulating convictions for child sexual abuse spanning 2012 to 2021."
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Ryan Fleming, of Horsforth, Leeds, was a regional organiser for [[National Action]]'s Yorkshire branch and a leader of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) nexion known as the [[Drakon Covenant]], which operated out of Yorkshire. He is the principal documented conduit through which O9A ideology entered National Action's internal culture during the period 2015 to 2017.
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### National Action Role and O9A Integration
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Fleming is described in contemporaneous anti-fascist and journalistic reporting as a regional organiser who worked to push National Action toward [[Left-Hand Path]] occultism, specifically the O9A's [[Seven Fold Way]] framework. Police searches of National Action members' homes during the prosecution of the organisation's post-proscription membership uncovered materials bearing O9A symbols, which investigators and journalists attributed to Fleming's influence within the group.[^1]
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Fleming was an active poster on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum, where he promoted O9A doctrine and recruited for the Drakon Covenant. His Iron March presence connected the Yorkshire nexion to other O9A-affiliated formations internationally, and the Drakon Covenant maintained documented contact with the American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]] (ToB). The foreword to one of Fleming's published books, *Codex Aristarchus*, was written by "Czar Azag-kala" of Tempel ov Blood, demonstrating a direct editorial relationship between the Yorkshire and American O9A formations.[^2] Fleming's Iron March account is corroborated by the database leak of November 2019. Whether Counter Terrorism Command's post-leak National Action investigation, which identified [[Benjamin Hannam]] via the "Anglisc" account in February 2020, also cross-referenced Fleming's Iron March activity is not confirmed in any public source.
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Fleming operated the Drakon Covenant under the pseudonym "A.A. Morain." Under that name he wrote and published at least two documented texts within the O9A publishing ecosystem: *Scithain: Vampyric Witchcraft of the Drakon Covenant* and *Codex Aristarchus*. Both works position themselves within O9A's broader doctrinal corpus on the acausal realm and transgressive spiritual practice.
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The journalist Jake Hanrahan confirmed the Fleming-Morain identification and the Drakon Covenant's Yorkshire base in February 2021 reporting.[^3] The nexion's international connections were documented in [[HOPE not hate]]'s "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter in *State of Hate 2020*.[^1]
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Fleming's criminal record for child sexual abuse pre-dates his period of peak influence within National Action and continued through 2021.
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In 2012, Fleming was convicted of falsely imprisoning, torturing, and sexually abusing a young boy. He was sentenced to 26 months' imprisonment. The conviction established a sexual harm prevention order restricting his contact with children.[^4]
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In 2017, Fleming was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl he met online through Facebook, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. HOPE not hate reported this conviction at the time.[^5]
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In February 2021, Fleming was sentenced to a further six months in prison after police found him messaging young teenagers online in violation of the sexual harm prevention order that had been in place since his earlier convictions. Counter Terrorism Policing detected the breach in December 2020 via Instagram. The conviction was reported by BBC journalist Daniel De Simone, who confirmed Fleming's concurrent O9A membership at the time of the 2021 breach.[^6]
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As of mid-2026, no terrorism charges have been brought against Fleming in connection with his National Action organising or O9A nexion leadership. His criminal record consists entirely of the child sexual abuse counts. No parliamentary question specifically naming Fleming in connection with counter-terrorism non-prosecution has been located in Hansard, and no published CPS decision on the question has been found.[^7]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020*. https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
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[^2]: Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5
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[^3]: Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan). "Fleming runs a Yorkshire based cell (or nexion as they call it) of the O9A. It's called the Drakon Covenant." 11 February 2021. https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1360317804600324096
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[^4]: Far-Right Criminals. "Ryan Fleming: Neo-Nazi paedophile jailed for messaging children." February 2021. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/02/13/ryan-fleming-neo-nazi-paedophile-jailed-for-messaging-children/
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[^5]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed! National Action paedophile behind bars." 29 July 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/07/29/jailed-national-action-paedophile-behind-bars/
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[^6]: Daniel De Simone (@DdesimoneDaniel). Twitter, 11 February 2021. https://x.com/DdesimoneDaniel/status/1360244058636120064
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[^7]: Red Rose UK News. "Ryan Fleming from Leeds jailed for contact with children after neo-Nazi group involvement." https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/ryan-fleming-1; HOPE not hate. "Jailed! National Action paedophile behind bars." 29 July 2017. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/07/29/jailed-national-action-paedophile-behind-bars/
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||||||
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||||||
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- NeoNazi
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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- TerroristConviction
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summary: "Sarah Beth Clendaniel is a Cecil County, Maryland-born neo-Nazi who conspired with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell to destroy five BGE substations, having developed white nationalist beliefs independently since 2001 before meeting Russell through prison correspondence in 2018."
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|
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[[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] (born approximately 1987, [[Cecil County, Maryland]]) conspired with [[Atomwaffen Division]] founder [[Brandon Russell]] to destroy multiple electrical power substations operated by [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) in a coordinated attack intended to trigger a cascading city-wide power failure. The plot followed the accelerationist strategic logic at the center of AWD's founding ideology: that destroying infrastructure could function as a catalyst for the societal breakdown and race war that Clendaniel and Russell believed would ultimately produce a white nationalist state. She pleaded guilty on May 14, 2024, and was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on September 24, 2024.[^6]
|
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|
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Clendaniel grew up in rural Cecil County, a heavily white, conservative area bordering [[Delaware]] and [[Pennsylvania]] in Maryland's northeastern corner. She later stated that she had held Nazi beliefs since 2001.
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||||||
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Her first documented felony arrest occurred in 2006 in Cecil County, when she was charged with armed robbery at a convenience store (she wielded a large butcher knife) and several other offenses. That 2006 case resulted in a plea in [[Cecil County Circuit Court]] and a five-year prison sentence, though the sentencing did not occur until April 2015 when she received one year of jail time for the 2006 robbery under a deferred resolution structure.[^1]
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||||||
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In March 2016, Clendaniel committed three armed robberies of convenience stores within a four-day period, all in Cecil County: the Pantry 1 Mart near [[Rising Sun, Maryland|Rising Sun]] on March 21, the High's Dairy Store at 3155 Joseph Biggs Memorial Highway in [[Bay View, Maryland|Bay View]] on March 22, and the same Pantry 1 Mart again on March 25. She brandished a machete during each robbery and demanded cash and cigarettes. Maryland State Police arrested her in the act of robbing the High's Dairy Store in Bay View on March 29, 2016. She pleaded guilty in Cecil County Circuit Court to three counts of robbery and received a nine-year sentence in June 2016.[^1]
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||||||
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Clendaniel began exchanging letters with Russell in approximately 2018 while both were serving federal and state sentences in different facilities. The [[FBI]] was aware of the correspondence at least from 2018; investigative files cited the relationship in the Russell case as evidence of a pre-existing connection that preceded any FBI informant involvement in the later conspiracy.[^2]
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||||||
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During this period Clendaniel is also reported to have been in contact with the [[White Prison Newsletter]], the neo-Nazi accelerationist prison publication that Russell co-organized from his [[Federal Correctional Institution]] placement. The newsletter was also endorsed by [[Robert Gregory Bowers]], the [[2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting|Pittsburgh synagogue shooting]] perpetrator.[^3]
|
||||||
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### Release (2020) and Post-Prison Radicalization
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||||||
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||||||
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Clendaniel was released from custody in approximately 2020 after serving several years of her nine-year 2016 sentence. Court records filed in connection with her 2024 plea state that after release she "fell back into familiar patterns of addiction and embraced increasingly radical views." Her post-prison ideology expanded beyond the general white nationalist beliefs she had held since 2001 into the [[Accelerationism|accelerationist]] framework Russell had developed through AWD, specifically the theory that targeted infrastructure destruction could precipitate systemic collapse and race war.[^4]
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After her own release, Clendaniel moved to [[Catonsville, Maryland]], in [[Baltimore County]], where she was living at the time of her 2023 arrest.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### The Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy
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||||||
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Clendaniel and Russell's plan called for the simultaneous physical destruction of five BGE transformer substations in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Their operational theory held that striking multiple substations at the same time would prevent grid operators from rerouting power, producing a city-wide blackout. Clendaniel served as the operational executor of the conspiracy's Maryland component: while Russell, then living in [[Orlando, Florida]], provided the ideological framework and sought to procure weapons through the [[FBI informant]] [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)|Christopher Jackson]], Clendaniel conducted physical reconnaissance of the targeted substations and identified five sites to be struck simultaneously, selecting locations near [[Norrisville, Maryland|Norrisville]], [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]], and [[Perry Hall, Maryland|Perry Hall]], plus two additional substations near Baltimore City proper.
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In a recorded telephone conversation with Jackson on January 29, 2023, Clendaniel stated: "it would permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully." She described a "ring" of substations surrounding Baltimore and argued that hitting multiple facilities simultaneously would prevent BGE grid operators from rerouting power, producing a city-wide blackout. The attack was explicitly framed as targeting a majority-Black city as a precondition for racial conflict.[^5]
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Clendaniel possessed firearms that she had acquired for the plot despite her status as a convicted felon, making firearm possession independently illegal. The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF) documented the firearms as part of the investigation.
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The pair communicated the plan through encrypted channels; the case was prosecuted in the [[District of Maryland]] under Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]]. Federal investigators disrupted the conspiracy before any attack was carried out.
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[[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.
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Clendaniel was arrested February 3, 2023. A federal grand jury returned an indictment in the District of Maryland, case number 1:23-cr-00056, before Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar, charging her with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility (18 U.S.C. § 1366(b)) and one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)).[^6]
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Bredar sentenced Clendaniel to 18 years in federal prison on September 24, 2024, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. The government recommended the 18-year term; Bredar accepted it. The judge stated he "wanted to believe" she would not have carried through on the plot but concluded he was "not convinced she wouldn't act on them in the future" given the "extreme" nature of the planned attacks. Bredar found the crime was "a means of furthering her violent white supremacist ideology" and declined to credit claims that her participation had been primarily passive.
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Clendaniel received a shorter sentence than Russell (18 years vs. 20 years) based on Bredar's later analysis at Russell's sentencing that Russell had supplied the "intellectual horsepower" and was the more culpable party.[^4]
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[^1]: Cecil Daily. "Woman charged in neo-Nazi plot has criminal record in Cecil County." February 2023. https://www.cecildaily.com/news/woman-charged-in-neo-nazi-plot-has-criminal-record-in-cecil-county/article_b079a3b8-c164-5fd2-8562-2b2d092d690f.html
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[^2]: 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/
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[^3]: Vice. "Inside the Neo-Nazi Prison Magazine Radicalizing Americans in Their Cells." https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/
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[^4]: CBS Baltimore. "Woman sentenced to 18 years in white supremacist plot to destroy Maryland's power grid." September 24, 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-sentenced-maryland-neo-nazi-plot-destory-maryland-power-grid/; WJLA. "Woman sentenced to 18 years for plot with neo-Nazi leader to attack Baltimore's power grid." September 2024. https://wjla.com/news/local/baltimore-woman-neo-nazi-power-grid-attack-destroy-radical-racist-sarah-clendaniel-trauma-guilty-plea-sentencing-california-health-felon-relationship-facilities
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[^5]: 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; Nottingham MD. "Baltimore County woman pleads guilty to conspiring to destroy local power grid, Perry Hall substation." May 14, 2024. https://nottinghammd.com/2024/05/14/baltimore-county-woman-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-local-power-grid-perry-hall-substation/
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[^6]: 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; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-Maryland. "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
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summary: "Travis Frey was an ICE detention center captain at a CoreCivic facility in Nevada who was identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak as an active neo-Nazi forum user who had described himself as a fascist and sought to organize for the Traditionalist Workers Party."
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[[Travis Frey]], identified through the 2019 [[Iron March]] database leak, was employed as a captain at the [[Nevada Southern Detention Center]], a facility operated by private prison company [[CoreCivic]] under contract with [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE), at the time of his public identification in January 2020.
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Frey registered on Iron March in 2013 under the username "In Hoc Signo Vinces," a Latin phrase used by various military and academic institutions. He posted at least a dozen times between 2016 and 2017. During that period he was employed as head of security at a CoreCivic jail in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of several positions he held within the CoreCivic private detention network. Forum posts showed Frey describing himself as a "fascist" and expressing interest in organizing for the [[Traditionalist Workers Party]] (TWP) in Indiana. In June 2017, he made direct overtures toward joining TWP, then led by [[Matthew Heimbach]].[^1]
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[[Vice News]] identified Frey in January 2020 by cross-referencing the Iron March database's registration email address, phone number, birthday, and self-disclosed place of residence against open-source records. By the time of publication, Frey had been promoted to captain at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump, Nevada, which holds individuals detained pending immigration proceedings.
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Vice reporters found that Frey, who was 31 at the time, had moved from Indianapolis to Nevada after his time at the Indianapolis CoreCivic facility. The Nevada Southern Detention Center is one of the largest ICE detention facilities in the western United States.[^1]
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CoreCivic confirmed Frey's placement on administrative leave pending a review of the reported information. U.S. Senators representing Nevada called for a federal investigation into the Nevada Southern Detention Center following the Vice report. Immigration attorneys who represented detainees at the facility described the situation as reflecting systemic problems with oversight of private detention contractors.[^2]
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No criminal charges were filed against Frey. No public record establishes whether CoreCivic dismissed him, reinstated him, or transferred him. ICE declined to confirm whether it requested any specific review of the facility's personnel in connection with the reporting.
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The Frey case illustrated a gap in the background screening processes of private prison contractors operating under federal immigration enforcement contracts. The Iron March database enabled the identification, but Frey's Iron March posts had been publicly accessible in principle from 2016 to 2017 before the forum's closure and might have been surfaced through earlier monitoring. The [[Nevada Independent]] and [[KUNR Public Radio]] provided additional regional coverage of the political response to the identification.
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[^1]: Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain Was on a Neo-Nazi Website and Wanted to Start a White Nationalist Group." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-was-on-a-neo-nazi-website-and-wanted-to-start-a-white-nationalist-group/; Iron March Dossiers. "Travis Frey: CoreCivic Chief of Security and Iron March Fascist in Nevada." January 5, 2020. https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2020/01/05/travis-frey-corecivic-chief-of-security-and-iron-march-fascist/
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[^2]: Vice. "ICE Detention Center Captain With Neo-Nazi Ties Was Just Placed on Leave." January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ice-detention-center-captain-with-neo-nazi-ties-was-just-placed-on-leave/; Nevada Current. "ICE facility captain's neo-Nazi links reflect systemic racism, immigration lawyers say." January 8, 2020. https://nevadacurrent.com/2020/01/08/ice-facility-captains-neo-nazi-links-reflect-systemic-racism-immigration-lawyers-say/
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summary: "Zachary Dosch, alias 'Moist Nigerian,' was an Albuquerque, New Mexico leader of Greggy's Cult who pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges and faced further indictment in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York alongside four co-defendants."
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[[Zachary Dosch]], alias "Moist Nigerian," is a resident of [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 1999 and was 26 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
|
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|
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Dosch pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges arising from related conduct. His sentencing on those charges had not yet occurred as of December 2025, when the new Greggy's Cult indictment was returned.[^1]
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Greggy's Cult directed minor victims to engage in sexually explicit and degrading conduct on video calls hosted on Discord or other video conferencing platforms. The group also engaged in coordinated extortion of both minor and adult victims, including schemes to frame adult victims as pedophiles and to send malware to minor victims' computers, using the resulting leverage to compel ongoing compliance with degrading acts on camera. Encouragement of victims to commit suicide and to insert household objects into their genitals was documented in DOJ filings.[^2]
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|
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|
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Dosch alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], [[David Brilhante]], and [[Camden Rodriguez]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^2]
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|
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[^1]: ABC News. "DOJ charges former Navy petty officer, 4 others for alleged roles in 'monstrous' online extortion group." December 2025. https://abcnews.com/US/doj-charges-former-navy-petty-officer-4-alleged/story?id=128072704
|
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[^2]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
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|
||||||
|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
summary: "Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer."
|
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|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
born: 1997
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Alexander Lightner]] (born approximately 1997, [[Venice, Florida]]) was a member of the [[Terrorgram Collective]] who on December 29, 2023, made several threatening posts in an exclusive Terrorgram chat conveying his intent to commit violent acts motivated by far-right extremist ideology, including the phrases "2024 there shall be saints" and "Highscore shall be defeated" (a reference to surpassing the casualty count of previous far-right mass shooters). He was arrested by the [[FBI]] in January 2024, charged initially with interstate transmission of a threat to injure and unlawful possession of a silencer, and sentenced to 51 months (4 years, 3 months) in federal prison on June 12, 2025, by the [[Middle District of Florida]] after pleading guilty on March 11, 2025, to the firearm count.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Arrest and Evidence
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Federal agents executed a search warrant at Lightner's Venice residence within approximately a week of the December 2023 posts. The search recovered a self-made firearm silencer, several firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, a copy of Mein Kampf, and extremist literature with detailed descriptions of mass shooting events praising historical white supremacist killers. When interviewed by law enforcement, Lightner admitted the silencer was his and that he had manufactured it himself. He also admitted to making the threatening Telegram posts.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The original indictment, filed January 2024 in the Middle District of Florida with a terrorism enhancement applied, charged Lightner with two counts: interstate transmission of a threat to injure (the threatening Terrorgram messages) and unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm (the silencer). The threat charge carried up to five years and the silencer charge up to ten, for a combined original maximum of fifteen years.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Plea and Sentencing
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Lightner pleaded guilty on March 11, 2025, to the unregistered firearm count only. The threat-related charge was resolved through the plea agreement. The [[Middle District of Florida]] DOJ press release characterizing him as a Terrorgram Collective member at sentencing was among the first federal filings to publicly attach the Terrorgram label to the Florida case.
|
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|
||||||
|
On June 12, 2025, Lightner, then 27, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison. The sentence reflected his membership in the Terrorgram network and his possession of materials indicating operational intent (the silencer, ammunition, and extremist attack literature), even though the prosecution proceeded only on the firearm count.[^2]
|
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|
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### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-MDFL. "Venice Man Charged With Threatening To Commit A Mass Casualty Event And Unlawful Possession Of A Silencer." January 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/venice-man-charged-threatening-commit-mass-casualty-event-and-unlawful-possession; CNN. "FBI arrests Florida man accused of threatening 'mass casualty event.'" January 10, 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/us/fbi-florida-man-threatening-mass-casualty-event/index.html
|
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-MDFL. "Terrorgram Member Sentenced To 51 Months In Prison For Possessing An Unregistered Firearm." June 12, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/terrorgram-member-sentenced-51-months-prison-possessing-unregistered-firearm; WGCU. "Venice-based Terrorgram member sentenced to 51 months in prison." June 12, 2025. https://www.wgcu.org/section/crime/2025-06-12/venice-based-terrorgram-member-sentenced-to-51-months-in-prison
|
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||||||
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|
||||||
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
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- Accelerationism
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
- Pseudonym
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
summary: "Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the alias 'Alexander Slavros,' founded and administered Iron March from 2011 to 2017; his identification rests on a WHOIS record linking his personal site to a Moscow address, corroborated by BBC Russia's physical investigation in January 2020."
|
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the online alias "Alexander Slavros," is a [[Russia|Russian]] national of Uzbek family background who founded and administered [[Iron March]], the neo-fascist web forum that ran from 2011 to 2017 and served as the primary international incubator for neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations including [[Atomwaffen Division]]. His identification as Slavros rests on converging evidence traced to the WHOIS registration of his personal website and confirmed by a physical investigation conducted by [[BBC News Russian]] in January 2020. He has not been prosecuted in any jurisdiction.
|
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|
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### The Identification Chain
|
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|
||||||
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The identification of Mukhitdinov as "Alexander Slavros" developed in three documented stages across roughly eight months of journalism.
|
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||||||
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The first public documentation appeared in [[SPLC]] Hatewatch on May 21, 2019, when reporter [[Michael Hayden (journalist)|Michael Hayden]] published a profile of the anonymous Slavros figure. The article established that the personal website slavros.org was registered in the name Alisher Mukhitdinov, with a listed address in the [[Tverskaya]] neighborhood of [[Moscow]].[^1] Alongside the WHOIS record, Hatewatch presented two categories of corroborating evidence: a 2014 Iron March propaganda video depicting two masked men posting Iron March stickers in Moscow, which Moscow-based journalist [[Alexey Kovalev]] reviewed for Hatewatch and confirmed as filmed on [[Old Arbat Street]]; and a pattern of Slavros forum posts referencing Moscow with the assumption that readers knew his location, including a January 1, 2012 post reading "It's already New Year in Moscow, hence the congratulations." The SPLC article noted the identification had been "long-speculated on the internet" before its publication, indicating the WHOIS record had been circulating in community discussions before journalistic confirmation.
|
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|
||||||
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The second stage was [[Bellingcat]]'s December 19, 2019 investigation, "Transnational White Terror: Exposing Atomwaffen and the Iron March Networks," co-written by [[Alexander Reid Ross]], [[Emmi Bevensee]], and a researcher identified as ZC. The Bellingcat article covered Iron March and Atomwaffen comprehensively but characterized the slavros.org / Mukhitdinov connection as "leading to speculation that Slavros is Mukhitdinov's nom de guerre," treating it as the most credible hypothesis available rather than a confirmed identification.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
The definitive investigation was published by [[Andrei Soshnikov]] for BBC News Russian on January 30, 2020. Soshnikov located Mukhitdinov physically in southwest Moscow, living in a prefabricated apartment block; Mukhitdinov declined to speak with BBC. The investigation confirmed his educational history, his appearance and manner as described by classmates, and that he was not wanted by Russian law enforcement. BBC Russia investigated the theory, circulating in far-right online spaces, that Mukhitdinov had been pressured by Russian authorities for alleged fundraising for [[Azov Battalion]] (designated a terrorist organization under Russian law); Soshnikov found no evidence that any such fundraising occurred, and the reason for Iron March's November 2017 closure remains unestablished.[^3] Meduza published an English-language translation and summary of the BBC Russian investigation on February 4, 2020; this Meduza article is a secondary source derived from Soshnikov's reporting, not an independent verification.[^4]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### The slavros.org WHOIS Record
|
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|
||||||
|
The foundational documentary link between Slavros and Mukhitdinov is the WHOIS registration of slavros.org, which listed Mukhitdinov's name and a Tverskaya-area Moscow address. Domain WHOIS records were publicly accessible without privacy masking during the period when this registration was made. The record is described by SPLC as "publicly available" at the time of their 2019 reporting. No independent journalist has reported accessing the raw DomainTools historical WHOIS record to verify the exact registration date, registrar, and full contact fields; the SPLC reporting describes what it found but does not reproduce the full record.
|
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|
||||||
|
The slavros.org domain is separate from ironmarch.org. No equivalent WHOIS attribution linking Mukhitdinov directly to the ironmarch.org domain registration has been reported by any source.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Iron March and the Slavros Persona
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Mukhitdinov developed Iron March under the "Alexander Slavros" alias, presenting himself as a Russian nationalist committed to a synthesis of neo-Nazism, fascist theory, and practical paramilitary organizing. The "Slavros" persona published a substantial body of theoretical writing on the forum, including "IronMarch.org: What to Do?" and "A Squire's Trial," a widely circulated text presenting neo-Nazi ideology through a Socratic dialogue format, both of which advocated for a form of neo-fascist vanguardism explicitly oriented toward eventual mass violence. This writing became influential within the forum's international community of members who were simultaneously building real-world organizations.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Slavros persona distinguished Iron March from older American white nationalist forums by its cosmopolitan, internationally focused neo-Nazism; the forum explicitly rejected what it framed as the parochialism of American white nationalism in favor of a global fascist solidarity framework.[^1]
|
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|
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Mukhitdinov did not create the forum that became Iron March. On June 26, 2010, an unidentified individual using the username "Kacen" created a forum called the [[International Third Positionist Federation]] (ITPF) on [[Bizhat]], an India-based hosting service. ITPF showed no activity until April 2011, when Mukhitdinov joined under the Slavros alias and began creating content, including a forum charter and discussion topics. In September 2011, ITPF's administrators migrated the forum to a new domain, ironmarch.org, using [[Invision Power Services]] forum software, and shut down the ITPF instance.[^5]
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Kacen was a co-administrator of Iron March alongside Slavros from the forum's inception, distinct from a third admin operating as "Woman in Black." Multiple sources confirm Kacen and Slavros were separate individuals. Community-level research published in Dogpatch Press in March 2022 suggested Kacen had been partially identified through a [[FurAffinity]] account operating as "Casen," with the same fursona used during his peak Iron March activity; Kacen is described as having entered the Deviantart neo-Nazi scene in the late 2000s before helping Mukhitdinov build the ITPF forum.[^6] No named investigative journalist has established Kacen's real-world identity with editorial vetting. As of May 2026, Kacen remains formally unidentified in open-source investigative reporting.
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The implication for Mukhitdinov's attribution is limited: he was not the sole architect of Iron March's predecessor, but the forum's ideological direction, theoretical output, and operational character from April 2011 forward were primarily his work under the Slavros alias.
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Iron March's most significant product was [[Atomwaffen Division]], which [[Brandon Russell]] announced to the forum community on October 12, 2015. The forum's other organizational outputs included the British neo-fascist group [[National Action]] and several European neo-Nazi formations. Mukhitdinov's theoretical writing provided part of the ideological framework that these organizations drew on, alongside [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, which Iron March members rediscovered and aggressively promoted beginning in 2015.[^2]
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The forum attracted members from dozens of countries who were simultaneously producing theory, building organizations, and planning operations. Members who later committed acts of violence, founded violent organizations, or were prosecuted on terrorism-related charges had all been active Iron March participants. The forum's influence on the contemporary neo-Nazi accelerationist landscape is documented in the [[CTC West Point]] analysis of the "skull mask" neo-fascist network and in the broader post-Iron March prosecutorial record.
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Soshnikov's BBC investigation established that Mukhitdinov studied psychology at [[Moscow State University]], transferred to the political science faculty, was expelled, then enrolled in the political science faculty at [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] (MGIMO) and was expelled again, reportedly for missing a history examination. His parents had met as students at MGIMO. Classmates described him to BBC Russia as someone with dark skin and East Asian features who referred to himself as a "metanationalist," a term he used because he understood he was genealogically distant from the communities advocating an ethnic Russian or white European identity, yet still committed to a fascist political program. He was born approximately 1989; no sourced investigative reporting establishes a specific birth date beyond the approximate year.[^3]
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A senior Soviet official named [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]] (1917-2008) was a close relative on Alisher's father's side; the precise degree of kinship is not specified in any sourced investigative account. Nuritdin Mukhitdinov fought in the [[Battle of Stalingrad]], later led the Uzbek SSR under [[Nikita Khrushchev]], served as a member of the [[Presidium of the Communist Party of the USSR]] between 1957 and 1961, and served as the [[Soviet Union]]'s ambassador to Syria from 1968 to 1977. His Soviet-era career is independently documented. No source has established any documented connection between this family lineage and Iron March's funding, operation, or closure.[^3]
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The report by the investigative outlet [[Proekt]], published October 18, 2019, documented active [[FSB]] and [[SVR]] recruitment of students at MGIMO, drawing on accounts from multiple MGIMO students contacted by intelligence recruiters during internships and embassy postings.[^7] This establishes that MGIMO functions as a pipeline for Russian intelligence recruitment. No investigative report has documented any contact between Russian intelligence and Mukhitdinov himself; the absence of prosecution in Russia is consistent with state indifference as much as state facilitation, and the BBC investigation found no evidence of any state relationship.
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Iron March closed in November 2017. The reason has not been established publicly. In November 2019, an anonymous individual published the forum's complete user database, exposing approximately 1,200 usernames alongside email addresses, IP addresses, and post histories. Journalists, researchers, and law enforcement agencies used the leak to identify Iron March participants who had moved on to violent organizations, and it contributed to a wave of prosecutions including cases against AWD members. The database leak enabled identification of those members; Mukhitdinov's identification as Slavros rested separately on the slavros.org WHOIS record and BBC Russia's subsequent physical investigation.
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Soshnikov's BBC investigation found Mukhitdinov still living in Moscow in early 2020 and not subject to any Russian criminal investigation. He has not appeared publicly online under any identified alias since November 2017. He has not been prosecuted in any jurisdiction as of May 2026.
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[^1]: Michael Hayden, "Mysterious Neo-Nazi Advocated Terrorism for Six Years Before Disappearance," *Hatewatch*, Southern Poverty Law Center, May 21, 2019. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/mysterious-neo-nazi-advocated-terrorism-six-years-disappearance/
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[^2]: Alexander Reid Ross, Emmi Bevensee, and ZC. "Transnational White Terror: Exposing Atomwaffen and the Iron March Networks," *Bellingcat*, December 19, 2019. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/
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[^3]: Andrei Soshnikov, "«С самого детства я осознавал, что я русский»: Как москвич Алишер Мухитдинов создал главный фашистский форум в интернете," *BBC News Russian*, January 30, 2020. Archived at Meduza: https://meduza.io/feature/2020/01/30/s-samogo-detstva-ya-osoznaval-chto-ya-russkiy
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[^4]: Meduza (English). "How a Moscow man from an Uzbek family started the world's biggest neo-Nazi forum." February 4, 2020. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/02/04/how-a-moscow-man-from-an-uzbek-family-started-the-world-s-biggest-neo-nazi-forum (translation/summary of BBC Russian; not an independent investigation)
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[^5]: H.E. Upchurch, "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network," *CTC Sentinel*, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, December 2021. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
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[^6]: Dogpatch Press. "The fascist fringe of furry fans: the Eastern Orthodox connection." March 9, 2022. https://dogpatch.press/2022/03/09/fascist-fringe-eastern-orthodox/ (community-level research; Kacen's real name not established by named investigative reporter)
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[^7]: Proekt / The Moscow Times. "Russian Spies Are Recruiting MGIMO Students." October 18, 2019. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/18/russian-spies-recruit-mgimo-students-proekt-a67796
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summary: "Arda Küçükyetim was a Turkish neo-Nazi who stabbed five people outside Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir while livestreaming in August 2024, confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings, and sentenced to 75 years in Turkish prison in 2025."
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[[Arda Küçükyetim]] (born approximately 2006, [[Eskisehir, Turkey]]) attacked [[Tepebaşı Mosque]] in Eskisehir on August 12, 2024, stabbing five people, all mosque attendees, before his apprehension. All five victims survived. He livestreamed the attack through a vest-mounted camera on the platform [[Kick]] and had distributed his manifesto through a [[Telegram]] group he created prior to the attack. His manifesto cited [[Terrorgram Collective]]-associated "[[Saints Culture|saints]]" (including [[Brenton Tarrant]], [[Anders Breivik]], Stephen Paddock, and Timothy McVeigh) using the "saint" terminology precisely. The Terrorgram connection was confirmed in the U.S. sentencing documents for [[Dallas Humber]] (December 2025) and in [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s Canadian agreed statement of facts (March 27, 2026), both of which cited his attack as Terrorgram-inspired. [[Dallas Humber]] and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] were arrested by the FBI on September 5, 2024 - 24 days after the Eskisehir attack. Turkish courts sentenced Küçükyetim to 75 years and 5 months on September 24, 2025.[^1]
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On the evening of August 12, 2024, at approximately 18:22 local time, Küçükyetim approached Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey, dressed in an assault vest, a helmet, and glasses bearing the [[Black Sun]] symbol (a neo-Nazi emblem) and began stabbing worshippers. The five victims were [[Tevfik Arslan]] (73), [[Cumali Özemek]] (57), [[Naşit Özyürek]] (89), [[Metin Korkmaz]] (66), and [[Cemal Altıntaş]] (53). All survived their wounds.
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He livestreamed the attack on Kick via a body-mounted camera. Prior to the attack, he had created a Telegram group where a contact distributed the manifesto, photographs, and supporting documents.
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Küçükyetim's manifesto explicitly invoked the [[Saints Culture]] framework, using the term "saint" to describe Tarrant, Breivik, McVeigh, and Paddock as inspirational figures. The document made an accelerationist argument: "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 file-sharing also included [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*, Ted Kaczynski's manifesto, and [[Atomwaffen Division]] logos.
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The file-hosting also contained the "Haters Handbook," an [[Maniac Murder Cult|MKY]] propaganda document. Researchers, including in a GNET analysis titled "Dead Society" (August 2024), noted that Küçükyetim drew from multiple overlapping accelerationist networks, but the Terrorgram connection is the one confirmed through U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings. He is not documented as a formal MKY member.
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[[Natalie Rupnow]], who carried out the [[2024 Abundant Life Christian School Shooting|Abundant Life Christian School shooting]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]] in December 2024, had browsed Küçükyetim's Telegram chat before her attack.[^2]
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Küçükyetim posted a link to his livestream in a Terrorgram Collective group chat. In the Humber sentencing (December 19, 2025), DOJ prosecutors cited his attack among the attacks inspired or guided by Terrorgram's operational network under Humber's leadership. In Althorpe's agreed statement of facts, Canadian prosecutors confirmed that his publications had inspired "the stabbing of five people at a mosque in Turkey in 2024."
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The FBI arrests of Humber and Allison came on September 5, 2024, 24 days after the Eskisehir attack, as part of the same coordinated operation that had been building since Althorpe's December 2023 Canadian arrest. The Daily Sabah (Turkey) reported at the time of the U.S. arrests that the FBI was specifically connecting them to the Küçükyetim case.[^1]
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On September 24, 2025, Küçükyetim was sentenced to 75 years and 5 months in Turkish prison, comprising four 15-year sentences for attempted murder, one 11-year-and-8-month sentence, and 3 years and 9 months for creating public panic.[^3]
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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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summary: "August Kreis III was the director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction who made public overtures to al-Qaeda, an action reportedly instigated by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, before being convicted of VA benefits fraud in 2011."
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August B. Kreis III was a white supremacist activist and self-appointed director of a [[Aryan Nations]] faction based in [[Lexington, South Carolina]] who served as a central node in the network that [[FBI]] informant [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] was deployed to monitor and report on following Sutter's 2003 arrest and recruitment.
|
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Kreis had a long history in the white supremacist movement before his South Carolina period. He served as "minister of information" for the main Aryan Nations under [[Richard Butler]] before Butler's death in 2004, and subsequently assumed leadership of a splinter faction that continued under the Aryan Nations name from [[Lexington County, South Carolina]]. In this role he operated out of the same geographic and social environment as Sutter.
|
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|
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### The Al-Qaeda Statements and FBI Investigation
|
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|
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In 2005, Kreis publicly stated to CNN that the Aryan Nations sought to form an alliance with [[al-Qaeda]] and claimed members of his movement "desired to join Al Qaeda in its jihad against the United States government."[^1] He had previously pledged allegiance to [[Osama bin Laden]].
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According to contemporaneous reporting citing FBI sources and former Aryan Nations figures, Sutter, already working as a paid FBI informant from his Lexington home, talked Kreis into making these public statements. Aryan Nations figures including Kreis himself and a figure named Redfeairn stated that Sutter had "attempted repeatedly to gain access to top leaders in various branches of the Aryan Nations and the Church of the Sons of Yaweh."[^2] The al-Qaeda public pledge brought FBI and media attention to Kreis and began the investigation that eventually led to his prosecution.
|
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|
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In the same period, Sutter was appointed the "Minister for Islamic Liaison" of the Aryan Nations under Kreis, a position that nominally formalized the role he was performing as an FBI informant tracking Aryan Nations attempts to reach out to Islamist networks.[^2]
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### VA Fraud Prosecution and Sentence
|
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|
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The FBI investigation into Kreis's public statements did not produce a material support for terrorism prosecution. Instead, investigators discovered financial irregularities: Kreis had collected nearly $193,000 in military pension benefits to which he was not fully entitled, reporting no income from side sources to the [[Veterans Administration]] in 2005 while actually receiving approximately $33,669 from undisclosed sources.[^1]
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In May 2011, a federal grand jury in [[U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina|U.S. District Court in Columbia, S.C.]], returned a three-count indictment against Kreis for filing fraudulent statements to obtain veterans benefits and embezzling money belonging to the United States. Kreis pleaded guilty in August 2011. In December 2011, he was sentenced to six months served, six months house arrest, two years probation, and ordered to repay approximately $193,000.[^3]
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|
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Kreis resigned leadership of his Aryan Nations faction following his conviction.
|
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### Sutter's Earliest Federal Prosecution
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|
||||||
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Kreis represents the earliest documented instance of Sutter's FBI informant work producing a prosecutorial outcome. The Kreis case preceded Sutter's 2014 Martinet Press publishing operations and his 2017 entry into [[Atomwaffen Division]], situating Kreis as an early node in a continuous informant deployment that ran from 2003 through at least 2021. The [[FBI Columbia Field Office]], which handled Sutter's primary informant relationship through Special Agent [[Bill Moser]], was the same field office with jurisdiction over the Lexington County operations involving Kreis.
|
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|
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi Leader Was Investigated for Supporting Al Qaeda." August 23, 2011. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/08/23/neo-nazi-leader-was-investigated-supporting-al-qaeda
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[^2]: Religion News Blog / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Federal investigators infiltrate extremist groups." February 2003. https://www.religionnewsblog.com/2476/federal-investigators-infiltrate-extremist-groups
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[^3]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi Leader August Kreis Sentenced for Fraud." December 14, 2011. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-leader-august-kreis-sentenced-fraud/ Post and Courier (Columbia, SC). "Aryan Nations leader sentenced for fraud in SC." December 2011. https://www.postandcourier.com/aryan-nations-leader-sentenced-for-fraud-in-sc/article_e8988b73-93c5-50f9-afd5-ea3eb873c1b0.html
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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tags:
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|
||||||
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- MaterialSupport
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- TerrorismCharge
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||||||
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created: 2026-05-21
|
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updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
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summary: "Baron Cain Martin, alias 'Convict,' is the first person in the United States charged under a federal terrorism statute as an alleged 764 Network member, with DOJ using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas."
|
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born: 2004
|
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|
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|
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[[Baron Cain Martin]], known online as "Convict," is a 21-year-old resident of [[Tucson, Arizona]] who was indicted by a federal grand jury in the [[U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona]] on 29 counts in October 2025, making him the first person in the United States to face a federal terrorism charge as an alleged member of the [[764 Network|764]] network. Martin has been in federal custody since his arrest on December 11, 2024, and the indictment was unsealed on October 31, 2025.[^1]
|
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### Background and Role in 764
|
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|
||||||
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According to prosecutors, Martin joined 764 in approximately 2019, when he was around 14 or 15 years old, and over the following years rose to a position of leadership and administration within the network's chatrooms. By the time of his arrest he was operating as an administrator of 764 spaces and had authored a detailed grooming guide that he posted online, advising other 764 members on how to identify, groom, and extort vulnerable juveniles. The guide specifically recommended targeting victims who were already struggling with mental health issues, on the ground that psychological vulnerability made targets easier to coerce.[^1]
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Martin operated across [[Discord]], [[Telegram]], and other platforms under the "Convict" alias and additional handles. Named co-conspirators in the indictment include [[Leonidas Varagiannis]], [[Prasan Nepal]], and [[Tony Christopher Long]], all separately prosecuted in federal cases arising from the same investigative period.
|
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|
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### Case Record
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|
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The case is docketed as [[United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190)|United States v. Martin]], 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), before [[Angela M. Martinez|U.S. District Judge Angela M. Martinez]], with [[Bruce G. Macdonald]] serving as the assigned magistrate.[^2] The original arrest charges were filed under magistrate case 4:24-mj-11950 following Martin's arrest on December 11, 2024. A superseding grand jury indictment on 29 counts was returned and unsealed on October 31, 2025; Martin was arraigned on the superseding indictment on November 21, 2025 and entered a not-guilty plea on all counts.
