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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.

Greg Johnson has spent years turning Counter-Currents into a key platform for spreading and reshaping white nationalist ideas. By connecting with figures like Robert Rundo and Jared Taylor, and building networks across countries, he is trying to unite different parts of the far right under a shared vision.

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.

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 new racist film, “Citizen Vigilante”, is driving online calls for violence against immigrants after being amplified by Elon Musk and far-right influencers. The film has been embraced by extremist networks, where users are openly praising vigilantism and advocating attacks on immigrants and government officials.

Far-right extremists across Europe and the United States are using the chaos in Belfast to escalate anti-immigrant violence, glorify street unrest, and push white nationalist “remigration” rhetoric, as neo-Nazi and Identitarian networks openly celebrate attacks on migrant communities.

“Forest Fights” in rural Virginia illustrate how far-right extremists are using combat sports to unify and run their networks, bringing together groups like the Wolves of Vinland and the Active Club movement in staged clashes that double as propaganda and recruitment tools; inspired by European hooligan culture, these events fuse older skinhead formations with younger members, transforming martial arts training into a shared infrastructure for ideological alignment, and preparation for the large-scale violence they frame as inevitable.