Terrorgram Collective

Terrorgram Collective was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi network that coalesced on Telegram during the summer of 2019, co-founded by Pavol Beňadik of Slovakia and Matthew Althorpe of Canada, in the immediate aftermath of Brenton Tarrant's Christchurch mosque attacks. At its peak, the network operated through approximately 400 channels and 200 group chats, produced three major zine-format propaganda publications and a documentary-style video series, developed and distributed the "Saints Culture" framework glorifying mass shooters as martyrs, and was linked by a joint ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation to 35 attacks and plots internationally. The United Kingdom became the first country in the world to proscribe it as a terrorist organization on April 26, 2024; the United States, Australia, and Canada followed with formal designations in 2025.

Formation and Origins

The Terrorgram Collective emerged directly from the deplatforming wave that followed the March 2019 Christchurch massacre, as accelerationist networks displaced from mainstream platforms migrated to Telegram. Beňadik (born approximately 2000, alias "Slovakbro"), then approximately 19 years old, created at least five neo-Nazi Telegram channels in the immediate post-Christchurch period and began assembling what became the Terrorgram ecosystem. He was joined in this effort by Althorpe (born approximately 1996, Thorold, Ontario), a Canadian who had previously served as a propagandist for Atomwaffen Division from approximately 2018 before transitioning to Telegram-based operations.

Terrorgram was the primary successor space to Iron March (2011-2017) and Fascist Forge (2018) in the international accelerationist online ecosystem, inheriting those forums' membership base and their shared commitment to James Mason's Siege as foundational text and to lone-wolf terrorism as the preferred operational mode.¹

Brandon Russell, the imprisoned AWD founder, was documented using multiple Telegram pseudonyms to participate in Terrorgram-adjacent channels and to share PDFs encouraging acts of terrorism, documenting his continued reach into the ecosystem from prison.

Propaganda Publications

Between June 2021 and July 2022, the Terrorgram inner collective produced three major publications that became the network's most operationally consequential output:

Militant Accelerationism: A Collective Handbook (136 pp., June 16, 2021): An ideological and tactical primer framing terrorism as "the language of the unheard" and providing guidance for lone-wolf attacks. Contained explicit calls for violence and instructions for identifying targets.

Do It For The Gram: The Collected Writings of Terrorgram (268 pp., December 16, 2021): A text-only compilation maintaining and elaborating the first publication's operational argument.

The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production (261 pp., July 14, 2022): The network's most operationally specific publication, with upgraded visual design and detailed instructions for violent attacks and critical infrastructure sabotage including guides for bomb-making and destruction of electrical substations. Its production marked the formalization of the inner collective's structure under Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison. The FBI's September 2024 indictment identified all three publications as the principal evidence of material support.²

Audiobooks of all three publications were produced and distributed through the Terrorgram channel network.

Saints Culture

Terrorgram's most influential ideological contribution to the accelerationist ecosystem was the formalization and industrial-scale production of "Saints Culture" content: trading-card-style graphics profiling far-right mass shooters with their death tolls, methods, photographs, and attack dates, framing them as martyrs worthy of veneration and emulation. Monthly calendars marked anniversaries of past attacks and perpetrators' birthdays. After the October 2022 Bratislava shooting by Juraj Krajčík, Humber posted on Terrorgram: "St. Juraj Krajčík, Tarrant's sixth disciple and Terrorgram's first saint," formalizing the post-attack canonization ritual.

The Saints Culture framework drew on Tarrant's self-framing as a "saint" in his own manifesto and on earlier Order of Nine Angles (O9A) and Atomwaffen Division cult-of-martyrdom aesthetics, but Terrorgram systematized and scaled it.³

Federal Prosecution: United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257

The primary U.S. prosecution was filed in the Eastern District of California as case number 2:24-cr-00257 (United States v. Humber). The 37-page indictment, filed September 5, 2024 and unsealed September 9, 2024, named Humber and Allison as joint defendants on all 15 counts: conspiracy (1 count); soliciting hate crimes (4 counts); soliciting the murder of federal officials (3 counts); doxing federal officials (3 counts); threatening communications (1 count); distributing bombmaking instructions (2 counts); and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (1 count). Combined maximum exposure was 220 years.