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|
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The case was designated complex by the court. An original trial date of March 24, 2026 was vacated; a status conference before Magistrate Macdonald was scheduled for May 19, 2026. The current jury trial date is June 30, 2026, with a plea deadline of June 19, 2026.[^3]
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The prosecution is led by [[Justin Sher]], Trial Attorney in the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] National Security Division's [[Counterterrorism Section]], and [[James Donnelly]], who serves as DOJ's designated domestic terrorism coordinator for [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism]] cases. The indictment was filed by [[Timothy Courchaine]], U.S. Attorney for the [[District of Arizona]], who was appointed to that position by [[Attorney General]] [[Pamela Bondi]] on February 28, 2025.[^1]
|
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### Charges
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The 29-count superseding indictment charges Martin with:
|
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|
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|
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- Producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), five counts
|
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- Distributing CSAM, eleven counts
|
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- Coercing and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity, three counts
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
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The material support to terrorism charge rests in part on a September 2022 alleged conspiracy in which Martin directed a victim living outside the United States to self-harm, self-maim, and self-kill. Prosecutors applied the terrorism statute because this coercive violence was intended to further the goals of 764 as a nihilistic violent extremist network.[^1]
|
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|
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### Victims
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||||||
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The superseding indictment alleges that Martin victimized at least nine individuals. Eight of the nine victims were minors at the time the offenses were committed, ranging in age from 11 to 15 years old. The indictment does not name the victims publicly.
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The designation of the material support to terrorism count against Martin represents the first time in the United States that a 764 network member has been charged with a federal terrorism offense. The case was cited by [[Pamela Bondi|Attorney General Pamela Bondi]] and [[Kash Patel|FBI Director Kash Patel]] at the time of its announcement as evidence of the government's willingness to apply terrorism statutes to what had previously been charged primarily as child exploitation crimes.[^1]
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DOJ Trial Attorney [[Justin Sher]] (National Security Division) and DOJ career officials subsequently offered public assessments of 764 as a terrorism threat equal in seriousness to foreign-directed networks. The Martin case is the legal vehicle through which the DOJ is testing the proposition that 764's violence is terrorism rather than merely criminal exploitation.[^4]
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The terrorism count in the indictment is a conspiracy charge under [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]: conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. This is not a charge under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B (providing material support to a designated [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]]). The distinction is legally critical: 764 is not a State Department-designated FTO, so 2339B was unavailable.
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Section 2339A instead requires only that the defendant knowingly provide material support, defined broadly to include property, services, expert advice or assistance, personnel (including oneself), and training, knowing or intending that the support will be used in preparation for, or to carry out, a listed predicate offense. The predicate offense named in the Martin indictment is a violation of [[18 U.S.C. § 956|18 U.S.C. § 956(a)]]: conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons in a foreign country, requiring an overt act within U.S. jurisdiction.[^5]
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The statutory mechanics: DOJ charged Martin with conspiring to provide material support (under 2339A) in furtherance of a conspiracy to kill or maim an overseas victim (under 956(a)). The two conspiracy layers do not create an impermissible "conspiracy to conspire" problem because 2339A contains its own conspiracy provision, meaning no separate overt act is required once the agreement is formed.[^6]
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The penalty for the 2339A conspiracy count is up to 15 years per count. The 956(a) conspiracy to kill, if it results in death, carries life imprisonment; conspiracy to maim carries up to 35 years.
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The terrorism count rests on a September 2022 conspiracy in which Martin and unnamed co-conspirators directed a victim identified only as "Victim 7," located outside the United States, to self-harm, self-maim, and die by suicide. The government's theory is that coercing an overseas victim to commit violence against themselves constitutes a conspiracy to kill or maim a person in a foreign country under 956(a), and that Martin's actions in furtherance of that conspiracy, specifically his authorship and circulation of the "[[Grooming/Manipulation Egirls Guide]]" and his operational direction of 764 members, constituted "expert advice or assistance" and "services" and "personnel" within the meaning of 2339A.[^5]
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According to analysis published by researchers at the [[GWU Program on Extremism]], the government will likely rely on overlapping evidence to prove both the 956(a) conspiracy and the 2339A conspiracy, since the same conduct (coercing Victim 7) forms the core of both counts.[^6]
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U.S. Attorney Courchaine described the ideological component at a press conference: the conduct was not motivated by financial gain but by "the glory and for the ideology of bringing down just generally the system," and that ideological motive, 764's stated accelerationist goal of destabilizing U.S. society and the world order, is what supports the terrorism framing under the statute. He stated: "It's terrorism because it was an ideology that specifically motivated violent actions."[^7]
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The indictment identifies Martin as the author and distributor of the "Grooming/Manipulation Egirls Guide," which provided detailed instructions to 764 members on how to identify, target, and coerce vulnerable minors into producing CSAM and self-harm content. The government classifies the guide's authorship and distribution as both a "service" to 764 members and "expert advice or assistance" within the statutory definition of material support under 2339A. This theory, that a written manual of criminal tradecraft constitutes "expert advice or assistance" under the terrorism material support statute, is a significant extension of how 2339A has traditionally been applied and could face First Amendment challenge if Martin moves to dismiss.[^6]
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The 2339A/956 theory was not applied in earlier 764 prosecutions for a structural reason. The 956(a) predicate requires a conspiracy to kill or maim a person located in a foreign country. Earlier cases, including the founding prosecution of [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]] (Texas state court, CSAM charges only), and the federal prosecutions of [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] (D.D.C., case 1:25-cr-00304, child exploitation enterprise and related charges but no terrorism count), either did not involve an identified overseas victim of directed lethal violence, or prosecutors chose not to deploy the terrorism theory at that stage.[^8]
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The Martin indictment is the first case where DOJ identified a specific overseas victim who was directed to commit lethal self-harm, providing the 956(a) predicate anchor that makes 2339A available without any FTO designation. The Baumgartner/Jonas analysis frames this as DOJ using 2339A as "connective tissue linking online radicalization to real-world harm" and as a signal that the government now views NVE networks as terrorist enterprises rather than merely criminal exploitation schemes.[^6]
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An additional factor is the explicit accelerationist ideology element. The Chavez prosecution (San Antonio, RICO guilty plea December 2025) and the Varagiannis/Nepal prosecution both used NVE framing in press releases but charged under RICO and child exploitation statutes. Martin's case is distinguished by the combination of: (1) a specifically identified overseas victim, (2) documented ideological goal statements from Martin himself about societal destabilization, and (3) the existence of the grooming guide as a distributable "expert advice" artifact.
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The indictment also contains a discrete episode from 2022 in which, after becoming involved in a dispute with a 13-year-old girl, Martin allegedly offered to pay $3,000 to have the girl's grandmother killed. He allegedly provided the grandmother's home address and shared both the girl's and her grandmother's phone numbers in a separate Discord chat alongside a solicitation for someone to carry out the attack. This episode is cited in the conspiracy to kill, kidnap or maim persons in a foreign country count and by U.S. Attorney Courchaine as additional support for the terrorism framing, a murder-for-hire offer directed at a family member of a coercion victim, undertaken as network discipline.[^7]
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If convicted, Martin faces a maximum penalty of life in prison on each count of participating in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to kill or maim in a foreign country, and coercion and enticement of a child. He faces 30 years per count for production of CSAM, 15 years for providing material support to terrorists, up to 20 years for cyberstalking resulting in permanent disfigurement or bodily injury, and additional penalties for the remaining counts.[^1]
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The FBI's internal classification of 764 as a "Tier One" investigative matter, the highest threat category, preceded the Martin terrorism charge and provided the institutional framework within which DOJ National Security Division attorneys were able to bring a terrorism count. FBI Director [[Kash Patel]] testified to Congress in September 2025 that 764 represents "the new form of what I refer to as modern-day terrorism in America."[^9]
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On February 17, 2026, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman [[James Comer]] and Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement Chairman [[Clay Higgins]] sent a formal letter to Patel requesting a classified staff briefing on the FBI's 764 investigations and apprehensions, noting that the Bureau had more than 250 open 764 investigations.[^10]
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[[Steve Grocki]], Chief of DOJ's [[Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section]], acknowledged the charging challenge in a December 2025 public panel hosted by the GWU Program on Extremism: "Coercing a minor to engage in self-harm or to harm another is not necessarily criminalized in an easy way." The Martin 2339A theory represents DOJ's resolution of that charging gap, sidestepping the absence of a specific federal statute criminalizing directed self-harm by instead treating the coercive campaign as a terrorism conspiracy.[^4]
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At the same panel, Sher described 764's stated objective as "to cause the downfall of society, cause the downfall of the U.S. government," and Donnelly called the threat "as serious a threat as you can imagine."[^4]
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As of May 2026, no defense motions challenging the terrorism count have been reported in public sources or accessible docket summaries. The case was designated complex, which typically signals that both parties anticipate substantial pre-trial litigation. Any motion to dismiss or constitutional challenge to the terrorism charge would likely target either (a) the First Amendment implications of treating the grooming guide as "expert advice or assistance" under 2339A, or (b) whether directing a victim to harm herself satisfies the "kill, kidnap, or maim" element of 956(a) when the perpetrator is directing self-inflicted harm rather than acting directly. The PACER docket (4:25-cr-00190) should be checked closer to the June 30, 2026 trial date for any newly filed motions.[^3]
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Martin has been held in federal pretrial detention since his initial arrest on December 11, 2024.
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The Martin prosecution is occurring alongside a wave of international cases against 764 and Com network members in which the question of terrorism prosecution is being actively contested in multiple jurisdictions.
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In the [[Netherlands]], the founder of [[No Lives Matter]], identified only as Justin B., 25, of [[Eindhoven]], faces charges under Article 140a of the Dutch Criminal Code, membership in a terrorist organization, as well as CSAM, animal crushing, and distribution of violent content charges. The Dutch [[Openbaar Ministerie]] (OM) formally classified No Lives Matter as a terrorist organization, making this the first known terrorism prosecution of a Com network member in the EU. Justin B. was held in the high-security terrorist wing of [[Vught Prison]] and appeared in the high-security courtroom in [[Rotterdam]] in October 2025 at his first public hearing.[^11]
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In [[Germany]], [[Shahriar J.]], a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national known by the alias "White Tiger," faces 204 criminal charges in [[Hamburg]] state court, including one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder as an indirect perpetrator. Shahriar J. was arrested on June 17, 2025 following an FBI tip on child pornography; police found 85,000 files and more than 600 videos. Prosecutors allege he drove a 13-year-old American boy to suicide in January 2022 via livestream by using a Finnish minor as an intermediary. Trial began in Hamburg on January 9, 2026 with 82 days of hearings scheduled through December 17. Germany is prosecuting under murder and CSAM statutes, not terrorism statutes, making the Hamburg case a direct contrast to the U.S. 2339A approach.[^12]
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In [[Canada]], the government listed 764 as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code on December 10, 2025, becoming the first country to formally designate the network. The listing criminalizes participation in and support for 764, and freezes all Canadian-held 764 property. Canada had already conducted multiple terrorism prosecutions of Com/764-adjacent individuals: the [[RCMP]] arrested an Edmonton-area 15-year-old in May 2025 and again in October 2025 for terrorism offenses linked to the Com/764 network, charging the youth with participation in a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, willful promotion of hatred, uttering threats, and CSAM possession.[^13]
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The 2339A/956 theory, as deployed in the Martin case, resolves what had been the central obstacle to terrorism prosecution of domestic online networks that are not designated FTOs: it requires only an overseas victim, a knowing conspiracy to cause lethal or serious physical harm to that victim, and defendant conduct classifiable as material support. No State Department designation, no ideological alignment with a recognized foreign movement, and no connection to a foreign government or organization is required. The theory travels wherever 764 goes, which is transnational by design.
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[[Tanya Mehra]] and [[Menso Hartgers]] of the [[International Centre for Counter-Terrorism]] (ICCT), in their October 2025 policy brief "Fury and Void: Legal Pathways to Counter 764," noted the challenge of applying traditional terrorism legal frameworks to 764 given the network's stated nihilism rather than a coherent political ideology, arguing that nihilism as such may not satisfy some national terrorism threshold definitions. The U.S. government's approach sidesteps this problem entirely: by anchoring the 2339A charge to 956(a)'s foreign-country violence predicate, DOJ avoids having to prove ideological terrorism intent under any federal domestic terrorism definition. The act of conspiring to cause lethal harm to an overseas victim is sufficient, regardless of ideology.[^14]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Arizona Leader of Violent Extremist Network '764' Charged with Running a Child Exploitation Enterprise, Supporting Terrorists, Producing and Distributing Child Pornography, and Other Crimes." Press Release, October 31, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-leader-violent-extremist-network-764-charged-running-child-exploitation-enterprise; CyberScoop. "Alleged 764 leader arrested in Arizona, faces life in prison." https://cyberscoop.com/baron-cain-martin-764-leader-arrested-charged/
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[^2]: CourtListener, United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), D. Ariz. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69535068/united-states-v-martin/
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[^3]: PacerMonitor, USA v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, Arizona District Court. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56789960/USA_v_Martin
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[^4]: ABC News. "In rare public comments, career DOJ officials offer chilling warnings about online network 764." 2026. https://abcnews.com/US/rare-public-comments-career-doj-officials-offer-chilling/story?id=128526657; GWU Program on Extremism. "Holding 764 Accountable." Panel, December 18, 2025. https://extremism.gwu.edu/holding-764-accountable
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[^5]: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (material support to terrorists); 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) (conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons in a foreign country). Cornell LII: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/956
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[^6]: 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/
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[^7]: 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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[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
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[^9]: Patel, Kash. Opening Statement, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Federal Bureau of Investigation Oversight Hearing, September 16, 2025. https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/director-patel-opening-statement-to-the-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-091625
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[^10]: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Letter to FBI Director Kash Patel re: 764 Network, February 17, 2026. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Letter-to-FBI-764-Group-.pdf
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[^11]: NL Times. "Eindhoven suspect says he left sadistic online 'Com' shortly before his arrest." October 28, 2025. https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/28/eindhoven-suspect-says-left-sadistic-online-com-shortly-arrest
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[^12]: Euronews. "German court begins trial of 'White Tiger' online predator." January 9, 2026. https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/09/german-court-begins-trial-of-white-tiger-online-predator; CBS News. "Man dubbed 'White Tiger' charged with murder over U.S. teen's livestreamed suicide." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-charged-murder-germany-us-teen-suicide-764-network/
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[^13]: Government of Canada. "Government of Canada lists four new terrorist entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html; RCMP. "Alberta youth arrested for terrorism and child pornography offences." October 2, 2025. https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2025/10/alberta-youth-arrested-terrorism-and-child-pornography-offences
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[^14]: Mehra, Tanya, and Menso Hartgers. "Fury and Void: Legal Pathways to Counter 764." International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), October 2025. https://icct.nl/publication/fury-and-void-legal-pathways-counter-764
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Ben John, 21, of Lincoln, was a criminology student at [[De Montfort University]] Leicester when he was arrested following an 11-month investigation by [[Counter Terrorism Policing]]'s East Midlands unit. Officers found a hard drive at his home in Saxby Street, Highfields, Leicester, containing the Anarchy Cookbook Version 2000, an array of white supremacist and antisemitic literature, and material relating to the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A). He was convicted at Leicester Crown Court on 12 August 2021 of one count of possessing a document useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]].[^1]
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Judge [[Timothy Spencer QC]] sentenced John on 31 August 2021 to two years' imprisonment suspended for two years. In unusually personal sentencing remarks, Spencer asked John whether he had ever read the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, or William Shakespeare, and directed him to read classic literature as part of what he framed as an effort to broaden the defendant's perspective. Spencer's direction and the suspended sentence attracted immediate and widespread press criticism, with multiple counter-extremism commentators arguing that the sentence was inadequate for a conviction carrying a 10-year maximum.[^2]
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[[Solicitor General]] [[Alex Chalk QC MP]] (who later served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor under Rishi Sunak) personally presented a reference under section 36 of the [[Criminal Justice Act 1988]] to the Court of Appeal, arguing that John's suspended sentence was unduly lenient. The Court of Appeal upheld the reference. On 19 January 2022, the court increased John's sentence to two years' immediate imprisonment plus one year on licence. John was required to surrender himself to police custody and was taken to Lincoln city centre police station by 4pm that day.[^3]
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Officers found that John possessed O9A material alongside white supremacist and antisemitic literature. Lincolnshire Police's statement after his conviction specified that the material included content related to O9A as a Satanist organisation. The charge was on the possession count alone, not for O9A membership or dissemination; the O9A material was part of the broader evidence establishing John's extremist orientation rather than forming a discrete element of the charge.[^1]
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[^1]: Greatest Hits Radio (Lincolnshire). "Lincoln 'white supremacist' convicted of terrorism offence." August 2021. https://planetradio.co.uk/lincs-fm/local/news/lincoln-white-supremacist-convicted-of-terrorism-offence/; Special Branch inquiry via Far-Right Criminals. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/08/13/special-branch-inquiry-led-to-students-terror-related-arrest/
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[^2]: ITV News Central. "White supremacist Ben John told to read books by Judge who spared him jail imprisoned upon appeal." January 19, 2022. https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-01-19/white-supremacist-ben-john-told-to-read-books-by-judge-who-spared-him-jail-imprisoned-upon-appeal; Law Gazette. "Extremist told to read classic literature jailed by Court of Appeal." January 2022. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/extremist-told-to-read-classic-literature-jailed-by-court-of-appeal/5111203.article
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[^3]: GOV.UK. "Ben John's sentence increased following personal intervention by the Solicitor General." January 2022. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ben-johns-sentence-increased-following-personal-intervention-by-the-solicitor-general--3; Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), R v John [2022] EWCA Crim 54 (19 January 2022).
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Benjamin Hannam was a probationary constable with the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] who became the first serving British police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence. He was convicted on 1 April 2021 at the [[Central Criminal Court]] (Old Bailey) of membership of the proscribed organisation [[National Action]], two counts of fraud by false representation for lying on his police application and vetting forms, two counts of possession of documents useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], and one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child. He was sentenced on 4 May 2021 by Judge [[Anthony Leonard QC]] to four years and four months in prison plus one year on extended licence.[^1]
|
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|
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|
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Hannam, of Edmonton, north London, attended his first National Action meeting on 6 March 2016 at a pub in Paddington, London, joining the organisation's London branch.[^2] He was 17 at the time. He continued to attend National Action activities and events through the summer of 2017, meaning his membership spanned both the organisation's legal period and the period following its proscription on 16 December 2016 under the [[Terrorism Act 2000]] (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2016, when [[Amber Rudd]] described it as "a racist, antisemitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology."[^3]
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Evidence confirmed that Hannam attended a National Action meeting in a pub in [[Swindon]] in January 2017, after the proscription had taken effect. The prosecution used CCTV footage, travel records, and financial transactions to place him at this gathering. Others in attendance included individuals who were later convicted of National Action membership and terrorism-related offences in subsequent prosecutions.[^4]
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The prosecution characterised Hannam as an "active recruiter" for National Action's London branch during his period of membership.[^5]
|
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### Iron March and the "Anglisc" Account
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Hannam registered on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist web forum under the username "Anglisc" shortly after joining National Action's London branch in March 2016. His Iron March posts from 2016 to 2017 included a thread he started titled "Muslim shoots white man in London," in which he asked other users for "thoughts and advice." In Iron March private messages, Hannam described himself as a fascist and disclosed his National Action membership.[^6]
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The Iron March forum closed in November 2017. In November 2019, an anonymous individual calling themselves "antifa-data" uploaded the complete Iron March SQL database to the [[Internet Archive]], exposing 1,207 user accounts including registration email addresses, IP addresses, and all public and private message content. [[Counter Terrorism Command]] detectives investigating Iron March-linked individuals in the United Kingdom identified the "Anglisc" account and linked it to Hannam's address in February 2020.[^7] He was arrested at his home in north London on 5 March 2020.
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The Iron March database was thus the proximate mechanism by which a serving police officer's pre-employment extremism was discovered, two years after he had joined the force.
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Hannam applied to join the Metropolitan Police Service on 19 July 2017, at a time when he had been a National Action member for approximately 17 months and a member of the organisation after its proscription for seven months. He submitted both an initial application form and a subsequent vetting form, on both of which he was asked whether he had been a member of the [[British National Party]] "or similar organisation." On both occasions he answered in the negative.[^8]
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His school, which had raised concerns internally about comments Hannam had made about immigration during a Brexit debate, was not contacted during the vetting process. The Metropolitan Police later confirmed that "no school reference was sought" during Hannam's 2017 vetting.[^9]
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Hannam joined the Metropolitan Police in or around early 2018 and worked as a probationary constable for nearly two years before his arrest in March 2020. He was 21 at the time of arrest and 22 at the time of conviction.
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The fraud charges, brought under sections 1 and 2 of the [[Fraud Act 2006]], covered both the initial police application and the vetting form. The sentencing remarks by Anthony Leonard QC are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^10]
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When Counter Terrorism Command officers searched Hannam's home following his arrest, they found Nazi-style posters, handwritten notes detailing his National Action membership, badges and business cards associated with the organisation, and a USB memory stick containing two documents charged under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 as information useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.[^11]
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The first document was [[Anders Breivik]]'s manifesto, which contained detailed guidance on the manufacture of radiological, chemical, and biological weapons and improvised explosive devices. Breivik killed 77 people in coordinated attacks in [[Norway]] on 22 July 2011. The second document was an instructional manual on how to use a knife to carry out a fatal attack.
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Additionally, a prohibited image of a child was found in Hannam's possession. He pleaded guilty to this count separately under section 62 of the [[Coroners and Justice Act 2009]], and a reporting restriction on the case was lifted by Judge Leonard after Hannam entered this plea, enabling full press reporting of all charges.[^12]
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No O9A-specific materials were identified in published case documentation as forming part of the section 58 charges, though O9A symbols were noted among materials found in National Action-associated searches conducted during the broader National Action prosecution wave. Hannam's involvement with National Action post-dated the period in which [[Ryan Fleming]], the O9A-affiliated Yorkshire National Action organiser, was most directly active in pushing O9A ideology into the organisation's internal culture.
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Judge Anthony Leonard QC sentenced Hannam at the Central Criminal Court on 4 May 2021. The sentencing remarks place the offending in Category B culpability on the National Action membership count, characterised as toward the lower end of the scale in terms of terrorist connections and motivations.[^10] The total sentence was four years and four months, concurrent across the multiple counts, plus one year on extended licence.
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The [[Crown Prosecution Service]] applied for and was granted a [[Serious Crime Prevention Order]] for a period of two years following Hannam's release, with conditions restricting his internet use to protect the public.
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A 10-year notification period was imposed under terrorism notification provisions, which requires Hannam to notify police of specified personal information for a decade following his release.
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Hannam was already no longer serving by the time of sentencing, having been suspended following his arrest. An accelerated gross misconduct hearing was conducted in April 2021, concurrent with the criminal proceedings. The tribunal found the allegation of discreditable conduct proven as gross misconduct and dismissed Hannam without notice.[^13]
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Hannam's case fell within the fourth documented wave of National Action prosecutions. The prior three waves produced convictions at the [[Old Bailey]] in July 2018 (Wave 1: [[Christopher Lythgoe]], [[Matthew Hankinson]]), at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] in December 2018 (Wave 2: [[Adam Thomas]], [[Claudia Patatas]], [[Daniel Bogunovic]], [[Darren Fletcher]], [[Nathan Pryke]], [[Joel Wilmore]]), and at Birmingham Crown Court in June 2020 (Wave 3: [[Alice Cutter]], [[Mark Jones]], [[Garry Jack]], [[Connor Scothern]]). A fifth wave at [[Winchester Crown Court]] in May 2022 convicted National Action co-founder [[Alex Davies]] on membership charges. The full prosecution history is documented in the [[National Action]] vault entry.[^14]
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Hannam's case introduced a distinct charge type not present in the earlier waves: the fraud by false representation counts arising from his police application and vetting forms. These counts make the case structurally significant as a documented instance of a proscribed terrorist organisation's member successfully passing into a law enforcement institution through deliberate deception of the vetting process.
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The mechanism by which Hannam's pre-employment extremism was discovered illustrates the specific institutional risk posed by the Iron March leak. Standard police vetting in 2017 had no access to the Iron March database, which did not become publicly available until November 2019. The forum's closure in November 2017 came approximately four months after Hannam submitted his police application, and approximately five months before he is presumed to have begun probationary service.
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The Counter Terrorism Command investigation that identified Hannam began in February 2020, approximately 27 months after the forum's closure and 15 months after the database leak. This timeline demonstrates that a serving officer with known prior extremist forum activity remained undetected for the entire duration of his probationary period, with identification occurring only through a retrospective external data source.[^7]
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[[Bellingcat]], which published its Iron March database access guide on 6 November 2019 (the same day as the leak), noted in its reporting that the database mapped U.K.-based Iron March users across multiple cities and that the dataset was being used by researchers and journalists to identify individuals whose extremist activities had been pseudonymous.
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The specific vetting failure in Hannam's case rested on the absence of a school reference check. His school had raised concerns about his views internally during a Brexit debate, but because no reference was sought from the school, this information was never available to the vetting unit. The Metropolitan Police's internal standard for vetting of candidates for the officer role required referee checks, but school references were not routinely mandated.[^9]
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The broader systemic context was later documented in the [[HMICFRS]] thematic inspection commissioned on 18 October 2021 by then-Home Secretary [[Priti Patel]] in the wake of the murder of [[Sarah Everard]] by serving Metropolitan Police officer [[Wayne Couzens]]. The HMICFRS inspection, conducted between November 2021 and May 2022 across eight forces, examined 725 vetting files of candidates who had received clearance and found 131 where the clearance decision was "questionable at best." Among those 131 cases were officers with criminal records, with substantial undischarged debt, with family members linked to organised crime, or who had provided false information to the vetting unit.[^15]
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The Metropolitan Police's subsequent internal review, [[Operation Jorica]], published in January 2026, examined vetting and hiring practices over the 10 years prior to April 2023 and found that of 5,073 recruits examined, nearly 90 per cent were not subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening. The review attributed this gap to the pace and scale of recruitment under the national [[Police Uplift Programme]], which ran from July 2019 and targeted the addition of 20,000 officers across England and Wales by March 2023, with the Metropolitan Police assigned a target of 4,557 additional officers.[^16]
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The Hannam case generated immediate accountability pressure on the Metropolitan Police from the [[London Assembly]]. Following the conviction in April 2021, Assembly members posed formal written questions to the Mayor of London under the heading "Met Police Officers and Banned Far-Right Groups," seeking assurance that no other serving officers or staff were members of proscribed organisations. The Metropolitan Police's response to these questions is documented in the London Assembly question-and-answer records.[^17]
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No dedicated parliamentary debate focused specifically on the Hannam case was located in Hansard for the period April to December 2021. The case was, however, contextually present in the broader Hansard record of the period through the HMICFRS vetting inquiry commission (October 2021) and the Topical Questions session of 22 November 2021, in which vetting failures and the standards of behaviour necessary to maintain public trust in policing were debated in the aftermath of the Couzens murder. The Home Secretary's commissioning of the HMICFRS inspection cited both the Couzens case and the broader pattern of misconduct as the basis for the review.[^15]
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The O9A proscription debate conducted in the House of Commons on 13 July 2021 (HC Deb), documented in the [[Order of Nine Angles]] vault entry, addressed the broader pattern of O9A-linked convictions and the government's refusal to explain its non-decision on proscription. The Hannam case was subsumed within this debate as one of the eight O9A-connected convictions between April 2019 and April 2021 cited by [[HOPE not hate]] and referenced by [[Stephanie Peacock MP]] and [[Stephen Doughty MP]] in their calls for proscription.[^18]
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The O9A doctrine of [[Insight Roles]], first published in O9A's 1989 text "Insight Roles: A Guide" (collected in *[[Hostia]]: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.*, Vol. I, 1992), explicitly instructs initiates undertaking the Internal Adept stage of the [[Seven Fold Way]] to adopt and fully inhabit a lifestyle alien to their usual existence, with enumerated options including service in the military or police. O9A literature explicitly frames infiltration of law enforcement and armed forces as spiritually meritorious within the Seven Fold Way framework.[^19]
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Hannam's case is not a documented instance of O9A insight roles in law enforcement in the strict sense: the charges against him centred on National Action membership, not O9A membership or affiliation, and no published court document identifies O9A as a motivating framework for his decision to join the police. The link between National Action and O9A in this period ran primarily through Ryan Fleming's Yorkshire nexion, whose O9A influence on the broader organisation is documented but contested in terms of its reach to individual members such as Hannam.
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What Hannam's case does document is the structural fact that a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation successfully passed police vetting and served as a constable for two years. Whether the mechanism was insight-role doctrine, opportunistic careerism, or a combination is not established in the trial record.
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The documented cases of O9A adherents who joined military or law enforcement institutions as a direct expression of insight role doctrine include [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]], the U.S. Army private in the [[173rd Airborne Brigade]] who was convicted in the Southern District of New York after transmitting classified unit deployment information to O9A members on Telegram, conspiring to arrange a mass-casualty attack on his own soldiers. Melzer's prosecution memo stated explicitly that he "joined the Army in 2018 as part of what O9A referred to as an 'insight role.'" He was sentenced to 45 years in March 2023.[^20]
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[[Nicholas Welker]], the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] leader convicted in the Eastern District of New York of conspiring to make interstate death threats, joined FKD explicitly as an O9A insight role, as documented in his prosecution records. He was sentenced to 44 months in April 2024.[^21]
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Hannam's conviction stands as the only documented case of a serving UK police officer convicted of terrorism-related offences arising from membership of a proscribed far-right organisation. No equivalent case involving direct O9A membership in a UK law enforcement context had been prosecuted as of mid-2026.
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[^1]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Police officer guilty of membership of banned group and terrorism offences." 1 April 2021. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/police-officer-guilty-membership-banned-group-and-terrorism-offences
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[^2]: Counter Terrorism Policing / CPS case evidence, as reported by ITV News. "Neo-Nazi police officer Ben Hannam guilty of belonging to terror group National Action." 1 April 2021. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-04-01/neo-nazi-police-officer-ben-hannam-guilty-of-belonging-to-terror-group-national-action
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[^3]: Home Office. "Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2016." 16 December 2016; Rudd statement quoted in Crown Prosecution Service National Action case records.
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[^4]: CPS. "Former police officer jailed for National Action membership." 4 May 2021. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/former-police-officer-jailed-national-action-membership
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[^5]: UPI. "London police officer found guilty of membership in banned neo-Nazi group." 1 April 2021. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/04/01/Britain-London-Metropolitan-Police-officer-Benjamin-Hannam-convicted-recruiter-neo-Nazi/7251617294659/
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[^6]: The National News / National World. "British policeman convicted of terrorism after neo-Nazi data breach." 2021; National World. "What is National Action?" https://www.nationalworld.com/news/crime/what-is-national-action-banned-neo-nazi-group-explained-and-when-met-police-officer-benjamin-hannam-joined-3186990
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[^7]: HS Today. "Former Police Constable Jailed for Terrorism Offenses." 2021. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/former-police-constable-jailed-for-terrorism-offenses/; Bellingcat. "Massive White Supremacist Message Board Leak: How to Access and Interpret the Data." 6 November 2019. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/
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[^8]: LBC. "Met Police officer in court over 'membership' of neo-Nazi group National Action." 2020. https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/met-police-officer-national-action-benjamin-hannam/
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[^9]: Bustle. "Met Police Officer Convicted For Far-Right Terrorism." 2021. https://www.bustle.com/life/met-police-officer-convicted-for-far-right-terrorism; Tell MAMA UK. "Neo-Nazi conviction is a 'unique' case." 2021. https://tellmamauk.org/neo-nazi-conviction-is-a-unique-case/
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[^10]: R v Hannam, Sentencing Remarks, Central Criminal Court, 4 May 2021. Judge Anthony Leonard QC. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/R-v-Hannam-Setencing-Remarks.pdf; https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-hannam-sentencing-remarks/
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[^11]: NBC News. "British police officer Ben Hannam jailed for joining neo-Nazi terror group." 30 April 2021. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/british-police-officer-ben-hannam-jailed-joining-neo-nazi-terror-n1265927
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[^12]: PinkNews. "Met Police officer jailed for membership of banned Neo-nazi terror group." 30 April 2021. https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/04/30/met-police-officer-bejamin-hannam-neo-nazi-terror-group-national-action/
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[^13]: Salten News / Emergency Services Times. "Met Police kicks out neo-Nazi officer Benjamin Hannam, 22, after terror conviction." April 2021.
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[^14]: Crown Prosecution Service. "Co-founder of right-wing terror group convicted." May 2022. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/co-founder-right-wing-terror-group-convicted
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[^15]: 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/
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[^16]: Metropolitan Police. "Met continues drive to raise standards following historical vetting review [Operation Jorica]." January 2026. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-continues-drive-to-raise-standards-following-historical-vetting-review-504908; Metropolitan Police. "Operation Jorica Report." London Assembly, January 2026. https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngovmb/documents/s84725/06a%20-%20MPS%20Operation_Jorica_Report%20-%20January_2026.pdf
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[^17]: 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; London Assembly. "Met Police Officers and Banned Far-Right Groups (2)." 2021. https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/met-police-officers-and-banned-far-right-groups-2
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[^18]: Hansard, HC Deb, 13 July 2021, "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism." https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-13/debates/673D4D8F-D90C-450B-B7E8-26B63018E5D3/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism; HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." State of Hate 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
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[^19]: O9A. "Insight Roles: A Guide." In *Hostia: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A.*, Vol. I. 1992. Archived at o9a.org.
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[^20]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush." March 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service; Prosecution sentencing memorandum, United States v. Melzer, S1 20 Cr. 314 (SDNY), cited in Courthouse News Service.
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[^21]: DOJ USAO-EDNY. "Leader of White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Journalist." September 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/leader-white-supremacist-group-pleads-guilty-conspiring-make-death-threats-against; United States v. Welker, 1:23-cr-00141 (E.D.N.Y.).
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Bill Moser is an [[FBI]] Special Agent assigned to the [[FBI Columbia Field Office]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]] who served as the primary handler for paid informant [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] during the [[FBI]] investigation into [[Atomwaffen Division]].
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Moser was identified by name through Sutter's own testimony at the September 2021 trial of [[Kaleb Cole]] in [[United States v. Shea et al.]], 2:20-cr-00032 ([[Western District of Washington|W.D. Wash.]], Judge [[John C. Coughenour]]). Sutter testified that "on the direction of his FBI handler, Special Agent Bill Moser of the Columbia, South Carolina, field office, Sutter became part of the underground militant group," referring to [[Atomwaffen Division]].[^1] This testimony was corroborated in the reporting of journalist [[Ali Winston]], drawing on trial transcripts.[^1]
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No additional information about Moser, his rank, tenure, other cases, or supervisory chain within the Columbia office, has been confirmed in publicly available sources. Former and current FBI agents from the Columbia field office either did not recall Sutter or declined comment when asked by journalists.[^2]
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According to Sutter's trial testimony, Moser directed Sutter to join Atomwaffen Division from his existing position within [[Tempel ov Blood]] and the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) network. Moser's direction encompassed Sutter attending the [[2018 AWD Death Valley Hate Camp]] (February 2018) and the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] (September 2019). Rolling Stone reported that FBI funds were used to cover member travel and lodging for the Las Vegas gathering.[^1]
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Moser's field office began an intensified payment period to Sutter specifically from February 7, 2018, the start of the documented $78,133.20 payment tranche that "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole" per the Cole defense motion.[^3] This payment timeline places Moser's direction of the AWD infiltration operation within a window bookended by the February 2018 Hate Camp and the September 2019 Nuclear Congress.
