Active Club's Robert Rundo, on women. Misogyny and white supremacy go hand and hand.

Right wing politics dominates the martial arts space, with a few exceptions. The stand out account on the left is Luke Thomas gets political. The general trend is pretty clear.

“The DOJ is acting as the legal department for domestic terror organizations.” “Antifa” as a terror organization is ludicrous & every one knows this - even the far-right despite their glee at the designation

The DOJ is going after the SPLC. Waggener here displays why. It’s disinformation warfare. The SPLC exposes hate groups, and Trump is using the power of the federal government to disrupt their work, and provide counter narrative to Nazi’s.

Nationalist MMA fighter brings the Quentin narrative to the post fight photo op.

Anthony Graffeo is hovering around top 5 emerging accounts. He has followed the Jake Shields playbook.

Key finding 2: Nationalist MMA events are a significant part of the infrastructure. They are heavily promoted and woven into their identity. This shows amplification of 4 major events in Q1. Patriot Front organized America Muscle wwas the most amplified event across main core channels.

They'll always act unbothered to make you think what you're doing is ineffective. They're definitely bothered.

21 Active Club accounts created on Instagram so far in 2026. Most of which in a 6 week period in March and April, included Robert Rundo. This is a coordinated push.

They too, are watching They think it’s a compliment because my assessment is accurate. My goal here is counter narrative. But first, we must understand the threat.

New article out on Active Clubs in Switzerland. Nothing too ground breaking in this piece. When I see these I always go in to their chats to see how they respond. www.rsi.ch/info/svizzer...

A new GPAHE report examines how Project 2025 is extending beyond the U.S., tracing coordinated efforts to advance a far-right, Christian nationalist agenda across Europe, Africa, and Latin America, targeting LGBTQ+ rights, women rights, & democratic institutions. Read Project 2025 Goes Global here:

Key finding one: Quentin Deranque was a nationalist who was killed in street clashes with anti fascists in France. This was amplified across the Active Network in a coordinated push to get people on the streets.

Social sentinel automatically ranks emerging accounts to watch. Rundo appears in top 5, with the creation of a Meta account, but will probably fall off since his X account was suspended.

The active club assessment scores to related categories. Organization discipline, and internal infrastructure Structure are the rules and expectations. Discipline is meeting expectations, or being held accountable.

1/4 There is a neo-Nazi concert — NSBM, i.e., National Socialist Black Metal — planned to take place in Romania🇷🇴 in July 2026. 'Wallachian Gates', as per the promoters on the Facebook and (now private) Instagram page, is scheduled for July 10-11 in Buzǎu, a small city 1.5-2h from Bucharest

This assessment looks at the network of communication between Active Clubs on telegram. This is the web of forwards from the US clubs.

The Q1 Active Club assessment is complete. It covers an analyses of the Active Club network, and 6 key findings from Active Club communication.

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

Good news.

ICMYI: As part of a Guardian investigation, Sean Craig & I looked into clandestine neo-nazi "Forest Fights" — hooligan-style brawls on a secretive Lynchburg, VA compound hosted by neopagan hate group Wolves of Vinland, with fighters from the active club network, Patriot Front, and the Hammerskins. 🧵

How to Identify "Active Clubs" in #BJJ. Featuring Hannah Gais (BJJ practitioner & Sr. Research Analyst @ SPLC). youtu.be/r4lwyvwhljI

Hunter is not completely right, but he's not completely wrong either! This is a longer essay, but having spent my entire career at WaPo as an opinion editor and then a columnist -- I have quick thoughts! 1/n

@bernardofariabjj and @bjj.fanatics continue to promote a white supremacist. @jakeshieldspod is one of the most prolific platforms of anti semitism.

iPhone forensics expose Signal messages after app removal in U.S. case

Slowly starting to find some amplification of accounts within the martial arts space, although nothing too surprising here. I would expect a high rate of amplification, possibly following social structures like affiliate schools in BJJ. This hasn’t been the case.

When tracing the flow of a message, they normally start in some nationalist channel, or one of the core ideological channels of the Active Club movement, such as Will2Rise. From there it will be shared, hopping to several channels as the message is amplified.

Robert Rundo engages in double speak. A line for liability, and a line for his followers. We all know which line is the message of choice. He’s pushing for violent revolution. Dripping out constant communication like this:

One of the major take aways from the Q1 Active Club assessment is the growth of youth clubs and their message amplification. They recruit males 15-18 years old, and funnel them Ito the active club network. You see this in the messaging flow and strategy.

did Dropkick Murphy just produce a music video where they chase down members of Patriot Front and fuck them up? "Retribution won't be pretty, so shut the fuck up and take a seat." WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0Z...

I spend a dumb amount of time looking at white supremacist chats and forums. This is exactly what they look like:

One of the key findings from the Q1 Active Club Assessment. Massive spike in accelerationist language coming from Latin America.

This is showing nationalist fighting event mentions per channel, with their Active Club assessment score noted in the third column. Clear relationship between their score and promotion of real world fighting events and meet ups.

“ANY SELF-DEFENCE/MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING IS LIKELY GOING TO BE BETTER THAN NO SELF-DEFENCE/MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING! Our experience has been that someone who trains even casually in a martial art is going to have a huge advantage in a street fight against an untrained opponent.”

Working on a weighted indulgence score for martial arts accounts peddling conspiracy and extremism.

The Active Club Assessment scores internal infrastructure. This is the social structure and expectations that the club has of their members. Here is an example, of club expectations and direction given.

Loyalist Pioneers split off from the Active Club network at the end of 2025, and have been fairly disengaged online. This is the first media push I’ve scene from the group. x.com/wehrmonkey/s...

New from Wiley Cope. Cope was the first to report on SFCA, and clearly has a handle on what’s going on in the white supremacist movement. Not many journalists are paying this close attention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Remigration” has moved from neo-Nazi spaces into mainstream politics, reshaping immigration policy through a lens rooted in white supremacy. Its adoption shows how extremist ideas are being normalized & enforced by the state, with deportation & detention as instruments of repression. Read more:

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

As a region, Canada has the highest organization discipline score across the Active Club network. This is a reflection of how their discipline has been openly communicated, in relation to their organization rules and expectations.

In “Fighting for the Fuck of It”, I connected Sports Ultras, European Hooliganism, Forest Fights, and US Nationalist groups. These are not random dots or connections. These connections are strategic social movements with a political purpose. open.substack.com/pub/submitti...

The @ufc and @ufcbjj has hitched their entire brand and identity to this. They are about to spend 60 million dollars to put on a show in this persons front yard. Maybe you woke up and felt powerless against stopping Trump and his regime. He’s seemingly untouchable.

Bogota DC is one of the more vocal Active Clubs in Latin America.

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

For Q1 2026, the Folkish Vanguard has an entirely disconnected communication map from the Active Club network. They are in the bottom right box.

More Patriot Front L's. Thomas Rousseau and two of his loyalists have been ordered to pay over $470K for destroying an Arthur Ashe mural in Richmond, VA. www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

The Social Sentinel app now automatically builds a network topology map based on accounts amplifying each other. You can see by zooming out, there is very little inter-martial artist amplification. What we do see seems to be driven by personal connection.