The material support charge under § 2339A (which, unlike § 2339B, is not limited to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations) was described by Lawfare as a significant application of the statute to an online white-supremacist content network. The prosecution was handled jointly by DOJ's Civil Rights Division, National Security Division, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California.

Humber pleaded guilty to all 15 counts on August 8, 2025. U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins sentenced her to 360 months (30 years) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release on December 19, 2025. Allison pleaded not guilty; his trial remained pending in the Eastern District of California as of May 2026.⁴

All Named Defendants: Full Prosecution Record

United States

Dallas Humber (Elk Grove, California, age 35 at sentencing): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded guilty to all 15 counts August 8, 2025. Sentenced December 19, 2025, to 360 months (30 years) plus lifetime supervised release by Judge Dena Coggins. No public cooperation agreement.

Matthew Robert Allison (Boise, Idaho, age approximately 37 at arrest): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded not guilty. Trial pending as of May 2026.

Noah Lamb (age 24 at indictment, Eastern District of California): Indicted June 26, 2025, unsealed July 2, 2025, on eight counts: conspiracy (1), soliciting murder of federal officials (3), doxing federal officials (3), threatening communications (1). Maximum exposure: 85 years. "The List" targeted U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists. Investigated by the FBI Sacramento Field Office. No plea or trial outcome as of May 2026.

Alexander Lightner (Venice, Florida, age 27 at sentencing): Original charges filed January 2024 in the Middle District of Florida included interstate transmission of a threat to injure (threatening a mass casualty event) and unlawful possession of a silencer. Pleaded guilty March 11, 2025, to the firearm count only. Sentenced June 12, 2025, to 51 months (4 years 3 months) in federal prison.

Andrew Takhistov (East Brunswick, New Jersey, age 18 at arrest): Charged in the District of New Jersey in July 2024 with one count of soliciting destruction of energy facilities (maximum 10 years). Pleaded not guilty. Plea status unresolved as of May 2026.

Nikita Casap (Waukesha, Wisconsin, age 17 at arrest, 2025): Charged in Wisconsin state court with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and eight other felonies for the February 2025 murders of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer, committed to fund a planned drone assassination of President Trump. Pleaded guilty January 8, 2026 to the two homicide counts; remaining counts dismissed under plea agreement. Sentenced March 6, 2026 by Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Ralph Ramirez to two consecutive life terms without possibility of parole. Federal investigation separately documented an assassination plot involving approximately $8,700 in Bitcoin transfers and contacts with Russian-speaking co-conspirators; no federal indictment publicly announced as of May 2026. DOJ identified him as "N.C." in Humber's August 2025 guilty plea factual basis, describing his murders as committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official."

Skyler Philippi (Columbia, Tennessee, age 24 at plea): Charged in the Middle District of Tennessee with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (18 U.S.C. § 2332a) and attempting to destroy an energy facility in Nashville using a drone equipped with what he believed to be C-4 explosive. Pleaded guilty September 9, 2025. Sentencing scheduled January 8, 2026; outcome not yet publicly reported as of May 2026. Philippi disclosed prior affiliation with Atomwaffen Division and the National Alliance during an August 2024 conversation with an undercover employee.

Canada

Matthew Althorpe (Thorold, Ontario, age approximately 27 at arrest): Arrested December 8, 2023. Charged under the Criminal Code of Canada with facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group (8 original counts reduced to 3 on guilty plea). Pleaded guilty in Toronto. Sentenced March 27, 2026, to 20 years by Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly, parole-eligible at 10 years. Justice Kelly found his propaganda inspired at least six attacks.

Kristopher Erik Nippak (East York, Ontario): Arrested December 8, 2023, alongside Althorpe following an 18-month RCMP investigation covering alleged offenses from April 2018 onward. Charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Bail denied twice; subsequently granted bail with conditions. Judge-alone trial in Toronto scheduled to begin January 2026.