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No public document addresses whether Moser was aware of, authorized, or attempted to restrict Sutter's operation of [[Martinet Press]] during the informant relationship. The FBI declined to comment on this question when approached by journalists. Moser himself is not on record addressing the publishing activities.
|
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[^1]: Winston, Ali. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/ Corroborated by trial testimony: 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/
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[^2]: Yahoo News / USA TODAY. "He publishes books on satanism and torture to inspire neo-Nazis. The FBI has paid him $140,000." 2021. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/publishes-books-satanism-torture-inspire-130243921.html
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[^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
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Christopher Jackson is the [[FBI]] [[confidential human source]] (CHS) designated CHS-1 in the [[2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy]] case, [[United States v. Russell, 1:23-cr-00029 (D. Md.)]]. Jackson, who worked professionally as a researcher specializing in extremism and domestic terrorism, was recruited into FBI informant work through an agent acquaintance and had been operating across multiple FBI investigations before his contact with [[Brandon Russell]] in 2022. Jackson is identified by pseudonym in court filings; his full identity was withheld from the defense under a September 2024 witness disguise ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]].
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In June 2022, Jackson made contact with Russell through invite-only neo-Nazi [[Telegram]] channels in which both were participating. Over the following months, Jackson developed a relationship with Russell in which Russell disclosed infrastructure attack plans, distributed propaganda materials, and attempted to recruit Jackson into the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) as a prospective member, telling Jackson that prospective members included individuals from Maryland and the Carolinas. Jackson also communicated with [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]], capturing evidence of her operational planning including the January 29, 2023 recorded conversation in which she described the five [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) substation targets and stated the simultaneous attack "would permanently completely lay this city to waste."
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Jackson served as the government's primary live witness. He and a second confidential human source (CHS-2) were the main witnesses who could place Russell and Clendaniel in the operational planning conversations.
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Jackson testified at Russell's trial on January 29, 2025. In his testimony, he disclosed that he had received FBI compensation of "about $70,000," comprising approximately $40,000 in direct payments and $30,000 in reimbursements for plane tickets and travel expenses across several investigations.
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On January 27, 2025 (the day jury selection occurred, two days before Jackson testified), the government paid Jackson an additional $7,180.11. The [[Department of Justice]] did not disclose this payment until March 19, 2025, six weeks after Russell's February 4, 2025 conviction. Jackson's total compensation across all FBI informant work was thus approximately $80,000.
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Russell subsequently moved for a new trial, arguing Jackson committed perjury by understating his total compensation and that the non-disclosure of the final payment before testimony violated [[Brady v. Maryland]]. Bredar denied the motion on April 29, 2025, finding the error "unfortunate" and the payment timing raising "some concern" but insufficient to undermine the verdict given the limited scope of Jackson's testimony, corroborating evidence, and the jury's awareness of his prior disclosed compensation.[^1]
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Jackson testified under a court-ordered "light disguise" (altered facial features or hairstyle), using a pseudonym, and the courtroom was partially closed during his testimony. The overflow room received audio and video. Bredar issued the disguise ruling in September 2024 after finding that Russell and his sympathizers posed an "unusually heightened threat of danger" to witnesses cooperating with the government.
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Jackson's true identity was withheld from Russell's defense team under the ruling, a decision Russell's attorney [[Ian Goldstein]] characterized as "a huge impediment to investigating and presenting a defense."[^2]
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The Jackson case is structurally parallel to the informant-disclosure issues in [[United States v. Shea et al. (2020)]], the [[Kaleb Cole]] prosecution where [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]'s paid informant status was not disclosed in the original affidavit. In both cases, the government acknowledged a disclosure failure regarding informant payments, the defense argued the omission was material to credibility, and the presiding judge denied suppression or new trial relief, finding the omission legally insufficient to undermine the conviction. The Russell/Jackson case is the most recent documented instance of an AWD-network prosecution producing an informant-payment disclosure controversy, and it resulted in the same outcome as Cole: conviction upheld, motion denied.
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[^1]: 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/; NBC News. "Neo-Nazi leader among 2 arrested in plot to attack Baltimore's power grid." February 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-accused-planning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324
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[^2]: 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; Reuters / Newsweek. "Neo-Nazi Leader Sentenced to 20 Years for Plot to Sabotage Baltimore Power Grid." August 7, 2025. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-07/neo-nazi-leader-sentenced-to-20-years-for-plot-to-sabotage-baltimore-power-grid
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summary: "Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to all counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on December 19, 2025."
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[[Dallas Humber]] (born approximately 1990, [[Elk Grove, California]]) led the inner core of the [[Terrorgram Collective]] from approximately July 2022 until her arrest on September 5, 2024, describing her own role as guiding "disaffected young white men through the end of the radicalization process." She was arrested by the [[FBI]] alongside co-leader [[Matthew Robert Allison]], charged under case number [[United States v. Humber|2:24-cr-00257]] in the [[Eastern District of California]], pleaded guilty to all 15 counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 360 months (30 years) in federal prison by U.S. District Judge [[Dena Coggins]] on December 19, 2025, with a lifetime supervised release term.[^1] [[Attorney General]] [[Pamela Bondi]]'s [[DOJ]] announced the sentence as a landmark in the prosecution of transnational online terrorist networks.
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Humber assumed leadership of Terrorgram's inner operational circle in July 2022 following the May 2022 arrest of co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] in Slovakia. Under her direction, the inner collective produced *The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production* (261 pp., July 2022), the network's most operationally specific publication.
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Humber's operational approach went beyond publishing. She maintained direct personal contact with individuals she identified as candidates for violence, directing them through the radicalization pipeline she described in her own terms. Court documents indicate she had communicated in October 2022 with a [[Telegram]] user planning a racially motivated school attack in Brazil, one month before [[Gabriel Castiglioni]] carried out the [[Aracruz school shootings]] on November 25, 2022, killing four students and wounding eleven. DOJ prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to her guidance as one of seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership.[^1]
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Prosecutors also alleged that after her arrest in September 2024 and while held in pretrial detention, Humber continued attempting to communicate with and groom potential attackers from within the detention facility. This post-arrest conduct was noted in sentencing proceedings.
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The 37-page indictment, filed September 5, 2024 and unsealed September 9, 2024, charged Humber and Allison jointly on all 15 counts. The counts, as described in DOJ press releases and confirmed by public docket records for case 2:24-cr-00257, were:
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Count 1: Conspiracy. Counts 2-5: Four counts of soliciting hate crimes (targeting individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity). Counts 6-8: Three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials. Counts 9-11: Three counts of doxing federal officials (publishing private identifying information with intent to threaten). Count 12: One count of threatening communications (interstate). Counts 13-14: Two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions and information relating to destructive devices. Count 15: Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, under 18 U.S.C. § 2339A.
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The material support count (Count 15) was the most legally significant: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A applies to providing material support "knowing or intending" that it will be used in connection with specific terrorism offenses. Its companion statute, § 2339B, is restricted to designated [[Foreign Terrorist Organizations]] and cannot reach purely domestic actors. The decision to charge under 2339A rather than 2339B reflected both the domestic nature of Humber and Allison's activities and the fact that Terrorgram had not yet received a formal FTO designation (only the subsequent SDGT designation in January 2025). [[Lawfare]] analysts described this as a significant, if not entirely novel, use of the provision against an online white-supremacist content operation.[^2]
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The indictment and subsequent DOJ press releases described specific conduct beyond general propaganda operation:
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Infrastructure incitement: On approximately December 26, 2022, Humber posted images of electrical substation transformer components with the notation "for educational purposes only of course." On or about January 20, 2023, following the Randolph County, North Carolina [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting of January 17, 2023 (which caused approximately $250,000 in damage), Humber posted a link to a news article about the attack and stated: "It seems as though this avenue of attack, an incredibly effective one at that, has really caught on. I like to think that all our hard work in detailing its effectiveness and showing our community how easy it is not only to do but to get away with, has helped encourage this." Prosecutors presented this post as evidence that she actively encouraged the replication of infrastructure attacks.[^3]
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Brazil pre-attack contact: In October 2022, Humber communicated via Telegram with a user who stated he was planning a racially motivated school shooting in Brazil. One month later, on November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Brazil]], killing four students and wounding eleven, wearing a swastika patch. DOJ prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to Humber's guidance as one of seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership.
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Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: Among the seven attacks attributed to Humber by DOJ, one involved a Wisconsin plot to murder two individuals as part of a broader scheme to assassinate a federal official. The specific targets and co-conspirators in that plot were not publicly identified in DOJ press releases.
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The FBI arrested Humber on September 5, 2024, in a coordinated operation. She and Allison were charged in the 15-count federal indictment described above. The prosecution was handled jointly by the [[Civil Rights Division]] of DOJ, the [[National Security Division]] of DOJ, and the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California]].
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Humber's change-of-plea hearing was set for August 8, 2025; she entered guilty pleas to all 15 counts at that hearing. On December 19, 2025, Judge Coggins sentenced her to 30 years (360 months) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release. The 30-year sentence is the longest imposed on any Terrorgram Collective member in any jurisdiction and exceeded even the 20 years later given to co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]] by Canada's Ontario Superior Court in March 2026.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDCA. Sentencing press release. December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters
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[^3]: Fox 8 / WGHP. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." September 2024. 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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summary: "David Myatt is a British far-right ideologue widely attributed as the founder of the Order of Nine Angles under the pseudonym Anton Long, whose writings directly influenced the 1999 London nailbomber David Copeland, yet he was never charged with terrorism despite decades of published incitement to murder and a three-year Scotland Yard investigation."
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[[David Myatt]] is a British ideologue who spent three decades as an active participant in the neo-Nazi underground of England, serving at various points as organizer, theorist, and instigator across multiple violent far-right groups before converting to Islam in 1998 and subsequently claiming to have renounced all extremism. He is widely attributed by scholars as the primary author of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) under the pseudonym [[Anton Long]], though he has denied this identification throughout his life. His written output, produced under both his own name and the Long pseudonym, has been found in the possession of perpetrators of mass violence, cited in terrorism trials, and classified as a terrorist manual by the British government.
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David Wulstan Myatt was born in 1950. He grew up partly in Tanganyika (now [[Tanzania]]), where his father worked as a civil servant for the British colonial administration. The family also spent time in the Far East, where Myatt studied martial arts and, by his own account, developed an early interest in Greek, Sanskrit, logic, astronomy, and philosophy.
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Returning to England, Myatt became involved in neo-Nazi politics while still in secondary school. By the late 1960s he was a member of [[Colin Jordan]]'s [[British Movement]], one of the leading neo-Nazi organizations in Britain at the time. He remained in the British Movement until approximately 1974, when he broke with Jordan and co-founded a splinter organization.
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The earliest documented criminal record for Myatt relates to violent racial attacks in the early 1970s while he was active in the neo-Nazi movement in [[Leeds, England]]. Two separate terms of imprisonment have been documented from this period.
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The first arose from a "Paki-bashing" incident in which Myatt led a gang of skinheads in a racially motivated violent attack. He was identified as the gang leader and sentenced to imprisonment. The second term followed from activities connected to his co-founding of the [[National Democratic Freedom Movement]] (NDFM) with [[Eddy Morrison]] in late 1973 or early 1974. Police from the [[Yorkshire Regional Crime Squad]] raided Myatt's attic flat in Leeds and arrested him along with three other gang members. Myatt and Morrison were held on remand because investigators believed they would intimidate witnesses. The NDFM is described in published accounts as a "notoriously violent group" whose activities ended when Myatt was jailed. No BAILII entry for these cases has been located in open-source search, consistent with the fact that Crown Court records from the early 1970s predate BAILII's systematic coverage.[^1]
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After a period of reduced public visibility, Myatt re-emerged in the British neo-Nazi scene in the early 1990s, becoming active in paramilitary and neo-Nazi circles including [[Column 88]] and [[Combat 18]]. The [[Observer]] newspaper later identified him as the "ideological heavyweight" behind Combat 18, a neo-Nazi group with documented links to murders and serious violence in Britain and continental Europe.[^2] [[Nick Lowles]] characterises him in *White Riot* as "one of Britain's foremost post-war national socialist thinkers."[^3]
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The split that created the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]] emerged directly from the [[Charlie Sargent]] murder crisis. In early 1997, ITV's [[World in Action]] programme claimed that Sargent, then on remand for murder, had acted as a paid informant for the police. While Sargent was disowned by part of the C18 rank and file, his brother [[Steve Sargent]] remained loyal and, together with Myatt, led approximately fifty like-minded members away from C18 to found the NSM in June 1997. Steve Sargent served as the NSM's propaganda director and produced its magazine, *White Dragon*. David Myatt was the NSM's first leader.[^3]
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Myatt resigned as NSM leader in March 1998 following his [[Metropolitan Police Service]] SO12 counter-terrorism arrest (see below). He was succeeded by [[Tony Williams]], a former member of the [[International Third Position]]. Under Williams's leadership, the NSM recruited [[David Copeland]] in early 1999. Copeland, then living in [[Fleet, Hampshire]], was appointed NSM Southern Regional Organiser. A letter from Williams welcomed him "into leadership, responsibility and accountability to your comrades."[^4]
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In 1998, while serving as NSM leader, Myatt called publicly for "the creation of racial terror with bombs," a statement documented by the BBC's *Panorama* programme.[^5] During this period, Myatt wrote "[[A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution]]," a text the British government subsequently classified as a terrorist manual.
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In February 1998, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service's SO12 counter-terrorism branch raided Myatt's home in [[Worcestershire]] and removed computers and files. He was arrested on suspicion of incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred in connection with his posting of "A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution" on a website operated by [[Bernard Klatt]] in British Columbia, Canada, in November 1997. The case was referred to [[Interpol]], the [[FBI]], and Canadian police services for a three-year international investigation. It was eventually dropped because the evidence supplied by the Canadian authorities was assessed as insufficient to secure a conviction.[^4]
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The question of why Myatt was never prosecuted for terrorism is not fully answered in the public record. The documented facts are: (a) he published texts classified as terrorism manuals; (b) one of those texts was found in the possession of a man who killed three people; (c) he was investigated for incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred in 1998 but the case was dropped; (d) he published explicit calls for "racial terror with bombs" while NSM leader; (e) his former organisation, Combat 18, was proscribed in 2020 under S.I. 2020/200; (f) O9A, attributed to him as Anton Long, was not proscribed in the UK as of mid-2026 despite members being convicted of terrorism offences. No official explanation for the absence of terrorism prosecution has been published.[^6]
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Copeland obtained and studied Myatt's "A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution," which he had downloaded from the internet. A copy was found in his flat by police after the bombings. The document contained chapter headings including "Assassination," "Terror Bombing," and "Racial War" and, according to [[Michael Whine]] of the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]], "provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement."[^7]
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Copeland detonated three nail bombs in London between 17 and 30 April 1999, targeting the [[Brixton]] Black community market, [[Brick Lane]]'s Bangladeshi community, and the [[Admiral Duncan pub]] in Soho. Three people died at the Admiral Duncan: [[John Light]], [[Nick Moore]], and [[Andrea Dykes]] together with her unborn child. 139 people were injured across the three attacks. Copeland was convicted on 30 June 2000 at the Old Bailey of three counts of murder and three charges of planting bombs and sentenced to six life terms. In March 2007, the High Court set his minimum tariff at 50 years.[^8]
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[[Searchlight Magazine]] and BBC *Panorama* conducted a joint investigation that documented the links between Copeland and the NSM and the extent to which he had been influenced by Myatt's writings. Despite this documented chain from Myatt's published text to Copeland's stated motivation to three deaths, no charges against Myatt arose from the Copeland case. His February 1998 investigation had already been dropped by the time the bombs were placed in April 1999.[^4]
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Scholars who have studied O9A in depth almost uniformly attribute the Anton Long pseudonym to Myatt. The argument rests on several independent lines of evidence. First, the anti-fascist magazine [[Searchlight Magazine]] identified Myatt as Anton Long in 1998, at a point when no sophisticated counter-narrative had been constructed. Second, the philosophical concepts shared between Myatt's neo-Nazi writings and O9A texts are highly specific and numerous, including the concept of an "acausal" realm, a theory of history organized into distinct "aeons," advocacy for space colonization as a long-term racial project, and the design and rules of "the [[Star Game]]." Third, both bodies of work emerged from the same West Midlands and Welsh Marches neo-Nazi milieu in the 1970s, the documented time and place of O9A's formation. Fourth, Myatt's writing style under his own name is consistent with the long prose of Anton Long's O9A texts in ways that stylometric analysis has reinforced.[^9]
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The scholarly consensus as of 2026 is that Myatt authored the O9A corpus under the pseudonym Anton Long, though this has not been established in a legal proceeding. The evidentiary trajectory is significant: early attributions (Searchlight, April 1998) were dismissed as unsubstantiated; mid-period scholarly work by [[Jacob C. Senholt]] (thesis, 2013) contributed the most rigorous stylometric and biographical evidence; and in 2016, sociologist of religion [[Massimo Introvigne]] noted that in the face of Senholt's and others' evidence, O9A itself had "more or less acknowledged that 'Anton Long' was a 'nom de plume' of Myatt."[^9] That quasi-admission from the organisation itself is the strongest available piece of evidence short of a direct confession, since it is the one concession O9A had persistently refused to make for decades.
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Scholars Introvigne, [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]], [[Clive Henry]], Senholt, and [[Andrew G. Palella]] all conclude Myatt is Long. [[Jeffrey Kaplan]]'s 1998 position (separate individuals) was softened in his 2000 writing and has not been the majority scholarly view for some time.[^9]
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Myatt converted to Islam at [[Jamia Masjid Ghousia]] in Worcester on 6 September 1998, with his Shahadah witnessed by Hafiz Mohammad Tufail and Qadi Abdur Sa'ouf. He subsequently attended prayers at mosques in Worcestershire for many years. As a Muslim he operated under two documented pseudonyms: Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and Abdul al-Qari. He travelled and spoke in Arab countries and wrote what is characterised as one of the most detailed defences in the English language of Islamic suicide operations. He expressed support for [[Osama bin Laden]] and the [[Taliban]], described the Holocaust as a "hoax," and argued that the jihadist distinction between Muslims and unbelievers superseded racial categories.[^10]
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At a [[UNESCO]] conference on antisemitism in Paris in 2003, researchers stated that Myatt "has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks 'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews."[^10] He continued contact with former neo-Nazi associates during this period and advocated ideological alliances between neo-Nazis and Islamists, a position consistent with both his Nazi and Islamist frameworks.
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### The "Numinous Way" and Claimed Renunciation
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Myatt's departure from Islam and extremism is best characterised as gradual. His July 2010 autobiography *Myngath* contained content that did not clearly renounce his Muslim identity. A post on his Islamist weblog in September 2010 re-affirmed Muslim identity even while doubts were developing. By 2011, he had fully articulated what he called the "Numinous Way" (or *pathei-mathos* philosophy), an apolitical personal framework centred on empathy, humility, and what he terms the "numinous." He has lived as a private individual in rural England since approximately 2010-2011 and maintains an active personal blog at davidmyatt.wordpress.com, with posts documented as recently as March 2026.[^11]
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Researchers and law enforcement officials have treated this claimed renunciation with skepticism, noting that O9A texts continued to circulate under the Anton Long name during and after this period, and that Myatt offered no explanation for the O9A authorship question consistent with an innocent reading. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] listed Myatt as one of the twenty most dangerous extremists in the world as of 2021, on the basis that his published writings continue to circulate and influence violent actors.[^12]
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Regardless of whether Myatt authored the O9A corpus, his documented writings under his own name have been found in the possession of perpetrators of political violence across multiple countries and decades. The specific mechanisms of influence include: direct circulation of his neo-Nazi essays through Combat 18 and NSM channels; the distribution of "A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution"; and, if the attribution to Anton Long is accepted, the entire O9A theological and initiatory structure, including the Insight Roles doctrine, that subsequently shaped [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Tempel ov Blood]], and the broader radicalization pipeline running through [[Terrorgram]] into the [[764 Network|764]] ecosystem.
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[^1]: Notes From The Borderland (Larry O'Hara). "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." borderland.co.uk. Confirmed: Darren Wells (McKenzie) as the documented Special Branch informant; the NDFM period and Myatt's imprisonment confirmed in Eddy Morrison obituary, Heritage and Destiny, 2020.
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[^2]: The Observer (UK). Referenced in: Counter Extremism Project. "Order of Nine Angles." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/order-nine-angles
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[^3]: Lowles, Nick. *White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18.* Milo Books, 2001.
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[^4]: Searchlight Magazine. "25 years on: The hunt for the London nailbomber," April 2024. https://searchlightmagazine.com/2024/04/25-years-on-the-hunt-for-the-london-nailbomber/; Internet Archive, "A Short Biography of David Myatt," ia600102.us.archive.org.
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[^5]: BBC *Panorama*. 1998 broadcast. Referenced in: Religion Media Centre. "Factsheet: The Order of Nine Angles." https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/factsheets/factsheet-nine-angles/
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[^6]: Hansard, HC Deb, 13 July 2021, "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism." https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-13/debates/673D4D8F-D90C-450B-B7E8-26B63018E5D3/PreventionAndSuppressionOfTerrorism
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[^7]: Whine, Michael, Board of Deputies of British Jews. Quoted in multiple secondary accounts of the 1998 arrest.
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[^8]: 1999 London nail bombings sentencing; High Court minimum tariff March 2007. PinkNews, "Soho bomber David Copeland loses appeal over sentence," July 2011. https://www.thepinknews.com/2011/07/01/soho-bomber-david-copeland-loses-appeal-over-sentence/
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[^9]: Introvigne, Massimo. *Satanism: A Social History.* Brill, 2016; Tandfonline. "David Myatt's Imagined Emotionology, his Striving for Authentic Aryan Emotional Communities, and the Dishonourable Wulstan Tedder." 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14631180.2024.2319484
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[^10]: UNESCO Paris conference 2003 statement; "Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt" conversion details. en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/9913622 (used as roadmap; primary source cited therein is UNESCO conference record).
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[^11]: David Myatt blog, davidmyatt.wordpress.com. Most recent post retrieved: March 2026.
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[^12]: Counter Extremism Project. "Order of Nine Angles." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/order-nine-angles
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summary: "Ethan Phelan Melzer was a U.S. Army paratrooper and O9A member who in 2020 leaked his unit's classified deployment information to a believed ISIS-connected contact to enable a lethal attack on his platoon, sentenced to 45 years in federal prison."
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[[Ethan Phelan Melzer]] was a soldier in the [[U.S. Army]] assigned to the [[173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team]] based in [[Vicenza, Italy]], and a member of both [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), who in 2020 transmitted sensitive military information about his unit's troop strength, locations, and vulnerabilities to an undercover [[FBI]] operative he believed was an O9A contact who would relay the information to [[ISIS]] for use in a lethal attack on Melzer's own platoon. He was convicted of terrorism-related charges and sentenced to 45 years in federal prison, one of the longest sentences imposed on an AWD-affiliated individual and the most significant case establishing O9A's practical connection to military penetration.[^1]
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Melzer was an active member of the O9A's online community, participating in forums and channels associated with the organization's occultist accelerationist ideology. His specific O9A nexion was the [[RapeWaffen Division]], a Telegram-based channel combining neo-Nazi accelerationist branding with O9A's doctrine that rape and murder are instruments of ideological warfare. Melzer used the alias "Etil Reggad" within the RapeWaffen Division channel, and described himself as having "already self-initiated" into O9A before joining. His simultaneous AWD affiliation reflected the degree to which O9A and AWD had merged into an overlapping ideological community following [[Tempel ov Blood]]'s infiltration of AWD's leadership in 2017. O9A's [[Insight Roles]] doctrine explicitly instructs initiates to commit real criminal acts as a form of spiritual progression, and joining the military or law enforcement for purposes of sabotage or facilitated attack is a recognized category within that framework.[^1]
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In 2020, while deployed or preparing for deployment with the 173rd Airborne, Melzer made contact through O9A channels with an individual he believed was a fellow O9A member with connections to Islamic State operatives. That individual was an undercover FBI operative. Over the course of their communications, Melzer provided detailed information about his unit's personnel strength, planned movements, defensive vulnerabilities, and patrol schedules. The classified material included unit locations, personnel strength, troop movements, defensive capabilities, and satellite imagery. He characterized the planned attack in O9A terms as an Insight Role: a transgressive act generating spiritual advancement through the facilitation of mass death among fellow soldiers.
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The stated purpose of providing this information was to enable ISIS to plan and execute an attack that would kill members of Melzer's platoon. The indictment described the planned operation as a "mascal" (mass casualty) event to be executed by a combination of O9A members and Al-Qaeda-affiliated operatives.[^2]
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The case was filed in the [[Southern District of New York]] as United States v. Melzer, 1:20-cr-00314-GHW. The presiding judge was [[U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods]], an Obama appointee. The prosecution was handled by the SDNY [[National Security Unit]].[^3]
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The grand jury returned a superseding indictment (S1 20 Cr. 314) on August 18, 2020 charging eight counts. The eight-count structure included: conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals abroad ([[18 U.S.C. § 956]](a)); attempting to murder U.S. service members (18 U.S.C. § 1114); providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists ([[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]]); and illegal transmission of national defense information (18 U.S.C. § 793(d)). In October 2020, Judge Woods denied Melzer's initial motions, and a trial date was set for July 5, 2022, but Melzer pleaded guilty before trial.[^3]
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The superseding indictment designated two co-conspirators as CC-1 and CC-2. CC-1 was described in court filings as a UK-based O9A contact who communicated with Melzer via Telegram and who relayed Melzer's unit intelligence to CC-2. On May 17, 2020, CC-1 asked Melzer whether he had arrived in Turkey; when Melzer confirmed he was "getting ready to go," CC-1 responded that CC-2 "needs to know, he has plans... inshallah my brother, allahu akbar." No UK co-conspirator was publicly charged in an open-court proceeding as of 2026.[^2]
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Melzer was arrested by the FBI in June 2020 before any attack could occur. Melzer pleaded guilty on June 24, 2022, to three of the eight superseding counts: (1) attempting to murder U.S. service members, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1114 and 2; (2) providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A and 2; and (3) illegally transmitting national defense information, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(d) and 2. The material support count (§ 2339A) is significant because it did not require the government to designate a foreign terrorist organization as the beneficiary, only to prove Melzer knowingly provided support to someone he knew would use it to prepare or carry out an offense against U.S. nationals.[^1]
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Judge Woods sentenced Melzer on March 6, 2023 to 45 years in federal prison, the maximum available on the three counts. At sentencing, Melzer stated he was "a traitor against the United States whose conduct was tantamount to treason." Judge Woods called his crimes "repugnant." The sentence was the heaviest imposed on any AWD or O9A-affiliated defendant. The case was cited by [[Europol]] and the [[CTC West Point]] in subsequent analyses of O9A's documented penetration of military institutions.[^4]
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Melzer appealed the sentence. The [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] affirmed the 45-year sentence in a ruling filed in November 2024, docket 23-6247-cr.[^5]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. Press Release and attached indictment summary, June 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his; Vice News. "US Soldier Jailed for Satanic Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Troops in Al Qaeda Attack." 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/order-of-nine-angles-neo-nazi-ethan-melzer-arrest/
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-SDNY. "Former U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For Attempting To Murder Fellow Service Members In Deadly Ambush." Press Release, March 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-army-soldier-sentenced-45-years-prison-attempting-murder-fellow-service
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[^3]: United States v. Melzer, 1:20-cr-00314-GHW (S.D.N.Y.). Superseding indictment S1 20 Cr. 314, returned August 18, 2020. CourtListener docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer/
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[^4]: ABC News. "US Soldier Ethan Melzer, Described as 'the Enemy Within,' Sentenced for Jihadist Plot." March 3, 2023. https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-soldier-ethan-melzer-enemy-sentenced-jihadist-plot/story?id=97616439; CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the 'Skull Mask' Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
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[^5]: United States v. Melzer, No. 23-6247-cr (2d Cir. 2024). Courthouse News: https://www.courthousenews.com/circuit-upholds-45-year-sentence-for-army-soldier-who-plotted-satanic-neo-nazi-ambush/
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summary: "James Mason is an American neo-Nazi ideologue whose collected essays Siege (1992) became the foundational accelerationist text for Atomwaffen Division and the broader 'siege culture' movement after being rediscovered and popularized on the Iron March forum in 2015."
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[[James Mason]] is an American neo-Nazi ideologue whose collected newsletter essays, published as *[[Siege]]* in 1992, became the foundational accelerationist text for [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the wider "[[Siege Culture|siege culture]]" movement after lying largely dormant for two decades before being rediscovered and popularized on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist forum in 2015. Mason's writings explicitly advocate lone-wolf terrorism and argue that the collapse of liberal democratic society can be accelerated through cascading acts of political violence.
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Mason served as a leader of the [[National Socialist Liberation Front]] (NSLF), which had its roots in a 1970s periodical created by [[Joseph Tommasi]]. From 1980 to 1986, Mason wrote a newsletter for the NSLF that he called *Siege*, producing essays that collectively developed an avowedly accelerationist position: that existing democratic institutions are too corrupt to be reformed and must be destroyed through terrorism, that lone-wolf attacks are preferable to group action because they are harder to infiltrate and prosecute, and that the strategic goal is to escalate societal tensions until a race war becomes unavoidable.[^1]
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After years of failed attempts to find a publisher, [[Michael J. Moynihan]] formed the Storm Books imprint and published Mason's collected NSLF newsletter essays as *Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason* in 1992. Prominent white supremacist [[Tom Metzger]] praised and distributed the book, but the mainstream neo-Nazi movement of the time largely ignored or criticized it. For roughly two decades, *Siege* remained a marginal text within the far right.[^2]
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The book's second life began in 2015, when [[Iron March]] members began promoting it aggressively. The forum's global neo-Nazi and neo-fascist membership proved receptive in ways that the American white nationalist movement of the 1990s had not been. [[Brandon Russell]] announced [[Atomwaffen Division]] on Iron March in October 2015, and the new organization adopted *Siege* as its ideological foundation. AWD's activities, aesthetics, and strategic orientation all drew directly on Mason's writings.[^2]
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Mason was personally drawn into the AWD orbit. He attended the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in Las Vegas, AWD's internal leadership gathering organized by [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] of [[Tempel ov Blood]], delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks and making his first documented in-person appearance with the organization.[^3]
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### Documented Influence
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||||||
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An early study of *Siege*'s influence across the post-2015 extremist landscape identified 33 extremist entities with documented ties to the book, nine of which had been involved in acts of violence, four in specific murders, and four in threats or acts of terrorism. [[Europol]] noted in 2021 that "*Siege* and Accelerationism, both with significant potential for inciting violence, were the most prominent ideologies in 2021, especially attracting young people radicalised online."[^1]
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The direct citation of *Siege* by [[Cain Clark]] in his manifesto for the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting]] represents one of the most recent documented instances of the text's continued operational influence more than three decades after its initial publication.
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[^1]: ICCT. "Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine." https://icct.nl/sites/default/files/2022-12/siege-culture-neo-nazi-terrorist-doctrine.pdf
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[^2]: SPLC. "James Mason." Extremist Files. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/james-mason/
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[^3]: Rolling Stone. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers." 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
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|
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summary: "Jeremy Meilhac is a French national raised in Denmark who was sentenced to six years in prison by a Danish court in April 2026 for terrorism-related offenses as a Terrorgram Collective member, becoming the first person convicted of Terrorgram-linked terrorism in Denmark, with his Danish citizenship revoked and deportation ordered."
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||||||
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||||||
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Jeremy Meilhac (born approximately 1995/1996, French national, raised in Denmark from age two) was a core [[Terrorgram Collective]] member sentenced to six years in prison by the [[Glostrup District Court]] ([[Denmark]]) on approximately April 21, 2026 for terrorism-related offenses under Danish law, becoming the first Terrorgram conviction in Denmark and the first time a Danish court formally labeled Terrorgram a terrorist organization.[^1] He was also stripped of his Danish citizenship and ordered expelled from Denmark following the sentence, the first such citizenship revocation in a Danish terrorism proceeding connected to the Terrorgram network. The verdict has been appealed to the [[Danish High Court]].[^2]
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||||||
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Meilhac operated multiple profiles on [[Telegram]] that [[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]] (ECTC) identified as among the most influential within the Terrorgram network. His activities during the indictment period (approximately June 2023 to December 2024) included producing and disseminating far-right extremist propaganda in Terrorgram's channels; collaborating directly with [[Dallas Humber]], the Terrorgram inner collective's U.S.-based co-leader, to produce "saint cards" (the trading-card-format graphics profiling far-right mass shooters with death tolls, methods, and attack dates, framing them as martyrs); sharing audio recordings of attackers' manifestos through the network's channels; and glorifying terrorism in content distributed to a transnational audience.[^1][^2]
|
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||||||
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Europol identified him as playing a "central and active role" in the network's operations, distinguishing him from peripheral channel participants. The case originated approximately three years before the 2026 conviction, when a journalist reported Meilhac to Danish police for threats. A [[Danish Broadcasting Corporation|Danish Radio]] (DR) podcast called "Lyssky" documented his case in an episode titled "Terrorgrams danske stemme" ("Terrorgram's Danish voice").[^3]
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The [[Public Prosecution Service of Denmark]] charged Meilhac with terrorism-related offenses under the Danish Penal Code. The trial took place in Glostrup District Court; the date of the verdict was approximately April 21, 2026. The court found that Terrorgram qualified as a terrorist organization under Danish law, the first such finding in Denmark.
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The sentence of six years was accompanied by an order for subsequent deportation and the revocation of Meilhac's Danish citizenship. He was born in [[France]] but had lived in Denmark from approximately age two; the citizenship revocation required a judicial determination that he retained French citizenship, preventing him from becoming stateless.[^2]
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Europol described the conviction as further dismantling the Terrorgram network's international infrastructure, noting in a press release dated May 1, 2026 that it followed the December 2025 Canadian conviction of [[Matthew Althorpe]] (20 years) and the earlier 2025 U.S. conviction of Dallas Humber (30 years).[^1]
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[^1]: Europol, European Counter Terrorism Centre. "'Terrorgram' network dealt another blow as member sentenced in Denmark." May 1, 2026. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/terrorgram-network-dealt-another-blow-member-sentenced-in-denmark; Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC) republication of Europol press release. May 2026. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2026/05/terrorgram-network-dealt-another-blow-as-member-sentenced-in-denmark/
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[^2]: The Local (Denmark). "Denmark jails man and revokes citizenship for promoting terror on social media." April 21, 2026. https://www.thelocal.dk/20260421/denmark-jails-man-and-revokes-citizenship-for-promoting-terror-on-social-media; The Copenhagen Post. "Dane had extensive contact with terror network leader." April 21, 2026. https://cphpost.dk/2026-04-21/global/dane-had-extensive-contact-with-terror-network-leader/
|
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[^3]: DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). "Lyssky" podcast, episode: "Terrorgrams danske stemme." https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/lyssky/lyssky-3/terrorgrams-danske-stemme-11802665016; Tracking Terrorism (TRAC). "Jeremy Meilhac, Terrorgram Collective, Glostrup, Denmark." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/jeremy-meilhac-terrorgram-collective-glostrup-denmark-trac/
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|
||||||
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summary: "Jillian Hoy is the co-director of Martinet Press and domestic partner of Joshua Caleb Sutter, co-operating the Lexington, South Carolina O9A publishing house that produced Iron Gates and other texts that became required reading in Atomwaffen Division."
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|
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|
||||||
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||||||
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[[Jillian Hoy]] co-directs [[Martinet Press]] alongside [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and is Sutter's domestic partner. The pair operated the press from [[Lexington, South Carolina]] as the primary publishing arm of [[Tempel ov Blood]] and the American [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]] network. Martinet Press published [[Iron Gates]] (2014), *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*, and related O9A texts that became required and recommended reading within [[Atomwaffen Division]] following Sutter's 2017 infiltration of that organization.
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Hoy's individual public profile is limited in available reporting: she is identified as co-director in Martinet Press materials and in accounts of Sutter's activities, but investigative journalism and court documents have focused primarily on Sutter's dual role as FBI informant and O9A publisher. The extent of her awareness of Sutter's FBI arrangement and the full scope of her role in press operations have not been resolved in public sources.
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The [[FBI]] paid Sutter more than $140,000 as an informant, including funds directed specifically at facilitating his infiltration of AWD. The timing and funding of Martinet Press publications relative to those informant payments - some publications appear to have been produced during periods when Sutter was actively receiving federal payments - remains one of the most extensively documented anomalies in the federal government's handling of the AWD monitoring operation.[^1]
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[^1]: Bellingcat. "How Atomwaffen Became A Neo-Nazi Terror Group." https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/11/19/how-atomwaffen-division-became-a-neo-nazi-terror-group/; Frontline / ProPublica. "A Neo-Nazi Terrorist Is Paid Over $140,000 by the FBI — and That Might Just Be the Start." https://www.propublica.org/article/a-neo-nazi-terrorist-is-paid-over-140000-by-the-fbi-and-that-might-just-be-the-start
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summary: "Juraj Krajčík was a Slovak neo-Nazi who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022, killing two, after Terrorgram Collective mentorship by Pavol Beňadik from age 16, becoming Terrorgram's first designated saint."
