I once got a cease & desist from someone who encouraged me to share it with my 82 followers. Of course I did and now, nearly five years later, I’m thrilled to report I’ve finally hit 282. The grind never stops.
31.10.2025 01:35 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Rope Culture” propagandists exposed and emails explored: From Iron March leaks to FashyLeaks
Part III: Exploring the podcasts hosted on the site and sifting through the private emails found in the web server leak
Today we published the last of three articles investigating the exposed web server for the neo-Nazi magazine Rope Culture. We’re identifying several far-right figures involved, including a Canadian Nazi podcaster-turned-Orthodox priest, a Danish metal musician, and a notorious American pedophile.
29.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 171 🔁 79 💬 1 📌 8
Stacked timeseries bar chart showing the sites that visitors were most commonly referred to the Rope Culture website from, between December 2015 and November 2017. The most common site was Facebook, followed by The Daily Stormer, Iron March, Twitter, Reddit, 8chan, Disqus, and Tumblr
Based on data in the web server, the most common website that users were referred to Rope Culture from (clicking a link that took them to the Rope Culture website) was Facebook.
28.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Uncovered: Identities and tactics behind the neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” web server
Part II: Examination of the magazine's publication decisions, its odious commenters, and the platforms that promoted it
Yesterday we published the first of 3 articles that investigate the exposed web server for the neo-Nazi magazine Rope Culture. Today we've just published the second part, which analyzes the published articles, reader comments, and web traffic data.
28.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 41 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 2
Extremely important legal analysis about what happens if the FTO designation gets applied to “antifa.” if you’re organizing against the far right, you absolutely need to read this.
27.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 90 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 2
Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network
Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right
We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.
27.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 343 🔁 146 💬 5 📌 15
An August 2023 fight was promoted on VK as a fundraiser for Russian troops in the “special military operation” - the Kremlin’s propaganda term for the war on Ukraine - ending with “Glory to Russia!”
The PPV stream was also advertised on Instagram, but without mentioning its fundraising purpose.
20.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
October 20, 2025 post on the blue check verified Streets Fight Club Instagram account. The image shows fighters from SFC America and the caption reads: "CAN'T STOP US. WE ARE EVERYWHERE."
SFC generates income selling pay-per-view fight streams. Its blue check Instagram account has over 22k followers, while their former YouTube channel was banned at 20k subscribers following inquiry by the Guardian.
Meta did not respond to requests for comment, and related SFC pages remain active.
20.10.2025 23:11 — 👍 34 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from an April 2025 SFC promotional video for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament featuring Patria Gloria member Andrew Lindgren, billed as "Drew."
Screenshot from a promotional video for the 2024 Frontier fight tournament in Southern Californa. The image shows a shirtless Andrew Lindgren of the Patriot Front BJJ team Patria Gloria.
Screenshot from an April 2025 SFC promotional video for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament showing Lucas Cheek. Cheek fights under the alias "Holler Brawler" for the amateur boxing promotion Redneck Brawl.
Screenshot of an August 23, 2025 Facebook post from Lucas Cheek. The video is a clip from Cheek's SFC America fight with Thomas Denton during the April 2025 "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" tournament. Denton is on the left, while a masked referee raises Cheek's arm. The caption reads: "Why they call me the Holler Brawler."
Andrew Lindgren, billed as “Drew,” fought at the 2024 Frontier fight tournament and took part in a bareknuckle boxing match at the PF compound in Tellico Plains TN.
SFC fighter Lucas Cheek of Tellico Plains has fought under the alias “Holler Brawler” for the amateur boxing promotion Redneck Brawl.
20.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
Photo from the March 2024 "American Muscle" tournament in Muenster, Texas. Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau (left) poses with Tristan Rettke, aka "Sporty."
Screenshot from an April 2025 SFC promotional video for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament featuring Tristan Rettke, aka "Sporty."
Image of Tristan Rettke during his 2019 trial for civil rights intimidation after he disrupted a Black Lives Matter event while he a student at East Tennessee State University. He was convicted of a lesser misdemeanor and sentenced to judical diversion and probation.
Handlebar mustachioed Tristan Rettke has also participated in fight tournaments between Patriot Front and the Active Clubs.
