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Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers. Amid high-profile arrests in its Spanish cell, the American-born and designated neo-Nazi terrorist group the Base – once a major preoccupation of FBI counter-terrorism efforts – has all but faded from US headlines. But a flurry of online activities shows the group is still active stateside and considers the US an operational nerve center. Headed by Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor turned alleged Russian intelligence asset, the Base has been busy of late pursuing European expansion: besides its heavily armed members in Spain, its Ukrainian wing is linked to multiple acts of terrorism inside of the country and claimed the high-profile July assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv. But the Base’s online footprint also paints a picture of a more careful, yet active, American presence: videos from November show masked men shooting military-style rifles and pistols in what they claim is an Appalachian forest. Another June photo, from the same Appalachian cell, shows five armed men in skull masks, holding rifles and brandishing the Base’s black flag, while a cell from the mid-Atlantic captures three members performing “sieg heil” salutes, with another from the midwest showing two men firing pistols. In the shifting political climate of the second Trump administration, where the FBI has openly rerouted resources away from investigations of far-right extremists, the Base appears free to organize and prepare for their stated objective of fomenting an armed insurgency against the US government. At the same time, its recruitment has continued to funnel through a Russia email address and has not ceased since the 2020 FBI crackdown against it. Nazzaro has also matched this new American law enforcement environment with emboldened rhetoric. “Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria,” bragged Nazzaro in an audio recording he released in early December over a Russian-controlled app, reviewed by the Guardian. “Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory. And establish a white homeland which we control and govern.”

via guardian: Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back

siehe auch: The FBI looked away and now this designated neo-Nazi terror cell headed by an ex-Pentagon contractor is training openly in the US This is deeply troubling. The neo-Nazi terrorist group known as the Base, once a major target for FBI counter-terrorism efforts, is openly escalating its operations and calling for an armed insurgency right here in the United States, as per The Guardian. While the group has been busy expanding its reach into Europe, new online activities show that the US remains its operational nerve center, with cells actively training and preparing for violence. The group is headed by Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor who is reportedly now a Russian intelligence asset. He recently released an audio recording bragging about the Base’s long-term strategic goal. Nazzaro said, “Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria.” He wants to “Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory. And establish a white homeland which we control and govern.” He concluded that only two traditionally white nations possess all the necessary prerequisites for this goal: Ukraine and the United States. This isn’t just empty talk; the Base has an active footprint here. Videos released in November show masked men shooting military-style rifles and pistols in what they claim is an Appalachian forest. Another June photo from that same Appalachian cell captures five armed men in skull masks holding rifles and brandishing the Base’s black flag.

A 20-year-old Sarasota man was found in possession of a variety of Nazi and mass shooting propaganda materials, including the Journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, and a large flag bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol after he was arrested on multiple weapons and other charges in November. He was indicted on multiple charges this week. A 20-year-old Sarasota man has been indicted for possession of an unregistered firearm, a firearm with a removed serial number and receiving child sexual material. Lucas Alexander Temple faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison if convicted. Temple was previously arrested on a criminal complaint. According to the indictment and criminal complaint, while executing the search warrant at Temple’s home in Sarasota on November 20, 2025, federal agents recovered a shotgun with sawed-off barrel that was not registered to Temple. Federal law prohibits the possession of shotguns with barrels fewer than 18 inches in length without registration in National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Agents also found evidence that Temple had been plotting a racially motivated act of violence, including pipe bombs, multiple firearms, ammunition, a pressure cooker, literature on how to manufacture explosives, and a written plan as to his intentions. Temple also possessed a variety of Nazi and mass shooting propaganda materials, including the Journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, and a large flag bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol.

