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-The two men charged
by the RCMP are Matthew Althorp,

a 28 year old from
Thorold, Ontario,

and Christopher Nipack
a 25 year old from Toronto.

-Matthew Althorp and
Christopher Nipack

were picked up late 2023
facing a range

of charges related
to their activity

with the Atomwaffen division.

Specifically for
their previous involvement

in the production
of Atomwaffen propaganda.

-There is concern
in law enforcement communities

that Atomwaffen's adherents
have the ability and intent

to carry out attacks here.

-Cops are alarmed.

The gang, Atomwaffen,

who they thought had
been disbanded in 2020,

is alive, resurrected
by the TerrorGram collective.

-Terrorgram is basically a
network of channels on Telegram,

where accelerationist
Neo-Nazis posts messages,

encouraging acts of terror.

They will often share
material about

how to attack
public infrastructure,

attack the power grid,

to plunge areas of the country
into darkness.

-The Neo-Nazi
accelerationist group dissolved

after there was a campaign
from the US State Department

to designate them
as a terrorist group.

Or so the government thought.

-These Neo-Nazis called
their group Atomwaffen.

-The Atomwaffen Division
has been responsible

for a wave of murders
across the country,

which has done maybe more
than any other group

to spread the accelerationist
cause and philosophy.

-On Terrorgram,

cops find messages
and violent recruiting videos.

But Atomwaffen technically
shouldn't exist.

-Law enforcement really
went after Atomwaffen division

and arrested some
of its kind of top figures.

-In 2020, James Mason,

the alleged adviser
of the Atomwaffen division

had publicly announced
the gang had disbanded.

-On the evening of March 9th
of this year, I was approached

by members of the group known
as Atomwaffen Division...

-The implication is
terrifying.

Did Atomwaffen go away?

Or did it just go underground?

-It's important to note that
groups will disband, restart,

will change their name,

but the ideology is
still present,

and the people who believe in
this ideology are still present.

As long as there are young men

who are drawn towards
violent white supremacism,

they will continue
to join these types of groups.

-Like Nathan Hale said,
I regret

I have only one life
to give for my country.

So you better make it count.

-Atomwaffen is the brain
child of Brandon Russell,

a member of Florida's
National Guard.

-Atomwaffen Division
was founded in October 2015.

Brandon Russell, the founder,

was 22 when he
created the group.

-Brandon Russell is
kind of a rich white kid

who lived in the Bahamas.

His dad was a deputy sheriff
in West Palm Beach.

Around the time that he forms
Atomwaffen division,

he also joins
the Florida National Guard,

which is very common
among Neo-Nazi accelerationists.

Brandon Russell growing up

struggled with ADHD
and depression

and just kind of struggled
socially in general,

which is a very common
characteristic of the people

that were attracted
to the Atomwaffen division.

-Russell targets
young white males and gamers.

-The average
Atomwaffen division member is

a young white male,
probably middle class,

quite bright, curious.

Very often,
struggling with diagnosed

or undiagnosed
mental health issues.

-Video games like Minecraft
and first person shooters

are places that groups
like Atomwaffen Division target

specifically to get at
teen boys.

So one of the other tactics
that Atomwaffen did

was create videos

that mimic the world
of first person shooter games.

-He quickly begins to amass
an army of white supremacists.

-The concepts
behind Atomwaffen are

that society is irredeemable.

Society has to be destroyed.

Accelerationism is just moving
towards that end goal.

In the case of Atomwaffen,

it was specifically about race
war and control by white males.

What they want are white ethno
states ruled by Nazi principles.

They would like
to revive the German reich,

right, under Hitler
in multiple countries.

So that is their goal,

and it is explicitly Neo Nazi,
explicitly anti Semitic,

and it's violent.

-The Atomwaffen insignia has
a Waffen SS sign,

along with the universal symbol
of radioactivity.

The shield can be surrounded
by a wreath,

which is common
in the white supremacist world.

Four yellow rays emanate
from the setter.

Atomwaffen's path
to white supremacy is simple.

Accelerate the violence.

-When he launched
Atomwaffen division,

it was his promise that
this group was the real deal,

that it was fanatical,

that they were dedicated
to bringing on the race war.

They would commit acts
of violence

that would lead
to the collapse of society.

