Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3GJwNadeE

 

Neo-Nazi leader sentenced to 20 years for plot to attack Maryland’s power grid

Brandon Russell, founder of neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was convicted of plotting to blow up Baltimore power grid…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/08/neo-nazi-leader-sentenced-to-20-years-for-plot-to-attack-marylands-power-grid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Activist with neo-Nazi ties fronts Marco Rubio-linked anti-immigration effort

The rightwing activist Nate Hochman, who was fired last year by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for employing neo-Nazi imagery in a campaign video, is now the face of a Marco Rubio-linked thinktank's efforts to spread anti-immigrant panic from Ohio to Pennsylvania...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/21/nate-hochman-marco-rubio-anti-immigrant-thinktank-america-2100

Neo-Nazi leader charged over alleged plot to poison New York Jewish children

Prosecutors said since September 2021, Chkhikvishvili has distributed a manifesto titled the "Hater's Handbook" in which he states that he has "murdered for the white race" and encourages others to do the same. 

"For example, and among other things, the handbook encourages its readers to commit school shootings and to use children to perpetrate suicide bombings and other mass killings targeting racial minorities," the justice department statement said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/neo-nazi-charged-new-york

Neo-Nazi groups spew hate outside Disney World and near Orlando, officials say

Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside of Disney World and in the nearby Orlando area on Saturday, in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neo-nazi-groups-spew-hate-disney-world-orlando-officials-say-rcna103186

DeSantis aide fired after sharing video featuring symbol used by Nazis | Ron DeSantis | The Guardian

"DeSantis is perfectly happy having this kind of person on the staff but doesn't want people to know it. He still employs, Christina Pushaw [his press secretary] and other alt-right, white nationalist and anti-LGBQT activists."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/26/desantis-campaign-video-nazi-symbol-fired-aide

Rick Reacts: DeSantis' Neo Nazi Staffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1qYJBSvIis

A police chief got rid of a neo-Nazi. Then came the hard part. - The Washington Post

It is difficult to measure the creep of far-right beliefs among the more than 650,000 police and sheriff's patrol officers the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts nationwide, but the issue is of growing concern, with dozens of prominent examples in recent years, including current and former law enforcement officers charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 

Others have been linked to far-right militia groups and white-supremacist factions, or have been identified as contributing racist posts on police message boards. An Oklahoma sheriff made national headlines in recent weeks after he was recorded reportedly talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/08/police-white-supremacist-springfield-illinois/

Texas gunman who killed eight had ‘neo-Nazi’ ideation, say officials

Mauricio Garcia, who was discharged from the US army in 2008, reportedly also had Nazi tattoos on his body…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/texas-mall-gunman-neo-nazi-tattoos

Neo-Nazi, not Voltaire, originated quote about 'who rules over you' - PolitiFact

"This quote is from neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and convicted pedophile Kevin Alfred Strom, not Voltaire," tweeted the American Jewish Committee, a Jewish advocacy group. "We expect better of our representatives in Congress."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/31/thomas-massie/gop-rep-thomas-massie-wrongly-credits-neo-nazis-qu/

US Capitol riot: police have long history of aiding neo-Nazis and extremists | US policing | The Guardian

Experts were not surprised that officers were part of the mob, given the ties between some police and white supremacist groups in recent years...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/us-capitol-riot-police-neo-nazis-far-right

Donald Trump and His Allies are Trying to Rewrite the History of Charlottesville – Mother Jones

...Trump's defenders have seized on that line to argue that it's false to say Trump praised white supremacists. But that requires a willful ignorance of who organized the rally and who attended it. Unite the Right was not some spontaneous demonstration, nor was it a big-tent gathering meant to rope in a broad coalition. It was plainly advertised as a white supremacist rally, by and for neo-Nazis. It was supposed to be menacing. And it was the only rally in Charlottesville that day (other than the counterprotests). There was no second group. The Washington Post's fact-checker noted that "The 207-page independent review commissioned by Charlottesville…makes no mention of peaceful pro-statue demonstrators."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-rewrite-the-history-of-charlottesville/

Neo-Nazi group marches in Pennsylvania — in defiance of COVID-19 regulations – Raw Story

