Introduction
The National Socialist Movement (NSM) is a prominent neo-Nazi group that has directed extremist, incendiary rhetoric toward Jews and other minorities while supporting violence in pursuit of its political goal of "the union of all Whites into a greater America on the basis of the right of national self-determination."* The Southern Poverty Law Center identifies the NSM as the largest neo-Nazi movement in the United States.* The NSM bills itself as "America's premier white civil rights organization."* Though the NSM officially rejects violence, the group has declared its intention to defend itself.* The NSM acknowledges that Adolf Hitler created Nazism in Germany, but believes that it can be applied anywhere. The movement believes society promotes a "big lie" of equality among the races, and "the White Race" is "the most advanced and progress producing race on earth." The NSM believes that the white race faces extinction through race mixing as well as violence. To that end, the NSM calls for street demonstrations, rallies, and marches in order to spread its message, as it believes that the mainstream media is dominated by Jews.*
In February 2019, black activist James Stern replaced longtime leader Jeff Schoep as president of the NSM. Schoep reportedly sought to disband the group, but Stern convinced Schoep to sign it over to him instead. Schoep claimed that he was tricked into the transfer. Stern promised to render the group impotent rather than allow Schoep to disband it, which would allow somebody else to later revive the group.* Other members of the NSM tried to wrest control away from Stern. Stern died of cancer in October 2019, leaving the NSM’s future in limbo. Schoep has since become an anti-extremism consultant and speaker.* In March 2019, Schoep appointed Burt Colucci as the group’s new commander.* Schoep has since become an anti-extremism consultant and speaker.* The NSM has since reaffirmed its antisemitic and racist positions while organizing rallies, banner drops, and other events, as well as expanding its online and social media presence. Following a January 2022 weekend rally in Orlando, Florida, police arrested Colucci and two other NSM members in relation to an attack on a Jewish passerby.*The NSM launched a campaign to raise legal funds for their defense, as well as to condemn “the extreme anti-White, pro-Jewish bias in the so-called justice system.”* The NSM has continued to organize rallies and distribute propaganda. In October 2022, the LGBTQ Center in Orlando, Florida, canceled an October 29 Halloween edition of their Drag Queen Story Hour for children over safety concerns due to intelligence of a planned disruption by the NSM, Patriot Front, Proud Boys, White Lives Matter, Goyim Defense League, and National Socialist Front.* On February 21, 2023, NSM members carrying signs adorned with the SS symbol protested outside a Broadway theater featuring the show “Parade,” about the life and lynching of Leo Frank. Frank was a Jewish man wrongfully convicted of murdering a 13-year-old child in 1913. He was kidnapped from prison and lynched. His case inspired the creation of the Anti-Defamation League. NSM members labeled Frank a pedophile and taunted theatergoers.*
Leadership
Commander Jeff Schoep was the NSM’s founder and national director. Other prominent leaders include Captain Brian Culpepper, public relations, and Captain Butch Urban, chief of staff.* Black activist James Stern took over leadership of the NSM in February 2019.* The following month, Schoep issued a press release that Stern had no affiliation with the NSM and Schoep had appointed former chief of staff Burt Colucci as the group’s new commander.* Colucci launched a legal battle for control of the NSM and its website. Stern died of cancer in October 2019, leaving the group’s future uncertain.* In addition to Colucci’s role as party leader/commander, the NSM claims Butch Urban is its chief of staff and Harry Hughes is head of its public relations department. The NSM also lists George Archer in charge of membership/recruitment and Eddie McBride as the group’s media and audio/visual director.*
Base of Operations
Kissimmee, Florida*
Website
Membership Size and Relevance
The NSM reportedly had 40 dues-paying members nationwide as of 2018, according to former outreach coordinator Matthew Heimbach.* The NSM's total nationwide membership is unknown. As of 2018, the group had 61 local chapters in 35 states and was the largest neo-Nazi group in America.* The group also claims to have chapters in the United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia, New Zealand, and Sweden, with a new chapter planned in South Africa.* On YouTube, the group had 1,020 subscribers and 149 videos as of January 2, 2018, but has since been suspended.* As of January 31, 2022, the NSM’s Telegram channel had 201 subscribers.* It grew to only 216 as of April 29, 2022.*National Socialist Movement Telegram channel, accessed April 29, 2022.x NSM commander Burt Colucci created an account on Gab in September 2020. As of January 31, 2022, he had 191 followers.* By April 29, 2022, the channel had grown to only 210 followers.*Burt Colucci Gab account, accessed April 29, 2022.xColucci also created an account on BitChute in 2020. As of January 31, 2022, that account had posted 10 videos and amassed 8,132 views. The channel had 117 subscribers.*By April 29, 2022, the channel had grown only to 124 subscribers.*Burt Colucci BitChute account, accessed April 29, 2022.x