-Russell is inspired
by a violent dark web form

from Russia called Iron March.

-Iron March was a forum
created by Alexander Slavos

of Russia, to put out
into the world fascist ideas,

to try to collect young people
in one place to

share Neo-Nazism,

fascism, various forms
of extremism.

It's a very violent forum

that basically existed
on Discord servers.

-Brandon Russell's message
to recruits on Iron March

was if they wanted to
not be keyboard warriors,

as he put it,

and actually engage
in direct action

towards fomenting a race war,
they should contact him.

-And it really is the precursor,
the place

where the vision of apocalyptic
groups like AWD came about.

-Online far right extremists
are very frequently derided

as keyboard warriors.
"You're all talk online.

You would never
actually do anything."

And when Brandon Russell

and other quite violent
Iron March followers broke off,

that was the message.

We're done being
keyboard warriors.

Don't come here if all
you want to do is talk online.

This is a violent movement.

-Russell hunts for recruits
on college campuses.

-Atomwaffen division
actually did

some serious campus outreach
with a fliering.

-Police are now involved

after someone plastered
a number of neo Nazi posters

on the U-Dub campus.

-That was both
at campuses in parts of Florida,

but they were at, for example,

Old Dominion University
in Virginia

and other parts of the country.

AWDs propaganda on campuses

was extremely blatant
about its Neo-Nazi nature.

You know,
don't prepare for exams.

Prepare for a race war.
They were very,

very clear that they wanted
you to join a Neo-Nazi

anti Semitic group and just
dump your college career.

-Russell sets up a complex
system to lockdown prospects.

-They also had
an online infrastructure

to point people to,
things like websites,

which could then lead you
to chat rooms.

They wanted to get
young people into the group,

and they thought that college
campuses would be a place

that would be rife
for that kind of recruitment.

-It's very hard
to get an idea of exactly

how many people are involved,

especially with the anonymity
of the Internet.

People take great pains
to kind of hide their identities

to conceal themselves,
not only from each other,

but they're aware
that activists, journalists,

law enforcement are increasingly
interested in these movements.

-The Atomwaffen creed --
Be everywhere by being nowhere.

-Most violence that we've seen
in the modern American far right

has been perpetrated
by lone actors.

-If law enforcement can't
track them, chaos can continue.

-What lone wolf terror
attacks provide to a group

like Atomwaffen Division

is a little bit of a defense
against law enforcement.

If there's not a big group
planning an action,

it's much more difficult for
law enforcement to infiltrate

and disrupt that action
and prevent it from happening.

If you're planning something
essentially by yourself

and don't tell anyone,

then it's a lot harder
for people to stop you.

-Atomwaffen division is

not a geographically
located terrorist group.

They are everywhere by design.

The leading cells were
in Florida, Texas,

and the Pacific Northwest.

But we saw Atomwaffen activity
all over the country, really.

-By 2016, Atomwaffen begins
to spread like a virus.

-They had to really embrace
a guy named James Mason,

who was an acolyte
of George Lincoln Rockwell,

who's one of the most infamous
Neo-Nazis in American history.

But he later kind of became
disenchanted with that movement

and struck out on his own
and wrote a book called "Siege."

It makes sense that he
would be a hero to Atomwaffen

because he kind of epitomizes
lone wolf terrorism.

-He actually mentored members
of Atomwaffen division

in his apartment in
Denver, Colorado.

-Mason's book "Siege" quickly
becomes Atomwaffen's manifesto.

-I've heard Atomwaffen division
described as a book club

because these guys
used to just read texts

and write essays at each other.

-"Siege", for instance,
speaks about the importance

of carrying out acts of violence
as individuals.

One principle is very important,

and that is this idea
of leaderless resistance.

So you have individuals who
can carry out acts of violence

without becoming part
of an actual organization.

-On the night of
June 12, 2016,

it was time
for Atomwaffen to go live.

29 year old Omar Mateen kills
49 people in a mass shooting

at a gay night club called
Pulse in Orlando, Florida.

-I think, right now,
the FBI has to be concerned

whether or not, you know,

there are already
any other conspirators.

Was he a alone wolf?

Was he inspired?
Was he directed?

At the vigil,
Stephen Billingsley is

the first member
to reveal his identity.

