Donald Trump’s inauguration is set to take place on January 20, coming with promises like using the military to conduct mass deportations in the millions, which is being met with joy by groups like the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter, and militia organizations. In recent days, the global neo-Nazi Active Club network has been rallying online and off in support of mass deportations in the United States and abroad.
The possibility of mass deportations of non-white immigrants has galvanized white supremacists transnationally, who are solidly for an immigrant purge. Meanwhile, the calls have instilled fear in migrant communities, demonstrated by calls for violence against targeted communities, mass deportation demonstrations in Canada, Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, leaving their homes after being targeted by a neo-Nazi hate campaign promoted by Vance and Trump, and immigrants legally in the United States leaving the country as they fear becoming a target of the incoming administration.
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 working at the local level who have collaborated with numerous racist groups, including those with a penchant for violence, such as the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter, and Patriot Front in the United States.
In California, the SoCal Active Club made a post with an image seemingly pulled from a Trump rally edited to add the Celtic Cross, a staple of Active Club imagery, to signs held by supporters saying “MASS DEPORTATION NOW.” NorCal Active Club posted an image showing members posing in front of graffiti with the same motto.
SoCal Active Club posts a doctored image from a Trump rally demanding mass deportations (Source: Telegram)
The Pennsylvania Active Club shared several photos, including some featuring their own members, advertising how Active Clubs “from coast to coast…support mass deportations,” simultaneously calling for the United States to “close the border” and “send them back.” Other Active Clubs sharing images of graffiti and wall art advertising mass deportations included the Big Sky Active Club and Tribal Active Club Arizona (TAC-AZ), the latter calling for their followers to “stoke the flames” of mass deportation in order to keep “leaders accountable from the local to the national level.” The group is using its calls for mass deportations as an opportunity to recruit new members, saying “connect now to join the fight.”
TAC-AZ shares propaganda promoting mass deportations, while calling for Active Clubs to unite transnationally (Source: Telegram)
Reflecting the reasoning behind their support for mass deportations, TAC-AZ calls for their followers to “resist replacement,” alluding to their belief in the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports a targeted plot, attributed to either globalists or Jews, to “replace” white people. Believers in the conspiracy theory have been responsible for several mass casualty attacks, including at a Pittsburgh synagogue and an El Paso Walmart.
Just over a dozen Nationalist Socialist Network members participated in a “mass deportations now” protest in Adelaide, Australia (Source: Telegram)
The calls for mass deportations of immigrants have spread virally across borders. GYM XIV, based in Sweden, made a post calling for “mass deportations now.” In Australia, the National Socialist Network (NSN), led by violent neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, held a “mass deportations now” protest in Adelaide on January 11. They made several posts advertising the protest, which appears to have been attended by about a dozen people. The spread of these calls reveals how the Trump administration’s immigration plans are emboldening white supremacists and neo-Nazis transnationally.
