#activeclubs — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/russia-street-fight-club-far-right-active-club

"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

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.

The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.

SFC stages bareknuckle brawls throughout the year, typically in Europe. Events are often held at abandoned sites, where improvised fight cages are set up using barricade fencing."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-10-18 · 16:22 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/russia-street-fight-club-far-right-active-club

"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

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.

The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.

SFC stages bareknuckle brawls throughout the year, typically in Europe. Events are often held at abandoned sites, where improvised fight cages are set up using barricade fencing."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-10-18 · 16:22 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/russia-street-fight-club-far-right-active-club

"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

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.

The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.

SFC stages bareknuckle brawls throughout the year, typically in Europe. Events are often held at abandoned sites, where improvised fight cages are set up using barricade fencing."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 13:22 UTC

Oh look, more political violence -- from white dudes with US flags and skull masks.

And look at that, it's directed at someone who isn't far enough to the right.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lyrj5s7smk24

https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lyrj5s7smk24

#politicalviolence #patriotfront #activeclubs

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 13:22 UTC

Oh look, more political violence -- from white dudes with US flags and skull masks.

And look at that, it's directed at someone who isn't far enough to the right.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lyrj5s7smk24

#politicalviolence #patriotfront #activeclubs

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 13:22 UTC

Oh look, more political violence -- from white dudes with US flags and skull masks.

And look at that, it's directed at someone who isn't far enough to the right.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lyrj5s7smk24

#activeclubs #patriotfront #politicalviolence

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-09-14 · 13:22 UTC

Oh look, more political violence -- from white dudes with US flags and skull masks.

And look at that, it's directed at someone who isn't far enough to the right.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

#neoNazis #ActiveClubs #WhiteSupremacists

#politicalviolence #patriotfront #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-08-26 · 14:28 UTC

"Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.

Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and decentralized networks to recruit, radicalize and prepare members for racist violence. The clubs commonly use encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram, Wire and Matrix to coordinate internally.

For broader propaganda and outreach they rely on alternative social media platforms such as Gab, Odysee, VK and sometimes BitChute. They also selectively use mainstream sites such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok, until those sites ban the clubs.

Active Club members have been implicated in orchestrating and distributing neo-Nazi recruitment videos and manifestos. In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram.

Following their arrests, Active Club Canada’s public network went dark, Telegram pages were deleted or rebranded, and the club went virtually silent. Nippak was granted bail under strict conditions, while Althorpe remains in custody.

As a sociologist studying extremism and white supremacy since 1993, I have watched the movement shift from formal organizations to small, decentralized cells – a change embodied most clearly by Active Clubs."

https://theconversation.com/active-clubs-are-white-supremacys-new-dangerous-frontier-262786

#neonazis #activeclubs #whitesupremacists

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-08-26 · 14:28 UTC

#neoNazis #ActiveClubs #WhiteSupremacists

"Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.

Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and decentralized networks to recruit, radicalize and prepare members for racist violence. The clubs commonly use encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram, Wire and Matrix to coordinate internally.

For broader propaganda and outreach they rely on alternative social media platforms such as Gab, Odysee, VK and sometimes BitChute. They also selectively use mainstream sites such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok, until those sites ban the clubs.

Active Club members have been implicated in orchestrating and distributing neo-Nazi recruitment videos and manifestos. In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram.

Following their arrests, Active Club Canada’s public network went dark, Telegram pages were deleted or rebranded, and the club went virtually silent. Nippak was granted bail under strict conditions, while Althorpe remains in custody.

As a sociologist studying extremism and white supremacy since 1993, I have watched the movement shift from formal organizations to small, decentralized cells – a change embodied most clearly by Active Clubs."

https://theconversation.com/active-clubs-are-white-supremacys-new-dangerous-frontier-262786

#neonazis #activeclubs #whitesupremacists

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-08-26 · 14:28 UTC

#neoNazis #ActiveClubs #WhiteSupremacists

"Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.

Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and decentralized networks to recruit, radicalize and prepare members for racist violence. The clubs commonly use encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram, Wire and Matrix to coordinate internally.