In 2016, NSM leader Jeff Schoep created a national far-right alliance called the Aryan Nationalist Alliance (ANA), which included neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and Klansmen. Schoep saw the alliance as an opportunity for NSM to gain more acceptance among the far right.* The Traditionalist Worker Party joined the coalition that November and ANA rebranded as the Nationalist Front. The League of the South joined the Nationalist Front in April 2017. The Nationalist Front has since held several rallies across the United States, attracting a few dozen supporters at each event. The Nationalist Front calls for the creation of separate, independent ethnostates in North America for each racial group.* TWP collapsed in March 2018 and League of the South pulled out of the Nationalist Front shortly after, leaving the coalition’s future in doubt.*
In April 2021, the NSM launched a new version of its website and a podcast called NSM Radio.* The group intended to host a national conference in Arizona later that month to teach how to “address violent Antifa scum, one protest event at a time.”* On January 12, 2022, the NSM launched a livestream function on its website after the site BlogTalk Radio denied it further access. NSM blamed “the Jew” for BlogTalk Radio’s decision to deplatform the group.* On January 29, NSM held a rally in Orlando, Florida, where participants held up signs with slogans such as “The Jew is the devil” and “Jews rape children and drink their blood.” The rally was livestreamed on NSM’s website.* The group planned a national rally in Washington state on April 23, 2022, but rescheduled it for an unspecific date that August. *
NSM joined with other white supremacist and antisemitic groups in calling for a National Day of Hate on February 25, 2023. The announcement on Telegram declared, “The one true enemy of the American people is the Jew.” Organized with Iowa active club Crew 319, California active club Clockwork Crew, and Empire State Stormers, the announcement called for banner drops, stickers, fliers, and graffiti to “shock the masses” and assert white power.*
Recruitment and Propaganda
The NSM's main goal derived from the white supremacist 14 Words mantra to "secure the existence of our people and a future for White children."* NSM's 25 Points of American National Socialism manifesto also contains antisemitic rhetoric and insists that NSM’s process of nationalization will "remove the Jewish, internationalist, and capitalist stranglehold on information and resources and put these to work for the benefit of the nation and people, not international stockholders or Jewish oligarchs."*
The NSM's manifesto, "25 Points of American National Socialism," details the hate group's goal of securing “freedom for the White population of North America through the principle of self-determination."* The manifesto calls for an end to all immigration to the United States and a series of economic changes, including the dissolution and nationalization of corporations. The manifesto also calls for the abolishment of the U.S. healthcare system and replacing it with universal healthcare. At the same time, the manifesto is peppered with racist and antisemitic language blaming immigrants, non-whites, and Jews for societal and political problems in the United States.*
The NSM requires its members to be at least 18 years old, but it also maintains a youth wing called the Viking Youth Corps for children between the ages of 14 and 17. The program is open to children of NSM members who are of pure European descent. The NSM refuses membership to children with Jewish or mixed-race bloodlines.* The NSM previously used the swastika as its symbol, believing that it represents the white race just as the Star of David represents Jews.* The NSM also publishes a print and online magazine of the same name.*
In November 2016, the NSM abandoned the swastika as its symbol. It instead adopted a pre-Roman alphabet symbol that had also been used by the Nazis. According to Schoep, the move was "an attempt to become more integrated and more mainstream."* In September 2018, former Traditionalist Worker Party leader Matthew Heimbach joined the NSM as its community outreach director.* Heimbach later renounced white nationalism in April 2020, a few months after Schoep.* The NSM claims it does not use the swastika because the German Nazi party is but one of its sources of inspiration. The NSM points to Golden Dawn in Greece, the Nordic Resistance Movement in Scandinavia, and other modern fascist movements, in addition to other geographically specific fascist movements that all used their own symbols. As such, the NSM says it relies on its own symbology to represent the group rather than the swastika.* Nonetheless, the swastika still appears on the NSM website and the NSM continues to carry swastika banners during protests.* NSM commander Burt Colucci’s Gab account features a swastika flag and a photo of Colucci wearing a swastika armband.* The NSM website also features video of NSM members marching with swastika flags.*
An NSM memo on social media calls on members to use the encrypted Signal app and Protonmail for communications with each other and all white nationalists. The memo also calls on members to avoid public arguments with other white nationalists and reiterates the organization’s opposition to violence except in self-defense.*
Violent Activities
NSM officially disavows violent tactics.* Nonetheless, NSM members have been involved in violent activities.
