Appalachia Research Club

Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

This is a must read on how the ADL radicalized itself under Jonathan Greenblatt and became a deeply illiberal and authoritarian organization solely committed to censoring its critics and shielding Israel from criticism.

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‘Dead targets’: U.S. Terrorgram leader linked to white supremacist attacks to plead guilty One of two U.S.-based leaders of the white supremacist Terrorgram Collective accused of solicitation of the murder of federal officials and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, among ...

SCOOP: Dallas Erin Humber, a US-based Terrorgram leader directly linked to lethal attacks in Slovakia and Brazil, to plead guilty (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

‘Chill the judiciary': Judge whose son was murdered sees death threats not being counted Official figures for an alarming rise in threats to state and federal judges do not include cases described by judges in Florida, said federal Judge Esther Salas — who saw her son killed and husband w...

The official tally of anonymous pizza deliveries to judges is 103, including 20 in the name of Judge Esther Salas' murdered son, Daniel Anderl.

That doesn't include a group of state judges in Florida who told Salas last week that they to have received the pizzas.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war Two rabbis sat down for dinner at Chabad Jewish Center in Pensacola, Fla.The air on this July evening was warm and tranquil. A sense of peace filled the kitchen where the men shared their meal. Sudden...

I mentioned to Judge Salas that Mathew Bair, a former Proud Boy who joined the neo-Nazi group 2119, alluded to her son's murder when I asked him about a flier he promoted reading "Shoot your local judge." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Stalked by Nazis: How extremists tried to stop me from reporting on their violence Since last year, the neo-Nazi group 2119 has committed acts of violence targeting Jews, Black people, LGBTQ+ people and other perceived enemies. I began reporting on 2119 in an effort to expose its ac...

Incidentally, I was also targeted by an anonymous pizza delivery before I spoke with Bair.

This took place in January 2024, more than a year before the US Marshals Service issued a bulletin about federal judges across the country being targeted in this manner. www.rawstory.com/hunted-by-na...

When a Domino's delivery driver knocked on my door, Kai Nix was parked outside my house ready to take a photo of me.

Nix is currently awaiting trial for allegedly lying on his application for military service about involvement in insurrectionist groups. www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr...

I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry. After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the ‘militant accelerationism’ movement operates.

ICYMI www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

JImbo Jones from the Simpsons in the "videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we ever had" scene, but it reads "may every day be another wonderful secret!"

I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry. After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the ‘militant accelerationism’ movement operates.

Thanks to @theassemblync.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to tell the full story about how neo-Nazi terror came to our doorstep, and how their harassment campaign exposes the long tentacles of the militant accelerationist community. www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

Thanks for your early and critical research on these characters in 2019 and 2020. My reporting on this topic is indebted to too many researchers and sources to mention everyone by name. Yours certainly provided an important building block. And I know you've experienced your share of harassment.

This is one of the core reasons I had to stop posting research about the accelerationist Nazi movement.

One of these Nazis on Jordan's lawn is someone I originally made the ID on.

Another is a terrorist who I interacted with regularly & directly on Telegram.

These are sadistic aspiring murderers.

I’ve been reporting on militant accelerationism — a hyper-violent tendency within the white power movement that seeks to bring about a white ethno-state though industrial sabotage, racist mass murder, antisemitic vandalism and harassing LGBTQ+ people at drag shows — since 2022. 1/4

"The experience definitely left a lasting psychological impact of anxiety and a constant sense of looking over our shoulders," I told @liamjscott.bsky.social about our family's experience of having violent Nazis show up at our house.

Several journalists I admire and count as friends featured here.

One bit that didn't make it into the article: the false allegations that were made against me that resulted in me being swatted originated from someone who was impersonating the FBI national tip line, and the Dallas Police have not taken that seriously.

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.

"Last Thanksgiving, Steven Monacelli was awoken early in the morning by the sound of police officers knocking on the door of his Dallas home."

Thanks to Columbia Journalism Review for running this story highlighting the threats and intimidation extremism reporters face.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

Neo-Nazi Teenagers Across America Starting Their Own Active Clubs A dangerous new front in youth radicalization is spreading across the U.S., as neo-Nazi "Youth Clubs" modeled on the white supremacist Active Club network gain traction among teens aged 15 to 18. With...

Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are forming across the U.S., targeting boys aged 15 to 18 with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and recruitment tactics modeled after the violent Active Club network. Active in at least 42 states, the movement is spreading both online and offline.

Atomwaffen Division Propagandist Patrick Macdonald Found Guilty on All Charges The maximum sentence for one of Patrick Macdonald’s charges includes life in prison.

🚨 1/ IN COURT: The sentencing for Patrick Macdonald, better known as the Dark Foreigner, and a propagandist for the terrorist group Atomwaffen, has begun.

Follow along here for important updates.

Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:

Picture of Tennessee neo-Nazi’s gun

Tennessee Nazi that threatened No Kings protest had gun with designs mimicking Christchurch mass murderer’s gun

AND his hat had patch referencing Curtis Yarvin’s “dark enlightenment” theory, which calls for an end to democracy

www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Teen admits to terrifying swatting crusade: 'That's how u get a bomb squad' A 19-year-old Ohio man who set up an online group chat and wrote scripts for Purgatory, a nihilistic swatting gang that targeted a casino, airport, trailer park and schools, has pleaded guilty in fede...

BREAKING: Ohio teen who wrote scripts for nihilistic online swatting crew Purgatory that targeted Columbus, OH casino, NY state airport and schools pleads guilty. (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Very thorough thread here about an individual within a violent extremist network we've been following. Great work from @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social

If you've poked around in the accelerationist spaces of twitter, chances are you've run into Jake Colwell's "Sunny" account - a terminally online fascist who is mutuals with some of the worst troll networks of racial gore & violence on the site.

bywayofplymouth.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...

Patriot Front is hidden hand behind dozen active clubs The white nationalist hate group is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active clubs network.

NEW: The white nationalist hate group Patriot Front is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active club network. Great reporting by @jtischauser.bsky.social and @splcenter.org!
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

February 2025 audio recording of Tennessee Active Club lead Sean Kauffmann:

“Just so everyone in here knows, I have worked heavily with Patriot Front. I have been a part of Patriot Front… I have a track record for honesty and transparency.”

The lead of a local Active Club was previously identified as Ryan Drago, a former NSM nazi who was in prison for murdering a Latino teenager in 2006. Drago and his neo-Nazi gang have clear ties to Patriot Front and have marched alongside and organized events with PF repeatedly.

Screenshot from a Telegram channel run by Juan Cadavid states "The SPLC and ADL’s greatest resource for information on “hate groups” is literally just whatever infighting you’re doing in public chats and the channels whose focus it is to spread rumors and gossip. If you’re one of those people who loves to consume movement drama slop or spread it, congrats you’re an agent for the ADL and SPLC. You might as well go all the way and collect a paycheck. Online only nationalists do more damage than harm when they behave this way. Instead join your local active club or nationalist group or ideally Patriot Front. Then you can have positive IRL social interactions that don’t serve the interests of the ADL. When you meet with people in real life you can have positive conversations rooted around individual and collective goals. On the Internet there is nothing to do but gossip."

Patriot Front leader, Juan Cadavid, who is a a migrant from Colombia, resides in SoCal and runs the Anti-Communist Combat HQ channel on Telegram, has some thoughts on my story that shows Patriot Front secretly controlling about a dozen active clubs. 1/4

READ: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys Using fitness and sports as an entry points to their neo-Nazi ideologies, ‘youth club’ chapters are proliferating across US

The active clubs that are grooming boys. They hunt online and in fitness and MMA subcultures, looking for vulnerable boys who they can excite with their creepy brand of hypermasculinity and white power.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Podcast platforms host Jake Shields’ antisemitism bigotry and racism This article contains references to graphic antisemitic, racist, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ language. A former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter turned podcast host is spreading antisemitic conspirac...

New: My colleague and I looked into Jake Shields, a former-MMA fighter who now hosts a podcast that pushes Holocaust denial, white nationalism and male supremacist bigotry on Spotify, Youtube and Apple Podcasts [CW: anti-trans violence, antisemitism] 🧵

www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

CW: child sexual abuse, violence, bigotry

This is an extremely disturbing case involving a 25-year-old groomer who celebrated mass murderer Brenton Tarrant w/ his high school-age victim.

He called for a massacre targeting Hindus: "we need one Christchurch to break the Indian hate bandwagon." 1/3

How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated,…

NEW: The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.