#Accelerationism
86 entries tagged Accelerationism.
People (46)
- Alexander Lightner Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer.
- Alisher Mukhitdinov Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the alias 'Alexander Slavros,' founded and administered Iron March from 2011 to 2017; his identification rests on a WHOIS record linking his personal site to a Moscow address, corroborated by BBC Russia's physical investigation in January 2020.
- Andrew Dymock Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years.
- Andrew Takhistov Andrew Takhistov is an East Brunswick, New Jersey Terrorgram Collective member arrested July 10, 2024, charged with soliciting destruction of two PSE&G electrical substations in New Jersey after conducting reconnaissance with an undercover FBI employee and receiving tactical advice from a Russian contact.
- Arda Küçükyetim Arda Küçükyetim was a Turkish neo-Nazi who stabbed five people outside Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir while livestreaming in August 2024, confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings, and sentenced to 75 years in Turkish prison in 2025.
- Ben John Ben John was a 21-year-old Lincoln criminology student convicted in August 2021 of one terrorism possession offence and given a suspended sentence later overturned on Solicitor General reference, with O9A literature among material found in his possession.
- Brandon Russell Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists.
- Brenton Tarrant Brenton Tarrant is an Australian who killed 51 in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, livestreaming the attack behind an accelerationist manifesto that became the founding saint-template for Terrorgram Collective and subsequent attackers worldwide.
- Cain Clark Cain Lee Clark was a San Diego teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, co-authoring an accelerationist manifesto citing Siege, Atomwaffen Division, and Terrorgram, and dying at the scene.
- Caleb Vazquez Caleb Liam Vazquez was a Chula Vista, California teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, had been flagged to police for neo-Nazi social media activity the prior year, and died at the scene.
- Cameron Finnigan Cameron Finnigan was a 19-year-old from Horsham convicted in January 2025 at the Old Bailey of possessing a terrorism manual and encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide, sentenced to six years as a member of the 764 network, which Counter Terrorism Policing described as posing an immense threat.
- Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda.
- Coleman Thomas Blevins Coleman Thomas Blevins is the founder of InJekt Division, a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization, who was arrested in May 2021 after threatening a mass shooting at a Walmart and sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison on a felon-in-possession count.
- Conor Climo Conor Climo was a Las Vegas white supremacist and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2020 for possessing bomb-making components after an FBI undercover operation documented his plans to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and LGBTQ bar.
- Dallas Humber Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to all counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on December 19, 2025.
- David Myatt David Myatt is a British far-right ideologue widely attributed as the founder of the Order of Nine Angles under the pseudonym Anton Long, whose writings directly influenced the 1999 London nailbomber David Copeland, yet he was never charged with terrorism despite decades of published incitement to murder and a three-year Scotland Yard investigation.
- Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards.
- Gediminas Beržinskas Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian Feuerkrieg Division member convicted by Vilnius Regional Court in September 2020 for planting a homemade explosive device outside a Vilnius Western Union office in October 2019, representing one of the first European criminal convictions of an FKD member.
- Guilherme Von Neutegem Guilherme Von Neutegem was a Toronto-area Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2020 fatally stabbed mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis in Rexdale, Ontario and was found not criminally responsible by reason of schizophrenia in 2023.
- Harry Vaughan Harry Vaughan was an 18-year-old grammar school student from Kingston-upon-Thames convicted in November 2020 at the Old Bailey of 14 terrorism offences including creating Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda, who received a suspended sentence criticised by counter-extremism researchers.
- Jacek Tchorzewski Jacek Tchorzewski was an 18-year-old Polish national in Buckinghamshire stopped at Luton Airport in February 2019 and convicted of ten terrorism possession offences at the Old Bailey, sentenced to four years, with documented interests in Satanism, neo-Nazism, and Sonnenkrieg Division.
- Jack Reed Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish community venues among his planned targets in Durham.
- James Mason James Mason is an American neo-Nazi ideologue whose collected essays Siege (1992) became the foundational accelerationist text for Atomwaffen Division and the broader 'siege culture' movement after being rediscovered and popularized on the Iron March forum in 2015.
- Jarrett William Smith Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents.
- Jeremy Meilhac Jeremy Meilhac is a French national raised in Denmark who was sentenced to six years in prison by a Danish court in April 2026 for terrorism-related offenses as a Terrorgram Collective member, becoming the first person convicted of Terrorgram-linked terrorism in Denmark, with his Danish citizenship revoked and deportation ordered.