Denmark

Jeremy Meilhac (Copenhagen area, French-Danish national, born approximately 1995/1996): Charged by the Public Prosecution Service of Denmark with terrorism-related offenses under the Danish Penal Code for activities between approximately June 2023 and December 2024. Convicted by the Glostrup District Court on approximately April 21, 2026. Sentenced to six years in prison; Danish citizenship revoked; ordered expelled from Denmark following sentence. Found to have played an "active and significant role" in Terrorgram operations, collaborating with Humber to produce "saint cards" and distributing attacker manifesto audio recordings through the network. This was the first Danish court finding that Terrorgram constitutes a terrorist organization. Verdict appealed to the Danish High Court; outcome pending as of May 2026.¹³

Slovakia

Pavol Beňadik (Slovakia, born approximately 2000): Arrested May 2022. Charged with inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, including publishing bomb-making and firearms-manufacture instructions and directly mentoring Juraj Krajčík. Sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison in November 2022.

International SDGT Designations (Not Criminal Charges)

Three individuals received U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designations from the State Department on January 13, 2025, under Executive Order 13224: Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira (Brazil, Terrorgram channel administrator); Noah Licul (Croatia, senior Terrorgram member and former participant in Feuerkrieg Division-linked chats circa 2019-2020 under alias "buntovnik," where he described meeting with Croatian FKD cell members and claimed credit for vandalizing a WWII memorial); and Hendrik-Wahl Muller (South Africa, Terrorgram channel administrator).⁵⁶

Attributed Violence

A joint ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation published in 2025 identified 35 crimes linked to the Terrorgram network. DOJ prosecutors linked Humber specifically to seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership.

The Bratislava attack of October 12, 2022: Juraj Krajčík (19) shot three people at Tepláreň, an LGBTQ+ bar, killing two and wounding one, then died by suicide. Krajčík had been radicalized through Terrorgram from age 16, directly mentored by Beňadik, and cited him by alias in his manifesto; he also cited the Buffalo supermarket shooter as his "final nudge."⁷

The Aracruz school shootings of November 25, 2022: Gabriel Castiglioni (16) attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil, killing four and wounding eleven while wearing a swastika patch. Humber had communicated with a user planning a racially motivated school attack in Brazil one month prior.

The Eskisehir mosque stabbing of August 12, 2024: Arda Küçükyetim (18) livestreamed himself stabbing five civilians outside a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey, possessing all three Terrorgram publications and a 16-page manifesto bearing Nazi symbols.

Nashville energy substation drone plot, November 2024: Skyler Philippi attempted to attach C-4 to a drone and fly it into a Nashville-area electrical substation.

Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: An unnamed Wisconsin plot to murder two individuals as part of a broader scheme to assassinate a federal official was among seven attacks attributed to Humber's guidance.

Waukesha parricidal attack, February 2025: Nikita Casap murdered his mother and stepfather to fund a planned Trump assassination plot, leaving a manifesto recommending Terrorgram publications including The Hard Reset.⁸

Wisconsin Murder-for-Hire Plot: Full Identification

The "Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot" referenced in Humber's indictment and in DOJ press releases was identified in the factual basis of Humber's August 2025 guilty plea as the February 2025 murders of Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer by Nikita Casap ("N.C."), committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official" (Trump). The designation "federal official" in the plea's language reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 framing; Trump as president-elect and then president qualifies. The DOJ framing of these murders as one of seven attacks "inspired or guided by" Humber's leadership represents the full scope of prosecutorial attribution available in the public record as of May 2026.¹⁴

Europol Coordination

Europol's European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) supported investigations in both the Canadian (Althorpe/Nippak) and Danish (Meilhac) proceedings. Its May 1, 2026 press release on Meilhac's conviction described its supporting role across multiple national investigations and noted that "over two dozen Terrorgram cases around the world" had been identified as of that date.¹³

AWD and O9A Connection

The Terrorgram Collective's genealogical connection to Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles runs through both personnel and doctrine. Althorpe had served as an AWD propagandist before joining Terrorgram's founding efforts. Nippak had produced AWD videos before creating Terrorgram content. Brandon Russell used multiple Terrorgram pseudonyms to distribute accelerationist content from prison. Taylor Parker-Dipeppe, who briefly took over some FKD organizational functions following KAPO's 2020 intervention with FKD's teenage Commander, was also documented in the AWD-to-Terrorgram ecosystem.

