I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.
July 15, 2025 at 08:54PMAfter he began a project intended to unmask extremist groups in North Carolina and beyond, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how a movement known as “militant accelerationism” operates. Hate-mongers came to his door and threatened his family, but he refused to quit pursuing the truth about them:
Why am I telling this story? If personal considerations were the only imperative for committing the story to posterity, I wouldn’t be telling it. Revealing my vulnerability or giving the Nazis the satisfaction of knowing the toll that this has taken on our family would hardly be worth it.
Here’s the reason: Ultimately, whatever the cost, I believe with all my being that the world needs to understand the threat of militant accelerationism.
Just from the breadth of people who have harassed my family—not all of them are even captured in this account—and their associates who have been implicated in various crimes, it should be clear by now that teenage boys and young men don’t wake up one day on their own and decide to hurl a brick through a synagogue window or menace people at a drag show. And there’s plenty of evidence it can get far worse: The Terrorgram Collective has claimed credit for a mass shooting at a gay bar in Slovakia in October 2022.
None of these actions take place in a vacuum. Nazis with accelerationist tendencies are part of a larger community of people with shared beliefs and goals who are goading each other to commit ever more brazen acts of intimidation. They are part of a transnational community linked through the internet whose members exchange racist jokes and gore videos as part of a program of a sustained desensitization effort to lower their inhibitions toward violence.
Militant accelerationists instinctively distrust the political process, and for the most part seem wary of Trump (who, after all, is an ardent supporter of Israel and whose daughter is married to a Jew). But now their movement is taking place alongside a more mainstream drift toward fascism in the United States as media figures like Tucker Carlson endorse the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, and Elon Musk and Steve Bannon give Hitler salutes, and Vice President JD Vance embraces Germany’s “extremist” Alternative for Deutschland party. At the very least, militant accelerationists are now operating in a more permissive environment.
“We have seen a clear and intentional obfuscation of the nature of the domestic terrorism threat from the administration,” Jon Lewis, a senior researcher at George Washington University’s Project on Extremism, told me. “That does not make us safer.”
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/07/15/ive-seen-how-the-neo-nazi-movement-is-escalating-you-should-worry/
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