New Neo-Nazi Web Forum “Fash Front” Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement

“Young people should be ready to fight for what is right. The race war is inevitable, and it will begin soon.”

As the U.S. continues to dismantle its domestic security infrastructure and ignore the threat posed by far-right extremists, the followers of a virulently racist and violent form of neo-Nazi ideology, part of a global extremist network responsible for multiple plots and attacks, are gathering on a growing web forum.

The forum emerged in 2025 and has positioned itself as the latest successor to a defunct extremist web forum known as “Iron March,” which from 2011 to 2017 was a central networking space where one of the most influential and extreme strains of militant neo-Nazism emerged.

Built with a dark aesthetic similar to its predecessor, the newer “Fash Front” web forum is emerging as a digital home for militant accelerationism. This is a violent far-right ideology rooted in the idea that societal collapse is not only inevitable, but desirable and necessary for building a fascist ethnostate. Its followers believe that this process can be sped up, or accelerated, through acts of violence that increase existing social divisions. This includes racist terrorist attacks like those carried out by mass murderers such as Anders Behring Breivik, a white supremacist who killed 77 people in a 2011 attack in Oslo, Norway, or Brenton Tarrant, an Australian-born shooter who killed 51 people in attacks on two New Zealand mosques in 2019. Both are venerated as having struck out against a system they believe is systematically replacing people of European descent with people of color.

Each time a user accesses the main page of “Fash Front,” they are shown an image and a quote from a fascist organizer or politician. Figures featured include historic fascists such as Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, antisemitic British politician Sir Oswald Mosley, and more modern ideologues like James Nolan Mason, the author of the neo-Nazi terrorism manual Siege.

“The whining about concentration camps is a peacetime, parlor luxury which will fade fast when hell breaks loose, and people are looking for killers to be on their own side,” one line attributed to Mason reads.

Mason has been involved in far-right politics since the age of 14, joining the American Nazi Party in 1966. He gained infamy through his writings and fringe beliefs, including arguments for a fusion of neo-Nazi Satanism and the philosophy of serial killer Charles Manson, which he parlayed into salacious media coverage and attention in the early 1980s. Currently living in Colorado, Mason’s writings have remained influential in neo-Nazi and white supremacist circles. He was designated a terrorist by Canada in 2021.

Another landing page message draws directly from Adolf Hitler, quoting the German leader whom many on the site worship as a deity.

Images of the original Iron March show that it had a similar banner feature, which used some of the same quotations.

With a registered total of 941 users, “Fash Front” is still significantly smaller than Iron March, which, according to a leaked database, had 1,887 registered users shortly before it disappeared from the internet in 2017. Still growing, albeit slowly, “Fash Front” is attempting to position itself as a new standard-bearer for militant accelerationist thought, a home for developing the philosophy of modern neo-Nazism, and a place of learning for those interested in understanding the violent movement.

New Kid on the Block

After first appearing online in 2025, Fash Front has attracted a user base of new, younger individuals, several of whom identified themselves in introductions as high school-age children.

Others are former members of Iron March, including some with direct connections to extremist groups such as the Atomwaffen Division—a militant accelerationist neo-Nazi organization linked to five murders. One example is Ryan Arthur, a pen name used by Colorado man Ryan Hatfield, a former Atomwaffen cell leader who has remained active through a blog he has maintained since 2021. The site’s name, “The American Futurist,” is taken from a book written by Iron March’s founder Alisher Mukhitdinov, who was better known by his online moniker “Alexander Slavros” or “Quiet.”

In 2025, Decoherence Media compiled an archive of the original Iron March and identified multiple previously unknown users of the forum.

Outside of the forum, “Fash Front” maintains a presence on Telegram, an encrypted chat and social media platform that allows users to communicate privately in one-on-one or group chats, as well as create public channels. It has nearly one billion users globally and is a home for extremist content due to its lax moderation policies.

Other platforms used by “Fash Front” include a since-suspended account on Elon Musk’s X, and videos posted to streaming platforms like BitChute and Odysee, both of which have a significant amount of extremist content and offer themselves as an alternative to YouTube, which is seen by neo-Nazis as overly censorious. The videos are not original content, but rather reposts of propaganda produced by groups like the Atomwaffen Division, or the audio of a 10-part series created by Mukhitdinov and a collaborator, Canadian national Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, known on Iron March as “Zeiger.”

In 2023, Sohier-Chaput was sentenced to 15 months in a Quebec prison for promoting hatred against Jews. Sohier-Chaput is also credited with writing several books for the forum and serving as an editor on one edition of Mason’s Siege.

Calls for violence and accelerationist rhetoric are rife on “Fash Front”, with some users framing terrorism and societal collapse as necessary steps toward their envisioned future. Some users denounce violence (promoting illegal activity is against the site’s rules), while others opine openly about wanting to kill their political opponents.