In 2019, Rettke was found not guilty of civil rights intimidation after disrupting a 2016 Black Lives Matter event while he was a student at East Tennessee State University.
20.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from an April 2025 SFC promotional video for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament featuring Tennessee Active Club member Thomas Grady, aka "Dagda."
Video still from November 2022 YouTube video showing Tennessee Active Club member Thomas Grady, aka "Dagda."
Thomas Grady, aka “Dagda,” is a former marine and professional MMA fighter who was first identified as a member of Tennessee Active Club by a pseudonymous researcher earlier this year.
In June, The Guardian reported TAC infiltrated and was ultimately banned from a family friendly BJJ academy.
20.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from an April 2025 SFC promotional video for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament featuring Thomas Francis Denton, aka "Phoenix."
January 18, 2022 mugshot of Thomas Francis Denton from the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Other SFC fighters identified in the story include Thomas Francis Denton of the Base. In 2022, Denton pleaded no contest to felony firearm & conspiracy charges in Michigan for trying to set up a “hate camp.” The Base is a designated terrorist organization in Canada & the European Union.
20.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 47 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Undated image showing SFC America fighter Avery Ross Ruiz, aka "Panzzer." Ruiz is a member of the Texas-based Lone Star Active Club.
April 2025 SFC promotional image for the "Slaughter Smokey Mountain" fight tournament showing a bleached-blond and tattooed Avery Ross Ruiz of the Lone Star Active Club.
Image from a September 20, 2025 post on Telegram showing Avery Ross Ruiz posing with Rob Rundo at Lone Star Active Club's private gym in Texas.
Image of Avery Ross Ruiz (in orange pants) fighting at the Frontier tournament in Southern California between the Active Club network and Patriot Front in August 2025.
SFC America is led by Avery Ross Ruiz, aka “Panzzer,” of Texas-based Lone Star Active Club. In August, Ruiz fought in the Frontier fight tournament in Southern California between the Active Clubs and Patriot Front. Following Friday’s publication by The Guardian, Ruiz responded: “Weak ass article.”
20.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 4
April 2025 SFC promotional image for the “Slaughter Smokey Mountain” tournament showing the masked referee wearing a straw hat.
Photo of Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott with a crown of flowers in his hair at an April 2025 May Day celebration.
SFC has promoted at least two fight tournaments in the US featuring fighters from the Active Club network, the Base, and Patria Gloria - the Patriot Front BJJ team led by PF enforcer Ian Michael Elliott. Elliott was previously revealed as an organizer of a 122-acre PF compound in Tellico Plains, TN.
20.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Last week, I broke the story of how a Russian street fight promotion expanded into the US with help of neo-nazis from the Active Club network & Patriot Front.
Streets Fight Club (SFC) has promoted no-rules, bare-knuckle fights on Instagram & YouTube while raising funds for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
20.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 293 🔁 168 💬 11 📌 13
Meta did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
18.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis
Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine
Patriot Front and Active Clubs are working with a Russian fight promoter to sell pay-per-view tickets to its fight club events. The article includes previously unidentified PF/AC guys like Thomas Denton a former member of the accelerationist group the Base. 1/4
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
17.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 161 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 6
Geolocating an Active Club 'Fight Night' in San Diego
An orange wall helped Bellingcat identify the location of an annual far-right event attended by neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
Pro tip: if you're trying to hide the location of your latest far-right 'fight night' all the blurring and and tight shots won't help you if you host it in a place with bright orange walls (and also lie to the owner about why you're renting the place)
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
15.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 103 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 0
I touch on this assault in my @bellingcat.com latest on their ‘fight night’ 2 weeks ago, but SoCal Active Club founder and leader Robert Wheldon is indeed one of the attackers - he kicks the man on the ground twice and strikes him with the flagpole twice before running away
bsky.app/profile/acat...
15.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 152 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 1
Geolocating an Active Club 'Fight Night' in San Diego
An orange wall helped Bellingcat identify the location of an annual far-right event attended by neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
Far-right fight nights are events bringing together combat fighting, extremist bands and merch, in an attempt to bring in new recruits and solidify existing relationships. @colborne.bsky.social locates the latest event for a California-based group: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
15.09.2025 16:15 — 👍 177 🔁 74 💬 3 📌 10
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