-The first person

to publicly identify
themselves as a member

of the Atomwaffen division was
this guy, Stephen Billingsley,

who was protesting
outside a vigil for the victims

of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

By this point, Atomwaffen
division was largely unknown,

and he was caught on camera
giving a Nazi salute

and then unmasked himself
and declared himself a member

of this unknown Neo Nazi group
called the Atomwaffen Division,

a national socialist.

-Atomwaffen is officially
on the map.

With chapters popping
up all over the US,

Atomwaffen is ready to jump
from the dark web to bloodshed.

-Atomwaffen begins training
their members at hate camps,

encouraging violence.

-There are at least a couple
hate camp events held in Texas,

at least one in Washington State

and one in Quebec

with the Canadian version
of Atomwaffen Division.

The purpose of the hate camps
was twofold.

One was indoctrination,

right, to learn more about
"Siege" or fascist ideals,

but also to do training.

Weapons training,
fighting training, you know,

all the tools and skills

that you need to have to be
a violent insurrectionist.

-Lone wolf attacks start
to grow.

-Before long, Atomwaffen has
expanded across the US

and has upwards of 27 chapters
around the country.

-It's not a few hundred
people.

It's really large numbers.

They are targeting young
white males in the United States

and other countries to
get sucked into their movement.

-The Atomwaffen
division had chapters or members

in at least 23 states with
some concentrations in Florida.

They had hate camps
in Texas and Nevada,

but they were
pretty well dispersed

throughout the country.

-They had affiliations
with groups outside the US,

particularly in Europe.

-You have individuals who are
kind of fighting for attention

in a very limited space.

It's a much larger movement
that I think people realize.

-The problem with having
a lone wolf mentality

is that it's easier
to break off from the pack.

-Tonight,
a shocking series of discoveries

during a double murder
investigation in Tampa Palms.

-It was literally the nightmare
that just kept growing.

-Inside the smoke shop,

an agitated young man
pulls out a gun

and orders everyone
to the ground.

-It was very clear that
he wasn't letting anybody leave

and that he was
not going to drop the weapon.

-They said they were scaring
their lives.

One of the girls tried to
sneak out from the back.

-Finally, the suspect obeys
and drops his weapon.

Cops arrest
18 year old Devon Arthurs.

Hours into the interrogation,
Arthur drops a grenade.

He's just killed his two
roommates at their apartment.

When police arrive
at Arthur's home,

they find a man in army
fatigues out front.

That young man is
Brandon Russell,

the leader of AWD.

-Devon Arthurs first came into
contact with Brandon Russell

in a third position chat group.

And shortly after
they became kind of inseparable

and best friends,

and a lot of people
in those communities

kind of remarked at
how unhinged they were.

You know,
there were stories of them

waving around handguns
in video chats.

Brandon Russell and
Devon Arthurs

first meet Andrew Oneschuck
and Jeremy Himmelman online.

Oneschuck and Himmelman
are based up in Massachusetts,

and Russell eventually asks
Himmelman to lead up

the Massachusetts chapter.

-As the alliance
starts to build,

Russell decides to invite
the three guys down to Florida

to live together in early 2017.

-The important thing
about the four men

actually moving in together

was they were forming
a real cell in the Florida area.

-Brandon thought that, you
know, being in the same place

and living together,

it'd be easier for them to carry
out this horrific vision

they had for the world.

-After they move in,
Arthurs does the unthinkable.

He begins to convert to Islam.
-As crazy as that sounds

for a Neo Nazi to convert
in this way to Islam,

it's actually not all that
uncommon in alt right circles

to kind of express reverence
for groups like ISIS or Al Qaeda

because of the destruction

they've wrought
in certain places

and particularly targeting
kind of American interests.

It's important to remember

that these accelerationist
groups are looking

to destroy America.

-They almost identify more
with Al Qaeda

than they do with the Klan.

You know, they see
themselves much more as sort of

an insurgent army than
a political force, for instance.

-But to his roommates,
it's the ultimate betrayal.

-This becomes a sore spot
in the apartment,

and the three of them kind of
gang up and make fun of Devon.

-Devon didn't take that
lightly.

He felt suspected
in his own home,

that they were going against
his Islamic beliefs.

-That May, Arthurs explodes.