via wgcu: Racially motivated violent Nazi extremist from Sarasota charged on multiple weapons charges and child sexual abuse offenses

siehe auch: Sarasota man arrested after Nazi literature, illegal guns and child porn found in home By Jim DeLa Published: Dec. 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM MEZ|Updated: 2 hours ago SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – A Sarasota man is facing federal firearms and child porn charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday. An indictment charges 20-year-old Lucas Alexander Temple with possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of a firearm with a removed serial number, and receipt of child sexual abuse material. If convicted, he faces 20 years in federal prison. Federal agents executed a search warrant at Temple’s home on Cork Oak Street on Nov. 20. Authorities found a shotgun with an illegally sawed-off barrel that was not registered to Temple. Prosecutors says they also found evidence that Temple had been plotting a racially motivated act of violence, including using pipe bombs, multiple firearms, ammunition, a pressure cooker, literature on how to manufacture explosives and a written plan as to his intentions. Temple also possessed a variety of Nazi and mass-shooting propaganda materials, including the journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, and a large flag bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol, prosecutors said. The Atomwaffen Division is classified as a violent extremist group. The group’s targets have included racial minorities, the Jewish community, the LGBTQ community, the United States Government, journalists and critical infrastructure. AWD’s ideology largely focused on pushing society into armed conflict in an effort to create a radical social transformation, referred to as accelerationism. Investigators allege Temple had been communicating with other individuals online about conducting violence against minorities and providing instructions on how to manufacture explosives. Agents also discovered that, on at least two occasions, Temple received images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct

Bei den Protesten gegen die AfD-Jugend wurde ein AfD-Abgeordneter verletzt. Fünf Zeugen sagen der taz, die Aggression sei von AfDlern ausgegangen. Es war eine kurze Szene, die innerhalb der extrem rechten AfD seit Wochen dafür genutzt wird, sich wieder einmal als Opfer darzustellen: Der Bundestagsabgeordnete Julian Schmidt und mindestens ein weiterer Parteifreund prügelten sich auf dem Weg zur Gründungsversammlung der AfD-Jugend mit Gegendemonstrantinnen. Das zeigte ein kurzer Videoclip, der noch während des Parteitags im hessischen Gießen viral ging. Die AfDler teilten dabei aus, aber steckten wohl auch einen oder zwei Schläge ein: Der 36-jährige Bundestagsabgeordnete Schmidt, ehemaliger Zeitsoldat mit vier Auslandseinsätzen, posierte im Anschluss mit lädierter Nase und einem blauen Auge. Was vor dem kurzen Videoclip geschah: unklar. Bislang zumindest. Die taz hat nun mit fünf Menschen gesprochen, die das Geschehen aus nächster Nähe erlebt haben. Sie waren aus Nordrhein-Westfalen angereist, um sich an den Protesten gegen die Gründungsveranstaltung der neuen AfD-Jugendorganisation „Generation Deutschland“ zu beteiligen. Was sie erzählen, steht in maximalem Widerspruch zu der von der AfD verbreiteten Märtyrer-Erzählung, dass Schmidt von aggressiven Antifa-Aktivisten ohne Vorwarnung angegriffen und „verprügelt“ worden sei. Durch Rufe „Da sind Nazis!“ seien sie auf Schmidt und seine drei Begleiter aufmerksam geworden, berichten die Augenzeuginnen. Die AfDler seien am noch recht frühen Morgen überraschend am Rand der einzigen zugelassenen Gegenkundgebung auf der Westseite der Lahn aufgetaucht – und hätten sich alles andere als unauffällig verhalten. „Sie wollten gesehen werden und provozieren“, so drückt es einer der Ge­gen­de­mons­tran­tin­nen aus. Und auch die Gewalt sei von ihnen ausgegangen. AfD-Mann soll Frau zuerst Knie in Bauch gerammt haben Zwei Frauen, die sich den AfDlern zuerst in den Weg gestellt hätten, seien von diesen umstandslos attackiert worden. Ein Begleiter Schmidts habe einer Frau in gelber Warnweste, die mit ihrem Fahrrad unterwegs gewesen sei, sein Knie in den Bauch gerammt. Und als sie daraufhin nach vorne eingeknickt sei, habe er mit dem Ellenbogen auf ihren Kopf geschlagen. Die andere Frau sei von Schmidt selbst geschubst worden. Eine Augenzeugin gewann den Eindruck: „Die haben den Konflikt gesucht, obwohl wir viel mehr waren.“ Vielleicht, um Videobilder zu produzieren, die sich anschließend propagandistisch ausschlachten lassen. Was ja auch geschah: Das Video, das wohl einer der AfDler drehte, wurde von der rechtsradikalen Wochenzeitung Junge Freiheit postwendend veröffentlicht und soll seither die Opfererzählung stützen. Das Video setzt genau in dem Moment ein, als die von den Be­ob­ach­te­rin­nen geschilderten Attacken auf die beiden Frauen vorbei waren und sich weitere Menschen einmischten. Zu sehen ist darauf ein Handgemenge, an dem sich jedoch bloß wenige Ge­gen­de­mons­tran­tin­nen beteiligen. Die meisten stehen drumherum, in durchaus aggressiver Pose allerdings. Zweimal fliegt eine Faust in Richtung des Gesichts von Julian Schmidt. Zu Boden geht der Bundestagsabgeordnete aber nicht deshalb, sondern weil er, weit ausholend, selbst zuschlagen will, sein Ziel verfehlt und daraufhin das Gleichgewicht verliert. Und auch der Mann, der zu Beginn die Radfahrerin angegriffen haben soll, schlägt noch einmal zu: Mit Anlauf verpasst er einem Demonstranten, dem der gestürzte Schmidt vor die Füße gefallen ist, einen rechten Schwinger gegen den Kopf. Dass der so Attackierte dafür irgendeinen Grund geliefert hat, ist nicht zu erkennen. Möglicherweise war der mutmaßliche Schläger schon mit Wut im Bauch nach Gießen gefahren: Wenige Tage vor dem Gründungskongress der „Generation Deutschland“ waren an seinem Studienort Marburg Flugblätter aufgetaucht, auf denen er als „Faschist“ geoutet wurde. AfD-Abgeordneter scherzt über seine Boxtechnik Die fünf Au­gen­zeu­g­in­nen haben sich nicht bei der Polizei gemeldet, weil sie nicht wollen, dass ihre Namen und Adressen in den Ermittlungsakten landen – und damit irgendwann bei den beschuldigten AfD-Leuten.