“I wholeheartedly believe that these sort of individuals need to have a genocide committed upon them,” a user using the name ‘Ru553l’ wrote in October 2025 in response to a longer post about the need to prepare for fighting a war against people on the political left. “They’re scum, scum of the earth. They’re the ones who allow those savages to enter our countries and rape and murder our women and children, do you really think this is a way to live?”

He later added, “these leftist f****t n****r scum allow these politicians to stay in power by voting for the most retarded ones. They’re the ones who hate Christians but love Muslims and Jews, these are people who you should not relate/socialize with. Young people should be ready to fight for what is right,” and “The race war is inevitable, and it will begin soon.”

Others voice their support for perpetrators of mass casualty violence. Breivik is a source of intense discussion on the site, as are many other individuals responsible for plots and attacks in the name of white supremacy. Pictures of Breivik, taken prior to the attack and during subsequent hearings, are often included in posts.

One site moderator, who uses the name “Bowlpilled,” a reference to the bowl cut hairstyle of Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, discussed his feelings towards mass killers, who are often referred to by the community as “saints.”

“If anything, these Saints were victims of the system, they were left with no other options than to do what they did (there is massive potential for propaganda there, by the way, the Jew system is so evil it’s making White men choose death over living in it),” he wrote on “Fash Front” on March 26. “We shouldn’t encourage it, we should try to push Whites onto better paths, however, there’s no point in denouncing the ones who took a different path. Plus, it’s probably better than other paths they could’ve took. What if instead of shooting n*****s, they…just killed themselves in their rooms?”

Ultimately, others responding to the post concluded that “it would be wise to go after public officials that are overwhelmingly hated by a sizable chunk of the population.”

The “Florian Geyer” account added, “If someone is driven enough to do such an act, and they know that it’s at the cost of their own life, then I firmly hope that they put their energy into committing something impactful enough to rattle the System, or at least go after someone of high rank.”

“Fash Front’s” continued existence has faced ongoing difficulties, as the site has changed owners and web addresses. Started by an administrator using the name “Aspien,” “Fash Front” lost its initial web host and URL but was revived with a new owner and a country-code domain associated with the African nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Regardless, the site sometimes struggles to remain active. At the time of writing, “Fash Front” is not accessible, though these frequent outages are sometimes explained on the associated Telegram channel as the result of maintenance.

The new site administrator, an individual known only as “John Smith,” quickly began improving the functionality of the site. He added the ability for users to post videos and audio, removed a feature that allowed users to create private groups for “security” reasons, and promoted a cryptocurrency wallet for individuals to donate to the site anonymously.

In an introductory post detailing some of the circumstances around the leadership change, Smith reassured the site’s users that there was a “peaceful transfer” of power, that he would be punishing “poor posts,” and “I will personally reach out to more organizations to have on the forum.”

Aspien has not posted under their account since the announcement of the leadership change.

Despite saying the forum intended to respect religious differences—pagan and Christian infighting is common among the far right—there would be “no Muslims, ‘White’ Jews, or any other religion hostile to the White race.”

Users of the site are also paranoid about infiltration by an extremist occult movement called the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), who are seen as having played a part in the downfall of the original Iron March. Initially developed by U.K. neo-Nazi David Myatt during the 1970s, the O9A had mostly faded from even fringe subcultures until being revived by users on Iron March. Leaks of the site first show the O9A being mentioned in 2015 by Ryan Fleming, who was then an organizer with the British neo-Nazi group National Action.

Also similar to Iron March, there are militant accelerationist groups that attempt to use “Fash Front” to recruit and promote their organizations. Some networks, like the H.I.V.E. Syndicate, an alliance of U.S. and Canadian accelerationist groups, have used the forum to share posters and stickers that their members have placed in public. The images include stickers displaying the “Fash Front” web address alongside racist and antisemitic slogans and images. These groups are typically small collectives of young neo-Nazi activists who have adopted the aesthetic and ideology of groups like Atomwaffen Division that emerged from the original Iron March ecosystem.

Despite his motivation as an organizer and administrator to improve “Fash Front,” Smith is not a writer or philosopher in the same strain as Mukhitdinov, Iron March’s founder. A frequent commenter on his own site, Smith does not engage in the long, esoteric discussions of fascism that came to define “Slavros” and his written work. Regardless, the purpose of the site has been to perpetuate Mukhitdinov’s worldview and continue the spread of the violent philosophy that was developed and defined on Iron March.

“Race War Now”

The stark black layout of “Fash Front” is mired in blocks of white text and the symbolism of modern and historic fascism, as well as the stylized “FF” acronym that peppers the page. With  only word of mouth promotion and a nominal presence on social media platforms like X (before the platform suspended the account), a channel on the low-moderation social media platform Telegram, and the video streaming site Odysee (similar to YouTube), “Fash Front” has done little to hide its alignment with the violent and deadly lineage of militant accelerationism started by Iron March. 

