Our latest for @LCRWnews:
Last weekend, white supremacists, neo-nazis and skinheads from various states came together for an MMA tournament in the San Diego area.
The event brought together multiple factions of the loosely organized (but interconnected) fascist fight club scene scene and marks the culmination of RAM founder Rob Rundo’s long-time efforts to bring organized, euro-nationalist style fight clubs to the U.S.
This tournament signals a worrisome new phase in the reemergence of the U.S. fascist fight club scene—one in which Rise Above Movement has continued to have an outsized impact.
In 2021, a new generation of RAM-inspired fascist fight clubs began popping up across the country.
Over the past couple of months, we noticed that one “active club” in particular appears to be more than just inspired by RAM.
At first, it appeared that SoCal Active Club was paying homage to the original fascist fight club in a way only the biggest fanboys could (or would)—through a series of photos that recreated some of RAM’s most recognizable propaganda.
As it turns out, this was part of a larger propaganda campaign leading up to the neo-nazi MMA tournament.
With the helping hands of two of Rundo’s right-hand men, SoCal Active Club appears to be going through a rebranding in which the group is being promoted as RAM 2.0
Both SoCal Active Club and Patriot Front have been credited with helping to organize the private, invite-only neo-nazi tournament.
And to be clear: When we say neo-nazi, we mean actual fucking nazis.
Nazis like this dude with a swastika tattoo on his pasty gut.
He wasn’t just personally invited to fight in the neo-nazi tournament, he’s also appeared in RAM redux propaganda.
Very few images of the event have been released, but of the attendees we have identified (so far), one was a participant of #UniteTheRight and one is a particularly terrifying proponent of terrorism (and rape).
We were able to ID a few more participants, all of whom are included in the article:
Ian Desantis was easily identified seeing as his lack of concern over maintaining basic opsec was matched by his enthusiasm for participating in GDL events.
We identified GDL member Ian Desantis after he randomly popped into the WLM CA Telegram chat to brag about his antisemitic activism making the local news - and he did so from a Telegram account that literally included his full name and full face pics.
Nicholas Bauer is the founder of Crew 319, a short-lived neo-nazi group that was responsible for a slew of racist flyers, antisemitic banner drops and attention seeking publicity stunts throughout Eastern and Central Iowa in 2022.
Nick Bauer was also responsible for the infamous ‘Day of Hate’ that caused widespread alarm, a hypervigilant police response and a lot of discussion about responsibly issuing warnings about neo-nazi activity versus the consequences of amplifying neo-nazi activity.
With Clockwork Crew co-founder Mohammad Wadaa recently released from military jail, we here at the club did what we do best — wrote entirely too many words about what an awful (and very weird dude) this neo-nazi is.
Last month we discovered that Mohammad Wadaa had been released from the brig — and that he didn’t skip a beat before ingratiating himself into the SoCal MMA circuit as “Mikhail Markovich”.
(We also discovered that he was booed — loudly — before, during and after his match)
The hostility toward Mohammad Wadaa / Mikhail Markovich may have been due to the fact that he’d kept his most overt nazi tattoo hidden, only to rip off the small black patch covering his swastika immediately before bounding into the ring looking like an absolute ghoul.
We bring you the story of Primal Aryan Warlord Gang, a short-lived accelerationist cell that was in the process of starting its own compound when the group collapsed after a series of arrests.
[Link in bio and at the end of the thread]
This article is as long as it is overdue.
It's the culmination of over a year's worth of research and documentation collected by @FashFreeNW, @SCResearchClub, @SunlightAFA, @WhiteRoseSocAU and other independent researchers.
Primal Aryan Warlord Gang (PAWG) was run by two petty criminals – one a braggadocious burglar and the other a 3-D printing gunsmith – and had direct connections to other militant accelerationists online and in-real-life.
It was our pleasure to share information about Clockwork Crew with @awinston for his latest article.
We'd known for a long time that the group had active duty military members and veterans within their ranks – and we knew exactly who they were. https://t.co/SW4KnWDBxt
We’ve spent over a year and a half closely tracking Clockwork Crew and its members: From the group’s origins as the west coast “commandery” for a neo-Nazi cult (Church of Aryanity) to its rebranding as a racist skinhead crew.
FUN FACT: One of the white supremacists Fedposting on Telegram about attacking power structures on behalf of Michael “Doc Grimson” Brown and Luke “Leo Solaris” Kenna was their co-co-conspirator Brian “Manic” Tierney.
The other was a good friend of Tierney, who went by “SCYZO”.