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[[Juraj Krajčík]] (approximately 2003 - October 12, 2022) was a 19-year-old Slovak who attacked the [[Tepláreň]] LGBTQ+ bar in [[Bratislava]] on October 12, 2022, shooting three people and killing two before taking his own life. He had been radicalized through [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels from approximately age 16 (August 2019 onward), under the direct mentorship of Terrorgram co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] ("Slovakbro"), who had called publicly in his channels for "saints" to emerge from Slovakia. The Bratislava attack was identified within the Terrorgram community and subsequently by researchers as the network's first attributed "saint" event - a milestone in Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline becoming operational.[^1]
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Krajčík joined Beňadik's Terrorgram channels in approximately August 2019 at age 15 or 16, during the period when the post-[[Brenton Tarrant|Christchurch]] accelerationist ecosystem was migrating to [[Telegram]]. Over the following three years, Beňadik directly mentored him through the network's radicalization content - the [[Saints Culture]] framework, accelerationist neo-Nazi ideology, and Terrorgram's three major publications. Beňadik's channels explicitly called for "saints" from Slovakia, framing aspiring attackers as participants in a sacred tradition whose most recent exemplar was Tarrant.
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Krajčík cited Beňadik by his alias "Slovakbro" in the manifesto he left before the attack, naming him as a direct influence and mentor. He also identified Payton Gendron (the May 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter who killed ten Black people) as his "final nudge," indicating the Buffalo attack served as his immediate operational trigger.[^2]
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Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the Bratislava attack. Following Beňadik's arrest, [[Dallas Humber]] became Krajčík's primary Terrorgram contact. The arrest came too late to interrupt the radicalization Beňadik had already set in motion. Krajčík proceeded with the attack based on years of prior mentorship.
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On the evening of October 12, 2022, Krajčík drove to Tepláreň, a bar in the Old Town district of Bratislava popular with the city's LGBTQ+ community. He opened fire on the bar's exterior area and entrance, killing [[Matúš Horváth]] and [[Juraj Vankulič]] (Vankulič was non-binary) and wounding [[Radka Trokšiarová]]. He then fled. The following morning, he died by suicide in a Bratislava park. Slovak police recovered his body and his manifesto, a 65-page document written in English that detailed his Terrorgram radicalization, his admiration for Tarrant and Gendron, and his explicit framing of the attack as a contribution to the "saint" tradition.[^1]
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The Bratislava attack was the first mass-casualty event directly attributed to Terrorgram's mentorship infrastructure. Within Terrorgram channels, [[Dallas Humber]] designated Krajčík as "St. Juraj Krajčík, Tarrant's sixth disciple and Terrorgram's first saint," elevating him to saint status in the Saints Culture format and circulating his attack as promotional material to inspire subsequent attackers.
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Because Krajčík died at the scene by self-inflicted gunshot, he faced no prosecution. The attack's consequences fell on Beňadik, who had been arrested before the attack but whose channels had provided the years of radicalization Krajčík drew on. Slovak prosecutors cited the Bratislava attack explicitly in Beňadik's trial. In Canadian sentencing proceedings for co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]], Justice Jane Kelly listed the Bratislava attack as one of six that Althorpe's publications had inspired, tying Terrorgram's content directly to Krajčík's violence through the network Althorpe helped build.[^3]
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[^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/
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[^2]: ProPublica. "Telegram, Terrorgram Collective, Bratislava Murders." https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate
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[^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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summary: "Kaleb Christopher Merritt, alias 'eTerror', was a CVLT leader already serving 33 years in Virginia for abducting and raping minors when he pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in the federal CVLT prosecution."
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[[Kaleb Merritt]] (full name Kaleb Christopher Merritt, aliases "eTerror," "o9a.evil," and "o9a") is a member of [[CVLT]] and the broader [[764 Network|764]] ecosystem, operating out of [[Spring, Texas]]. At the time of his federal indictment he was already incarcerated at [[Pocahontas State Correctional Center]] in Tazewell County, Virginia, serving a 33-year state sentence for the 2020-2021 abduction and rape of multiple minors in [[Henry County, Virginia]]. He pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under federal law.[^1]
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Merritt targeted a 12-year-old girl in Henry County, Virginia, whom he initially contacted through Instagram and [[Discord]]. He traveled from Texas and eventually abducted her. An Amber Alert was issued when the two were reported missing, and approximately 36 hours later they were located near [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]. He was subsequently charged by a Henry County grand jury with: rape of a child less than 13 years of age, two counts of rape, two counts of producing child pornography with a victim under 15 (second or subsequent offense), one additional count of producing child pornography with a victim under 15, abduction with intent to defile, and solicitation of a child less than 15 for sex by computer.
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On March 8, 2022, Merritt appeared in [[Henry County Circuit Court]] and pleaded guilty to all charges; he was sentenced the same day to 33 years in active incarceration plus lifetime probation upon release. He was transferred to Pocahontas State Correctional Center in Tazewell County.[^2]
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The Merritt Virginia case predates his full CVLT leadership activity but overlaps with the CVLT enterprise period (at least 2019 to 2022). The federal indictment alleged that Merritt also victimized four additional children beyond those in the Virginia case, as part of his CVLT activities.[^3]
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### O9A Ideology
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Merritt adopted aliases that incorporated [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]] identity, using "eTerror/o9a.evil" across platforms. CVLT's early leadership cohort, including co-leader [[Collin Walker]] (alias "WRATH/O9A.WRATH"), integrated O9A-aligned neo-Nazi occultism alongside nihilism and pedophilia as core ideological elements. Instagram screenshots from the account "o9a.evil" have been identified by researchers as potentially belonging to Merritt.[^4]
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### Federal Case (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
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The grand jury returned the CVLT indictment on January 17, 2025 in the [[Central District of California]]. The indictment was unsealed approximately February 4-5, 2025. Merritt faced one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. Because he was incarcerated in Virginia at the time of indictment, he was transported to federal custody in Los Angeles.
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Merritt, [[Rohan Rane]], and Walker were identified as the enterprise's leaders and administrators. All three hosted and ran CVLT servers, controlled membership, and directed victims during the creation of CSAM and coercion videos. [[Clint Borge]] was charged as a member who participated in and directed coercion sessions.[^3]
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Merritt pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026. United States District Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] of the Central District of California scheduled Merritt's sentencing for January 7, 2027. At sentencing Merritt faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in federal prison and a maximum of life imprisonment. Any federal sentence would run consecutively to or concurrently with his existing 33-year Virginia sentence, as determined by the sentencing court.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Children into Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." March 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-participating-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-children-producing-child; MCAC. "Man Pleads Guilty..." March 2026. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2026/03/man-pleads-guilty-to-participating-in-online-neo-nazi-group-that-exploited-children-into-producing-child-sexual-abuse-material/
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[^2]: Martinsville Bulletin. "Texas man sentenced in rape of Bassett girl." June 2022. https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/local/article_837f0318-edab-11ec-a76d-cb37b59e40a7.html; VPM News. "Kaleb Merritt accused of being CVLT leadership, part of child sex abuse group." February 7, 2025. https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-02-07/kaleb-merrit-cvlt-henry-county-neofascist-indicted-child-sex-abuse; Virginia State Police Sex Offender Registry, Offender ee24c0fd. https://www.vspsor.com/Offender/Details/ee24c0fd-8264-48ae-89c9-33231363dca2
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[^3]: HSI press release. February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo
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[^4]: Medium/chokingonsignal. "Com, Extortion Groups, and the Order of Nine Angles." https://chokingonsignal.medium.com/com-extortion-groups-and-the-order-of-nine-angles-9fe1f8419526
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location: "Newcastle upon Tyne, England"
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created: 2026-05-22
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Luke Hunter was a Newcastle propagandist affiliated with Feuerkrieg Division who ran a Telegram channel with over 1,200 subscribers, was convicted of seven terrorism charges in 2020, and sentenced to four years and two months at Leeds Crown Court."
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Luke Hunter, 23, of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], was convicted of seven terrorism offences and sentenced to four years and two months at [[Leeds Crown Court]] on 23 December 2020. Hunter operated a [[Telegram]] channel with over 1,200 subscribers and created a white supremacist propaganda website that disseminated material in affiliation with [[Feuerkrieg Division]], including calls for the extermination of Jewish and LGBTQ people.[^1]
|
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Hunter's Telegram channel distributed terrorist handbooks, instructional material on surveillance, guerrilla warfare, weapons, and explosives, and extreme-right video content. He also ran a separate website through which he circulated white supremacist texts, anti-Semitic and homophobic material, and content promoting political violence. A search of his home at arrest found extensive Hitler and neo-Nazi materials, military training manuals, and surveillance guides.[^1]
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His affiliation with FKD was primarily propagandistic rather than operational: he produced video content and encouraged support for FKD through his platforms. He was not charged with providing direct attack planning advice in the manner of [[Paul Dunleavy]], but the volume and character of his output resulted in seven separate charges. The charges covered encouragement of terrorism, dissemination of terrorist publications, and broadcasting violent material, each addressed separately in the indictment.[^2]
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Hunter was arrested in October 2019 as part of the broader counter-terrorism policing investigation of FKD that also led to the Cornwall teenager's arrest in July 2019. The Hope Not Hate investigation that profiled Hunter documented his activity as stretching across platforms including Telegram, his own website, and other online forums.[^1]
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He admitted all seven charges, making the Leeds Crown Court hearing a sentencing proceeding rather than a trial. No terrorism enhancement was applied beyond the basic terrorism offences charged; the four-year-two-month sentence was consistent with the UK sentencing guidelines for this category of offences at the time.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hope Not Hate. "LUKE HUNTER: profile of a Nazi terror propagandist." December 23, 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/12/23/luke-hunter-profile-of-a-nazi-terror-propagandist/; Algemeiner. "British Neo-Nazi Who Called for 'Eradication' of Jews Sentenced to 4-Year Jail Term." December 24, 2020. https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/12/24/british-neo-nazi-who-called-for-eradication-of-jews-sentenced-to-4-year-jail-term/
|
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[^2]: Campaign Against Antisemitism. "Neo-Nazi with history of disseminating antisemitic material sentenced to four years in prison after admitting terrorist charges." December 2020. https://antisemitism.org/neo-nazi-with-history-of-disseminating-antisemitic-material-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-after-admitting-terrorist-charges
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
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|
tags:
|
||||||
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||||||
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- FederalCase
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||||||
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- California
|
||||||
|
- USA
|
||||||
|
- Doxing
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Noah Lamb is a Terrorgram Collective member indicted June 26, 2025 in the Eastern District of California for assembling 'The List,' a dossier-style hit list targeting U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists, facing 85 years across eight federal counts with no plea or trial outcome as of May 2026."
|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
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|
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|
[[Noah Lamb]] (born approximately 2001, age 24 at indictment) was charged in the [[Eastern District of California]] in an eight-count indictment filed June 26, 2025 and unsealed July 2, 2025 for his documented role in assembling the [[Terrorgram Collective]]'s "The List," a dossier-style compilation of assassination targets distributed through the network's [[Telegram]] channels. He faces a maximum combined sentence of 85 years in federal prison. The investigation was conducted by the [[FBI Sacramento Field Office]] and prosecuted by the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California]].[^1]
|
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|
||||||
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### "The List": Production and Targets
|
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|
||||||
|
The List was a Terrorgram Collective publication presenting designated assassination targets in a standardized dossier format. Each entry included the target's name, home address, a photograph of the individual, a photograph of their home, and a statement characterizing them as an enemy of white nationalist ideology based on their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
|
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|
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Targets identified in the indictment included a U.S. senator described as "an Anti-White, Anti-gun, Jewish Senator"; a U.S. district court judge described as "an invader from a foreign country" with a citation to an immigration-related ruling; and a former U.S. attorney general. Business leaders, journalists, and activist figures were also included alongside elected officials and federal judges.[^1][^2]
|
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|
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|
Lamb's documented role was identifying prospective targets and obtaining their home addresses and personal information, which other Terrorgram members then formatted into the trading-card dossier and disseminated through the network's channels. The List publication was conceptually parallel to the [[Saints Culture]] trading-card format that celebrated past perpetrators of violence, but was prospective: it designated living individuals for future attack rather than commemorating past ones.
|
||||||
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|
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### Charges and Legal Status
|
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|
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The eight-count indictment charged Lamb with: one count of conspiracy; three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials (18 U.S.C. § 373 in conjunction with 18 U.S.C. § 1114); three counts of doxing federal officials (publishing private personal information with intent to threaten); and one count of interstate threatening communication. Maximum cumulative exposure across all counts is 85 years in federal prison.
|
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|
||||||
|
No guilty plea or trial outcome was publicly reported as of May 2026. The case was the third Terrorgram-related prosecution filed in the Eastern District of California, following the September 2024 [[United States v. Humber|Humber-Allison indictment]] (2:24-cr-00257). Lamb's case was filed approximately ten months after the primary Humber-Allison indictment and approximately one month before [[Dallas Humber]]'s August 8, 2025 guilty plea.[^1]
|
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|
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### Footnotes
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|
||||||
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Member of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials in Connection with Hit List." July 2, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-murder-federal-officials-connection; U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California. "Member of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials." July 2, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/member-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-murder-federal-officials
|
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[^2]: NBC News. "Member of white supremacist group charged in alleged plot to solicit murder of 'high-value targets.'" July 2, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/member-white-supremacy-group-charged-alleged-plot-solicit-murder-high-rcna216701; Ali Winston (@awinston) on X, July 2, 2025. https://x.com/awinston/status/1940486731821994306
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||||||
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||||||
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
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|
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||||
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- NeoNazi
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||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
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- Croatia
|
||||||
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- SDGT
|
||||||
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- TerroristDesignation
|
||||||
|
summary: "Noah Licul is a Croatian Terrorgram Collective senior member designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Department on January 13, 2025, who was previously identified in Feuerkrieg Division-linked Telegram chats circa 2019-2020 under the alias 'buntovnik.'"
|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
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location: "Croatia"
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[[Noah Licul]] is a Croatian national and senior member of the [[Terrorgram Collective]] who was designated a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) by the [[U.S. Department of State]] on January 13, 2025, under [[Executive Order 13224]], as part of the joint designation of Terrorgram Collective and three of its leaders. The Federal Register published the designation as part of 90 FR 3987 on January 15, 2025.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Licul is documented in public antifascist research as having been active, then as a teenager, in [[Telegram]] chats associated with [[Feuerkrieg Division]] in 2019 and 2020, under the username "buntovnik" (Serbo-Croatian for "rebel"). In those chats, he described meeting with members of an FKD cell in Croatia and claimed credit for vandalizing a [[World War II]] memorial with neo-Nazi graffiti. His presence in FKD-affiliated chats in 2019-2020 and subsequent elevation to senior Terrorgram member status documents one of the clearest individual-level data points for the personnel continuity between the FKD-era and Terrorgram-era accelerationist networks.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### SDGT Designation
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The January 13, 2025, designation named Licul alongside [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] (Brazil) and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa) as the three individual leaders designated alongside the Terrorgram Collective organization itself. The State Department described Licul as "a senior member of Terrorgram" residing in Croatia. The designation freezes any U.S.-jurisdictional assets, prohibits U.S. persons from conducting transactions with him, and was coordinated with the [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) action of the same date.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
As of May 2026, no criminal charges had been filed against Licul in Croatia or by any other jurisdiction in open-source records.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
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### FKD Connection: Documented Link
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The identification of Licul as an FKD-adjacent actor in 2019-2020 and as a senior Terrorgram member by 2024-2025 provides an empirically documented instance of personnel migration from [[Feuerkrieg Division]]'s network to the Terrorgram ecosystem. The [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] documented FKD's active role in building the [[United Acceleration Front]] and [[National Socialist Coalition]] coalition structures on Telegram in early 2021 as organizational bridges; Licul's individual trajectory suggests the personnel overlap was direct as well as structural.[^3]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of State. "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders." January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/; Federal Register. 90 FR 3987. January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/
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[^2]: OFAC. "Counter Terrorism Designations; Venezuela-related and Counter Narcotics Designation Removals." January 13, 2025. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20250113
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[^3]: Posts from Underground. "'Don't let them find you': The U.S. Comes for Terrorgram." 2025. https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/the-choice-is-yours-white-man-th/
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summary: "Patrick Gordon MacDonald is an Ottawa, Ontario man who, under the alias 'Dark Foreigner,' produced and distributed Atomwaffen Division recruitment videos in 2018-2019, was convicted of all terrorism charges by Ontario Superior Court in April 2025, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 2025."
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[[Patrick Gordon MacDonald]] (alias "Dark Foreigner," Ottawa, [[Ontario]]) was convicted in April 2025 by Ontario Superior Court Justice [[Robert Smith]] of three terrorism-related charges arising from his production and distribution of [[Atomwaffen Division]] recruitment propaganda in 2018 and 2019. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on September 8, 2025, by [[Public Prosecution Service of Canada]] prosecutors based in Montreal.[^1]
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MacDonald is distinct from [[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]], whose separate prosecution covers [[Terrorgram Collective]] content; the MacDonald case is rooted in the earlier AWD propaganda period but represents part of the same Canadian prosecution wave targeting the AWD-to-Terrorgram accelerationist lineage.
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The three charges of which MacDonald was convicted: participating in terrorist activity; facilitating terrorist activity; and inciting hate against Jews for one or more terrorist entities, including Atomwaffen Division and materials associated with [[James Mason]].
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The offenses occurred in 2018 and 2019, when MacDonald was 20 and 21 years old, across Ottawa, Belleville, Ontario, and Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec. He participated in the creation and editing of three AWD recruitment videos encouraging viewers to commit violent acts on behalf of AWD and posted them along with other violent imagery online as AWD propaganda. He also provided his own camera and lenses for filming the videos, thereby facilitating their production.
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Under his "Dark Foreigner" alias, MacDonald disseminated propaganda across multiple social platforms. He concealed his account passwords and usernames above ceiling tiles in his residence to avoid detection.
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His trial began in November 2024. Justice Smith found him guilty on all three counts in April 2025.
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Federal Crown prosecutors based in Montreal argued for a 14-year sentence, describing his crimes as "vile." The defence sought six to eight years. Justice Smith imposed 10 years; with credit for time already served in custody and under strict bail conditions, MacDonald had approximately nine years and nine months remaining at the time of the September 8, 2025, sentencing announcement.[^2]
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The Canadian Anti-Hate Network coverage of the case notes that the conviction and sentence established a precedent for prosecuting propaganda production and distribution under Canadian terrorism statutes when the propaganda is demonstrably connected to a listed terrorist organization.
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[^1]: CBC News. "Neo-Nazi terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' guilty on all counts." April 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/patrick-gordon-macdonald-terror-trial-ottawa-decision-1.7494260; CBC News. "Terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' sentenced to 10 years in prison." September 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/terror-propagandist-dark-foreigner-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-1.7624892
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[^2]: Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "MacDonald Sentenced for Terrorism Offences." September 8, 2025. https://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2025/08_09_25.html; Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Atomwaffen Division Propagandist Patrick Macdonald Found Guilty on All Charges." https://www.antihate.ca/atomwaffen_division_propagandist_patrick_macdonald_found_guilty_on_all_charges
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summary: "Patrik Jordan Mathews was a former Canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer and Base member who was sentenced to nine years in U.S. federal prison in October 2021 for firearms and immigration charges related to a planned mass attack at a Virginia gun rally."
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Patrik Jordan Mathews was a Canadian citizen and former combat engineer with the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] Reserves based in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]. He joined [[The Base]] and became one of its most operationally significant members, combining military training in demolitions and combat engineering with an accelerationist ideology. After Canadian journalists and the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] (CSIS) identified him as a Base member in August 2019, he fled across the U.S. border illegally and was sheltered by fellow Base members while planning violence. His arrest, prosecution, and sentencing in the [[District of Maryland]] became the highest-profile federal prosecution of The Base's 2020 arrest campaign.[^1]
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Mathews served as a master corporal with the [[38 Combat Engineer Regiment]], part of the [[38 Canadian Brigade Group]], based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The role required training in explosives, demolitions, and field fortification. The investigation confirmed he had "basic explosives training" as a function of the combat engineer trade. Combat engineers in the Canadian Armed Forces typically require at minimum a SECRET-level security clearance to perform their duties, and the [[Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit]] (CFNIU) assessed the risk that his access to explosives training and any associated cleared material had been compromised.[^2]
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The chain of events leading to Mathews's identification began with a routine border inspection: Canadian border agents stopped Mathews's vehicle at a Canada-U.S. border crossing in spring 2019 and found racist materials, then notified the [[RCMP]] and the CFNIU. [[Vice Canada]] journalist [[Ben Makuch]] subsequently identified Mathews through his online presence as a member of The Base and published the story in August 2019.[^3]
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The CFNIU produced two classified "information reports" in June and July 2019, before the Vice Canada story, documenting Mathews's alleged extremist ties and assessing him as a potential terrorist threat. This means the Canadian Forces were aware of Mathews as a security concern before media exposure. Following the Vice Canada report in August 2019, the Canadian Forces fast-tracked his administrative removal from the Reserve. Mathews disappeared almost immediately after the story published.
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Three Canadian agencies and one American agency had overlapping equities in the case. The RCMP opened a missing persons investigation when Mathews disappeared in mid-August 2019, and conducted its own parallel extremism investigation. CSIS was involved in intelligence monitoring, though the specific scope is not confirmed in open sources. The [[FBI]] embedded an undercover agent in The Base for months during 2019-2020 and attended Base training camps alongside Mathews and [[Brian Mark Lemley Jr.]] in Georgia in November 2019. No extradition was needed because Mathews had entered the U.S. of his own volition and could be charged under U.S. law for conduct committed on U.S. soil.[^2]
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Mathews was identified in Canadian press reports in August 2019 as a member of The Base, following an investigation by Vice Canada. After his identity became public, Mathews went absent and crossed illegally into the United States via a wooded area near the Manitoba-Minnesota border. [[William Garfield Bilbrough IV]], a Base member from Maryland, drove to southern Michigan on August 30, 2019, to retrieve Mathews and transport him to the East Coast.[^4]
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Mathews and [[Brian Mark Lemley Jr.]], a U.S. Army veteran and Base member in Delaware, planned violence at the [[Virginia Citizens Defense League]] (VCDL) Lobby Day rally scheduled for January 20, 2020, in [[Richmond, Virginia]], where tens of thousands of gun-rights activists were expected. In recorded conversations and encrypted messages reviewed by the FBI, the two discussed using the rally as an opportunity for mass violence, including discussion of a firearm to be used for "operations." They purchased over 1,500 rounds of ammunition at a Base training camp in Georgia in November 2019.
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||||||
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The FBI arrested Mathews and Lemley on January 16, 2020, four days before the rally.[^5]
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Both defendants were charged in [[United States District Court for the District of Maryland]], case 8:20-cr-00033-TDC, before [[U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang]]. Mathews pleaded guilty to charges including transporting a firearm in furtherance of a felony and being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. Prosecutors successfully argued for application of a terrorism enhancement at sentencing under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.4, meaning the judge found that the offense was calculated to influence or affect government conduct through intimidation, coercion, or mass destruction.
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Judge Chuang sentenced Mathews to nine years in federal prison on October 28, 2021, followed by three years of supervised release. Prosecutors had sought twenty-five years; defense counsel sought thirty-three months. Chuang described Mathews as presenting no remorse. The terrorism enhancement was described by legal commentary as significant precedent for applying the federal terrorism sentencing provision to racially motivated violent extremism cases. As of February 2022, Mathews was serving his sentence at [[United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute]] in Indiana, with a projected release date of September 16, 2027.[^6]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: CBC News. "U.S. judge sentences Manitoban ex-reservist Patrik Mathews to 9 years in prison for role in neo-Nazi plot." October 28, 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patrik-mathews-sentencing-1.6226116
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[^2]: CBC News. "Military Conducted Secret Investigation of Reservist Patrik Mathews as a Possible Terrorist Threat." 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patrik-mathews-canadian-forces-neo-nazi-terrorist-1.5948202
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[^3]: Global News. "FBI Arrests Patrik Mathews, Missing Ex-Reservist from Manitoba Accused of Neo-Nazi Ties." January 2020. https://globalnews.ca/news/6420266/patrik-mathews-neo-nazi-ties-fbi/
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[^4]: Wilson, Jason. "He Founded an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group. But Will Rinaldo Nazzaro Ever Face US Justice?" *VICE News*, October 2022. https://www.vice.com/en/article/american-terror-rinaldo-nazzaro/
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[^5]: CBC News. "FBI Arrests Reveal Shocking Details in Case Against Former Canadian Reservist Patrik Mathews." January 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/fbi-arrests-the-base-georgia-wisconsin-1.5432006; Extremism GWU, Case document, "Maryland Cell Motion for Detention Pending Trial," Case 8:20-cr-00033-TDC, filed January 21, 2020. https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Maryland%20Cell%20Motion%20for%20Detention%20Pending%20Trial.pdf
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[^6]: Military Times. "Judge to Sentence Neo-Nazi Group Members, Including US Army Veteran, Under Terrorism Law." October 25, 2021. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2021/10/25/judge-to-sentence-neo-nazi-group-members-including-us-army-veteran-under-terrorism-law/; Globe and Mail. "Maryland judge agrees to 'terrorism enhancement' in case of ex-Canadian Armed Forces reservist." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ex-canadian-armed-forces-reservist-should-get-25-years-in-prison-us/
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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|
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|
||||||
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summary: "Ryan Hatfield (alias 'Ryan Arthur') is the Colorado Springs neo-Nazi who led the Atomwaffen Division's Colorado cell, later founded the National Socialist Order and its successor the National Socialist Resistance Front, which formally dissolved in November 2024, and subsequently became a documented contributor to the FashFront forum."
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born: ~2000
|
||||||
|
location: "Northglenn, Colorado"
|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-22
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Ryan Thomas Hatfield (alias "Ryan Arthur") is an [[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD) veteran who joined AWD at approximately 16 years of age and served as the organization's Colorado Springs cell leader. After AWD's formal dissolution through federal prosecutions in 2020, Hatfield became the primary figure sustaining the organizational lineage through successive rebrands: the [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO, announced July 2020), then the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF, announced September 12, 2022), which he formally dissolved on November 8, 2024.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### AWD Membership and Colorado Cell
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Hatfield was an early AWD recruit who joined while still a teenager, making him one of the younger members of AWD's organizational leadership. He ran AWD's Colorado Springs chapter and remained active in the network through AWD's collapse. His identity was first publicly exposed by journalist [[Nate Thayer]], who died before the Baltimore case was prosecuted.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### American Futurist and Post-AWD Organizing
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
After AWD's dissolution, Hatfield operated the propaganda website [[American Futurist]], the principal publishing platform for the AWD lineage's post-collapse accelerationist content. He published essays under the alias "Ryan Arthur" and used the site to maintain ideological continuity across the NSO and NSRF periods.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Following his identity's exposure, Hatfield relocated to [[Northglenn, Colorado]], where he was reportedly paying approximately $2,000 per month for a condominium. Anti-fascist researchers distributed flyers to neighbors in his building identifying him.
|
||||||
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|
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|
### NSO and NSRF
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Hatfield announced the formation of NSO via a blog post on July 25, 2020, framing it as a continuation of AWD's mission by "remaining leadership who were not arrested." NSO ran a new website launched in January 2022 and conducted a membership recruitment push in March 2021 that cited [[Brandon Russell]]'s essays from prison. NSO published writings by Russell during his federal incarceration.
|
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|
||||||
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On September 7, 2022, [[American Futurist]] severed ties with NSO, and on September 12, Hatfield announced the formation of NSRF as a NSO successor, citing dissatisfaction with [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) infiltration of NSO's remaining network. Russell, then on supervised release, attempted to recruit an FBI informant into NSRF in fall 2022, describing prospective members as coming from Maryland and the Carolinas.
|
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|
||||||
|
Hatfield announced NSRF's formal dissolution on November 8, 2024, via American Futurist, ending the organizational lineage he had maintained since AWD's collapse.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Russell Conspiracy and Terrorgram Coordination
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Leaked chat materials analyzed by [[SPLC Hatewatch]] in February 2023 showed Russell and an account associated with Hatfield appearing to coordinate the release of [[Terrorgram Collective]] propaganda on the American Futurist platform during the period of the [[2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy]]'s operational planning. An SPLC Hatewatch reporter ([[Hannah Gais]]) noted on social media that an account tied to Russell also shared material from Hatfield claiming to have identified an undercover FBI agent within AWD prior to its collapse.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
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No charges have been filed against Hatfield as of mid-2026.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Following NSRF's dissolution on November 8, 2024, Hatfield continued publishing under the "Ryan Arthur" alias. By 2025 he maintained an active writing thread on [[FashFront]], a new neo-Nazi accelerationist web forum that emerged in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, positioning itself as the successor to [[Iron March]] and [[Fascist Forge]]. The [[Global Project Against Hate and Extremism]] (GPAHE) identified Hatfield's FashFront presence as one of the documented connections between former AWD-network figures and the new forum infrastructure.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
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### Footnotes
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|
||||||
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[^1]: SPLC Hatewatch, Hannah Gais. "Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder's Path to Terror Plot." February 2023. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot/; Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists. "Ryan Hatfield aka 'Ryan Arthur': Atomwaffen Division / American Futurist." November 14, 2023. https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/14/ryan-hatfield-atomwaffen-division-colorado/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order
|
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[^2]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/; FashFront forum. Ryan Arthur's article thread. https://fashfront.st/threads/ryan-arthurs-article-thread.1812/
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||||||
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summary: "Shahriar J., alias 'White Tiger,' is a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national arrested in Hamburg in June 2025 and facing 204 charges including murder as a 764 Network operator who allegedly coerced a 13-year-old American into a livestreamed suicide in 2022."
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|
||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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Shahriar J., known online as "White Tiger," is a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national arrested in [[Hamburg]], Germany on June 17, 2025, as an alleged operator within the [[764 Network|764]] transnational child exploitation network. German prosecutors filed 204 criminal charges against him, including one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder as an indirect perpetrator, along with sexual abuse of children and rape charges. The case is being heard in [[Hamburg]] state court, not under German terrorism statutes.
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||||||
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### Background
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Shahriar J. allegedly operated as a [[764 Network|764]] network administrator from his parents' home in a wealthy Hamburg suburb beginning in approximately January 2021, when he was 15 or 16 years old. Prosecutors allege he victimized more than 30 children across multiple countries, including victims in [[Germany]], the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and [[Canada]]. He was identified by law enforcement following an alert from the [[FBI]] that was initially related to child pornography.
|
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||||||
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When German police executed a search warrant at the family home, they found approximately 85,000 files and more than 600 videos. The investigation expanded significantly from the initial CSAM referral once the scope of the network evidence was apparent.[^1]
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### The Murder Charge
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||||||
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The central murder count alleges that Shahriar J. orchestrated the suicide of a 13-year-old American boy in January 2022. Prosecutors allege that Shahriar J. used a Finnish minor as an intermediary, directing the Finnish victim to psychologically coerce the American boy into dying by suicide during a livestream session. The theory of murder "as an indirect perpetrator" relies on German criminal law doctrine recognizing that a person who causes death through the actions of an unwitting or coerced instrument can be charged with murder even without direct physical action.[^2]
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||||||
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### Trial
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||||||
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||||||
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Trial began in Hamburg state court on January 9, 2026. The initial hearing schedule covered 82 days of proceedings, with hearings running through December 17, 2026. The charges are brought under German homicide, CSAM, and sexual abuse statutes. No terrorism charges were filed; the [[FBI]] tip to German authorities identified the case as a CSAM matter, and German prosecutors charged under the statutes applicable to the actual conduct rather than under terrorism frameworks.[^1]
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||||||
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### Charging Philosophy Contrast with the U.S. Approach
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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The Hamburg prosecution proceeds in parallel to the [[Baron Cain Martin]] prosecution in the [[United States]] and provides a direct contrast in charging philosophy. The U.S. government chose to apply [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]] (material support to terrorists, no FTO designation required) anchored to [[18 U.S.C. § 956|18 U.S.C. § 956(a)]] (conspiracy to kill persons in a foreign country), a terrorism theory that does not require direct proof of a killing, only a conspiracy. German prosecutors charged murder and attempted murder directly under German criminal law, requiring the more demanding proof of direct causal responsibility for death.[^3]
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The contrast reflects a structural difference in the legal systems: U.S. federal law has a well-developed material support framework that allows terrorism prosecution without a completed act of violence, while German law has no directly analogous provision and is therefore limited to traditional criminal statutes.
|
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|
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### Footnotes
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||||||
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|
||||||
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[^1]: CBS News. "Man dubbed 'White Tiger' charged with murder over U.S. teen's livestreamed suicide." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-charged-murder-germany-us-teen-suicide-764-network/
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||||||
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[^2]: Euronews. "German court begins trial of 'White Tiger' online predator." January 9, 2026. https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/09/german-court-begins-trial-of-white-tiger-online-predator
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[^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/
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summary: "Tony Christopher Long is a Porterville, California 764 network member federally indicted in October 2025 on six counts including animal crushing and sexual exploitation of a minor."
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[[Tony Christopher Long]] (born approximately 2006, Porterville, [[California]]) is a member of the [[764 Network|764]] nihilistic violent extremist network who was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 23, 2025, in the [[Eastern District of California]]. The six-count indictment was announced publicly by DOJ on October 27, 2025. At the time of the federal indictment Long was already in state custody on related charges. He is named in the federal proceedings as a co-conspirator in the broader 764 investigation that produced the separate October 2025 indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in Arizona.[^1]
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The federal indictment charges Long on six counts:
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The victims include a juvenile in Washington State (the subject of the sexual exploitation and CSAM counts) and a juvenile in Kern County, California (the subject of the cyberstalking and threatening counts). The animal crushing counts involve video recordings of animal abuse, a category federally criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 48.
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Long operated online under the aliases Inactive, Inactivee0, and inactivecvx, documented in the indictment. His alleged conduct occurred in late 2024.[^1]
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As of the October 2025 indictment, no plea or conviction status was publicly available. The case remained at the charging stage.[^2]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Member of Violent Extremist Network '764' Charged with Animal Crushing, Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and Other Crimes." October 27, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-violent-extremist-network-764-charged-animal-crushing-sexual-exploitation-minor
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[^2]: CyberScoop. "764 member Tony Christopher Long charged in California." https://cyberscoop.com/764-tony-christopher-long-california-charged/
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- Person
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- Accelerationism
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- Ukraine
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created: 2026-05-21
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summary: "Yegor Krasnov, alias 'Maniac,' is a Ukrainian teenager who founded Maniac Murder Cult in Dnipro around 2018, establishing its neo-Nazi accelerationist framework before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020."
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born: 2002
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location: "Dnipro, Ukraine"
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[[Yegor Krasnov]], known online as "Maniac," (born approximately 2002, [[Dnipro, Ukraine]]) founded [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) in Dnipro when he was approximately 16 years old, building the organization after an alleged expulsion from another far-right formation and recruiting approximately 15 initial members. He oversaw MKY's first phase of content production - short videos of street attacks that appeared on the Russian imageboard 2chan in 2018 and then migrated to VK and [[Telegram]] in 2019 - before being arrested by [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] authorities in 2020. Following his arrest, [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] assumed operational leadership and expanded the network internationally.[^1]
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MKY's core ideology - neo-Nazi accelerationism combined with theistic Satanism and the "Murder Points" tiered reward system - was established under Krasnov's founding leadership. His use of "Maniac" as an alias, and the network's name itself, referenced both his alias and the [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]], three Ukrainian teenagers who filmed and distributed murders in 2007 and whom MKY venerates as exemplary figures.
|
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Krasnov's legal status under Ukrainian law following his 2020 arrest has not been reported in English-language sources. His organization continued to grow substantially under Chkhikvishvili's subsequent international leadership.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult." GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/
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- IronMarch
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updated: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifying Iron March founder Alisher Mukhitdinov."
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Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist whose career spans independent local press, the [[BBC News Russian|BBC Russian Service]], and [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]'s Russian investigative unit. His two major investigations (the exposure of the [[Internet Research Agency]] in St. Petersburg and the identification of [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] as [[Iron March]] founder "Alexander Slavros") represent the primary source record for both subjects.
|
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### Internet Research Agency Exposure
|
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Soshnikov began investigating the [[Internet Research Agency]] (IRA) while working as a reporter for Moy Rayon, a St. Petersburg local newspaper. He and Novaya Gazeta reporter Garmazhapova posed as job applicants and entered the IRA's office in 2013, producing the first published descriptions of its internal organization. Soshnikov's report documented that the IRA photocopied applicants' passports but made no effort to verify identities; that trolls were divided into specialized teams; and that individual operatives were assigned quotas of approximately 100 posts per day with designated themes including Russian state-approved framing on the G20 St. Petersburg summit in September 2013.[^1]
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In February 2015, Soshnikov published a follow-up from an unnamed IRA whistleblower that included photographs, videos, and copies of "technical tasks" distributed to trolls, establishing the IRA's operational methodology in significantly greater detail.[^1]
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|
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|
After joining BBC News Russian, Soshnikov continued IRA-related investigations, using social engineering methods to identify individual operatives behind accounts on Twitter, VKontakte, and Telegram.
|
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|
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### Iron March / Mukhitdinov Investigation
|
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|
||||||
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Soshnikov authored the investigation that established Alisher Mukhitdinov as the real identity of Iron March founder "Alexander Slavros," published by [[BBC News Russian]] on January 30, 2020 under the title "«С самого детства я осознавал, что я русский»" ("Since childhood I understood I was Russian"). The investigation built on WHOIS-based speculation that had circulated since before the [[SPLC]] Hatewatch May 2019 profile and on the December 2019 [[Bellingcat]] investigation, both of which stopped short of physical confirmation.
|
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|
||||||
|
Soshnikov physically located Mukhitdinov in southwest Moscow; Mukhitdinov declined to comment. The investigation documented his educational trajectory (expelled from both [[Moscow State University]] and [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]]), his self-description as a "metanationalist," his family's background including the connection to [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]], and the BBC's failure to confirm circulating theories about Russian government pressure related to alleged [[Azov Battalion]] fundraising. Soshnikov's investigation is the primary evidential basis for the identification as accepted in academic and journalistic literature.[^2]
|
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|
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|
### RFE/RL Systema
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
After BBC News Russian, Soshnikov moved to [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] as editor-in-chief of Systema, an RFE/RL Russian-language investigative unit launched in 2023. He subsequently announced his departure from RFE/RL on social media and stated he was seeking work in journalism, investigations, OSINT, and editing.[^3]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^1]: Global Investigative Journalism Network. "How They Did It: The Real Russian Journalists Who Exposed the Troll Factory in St. Petersburg." https://gijn.org/stories/real-russian-journalists-exposed-troll-factory-st-petersburg/
|
||||||
|
[^2]: Andrei Soshnikov, "«С самого детства я осознавал, что я русский»: Как москвич Алишер Мухитдинов создал главный фашистский форум в интернете," *BBC News Russian*, January 30, 2020. Archived at Meduza: https://meduza.io/feature/2020/01/30/s-samogo-detstva-ya-osoznaval-chto-ya-russkiy
|
||||||
|
[^3]: Sota News / X post citing Soshnikov's social media announcement of departure from RFE/RL. https://x.com/sotanews/status/2032238257858077012; Muck Rack profile: https://muckrack.com/andrei-soshnikov
|
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||||||
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||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
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tags:
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||||||
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- Person
|
||||||
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- NeoNazi
|
||||||
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- NationalAction
|
||||||
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- O9A
|
||||||
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- UK
|
||||||
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- TerroristConviction
|
||||||
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- VettingFailure
|
||||||
|
- LawEnforcementEntryism
|
||||||
|
- Yorkshire
|
||||||
|
location: "Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Ashley Podsiad-Sharp was a 42-year-old HMP Armley prison officer and former National Action member convicted in 2023 at Sheffield Crown Court of possessing the White Resistance Manual, sentenced to eight years plus five years extended licence."