The Pennsylvania town of Williamsport of the scene of a neo-Nazi march on Saturday. “Despite assurances they would not appear, approximately 15 members of National Socialist Movement (NSM), many of them armed, rallied in Williamsport’s Brandon Park Saturday afternoon,” PennLive reports. The NSM reportedly used the N-word to refer to Derek Slaughter, the town’s first Black mayor.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/neo-nazi-group-marches-in-pennsylvania-in-defiance-of-19-regulations/

Member of neo-Nazi group pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ conspiracy against journalists, minorities - The Washington Post

A man described by authorities as a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division admitted in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday that he harassed minorities and journalists by calling police to their homes and offices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/member-of-neo-nazi-group-pleads-guilty-to-swatting-conspiracy-of-journalists-minorities/2020/07/14/695f0e52-c5d4-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

Reformed Neo-Nazi Discusses President Trump's Controversial Shared Tweet : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR

When Christian Picciolini was a neo-Nazi, he heard the term "white power" all the time. It was the term they used as a greeting, as a pejorative, to instill fear, even to sign off letters in lieu of "sincerely." "It was also a proclamation that distilled what we believed in into two words," Picciolini, who is now an author and founder of the Free Radicals Project, a group that works to prevent extremism, told NPR's Morning Edition.
Interview:
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/02/886487184/reformed-nazi-discusses-president-trumps-controversial-shared-tweet

U.S. Army soldier Ethan Melzer plotted with satanic neo-Nazi group O9A to stage deadly attack, feds say - The Washington Post

As Ethan Melzer’s Army unit prepared to deploy in April, the young private recognized that he could be killed while overseas and expressed an apparent willingness to die. “I would’ve died successfully,” he allegedly wrote in a message. But federal authorities now say that Melzer’s life was actually at risk because of a murderous plot he had hatched against his own unit. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/23/army-attack-ethan-melzer-satanic/

Neo-Nazi U.S. Soldier Faces Federal Terrorism Charges For Plotting Attack On Unit | HuffPost

Ethan Melzer was part of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) which federal prosecutors called a racist and “occult-based neo-Nazi” group.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-soldier-terrorism-charge-neo-nazi_n_5ef11e83c5b6503139dbfc2a

How To Identify Misinformation About The Protests (The 1A)

There’s no shortage of misinformation online. It’s becoming harder and harder to determine what will lead you down a conspiracy-laden rabbit hole and what’s worth your time and attention.

Social media allows us to choose what voices we follow and hear. But that means you and your friends could hear completely different stories about a topic or person, based on your preferences.

A recent conspiracy theory falsely suggested George Floyd, a black man from Minneapolis who was killed by a police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, was actually alive. That theory is completely untrue.

And tech leaders aren’t doing a great deal to stop the spread of misinformation online. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg declined to police President Donald Trump’s language surrounding protestors on his platform, much to his employees’ chagrin.

The president also tried to get journalists to adjust stories about a photo opportunity he engineered by tear-gassing peaceful protestors outside the White House, saying that authorities didn’t use tear gas. Even though they definitely did.

Republican politicians and operatives are also claiming that a group known as Antifa (short for anti-fascist) are responsible for whipping up the protests across the country. But Antifa doesn’t have “a leader, a defined structure or membership roles,” according to The New York Times.

How can we combat misinformation online? Especially when the national discussion of issues is so critical to solving them?
Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/how-to-identify-misinformation-about-the-protests/

Leaked chats show neo-Nazis, extremists tried to sway 2018 Arizona elections

Self proclaimed Neo-Nazis and other extremists worked together to try and sway the outcome of Arizona’s 2018 midterm election by a variety of means including promoting candidates they liked or ones they felt were doomed to fail, according to leaked chat logs. The online chat logs analyzed by the Arizona Mirror are only a small fraction of nearly 10 million internal messages from over 100 servers on the Discord chat app run by Neo-Nazis and QAnon conspiracy theorists that were made available to a group of journalists at Distributed Denial of Secrets. https://www.azmirror.com/blog/leaked-chats-show-how-neo-nazis-extremists-tried-to-sway-2018-arizona-elections/

Neo-Nazi Groups Tell Virus-Infected Members to Spray Bodily Fluids at Cops and Jews, Says Report

Neo-Nazi and other white-supremacist groups have told their members to spread the novel coronavirus to cops and Jews if they become infected, according to ABC News. The FBI has reportedly sent out a warning that “members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-groups-tell-virus-infected-members-to-spray-bodily-fluids-at-cops-and-jews-says-report