Active Clubs

Neo-nazi Active Clubs are expanding their efforts to recruit teenagers, with Youth Club chapters increasing 142% since 2025. GPAHE identified 220 Active Clubs across 33 countries, including 46 youth chapters for teens ages 15–18. The groups are using Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, gaming communities, and real-world events to attract young people and connect them to a broader transnational white supremacist movement.

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 at least 19 chapters representing 42 states, these groups engage in MMA training, propaganda campaigns, and recruitment on platforms like Telegram and TikTok.

The sprawling far-right, white supremacist transnational network of Active Clubs has metastasized across most of the Western world.

A new report from GPAHE reveals a staggering 25% increase in chapters of the neo-Nazi Active Club network worldwide. Since October 2023, at least 231 chapters have been documented in 28 countries, including new chapters in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Colombia, and Finland.

On February 21, a U.S. District Judge in Orange County, California, dismissed criminal charges of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Riot Act and rioting against neo-Nazis Robert Bowman and Robert Rundo, who was arrested and extradited to the United States from Romania after fleeing the country.

Even as Australia moves to ban neo-Nazi groups like Thomas Sewell’s National Socialist Network, the ecosystem that sustains them remains intact. From Sewell to Robert Rundo’s Active Clubs, far-right actors evade bans by shedding formal structures while keeping ideology, networks, and recruitment alive online—allowing movements tied to real-world violence to persist long after their names disappear.