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Ashley Podsiad-Sharp, 42, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was a serving prison officer at [[HMP Armley]] in Leeds when he was investigated by [[Counter Terrorism Policing]]. He was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court by a jury of one count of possessing terrorist material under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], after the jury acquitted him of a second count of disseminating terrorist material. He was sentenced on 31 August 2023 by Judge [[Jeremy Richardson KC]] to eight years' imprisonment plus five years' extended licence. The sentencing remarks are published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Evidence
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The terrorist material for which Podsiad-Sharp was convicted was the White Resistance Manual, a 200-page publication containing detailed guidance on: committing arson; poisoning people; sabotaging public utilities and communication systems; bomb-making; knife techniques for killing; building improvised firearms; and evading police identification and capture. The document opened with a white supremacist manifesto calling for armed resistance to the "threat to the white race" from Jewish people and non-white communities.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Police recovered the manual on Podsiad-Sharp's computer devices during a search. He had, in the judge's assessment, gone to "considerable lengths" to conceal the document on his devices.[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### National Action History and White Stag Athletics Club
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Podsiad-Sharp had been a member of [[National Action]] before its proscription in December 2016. Following National Action's proscription, he founded or operated what Judge Richardson described as "a cauldron of self-absorbed neo-Nazism masquerading as a low-grade, all-male sports club": the [[White Stag Athletics Club]], based in South Yorkshire. The club required prospective members to hold white-supremacist views; its vetting process asked candidates whether they were homosexual, mixed race, or had Jewish or Muslim heritage. Richardson characterised the club as "a recruiter of disillusioned white men" for racially motivated purposes.[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Prison Officer Employment
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Podsiad-Sharp was a serving prison officer throughout the period relevant to the offence, employed at HMP Armley, a Category B local prison in Leeds. His employment as a prison officer while holding these materials and running the White Stag Athletics Club is an instance of far-right extremist entryism into a law enforcement or custodial context, structurally analogous to the [[Benjamin Hannam]] case in the Metropolitan Police, though Podsiad-Sharp's O9A connection is less directly documented than his National Action history.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Judge Richardson stated that Podsiad-Sharp displayed "not one iota of remorse."[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: R v Ashley Podsiad Sharp, Sentencing Remarks, Sheffield Crown Court, 31 August 2023. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/R-v-Ashley-Podsiad-Sharp.pdf
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^2]: ITV News Calendar. "Leeds Prison officer Ashley Podsiad-Sharp jailed over 'white supremacist murder manual'." August 31, 2023. https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-08-31/prison-officer-had-white-supremacist-murder-manual; The Jewish Chronicle. "White supremacist prison officer jailed for 'terrorist murder manual'." August 2023. https://www.thejc.com/news/white-supremacist-prison-officer-jailed-for-terrorist-murder-manual-gn6n2er2; HOPE not hate. "More National Action Jailings." June 27, 2023. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2023/06/27/more-national-action-jailings/
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||||
|
- NationalSocialistOrder
|
||||||
|
- FBIInformant
|
||||||
|
- USA
|
||||||
|
- Mississippi
|
||||||
|
summary: "Aubrey Sakai Suzuki was a Mississippi member of the National Socialist Order who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to interstate threatening communications after FBI monitoring of NSO chats, in which FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter's alias 'swissdiscipline' appeared, contributed to his identification."
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
born: 2001
|
||||||
|
location: "Nesbit, Mississippi"
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Aubrey Sakai Suzuki (born approximately 2001), of [[Nesbit, Mississippi]], was a member of the [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO), the successor organization to [[Atomwaffen Division]], who was charged and convicted for posting online threats calling for the killing of Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ Americans.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Case Overview
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The NSO is the name Atomwaffen Division members adopted in July 2020 after AWD's public leadership collapsed following the federal arrests of 2020. Suzuki participated in NSO's online community and in 2020 posted to an NSO website that he wanted to "take part in a revolution and be on the forefront killing Blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals" and "blowing up the system."[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The [[FBI]] began following Suzuki in September 2020 and arrested him on July 19, 2021, when he arrived to pick up a Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle he had purchased online from a gun store in [[Sevierville, Tennessee]].[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Sutter's Alias in NSO Chats
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The case is notable in the context of [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]'s informant history because Sutter's operating alias "swissdiscipline" continued to appear in encrypted [[Wire]] chats from the NSO's network after Sutter transitioned from AWD to its successor organization. Rolling Stone reported that these chats, and Sutter's presence within them, contributed to identifying Suzuki as a member and tracking his activity.[^2] The precise degree to which Sutter's informant role drove the Suzuki case versus standard FBI surveillance of NSO communications has not been specified in court documents available to the public.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Charges, Plea, and Sentence
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Suzuki pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, in the [[Northern District of Mississippi|U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi]], to one count of transmitting a threatening communication through interstate commerce. Prosecutors dropped two additional counts of posting threatening messages online and a count of threatening a federal law enforcement officer as part of the plea agreement.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney [[Clayton A. Dabbs]]. Suzuki was sentenced to two and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.[^3]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Sutter's Active Informant Status at Time of Arrest
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The Suzuki case is one of the few documented instances where Sutter's continued presence inside the AWD/NSO ecosystem, as an active informant, generated a prosecutable lead that resulted in a federal conviction after the public revelation of his informant status. Because the revelation came in August 2021 and Suzuki was arrested in July 2021, the investigation of Suzuki predated the revelation by approximately one month, suggesting the FBI was still operating Sutter as an active source inside the NSO at the time the Cole motion was filed.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NDMS. "Nesbit Man Sentenced To Prison for Racist Threats." October 20, 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/nesbit-man-sentenced-prison-racist-threats
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^2]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^3]: Magnolia State Live. "Mississippi man admits he threatened to kill Blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals, then tried to buy an assault rifle." July 6, 2022. https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2022/07/06/mississippi-man-admits-he-threatened-to-kill-blacks-hispanics-and-homosexuals-then-tried-to-buy-an-assault-rifle/
|
||||||
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||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
- Person
|
||||||
|
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
|
- SiegeCulture
|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
- NetworkFounder
|
||||||
|
- FederalCase
|
||||||
|
- FISA
|
||||||
|
- Section702
|
||||||
|
- USA
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists."
|
||||||
|
born: 1994
|
||||||
|
location: "Tampa, Florida"
|
||||||
|
---
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Brandon Russell]] is the founder of [[Atomwaffen Division]] (AWD), which he announced on the [[Iron March]] neo-fascist forum on October 12, 2015, while a student at the [[University of South Florida]] and a member of the [[Florida National Guard]]. He has been convicted of federal crimes twice: first in 2018 for illegal possession of explosive device components following the murders of two AWD members by his roommate [[Devon Arthurs]], and again in 2025 for conspiring to attack the [[Baltimore Gas and Electric]] (BGE) electrical power grid as a prelude to a race war. He is serving a 20-year federal sentence.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### AWD Founding on Iron March
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Russell's October 2015 Iron March announcement introduced AWD as an explicitly [[Siege Culture|Siege]]-influenced, accelerationist neo-Nazi organization committed to the collapse of American society through cascading violence. He had been organizing members since at least 2012, but the Iron March post gave the group a public identity and an international recruitment pool. AWD drew its foundational ideology from [[James Mason]]'s collected essays, treating lone-wolf violence and leaderless resistance as spiritual imperatives rather than tactical options.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Russell developed AWD as a cell-based organization with regional chapters across the United States, emphasizing fitness culture, weapons training, and real-world operations alongside ideological study. At its height AWD had documented members in multiple states and several foreign countries. [[Tempel ov Blood]] leader [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] joined AWD in the spring of 2017 under the alias "swissdiscipline," beginning the organization's transformation from a purely [[Siege]]-focused group into one steeped in [[Order of Nine Angles]] occultism.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Tampa Apartment and Devon Arthurs
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Russell shared a Tampa apartment with several AWD members, including Devon Arthurs, [[Jeremy Himmelman]] (22), and [[Andrew Oneschuk]] (18). On May 19, 2017, while Russell was away at a National Guard training exercise, Arthurs shot and killed Himmelman and Oneschuk inside the apartment. Arthurs had converted to Islam and subsequently left AWD; he later told police he killed the two men partly because they had desecrated his Quran and partly because he feared they would expose his past AWD membership. After the killings, Arthurs drove to a nearby smoke shop and held customers hostage at gunpoint before surrendering to police.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
When Tampa police searched the apartment, they discovered explosive materials belonging to Russell: components for constructing explosive devices including the precursor chemicals for HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine). Russell was arrested on explosives charges unrelated to the murders themselves.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### First Federal Conviction: Full Record
|
||||||
|
|
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Russell's 2018 conviction arose from case number 8:17-cr-00283, [[U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida]], presided over by Senior U.S. District Judge [[Susan Bucklew]]. The sentencing hearing took place January 9, 2018. [[U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez]] appeared for the government. Russell had pleaded guilty on September 27, 2017, to two counts: possession of an unregistered destructive device (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)) and unlawful storage of explosive material (18 U.S.C. § 842(j)). Prosecutors sought approximately 11 years; Judge Bucklew imposed five years, to be followed by three years of [[supervised release]].[^1]
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The supervised release conditions imposed at sentencing did not include restrictions on association with extremist organizations or former AWD members. [[Pete Simi]], a sociology professor at [[Chapman University]] who has studied the American far right for more than two decades, later stated that the conditions "imposed no restrictions on the young extremist's ability to associate with his former comrades" and that Russell "could've restarted the Atomwaffen Division without violating the conditions of his release."[^2]
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While incarcerated, Russell remained organizationally active. He collaborated with other imprisoned AWD veterans to produce the [[White Prison Newsletter]], a neo-Nazi accelerationist publication distributed to incarcerated persons. The newsletter was endorsed by [[Robert Gregory Bowers]], the [[2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting|Pittsburgh synagogue shooter]]. The [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO), the AWD successor organization that emerged in July 2020, published essays authored by Russell from prison and announced a recruitment push in March 2021 that cited him as a key figure.
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Russell and [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] began corresponding by letter in approximately 2018 while both were serving separate sentences in different facilities. The [[FBI]] monitored Russell's communications and phone traffic during his incarceration, and was aware of the Russell-Clendaniel correspondence at least as early as 2018.[^4]
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Russell was released from federal prison on August 23, 2021, having served approximately three years and eight months of his five-year sentence (with credit for time served and good-time reductions). He relocated to [[Orlando, Florida]] and entered three years of court-supervised release under the [[U.S. Probation Office]] in [[Tampa, Florida]]. Requests for comment about Russell's supervision made by journalists to that office went unanswered.[^2]
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Between his August 2021 release and his February 2023 arrest, Russell maintained a substantial online presence across encrypted neo-Nazi Telegram networks under three documented pseudonyms: "Ouroborus," "Homunculus," and "Raccoon." He operated within invite-only chats and contributed to [[American Futurist]], the propaganda platform run by [[Ryan Hatfield]] (alias "Ryan Arthur"), the Colorado Springs-based former AWD cell leader who had founded the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) through the NSO lineage. In fall 2022, Russell attempted to recruit an FBI informant into NSRF, describing prospective members as coming from Maryland and the Carolinas.[^5]
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Russell shared material from the [[Terrorgram Collective]], including "Make It Count," one of four publications the Terrorgram network released between 2021 and 2022 containing explicit instructions for attacking electrical substations: "LOCATE SUBSTATION. RANGE FIND. SHOOT TRANSFORMERS. FLEE UNDETECTED." He operated in at least three private Telegram channels: "Freedom Club," "Cat Enjoyers Anonymous," and "Don't Do Anything Illegal." Russell also circulated links to open-source infrastructure maps identifying substation locations and, in August 2022, promoted materials that purported to identify undercover FBI officers.[^5]
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Archived messages show Russell interacting with accounts tied to [[Dallas Humber]], who led the Terrorgram inner collective from 2022 to 2024, with the pair appearing to coordinate the release of Terrorgram propaganda. Prosecutors presented this material at trial in January 2025 as evidence of Russell's role within the Terrorgram network.[^6]
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In June 2022, approximately ten months after his release from prison, Russell made contact through encrypted channels with [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)]], an FBI [[confidential human source]] (CHS) who worked professionally as a researcher specializing in extremism and domestic terrorism and had been recruited through an FBI agent acquaintance. Jackson became the FBI's primary source inside the conspiracy.
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Between November 2022 and February 3, 2023, Russell and Clendaniel, communicating by phone and through encrypted messaging monitored by Jackson, finalized their operational plan to destroy five BGE transformer substations simultaneously. In a recorded conversation on January 29, 2023, Clendaniel described the targeted sites as substations near [[Norrisville, Maryland|Norrisville]], [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]], and [[Perry Hall, Maryland|Perry Hall]], plus two additional substations in the vicinity of Baltimore City. She told Jackson: "it would permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully."[^7]
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Russell provided the operational concept and ideology, attempted to procure a firearm for Clendaniel through Jackson (Clendaniel was prohibited from possessing weapons as a convicted felon), and coordinated the timing of simultaneous attacks intended to prevent BGE grid operators from rerouting power around disabled nodes. Federal prosecutors later estimated the intended monetary loss would have exceeded $75 million.[^8]
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Russell and Clendaniel were arrested on February 3, 2023. The government filed an initial criminal complaint; a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging both defendants with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility (18 U.S.C. § 1366(b)). Russell's case was docketed in the [[District of Maryland]] under case number 1:23-cr-00029; Clendaniel's companion case was 1:23-cr-00056. Both were assigned to Senior U.S. District Judge [[James K. Bredar]].[^8]
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Before trial, 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]] (FISA) in its investigation of Russell and had failed to provide the statutorily required FISA notice. The defense grounded its inference in a specific government document: the [[ODNI]]'s "FISA Section 702 Value Vignettes," released February 14, 2024, at intelligence.gov, which included a vignette describing a 2023 FBI investigation in which a warrantless U.S. person query of Section 702 databases revealed 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 vignette stated the FBI disrupted a "potentially imminent terrorist attack" against critical infrastructure in less than a month, using "iterative U.S. person queries" as the subject shifted communications platforms. The defense argued Russell's was the only open case matching all those disclosed particulars.[^9]
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Three attorneys from the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]'s [[ACLU National Security Project]] joined the defense for the limited purpose of challenging the Section 702 issue. Lead ACLU attorney [[Ashley Gorski]] stated publicly: "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."[^9b]
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The government agreed to a classified ex parte briefing before Judge Bredar. That hearing occurred on July 23, 2024. On August 9, 2024, Bredar issued a public order stating he was "satisfied" the government would not use Section 702-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" of FISA surveillance under the applicable standard. The order was deliberately narrow: it addressed only whether FISA evidence would be used at trial, leaving unresolved publicly whether Section 702 collection had occurred at an earlier investigative stage that shaped the case's initiation. No appeal of Bredar's Section 702 ruling produced public Fourth Circuit docket activity before Russell's February 2025 conviction.[^9]
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Russell's trial commenced January 28, 2025, before Judge Bredar. The government's evidentiary case rested on three cooperating sources: Christopher Jackson (CHS-1, who testified under light disguise and pseudonym), a second confidential human source (CHS-2, also in disguise), and one FBI employee. All three had been members of the private neo-Nazi Telegram channels alongside Russell.
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In September 2024, Bredar had ruled that the three covert witnesses could testify in "light disguise" (altered hairstyle or facial hair) and use pseudonyms, and that the courtroom would be partially closed during their testimony, with audio and video piped to an overflow room. Bredar acknowledged the court "strongly disfavors" anonymous witnesses but found the exception warranted given what he characterized as 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."[^10]
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The jury was selected January 27, 2025. Jackson testified January 29 and disclosed in testimony that he had received "about $70,000," comprising approximately $40,000 in direct payments and $30,000 in reimbursements for plane tickets and travel expenses across several investigations. On January 27, the night jury selection occurred and two days before Jackson testified, the government paid Jackson an additional $7,180.11, bringing his total FBI compensation to approximately $80,000. The [[Department of Justice]] disclosed the additional payment on March 19, 2025, six weeks after the guilty verdict.[^11]
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Russell was convicted on February 4, 2025, of one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility after a six-day trial.
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Following the government's March 19 disclosure, Russell moved for a new trial, arguing that Jackson had committed perjury by testifying to an incomplete compensation figure and that the undisclosed payment constituted a [[Brady v. Maryland|Brady]] violation. On April 29, 2025, Bredar denied the motion. Bredar found the non-disclosure "unfortunate" and acknowledged "the timing of the payment...raises some concern" but held the error insufficient to undermine the verdict given Jackson's limited scope of testimony, the corroborating evidence independent of Jackson's testimony, and the jury's awareness of Jackson's compensation from the disclosed amounts.[^11]
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Bredar sentenced Russell to the statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, on August 7, 2025. Bredar rejected defense arguments that Russell was less culpable than Clendaniel, calling him "the brains" behind the operation and the source of its "intellectual horsepower." The judge characterized Russell as "profoundly dangerous" and said he "seeks to destroy the very fabric of society." Bredar also noted that Russell had "significant mental health issues." The lifetime supervised release conditions included close monitoring of Russell's electronic devices.[^12]
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The sentence reflected Russell's status as a recidivist: his 2018 conviction for illegal explosive possession in the Middle District of Florida was counted as a prior offense. The combined effect of both convictions means Russell will not be eligible for release until his mid-forties at the earliest.
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The Baltimore conspiracy's relationship to AWD organizational continuity is factually complex. By 2023, AWD had formally dissolved; the National Socialist Order (NSO) had itself transitioned into the [[National Socialist Resistance Front]] (NSRF) in September 2022 under Ryan Hatfield. Russell's fall 2022 NSRF recruitment activity suggests he understood himself as operating within the AWD successor network rather than as an isolated individual.
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Neither the NSRF nor any other successor organization was charged as a co-conspirator in the Baltimore case. Russell's collaboration with Clendaniel, a Maryland woman with no documented prior AWD membership, illustrates the movement's shift from formal organizational structure to informal network-based radicalization: Clendaniel's introduction to Russell came through prison correspondence, her ideology was self-developed through her own history of white nationalist beliefs dating to 2001, and her recruitment into the operational conspiracy was personal rather than institutional.[^5]
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[^1]: United States v. Russell, 8:17-cr-00283 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 9, 2018). CourtListener docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6072023/united-states-v-russell/; Tampa Bay Times. "Neo-Nazi Florida National Guard soldier gets five years in prison on bombmaking charges." January 9, 2018. https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/Neo-Nazi-Florida-National-Guard-soldier-gets-five-years-in-prison-on-bombmaking-charges_164309905/
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[^2]: 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/
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[^3]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-armed-and-dangerous
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[^4]: Vice. "Inside the Neo-Nazi Prison Magazine Radicalizing Americans in Their Cells." https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order
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[^5]: 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/
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[^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/
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[^7]: CBS News. "Baltimore power grid attack plot: Sarah Beth Clendaniel and Brandon Russell arrested, officials say." February 6, 2023. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-power-grid-attack-plot-fbi-suspects-arrested-sarah-beth-clendaniel-brandon-russell/; 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
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[^8]: 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
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[^9]: 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 Sun. "Feds will not use evidence from spying program at trial of neo-Nazi accused in Baltimore power grid plot, judge finds." 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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[^9b]: 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/; WMAR Baltimore. "Man accused of plotting to destroy Baltimore's electrical grid has new defender." https://www.wmar2news.com/local/man-accused-of-plotting-to-destroy-baltimores-electrical-grid-has-new-defender
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[^10]: 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/
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[^11]: 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/
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[^12]: 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; 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
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summary: "Camden Rodriguez, aliases 'oHare' and 'carroteater,' was a Longmont, Colorado leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants."
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|
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[[Camden Rodriguez]], aliases "oHare" and "carroteater," is a resident of [[Longmont, Colorado]] and a named leader of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the Cult of Greg), the online child exploitation network that operated on [[Discord]] from approximately January 2020 through January 2021. He was born approximately 2003 and was 22 at the time of his December 2025 indictment.
|
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### Federal Charges (United States v. Bermudez, 1:25-cr-00361)
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A federal grand jury in the [[Eastern District of New York]] returned an indictment unsealed on December 2, 2025, charging Rodriguez alongside [[Hector Bermudez]], [[Zachary Dosch]], [[Rumaldo Valdez]], and [[David Brilhante]]. The case number is 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC). The 10-count indictment charged: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]], conspiracy to produce child pornography, conspiracy to receive and distribute child pornography, and conspiracy to communicate interstate threats. The alleged criminal conduct covered January 2020 through January 2021.[^1]
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Rodriguez was identified in one local news report as an "alleged leader" of Greggy's Cult. The group recruited minor victims through gaming platforms and social media and coerced them into producing [[CSAM]], using that material to compel continuing compliance including self-harm. Members of Greggy's Cult later became "prominent members" of the [[764 Network]], per DOJ's characterization in the December 2025 press release.[^1]
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[^1]: DOJ OPA. "Five Leaders of 'Greggy's Cult' Charged with Sexually Exploiting Children on the Internet." December 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-leaders-greggys-cult-charged-sexually-exploiting-children-internet; KDVR. "Longmont man, alleged leader of 'Greggy's Cult,' charged with sexually exploiting children." December 2025. https://kdvr.com/news/local/longmont-man-alleged-leader-of-greggys-cult-charged-with-sexually-exploiting-children/; United States v. Bermudez et al., 1:25-cr-00361 (PKC) (E.D.N.Y.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71984626/united-states-v-bermudez/
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
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|
||||||
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||||||
|
[[Cameron Brandon Shea]], operating online under the alias "Krokodil," served as [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s primary national recruiter and co-organized "Operation Erste Saule" (Operation First Pillar) alongside AWD's Washington State chapter leader [[Kaleb Cole]]. The operation involved identifying journalists and advocates who had reported on or tracked antisemitism and white nationalism, then delivering threatening posters featuring Nazi imagery to their homes and workplaces. Shea pleaded guilty on April 7, 2021, to two federal counts and was sentenced to 36 months (three years) in federal prison on August 25, 2021, by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in the [[Western District of Washington]].[^1]
|
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Shea served as AWD's principal national recruiter, operating from [[Redmond, Washington]] and recruiting members across multiple states through encrypted messaging applications and AWD's online presence. His recruitment work made him one of the most organizationally significant AWD members outside its Texas-based leadership structure, which was centered on AWD's propaganda chief [[John Cameron Denton]] and founder [[Brandon Russell]].
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|
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[[Operation Erste Saule]] targeted journalists who had written about AWD and organizations including the [[ADL]] that had monitored AWD's activities. The campaign involved researching targets' home and workplace addresses and delivering threatening printed posters, which depicted masked figures with guns and Molotov cocktails alongside neo-Nazi imagery, to those locations across multiple states.
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The operation ran alongside [[John Cameron Denton]]'s separate swatting campaign, which targeted a different set of individuals through false emergency reports, representing two concurrent AWD harassment strategies operating in 2018-2019. The two campaigns were prosecuted separately: Shea and Cole in the Western District of Washington, and Denton in the Eastern District of Virginia.[^2]
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Shea pleaded guilty on April 7, 2021, to two counts: (1) conspiracy to commit three federal offenses (interference with federally-protected activities because of religion, mailing threatening communications, and cyberstalking) and (2) interference with a federally protected activity because of religion. On August 25, 2021, Judge John C. Coughenour sentenced him to 36 months in federal prison.
|
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDWA. "Leader of Atomwaffen Conspiracy Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Threatening Journalists and Advocates." August 25, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-atomwaffen-conspiracy-sentenced-3-years-prison-threatening-journalists-and
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-WDWA. "Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime and Conspiracy Charges." April 7, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-and-conspiracy-charges
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summary: "Charlie Sargent co-founded Combat 18 in 1992, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 for the stabbing death of Christopher Castle, and was publicly identified by ITV's World in Action and a Statewatch investigation as a Special Branch informant, though he never confirmed the allegation."
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Charlie Sargent co-founded [[Combat 18]] in 1992 and led the organisation through its most violent period of the mid-1990s, maintaining documented ties to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] and overseeing a brutal internal culture that ended in murder. He was convicted of the murder of [[Christopher Castle]] at [[Chelmsford Crown Court]] in January 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In the months following his conviction, an ITV documentary and multiple investigative reports identified him as a [[Special Branch]] informant, though no official confirmation has ever been provided and Sargent himself did not confirm the allegation.[^1]
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In early 1992, the [[British National Party]] formed Combat 18 as a stewarding group to protect its events from anti-fascists. The organisation's name refers to the initials of [[Adolf Hitler]] (A=1, H=8). Sargent was among the founding figures alongside [[Wilf Browning]]. C18 split from the BNP in 1993 when Sargent rejected the party's electoralist strategy in favour of open paramilitarism. Following the death of [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]], frontman of the neo-Nazi band [[Skrewdriver]] and Sargent's former flatmate, in a car crash in September 1993, C18 took control of [[Blood and Honour]], Donaldson's neo-Nazi music promotion network, and its affiliated label, [[ISD Records]]. Blood and Honour's lucrative white-power music business became a significant source of C18's income.[^2]
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C18 developed documented ties to the [[Ulster Defence Association]] during the early 1990s. Sargent was acquainted with [[Johnny Adair]], the UDA's [[Lower Shankill Road]] commander, who attended Combat 18 events in England. C18 provided manpower to counter demonstrations by Irish republican supporters and maintained weapon-related contacts with loyalist networks in [[Northern Ireland]]. According to a Statewatch investigation, the World in Action documentary that exposed Sargent as an informant reported that his information supplied to Special Branch related specifically to C18's UDA connections.[^3]
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C18 was also linked to a 1997 campaign in which parcel bombs were sent from Denmark to anti-fascist activists and celebrities in the United Kingdom. The Danish dimension connected C18 to the European neo-Nazi network around [[Blood and Honour Scandinavia]] and [[White Aryan Resistance]] networks on the continent.
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A factional dispute between Sargent and Browning emerged in the mid-1990s centred on control of the Blood and Honour music revenues and mutual accusations of police informing. The rival faction led by Browning sought Sargent's expulsion and demanded the return of the C18 membership list. The confrontation escalated fatally in October 1997 when [[Christopher Castle]], a [[Blood and Honour]] supporter acting as an intermediary between the two factions, went to Sargent's home. Sargent's associate [[Martin Cross]] stabbed Castle to death with a nine-inch knife in what the court described as "a violent and cowardly attack." Sargent was convicted as a principal in the murder. Both Sargent and Cross were convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment.[^1]
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Anti-fascist researchers had documented suspicious patterns in C18 from the early 1990s: following street clashes in central London, several senior C18 activists were observed being driven away in unmarked police cars.[^3] The allegations crystallised publicly in April 1998 when ITV's [[World in Action]] programme, "Playing with Fire," broadcast evidence of Sargent's role as a Special Branch informant. The timing placed the broadcast a few months after his January 1998 murder conviction.
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The programme presented two specific evidential items. First: during the planning of the 1997 Danish letter-bomb campaign, C18's leadership withheld an updated target list from Sargent because they suspected him of leaking information; an outdated version of the target list subsequently appeared in the press. An undercover police officer who had infiltrated C18 confirmed to the programme that the names could only have come from Sargent. Second: the programme showed that C18 was allowed to operate through its campaign of arson and terror attacks because Sargent was working for Special Branch and providing intelligence on the UDA's English mainland contacts.[^3]
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The historian and researcher [[Larry O'Hara]] of [[Notes From The Borderland]] has argued that the confirmed state asset in C18 was not Sargent but [[Darren Wells]] (alias McKenzie), who co-authored the C18 booklet with Browning and acknowledged in 2002 that he had been working as a Searchlight/Special Branch informant, handled through [[Nick Lowles]] of [[Searchlight Magazine]]. O'Hara's analysis holds that the genuine asset (Wells) helped create conditions of mutual suspicion between Browning and Sargent, in a dynamic consistent with the FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] disruption playbook, and that this suspicion was what escalated into the murder of Castle. On O'Hara's account, Sargent and Browning were both manipulated rather than either being a state agent themselves.[^4]
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The [[Observer]] newspaper's [[Henry Macdonald]] published an article on 5 April 1998 alleging that Sargent was a paid informer, adding to the documentary record. No evidence has been produced to definitively prove or disprove the allegation against Sargent personally. It has never been confirmed by any official body and Sargent has not spoken publicly about it.[^5]
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The Sargent informant question is directly relevant to the broader question of why [[David Myatt]], C18's attributed "ideological heavyweight," was never prosecuted for terrorism. If Sargent was indeed supplying Special Branch with intelligence on C18 and UDA activities, he would have reported on Myatt's role and activities within C18's circles throughout the mid-1990s. That reporting would constitute inadvertent documentation of Myatt's conduct by state agents with knowledge of events. The absence of any prosecution of Myatt despite that presumed intelligence record has not been officially explained. It may reflect a prosecutorial decision that the available evidence did not meet the standard for terrorism charges, or it may reflect operational considerations about which intelligence assets and methods would be exposed in a trial. The public record does not resolve the question.[^4]
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Sargent and Cross remained in prison following their life sentences. The C18 organisation fragmented after their convictions. Sargent's brother [[Steve Sargent]] remained in the neo-Nazi movement and co-founded the [[National Socialist Movement (UK, 1997)]] with [[David Myatt]] in June 1997, while Charlie Sargent's case was still proceeding through the courts.
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[^1]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leaders get 'life' for murder," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leaders-get-life-for-murder/
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[^2]: Lowles, Nick. *White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18.* Milo Books, 2001.
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[^3]: Statewatch. "UK: C18 leader was police informer," 1998. https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/uk-c18-leader-was-police-informer/
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[^4]: Notes From The Borderland (Larry O'Hara). "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes." https://borderland.co.uk/combat-18-mi5-some-background-notes/
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[^5]: Macdonald, Henry. "C18 leader 'was paid informer.'" Observer, 5 April 1998.
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[[Dylann Roof]] (born April 3, 1994, [[Lexington, South Carolina]]) killed nine Black parishioners at [[Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]] on June 17, 2015, during a Wednesday evening Bible study session. Roof had sat with the group for approximately an hour before opening fire. He was arrested the following morning in [[Shelby, North Carolina]], after a tip from a passing motorist who recognized him from surveillance footage. He was convicted in federal court on 33 counts including hate crimes and obstruction of religion, and in state court on nine counts of murder, and was sentenced to death in both proceedings. [[Brenton Tarrant]] explicitly cited Roof's attack as an inspiration in his 2019 Christchurch manifesto, beginning the documented chain of "saint" citations that runs through [[Payton Gendron]], [[Juraj Krajčík]], and [[Nikita Casap]].[^1]
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On June 17, 2015, Roof drove to Emanuel AME Church, one of the oldest and most historically prominent Black churches in the American South, and joined the mid-week Bible study group. After approximately an hour, he opened fire. The nine people killed were [[Clementa C. Pinckney]] (the church's senior pastor and a South Carolina state senator), [[Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd]], [[Susie Jackson]], [[Ethel Lee Lance]], [[Depayne Middleton Doctor]], [[Tywanza Sanders]], [[Daniel Simmons]], [[Sharonda Coleman-Singleton]], and [[Myra Thompson]].
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Roof stated to several survivors that he intended to start a race war and that Black people "were taking over the country." He allowed some individuals to survive the shooting explicitly so they could describe what happened.
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Roof described his radicalization in a manifesto he posted online in the months before the attack. He stated he had been radicalized by reading [[Council of Conservative Citizens]] material online, particularly fabricated and distorted statistics about interracial crime. His manifesto framed the attack as a necessary provocation: he believed a high-profile act of racial violence against Black people would trigger a violent white nationalist response and accelerate the collapse of multiracial American society.
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The manifesto described white South Africa as a model, cited historical grievances, and explicitly invoked the concept of white victimhood that characterizes much accelerationist writing. Roof did not identify with any specific organized movement before the attack and had no prior criminal record.
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In federal proceedings, Roof was convicted on 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. He subsequently waived his right to counsel and represented himself, continuing to deny the validity of the proceedings.
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South Carolina state court convicted him on nine counts of murder. He was sentenced to death on each count.[^2]
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Tarrant's 2019 Christchurch manifesto stated that Roof's attack had demonstrated the possibility of a lone individual shifting the political landscape through targeted violence. By naming Roof as an inspiration, Tarrant placed him retroactively within the "saint" framework that the Christchurch attack then formalized for the global accelerationist movement. The documented chain - Roof inspires Tarrant, Tarrant inspires Gendron, Gendron named as "final nudge" by Krajčík, Krajčík's writings cited by Casap - runs directly through the [[Terrorgram Collective]] prosecution record and into the most recent cases.[^3]
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[^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
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death for Federal Hate Crimes in Emanuel AME Church Shooting." January 2017. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dylann-roof-sentenced-death-federal-hate-crimes-emanuel-ame-church-shooting
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[^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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summary: "Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish community venues among his planned targets in Durham."
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Jack Reed, of Woodbine Terrace, New Brancepeth, County Durham, was convicted at [[Manchester Crown Court]] in November 2019 of six terrorism offences committed between October 2017 and March 2019, when he was aged 14 to 16. He was sentenced in January 2020 by Judge [[David Stockdale QC]], the former Recorder of Manchester, to six years and eight months' detention in a Young Offenders' Institute with a five-year extended licence, with the Parole Board prohibited from considering early release until he had served two-thirds of his sentence. Reed became one of the youngest persons convicted of terrorism offences in the United Kingdom at the time of his trial.
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Police searched Reed's family home in New Brancepeth and recovered a handwritten manifesto, which Reed had titled "Storm 88 - A Manual For Practical And Sensible Guerrilla Warfare Against The Kike System In The Durham City Area, Sieg Heil." The manifesto listed "areas to attack" in Durham, including schools, pubs, council buildings, and post offices, and outlined planned arson attacks on local synagogues using Molotov cocktails.[^1]
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An [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) symbol was hand-drawn in the manifesto. The prosecution described Reed's stated ideology as "occult neo-Nazism," making him one of the first UK terrorism defendants where a specific link to O9A was publicly cited in court proceedings.[^2]
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Computer and phone forensic analysis uncovered extensive internet searches on firearms, explosives, and knives, together with downloads of extreme right-wing material. Reed had described himself in writing as a "natural sadist" and expressed admiration for [[Adolf Hitler]].[^1]
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The six counts at conviction were: preparation of terrorist acts (section 5, [[Terrorism Act 2006]]); disseminating a terrorist publication (section 2, Terrorism Act 2006); possessing an article for a terrorist purpose (section 3, Terrorism Act 2006); and three counts of possessing a document containing information useful to a terrorist (section 58, [[Terrorism Act 2000]]).
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Judge Stockdale QC described Reed as "highly intelligent, widely read, quick-thinking and articulate" and told him it was "a matter of infinite regret that you pursued at such a young age a twisted and, many would say, a sick ideological path."[^3]
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On 23 December of the same year, Reed received a separate concurrent sentence: an 18-month Detention Training Order for five sexual assaults against a schoolgirl, run concurrently with the terrorism sentence already being served.[^3]
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Reed was initially subject to a reporting restriction order under section 45 of the [[Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999]], which prohibited identification. In January 2021, a judge rejected a bid to maintain his anonymity, and he was publicly named in media reports.[^4]
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Reed's case is among the most explicit in terms of the O9A symbol's direct presence in a terrorism evidence file. In the core eight cases [[HOPE not hate]] cited in its "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter (State of Hate 2020), Reed's case is described as involving a terror manual with an O9A symbol "hand-drawn" on it.[^5] This distinguishes his case from those where O9A links were inferred from associated materials rather than from documentary evidence within the charged terrorism material itself.