-On May 19, 2017,

Devon Arthurs murdered
Jeremy Himmelman

and Andrew Oneschuk

in their apartment
with an AK 47.

-The police search
the apartment

and find bomb paraphernalia
everywhere.

-And they find an arsenal
of weaponry,

multiple firearms,
plenty of ammunition.

And they also find
explosive precursors indicating

that somebody was probably
building an explosive device.

-Russell is brought
down for questioning.

-He's hysterical.

He's crying because he had
just found two of his roommates,

you know, brutally murdered.

-Back in Devon Arthurs'
interrogation room,

he immediately starts to snitch.

-While Arthurs is talking,
Russell's holding.

-Russell tells cops that
he uses them for his hobby,

launching rockets.

-Russell claimed
that he was using it to shoot

off basically model rockets,
right?

That this was
harmless material for, you know,

a Sunday afternoon in the park.

-I think they see him
as kind of a nice college kid

with a cop dad
who is really into science.

-They did not keep him
in detention.

This probably partly
has to do with the fact

that his father was
a sheriff's deputy in Florida.

Shockingly,
law enforcement let him go.

-But the cops in the two rooms
aren't communicating.

Just as Russell
is being released,

Arthurs is spilling
everything to police.

Those bombs are going to take
down a huge infrastructure.

-Arthur says
he had to kill them

before they pulled off
the terror attack.

The police are stunned.
Russell is already out the door.

They begin to drill him
for details.

-What he had in his possession

were very serious explosives
that could do significant harm

that could kill people.

-Russell's in the wind,
and despite two dead roommates,

he moves on with the plan.

-Terrorism, especially in its
lone actor form,

is not necessarily expensive.

Firearms are
not necessarily expensive.

Explosives are
not necessarily expensive.

-To give you a perspective,
Al Qaeda carried out 9/11

for less than $500,000
to kill 3,000 people.

-After Brandon Russell's
roommate

Devon Arthurs kills
their other two roommates,

Brandon Russell goes on
the lam,

he flees, and he starts
driving south through Florida

where he picks up another
Atomwaffen member

who quits his fast food job,

cashes out his life savings,
about $3,000.

-The cops call in the FBI,
who launch an all out man hunt.

-Him and Brandon buy a ---- ton
of weapons and ammunition

and start driving south

towards the Turkey Point Nuclear
Power Plant in the Florida Keys.

-48 hours later, jackpot.

Monroe County Sheriff's deputies
spot Russell's license plate

and pull him over.

-Turn around
put your hands behind your back.

-Turn around.
-Get the other one.

You have any weapons on you?

-What's wrong?
-You know what's wrong.

Why are you fidgeting?
-Russell's jittery behavior

has police on high alert.

-He's too nervous, man.
He's way too nervous.

-Yeah. Something's in that car.

What are we gonna find
in that car?

-When authorities
finally track Brandon down,

they find horrifying cache
in his car.

Weapons, guns,
1,000 rounds of ammo.

This is obviously concerning
on its own,

but it's especially concerning
when you consider

where they were stopped.

-They were eventually arrested
en route

to the Turkey Point
nuclear power plant.

The police conducting the arrest

believed they had stopped
an attack at that location.

-Russell catches
five years for possession

of an unregistered
destructive device

and improper storage
of explosive materials.

But for the Atomwaffen,
plan B is already in action.

Waiting in the wings is
John Cameron Denton, AKA Rape.

-Atomwaffen division pivoted
towards a form

of Satanism known
as the Order of Nin Angles.

It's a violent Satanist
movement.

-He takes it in somehow
an even darker direction.

-Police tell us
it involves a racist hate group

with access to high explosives.

-With Atomwaffen leader
Brandon Russell behind bars,

John Cameron Denton
immediately takes over AWD

with right hand man Caleb Cole.

-Pop that [bleep] open, point it
at them, and pulled the trigger.

Hail Hitler.

-Once John Cameron Denton takes
the reins of

Atomwaffen division, he kind
of takes it and in somehow

a seemingly
even darker direction.

He's kind of obsessed
with the occult and satanism,

kind of in keeping
with James Mason's fascination

with Charles Manson.

-Atomwaffen forms
a new alliance

with a Neo-Nazi group called
the Order of Nine Angles,

a Satanist group.