- Juraj Krajčík Juraj Krajčík was a Slovak neo-Nazi who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022, killing two, after Terrorgram Collective mentorship by Pavol Beňadik from age 16, becoming Terrorgram's first designated saint.
- Kristopher Erik Nippak Kristopher Erik Nippak is an East York, Ontario Terrorgram Collective and Atomwaffen Division member arrested December 8, 2023, charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, and awaiting a judge-alone trial scheduled to begin in Toronto in January 2026.
- Luca Benincasa Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed organization and possession of bomb-making materials.
- Luke Hunter Luke Hunter was a Newcastle propagandist affiliated with Feuerkrieg Division who ran a Telegram channel with over 1,200 subscribers, was convicted of seven terrorism charges in 2020, and sentenced to four years and two months at Leeds Crown Court.
- Matthew Althorpe Matthew Althorpe is a Canadian co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who previously served as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, co-authored its three major publications, and was sentenced to 20 years in Canadian federal prison in March 2026.
- Matthew Robert Allison Matthew Robert Allison is a Boise, Idaho DJ and Terrorgram Collective co-leader who served as the network's primary video producer under the alias 'BTC' (BanThisChannel), arrested September 2024 and facing 15 federal counts in the Eastern District of California with trial pending as of May 2026.
- Michael Szewczuk Michael Szewczuk was a 19-year-old Leeds resident who co-founded the Sonnenkrieg Division and was sentenced in June 2019 to four years and three months at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism and possessing terrorist manuals including imagery targeting Prince Harry as a 'race traitor' for execution.
- Michail Chkhikvishvili Michail Chkhikvishvili (alias 'Commander Butcher') is a Georgian national who led Maniac Murder Cult after its founder's arrest, extradited from Moldova in 2025 and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026.
- Michele Prado Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher and founder of the NGO Stop Hate Brasil who since 2022 has monitored Terrorgram Collective channels operating in Brazil, submitted reports to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice, and documented the online radicalization pipeline connected to the wave of Brazilian school attacks from 2022 onward.
- Nikita Casap Nikita Casap is a Waukesha, Wisconsin man sentenced to two consecutive life terms in March 2026 for murdering his mother and stepfather in February 2025 to fund a planned assassination of President Trump, with the FBI documenting extensive Terrorgram radicalization and contacts with European co-conspirators.
- Noah Licul Noah Licul is a Croatian Terrorgram Collective senior member designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Department on January 13, 2025, who was previously identified in Feuerkrieg Division-linked Telegram chats circa 2019-2020 under the alias 'buntovnik.'
- Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski was an 18-year-old from West London who was a Sonnenkrieg Division member sentenced in June 2019 to an 18-month Detention and Training Order at the Old Bailey for two counts of encouraging terrorism via Gab posts supporting Anders Breivik and calling for ethnic cleansing.
- Patrick Gordon MacDonald Patrick Gordon MacDonald is an Ottawa, Ontario man who, under the alias 'Dark Foreigner,' produced and distributed Atomwaffen Division recruitment videos in 2018-2019, was convicted of all terrorism charges by Ontario Superior Court in April 2025, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 2025.
- Paul Dunleavy Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian member who later planted a bomb in Vilnius.
- Pavol Beňadik Pavol Beňadik, alias 'Slovakbro,' was the Slovak co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who mentored Juraj Krajčík before the 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting and was sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting terrorism.
- Payton Gendron Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, livestreaming the attack and leaving a manifesto modeled on Brenton Tarrant's, sentenced to consecutive life terms and cited as inspiration by subsequent accelerationist attackers.
- Rinaldo Nazzaro Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation.
- Ryan Hatfield 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.
- Sarah Beth Clendaniel Sarah Beth Clendaniel is a Cecil County, Maryland-born neo-Nazi who conspired with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell to destroy five BGE substations, having developed white nationalist beliefs independently since 2001 before meeting Russell through prison correspondence in 2018.
- Skyler Philippi Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 against a Nashville-area electrical substation.
- Yegor Krasnov Yegor Krasnov, alias 'Maniac,' is a Ukrainian teenager who founded Maniac Murder Cult in Dnipro around 2018, establishing its neo-Nazi accelerationist framework before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020.