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Reed was not charged with O9A membership or any offence connected to O9A as an organisation; the O9A symbol in the manifesto was cited as evidence of ideological orientation rather than as a standalone charge.
|
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[^1]: Enfield Independent (PA). "Nazi terrorist named after judge rejects anonymity bid." 2021. https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/19002125.nazi-terrorist-named-judge-rejects-anonymity-bid/
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[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." *State of Hate 2020.* https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/
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[^3]: ITV News. "Teenage terrorist claims he was 'tipped off' about police raid." January 6, 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-01-06/teenage-terrorist-claims-he-was-tipped-off-about-police-raid; Far-Right Criminals. "Terror plot: Durham teenage neo-Nazi named as Jack Reed." January 12, 2021. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2021/01/12/terror-plot-durham-teenage-neo-nazi-named-as-jack-reed/
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[^4]: US Sun. "Boy who became UK's youngest terrorist at 16 with neo-Nazi plot unmasked after losing bid to keep anonymity." 2021. https://www.the-sun.com/news/2122465/teen-neo-nazi-durham-named-anonymity/
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[^5]: ISD Global. "The Order of Nine Angles." Explainer, August 2022. https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/the-order-of-nine-angles/
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summary: "Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents."
|
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[[Jarrett William Smith]] was a [[U.S. Army]] Specialist stationed at [[Fort Riley]], [[Kansas]] who was arrested on September 21, 2019 for distributing bomb-making instructions to undercover FBI agents. He was an admirer of [[Atomwaffen Division]] and a member of [[Feuerkrieg Division]], a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network. Online communications documented by investigators showed him discussing potential attacks on targets including presidential candidate [[Beto O'Rourke]] and [[CNN]] offices. He pled guilty on February 10, 2020 and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on August 19, 2020, by [[U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree]] in the [[District of Kansas]], case number 5:19-cr-40091-DDC.[^1]
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Smith communicated with undercover FBI agents posing as fellow extremists in an online chat group, using the moniker "Anti-Kosmik 2182." The FBI undercover engagement occurred on September 20, 2019, from Fort Riley, the day before his arrest. Over several months he distributed detailed instructions for constructing improvised explosive devices, including guidance on building car bombs. In online conversations he discussed attacking Beto O'Rourke, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination at the time, and discussed attacking CNN offices. He framed prospective violence in accelerationist terms consistent with [[Siege Culture|Siege-influenced]] ideology, treating mass casualty attacks as catalysts for societal collapse.
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Early news coverage reported that Smith had discussed these targets and used language indicating murder solicitation. These statements appeared in the criminal complaint affidavit but were not carried into the formal indictment or plea: the two-count indictment covered the IED and napalm instruction distribution, not the discussed attack planning. FBI agents arrested him at Fort Riley on September 21, 2019. He was still on active duty at the time of arrest.[^2]
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### Feuerkrieg Division Connection
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||||||
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[[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded in 2018, structured as a decentralized franchise operating through encrypted messaging applications. It recruited from AWD-adjacent online spaces and had documented members in the United States, United Kingdom, Estonia, and other countries. Smith's membership placed him in an international network of accelerationist cells operating simultaneously with the AWD prosecutions of 2018-2019. FKD's Estonian founder, a teenager known as "Commander," was identified by Estonian authorities in January 2020 but could not be criminally prosecuted due to his age (13); three other FKD members were convicted by a Harju County Court in January 2025 for membership in and recruitment for a terrorist organization.
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AWD membership or association was never charged as a separate count or element in Smith's case. DOJ press releases and [[Anti-Defamation League]] reporting describe Smith as "associated with" Feuerkrieg Division and as an AWD admirer, but no court document formally charged AWD membership. The FBI investigation centered on his FKD network activities.[^3]
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||||||
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Smith pled guilty on February 10, 2020 to two counts of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(p)(2)(A). The maximum sentence on each count was 20 years. On August 19, 2020, Judge Crabtree sentenced him to two concurrent 30-month terms in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, well below the statutory maximum. No terrorism enhancement was applied at sentencing, which accounts in part for the 30-month term. At sentencing, prosecutors described Smith as a "Satanist" and argued that his goal was to overthrow the U.S. government, drawing on Smith's broader ideological communications.[^4]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. "Army Soldier Pleads Guilty to Distributing Information About Explosives." February 10, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/army-soldier-pleads-guilty-distributing-information-about-explosives; United States v. Smith, 5:19-cr-40091-DDC (D. Kan. 2020).
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[^2]: ProPublica. "An Active-Duty Soldier Was Arrested for Allegedly Planning Terror Attacks." September 23, 2019. https://www.propublica.org/article/an-active-duty-soldier-was-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terror-attacks; CNBC. "US Army Soldier Arrested After Talking About Bombing News Network, Attacking Leftist Groups." September 23, 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/23/us-army-member-arrested-after-talking-about-bombing-news-network.html
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[^3]: ADL. "U.S. Army Specialist with Links to Neo-Nazi Group Pleads Guilty." February 2020. https://www.adl.org/resources/article/us-army-specialist-links-neo-nazi-group-pleads-guilty; ICSR. "Feuerkrieg Division: From Online Trolling to Real-World Violence." 2020. https://icsr.info/2020/01/feuerkrieg-division-from-online-trolling-to-real-world-violence/
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[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-D.Kan. "Former Fort Riley Soldier Sentenced For Distributing Info on Napalm, IEDs." August 19, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/former-fort-riley-soldier-sentenced-distributing-info-napalm-ieds; Kansas City Star. "Army soldier at Fort Riley who wanted to blow up CNN, kill Democrats sentenced to prison." August 19, 2020.
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[[Jeffrey Roussel]] (born approximately 2000, [[Quebec City]] area, [[Quebec]], Canada) was arrested on April 22, 2026 and charged with three counts under the terrorism provisions of the [[Criminal Code of Canada]] for operating and promoting a [[Telegram]] group that disseminated the violent ideology and content of the [[764 Network|764]] network. The arrest was conducted by the [[RCMP]]'s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET). Roussel's prosecution is among the first, and may be the first, under Canada's December 2025 formal designation of 764 as a terrorist entity.[^1]
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The charges relate to his alleged operation of a Telegram group through which he published and distributed graphic, violent, and highly disturbing content with the intent to inspire and recruit others to the 764 network. His documented victims were primarily teenagers.[^1]
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Canada designated 764 as a terrorist entity in December 2025, making it one of the few countries to formally classify the network as such. The December 2025 designation followed a series of international enforcement actions against 764 and [[The Com]] ecosystem in 2024-2025, including the U.S. federal indictment of [[Baron Cain Martin]] in October 2025 (which included a terrorism count) and the arrests of 764 Inferno leaders [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] and [[Prasan Nepal]] in April 2025.
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The RCMP press release explicitly cited Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation as the basis for bringing terrorism charges rather than the child exploitation and cybercrime statutes that had governed prior 764-related prosecutions in Canada. The Crown opposed bail at Roussel's initial hearing.[^2]
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[^1]: RCMP. "RCMP arrests man linked to violent extremist network 764." April 2026. https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2026/04/4352326; CBC News. "Quebec man faces terrorism charges linked to 764 violent extremism group." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-man-terrorism-charges-764-violent-extremism-9.7173346
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[^2]: Globe and Mail. "Quebec man arrested in connection with 764 terror group." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-764-terror-group-recruit-arrest/
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summary: "Joshua Caleb Sutter was a paid FBI informant from 2003 through at least 2021 whose handler directed him to infiltrate Atomwaffen Division while he simultaneously operated Martinet Press, publishing O9A texts that AWD required members to read."
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[[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] (born 1981, also known under the alias Wulfran Hall) is an American neo-Nazi, Satanist, and leader of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) American nexion [[Tempel ov Blood]], who was simultaneously a paid [[FBI]] informant from 2003 to at least 2021. During that period the FBI paid him more than $140,000 for work that included infiltrating [[Atomwaffen Division]] from the inside, while Sutter used those funds in part to operate [[Martinet Press]], a publishing house he ran with his wife [[Jillian Hoy]] that produced the O9A texts subsequently distributed to AWD members and, through [[Terrorgram]] channels, into the broader accelerationist radicalization ecosystem feeding the [[764 Network|764]] network. His identity as an FBI informant was publicly confirmed in 2021 through court documents obtained and published by investigative journalist [[Ali Winston]] in the federal case against Atomwaffen Division leader [[Kaleb Cole]].[^1]
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### Original Criminal Case
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Sutter was arrested on February 12, 2003, in [[Uwchlan Township]], Pennsylvania, by the [[Philadelphia JTTF|FBI's Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force]]. Undercover agents had met him in a parking lot and sold him a Glock 40 with a destroyed serial number and a separately charged unregistered silencer. This was a joint operation that simultaneously targeted [[David Wayne Hull]], the Imperial Wizard of the [[White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]], who was arrested the same day.[^2]
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The original criminal case is [[United States v. Sutter (2003)]], Crim. No. 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 ([[Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]), before Judge [[Eduardo C. Robreno]]. Sutter entered a not-guilty plea on March 27, 2003, then reversed to a guilty plea on May 14, 2003. Sentencing was held in August 2003. He was released from federal prison in 2004, reportedly early as a result of his agreement to cooperate.[^3]
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Sutter was born in 1981, the son of a white supremacist activist. He became involved in the Christian Identity movement and the far right at an early age. By the early 2000s he was serving as a Pennsylvania-area leader of [[Aryan Nations]], one of the most prominent neo-Nazi organizations in the United States at the time.
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### FBI Recruitment and Informant Work
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During or shortly after his 2003 arrest, Sutter agreed to become an FBI informant. He served a brief period of federal prison time in Georgia, then was released early in 2004 as a direct result of his cooperation. At trial in September 2021, Sutter testified under oath about his recruitment. His exact words, as obtained by USA TODAY from trial transcripts: "It was proposed that I could act in a deep-cover capacity. I was instructed to continue the relationships that I had in the right wing."[^4] This language confirms that the FBI did not retask him out of the far right; it explicitly directed him to maintain and deepen those relationships.
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His primary FBI handler was Special Agent [[Bill Moser]] of the [[FBI Columbia Field Office]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]]. Moser directed Sutter to join [[Atomwaffen Division]] and later directed his participation in AWD events including the [[2018 AWD Death Valley Hate Camp]] (February 2018) and the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] (September 2019).[^5] Rolling Stone reporting confirmed Moser as handler. No other named FBI agents associated with Sutter's informant work have been publicly confirmed.
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From 2003 to at least 2021, Sutter received a total of more than $140,000 from the FBI, including $78,133.20 plus an expense advance of $4,378.60 beginning February 7, 2018, a period that court documents in the Cole case noted "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole" and the broader Atomwaffen Division probe.[^1]
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### Prior Operations: Aryan Nations and the North Korea Front
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Sutter's informant history before the AWD period involved two distinct operational strands.
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The first was within Aryan Nations. Sutter had served as the "Minister for Islamic Liaison" for Aryan Nations, a role in which he claimed to pursue alliances with international Islamist movements. After his 2003 conviction, he was positioned to report on [[August Kreis III]], then director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction. Sutter and Kreis worked together out of Sutter's Lexington home. According to contemporaneous reporting, Sutter talked Kreis into publicly pledging support to [[al-Qaeda]], a stunt that drew FBI investigation to Kreis.[^2] Kreis was subsequently charged in 2011 with VA benefits fraud (collecting nearly $193,000 in military pension benefits he was not eligible to receive) and sentenced to six months served in [[U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina|U.S. District Court in Columbia, S.C.]][^6]
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The second strand was the [[Rural People's Party]] (RPP), a pro-[[North Korea|DPRK]]/[[Juche]] front group that Sutter founded and ran from his Lexington home. The RPP promoted North Korea, idolized the [[Kim dynasty]], and distributed DPRK propaganda. According to secondary reporting, the FBI purchased Sutter's family home and used it as the base for this operation, which was directed at surveilling and targeting pro-DPRK Americans.[^7] Sutter was also described as the main propagandist for the [[Songun Politics Study Group USA]], a separate DPRK-affiliated network, before later migrating to [[Hindu esotericism]] and then to O9A.[^5]
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### Tempel ov Blood and Martinet Press
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After his 2004 release, Sutter married Jillian Hoy, who served as director of Martinet Press, a publishing house specializing in occult neo-Nazi literature. Through Martinet Press, Sutter authored and published the central texts of the American O9A tradition, including:
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*[[Iron Gates]]* (2014, 406 pp.): A novel set seventy years after a nuclear war, depicting a gang of Satanists committing acts of extreme violence including infanticide, cannibalism, rape, sodomy, torture, and pedophilia, framed as spiritual instruction for O9A adherents. The book is available in its full text through the Internet Archive. It became required reading for Atomwaffen Division members under [[John Cameron Denton]] and was distributed through Terrorgram channels into the broader accelerationist network.[^8]
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*Liber 333*: An O9A text published by Martinet Press.
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*Bluebird*: An O9A text published by Martinet Press.
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Sutter used FBI informant payments to fund Martinet Press operations. The financial flow, as documented through the Cole court filings, means that the U.S. government materially subsidized the production and distribution of the O9A texts that radicalized Atomwaffen Division members and, through the subsequent distribution pipeline, contributed to the broader accelerationist ecosystem.[^1]
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Whether the FBI explicitly authorized founding Tempel ov Blood and operating Martinet Press has not been confirmed in any available public document. The FBI declined to comment on Sutter's publishing activities when asked by Rolling Stone.[^5]
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### Infiltrating Atomwaffen Division
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Sutter joined Atomwaffen Division in the spring of 2017, operating under the online alias "swissdiscipline." His entry into AWD came after AWD's Texas leader Denton, fascinated by Tempel ov Blood's combination of National Socialism and Satanic occultism, invited ToB members into the group. Sutter rapidly became an important figure within AWD's leadership structure, and through him, at least nine Tempel ov Blood members held key positions in the organization at the peak of this relationship.[^5]
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Sutter attended AWD's "Hate Camp" paramilitary training sessions in 2017 and 2018. These camps combined firearms training, physical conditioning, and ideological instruction. He organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in Las Vegas, Nevada in September 2019, AWD's national leadership gathering, using his FBI-provided funds to cover member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], the author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented in-person appearance with AWD at the Nuclear Congress, delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks.[^5]
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Denton made Sutter's books (*Iron Gates*, *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members. The ideological shift provoked substantial internal controversy: members who had joined AWD as National Socialists objected to the incorporation of Satanism, and several left the group. Those who remained were exposed to the O9A framework in which murder was construed as spiritual service and transgressive violence as a form of initiatory development.
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### The Cole Case and Public Revelation
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||||||
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Sutter's identity as an FBI informant was first publicly established through documents obtained by journalist Ali Winston from federal court proceedings in the case against Kaleb Cole in [[United States v. Shea et al.]], 2:20-cr-00032 ([[Western District of Washington|W.D. Wash.]]), before Judge [[John C. Coughenour]]. Motion-to-suppress filings in the Cole case described a confidential informant without using Sutter's name, but the details were sufficiently specific that identification was apparent to those familiar with the AWD network.[^1]
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The Cole defense motion, filed August 13, 2021, established the following payment structure from court-disclosed figures:
|
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- Specific amount from February 7, 2018 onward: $78,133.20 in direct payments plus an expense advance of $4,378.60
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- The motion noted that the February 7, 2018 start date "almost entirely coincides with his work on the investigation into Mr. Cole" and the broader AWD probe
|
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The [[2018 AWD Death Valley Hate Camp]] took place February 2018, the same month the intensified payment period began. Photographs obtained during the investigation confirmed Sutter attended under his alias "swissdiscipline."[^9]
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||||||
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Cole was convicted September 2021 and sentenced to 84 months in January 2022.
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||||||
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||||||
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### The Suppression Motion and Government Response
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||||||
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||||||
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Cole's defense argued that the search warrant affidavit was defective under the doctrine established in [[Franks v. Delaware]] (1978) because it failed to disclose the CI's criminal history and paid status. The motion described the CI, without naming Sutter, as: "a convicted felon and currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings." It further stated: "The CI began his long career as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer."[^10]
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||||||
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||||||
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The DOJ's response acknowledged the deficiency but contested its legal significance: "Although the defense is correct that certain potential impeachment information about the informant was not included in the affidavit, that omission is hardly fatal."[^10] Judge Coughenour sided with the government: "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."[^11] The motion was denied without a Franks hearing.
|
||||||
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||||||
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Critically, neither the government's brief nor the judge's ruling addressed whether the FBI authorized or was aware of Sutter's operation of Martinet Press during the informant period. The revelation provoked immediate controversy. Critics from the far right charged that the FBI had effectively subsidized the radicalization of AWD through Sutter's continued operation of Martinet Press. Critics from civil libertarians and researchers argued the FBI had failed to adequately supervise an informant who was simultaneously producing extremist material while being paid to gather intelligence on extremist networks. From the government's perspective, Sutter's informant work was credited as "instrumental in the prosecutions" against Atomwaffen Division members.[^1]
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||||||
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|
||||||
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### Downstream Prosecution: the NSO / Suzuki Case
|
||||||
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||||||
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After AWD rebranded as [[National Socialist Order]] (NSO) in July 2020, Sutter's alias "swissdiscipline" continued to appear in the group's encrypted communications. In 2022, these records contributed to the prosecution of [[Aubrey Sakai Suzuki]], 21, of [[Nesbit, Mississippi]], who had posted on an NSO website about killing Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ people and "blowing up the system." Suzuki pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, in the Northern District of Mississippi, to one count of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.[^12] The Suzuki case represents a confirmed downstream prosecution in which Sutter's active informant presence inside the group generated a prosecutable lead.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### FBI Authorization of Publishing Activities: What the Record Shows
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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The public record on whether the FBI explicitly authorized Sutter's Martinet Press operations is as follows:
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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- The court documents describe him as "currently" operating a publishing company distributing white supremacist writings, present tense, during his active informant period
|
||||||
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- The government's suppression brief did not contest this characterization and did not assert that the publishing activities were authorized
|
||||||
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- Judge Coughenour's ruling did not address the publishing activities
|
||||||
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- The FBI declined to comment when asked by Rolling Stone whether it knew about or approved Sutter's publishing role
|
||||||
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- No document in the public record shows explicit FBI authorization of Martinet Press
|
||||||
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- No document shows an explicit FBI prohibition on the publishing activities
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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The gap between these two absences, no authorization and no prohibition, is the unresolved core of the legal and political accountability question. Rolling Stone cited journalist [[Jake Hanrahan]] on this point: "to not check in on the material he's publishing, which promotes murdering children and pedophilia, that's not doing your fucking job."[^5]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### Congressional Oversight
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
No congressional committee, senator, or representative has filed a formal oversight letter, held a hearing, or made any indexed floor statement specifically demanding that the FBI account for its informant relationship with Sutter or its concurrent funding of Martinet Press. The 117th Congress (2021-2022) Judiciary Committee's FBI oversight hearings do not reference Sutter, Martinet Press, or the Cole case. This absence appears to be genuine rather than a search artifact.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Sutter was not charged with any crime connected to his Martinet Press activities following the 2021 revelation of his informant status. Rolling Stone's 2022 follow-up noted: "Joshua Sutter, the FBI informant and leading O9A proselytizer, is a free man and still selling Satanist books."[^13]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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### Footnotes
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^1]: 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/; Ali Winston (journalist). August 2021. https://x.com/awinston/status/1429086087830515717
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^2]: Religion News Blog / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Federal investigators infiltrate extremist groups." February 2003. https://www.religionnewsblog.com/2476/federal-investigators-infiltrate-extremist-groups
|
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|
||||||
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[^3]: United States v. Sutter, 2:03-cr-00158-ER-1 (E.D. Pa., Judge Eduardo C. Robreno). CourtListener docket 8143981. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8143981/united-states-v-sutter/
|
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|
||||||
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[^4]: Trial testimony of Joshua Sutter, United States v. Shea et al., 2:20-cr-00032 (W.D. Wash.), September 2021. DocumentCloud document 22056395. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22056395-trial-testimony-of-joshua-sutter/ Quote also reproduced in Yahoo News / USA TODAY, September 2021.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^5]: Winston, Ali. "The Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2021. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^6]: SPLC Hatewatch. "Neo-Nazi Leader August Kreis Sentenced for Fraud." December 2011. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-leader-august-kreis-sentenced-fraud/
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^7]: Secondary reporting aggregated from multiple sources including TRAC Insight and archived blog reporting. No primary document confirms the FBI purchased Sutter's home; the claim appears in secondary sources but has not been confirmed in court filings.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^8]: Internet Archive. *Iron Gates* (Tempel ov Blood / Martinet Press, 2014). https://archive.org/details/tempel-ov-blood-iron-gates-text
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^9]: Pahrump Valley Times. "Neo-Nazi group conducts weapons training near Death Valley." 2018. https://pvtimes.com/uncategorized/neo-nazi-group-conducts-weapons-training-near-death-valley/
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^10]: Defense motion to suppress and government response, 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
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^11]: Order Denying Motion to Suppress, United States v. Cole, Case No. CR20-0032-JCC (W.D. Wash., August 30, 2021). Leagle.com: infdco20210901708.
|
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|
||||||
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[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NDMS. "Nesbit Man Sentenced To Prison for Racist Threats." October 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/nesbit-man-sentenced-prison-racist-threats
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|
||||||
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[^13]: Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," *Rolling Stone,* 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/
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|
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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summary: "Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the lead federal prosecutor on 764 Network terrorism cases, including the first-ever terrorism charge against a 764 member in United States v. Martin."
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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||||||
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|
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Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney assigned to the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] National Security Division's [[Counterterrorism Section]], where he has served as the lead government attorney on the [[764 Network]] prosecution portfolio, including the prosecution of [[Baron Cain Martin]] in [[United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190)|United States v. Martin]], 4:25-cr-00190-TUC-AMM(BGM), D. Ariz., the first federal case in which a 764 member was charged under a terrorism statute.
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Sher's involvement spans multiple 764 and [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism]] (NVE) federal prosecutions across districts, coordinated through the [[National Security Division]] in Washington. Alongside [[James Donnelly]], who serves as DOJ's designated NVE domestic terrorism coordinator, Sher represents the National Security Division's institutional investment in treating 764 not as a child exploitation enterprise but as a terrorist network subject to the full range of national security charging tools.
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In the Martin indictment, Sher advanced the theory that [[18 U.S.C. § 2339A]] (conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists) is available against 764 operators without any [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] designation from the State Department, by anchoring the charge to an [[18 U.S.C. § 956|18 U.S.C. § 956(a)]] conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located outside the United States.[^1]
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Sher was also the attorney of record on the [[United States v. Nepal]] and [[United States v. Varagiannis]] prosecutions (D.D.C., case 1:25-cr-00304), which charged [[764 Inferno]] leaders [[Prasan Nepal]] and [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] with participating in a child exploitation enterprise and related offenses but did not include terrorism counts.[^2]
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At a panel hosted by the [[GWU Program on Extremism]] on December 18, 2025, titled "Holding 764 Accountable," Sher described 764's stated objective as "to cause the downfall of society, cause the downfall of the U.S. government," and characterized the network's ideology as a desire for "a Darwinian society, one that is survival of the fittest." He stated that the conduct documented in 764 cases was so extreme that "I don't think Stephen King is dark enough to come up with some of the stuff that these kids are coming up with."[^3]
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In a subsequent appearance cited by [[ABC News]], Sher and Donnelly together offered what were described as "rare public comments" for career DOJ prosecutors, characterizing 764 as a threat equal in seriousness to any the department had faced, and noting that network members are increasingly directing victims toward mass-casualty attacks including school shootings.[^3]
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[^1]: 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/
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
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[^3]: ABC News. "In rare public comments, career DOJ officials offer chilling warnings about online network 764." 2026. https://abcnews.com/US/rare-public-comments-career-doj-officials-offer-chilling/story?id=128526657; GWU Program on Extremism. "Holding 764 Accountable." December 18, 2025. https://extremism.gwu.edu/holding-764-accountable
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summary: "Kristopher Erik Nippak is an East York, Ontario Terrorgram Collective and Atomwaffen Division member arrested December 8, 2023, charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, and awaiting a judge-alone trial scheduled to begin in Toronto in January 2026."
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[[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] of [[East York, Ontario]] was arrested on December 8, 2023, alongside [[Matthew Althorpe]] of Thorold, Ontario, following an 18-month [[RCMP]] investigation that covered alleged offenses dating from April 2018 through the arrest date. Nippak faces one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group under the Criminal Code of Canada in connection with his creation of propaganda videos for [[Atomwaffen Division]] and manifestos for the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was granted bail (with conditions) following initial detention, in contrast to Althorpe, who was denied bail twice. A judge-alone trial in Toronto was scheduled to begin in January 2026.[^1]
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The RCMP investigation covered alleged offenses beginning in April 2018, corresponding to the early period of both AWD's international expansion and the pre-Terrorgram accelerationist Telegram ecosystem. Prosecutors presented the court with manifestos, videos, thumbnails, photos, and documents contained on hard drives seized from Althorpe's computer during the investigation, with Nippak's alleged contributions to that shared material base forming the basis of his participation charge.
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Specifically, Nippak was alleged to have participated in the creation of recruiting videos for Atomwaffen Division and in the creation of a series of manifestos and terrorism manuals for the Terrorgram Collective. The reference to AWD videos placed his alleged conduct in the pre-Terrorgram period (2018-2019) through the Terrorgram publication era (2021-2022).
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Separately from the terrorism case, investigative reporting by Vice World News exposed Nippak as a significant figure within [[Active Club Canada]], the Canadian branch of the far-right physical fitness and organizing network associated with American white nationalist Robert Rundo. Nippak traveled extensively to network with European white nationalist organizations and Active Club chapters. This public exposure preceded his arrest.
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The RCMP charged Nippak with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, significantly fewer charges than the eight-count indictment facing Althorpe. Nippak's bail was contested on multiple grounds. Unlike Althorpe, who was detained pending trial after two denied bail applications, Nippak was ultimately granted bail with conditions.
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Nippak elected to proceed by judge-alone trial rather than jury. A six-week judge-alone trial in Toronto was scheduled to begin in January 2026. As of May 2026, no verdict had been reported.[^2]
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[^1]: CBC News. "Ontario men arrested on terrorism charges linked to neo-Nazi movement." December 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-terror-charges-1.7053162; Global News. "2 Ontario men accused of belonging to neo-Nazi terrorism group." December 2023. https://globalnews.ca/news/10157791/ontario-terrorism-charges/
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[^2]: Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Alleged Canadian Terrorgram Author Denied Bail On Terrorism Charges For A Second Time." https://www.antihate.ca/alleged_canadian_terrorgram_author_denied_bail_terrorism_charges_for_a_second_time; Canadian Anti-Hate Network. "Alleged Terrorgram Author Will Remain In Detention While Co-Accused Granted Bail." https://www.antihate.ca/alleged_terrorgram_author_remain_detention_atomwaffen; Scribd. "Charges Against Althorpe and Nippak." https://www.scribd.com/document/690868778/Charging-documents-Kristoffer-Nippak-and-Mathew-Althorpe
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summary: "Kyle William Spitze, alias 'Criminal,' is a Maryville, Tennessee 764/Harm Nation member who pleaded guilty in December 2024 in the Eastern District of Tennessee to CSAM production and animal crushing charges, facing 30 years to life at sentencing."
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[[Kyle Spitze|Kyle William Spitze]], known online as "Criminal" and "CRIMINALOLI," is a 26-year-old resident of [[Maryville, Tennessee]] (Blount County) who was a member of both the [[764 Network]] and its splinter group [[Harm Nation]]. He is the most publicly documented Harm Nation prosecution as of mid-2026. Spitze pleaded guilty on December 16, 2024, before U.S. District Judge [[Thomas A. Varlan]] in the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee]] (Knoxville) to federal charges of producing child pornography, distributing animal crushing videos, and possessing child sexual abuse material.[^1]
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Spitze operated across [[Telegram]] and related platforms under aliases including "Criminal" and "CRIMINALOLI," using these handles within 764 and Harm Nation spaces to produce, distribute, and receive child sexual abuse material.
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Court documents describe two categories of conduct. In the first, Spitze shared sexual videos of young children to a Telegram channel; some of these videos included variations of his online username written in blood or carved onto the bodies of minor victims. In the second, Spitze filmed the mutilation of a chicken in a bathtub, with the animal's intestines arranged to spell out his username, and distributed this content as "animal crushing" material within the network.
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Spitze was held in custody pending proceedings.
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On December 16, 2024, Spitze entered a guilty plea before Judge [[Thomas A. Varlan]] to Counts 1, 6, 7, and 8 (one production count, all three animal crushing distribution counts, and the possession count). Counts 2, 3, 4, and 5 were dropped pursuant to the plea agreement.
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The two production of child pornography counts carry a statutory sentencing range of 15 to 30 years each. The plea agreement subjects Spitze to a potential aggregate sentence of 30 years to life in federal prison, plus mandatory supervision restrictions.[^2]
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A sentencing hearing before Judge Varlan was scheduled for January 8, 2026, then cancelled by court order signed December 23, 2025. No new sentencing date had been publicly set as of mid-2026. The case docket is United States v. Spitze-TV1, 3:24-cr-00025 (E.D. Tenn.).
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### Father's Prosecution
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Spitze's father, [[Michael W. Spitze]], 60, of [[Maryland]], was separately charged in connection with the case. Michael Spitze contacted a 12-year-old victim of his son's crimes and sent her a message reading "Please delete anything you think might not help him. And encourage anyone else to delete in his behalf," constituting witness tampering. He pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a witness. His sentencing before the United States District Court in Knoxville was scheduled for May 20, 2026.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: WBIR. "Blount Co. man signs plea deal after being accused of violent, sexual crimes against children." December 2024. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/kyle-spitze-pleads-guilty-blount-county/51-f6ba606c-479d-4c74-aa11-bf839732a437; Ali Winston / X. March 21, 2024. https://x.com/awinston/status/1770949384538087652
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[^2]: CourtListener. "United States v. Spitze-TV1, 3:24-cr-00025, Eastern District of Tennessee." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68361688/united-states-v-spitze-tv1/; The Daily Times (Maryville, TN). "Federal judge reschedules Spitze sentencing hearing." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/federal-judge-reschedules-spitze-sentencing-hearing/article_ca8a75c8-8325-48a4-91c1-be09520f478f.html
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[^3]: WBIR. "Dad who tried to get child victim to delete evidence against his son faces May sentencing." 2026. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/dad-who-tried-to-help-blount-co-son-accused-in-online-sex-case-reaches-plea-agreement-with-feds/51-57106d7b-af46-46a8-9b71-e6f7ede631d9; The Daily Times. "Michael Spitze joins son in facing federal charges." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/michael-spitze-joins-son-in-facing-federal-charges/article_f16ca3f7-7058-4315-a7c1-22be4092a50f.html
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|
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
summary: "Michael Szewczuk was a 19-year-old Leeds resident who co-founded the Sonnenkrieg Division and was sentenced in June 2019 to four years and three months at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism and possessing terrorist manuals including imagery targeting Prince Harry as a 'race traitor' for execution."
|
||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
Michael Szewczuk, 19, of Leeds, West Yorkshire, was a co-founder of [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD), the British neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation that emerged from the post-proscription milieu of [[National Action]] and was modelled on [[Atomwaffen Division]] with explicit [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) philosophical content incorporated into its ideology. He was sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] on 18 June 2019 by Judge [[Rebecca Poulet QC]] to four years and three months in a Young Offenders' Institute after pleading guilty to seven terrorism offences.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Offences
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Szewczuk operated a personal account on the [[Gab]] social media platform under a pseudonym and shared administrative control of SKD's Gab page. He pleaded guilty to:
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Two counts of encouraging terrorism under section 1 of the [[Terrorism Act 2006]].
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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Five counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist under section 58 of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], including the White Resistance Manual and the Al Qaeda Manual.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Gab content Szewczuk produced and posted included an image of [[Prince Harry]], Duke of Sussex, with a gun to his head on a blood-spattered background, captioned to identify the Duke as a "race traitor" who should be shot because of his relationship with [[Meghan Markle]]. Other content glorified [[Anders Behring Breivik]], the Norwegian mass murderer responsible for the 2011 [[Utoya]] and Oslo attacks that killed 77 people, and included material calling for ethnic cleansing.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Sentencing Remarks
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Judge Rebecca Poulet QC, sentencing both Szewczuk and [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]] on the same day, described the content as "abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts."[^2]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Sonnenkrieg Division and O9A
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] after his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN), incorporating O9A philosophy heavily into SKD's ideological framework. Szewczuk's role was as a co-founder and Gab operator. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD under the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2019, after Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski had been charged but before their sentencing.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^1]: Washington Post. "Two British teens just convicted for promoting far-right terrorism online." June 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/18/two-british-teens-just-convicted-promoting-far-right-terrorism-online/; CNN. "Far-right teen who branded Prince Harry 'race traitor' jailed for four years." June 18, 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/uk/teenager-szewczuk-prince-harry-jailed-far-right-extremism-terrorism-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[^2]: HOPE not hate. "Jailed neo-Nazi Satanists were a legacy of National Action." June 18, 2019. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2019/06/18/jailed-neo-nazi-satanists-legacy-national-action/; Yorkshire Post. "Far-right Leeds extremist jailed for 'abhorrent' post branding Prince Harry a 'race traitor'." 2019. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/far-right-leeds-extremist-jailed-for-abhorrent-post-branding-prince-harry-a-race-traitor-479920
|
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||||||
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|
||||||
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category: "Authors & Journalists"
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- Accelerationism
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- StopHateBrasil
|
||||||
|
location: "Bahia, Brazil"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher and founder of the NGO Stop Hate Brasil who since 2022 has monitored Terrorgram Collective channels operating in Brazil, submitted reports to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice, and documented the online radicalization pipeline connected to the wave of Brazilian school attacks from 2022 onward."
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher based in [[Bahia]] and the founder of [[Stop Hate Brasil]], a non-governmental organization focused on combating far-right online extremism in Brazil. She also serves on a voluntary consulting basis to Brazilian public security agencies, civil society groups, and the federal government on online extremism prevention. She has received support from the [[Social Change Initiative]] and has collaborated with Brazilian federal institutions including [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]].[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Stop Hate Brasil
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Stop Hate Brasil (also written Stop Hate Brazil) is a Brazilian NGO founded by Prado to identify, document, and counter far-right extremist content on social media platforms, with particular focus on the radicalization of children and adolescents. By 2024, Prado had documented more than 40 violent incidents in Brazilian school settings with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. Stop Hate Brasil's research found that at least two [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels operating in Brazil had been created by adolescents, pointing to the network's exploitation of youth as both targets and participants in its infrastructure.[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### 2023 ABIN Report
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In 2023, Prado submitted a formal report to ABIN and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil. The report documented the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym, used by an as-yet-unidentified individual who posted surveillance footage from the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] to a major Terrorgram channel approximately two days after the attack and who contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," a core Terrorgram propaganda publication. The report also documented channels linked to [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]], subsequently designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) by the US government in January 2025.[^2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Terrorgram Monitoring
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Prado documented that [[Terrorgram Collective]] had been operating in Brazil since approximately 2021 or 2022. Her analysis identified the network's use of mainstream platforms including gaming environments such as [[Roblox]], [[Fortnite]], and [[Minecraft]] as entry points for recruitment, with extremist content introduced via YouTube algorithmic recommendations adjacent to gaming content. She noted the network's "ironic" use of Nazi and fascist memes as a normalization strategy targeting youth audiences. This methodology was subsequently corroborated by the Lancet Regional Health (Americas) analysis published in March 2024 and by GNET's November 2024 assessment of the Brazilian accelerationist landscape.[^2][^3]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
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[^1]: Social Change Initiative. "Michele Prado." https://www.socialchangeinitiative.com/michele-prado
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[^2]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/; 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/
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[^3]: 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
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||||||
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||||||
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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- NVE
|
||||||
|
- TerrorgramCollective
|
||||||
|
- TrueCrimeCommunity
|
||||||
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- SaintsCulture
|
||||||
|
- Wisconsin
|
||||||
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- USA
|
||||||
|
- MassShooter
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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summary: "Natalie Rupnow was a 15-year-old Madison, Wisconsin student who killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in December 2024 before dying by suicide, having radicalized through WatchPeopleDie, 764-affiliated, and Terrorgram-adjacent content."
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[[Natalie Lynn Rupnow]] (also called "Samantha" in some accounts; born November 7, 2009, [[Madison, Wisconsin]]) attacked Abundant Life Christian School in Madison on December 16, 2024, 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 while being transported to hospital. She was 15 years old. Investigators recovered a manifesto titled "War Against Humanity" from her home describing humanity as "filth" and expressing admiration for past mass shooters. The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) documented that her radicalization pathway ran from the WatchPeopleDie gore website through 764-affiliated and [[Terrorgram Collective]]-adjacent content. She had joined the [[Telegram]] group that [[Arda Küçükyetim]] created to livestream his August 2024 Eskisehir mosque stabbing. Her account on the WatchPeopleDie website traced to June 2023, the same month that Nashville's [[2025 Antioch High School Shooting|Antioch High School]] shooter [[Solomon Henderson]] created his own account on the same platform; the two had followed each other on [[X (Twitter)|X]].[^1]
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Investigators and ISD researchers documented that Rupnow held 16 social media accounts, nearly all containing references to past mass shooters. The ISD classified her primarily as a [[Nihilistic Violent Extremism|nihilistic violent extremist]] motivated by participation in 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.
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Her documented extremist network engagements included the WatchPeopleDie gore website (joined June 2023), 764-affiliated content, and a Telegram group connected to Küçükyetim's August 2024 Eskisehir attack livestream, which was itself affiliated with Terrorgram Collective. The ADL documented that her radicalization pathway ran from WatchPeopleDie through white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic online spaces.