-Originally, Russell was
not into the whole

Order of the Nine Angles,
satanic stuff that Denton

and the secondary leaders
got into.

And that is honestly part of

what led Atomwaffen falling
into into disrepair.

-This report that has come out
about them taking DMT during,

like a hate camp,
and then sacrificing a goat.

You can take a large amount
of DMT,

travel to another
----ing dimension,

and then come back to reality
like 20, 30 minutes later.

-This new pivot to Satanism

has thinned the group to only
the most dangerous in the herd.

By late 2017,
Atomwaffen ramps up their

hate camp training
around the country,

with members participating
in military training,

complete with
heavy duty weaponry.

-It's a violent
white supremacy group known

for conducting training
exercises with camo and guns.

-And in all these places,

indoctrination
of propaganda is happening,

but also military style
training, clearing buildings,

you know,
how to assemble weapons,

how to engage in
hand to hand combat.

-Atomwaffen doesn't make money
of drug running.

All the financing
for the entire operation

comes from the members
themselves.

-The Atomwaffen division
have to essentially engage

in what you call self financing,

building wealth
from the membership itself

through the odd jobs
that the membership does.

-Individuals will pay for
their own equipment.

They will pay
to go to meet ups.

-All of this is a means
to an end to finance hate camps

and further their training.

Atomwaffen's hate camps,

make an impression
on one member in particular.

-Sam Woodward did not fit in

at the Orange County School
of the Arts.

He was moody. He was right wing.

He did a graphic design project
of a confederate flag.

One of their classmates told me

that if they had to pick
somebody in their class

that would have been
a school shooter,

they would have picked
Samuel Woodward.

-Sam Woodward comes across AWD
on the dark web

and immediately joins the group.

He climbs the ranks fast.

-Eventually, Sam develops
a reputation in

the Atomwaffen division for
being, like,

up on his fascist literature.

So eventually,

he's tasked with interviewing
new initiates to make sure

that they're ready
to join the cause.

-He starts going by
the name Saboteur or Sab online

and begins attending
the hate camps.

-We know Sam Woodward
went to one of these hate camps,

the one in Texas,

because he was actually
photographed at the camp

throwing up a fascist salute.

-But allegedly,
Woodward has a secret.

Something that
Atomwaffen could kill him for.

-There were a lot of rumors
in the high school

that Sam himself,

despite his kind of
alt right persona,

might be interested in boys,
might be attracted to boys,

that he might be gay or bi.

-Unknown to Atomwaffen,

he secretly makes contact
with a former classmate.

-Sam Woodward
and Blaze Bernstein went to

high school with one another.

-While Blaze is home
for winter break,

Woodward persuades him
to meet up in person.

-Woodward encourages Bernstein
to meet him in a park.

-Only one would leave
the park alive.

-According to Woodward,

Bernstein tries to kiss
Woodward,

Woodward then stabs Bernstein
multiple times.

-The parents of 19 year old
Blaze Bernstein spoke

through tears after learning
their son's body was found

in Lake Forest, Borrego Park.

-When I heard them talking
about the injuries

that he sustained
was one of the first times

I collapsed, when I heard that.

-Detectives find dirt
under Woodward's

fingernails and bruises
on his body,

consistent with a struggle.

-Samuel Woodward
was arrested on January 12th

and charged with the murder
of Blaze Bernstein.

-Police get a warrant
to search his home.

Inside, they find what they
believe to be the murder weapon.

-The evidence connecting
Sam to Blaze's alleged murder

was pretty easy
for detectives to find.

There was blood in the car.

The knife that had Blaze's
blood on it

was in Sam's dresser, and it had
Sam's father's name on it.

-Atomwaffen Division
celebrates the murder.

-Woodward is applauded
for the murder of Bernstein

by the Atomwaffen division,

a so called one man
gay Jew wrecking crew.

-A couple of days
after Blaze's murder,

Samuel Woodward goes into
the Atomwaffen division chat

and is kind of like
unusually wistful

and earnest expresses
his gratitude to the group.

-But not everyone likes
the attention.

-They think it's
kind of a waste

of a good Neo-Nazi activist,

and they're also
a little wary of the attention

that is on them now
because of this murder

and because they've
been connected to this murder.

