Brandon Russell, probably one of the most influential figures in the American neofascist revival of the past decade, was heard this week about an alleged plot to strike Baltimore’s Power Grid and cause a race war.
The 29-year-old co-founder of the Atomwaffen division, a neo-Nazi-guerrilla organization responsible for five homicide and a number of bomb plots before the FBI took it apart in February 2023 by federal Agents arrested, along with his girlfriend, Sarah Clendaniel. If he was convicted of his charges of conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, Russell could face 20 years behind bars thanks to a prior conviction and the possible fine for his current charges.
Russell’s case represents one of the last breaths of the Biden Administration’s hard charged approach to tackling violent right-wing extremism that is anything but guaranteed to change during US President Donald Trump’s second term in office. It also provides a unique look in the investigation into the federal law enforcement after a treacherous acceleration network that mixes neo-Nazi ideology with Nihilist, Columbine-style violence to inspire mass-strangers in the United States and beyond.
Russell allegedly hatched the plot to blacken Baltimore while, according to prosecutors, he participated in a harmful, productive propaganda network Hellbent in violence and chaos. The Torram Collective, who has adopted its name after a major influx of neo-Nazis at the end of the last decade, has driven several channels on the messages and a series of ‘how-to’ domestic terrorism manuals developing sought to inspire young men and women untouched to commit mass -cases. Terror gram is currently being appointed by the US Department of Justice a ‘tiger one’ extremism threat.
To date, Torrorgram has released four publications-a mix of ideological motivation, mass murder worship, neofascist indoctrination, and how to manuals for chemical weapons attacks, infrastructure sabotage and ethnic cleansing. Court records indicate that there are at least three unsaid terror collective compendiums, including ‘The Saint Encyclopedia’ of the right-wing mass killers they honor, including otherwise Breivik, Brenton Tarrant and Timothy Mcveigh; and ‘The List’, a collection of politicians, government officials, business leaders, journalists, activists and other people who are considered legal assassination goals.
It seems that the livestock has inspired a series of ideologically motivated attacks around the world, including a mass shooting in 2022 on an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, successful attacks on power infrastructure in North Carolina and similar failed plots in Baltimore and New Jersey, and a stabbing bubble in the Turkish city of Eskisehir. There are currently more than a dozen separate federal prosecution in the United States that involve people who are allegedly core ram collective members or individuals allegedly inspired by violent attacks on infrastructure or civilians.
In one of the last policy of the Biden Administration against Right-wing Extremism, the State Department formally classified the Torrorgram Collective on January 13 as a foreign terrorist organization, a listing that is usually reserved for militant groups offering and a Formal real world has paramilitary structure as opposed to a loose propaganda network that seeks to inspire mass -about events. Although it is not unique to the British House Office in May last year formally prescribed as an extremist organization, and Russell’s Atomwaffen division was banned by the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, but it will probably be the last such action taken against Neo-Nazi groups by the US government in the foreseeable future.