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The shared June 2023 WatchPeopleDie registration dates and mutual follow between Rupnow and [[Solomon Henderson]] placed both individuals in the same online milieu approximately 18 months before their respective attacks. 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 them.[^2]
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The attack occurred in a mixed-grade study hall at Abundant Life Christian School during school hours on December 16, 2024. Rupnow 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. Six students and one teacher sustained additional wounds beyond the two who were killed.
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Two students were hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Rupnow died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to hospital.
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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.
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Rupnow's mother died of an apparent suicide following the shooting.[^3]
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[^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/; ADL. "From Gore to Hate: How WatchPeopleDie Serves as a Gateway to Extremism." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/gore-hate-how-watchpeopledie-serves-gateway-extremism
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[^2]: PBS Wisconsin. "Madison and Nashville school shooters appear to have crossed paths in online extremist communities." https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/madison-and-nashville-school-shooters-appear-to-have-crossed-paths-in-online-extremist-communities/; Raw Story. "Horrifying website revealed as gateway that linked school shooters." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/watchpeopledie-teen-school-shooters-both-used-gateway-gore-site-new-report-warns/
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[^3]: 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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summary: "Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses."
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[[Prasan Nepal]], known online as "Trippy," (born approximately 2005, [[High Point, North Carolina]]) co-led [[764 Inferno]] alongside [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] ("War"), directing the subgroup's child exploitation enterprise against minor victims across multiple jurisdictions. Nepal was arrested in High Point on April 22, 2025, eight days before the [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] announced charges against both defendants on April 30, 2025 in the [[District of Columbia]]. The charges include production and distribution of [[CSAM]], coercion and enticement of minors, extortion, and conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise. He faces a potential life sentence in federal prison. He was also named as a co-conspirator in the October 2025 federal indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in the District of Arizona.[^1]
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Nepal and Varagiannis co-led 764 Inferno's operations using [[The Com]] ecosystem's coercive methods: grooming vulnerable young people through encrypted applications, coercing victims into producing explicit and degrading material through psychological manipulation and threats, ordering self-harm documentation ("cut signs" and "blood signs" - photographs of victims cutting symbols into their own skin), and building "Lorebooks" - curated collections of victim abuse content that functioned as internal currency and status markers within the [[764 Network]]. DOJ documents confirmed at least 8 minor victims, some as young as 13, across multiple jurisdictions.
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise; Carolina Journal. "High Point man charged with operating international child exploitation network." April 2025. https://www.carolinajournal.com/high-point-man-charged-with-operating-international-child-exploitation-network/
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summary: "Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation."
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[[Rinaldo Nazzaro]], operating under the alias "Norman Spear," is a New Jersey-born American who worked in U.S. government intelligence and national security roles before founding [[The Base]] in 2018. He built the network as a clandestine paramilitary organization explicitly modeled on jihadist cell structures, using encrypted platforms to recruit, vet, and organize members across the United States and internationally, while directing operations from [[St. Petersburg, Russia]]. His identity remained publicly unknown until January 2020, when The Guardian published an investigation identifying him as Nazzaro following the FBI's first wave of arrests of Base members. He has not been publicly charged in the United States as of 2026.[^1]
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Nazzaro was born in 1973 or 1974 and raised in [[New Jersey]]. He attended [[Delbarton School]], a Catholic preparatory school in Morristown, NJ, graduating in 1991. He enrolled at [[Villanova University]] as a philosophy major in 1991 and withdrew before graduating in 1994, using the name Ronald Nazzaro in university records. In 1999, he completed an internship at the [[National Defense Council Foundation]], a Washington, D.C., defense policy organization. He held an address in North Bergen, NJ, and later a New York City address associated with his contracting firm. In 2012 he married a Russian national. He relocated to Russia with his family in 2017 or 2018 and obtained Russian citizenship in approximately 2017.[^18]
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The [[Department of Homeland Security]] confirmed that Nazzaro worked within DHS Intelligence Analysis from 2004 to 2006, coordinating anti-terrorism initiatives. A departmental letter on record thanks him for his "personal work" on DHS Intelligence Analysis operations. The [[U.S. Marine Corps]] issued a letter recognizing his work as an intelligence professional, crediting him with "impressive understanding of the insurgency in [[Afghanistan]]" and responsibility for thirteen enemy casualties.
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Nazzaro also claimed, in encrypted communications later obtained by investigators, that he completed "multiple tours in [[Iraq]] and Afghanistan over five years" as a private contractor, working at [[Victory Base Complex]] near [[Baghdad]] Airport and [[Camp Speicher]] in northern Iraq, and that he served as "a targeteer" who "did target packages" and "supported deliberate clearing ops." He described himself as having briefed special forces officers on military targeting and counterterrorism in 2014 in connection with [[Special Operations Command]] (SOCOM). The Pentagon declined to confirm the SOCOM claim when queried.[^3]
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Before moving to Russia, Nazzaro registered a company in [[New York]] called [[Omega Solutions International]], described in its own marketing as offering access to "a network of security professionals" with expertise in intelligence, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations; the company was cleared by the federal government for defense contracting. After responses to The Guardian's investigation, Nazzaro stated: "I can neither confirm nor deny my work experience."[^3]
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Nazzaro operated a New York limited liability company called [[Omega Solutions International]] LLC, doing business as OSI Division, from at least 2009. The company was registered in [[New York]] and holds state entity number 3860294 in the NY Department of State database. OSI obtained federal [[Commercial and Government Entity]] (CAGE) code 61PL9 on June 24, 2010, and maintained a [[System for Award Management]] (SAM) vendor profile under [[DUNS]] number 962794702. The company's address was 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite N230, New York, NY 10001. Nazzaro registered OSI as a foreign entity in the [[District of Columbia]] as well.
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OSI marketed a proprietary software product called [[WATCHTOWER]], described in its [[USPTO]] trademark filing (serial number 86974351, registration number 5370774) as "downloadable cloud-based and client-based server software for providing unified operational intelligence awareness to command centers and intelligence analysts via automated information sharing and data processing." OSI's first use of the WATCHTOWER mark in commerce was December 1, 2008. The CAGE code expired February 15, 2022 and was not renewed.
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No prime contract awards appear in public contracting databases for OSI or DUNS 962794702. A series of six FOIA requests filed by journalist Jason Wilson in January 2020 to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[Defense Contract Management Agency]], [[Department of Defense]], [[Department of Justice]] National Security Division, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], and [[State Department]] returned no responsive contract documents from any agency. [[Special Operations Command]] (SOCOM) public affairs officer [[Ken McGraw]] specifically stated SOCOM could find no record of a contractor named Nazzaro briefing special forces leaders in 2014 and confirmed SOCOM held no contracts with Omega Solutions. The absence of DCMA and SOCOM prime contracts does not rule out subcontract arrangements routed through prime contractors, which are not indexed in public databases.[^2]
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The [[Department of Homeland Security]] confirmed, through an unnamed spokesperson, that "Rinaldo Nazzaro worked at DHS from 2004 to 2006." Nazzaro posted a letter he attributed to DHS that referenced his work in "DHS/Intelligence Analysis," language consistent with the [[Office of Intelligence and Analysis]] (I&A), the DHS component responsible for terrorism-related intelligence analysis and information sharing. DHS would not authenticate the letter he displayed. No FOIA-released DHS personnel file or position description has appeared in open sources. No specific job title has been publicly disclosed by DHS, and no congressional oversight record confirms the specific component or clearance level associated with his employment there.[^19]
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The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis was formalized following the Second Stage Review reorganization of DHS in July 2005; Nazzaro's employment (2004-2006) spans the period of the office's initial standup and early operations under the [[Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004]]. Congressional oversight of I&A during this period was active but focused on information-sharing architecture and coordination with the [[National Counterterrorism Center]] rather than individual personnel.[^20]
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In encrypted communications later obtained by investigators and reviewed by journalists, Nazzaro described himself as completing "multiple tours in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]] over five years" as a private contractor, working at [[Victory Base Complex]] near [[Baghdad]] Airport and [[Camp Speicher]] in northern Iraq, serving as "a targeteer" who "did target packages" and "supported deliberate clearing ops," and briefing special forces officers on military targeting and counterterrorism in 2014. The [[Pentagon]], when queried, responded only that it could not comment on ongoing investigations. SOCOM's Ken McGraw provided the more specific denial noted above.[^5]
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A [[U.S. Marine Corps]] letter Nazzaro displayed credited him as an "intelligence professional" with "impressive understanding of the insurgency in [[Afghanistan]]" and attributed responsibility for thirteen enemy casualties to his work. DHS confirmed employment; the Marine Corps letter's authenticity was not independently verified by press outlets.
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Nazzaro designed The Base to function as a disciplined vetting-based organization rather than a loose ideological movement. Prospective members contacted the network through encrypted channels and underwent vetting interviews, in which Nazzaro or senior members assessed ideological commitment and willingness to commit violence. Members who passed were expected to attend in-person training events, described in FBI documents as "hate camps", where they practiced firearms handling and survival techniques.
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Nazzaro operated under the alias "Norman Spear" and directed recruitment through The Base's encrypted channels. He communicated directly with members across the United States about both organizational matters and operational planning, including discussions of targeting and violence. His direction from Russia (and the explicit framing of The Base as preparing for an inevitable race war) made the network unusual among American white supremacist organizations in its combination of disciplined tradecraft and remote international leadership.[^2]
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In January 2020, as the FBI executed simultaneous arrests of Base members in Georgia, Maryland, and other states, The Guardian published an investigation confirming that "Norman Spear" was Rinaldo Nazzaro - an American with a background in U.S. government national security contracting then residing in St. Petersburg. Nazzaro publicly confirmed portions of his identity following the exposure.
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His residence in Russia has complicated potential U.S. prosecution. No extradition request or indictment has been made public as of 2026. Counterterrorism researchers have noted the parallel between his operation of a U.S.-targeted extremist network from Russia and the structural patterns of Russian-origin influence operations, though no direct state connection has been publicly established.[^1]
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### Legal Status and Why No Charges
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As of 2026, Nazzaro has not been publicly indicted or charged in the United States despite directing a U.S.-targeted white supremacist paramilitary network from Russia for eight years.
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FBI: Supervisory Special Agent [[Christopher Tarrant]] of the FBI's [[Detroit]] domestic terrorism unit confirmed in 2022 that the bureau had an open investigation into Nazzaro. A State Department source told VICE News in 2021 that Nazzaro was a [[Department of Justice]] "matter," suggesting a live DOJ criminal referral or grand jury proceeding. Nazzaro told journalists he was "not surprised" the FBI was investigating him and denied wrongdoing.[^6]
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Structural constraint on designation: The Base, as a U.S.-founded and largely U.S.-based organization, cannot be designated as a [[Foreign Terrorist Organization]] under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B because that statute applies only to groups designated by the Secretary of State as foreign organizations. The [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) [[Specially Designated Nationals]] list likewise has no entry for Nazzaro or The Base. This means that, unlike al-Qaeda or ISIS financiers who can be sanctioned regardless of location, Nazzaro cannot be sanctioned through the standard foreign terrorism financial tools available to Treasury. No domestic terrorism statute in U.S. law creates a stand-alone charge for leading a domestic terrorist organization: federal charges against Base members were brought under existing statutes (firearms, civil rights, illegal alien transport) rather than any terrorism-specific charge.[^7]
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Extradition: No U.S.-Russia extradition treaty exists. Russia has provided sanctuary to Nazzaro since at least 2018. He confirmed residency in St. Petersburg on multiple occasions. No Red Notice (Interpol arrest warrant request) for Nazzaro appears in publicly accessible records.
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Allied designations: [[Canada]] listed The Base as a terrorist entity under Order in Council P.C. 2021-31 (February 2, 2021), published in the Canada Gazette Part 2, Vol. 155, No. 2, alongside [[Atomwaffen Division]], the [[Proud Boys]], and the [[Russian Imperial Movement]]. [[United Kingdom]] proscribed The Base under The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2021 (SI 2021 No. 1318), debated in the House of Lords on July 15, 2021. [[Australia]] announced The Base's designation as a terrorist organization on November 24, 2021, the country's second far-right designation after [[Sonnenkrieg Division]]. [[New Zealand]] designated The Base in June 2022. The [[European Union]] designated The Base under Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055 and Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056 on July 26, 2024 (the EU's first ever far-right terrorist designation), under its CP 931 sanctions framework. The United States has made no equivalent designation.[^8]
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Nazzaro appeared on Kremlin-controlled [[Rossiya-24]] state television on October 31, 2020, in a segment of nearly thirty minutes aired as part of Russian election coverage, in which he denied any contact with Russian security services and described himself as a "family man." His appearance on state television is itself treated by analysts as significant given that Russian state media access implies at minimum tolerance from Russian authorities.[^9]
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Nazzaro obtained Russian citizenship in approximately 2017, before founding The Base. Russian citizenship requires vetting by the [[Federal Security Service of Russia]] (FSB). Former Base members circulating testimonies in 2025 alleged that Nazzaro was observed texting in fluent Russian, inconsistent with the limited Russian proficiency one would expect of someone who had relocated recently. Analysts [[Colin Clarke]] of the [[Soufan Center]] and [[Steven Rai]] of the [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] (ISD) both assessed, without claiming definitive proof, that The Base's shift to Russian-owned platforms ([[VKontakte]] and [[Mail.ru]], the latter linked to [[Yuri Kovalchuk]], a Putin-aligned oligarch), combined with an apparent bot-driven follower campaign and Nazzaro's Russian citizenship and sanctuary, raises strong suspicion of state support.[^10]
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The [[Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center]] (MCAC), a [[Department of Homeland Security]]-affiliated state fusion center, published an advisory in April 2025 describing Nazzaro as having "for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset" and noting that FBI resource reallocation away from domestic terrorism had contributed to the group's resurgence.[^11]
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No U.S. government agency has publicly released an assessment definitively attributing The Base to Russian state direction. The structural parallel, an American operating a U.S.-targeted violent network from Russia, using Russian infrastructure, holding Russian citizenship, appearing on state television, and offering cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that align with Russian military objectives, has been noted repeatedly by analysts but has not resulted in a public intelligence community judgment as of 2026.
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In approximately March 2025, The Base's Ukrainian cell, operating as [[White Phoenix]], began posting videos showing members spray-painting The Base symbol in [[Kyiv]], [[Odesa]], [[Mykolaiv]], and [[Kharkiv]]. In April 2025, Nazzaro posted offers via Telegram of cash payments to volunteers for attacks on Ukrainian power stations, military and police vehicles, government buildings, and officials. This was described by analysts as the first time The Base had openly aligned itself with Russian geopolitical objectives.[^12]
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On July 10, 2025, White Phoenix claimed responsibility for the targeted killing of [[SBU]] Colonel [[Ivan Voronych]] in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. Voronych was shot multiple times with a silenced pistol and died at the scene; he was the highest-ranking SBU officer killed in a targeted assassination in Kyiv since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The SBU subsequently announced it had killed two alleged Russian operatives, a man and a woman, who it said were directed by Russia's FSB to surveil Voronych and had been directed to a weapons cache. Whether White Phoenix's claim was credible attribution or a false-flag claim remains contested; counterterrorism sources told the Kyiv Independent they considered the claim credible, but the SBU did not confirm The Base's involvement.[^13]
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In February 2026, The Base's Ukrainian branch claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Odesa, stating the target was a border service officer assisting Russia. Law enforcement attribution was not confirmed.
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On November 25, 2025, the [[Spanish National Police]] General Commissariat of Information, supported by [[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]], arrested three suspected Base members in Madrid and Valencia during a three-day operation that included five house searches and seizures of firearms, bladed weapons, ammunition, military tactical gear, and neo-Nazi propaganda. Investigators stated the suspects were in contact with Nazzaro, who had urged "consolidation of international cells and selective attacks to destabilize Western democracies."[^14]
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In the Netherlands, three individuals (ages 16, 18, and 26 at time of arrest, from Westerhoven, Veenendaal, and Hengelo) were arrested August 20, 2024, on charges of incitement to terrorism and membership in The Base. The Dutch [[Openbaar Ministerie]] (OM) announced prosecution demands on March 3, 2025, seeking conditional prison sentences and community service. In Italy, two individuals were arrested in September 2024 on charges of Base membership, inciting violence, and extorting minors for [[child sexual abuse material]].[^15]
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### Congressional Record
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The House Subcommittee on Military Personnel (Committee on Armed Services) held a hearing titled "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" on February 11, 2020 (116th Congress, CHRG-116hhrg42962). Subcommittee Chairwoman [[Jackie Speier]] (D-CA) cited The Base in her opening remarks, describing it as seeking to "use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States." Witnesses included [[Heidi Beirich]] of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] and [[Mark Pitcavage]] of the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Nazzaro was not named by name in the publicly available transcript; the hearing focused on military recruitment by white supremacist groups generally rather than on The Base's leadership's government background.[^16]
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### Property: Base Global LLC
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Nazzaro used a Delaware-registered limited liability company, [[Base Global LLC]], to purchase three 10-acre parcels of undeveloped land in [[Ferry County]], [[Washington state]] for $33,000 in December 2018. The parcels are located less than three miles north of Republic, WA, and two abut [[Washington Department of Natural Resources]] land. Deeds of sale listed a New Jersey post office as the company's address; separate tax affidavits provided the address of a New Jersey apartment belonging to a member of the Nazzaro family since 1988. No confirmed use of the land for Base training was documented; it was intended as a training camp site.[^17]
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[^1]: The Guardian. "Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group." January 23, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/revealed-the-true-identity-of-the-leader-of-an-american-neo-nazi-terror-group
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[^2]: BBC News. "The Base: Inside a neo-Nazi terror group." January 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51281532; NATO CAGE Program, 61PL9 record. https://cage.report/NCAGE/61PL9; MuckRock FOIA multi-request, Jason Wilson, January 30, 2020. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/multirequest/omega-solutions-international-llcrinaldo-nazzaro-contracts-80373/; Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/
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[^3]: VICE News. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/; Truthout. "Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Previously Worked for Department of Homeland Security." https://truthout.org/articles/leader-of-neo-nazi-group-previously-worked-for-department-of-homeland-security/
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[^4]: Congressional Research Service, "The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise: Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress," R40602. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40602.html
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[^5]: Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader Said to Have Worked With U.S. Special Forces." *VICE News*, January 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-terror-leader-said-to-have-worked-with-us-special-forces/
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[^6]: Wilson, Jason. "He Founded an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group. But Will Rinaldo Nazzaro Ever Face US Justice?" *VICE News*, October 2022. https://www.vice.com/en/article/american-terror-rinaldo-nazzaro/
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[^7]: Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Combat white supremacist violence using sanctions," May 30, 2022. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/05/30/combat-white-supremacist-violence-sanctions/; Valensglobal, "America Drops the Ball on White Supremacist Terrorist Groups." https://valensglobal.com/america-drops-the-ball-on-white-supremacist-terrorist-groups/
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[^8]: Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 155, No. 2, "Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities," SOR/2021-8, February 3, 2021. https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2021/2021-02-03-x2/html/sor-dors8-eng.html; Hansard, House of Lords, "Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021," July 15, 2021. https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-07-15/debates/69D5AEF9-060F-4315-B0E5-FE694C2EDF9B/TerrorismAct2000(ProscribedOrganisations)(Amendment)(No2)Order2021; Council of the EU, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2055, July 26, 2024. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/07/26/sanctions-against-terrorism-council-renews-the-eu-terrorist-list-and-designates-a-new-entity/
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[^9]: MEMRI, "White Supremacist Leader Rinaldo Nazzaro On Russian TV: Hitler Was The Result Of Past Circumstances." October 31, 2020. https://www.memri.org/tv/white-supremacist-leader-base-rinaldo-nazzaro-nationalism-solution-liberal-globalism; Wilson, Jason. "Neo-Nazi Terror Leader on Russian TV: 'I'm a Family Man.'" *VICE News*, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/rinaldo-nazzaro-neo-nazi-terror-leader-on-russian-tv-im-a-family-man/
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[^10]: The Guardian, "Neo-Nazi Base cell members accuse leader of being a Kremlin spy," April 26, 2025. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-851559; The 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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[^11]: Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), "US Neo-Nazi Group with Russia-Based Leader Calls for Targeted Ukraine Attacks," April 2025. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2025/04/us-neo-nazi-group-with-russia-based-leader-calls-for-targeted-ukraine-attacks/
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[^12]: Euromaidanpress, "US neo-Nazi leader based in Russia offers payment for attacks on Ukrainian officials," June 4, 2025. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/06/us-neo-nazi-leader-based-in-russia-offers-payment-for-attacks-on-ukrainian-officials/
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[^13]: Kyiv Independent, "US-founded extremist group claims killing of SBU Colonel in Kyiv," July 2025. https://kyivindependent.com/us-founded-extremist-group-claims-killing-of-sbu-colonel-in-kyiv/; CBS News, "Ukrainian spy agency officer shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-spy-agency-officer-killed-kyiv-reports-ivan-voronych/
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[^14]: OCCRP, "Spain, With Europol Support, Disrupts Far-Right Terrorist Group 'The Base,'" November 25, 2025. https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-with-europol-support-disrupts-far-right-terrorist-group-the-base
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[^15]: Openbaar Ministerie (Netherlands), "OM eist voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraffen en werkstraffen voor aanzetten terrorisme en deelname aan The Base," March 3, 2025. https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/03/03/om-eist-voorwaardelijke-gevangenisstraffen-en-werkstraffen-voor-aanzetten-terrorisme-en-deelname-aan-the-base; Counter Extremism Project, "EU Arrests Members of Newly-Designated Terrorist Group The Base." https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/counterpoint-brief-eu-arrests-members-newly-designated-terrorist-group-base
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[^16]: U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee on Military Personnel, "Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military -- How to Stop It?" February 11, 2020. CHRG-116hhrg42962. https://www.congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-116hhrg42962/CHRG-116hhrg42962.pdf
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[^17]: The Spokesman-Review, "Report: Leader of neo-Nazi terrorist group owns land in Ferry County," January 23, 2020. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-of-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-owns-lan/
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[^18]: Gambino, Lauren, and Stephanie Kirchgaessner. "Extremist neo-Nazi leader is a former Villanova student, N.J. resident, reports say." *Philadelphia Inquirer*, January 24, 2020. https://www.inquirer.com/news/the-base-neo-nazi-rinaldo-nazzaro-villanova-delbarton-white-supremacist-20200124.html; Counter Extremism Project, "Rinaldo Nazzaro." https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/rinaldo-nazzaro
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[^19]: Wilson, Jason. "Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work For It." *VICE News*, February 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/department-of-homeland-security-confirms-neo-nazi-leader-used-to-work-for-it/
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[^20]: Congressional Research Service, "The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise: Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress," R40602. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40602.html
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[[Rohan Rane]] (full legal name Rohan Sandeep Rane, born 1996) is an Indian national who, while attending a top business school in [[Antibes, France]], founded [[CVLT]] in 2019 at approximately 23 years of age. CVLT was the Discord-based child exploitation network that developed the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently transmitted to the [[764 Network|764]] network through a single encounter in a [[Minecraft]] server between a CVLT member and 764 founder [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]]. Rane was arrested in France on April 6, 2021, and in February 2025 was charged by U.S. prosecutors in [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)|United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040]] (C.D. Cal.), with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise. As of May 2026 he remains in French custody pending extradition to the United States.[^1]
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Rane founded CVLT in 2019 as a community initially numbering a few hundred members, centered on [[Discord]]. CVLT espoused neo-Nazism, nihilism, and pedophilia as its core principles. Rane recruited underage girls from around the world into the community through social engineering, obtained compromising sexual photographs and videos from them, and used that material as leverage to compel victims into escalating acts of self-harm up to and including suicidal behavior. The acts were recorded on webcam and broadcast live within the CVLT server. DOJ press releases document specific coercion acts: compelling victims to cut themselves, drink their own urine, punch themselves, use racial slurs against themselves, carve CVLT members' names into their skin with razor blades, and at the terminal extreme, kill themselves on a live video stream.[^2]
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CVLT operated from at least 2019 to 2022. The network targeted particularly vulnerable girls, including those with mental health histories or prior abuse, and exposed them first to extremist and violent content before beginning direct coercion. The core mechanism CVLT established, which 764 replicated, was the use of initially consensual intimate imagery as a blackmail lever to compel victims into acts they would not otherwise perform, with coercion escalating until victims escaped or were pushed to self-harm or death.[^2]
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An [[FBI]] agent investigating a 15-year-old American girl who had attempted suicide under coercion in spring 2020 passed findings to French authorities. The [[OCRVP]] (Office Central pour la Répression des Violences aux Personnes, a French national police unit) initiated a judicial investigation on October 6, 2020. Rane was arrested on April 6, 2021. In France he was charged with "acts of torture and barbarity," "corruption of minors in an organized gang," and "extortion in an organized gang," and has been held in [[French custody]] since 2022, reportedly in solitary confinement while awaiting trial.[^3]
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A federal grand jury in the [[Central District of California]] returned an indictment on January 17, 2025 in United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040, charging Rane alongside [[Kaleb Merritt]], [[Clint Borge]], and [[Collin Walker]] with one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. The indictment was unsealed approximately February 4-5, 2025. The statute requires proof of underlying felony violations against children, a pattern of three or more separate incidents, more than one victim, and commission of the offenses in concert with three or more other persons. The four named defendants and two unnamed minor co-conspirators (one also described as a victim) together constituted the enterprise.[^4]
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The enterprise charged covered conduct from at least 2019 to 2022. Rane, Walker, and Merritt were charged as leaders and administrators who hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership. The indictment alleged at least 16 minor victims worldwide, with at least two in Southern California.[^4]
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As of May 2026, Rane has not entered a U.S. plea. His extradition from France is pending. The sentence exposure upon conviction is a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.[^4]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Four Members of Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Minors Charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material." February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse; United States v. Rane et al., 2:25-cr-00040 (C.D. Cal.), CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69613728/united-states-v-rane/
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[^2]: Rolling Stone. "Violent Online Group CVLT Coerced Kids to Self-Harm, DOJ Says." February 2025. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/violent-online-group-cvlt-indicted-1235258786/; HSI press release, February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo
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[^3]: ARC Research. "CVLT Historical Threat Assessment of the Precursor to 764." https://www.accresearch.org/shortanalysis/svjdmt1twn9ccz0c4uxnbqrauywwcn; CBS News. "International investigation targets online group leaders accused of child sex abuse and torture." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/online-group-leaders-cvlt-the-com-arrests-investigation/
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[^4]: HSI press release, February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo; DOJ OPA press release, February 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-members-online-neo-nazi-group-exploited-minors-charged-producing-child-sexual-abuse
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summary: "Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 against a Nashville-area electrical substation."
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[[Skyler Philippi]] (born approximately 2001, [[Columbia, Tennessee]]) pleaded guilty on September 9, 2025, to two counts in the [[Middle District of Tennessee]]: attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction under 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, and attempting to destroy an energy facility. His plot involved attaching what he believed to be C-4 plastic explosive to a drone and flying it into a Nashville-area electrical substation. FBI undercover employees and confidential human sources disrupted the plot during its November 2024 operational phase, arresting Philippi on-site as he prepared to attach the explosive device to the drone. Sentencing was scheduled for January 8, 2026, with a maximum penalty of life in prison.[^1]
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In August 2024, Philippi told an undercover employee that he had written a "manifesto" outlining his desire to attack "high tax cities or industrial areas" and disclosed prior affiliation with [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the [[National Alliance]]. The National Alliance, founded by [[William Luther Pierce]] and the original publisher of *[[The Turner Diaries]]*, had undergone multiple leadership transitions after Pierce's 2002 death; its surviving membership in the early 2020s overlapped significantly with Terrorgram-adjacent online communities. Philippi's path from AWD-adjacent ideology to Terrorgram-era infrastructure targeting mirrored that of other defendants in the [[Terrorgram Collective]] network, though his case was charged separately, not within the [[United States v. Humber]] prosecution.
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In June 2024, Philippi communicated to a confidential human source (CHS) that he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a [[YMCA]] facility near Columbia, Tennessee. He subsequently shifted his focus to infrastructure attack, researching previous attacks on electrical substations and concluding that firearms-only attacks were insufficient. He planned instead to use a drone with explosives capable of causing damage sufficient to knock out power to thousands of homes and critical facilities including hospitals.
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Philippi researched self-built drone construction to reduce detection risk and identified TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide) and C-4 as preferred explosive materials. In November 2024, in a staged operation, Philippi and undercover FBI employees drove to his intended Nashville launch site; he was arrested as he prepared to attach a device he believed to contain 3 pounds of C-4 explosive to the drone.
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The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney [[Josh Kurtzman]] of the Middle District of Tennessee and Trial Attorneys [[Justin Sher]] and [[James Donnelly]] of the [[National Security Division]]'s Counterterrorism Section.[^2]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Attempting to Destroy an Energy Facility in Nashville." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-attempting-destroy-energy; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-MDTN. "Columbia Man Pleads Guilty." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/columbia-man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-destroy-energy
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[^2]: CNN. "Skyler Philippi pleads guilty to charges that he meant to blow up a Nashville power site with a bomb-laden drone." September 9, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/us/nashville-power-substation-bomb-plot-plea; ABC News. "Man pleads guilty to neo-Nazi-inspired plot to bomb Nashville energy facility: DOJ." September 9, 2025. https://abcnews.com/US/man-pleads-guilty-neo-nazi-inspired-plot-bomb/story?id=125401895
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summary: "Vasillios George Pistolis was a U.S. Marine Lance Corporal and Atomwaffen Division member who participated in the 2017 Charlottesville rally, was found guilty at a summary court-martial in June 2018, and was administratively separated from the Marine Corps in July 2018."
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Vasillios George Pistolis was a Lance Corporal in the [[United States Marine Corps]], assigned to [[Combat Logistics Battalion 8]], Combat Logistics Regiment 2, [[2nd Marine Logistics Group]], based at [[Camp Lejeune]], North Carolina, and a documented member of [[Atomwaffen Division]]. He participated in the August 12, 2017 [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], where he was photographed striking a protester with a wooden flagpole, and later bragged in online communications about assaulting another protester. [[ProPublica]] identified him as an AWD member in May 2018, triggering a Marine Corps investigation that resulted in a summary court-martial and administrative separation.[^1]
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Pistolis served in Combat Logistics Battalion 8, a rear-area logistics unit at Camp Lejeune. His AWD membership was documented through his activity on AWD-affiliated online platforms, where he identified himself as a member and expressed support for the organization's accelerationist ideology. AWD's presence at Charlottesville was notable as an early example of the organization's members participating in public far-right events.[^2]
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Pistolis marched in the [[2017 Unite the Right Rally]] alongside other neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups. A news photographer captured him striking a protester with a wooden flagpole during the violence that accompanied the rally. He reportedly bragged in online communications about assaulting [[Emily F. Gorcenski]], an activist, during the same event. ProPublica identified Pistolis in May 2018 as part of a broader investigation into AWD's presence in the military, and published its findings along with the photographic evidence.[^1]
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Following ProPublica's publication, Marine Corps leadership opened a formal proceeding. On June 19, 2018, Pistolis was found guilty at a summary court-martial on two charges under the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]]: failure to obey an order or regulation, and making a false official statement. These charges likely related to his denial of extremist affiliations and his attendance at the rally in violation of [[DoD]] policy. The summary court-martial imposed: 28 days' confinement, reduction in rank from Lance Corporal (E-3) to Private (E-1), and forfeiture of two-thirds of one month's pay.
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Pistolis was released from confinement and administratively separated from the Marine Corps on July 11, 2018. Marine Corps spokesman Major Brian Block confirmed the separation, stating "He is not a Marine anymore," but declined to release the characterization of discharge. No civilian criminal charges were filed.[^3]
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The case illustrates a recurring pattern in military extremism enforcement: the summary court-martial addressed violations of orders and false statements rather than the underlying extremist affiliation, and the administrative separation left no public criminal record. The [[PBS Frontline]] 2018 investigation found that the Marine Corps had received an "alarming tip" about Pistolis months earlier but the initial response was uncertain.[^4]
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[^1]: ProPublica. "U.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups
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[^2]: ProPublica / PBS Frontline. "Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-hate-group-active-duty-military
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[^3]: Marine Corps Times. "Neo-Nazi Marine Found Guilty at Summary Court-Martial." June 19, 2018. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/06/19/neo-nazi-marine-found-guilty-at-summary-court-martial/; Military.com. "Lance Corporal with Alleged Neo-Nazi Ties Is Now a Former Marine." August 2, 2018. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/08/02/lance-corporal-alleged-neo-nazi-ties-now-former-marine.html
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[^4]: PBS Frontline. "An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then An Uncertain Response." 2018. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response/
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summary: "Andrew Takhistov is an East Brunswick, New Jersey Terrorgram Collective member arrested July 10, 2024, charged with soliciting destruction of two PSE&G electrical substations in New Jersey after conducting reconnaissance with an undercover FBI employee and receiving tactical advice from a Russian contact."
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[[Andrew Takhistov]] (born approximately 2005-2006, [[East Brunswick, New Jersey]]) was charged in the [[District of New Jersey]] in July 2024 with one count of soliciting another individual to engage in criminal conduct involving the destruction of [[Public Service Enterprise Group]] (PSE&G) electrical substations. He was 18 years old at arrest and had been communicating with undercover FBI employees for several months about infrastructure sabotage and had stated an intent to travel to Ukraine to join the [[Russian Volunteer Corps]].[^1]
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In May 2024, Takhistov informed an undercover FBI employee that he was planning to travel to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, which he described as openly National Socialist and specialized in assassinations, attacks on power grids, and infrastructure sabotage. The combination of white nationalist ideology and interest in a pro-Russian paramilitary formation reflected a documented crossover between the far-right accelerationist Telegram ecosystem and Russian irregular networks.
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On two occasions in June and July 2024, Takhistov and the undercover employee drove to two different electrical substations in [[North Brunswick, New Jersey|North Brunswick]] and [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], where Takhistov provided instruction on how to conduct attacks on electrical substations. On July 5, 2024, he directed the undercover employee to photograph the substations so that he could transmit the images to what he described as a "Russian friend" for additional tactical advice on the most effective sabotage methods.
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Takhistov had a documented history of posting in [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels, including references to Adolf Hitler, calls for violence against Black and Jewish individuals, and praise for mass shooters. He also stated he had been involved in the production of Terrorgram propaganda. Prosecutors noted he was a "fan" of at least one of the Terrorgram Collective's terrorism how-to guides.
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Takhistov was arrested on July 10, 2024, and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge [[Leda Dunn Wettre]] in Newark federal court, where he was detained. He was charged with one count of soliciting destruction of an energy facility under 18 U.S.C. § 1366(b), which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
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The charge was filed as a complaint by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. Plea status was unresolved as of May 2026.[^2]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NJ. "Middlesex County Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilities." July 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/middlesex-county-man-charged-soliciting-destruction-energy-facilities; East Brunswick Patch. "East Brunswick Man Plotted To Blow Up PSE&G Facilities: Feds." July 2024. https://patch.com/new-jersey/eastbrunswick/east-brunswick-man-plotted-blow-pse-g-facilities-feds
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[^2]: CBS New York. "18-year-old N.J. man accused in plot to sabotage PSE&G substations." July 2024. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/plot-to-destroy-pse-g-power-plant-new-jersey/; DOJ OPA. "New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilities." https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/new-jersey-man-charged-soliciting-destruction-energy-facilities
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summary: "Brenton Tarrant is an Australian who killed 51 in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, livestreaming the attack behind an accelerationist manifesto that became the founding saint-template for Terrorgram Collective and subsequent attackers worldwide."
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[[Brenton Tarrant]] (born September 9, 1990, [[Grafton, New South Wales, Australia]]) attacked the [[Al Noor Mosque]] and [[Linwood Islamic Centre]] in [[Christchurch, New Zealand]] on March 15, 2019, killing 51 people and wounding 40. He live-streamed the Al Noor attack on Facebook and distributed a 74-page manifesto titled "The Great Replacement" before and during the attack. He pleaded guilty to all 51 murder charges and 40 attempted murder charges in March 2020 and was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole - the first such sentence in New Zealand's history. He is held at Paremoremo maximum security prison. His attack became the founding reference point for the [[Terrorgram Collective]] and the accelerationist "saint" tradition it propagated, with subsequent attackers across multiple countries explicitly citing his attack as inspiration.[^1]
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Tarrant had arrived in New Zealand from Australia and spent approximately two years in Christchurch before the attack. He obtained a firearms license and legally acquired the weapons he used. On March 15, 2019, he drove to Al Noor Mosque during Friday prayers and opened fire on the worshippers, killing 50 people. He then drove to Linwood Islamic Centre and killed one additional person. He was apprehended by armed police in his vehicle approximately 21 minutes after the first shots.
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The Al Noor attack was live-streamed via a helmet-mounted camera to Facebook, where it remained available for approximately 17 minutes before removal. The footage and his manifesto were simultaneously distributed through 8chan, Reddit, and other platforms. New Zealand immediately moved to criminalize possession of the manifesto and footage.
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The 51 victims ranged in age from 3 to 77. They included New Zealand citizens and permanent residents who had emigrated from dozens of countries.[^2]
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"The Great Replacement" invoked the French conspiracy theory promoted by Renaud Camus that held that a coordinated elite project was "replacing" white European populations with non-white immigrants. Tarrant's version mapped this theory onto an accelerationist strategic framework drawn from [[Siege Culture]] and the logic of [[James Mason]]'s writings: that a spectacular act of violence would provoke governments to overreact, alienate moderates from mainstream politics, and accelerate the conditions for racial civil war.
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The manifesto explicitly cited Dylann Roof's 2015 Charleston church massacre as an influence and framed Roof as an exemplary figure. It anticipated its own downstream influence, positioning the Christchurch attack as an event to be emulated. This self-aware positioning within a succession of "saints" was a deliberate rhetorical strategy.