-It is a group that we should
absolutely be concerned about.

-Tonight, the investigative
website ProPublica

is now reporting that Woodward
was a member of a fascist group,

their Nazi propaganda posted
online,

traveling to Texas
for military style training.

-A month later, someone in
Atomwaffen division

betrays the group
and blows their dark web cover.

-After Blaze Bernstein's
murder,

ProPublica gets a hold
of Atomwaffen division's

internal chats and messages
to each other, which, of course,

exposes kind of the depth
of their depravity and

embrace of violence.

In the wake of this leak,
John Cameron Denton declares

that it's probably time
for another purge,

meaning we might
have to kick out some members

and find out who the rat is.

-The data dump triggers
an all out war on journalists.

AWD goes scorched earth.

-Under John Cameron Denton,

Atomwaffen division begins
to target journalists.

-I have just noticed something
in my mailbox.

It doesn't look quite right.

-Caleb Cole and John Denton

really ran a multi-state
coordinated campaign

in which they threatened
dozens and dozens

of people with death.

-White supremacist group

was plotting
to intimidate journalists.

-Investigating the group
for months.

-Such acts of hate
will be met with thorough,

tireless, vigorous
investigations.

-With Atomwaffen
under investigation by the FBI,

the group ramps
up business overseas.

-Pictures from
Atomwaffen Deutschland

first appeared
I believe in 2018.

Atomwaffen Deutschland,

or Atomwaffen Germany, kind of
announced itself to the world

by posting photos
of a couple of members

standing in front of
very famous castle

in Germany associated
with the SS.

-The British affiliate,
the Sonnenkrieg Division,

which was directly affiliated
with Atomwaffen,

and some of their members were
in the Atomwaffen group texts.

These are not actual
criminal organizations,

the way we think of the mafia
or something.

So it becomes kind of
a semantic issue.

-In 2018, the Sonnenkrieg
division got a large amount

of kind of notoriety
in the UK press

for referring to Prince Harry
"a race traitor" for his,

you know,
mixed race wife, Meghan Markle.

There's a concept
within these spaces

that kind of pervades
a lot of white supremacy,

where, like,
race traitors get the rope.

Anybody who acts
against the interests of white

Europeans -- journalists,
activists, minorities,

and race traitors specifically
our open game for execution.

The concept of this
"day of the rope" is the day

that they're all they're
all going to get lynched.

-In early 2019,
with international backing,

AWD launches a new phase
known as Operation Sol,

German for first pillar.

-With the ProPublica expose
of Atomwaffen Division,

they were very upset that
this information was out there,

that the chats were leaked,

and that there was
this negative attention,

and it also sort of ruined
some of the mystique

that they had been trying
to build.

-AWD raises the stakes,
targeting journalists of color,

Jewish journalists,
and the Anti Defamation League

by posting signs with imagery
of weapons and Neo-Nazi symbols.

Along with death threats,
Atomwaffen tries a new tactic.

-They were incredibly angry
over this,

which is why they went after
the journalists behind it.

-Denton and Cole

take swatting, calling in
fake hostage situations

to trigger a SWAT Team response
to next level heights.

AWD allegedly makes
over 100 swatting calls

on an historically Black church,

along with dozens
of journalists.

-The end goal being
to terrorize these individuals

into no longer reporting
on the group.

-Atomwaffen Division is
on the war path,

but a bad move is about

to blow up in their face
and send them spiraling.

-Atomwaffen division leader
John Cameron Denton

and his right hand man,
Caleb Cole start swatting --

calling in
fake hostage situations

to trigger a SWAT Team response.

-You may be in your home,

and especially if you let's
say own a firearm,

and, all of a sudden,

somebody busts
into your house with guns drawn,

you might go for your gun.

You go for your gun in the face

of a police officer
or SWAT Team,

you're going to be gun down.

-Death threats
and swatting incidents

also happened in Germany
by Atomwaffen divisions

where two politicians were
specifically set death threats

from the group,

and others were basically
swatted in various ways.

-But Atomwaffen decides
to swat its biggest enemy,

the US government.

-They start
to target elected officials

and another government
bureaucrats.

Basically as a method
of intimidation and harassment

to stop these people
from paying attention.

-The FBI goes on a war path.

-Not only
is the terror threat diverse.