Organizations (21)
- 764 Network 764 is a decentralized online child exploitation and coercion network founded around 2020, classified by the FBI as a Tier One terrorist threat with more than 350 active investigations as of 2026, operating within the broader Com ecosystem.
- Antipodean Resistance Antipodean Resistance was an Australian neo-Nazi organization announced on Iron March in October 2016 by founding member Tim Heibach, several of whose leadership members were identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak.
- Atomwaffen Division Atomwaffen Division was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary network founded by Brandon Russell in 2015, linked to multiple murders and terrorism plots, that received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg, and dissolved through federal prosecutions after 2020.
- Fascist Forge Fascist Forge was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 as an explicit Iron March successor, reaching over 1,500 users before its hosting registrar took it offline in February 2020.
- FashFront FashFront is an accelerationist neo-Nazi web forum that emerged in mid-2025 positioning itself as the successor to Iron March and Fascist Forge, with 941 registered users as of late 2025 and documented connections to former Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram Collective members.
- Feuerkrieg Division Feuerkrieg Division is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded in October 2018 in Estonia, proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK, Australia, and Canada, and responsible for documented prosecutions in at least eight countries before and after its formal dissolution in February 2020.
- InJekt Division InJekt Division is a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization founded in February 2021 by Coleman Thomas Blevins of Kerrville, Texas, serving as a founding node in the United Acceleration Front coalition before Blevins's arrest in May 2021 for a mass-shooting threat targeting a Walmart.
- Maniac Murder Cult Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi accelerationist network whose 'Murder Points' system rewards escalating real-world violence, proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025, with leader Michail Chkhikvishvili sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison in 2026.
- Misanthropic Division Misanthropic Division is a transnational neo-Nazi organization founded in Belarus in 2013 by Dmitry Pavlov, declared extremist by Russia in 2015, with documented cells in 19 countries and connections to Ukraine's Azov Battalion and the broader accelerationist network.
- National Action National Action was a British neo-Nazi organization proscribed in December 2016 as the UK's first banned terrorist group since World War II, producing more than a dozen criminal convictions for membership and terrorism offenses between 2018 and 2022.
- National Socialist Resistance Front The National Socialist Resistance Front was the final organizational iteration of the Atomwaffen Division lineage, founded by Ryan Hatfield in September 2022 as a successor to the National Socialist Order and formally dissolved in November 2024.
- Order of Nine Angles The Order of Nine Angles is a British neo-Nazi occultist organization whose Insight Roles doctrine of committing crimes as spiritual initiation made it a foundational influence on Atomwaffen Division, Tempel ov Blood, and the broader accelerationist ecosystem, and which has never been proscribed in the UK despite eight terrorism convictions linked to it in two years.
- RapeWaffen Division RapeWaffen Division was a Telegram-based O9A nexion promoting rape and murder as ideological weapons, whose membership included U.S. Army soldier Ethan Phelan Melzer, convicted in 2022 for transmitting classified military intelligence to enable a mass-casualty attack on his unit.
- Russian Imperial Movement Russian Imperial Movement is a St. Petersburg-based ultranationalist paramilitary organization, designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department in April 2020, that operated the Partizan training camp and provided weapons and explosives training to Western neo-Nazis including members of Atomwaffen Division.
- Stop Hate Brasil Stop Hate Brasil is a Brazilian NGO founded by researcher Michele Prado that monitors far-right extremist networks online, with a particular focus on the Terrorgram Collective's Brazilian infrastructure, and has served as a consulting partner to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security since 2023.
- Terrorgram Collective Terrorgram Collective was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi Telegram network linked to attacks in multiple countries, generating prosecutions across the US, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark, and Australia with sentences totaling over 75 years of imprisonment across named defendants as of May 2026.
- The Base The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, designated a terrorist organization by Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU, whose members received over 100 combined years of prison sentences before the group rebuilt as an internationally operating cell network by 2025.
- The Com The Com is a transnational online criminal ecosystem spanning three overlapping spheres (cybercrime, child exploitation, and offline violence), with 764 as its dominant sextortion subnetwork and hundreds of active FBI investigations across all U.S. field offices as of 2025.