Iron March was founded in the early 2010s by Russian national Alisher Mukhitdinov, who was better known by his online moniker “Alexander Slavros” or “Quiet.” Last known to be living in Moscow, Mukhitdinov cemented his legacy in the militant accelerationist movement through his prolific output of essays and books. Eventually his works made up a suggested reading list of titles; these texts function as ideological primers designed to promote an extremely esoteric and violent fascist worldview.

Some of these books took the form of fictional stories meant to explain the basics of Mukhitdinov’s fascist ideology to the reader. Other works delve deeper into his idiosyncratic philosophy, but ultimately promote the creation of an ethnostate through the use of violence.

Mukhitdinov’s short books and publications remain widely shared in neo-Nazi online spaces. Despite being of Uzbek descent, meaning he would not fit into his own vision for the future, he promoted the use of murder and terrorism towards the goal of a fascist future.

“We don’t think murder is wrong on principle and we do not believe that every human life is sacred,” Mukhitdinov said in an undated essay on Iron March. “This applies to our own people as well, just because they are kin by blood doesn’t mean they can’t be cancer to the nation which must be removed in order for Truth and Justice to triumph.”

In 2017, Iron March disappeared off the internet, vanishing without explanation or fanfare. In 2019, data exposed users’ personal information and private messages, providing a window into Mukhitdinov’s operation of the site. Mukhitdinov’s identity was later revealed through investigations into the site. His literary work and notes for an unreleased book continue to circulate online. Despite this, he has not visibly returned to the ideological ecosystem he helped define.

Current State of the Mil/Acc Movement

While Iron March once served as a hub for militant accelerationist online gatherings and organization, the movement has become significantly more decentralized since the site’s shuttering. Other collectives, groups, and individuals inspired by the movement have emerged. One of the most significant was the Terrorgram Collective, a group that emerged from a network of individuals using the same name.

While Terrorgram, as a network, supported white supremacist killers, sharing information, footage, and the manifestos left behind by individual attackers like Tarrant and Breivik, the Terrorgram Collective worked together to produce propaganda, calendars, audiobooks, and hundreds of social media channels designed to keep promoting and perpetuating attacks on behalf of white supremacy.

The collective was successful in convincing individuals in Slovakia and Brazil to conduct attacks. Reporting found 35 crimes linked to Terrorgram, including bomb plots, stabbings, and shootings. Two of Terrorgram’s U.S. organizers, Dallas Humber and allegedly Matthew Allison, were arrested in September 2024, initially facing one count of conspiracy, four counts of soliciting hate crimes, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, one count of threatening communications, two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions, and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

“Humber and Allison, the leaders of Terrorgram, conspired to provide material support and solicited attacks on federal officials and critical government infrastructure, including federal buildings and energy facilities,” Matthew G. Olsen of the National Security Division said at the time.

Humber pleaded guilty in August 2025. Allison is still awaiting trial.

Despite the setbacks, militant accelerationism continues to permeate extremist spaces as a driver of ideologically-inspired violence and remains one of several networks sustaining the movement.

“Fash Front” is not the first attempt to claim the mantle as the central militant accelerationist gathering space online since the demise of Iron March. A separate forum run by a member of neo-Nazi The Base, this one dubbed “Fascist Forge,” began operation in 2018. Similar to groups that emerged from Iron March, The Base promoted militant accelerationist ideologies and set up small cells across the United States and Europe.

Despite a series of criminal convictions in the U.S., which fragmented its membership, The Base remains active domestically and internationally, though its founder, a former Department of Defence contractor, Rinaldo Nazzaro, resides in Russia.

Nazzaro, who has often released video messages offering support and advice from his home, has called on members of The Base since its founding in 2018 to focus on actions and attacks that could destabilize society. The group has also distributed manuals for bomb-making, counter-surveillance, and guerrilla warfare. At least as recently as November 2025, Nazzaro released videos discussing insurgent tactics on the Russian video streaming site RuTube.

U.S. members of The Base have been charged with vandalizing synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin in 2019, attempted intimidation of a journalist in 2020 (though the two Base members went to the wrong house), and a plot to kill a couple in Georgia, among other charges.

Nazzaro has long been accused by individuals inside and outside the group as working for the Russian government, which he has denied. Regardless, a Ukrainian chapter of the organization, dubbed “White Phoenix,” claimed to have killed a Ukrainian intelligence official in Spring 2025. The branch continues to post content showing their symbol painted on the walls of what are alleged to be Ukrainian city streets and has claimed responsibility for a series of arsons. The group’s stated goal is to establish a whites-only ethnostate in the western Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia.

Ultimately, the legacy of “Fash Front” and its predecessors is that they exist to perpetuate and sustain the militant accelerationist movement that grew out of Iron March.

There is no single pathway to radicalizing individuals, but the philosophy disseminated through sites and social spaces like “Fash Front” plays a significant role. The presence of Iron March’s other creatives, past organizers, and new members of the movement following the same ideological pathway is helping to shape the next generation of militant accelerationists.