For broader propaganda and outreach they rely on alternative social media platforms such as Gab, Odysee, VK and sometimes BitChute. They also selectively use mainstream sites such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok, until those sites ban the clubs.

Active Club members have been implicated in orchestrating and distributing neo-Nazi recruitment videos and manifestos. In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram.

Following their arrests, Active Club Canada’s public network went dark, Telegram pages were deleted or rebranded, and the club went virtually silent. Nippak was granted bail under strict conditions, while Althorpe remains in custody.

As a sociologist studying extremism and white supremacy since 1993, I have watched the movement shift from formal organizations to small, decentralized cells – a change embodied most clearly by Active Clubs."

https://theconversation.com/active-clubs-are-white-supremacys-new-dangerous-frontier-262786

#neonazis #activeclubs #whitesupremacists

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 02:41 UTC

Several Hammerskins turned up at a Cockney Rejects show in Murrieta, CA, in May. At least a few of them were evidently drunk, and they started groping women in the pit before brawling with a bunch of punk kids.

They've now been IDed, although it looks like they were generally known figures already, so not a lot of surprises. Still, if you're in that neck of the woods, it seems worthwhile to read up on their bios.

One thing that this article brings out, which hasn't gotten a lot of public attention, is the fact that many "active clubs" serve as recruiting grounds/feeders for the Hammerskins (that is, the ones that aren't feeders for Patriot Front). If you've got a nazi bonehead problem in your area and there isn't already an "active club," there's a good chance there will be one soon.

In any event, there you have it.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/these-nazis-groped-women-at-a-cockney-rejects-show/

#Hammerskins #ActiveClubs #Rundo #Murrieta #CockneyRejects #HSN #PatriotFront

#hammerskins #activeclubs #rundo #murrieta #cockneyrejects #hsn

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 02:41 UTC

Several Hammerskins turned up at a Cockney Rejects show in Murrieta, CA, in May. At least a few of them were evidently drunk, and they started groping women in the pit before brawling with a bunch of punk kids.

They've now been IDed, although it looks like they were generally known figures already, so not a lot of surprises. Still, if you're in that neck of the woods, it seems worthwhile to read up on their bios.

One thing that this article brings out, which hasn't gotten a lot of public attention, is the fact that many "active clubs" serve as recruiting grounds/feeders for the Hammerskins (that is, the ones that aren't feeders for Patriot Front). If you've got a nazi bonehead problem in your area and there isn't already an "active club," there's a good chance there will be one soon.

In any event, there you have it.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/these-nazis-groped-women-at-a-cockney-rejects-show/

#Hammerskins #ActiveClubs #Rundo #Murrieta #CockneyRejects #HSN #PatriotFront

#hammerskins #activeclubs #rundo #murrieta #cockneyrejects #hsn

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 02:41 UTC

Several Hammerskins turned up at a Cockney Rejects show in Murrieta, CA, in May. At least a few of them were evidently drunk, and they started groping women in the pit before brawling with a bunch of punk kids.

They've now been IDed, although it looks like they were generally known figures already, so not a lot of surprises. Still, if you're in that neck of the woods, it seems worthwhile to read up on their bios.

One thing that this article brings out, which hasn't gotten a lot of public attention, is the fact that many "active clubs" serve as recruiting grounds/feeders for the Hammerskins (that is, the ones that aren't feeders for Patriot Front). If you've got a nazi bonehead problem in your area and there isn't already an "active club," there's a good chance there will be one soon.

In any event, there you have it.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/these-nazis-groped-women-at-a-cockney-rejects-show/

#Hammerskins #ActiveClubs #Rundo #Murrieta #CockneyRejects #HSN #PatriotFront

#patriotfront #hsn #cockneyrejects #murrieta #rundo #activeclubs

Weltschmerz à Gogo @[email protected] · 2025-08-02 · 02:41 UTC

Several Hammerskins turned up at a Cockney Rejects show in Murrieta, CA, in May. At least a few of them were evidently drunk, and they started groping women in the pit before brawling with a bunch of punk kids.