- Vorherrschaft Division Vorherrschaft Division is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization documented as an organizational ally of Feuerkrieg Division and InJekt Division within the United Acceleration Front coalition, whose most violent documented member, Timothy Wilson, was killed by the FBI during an arrest attempt in March 2020.
- White Phoenix White Phoenix is the Ukrainian operational cell of The Base neo-Nazi network that claimed responsibility for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv in July 2025 and has conducted graffiti operations and offered cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure aligned with Russian military objectives.
- White Prison Newsletter The White Prison Newsletter is a neo-Nazi accelerationist publication co-organized by Brandon Russell from federal prison, targeting incarcerated persons and endorsed by Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Gregory Bowers.
Events (14)
- 2015 Charleston Church Shooting Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, received federal and state death sentences, and became the founding saint reference explicitly cited by Brenton Tarrant in his Christchurch manifesto.
- 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an Atomwaffen Division leadership gathering in Las Vegas organized by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, notable for James Mason's first in-person appearance with AWD and for triggering Operation Erste Saule.
- 2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in a live-streamed attack, inspiring the founding of the Terrorgram Collective and becoming the most cited precedent event in post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attacks.
- 2022 Aracruz School Shootings On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber.
- 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ Bar Shooting On October 12, 2022, Juraj Krajčík killed two people at the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava after Terrorgram mentorship by Pavol Beňadik, becoming the first attack attributed to Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline and Krajčík its first 'saint.'
- 2022 Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, 2022, livestreaming on Twitch while citing Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, sentenced to consecutive life terms and named by Juraj Krajčík as his 'final nudge.'
- 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal sentences respectively and exposing documented failures of post-conviction supervision and FBI intelligence integration.
- 2023 Brazil Telegram Suspension Order On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge Wellington Lopes da Silva of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of Telegram and daily fines of approximately US$198,000 after the platform refused to produce subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels, 'Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement' and 'Anti-Semitic Front,' which had been recovered from a school shooting suspect's phone; the suspension was lifted April 28, 2023 after partial compliance.
- 2024 Eskisehir Mosque Stabbing On August 12, 2024, Arda Küçükyetim stabbed five worshippers outside a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey while livestreaming on Kick, in an attack confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian proceedings and resulting in a 75-year Turkish sentence.
- 2025 Antioch High School Shooting Solomon Henderson (17) killed one student and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville on January 22, 2025, leaving a manifesto citing Maniac Murder Cult; police found no direct MKY coordination or co-conspirators.
- 2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting On May 18, 2026, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people and leaving an accelerationist manifesto citing Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base; both perpetrators died at the scene.
- Operation Bergon Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests across seven Brazilian states, disrupting neo-Nazi cells planning mass casualty attacks including a planned bombing of the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant.
- Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration describes the documented shift in neo-Nazi accelerationist network infrastructure following Pavel Durov's arrest in August 2024 and the September 2024 Terrorgram Collective federal indictment unsealing, which prompted accelerationist channels to migrate toward encrypted decentralized platforms and persistent web forums.
- United States v. Humber United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025.
Concepts (5)
- Accelerationism Accelerationism, in the far-right context, is the strategic doctrine that targeted violence will hasten the collapse of liberal democratic society and create conditions for white nationalist reconstitution, foundational to Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram Collective, and The Base.
- Great Replacement Theory The 'Great Replacement' is a white nationalist conspiracy theory drawn from Renaud Camus's 2011 French book and operationalized by Brenton Tarrant's Christchurch manifesto as ideological justification for anti-immigrant violence, subsequently replicated by Payton Gendron and others.
- Iron Gates Iron Gates is a 2014 Martinet Press novel depicting a post-collapse race war through graphic O9A-doctrine violence, which became required reading in Atomwaffen Division and was distributed through Terrorgram channels into the wider accelerationist ecosystem.
- Saints Culture Saints Culture is the accelerationist neo-Nazi practice of venerating mass killers as martyred exemplary figures, systematized by the Terrorgram Collective into a trading-card propaganda operation designed to inspire successive attacks through documented inspiration chains.
- Siege Culture Siege Culture is the accelerationist neo-Nazi ideological ecosystem organized around James Mason's collected writings, which advocate leaderless resistance and lone-wolf violence, adopted as foundational doctrine by Atomwaffen Division and circulated into successor networks by Iron March and Terrorgram Collective.