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Tarrant also addressed a range of tactical arguments about target selection, timing, and the anticipated government response to his attack - providing a template that later attackers including [[Payton Gendron]] (Buffalo, 2022), [[Juraj Krajčík]] (Bratislava, 2022), and [[Cain Clark]] (San Diego, 2026) explicitly cited or whose format they imitated.[^3]
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Tarrant pleaded guilty on March 26, 2020, to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder, and one count of committing a terrorist act - the first time anyone in New Zealand had been convicted of a terrorism offense. New Zealand had no provision for life without parole before his sentencing; the Sentencing Act was amended to allow it, and Judge Cameron Mander imposed the sentence on August 27, 2020, explicitly declining to set any minimum non-parole period.[^1]
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[[Terrorgram Collective]] was founded in the summer of 2019 explicitly in response to Christchurch. Co-founders [[Pavol Beňadik]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] framed Tarrant's attack as the model for what accelerationist violence could accomplish. Beňadik began recruiting what would become his Slovak radicalization network immediately after Christchurch, identifying Tarrant as the foundational saint whose example his channels were designed to replicate.
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Tarrant's influence flows through the documented inspiration chains: Gendron cited Tarrant; Krajčík cited Gendron; Casap cited Krajčík. The [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting|San Diego attack]] manifesto was titled "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant," naming the lineage explicitly. The Christchurch attack is the single most cited precedent across the post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attack record.[^4]
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[^1]: New Zealand Ministry of Justice. Crown Law Terrorism Case Summary. August 2020; Radio New Zealand. "Christchurch mosque attacks: Life without parole for Brenton Tarrant." August 27, 2020.
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[^2]: Royal Commission of Inquiry. "Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei / Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019." New Zealand Government, 2020.
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[^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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[^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/
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summary: "Caleb Liam Vazquez was a Chula Vista, California teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, had been flagged to police for neo-Nazi social media activity the prior year, and died at the scene."
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[[Caleb Vazquez|Caleb Liam Vazquez]] was an 18-year-old resident of [[Chula Vista, California]] who co-perpetrated the [[2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting|attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego]] on May 18, 2026 alongside [[Cain Clark|Cain Lee Clark]]. Three people were killed in the attack. Vazquez died in the perpetrators' vehicle when Clark shot him twice in the head at his own request. Vazquez co-authored a 75-page manifesto titled "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" drawing from [[Atomwaffen Division]], [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], [[The Base]], and [[James Mason]]'s *[[Siege]]*. In 2025, the Chula Vista Police Department had contacted Vazquez after receiving a tip about his extremist views and found his social media "littered with neo-Nazi rhetoric," but determined the situation did not meet the threshold for arrest.[^1]
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Vazquez described himself in his manifesto section as having been active in incel forums since 2022, making his documented online radicalization history traceable to at least four years before the attack. By the time of the shooting he had developed an explicitly Nazi worldview - his manifesto section praised Adolf Hitler as "the greatest man to ever walk this Earth" and expressed the antisemitism and [[Great Replacement Theory]] foundational to the manifesto as a whole.
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In 2025, an acquaintance contacted the Chula Vista Police Department to report concerns about Vazquez's interest in "extremist ideology and mass-casualty attacks." Officers investigated and reviewed his social media, which they described as "littered with neo-Nazi rhetoric." Police determined the information they had did not satisfy the legal standard for arrest and no charges were filed. The incident represents a documented law enforcement contact that did not result in intervention, a pattern that has recurred in numerous mass violence cases.[^1]
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Vazquez met [[Cain Clark]] online before the two discovered they lived in proximity in the [[San Diego]] area and began meeting in person.
|
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Vazquez's section of "The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant" opened with an image of a [[Sonnenrad]] with the Atomwaffen Division logo at its center. His writing praised Hitler and drew on [[Great Replacement Theory]], antisemitism, and his incel background. The manifesto stated explicitly that the attack was carried out for Atomwaffen Division, [[Terrorgram Collective|Terrorgram]], and The Base. Like Clark's section, it cited *Siege* and *The Turner Diaries* as foundational texts.
|
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|
||||||
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Physical evidence recovered from the attack scene and the perpetrators' vehicle included a Sonnenrad patch, an Atomwaffen Division logo on tactical equipment, an SS symbol on a fuel container, and hate speech on one of the weapons - all consistent with the visual and aesthetic language produced by Atomwaffen Division and subsequently distributed through Terrorgram channels.[^2][^3]
|
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### The Attack and Death
|
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|
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Vazquez participated in the May 18, 2026 attack on the ICSD alongside Clark, shooting three victims outside the mosque before security guard [[Amin Abdullah]]'s armed response delayed them and allowed approximately 150 school children to shelter safely. The two fled in a white BMW. According to investigators, Vazquez encouraged Clark to shoot him during their flight; Clark shot Vazquez twice in the head, then killed himself. Both were found in the vehicle approximately three-tenths of a mile from the mosque. No criminal prosecution is possible given both perpetrators' deaths.
|
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: 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
|
||||||
|
[^2]: 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
|
||||||
|
[^3]: NBC 7 San Diego. "Weapons, manifesto, San Diego mosque shooting." May 2026. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/weapons-manifesto-san-diego-mosque-shooting/4026006/
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- FederalCase
|
||||||
|
born: 2001
|
||||||
|
location: "Bridgeton, New Jersey"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-21
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Collin John Thomas Walker, alias 'Wrath' and 'O9A.WRATH', was a CVLT co-leader from Bridgeton, New Jersey who pleaded guilty in October 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and is scheduled for sentencing before Judge Hernan D. Vera in the Central District of California."
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[Collin Walker]] (full name Collin John Thomas Walker, aliases "Wrath" and "O9A.WRATH") is a co-leader of [[CVLT]] and a member of the [[764 Network|764]] network ecosystem, based in [[Bridgeton, New Jersey]]. He was 23 at the time of his federal indictment. His O9A-styled alias reflects CVLT's integration of [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]] neo-Nazi occultist ideology, which several CVLT leaders adopted as an ideological identity alongside neo-Nazism, nihilism, and pedophilia as the enterprise's core principles.[^1]
|
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|
|
||||||
|
### Federal Case (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025 in the [[Central District of California]]. When the indictment was unsealed in early February 2025, Walker was physically arrested in New Jersey by [[Homeland Security Investigations]] Cherry Hill. He appeared in federal court, was assigned counsel, and was remanded to U.S. Marshals custody for transport to Los Angeles.[^2]
|
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|
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Walker faced one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. He was identified as one of three co-leaders alongside [[Rohan Rane]] and [[Kaleb Merritt]] who hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership and access. [[Clint Borge]] was charged as a member; the distinction reflects different levels of administrative control within the enterprise as DOJ characterized it.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
Walker pleaded guilty in October 2025. Judge [[Hernan D. Vera]] of the Central District of California scheduled sentencing for January 29, 2026. As of May 2026, no DOJ press release announcing Walker's actual sentence had been published, suggesting the hearing may have been continued or the announcement was delayed. He faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.[^3]
|
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|
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### Role in CVLT
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Walker joined CVLT around 2020 and rose to a leadership role. He hosted servers, controlled membership, and directed and instructed victims during the creation of extortion videos and CSAM. Walker was one of three defendants (alongside Rane and Merritt) described by DOJ as enterprise leaders who controlled access and directed operations from the server level.[^2]
|
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|
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### Footnotes
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|
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[^1]: Medium/chokingonsignal. "Com, Extortion Groups, and the Order of Nine Angles." https://chokingonsignal.medium.com/com-extortion-groups-and-the-order-of-nine-angles-9fe1f8419526
|
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|
[^2]: 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; HSI press release. February 2025. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-los-angeles-cherry-hill-and-honolulu-special-agents-arrest-members-online-neo
|
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[^3]: 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; GoldRushCam/Sierra Sun-Times. "Suspect Pleads Guilty to Engaging in Online Neo-Nazi Group that Exploited Children into Making Child Sexual Abuse Material." 2025. https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/76713-suspect-pleads-guilty-to-engaging-in-online-neo-nazi-group-that-exploited-children-into-making-child-sexual-abuse-material
|
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||||||
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---
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
tags:
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- AtomwaffenDivision
|
||||||
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- NeoNazi
|
||||||
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- Military
|
||||||
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- IronMarch
|
||||||
|
- USA
|
||||||
|
- NavyInvestigation
|
||||||
|
born: 1997
|
||||||
|
location: "Naval Air Station Lemoore, California"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "David Cole Tarkington was a U.S. Navy aviation machinist mate identified via the Iron March data leak as a prolific Atomwaffen Division online recruiter, and was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020 following an NCIS investigation."
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
David Cole Tarkington was an [[U.S. Navy]] aviation machinist's mate apprentice serving with [[Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-41]] (the "Black Aces") at [[Naval Air Station Lemoore]], California, who was identified in March 2020 as a prolific [[Atomwaffen Division]] online recruiter through analysis of the leaked [[Iron March]] forum data. He had operated under the username "The Yank" on Iron March from 2013 to late 2016, attempting to recruit at least twelve forum members into AWD. Following publication of the findings by [[Gizmodo]] and an investigation by [[Naval Criminal Investigative Service]] (NCIS), Tarkington was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020. No criminal charges were filed.[^1]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Iron March Activity
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The Iron March forum was a neo-fascist platform that operated from 2011 to 2017 and served as the founding environment for Atomwaffen Division and several other neo-Nazi organizations. An anonymous source using the account "antifa-data" uploaded the forum's complete user data to the [[Internet Archive]] on November 6, 2019, enabling researchers to identify hundreds of users by cross-referencing account details with publicly accessible information.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Tarkington's Iron March account, "The Yank," is documented as active from approximately September 2013, when he was 15 or 16 years old, through December 2016. During that period he evolved from a new forum participant into what Gizmodo described as one of AWD's most prolific online recruiters, attempting to bring at least twelve Iron March members into the organization. His AWD recruitment activity significantly predated his Navy enlistment, which occurred in July 2019.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
|
### Military Service
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Tarkington enlisted in the Navy in July 2019, approximately three years after his active Iron March period ended. He was assigned to VFA-41, a carrier-based strike fighter squadron that flies F/A-18F Super Hornets. His role as an aviation machinist's mate involved maintenance of aircraft engines, propellers, and associated systems. He was stationed at Lemoore at the time of his identification.[^1]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### NCIS Investigation and Separation
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Gizmodo published its investigation identifying Tarkington on March 12, 2020. The Navy launched an NCIS investigation following the publication and, according to Commander Ron Flanders, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces, Tarkington was "administratively separated" following the investigation. Flanders confirmed the separation was "administrative in nature" but declined to provide details about its characterization, citing privacy act restrictions. The separation occurred in April 2020, approximately one month after publication.[^3]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The administrative separation, rather than a court-martial or criminal referral, meant that Tarkington faced no criminal conviction. The legal basis for the separation is not specified in available public records; administrative separation under the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]] framework can be used for a range of conduct that falls short of criminal charges but renders a service member unsuitable for continued service.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Iron March Data and Broader Military Exposure
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Tarkington's case illustrates AWD's use of online recruitment infrastructure that predated members' military service by years. His recruitment of twelve individuals through Iron March, if successful, would represent a significant pipeline. The Iron March data leak that exposed him also identified dozens of other military-affiliated neo-Nazi sympathizers across multiple branches, contributing to the [[House Armed Services Committee]]'s 2021 investigation into extremism in the ranks.[^4]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Footnotes
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||||||
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|
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[^1]: Gizmodo. "Leak Exposes U.S. Navy Sailor as Once-Prolific Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group." March 12, 2020. https://gizmodo.com/leak-exposes-u-s-navy-sailor-as-once-prolific-recruite-1841149776
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[^2]: Scripps News / E.W. Scripps. "We Found More Active Duty Military In Leaked Neo-Nazi Forum." 2020. https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/military/we-found-more-active-duty-military-in-leaked-neo-nazi-forum
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[^3]: Newsweek. "Navy Kicks Out Alleged Recruiter for Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division After Investigation." April 2020. https://www.newsweek.com/navy-kicks-out-alleged-recruiter-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-division-after-investigation-1498704; Task & Purpose. "David Cole Tarkington Was Administratively Separated Following a Navy Investigation." 2020. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-neo-nazi-sailor-separated/
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[^4]: Military Times. "Desire to Join Military Large Focus of Leaked Chats in Infamous Neo-Nazi Forum." November 2019. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/11/07/desire-to-join-military-large-focus-of-leaked-chats-in-infamous-neo-nazi-forum/
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summary: "Guilherme Von Neutegem was a Toronto-area Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2020 fatally stabbed mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis in Rexdale, Ontario and was found not criminally responsible by reason of schizophrenia in 2023."
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[[Guilherme Von Neutegem]] fatally stabbed [[Mohamed-Aslim Zafis]] (58) outside the [[International Muslim Organization]] mosque in [[Rexdale]], [[Ontario]] on September 12, 2020. Zafis was a caretaker at the mosque who was sitting outside when Von Neutegem approached and attacked him. Investigators subsequently documented that Von Neutegem was an adherent of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A), finding an altar featuring an O9A symbol in his home, O9A-related social media posts, and a YouTube video in which he discussed O9A philosophy. He was charged with first-degree murder on September 18, 2020. In March 2023 an Ontario court found him [[Not Criminally Responsible]] (NCR) due to schizophrenia, and his case was referred to the [[Ontario Review Board]].[^1]
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Von Neutegem approached Zafis outside the International Muslim Organization mosque in the Rexdale neighborhood of northwestern Toronto on the evening of September 12, 2020 and stabbed him. Zafis died of his injuries. Von Neutegem was apprehended in connection with the killing and formally charged on September 18, 2020 with first-degree murder and carrying a concealed weapon.
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The attack occurred amid the early COVID-19 period, when mosque activity was restricted and Zafis was sitting outside. Toronto Police Service investigated the killing as a hate crime given the target location and the perpetrator's documented beliefs.[^2]
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Post-arrest investigation revealed substantial evidence of O9A ideology in Von Neutegem's environment. His residence contained an altar bearing an [[O9A]] symbol. His social media accounts contained O9A-related content. A YouTube video recovered by investigators showed him discussing O9A philosophy. O9A, known formally as the Order of Nine Angles, is a British-origin occult neo-Nazi organization that frames ritual violence against outgroup members as a path toward personal "sinister" development, providing an ideological framework in which a lone attack on a mosque caretaker fits within the network's prescriptive model.[^3]
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The Zafis killing was one of several O9A-linked attacks documented in North America and Europe in the 2019-2021 period, alongside the AWD-O9A overlap cases and Feuerkrieg Division prosecutions. O9A's particular influence on accelerationist lone-actor violence lies in its combination of esoteric philosophy with explicit operational encouragement for what the organization calls "insight roles," activities including criminal violence intended to test and harden the practitioner.
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Von Neutegem's trial proceeded to a finding on criminal responsibility rather than guilt. In March 2023 the Ontario court entered a finding of Not Criminally Responsible by reason of mental disorder (schizophrenia), the Canadian equivalent of a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict. Under Canadian law an NCR finding does not result in an acquittal but in a referral to a provincial review board that manages ongoing detention and treatment. His case was referred to the Ontario Review Board, which has authority to order continued detention in a psychiatric facility, conditional discharge, or absolute discharge based on ongoing assessments of risk to public safety.
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The NCR finding means Von Neutegem was not convicted of murder and faces no penal sentence, but remains subject to Ontario Review Board supervision for an indefinite period.[^4]
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[^1]: Toronto Star. "Toronto man charged with first-degree murder after caretaker fatally stabbed outside northwest Toronto mosque." September 18, 2020; CBC News. "Man found not criminally responsible in 2020 stabbing death at Toronto mosque." March 2023.
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[^2]: Toronto Police Service. Homicide Investigation, Case 20-427982. September 2020.
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[^3]: VICE News. "Inside the 'Sinister' Far-Right Sect Linked to a Murder at a Toronto Mosque." 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/order-of-nine-angles-toronto-mosque-murder/; CTC West Point. "The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the Skull Mask Neo-Fascist Network." https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/
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[^4]: CBC News. "Man found not criminally responsible in 2020 stabbing death at Toronto mosque." March 2023; Criminal Code of Canada, s. 672.54 (disposition of NCR accused by Review Board).
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summary: "Harry Vaughan was an 18-year-old grammar school student from Kingston-upon-Thames convicted in November 2020 at the Old Bailey of 14 terrorism offences including creating Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda, who received a suspended sentence criticised by counter-extremism researchers."
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Harry Vaughan, 18, of Kingston-upon-Thames, South-West London, was a student at [[Tiffin School]], a selective grammar school, where he had achieved A-grade A-levels in mathematics, further mathematics, physics, and history. He was arrested on 19 June 2019 as part of a [[Counter Terrorism Policing]] investigation into [[Fascist Forge]], an online extremist forum used by far-right militants. He pleaded guilty to 14 terrorism offences and two counts of possessing indecent images. He was sentenced at the [[Old Bailey]] in November 2020 by Mr Justice Sweeney, who described him as "a dangerous offender," to two years' detention suspended for two years.[^1]
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Vaughan had designed and uploaded his own propaganda images to a neo-Nazi website promoting the then-proscribed [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] (SKD). The documents on his devices included SKD propaganda of his own creation, bomb-making manuals, and a guide to killing. O9A connections run through SKD's ideological framework, which incorporated [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) philosophy; the prosecution did not cite direct O9A membership.
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The suspended sentence attracted significant criticism from counter-extremism researchers and journalists, who noted that Mr Justice Sweeney had designated Vaughan a "dangerous offender" while simultaneously declining to impose an immediate custodial term. This perceived inconsistency was particularly noted in the context of earlier SKD cases, in which [[Michael Szewczuk]] had received four years and three months and [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]] had received 18 months, both with immediate custody.[^2]
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The case occurred at roughly the same time as the sentencing of [[Ben John]] at Leicester Crown Court (August 2021), where a similarly controversial suspended sentence was subsequently overturned by the Court of Appeal on unduly lenient reference. Vaughan's sentence was not publicly referred for review under similar procedures.
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Counter Terrorism Policing's investigation into Fascist Forge, the platform on which Vaughan had been active, ran in parallel with the arrests of other UK-based users and identified multiple individuals. Vaughan was arrested at his family home.[^1]
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[^1]: ITV News London. "Teenage Satanist neo-Nazi avoids jail after admitting 14 terror offences." November 2, 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/london/2020-11-02/teenage-satanist-neo-nazi-harry-vaughan-sentenced-for-terror-offences
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[^2]: Far-Right Criminals. "Harry Vaughan: Neo-Nazi teenager sentenced." November 2, 2020. https://far-rightcriminals.com/2020/11/02/harry-vaughan-neo-nazi-teenager-sentenced/
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location: "High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England"
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created: 2026-05-22
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summary: "Jacek Tchorzewski was an 18-year-old Polish national in Buckinghamshire stopped at Luton Airport in February 2019 and convicted of ten terrorism possession offences at the Old Bailey, sentenced to four years, with documented interests in Satanism, neo-Nazism, and Sonnenkrieg Division."
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Jacek Tchorzewski, 18, a Polish national residing in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was stopped at [[Luton Airport]] on 20 February 2019 by officers from the [[Eastern Region Specialist Operation Unit Counter Terrorism Policing]] (ERSOU CTP) as he attempted to board a flight to Poland. Acting under Schedule 7 powers of the [[Terrorism Act 2000]], officers seized his mobile phone. Digital forensic examination revealed a cache of terrorist manuals, bomb-making guides, and improvised weapons instructions. He pleaded guilty at the [[Old Bailey]] on 21 June 2019 to ten counts of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He was sentenced on 20 September 2019 to four years' imprisonment. A deportation order was also made, requiring his removal from the United Kingdom following completion of sentence.[^1]
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Tchorzewski had accumulated an extensive collection of extreme right-wing material that praised [[Adolf Hitler]], neo-Nazism, and Satanism, including antisemitic content calling for genocide. He expressed admiration for the [[Sonnenkrieg Division]] and held documented views on planned mass-casualty violence: in a notebook found in his prison cell, he wrote "Let's fill our hearts with terror and London's streets with blood," and he had previously stated that his "dream" was to carry out a large-scale attack.[^2]
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The prosecution described Tchorzewski as "a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi with an interest in Satanism and occult practices," placing his case within the constellation of O9A-adjacent terrorism cases in the UK involving Satanist and occultist materials. His link to [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) is through ideological orientation and Sonnenkrieg Division connection rather than documented direct nexion membership.
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On 8 June 2020, Tchorzewski pleaded guilty to charges of possessing indecent photographs and extreme pornographic images. He was sentenced at [[Harrow Crown Court]] on 23 July 2020 to eight months' imprisonment to run concurrently with his terrorism sentence.[^3]
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[^1]: Campaign Against Antisemitism. "Hitler-loving neo-Nazi who said it was his 'dream' to create a bloodbath arrested at Luton Airport and sentenced to four years." September 2019. https://antisemitism.org/hitler-loving-neo-nazi-who-said-it-was-his-dream-to-create-a-bloodbath-arrested-at-luton-airport-and-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison; Kafkadesk. "18-year-old Polish neo-Nazi jailed on terror charges in the U.K." September 2019. https://kafkadeskdotorg.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/18-year-old-polish-neo-nazi-jailed-on-terror-charges-in-the-u-k/
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[^2]: Faith Matters. "Nazi-Obsessed Teenager Who Dreamt of Planning Terrorism Jailed." September 2019. https://www.faith-matters.org/nazi-obsessed-teenager-who-dreamt-of-planning-terrorism-jailed/; Border Security Report. "Extreme Right Wing Teenager Jailed for Terrorism Offences." 2019. https://www.border-security-report.com/extreme-right-wing-teenager-jailed-for-terrorism-offences/
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[^3]: HS Today. "Police Find Sexual Abuse Images on Phone of Convicted Right-Wing Extremist." 2020. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/police-find-sexual-abuse-images-on-phone-of-convicted-right-wing-extremist/; Luton Today. "'Satanic' neo-Nazi terrorist arrested at Luton Airport jailed for possessing extreme sex abuse images." 2020. https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/crime/satanic-neo-nazi-terrorist-arrested-at-luton-airport-jailed-for-possessing-extreme-sex-abuse-images-2923360
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
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||||||
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created: 2026-05-21
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||||||
|
summary: "Leonidas Varagiannis (alias 'War') is a U.S. citizen who co-led 764 Inferno with Prasan Nepal, arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with running a child exploitation enterprise, contesting extradition as of mid-2026."
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|
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|
||||||
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||||||
|
[[Leonidas Varagiannis]], known online as "War," (born approximately 2004) is a U.S. citizen who was residing in [[Thessaloniki, Greece]] at the time of his April 29, 2025 arrest. He co-led [[764 Inferno]], a core operational subgroup of the [[764 Network]], alongside [[Prasan Nepal]] ("Trippy") of High Point, North Carolina. The [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] announced charges against both on April 30, 2025, filed in the [[District of Columbia]]. Varagiannis was arrested on an international warrant in Greece; his defense team contested extradition before the Greek Court of Appeals, with the appellate ruling still pending in mid-2025. He faces charges including production and distribution of [[CSAM]], coercion and enticement of minors, extortion, and conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise, with a potential sentence of life in federal prison. He was also named as a co-conspirator in the October 2025 federal indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in the District of Arizona.[^1]
|
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### 764 Inferno Operations
|
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|
||||||
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Varagiannis and Nepal ran 764 Inferno's operations targeting vulnerable children and teenagers across multiple jurisdictions. The enterprise used the broader [[The Com|Com]] ecosystem's operational methods at scale:
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Grooming through encrypted applications established trust and access with vulnerable targets. Victims were then coerced into producing degrading and explicit content through psychological manipulation and threats. The network specifically ordered "cut signs" and "blood signs" - victims were directed to cut symbols into their own bodies, photograph the results, and send the images as proof of submission and continued compliance.
|
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|
||||||
|
The most distinctive operational feature was the "Lorebook" economy: curated collections of victim abuse material that functioned as currency and status markers within the network. Lorebooks were traded among members to recruit additional participants, maintain hierarchical position, and access other Lorebook collections. This created an internal incentive structure that drove ongoing coercion.
|
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|
||||||
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The DOJ documented at least 8 minor victims, some as young as 13, across multiple jurisdictions.[^2]
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||||||
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### Arrest and Extradition Proceedings
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|
||||||
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Varagiannis was arrested by Greek authorities on April 29, 2025, the day before the DOJ announced charges. His defense attorney, [[Xanthippi Moysidou]], argued before Greek courts that because the alleged offenses occurred while Varagiannis was residing in Greece, Greek courts hold jurisdiction and extradition is "explicitly prohibited" under Greek law. He remained in Greek custody pending a ruling from the Greek Court of Appeals on the extradition challenge. No resolution of the appellate proceedings was publicly reported as of mid-2026.
|
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Nepal, having been arrested in North Carolina on April 22, 2025, faced direct U.S. federal prosecution with no extradition issues.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-DC. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 30, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise; Euronews. "US citizen faces extradition from Greece for alleged role in online child exploitation ring." May 2025. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/01/us-citizen-faces-extradition-from-greece-for-alleged-role-in-online-child-exploitation-rin
|
||||||
|
[^2]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764
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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
- FeuerkriegDivision
|
||||||
|
- NeoNazi
|
||||||
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- O9A
|
||||||
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- InsightRole
|
||||||
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- FederalCase
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||||||
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- NewYork
|
||||||
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- USA
|
||||||
|
- TerroristConviction
|
||||||
|
born: 1990
|
||||||
|
location: "San Jose, California"
|
||||||
|
created: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
updated: 2026-05-22
|
||||||
|
summary: "Nicholas Welker, alias 'King ov Wrath,' was a San Jose-based Feuerkrieg Division leader and Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2023 posted death threats against a Brooklyn journalist and was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison in April 2024."
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Nicholas Welker (alias "King ov Wrath"), of [[San Jose, California]], served as a self-identified leader of [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) after the organization's nominal dissolution and reconstitution on [[Telegram]] in 2021. He was arrested on 21 March 2023 on charges arising from a death threat campaign against a journalist who had reported on FKD, pleaded guilty in September 2023 in the [[Eastern District of New York]], and was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison on 19 April 2024 by U.S. District Judge [[Pamela K. Chen]].[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### O9A Insight Role
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Welker was an adherent of the [[Order of Nine Angles]] (O9A) and reportedly joined FKD as a deliberate "[[Insight Roles|insight role]]," consistent with O9A's documented practice of infiltrating existing violent extremist organizations as vehicles for the initiatory crimes prescribed by the [[Seven Fold Way]]. The O9A framework treats extended participation in a violent organization as a necessary developmental step (the "external adept" stage), during which the practitioner commits acts of violence or criminal disruption to test and harden ideological commitment.[^2]
|
||||||
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||||||
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Welker's presence in FKD as an O9A practitioner rather than a straightforward neo-Nazi accelerationist is documented in reporting by the [[Counter Extremism Project]] and reflects a broader pattern visible in [[Atomwaffen Division]]'s evolution: O9A adherents using AWD and AWD-adjacent organizations as operational vehicles. In AWD's case the infiltration was orchestrated by [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and [[John Cameron Denton]]; in FKD's case Welker appears to have operated independently rather than as part of a coordinated infiltration campaign.
|
||||||
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|
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|
### Death Threat Campaign and Arrest
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
On 28 March 2023 (approximately one week after his 21 March arrest), the DOJ press release documented that Welker had posted a specific death threat to a public online forum. The threat included a photograph of the targeted journalist with a gun graphic aimed at the journalist's head and the text "Race Traitor" superimposed over the journalist's eyes, along with the message "JOURNALIST F[---] OFF! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED." The threat identified the journalist and his employer by name.[^1]
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
The journalist targeted had been reporting specifically on FKD. The threat was designed to force the journalist to cease that reporting. In this it paralleled AWD's coordinated 2020 journalist-harassment campaign organized by [[Kaleb Cole]], though Welker appears to have acted without a formal organization behind the threat.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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The Eastern District of New York brought the case rather than the Northern District of California (where Welker resided), presumably because the targeted journalist was based in Brooklyn and the threat was directed at a New York location.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
### Plea and Sentence
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||||||
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|
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Welker pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make interstate threats. The charge did not carry a terrorism enhancement, consistent with the pattern in most FKD-related US prosecutions. He was sentenced by Judge Chen to 44 months, the highest sentence imposed on any FKD-connected US defendant to that point, exceeding [[Jarrett William Smith]]'s 30-month term (2020) and [[Conor Climo]]'s 24-month term (2020).[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNY. "Leader of White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Journalist." September 2023. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/leader-white-supremacist-group-pleads-guilty-conspiring-make-death-threats-against; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDNY. "White Supremacist Leader Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Brooklyn Journalist." April 19, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/white-supremacist-leader-sentenced-44-months-prison-conspiring-make-death-threats
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[^2]: Counter Extremism Project. "Feuerkrieg Division." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/feuerkrieg-division; Vice. "Neo-Nazi Leader 'ilovehate5150' Charged for Threatening to Kill Journalist." March 2023. https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-nicholas-welker-arrested-feuerkrieg-division/
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summary: "Richard Tobin is a Brooklawn, New Jersey member of The Base who organized 'Operation Kristallnacht,' directing coordinated synagogue vandalism across two U.S. cities in 2019 and sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison."
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[[Richard Tobin]] (born approximately 2001, [[Brooklawn, New Jersey]]) was a member of [[The Base]], the paramilitary white supremacist network founded by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] in 2018, who in September 2019 organized "[[Operation Kristallnacht]]" - a coordinated synagogue vandalism campaign targeting two U.S. cities. He directed two other Base members via encrypted online communications to spray-paint hate symbols on synagogues in [[Racine, Wisconsin]] and [[Hancock, Michigan]] on September 21, 2019. He was charged with conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) in the District of New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February 2021, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge [[Robert B. Kugler]] to one year and one day in federal prison plus three years of supervised release in November 2021.[^1]
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Tobin organized the operation through encrypted online chat communications with at least two other Base members. The name invoked the November 1938 Nazi-organized pogrom against Jewish businesses and synagogues across Germany. On September 21, 2019, his co-conspirators executed the operation, defacing synagogues in Racine, Wisconsin and Hancock, Michigan with hate symbols. The simultaneous nature of the attacks in two geographically distant cities reflected The Base's broader ambition to operate as a coordinated national network rather than a local formation.
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Tobin cooperated with federal prosecutors following his arrest, reportedly providing information identifying his co-conspirators. His charge was filed as an information (not a grand jury indictment), a procedure typically indicating a plea arrangement reached before indictment.
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The [[FBI]] investigated and charged Tobin in the [[U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey|District of New Jersey]]. He pleaded guilty in February 2021, acknowledging he had organized the operation via encrypted communications. Judge Robert B. Kugler sentenced him to one year and one day in federal prison plus three years of supervised release in November 2021. The sentence reflected both his cooperation and the relatively contained nature of the specific offense - property vandalism rather than violence against persons.[^1]
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NJ. "Camden County Man Sentenced to One Year and One Day in Prison for Conspiring with White Supremacists." https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/camden-county-man-sentenced-one-year-and-one-day-prison-conspiring-white-supremacists; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NJ. "Camden County Man Admits Conspiring with White Supremacists to Vandalize Synagogues Across America." https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/camden-county-man-admits-conspiring-white-supremacists-vandalize-synagogues-across
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summary: "Rumaldo Valdez was a U.S. Navy petty officer stationed in Hawaii and Greggy's Cult member, sentenced to 97 months for child pornography possession in March 2026, with additional EDNY charges pending."
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[[Rumaldo Valdez]], known online as "Duck," was a [[U.S. Navy]] Petty Officer 3rd Class (E-4) stationed at Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific in [[Wahiawa, Hawaii]], a Department of Defense installation. He was a member of [[Greggy's Cult]] (also called the "Cult of Greg"), an online child exploitation network that operated on Discord and gaming platforms from approximately January 2020 through January 2021 and is documented as a direct predecessor to the [[764 Network]]. The FBI arrested Valdez in May 2025 at the Wahiawa installation. He pleaded guilty on October 24, 2025, to possession of child pornography committed on a U.S. military base, and was sentenced in March 2026 to 97 months (approximately eight years) in federal prison plus 10 years of supervised release and $33,000 in restitution to 11 identified victims, by a federal judge in the [[District of Hawaii]]. Separate charges were pending against him in the [[Eastern District of New York]] as of that date.[^1]
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Greggy's Cult operated from approximately January 2020 through January 2021 using methods that would later define the 764 network's operational model: recruiting minor victims through gaming platforms and social media, coercing them into producing child sexual abuse material ([[CSAM]]), and blackmailing them with that material to compel ongoing compliance and self-harm. [[NCITE]] tracked Greggy's Cult alongside CVLT and 764 as one of three connected networks accounting for 31 individuals publicly charged with federal crimes by December 2025.
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Valdez's devices, seized at the time of his arrest, contained CSAM described in the government's sentencing memorandum as among "the most extreme child-abuse images in existence," stored in two password-encrypted digital containers.[^2]
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State and federal investigators brought Valdez's case as possession of violent child pornography on a U.S. military installation, allowing federal jurisdiction. His October 24, 2025 guilty plea resolved the Hawaii charges, and his March 2026 sentencing imposed 97 months of incarceration, 10 years of supervised release, and $33,000 in restitution distributed to 11 identified victims.
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A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment on December 3, 2025, charging Valdez alongside four co-defendants on 10 counts including engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, producing child pornography, and making interstate threats. The co-defendants were [[Camden Rodriguez]] (22, Longmont, Colorado), [[Zachary Dosch]] (26, Albuquerque, New Mexico - who had separately pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges but remained unsentenced), [[David Brilhante]] (28, San Diego, California), and [[Hector Bermudez]] (29, New York). The EDNY case was pending as of Valdez's March 2026 Hawaii sentencing.[^1]
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[^1]: ABC News. "DOJ charges former Navy petty officer, 4 others in child exploitation case." https://abcnews.com/US/doj-charges-former-navy-petty-officer-4-alleged/story?id=128072704; KITV. "Former Navy petty officer sentenced to over 8 years in federal prison in child pornography case." https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/former-navy-petty-officer-sentenced-to-over-8-years-in-federal-prison-in-child-pornography/article_125297e0-b011-49d5-82ff-3b75d615a6d6.html
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[^2]: Honolulu Star-Advertiser. "Navy petty officer sentenced to prison in sextortion case." March 2026. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/03/02/breaking-news/navy-petty-officer-sentenced-to-prison-in-sextortion-case/
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born: 1997
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location: "Newport Beach, California"
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created: 2026-05-21
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summary: "Samuel Woodward was an Atomwaffen Division member who in January 2018 stabbed gay Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein 28 times in California; convicted of hate crime murder in 2024 and sentenced to life without parole."
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[[Samuel Woodward]] (full name Samuel Lincoln Woodward) was an [[Atomwaffen Division]] member from [[Newport Beach, California]] who on January 2, 2018 murdered [[Blaze Bernstein]], a 19-year-old gay Jewish student home from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] on winter break, stabbing him 28 times and burying his body in [[Borrego Park]] in [[Lake Forest, California]]. A jury at [[Orange County Superior Court]] convicted Woodward of first-degree murder with a hate crime enhancement on July 3, 2024. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on November 15, 2024, by Judge [[Kimberly Menninger]]. He was absent from sentencing due to illness.
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### AWD Membership
|
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Woodward's Atomwaffen Division membership was established through multiple overlapping lines of evidence. [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] obtained photographs of Woodward attending AWD training meetings in Texas, as well as encrypted chat logs in which he openly identified as a National Socialist. He had attended a three-day AWD "Hate Camp" near San Antonio involving firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, camping, and survival instruction. He operated under the AWD aliases "Saboteur" and "Arn." Prosecutors also cited his dropping out of [[California State University Channel Islands]] to travel to Texas for AWD training.
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||||||
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### Murder
|
||||||
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||||||
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Woodward and Bernstein had attended the same high school, [[Orange County School of the Arts]], and had reconnected through a dating app in the months before the killing. On the night of January 2, 2018, Woodward picked Bernstein up from his family's Lake Forest home at approximately 11:00 p.m. He drove Bernstein to Borrego Park, where he stabbed him 28 times and buried the body. The body was discovered on January 10, 2018. Woodward was arrested two days later.
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Encrypted AWD chat logs obtained by ProPublica and FRONTLINE showed members celebrating the murder. One member wrote "I love this." Another called Woodward "a one man gay Jew wrecking crew." The logs documented the network's reaction as one of approval rather than concern.[^1]
|
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### Trial and Sentence
|
||||||
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||||||
|
The case was prosecuted in [[Orange County Superior Court]] as a hate crime murder, with the hate crime enhancement based on Bernstein's sexual orientation and Jewish identity. The trial lasted nearly three months. The jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts on July 3, 2024. Judge Kimberly Menninger sentenced Woodward to life in prison without the possibility of parole on November 15, 2024.[^2]
|
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|
||||||
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### Footnotes
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|
||||||
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[^1]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "Armed and Dangerous." 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group; ProPublica. "California Murder Suspect Was Member of Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen Division." https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group
|
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|
[^2]: Orange County District Attorney. "Newport Beach Man Convicted of Stabbing Gay Former High School Classmate to Death in 2018 Hate Crime Murder." July 3, 2024. https://orangecountyda.org/press/newport-beach-man-convicted-of-stabbing-gay-former-high-school-classmate-to-death-in-2018-hate-crime-murder/; Orange County District Attorney. "Newport Beach Man Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Possibility of Parole." November 15, 2024. https://orangecountyda.org/press/newport-beach-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-possibility-of-parole-for-stabbing-gay-former-high-school-classmate-to-death-in-2018-hate-crime-murder/
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