It's unrelenting.

-Atomwaffen division
shows themselves to be

not the cleverest criminals.

-But Atomwaffen
members screw up

and leave easy breadcrumbs
for the feds to follow.

-During this swatting
campaign,

one of them
forgets to hide their number.

Eventually, it's pretty easy

for law enforcement
to identify who's behind this

and then, you know,
slowly it unravels.

-In early 2020,
the feds take them down.

-John Cameron Denton
is serving more than five years

in prison for engaging in more
than 100 swatting incidents.

-We're pretty sure that
Caleb Cole was going to engage

in violence
if that hadn't happened.

-This sentence sends a message
to those who would engage in

similar actions that serious
consequences are waiting for

threatened people in this way.

-With intense heat on AWD,

James Mason makes
a startling announcement.

Atomwaffen is dismantling.

-In 2020, there was an audio
put out

reportedly from James Mason.

This is not part of,
but was foundational

or incredibly influential
in the Atomwaffen division

and their ideology, saying
that the group had disbanded.

The members
that had made up the group

or had helped start the group
dissolved to a certain degree.

-With Denton behind bars
in 2020, it seemed like the feds

had cut the head off
the Atomwaffen snake.

As they later find out,
AWD didn't go anywhere.

First, NSO pops up in the US.

-They decide it's time
for a rebrand.

They call themselves
the National Socialist Order,

which, you know, is
the same group in a lot of ways.

They're still devoted

to creating a national socialist
order by any means necessary,

including violence.

-With big tech on high alert,

AWD starts to use a lesser
known platform called Telegram

and broadcast
James Mason's "Siege",

along with Russian AWD
call to arms.

In the darkest part of Telegram,
is a channel called TerrorGram.

-Terrorgram is a name used
for a subset of Telegram

in the extreme right.

It's a group of individuals

who believe in
Neo-Nazi accelerationism,

and they believe in the use
of, I mean,

really terrorism
and mass violence

to accomplish their goals.

-Terrorgram is used
for something even worse.

Live streaming murder.

-They make recommendations
regarding tactics,

planning, surveillance,
and things of that nature.

There have been advice
given for making bombs

in some
of these Terrorgram manuals.

They could sort of be seen
as a guide for an individual

who want to commit
a terrorist attack.

-Police in New Zealand
are urging people

to stay off the streets

and to avoid mosques
in the coming hours

after mass shootings
at two mosques in the city

of Christchurch.

-In 2019, a white supremacist
group r-posted a Facebook Live

of the Christchurch Massacre,

resulting in the killing
of 51 Muslims.

-Police confirm
the gunman was live streaming

the killings at one mosque
on social media.

-There's a recording
posted online

of the Christchurch shooter's
manifesto,

which obviously he wrote
in anticipation

of killing Muslim worshippers.

-Rapewaffen division was
a little different.

You had a lot of groups
kind of popping up this time,

that were, like, noun division
or adjective division.

Like they would take some kind
of concept from in the space

and just use the same
naming convention and the look.

Rapewaffen division was,
as the name implies,

a little different.

They really lionized
this idea of sexual assault.

Rapewaffen division was probably
one of the kind of worst

to come out during the height
of the skull mask era.

-It's a matter of time
until all hell breaks loose.

In 2021, it does.

That January, a chilling post
is made on Terrorgram,

announcing the start
of a Neo-Nazi fight club

called Active Club.

-Active Club was started
by an American white nationalist

named Robert Rondo.

They were meet up groups
of people,

typically white nationalists,
Neo-Nazis, always white

European men who would come
together to train for combat,

exchange ideas.

It's not 100% dissimilar
from a fight club,

but the purpose is
to train for combat

and to network to build
this nationalist movement.

There are fight nights that
have been arranged in the US

The Southern California
Active Club

brought a few individuals
together

to have a big fight night.

Then they use that to produce,

you know,
an entire documentary around it.

-All these things are
happening around the same period

of time, Rapewaffen, Terrorgram,
Active Club.

That August, Brandon Russell is
released from prison.

It's the perfect storm.

Russell gets right back
to business.

-It's uncovered that him
and a woman that he met

while in prison were plotting
to attack a power grid.

-Completely destroy Baltimore
and inflict maximum damage.