- January 29-30, 2022: The NSM held rallies in Orlando, Florida, outside a shopping center. Approximately a dozen NSM members shouted antisemitic slogans at passersby on January 29. On January 30, they hung a swastika banner from a highway overpass until police dispersed them. During the January 29 demonstration, Jewish University of Central Florida student David Newstat began recording the group when one of the NSM members allegedly spat on him. Newstat then pushed him. Other NSM members began punching, kicking, and spraying Newstat with pepper spray. After reviewing cell phone footage of the incident, on February 4 police arrested NSM leader Burt Colucci and members Joshua Terrell and Jason Brown. Colucci and Terrel were each charged with battery with a hate crime enhancement, while Brown was charged with grand theft. In the video, Colucci is seen pepper-spraying Newstat while Terrell repeatedly punched him. Brown then stole Newstat’s phone, which was later recovered but damaged beyond repair. The NSM condemned Newstat for attacking a 74-year-old man and labeled the elderly NSM member the actual victim.*
- April 20, 2021: While in Arizona for an NSM rally in Phoenix, NSM leader Burt Colucci was arrested outside a hotel in Chandler for threatening a group of Black men with a gun after he placed trash on their car. Colucci claimed he only readied his pistol, while the Black men said he threatened to kill them. Colucci was released on a $7,500 bond and allowed to return to him home in Florida, though he had to return to Arizona for future hearings. The NSM began raising money on its website to pay for Colucci’s legal fees, including $20,000 for a lawyer and $5,000 for an investigator.*
- October 23, 2017: NSM member Taylor Michael Wilson disabled the engine and internal lights of an Amtrak train traveling through Nebraska. Wilson was carrying a bag with a handgun, ammunition, a knife, a gas mask, a hammer, and NSM ID cards. Crew members subdued Wilson in the engine room. Investigators searching Wilson’s Missouri home in December 2017 found Nazi propaganda and unregistered firearms. A search of Wilson’s emails revealed he had purchased a ticket to Syria in order to join ISIS the previous year. Wilson told a cellmate that he had taken acid prior to boarding the Amtrak train and wanted to "save the train from black people."* Wilson pled guilty in July 2018 and was sentenced to 14 years in prison that October. He claimed that he was high on acid and did not intend to hurt anybody.*
- April 16, 2011: NSM members fought with counter-demonstrators after the latter threw rocks at a church where the group was holding a meeting.* No NSM members were arrested by the police.
Rhetoric
- Andrew Salacinski, NSM website, January 8, 2023: “Our fearless and unashamed exposure of our enemies has continued unwaveringly alongside our dedication to our brothers and sisters in the NSM, and to the Aryan Race as a whole! We are the defiant voice of the Aryan enslaved, we are the storm on the horizon that the jew can no longer ignore. Let our example inspire those who are timid or disheartened. The Aryan spirit of the 1,000 year Reich lives on today!”*
- NSM website, October 30, 2022: “The Jewish media claims that threats of violence led to the cancellation of Fag Queen Story Hour at Orlando's LGBT+ Center. Only one might better suggest that exposing child exploitation and the ridiculing of this degeneracy by neo-Nazis, might have been the real reason it was canceled. The NSM always obeys the law, while legally protesting this type of degeneracy, one which is infecting our nation as a whole. In light of this cancellation, the NSM moved on to plan B and successfully protested a different Orlando Fag Queen event, instead.”*
Burt Colucci, Gab account, April 10, 2022: “It seems as though the Jewish controlled/US media has already decided we are supporting Ukraine. I’m even getting asked at the stores when I checkout if I’d like to donate to support Ukraine. I asked, what if I support the Russians?
“Zelenskyy is a Jew!!! Putin is surrounded by Jews!!! Zelenskyy wants to get the entire world to come down on Russia.
“Rule #1: Don’t ever build chemical and biological weapons labs on the border of a world super power.
“Rule #2: We don’t give a fuck about your Jewish wars and your attempts to get Whites to fight other Whites for Israel.