Joshua Caleb Sutter and Tempel ov Blood's 2017 infiltration of AWD carried O9A ideology (treating murder as spiritual service, transgressive violence as initiatory progression) into the broader accelerationist space. Martinet Press O9A texts including Iron Gates circulated through Terrorgram channels reaching audiences with no prior direct AWD or O9A connection.⁹

FKD/InJekt Division Bridge

When Feuerkrieg Division reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, a co-leader established himself as a central figure in the Terrorgram community and as a core organizer of two coalition structures: the United Acceleration Front and the National Socialist Coalition. FKD partnered specifically with InJekt Division, a Texas-based group founded by Coleman Thomas Blevins (arrested May 2021 for a Walmart mass-shooting threat, sentenced to 60 months). The Middlebury Institute CTEC and Tech Against Terrorism documented 21 distinct entities within this coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram channels, establishing the infrastructure link between the FKD era and the 764/CVLT era.¹⁰

Noah Licul, one of the three individuals receiving SDGT designations alongside Terrorgram in January 2025, had been previously identified as active in FKD-linked chats in Croatia circa 2019-2020, representing a documented named individual who participated in both FKD-adjacent networks and subsequently Terrorgram.

Formal Designations

United Kingdom: Proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024, S.I. 2024/569, laid April 22, 2024, approved by Parliament April 24-25, 2024, in force April 26, 2024. Membership or support carries up to 14 years imprisonment. The UK was the first country in the world to proscribe Terrorgram.

United States: SDGT designation of Terrorgram Collective and three individuals (Ferreira, Licul, Muller) under Executive Order 13224 on January 13, 2025. Published in the Federal Register as 90 FR 3987 on January 15, 2025.

Australia: Counter-terrorism financing sanctions imposed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 in February 2025, making Terrorgram the first entirely online entity subjected to Australian CT financing sanctions. Formally listed as a terrorist organization under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 via Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation, Terrorgram) Regulations 2025, F2025L00762. Penalties up to 25 years imprisonment.

Canada: Listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code via Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities, SOR/2025-263, published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 159, No. 26, December 17, 2025. Order in Council P.C. 2025-914, December 8, 2025. Listed alongside 764, Maniac Murder Cult, and Islamic State-Mozambique.¹¹

Status After Arrests

The Terrorgram Collective's inner organizational core was effectively dismantled by late 2025. Humber (30 years), Althorpe (20 years), Beňadik (6 years, from 2022), and Meilhac (6 years, from 2026) were imprisoned; Allison remained in federal custody awaiting trial; SDGT sanctions targeted three international figures; Lightner (51 months) and Casap (two consecutive life terms, March 2026) were also removed from the network. Institute for Strategic Dialogue described the network as "effectively defunct" as an organized structure.

Violence attributed to Terrorgram-inspired individuals continued post-arrests. The network's content, once released, proved impossible to fully remove from the accelerationist ecosystem.

FashFront, a neo-Nazi web forum launched in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, emerged as the most developed successor infrastructure. It modeled itself on Iron March's forum architecture while maintaining a companion Telegram channel and Odysee video distribution. With 941 registered users as of late 2025, including former Iron March members and at least one identified former AWD cell leader (Ryan Hatfield, alias "Ryan Arthur"), FashFront represented the most significant consolidation of post-Terrorgram accelerationist organizing infrastructure as of May 2026. No law enforcement action against FashFront or its administrators has been publicly announced.¹²¹⁵

Platform Migration After the September 2024 Indictment Unsealing

The unsealing of the Terrorgram indictment on September 9, 2024, combined with the August 24, 2024 arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Telegram's resulting announcement of law-enforcement cooperation, produced a documented migration wave. The Counter Extremism Project documented white supremacist Telegram channels immediately discussing the need for alternative platforms with better encryption. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue monitored a large number of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups migrating to a new decentralized, encrypted platform (which ISD declined to name); within 24 hours of ISD's September 25, 2024 monitoring period, users in those channels had posted calls for three political assassinations and multiple race-war declarations.¹⁶