They've now been IDed, although it looks like they were generally known figures already, so not a lot of surprises. Still, if you're in that neck of the woods, it seems worthwhile to read up on their bios.

One thing that this article brings out, which hasn't gotten a lot of public attention, is the fact that many "active clubs" serve as recruiting grounds/feeders for the Hammerskins (that is, the ones that aren't feeders for Patriot Front). If you've got a nazi bonehead problem in your area and there isn't already an "active club," there's a good chance there will be one soon.

In any event, there you have it.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/these-nazis-groped-women-at-a-cockney-rejects-show/

#Hammerskins #ActiveClubs #Rundo #Murrieta #CockneyRejects #HSN #PatriotFront

#hammerskins #activeclubs #rundo #murrieta #cockneyrejects #hsn

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 15:53 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

"Around the world, Canada isn’t the only country being introduced to these clubs, which are fitness and mixed martial arts groups operating out of local gyms and parks that espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies. Already proliferating across the US in a number of states, active clubs openly take their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and their modern inspiration from European soccer hooliganism.

Recent research published by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has shown that since 2023, these clubs are newly sprouting in Sweden, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the UK, Finland and for the first time, in Latin America with two chapters in Chile and Colombia appearing.

According to the GPAHE research, there are now chapters in 27 countries, with new youth wings – akin to Hitler Youth-styled clubs – are surging stateside and abroad, 'metastasizing' across western countries and recruiting young men into toxic, far-right ideologies encouraging race war.

'The Active Club model was designed by Rob Rundo,' said Heidi Beirich, founder of GPAHE, referring to an infamous neo-Nazi and New Yorker who pleaded guilty in 2024 to conspiracy to riot at 2017 political rallies in California.

Around that time, Rundo was also the leader of the Rise Above Movement, a neo-Nazi gang that had four of its members charged for their role in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but later pivoted to spreading the idea of active clubs among followers as the new nerve centers for fascistic indoctrination and recruitment."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 15:53 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

"Around the world, Canada isn’t the only country being introduced to these clubs, which are fitness and mixed martial arts groups operating out of local gyms and parks that espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies. Already proliferating across the US in a number of states, active clubs openly take their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and their modern inspiration from European soccer hooliganism.

Recent research published by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has shown that since 2023, these clubs are newly sprouting in Sweden, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the UK, Finland and for the first time, in Latin America with two chapters in Chile and Colombia appearing.

According to the GPAHE research, there are now chapters in 27 countries, with new youth wings – akin to Hitler Youth-styled clubs – are surging stateside and abroad, 'metastasizing' across western countries and recruiting young men into toxic, far-right ideologies encouraging race war.

'The Active Club model was designed by Rob Rundo,' said Heidi Beirich, founder of GPAHE, referring to an infamous neo-Nazi and New Yorker who pleaded guilty in 2024 to conspiracy to riot at 2017 political rallies in California.

Around that time, Rundo was also the leader of the Rise Above Movement, a neo-Nazi gang that had four of its members charged for their role in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but later pivoted to spreading the idea of active clubs among followers as the new nerve centers for fascistic indoctrination and recruitment."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 13:14 UTC

I call them 'rape camps', because Fash don't ask, do they?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

#fascists #activeclubs #farright

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 13:14 UTC

I call them 'rape camps', because Fash don't ask, do they?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

#fascists #activeclubs #farright

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 13:14 UTC

I call them 'rape camps', because Fash don't ask, do they?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club

#farright #activeclubs #fascists

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 13:14 UTC

I call them 'rape camps', because Fash don't ask, do they?

#fascists #activeclubs #farright

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-06-13 · 15:35 UTC

https://globalextremism.org/post/neo-nazi-teenagers/

"Across the U.S., a troubling youth movement has emerged in the last few months, targeting teenagers aged 15-18, and mimicking the white supremacist Active Club (AC) movement. This 'Youth Clubs' network, consisting of at least 19 chapters across 42 states, engages in the same real-world activism as the ACs, including MMA training, spreading neo-Nazi propaganda in public spaces, and attempting to recruit members online, including on TikTok.