-Attacking these stations
to cut power

to the city of Baltimore would
lead to a breakdown of order,

and that it would lead
to violence.

-Terrorgram
has opened up venues

for white supremacist groups
to connect with each other.

But one of the top dogs
will finally be unmasked.

-Brandon Russell is interacting
with Dallas Aaron Humber

to coordinate the release of
Terrorgram propaganda material.

In a way, the voice
of Terrorgram gets discovered

'cause she posted a picture
of a cat named Fluffy.

-In early 2023, in Sacramento,
a woman, Dallas Aaron Humber,

is unmasked as the mouthpiece
of the Terrorgram collective.

-Dallas Humber is alleged

to be kind of fairly
well known, certainly

within the space, narrator
of these manifestos.

There's something called
the right wing book club

where she would make
these recordings.

-For a while,

all of these audio files
are floating around

and being shared on Terrorgram,

but no one can figure
out who this woman is.

There's also a particularly
disturbing documentary.

I believe it's called
"White Terror."

-The White Terror doc is
a Terrorgram production

that was this
full length documentary

that included footage
of 105 different kind of

mass casualty events that are
considered to be a part of the,

like pantheon of saints.

-Eventually, anti fascist
activists follow this very long

digital bread crumb trail
and figure out

that this woman in California,

who has been kind of
a self professed Neo-Nazi

and hiding behind user names and
avatars since she was, like,

14 years old,
her name is Dallas Aaron Humber.

-A group of anti fascism
researchers have revealed

that the voice
behind Terrorgram

belongs to a Sacramento
area woman.

-When she's posting on
Terrorgram,

she once posts a picture
of a cat named Fluffy.

Later, anti fascists find
that same cat posted by

another account that they know
belongs to Dallas Aaron Humber.

So, in a way, you know,
the voice of Terrorgram

gets discovered because she
posted a picture of Fluffy.

-Even though Humber is unmasked,

it doesn't stop the spreading
of information

and dark plans over Terrorgram.

-This is domestic terrorism,
pure and simple,

and it needs to be treated
as such.

-In February 2023,

Brandon Russell,
former leader of AWD, is caught

trying to bomb
multiple electrical substations

in the Baltimore area.

-The FBI says
it's stopped a plot

to take down the city's
power grid.

Two people are under arrest,
a neo Nazi leader and a woman.

-Russell has been out
of prison for a couple of years

and is plotting
to use guns to shoot

out power substations
in Maryland

to plunge Baltimore into kind of
complete darkness and chaos.

-The FBI said
the suspects had racially

and ethnically motivated
extremist views

and wanted to destroy
the entire city.

-Other white supremacist groups
have learned

from Atomwaffen's mistakes.

-Between Atomwaffen Division

and its splitter cells,
no one is safe.

-It's about reawakening people
of America and get white people

to stand up for their roots

and to quit being put down by
things like Black Lives Matter.

-They think we are living

in a particularly dangerous
moment in time.

And if you look at
the statistics

over these last five years,
for instance,

the United Nations
has documented a more than 320%

increase worldwide
in attacks attributed

to radical right wing actors.
-Oh, my God.

He shot so many
people were there.

-I've been working on a list

that is around 60 to 70
organizations

that are active today.

That doesn't include kind of
very small Facebook organizing,

things like that.

It's very hard to pin down.

You get a lot
of crossover membership.

-We have certainly seen
the rise

of a global neo Nazi
white nationalist movement

that is deserving
of our attention.

-Today, it's difficult to say
what Atomwaffen will do next.

No one really knows.

-Trying to counter groups
like the Atomwaffen division

is like a game of Whac-A-Mole.

A lot of individuals
who subscribe to

the Atomwaffen
division's ideology

are not part of organizations.

They are individuals who are
even further under the radar

because they're not connected
to an [speaks indistinctly]

or even cellular structure.

-This isn't a threat
that has gone away.

So the entity itself,
whatever it calls itself,

needs to be closely monitored.

-Let's not find
ourselves asleep at the wheel

as we did in the run up to 9/11.

-There's five murders

that have been connected to
Atomwaffen division.

As much as some individuals
did take action,

it primarily was a place
to produce work

that would inspire others.

Or at least that has been
what is

the lasting effect of
Atomwaffen.