via taz: Prügelei beim AfD-Treffen in Gießen „Die haben den Konflikt gesucht“

Members use social platforms to push vulnerable teens into harming themselves. In striking and chilling terms, several career Justice Department officials on Thursday offered dire warnings about the online extremist network “764,” whose young followers around the world use popular social media platforms to target, groom and push vulnerable teens into harming themselves and others. “I don’t think Stephen King is dark enough to come up with some of the stuff that these kids are coming up with,” said Justin Sher, a trial attorney with the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “It is as serious a threat as you can imagine,” said Sher’s colleague James Donnelly, the DOJ’s domestic terrorism coordinator. “[And] they’re trying to metastasize the evil.” Their comments came during a panel about 764 hosted by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. It was a rare public appearance for two career prosecutors who the panel’s moderator described as “the point people” on 764 within the department’s National Security Division. Sher and Donnelly both noted that 764 members are increasingly trying to push victims to take deadly actions, including suicide or school shootings and other mass-casualty attacks. As ABC News has previously reported, 764 members find vulnerable victims on popular online platforms, elicit private information and intimate sexual images from them, and then use that sensitive material to threaten and blackmail victims into mutilating themselves, harming others, or taking other violent action — all while streaming it on social media so others can watch and then disseminate recordings of it. “For them, content is currency,” Sher said. “So they are building their content inventory … and putting it out there to build their status within these groups.”

via abc: In rare public comments, career DOJ officials offer chilling warnings about online network 764