Emerging in 2022, the Active Club movement is a white supremacist transnational network of 'sports clubs' first conceptualized by American neo-Nazi Robert Rundo and Russian neo-Nazi Denis Kapsutin, the latter a key MMA organizer who is banned from the Schengen Area in the European Union for his track record of hate and violence. Active Clubs are small white supremacist cells, operating under Rundo’s 'White Nationalism 3.0' model, working at the local level and collaborating with numerous racist groups, including those with a penchant for violence, such as the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter (WLM), and Patriot Front in the United States, Action Française and Identitarian groups in France, and the Hammerskins in Canada, Sweden, and Germany, creating alliances that strengthen the white supremacist movement globally. Shortly before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Active Clubs across the country called on him to follow through on his promise to conduct a mass migrant deportation operation.

Now teenagers are getting in on the act. The majority of Youth Clubs created channels on Telegram between February and June 2025, with a few set up in 2024. According to a post by an umbrella account for Youth Clubs, titled 'United Youth,' created on February 24, 2025, Youth Clubs are a 'network of pro social young white men nationwide' that act as an 'activist,' 'nationalist,' and 'fraternal and fitness network.' At the time of publishing, Youth Clubs indicate that they only accept members between the ages of 15 and 18, and operate under the belief that 'our (white) people are dying off and we are growing up in a world which does not care for us,' referring to the racist, and deadly, 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, which, like the regular Active Clubs, serves as an ideological framework for activism. Youth Clubs believe that 'Jews,' 'liberal sycophants and homosexuals' are all responsible for these supposed problems, and act to 'fight back against these great globalist evils.' United Youth also shared a quote by Rundo about starting the Rise Above Movement (RAM), a violent street gang which had members arrested for their actions during the racist Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville, Virginia."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-06-13 · 15:35 UTC

https://globalextremism.org/post/neo-nazi-teenagers/

"Across the U.S., a troubling youth movement has emerged in the last few months, targeting teenagers aged 15-18, and mimicking the white supremacist Active Club (AC) movement. This 'Youth Clubs' network, consisting of at least 19 chapters across 42 states, engages in the same real-world activism as the ACs, including MMA training, spreading neo-Nazi propaganda in public spaces, and attempting to recruit members online, including on TikTok.

Emerging in 2022, the Active Club movement is a white supremacist transnational network of 'sports clubs' first conceptualized by American neo-Nazi Robert Rundo and Russian neo-Nazi Denis Kapsutin, the latter a key MMA organizer who is banned from the Schengen Area in the European Union for his track record of hate and violence. Active Clubs are small white supremacist cells, operating under Rundo’s 'White Nationalism 3.0' model, working at the local level and collaborating with numerous racist groups, including those with a penchant for violence, such as the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter (WLM), and Patriot Front in the United States, Action Française and Identitarian groups in France, and the Hammerskins in Canada, Sweden, and Germany, creating alliances that strengthen the white supremacist movement globally. Shortly before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Active Clubs across the country called on him to follow through on his promise to conduct a mass migrant deportation operation.

Now teenagers are getting in on the act. The majority of Youth Clubs created channels on Telegram between February and June 2025, with a few set up in 2024. According to a post by an umbrella account for Youth Clubs, titled 'United Youth,' created on February 24, 2025, Youth Clubs are a 'network of pro social young white men nationwide' that act as an 'activist,' 'nationalist,' and 'fraternal and fitness network.' At the time of publishing, Youth Clubs indicate that they only accept members between the ages of 15 and 18, and operate under the belief that 'our (white) people are dying off and we are growing up in a world which does not care for us,' referring to the racist, and deadly, 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, which, like the regular Active Clubs, serves as an ideological framework for activism. Youth Clubs believe that 'Jews,' 'liberal sycophants and homosexuals' are all responsible for these supposed problems, and act to 'fight back against these great globalist evils.' United Youth also shared a quote by Rundo about starting the Rise Above Movement (RAM), a violent street gang which had members arrested for their actions during the racist Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville, Virginia."

#neonazis #activeclubs

Levka @[email protected] · 2025-06-13 · 15:35 UTC