“White America has no dog in this fight…”*Burt Colucci, Gab account, April 10, 2022.x
- NSM website, February 4, 2022: “We all know about the extreme anti-White, pro-Jewish bias in the so-called justice system – which is only one of the many reasons for our protests and political activism.”*
- NSM website, February 4, 2022: “Hate is also legal; Americans have a legal right to hate anyone they please, especially in the case of the NSM, where we cite the many reasons for this.”*
- NSM website, February 4, 2022: “How far they will take this injustice, is yet to be seen. However I stand on my previous assertion, that no charges will ever be filed against the Jewish individual who perpetrated the violent assault upon an elder, which is clearly depicted in the video above. The reason for this is clear, everyone in the world knows that Jews rule America and are above the law. Everyone knows this, but no one dares to say it.”*
- NSM website, February 4, 2022: “Three members of the NSM have been arrested, charged, pending trial and David Newstat has never been charged with any crime. This is what Jews Rule America looks like folks. Apparently, politically desirable injustice is all that Orange County will deliver, for now. The purpose and scope of this webpage, is to call them out on it! We provide sunlight, to disinfect this unjust leftist corruption.”*
- NSM website, February 4, 2022: “Even with the clear and convincing evidence that you see presented above, Orange County has made this matter political and sided with the Jews by bringing charges against members of the NSM. Even with this evidence being seen by approximately one thousand new people every day, as well as being talked about in the public forums everywhere on the Internet, the Jews and their supplicants in Orange County, simply don't care and believe Jews still have the upper hand.”*
- Burt Colucci, Gab post, January 24, 2022: “What is it about niggers that makes them the most disgusting race on the face of the planet? What is it about Jews that they need to force them upon us? I’ll use a Jewish/feminist phrase in this instance. “NO MEANS NO” scumbags…”*
- “NSM Live Streaming Video So far a smashing success!,” NSM website, January 12, 2022: “The NSM has demonstrated many strategic new improvements in our media outreach, all thanks to the Jew. The gift that the Jew has bestowed upon us was simple – they got us deplatformed from BlogTalk Radio. This was the little push that we needed, in order to transition to a self-provided, live streaming video service, an upgrade which we most definitely needed.”*
- NSM Telegram channel, January 9, 2022: “2022 interesting (jew ran, obviously) documentary. The jews are trying to imply that we had something to do with the Jan. 6 “insurrection”, which we did not. It gives a good situation report from a kikes perspective. Its also in Spokane!”*
- NSM Telegram channel, October 31, 2021: “Video is expensive for anyone, but it becomes even more expensive for us, since we have to deal with incessant attacks from Jews and their supplicants, trying to stop us. This requires armored development from the start, extra heavy everything, lest they sink us on day one (and they will try).”*
- Fun Facts about White People!, NSM website, undated: “White people are unarguably the most beautiful and most physically attractive humans on earth. I can honestly understand the extreme jealousy of Blacks, with their genetically primitive, prognathous, distinctly ape-form faces, as Black … simply … is … not … beautiful! On this point I imagine, everyone secretly agrees. Whites are also the nicest, most polite and most enjoyable people to be around. Whenever a non-White obtains wealth, what’s the first thing he does? He finds a White wife and moves into a White neighborhood! But that does not mean being White is in any way boring or bland, nor is it somehow lacking, as those on the left would like for you to believe. In fact, White people are actually the most genetically diverse of all the races, in relation to pigment genes, making White people the TRUE people of color. It’s true! Whites do share the lightest color of skin, various shades from light olive to white, based upon sun exposure, but Whites also have the greatest color diversity with relation to hair and eyes, of any race.”*
- “Behavioral characteristics common in Black people,” NSM website, undated: “One of the most notable and detrimental behavioral characteristic of American Blacks, is a near or total lack of empathy. In response to another person’s feelings, they may come across as cold, unfeeling, callous, overly critical, or harsh. Most of us have observed countless times, where Black people never feel any remorse for anything they’ve said or done, even if it caused a great deal of pain and suffering. Black people don’t seem to realize how harmful their actions are. It seems as though they simply don’t care that their actions might hurt others.”*
- NSM Frequently Asked Questions: "The first step is to awaken White people the world over to their own racial identity and to give them a profound appreciation of who they are. This is a huge undertaking! But it must be done and the NSM is doing everything in its power to do it! Conducting street demonstrations, marches and public rallies are all great ways to awaken and enable our racial family."*
- NSM Frequently Asked Questions: "In the U.S. we've suffered under a false economy since the establishment of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. Under this Jew infected system, the Jews and bankers charge the U.S. for its own money through interest! Under the NSM we will abolish the Federal Reserve and have our money based on the quality of the goods produced by the nation."*
- NSM Frequently Asked Questions: "The unnatural power of the Jews desperately needs to be broken. Through dedication and lots of hard work, the National Socialist Movement will bring us to victory! Due to the uncompromising nature and reason based principles of National Socialism, it is ONLY National Socialism that will succeed! When it is a fight for the very existence of our People and a future for White children, there is no other alternative! Victory or death!!!"*
- Jeff Schoep: "When … you take a German Shepherd and mix him with a Golden Retriever you have a worthless animal that nobody wants and that isn't worth anything if you're trying to breed him or sell him. … [T]hese degenerates that allow their children to race mix and this sort of thing, they're destroying the bloodlines of both races."*
- JT Ready, June 15, 2000: "I do not see the niggers, homosexuals, mexicans, jews, or even child molesters ashamed or afraid to speak their minds and rally, march, post, and be activists for their sick cause. And too many brave men and women died to give me the chance to fight now. I will honor their blood and fight for soil."*
Social Media
YouTube (Suspended), Telegram, Gab, BitChute