--- born: ~2000 category: Extremism & Violent Networks created: 2026-05-22 location: Northglenn, Colorado summary: Ryan Hatfield (alias 'Ryan Arthur') is the Colorado Springs neo-Nazi who led the Atomwaffen Division's Colorado cell, later founded the National Socialist Order and its successor the National Socialist Resistance Front, which formally dissolved in November 2024, and subsequently became a documented contributor to the FashFront forum. tags: - Person - AtomwaffenDivision - NeoNazi - Accelerationism - SiegeCulture - USA - FashFront updated: 2026-05-22 --- Ryan Thomas Hatfield (alias "Ryan Arthur") is an [Atomwaffen Division](/organizations/atomwaffen-division/) (AWD) veteran who joined AWD at approximately 16 years of age and served as the organization's Colorado Springs cell leader. After AWD's formal dissolution through federal prosecutions in 2020, Hatfield became the primary figure sustaining the organizational lineage through successive rebrands: the National Socialist Order (NSO, announced July 2020), then the [National Socialist Resistance Front](/organizations/national-socialist-resistance-front/) (NSRF, announced September 12, 2022), which he formally dissolved on November 8, 2024. ### AWD Membership and Colorado Cell Hatfield was an early AWD recruit who joined while still a teenager, making him one of the younger members of AWD's organizational leadership. He ran AWD's Colorado Springs chapter and remained active in the network through AWD's collapse. His identity was first publicly exposed by journalist Nate Thayer, who died before the Baltimore case was prosecuted. ### American Futurist and Post-AWD Organizing After AWD's dissolution, Hatfield operated the propaganda website American Futurist, the principal publishing platform for the AWD lineage's post-collapse accelerationist content. He published essays under the alias "Ryan Arthur" and used the site to maintain ideological continuity across the NSO and NSRF periods. Following his identity's exposure, Hatfield relocated to Northglenn, Colorado, where he was reportedly paying approximately $2,000 per month for a condominium. Anti-fascist researchers distributed flyers to neighbors in his building identifying him. ### NSO and NSRF Hatfield announced the formation of NSO via a blog post on July 25, 2020, framing it as a continuation of AWD's mission by "remaining leadership who were not arrested." NSO ran a new website launched in January 2022 and conducted a membership recruitment push in March 2021 that cited [Brandon Russell](/people/brandon-russell/)'s essays from prison. NSO published writings by Russell during his federal incarceration. On September 7, 2022, American Futurist severed ties with NSO, and on September 12, Hatfield announced the formation of NSRF as a NSO successor, citing dissatisfaction with [Order of Nine Angles](/organizations/order-of-nine-angles/) (O9A) infiltration of NSO's remaining network. Russell, then on supervised release, attempted to recruit an FBI informant into NSRF in fall 2022, describing prospective members as coming from Maryland and the Carolinas. Hatfield announced NSRF's formal dissolution on November 8, 2024, via American Futurist, ending the organizational lineage he had maintained since AWD's collapse. ### Russell Conspiracy and Terrorgram Coordination Leaked chat materials analyzed by SPLC Hatewatch in February 2023 showed Russell and an account associated with Hatfield appearing to coordinate the release of [Terrorgram Collective](/organizations/terrorgram-collective/) propaganda on the American Futurist platform during the period of the [2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy](/events/2023-baltimore-power-grid-conspiracy/)'s operational planning. An SPLC Hatewatch reporter (Hannah Gais) noted on social media that an account tied to Russell also shared material from Hatfield claiming to have identified an undercover FBI agent within AWD prior to its collapse.[^1] No charges have been filed against Hatfield as of mid-2026. ### FashFront Activity (2025) Following NSRF's dissolution on November 8, 2024, Hatfield continued publishing under the "Ryan Arthur" alias. By 2025 he maintained an active writing thread on [FashFront](/organizations/fashfront/), a new neo-Nazi accelerationist web forum that emerged in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, positioning itself as the successor to [Iron March](/organizations/iron-march/) and [Fascist Forge](/organizations/fascist-forge/). The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) identified Hatfield's FashFront presence as one of the documented connections between former AWD-network figures and the new forum infrastructure.[^2] [^1]: SPLC Hatewatch, Hannah Gais. "Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder's Path to Terror Plot." February 2023. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot/; Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists. "Ryan Hatfield aka 'Ryan Arthur': Atomwaffen Division / American Futurist." November 14, 2023. https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/14/ryan-hatfield-atomwaffen-division-colorado/; Counter Extremism Project. "Atomwaffen Division / National Socialist Order / National Socialist Resistance Front." https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/atomwaffen-division-national-socialist-order [^2]: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/; FashFront forum. Ryan Arthur's article thread. https://fashfront.st/threads/ryan-arthurs-article-thread.1812/