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Editor's note: This article has been updated to include new details released by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of North Carolina and confirmation that Nix is no longer serving in the Army following the original publication of this article on Sunday, Aug. 18.

Kai Liam Nix, a 20-year-old Army soldier tied to extremist threats against a Raw Story reporter, was arrested on Aug. 15 and is being detained in a North Carolina jail on a “federal hold,” Raw Story has confirmed.

The New Yorker, which published an extensive article Sunday about right-wing extremism, further detailed that Nix’s federal charges involve “illicit sales of firearms and lying on a background check.” ...

Three teenagers associated with the neo-Nazi gang 2119 have agreed to plead guilty to felony hate crime charges related to an antisemitic vandalism spree last summer that included attacks on two synagogues and a mosque in Pensacola, Fla.

Lawyers for the three defendants appeared in court this morning and indicated their clients would plead guilty to the charges, Assistant State Attorney Andrew McGraw told Raw Story.

“The offer that is in front of them is to go to trial, or plead guilty and go to sentencing,” McGraw said. ...

Police arrested Frankie Rizzello, an associate of the neo-Nazi "2119 Blood and Soil Crew," which was the subject of a recent Raw Story investigation, and charged him with two felony counts related to antisemitic vandalism.

Rizzello, a 20-year-old resident of Chesterfield, Mo., was arrested on Sunday for “property damage motivated by discrimination.” He made his first appearance in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Monday, according to Missouri court records.

RELATED ARTICLE: Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war...

It’s the call that no parent wants to receive.

Aaron Houran, a local water quality technician, was summoned to his son’s high school on the North Carolina coastline in November 2022.

A school resource officer had pulled his 16-year-old son, Noah, aside. The FBI was involved, too....

WASHINGTON — Raw Story today revealed how a neo-Nazi organization led by teenagers has launched a multi-state campaign of violence aimed at Jews, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people and leftists.

The organization, known as 2119, aspires to even greater acts of terror, Raw Story reports in a 6,500-word investigative article headlined “Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war.”

The four-month investigation is accompanied by a first-person account by its author, Raw Story reporter Jordan Green, of how neo-Nazis and other extremists have attempted to stop him from pursuing and publishing information about 2119....

Two rabbis sat down for dinner at Chabad Jewish Center in Pensacola, Fla.

The air on this July evening was warm and tranquil. A sense of peace filled the kitchen where the men shared their meal.

Suddenly, something crashed through the window, sending glass flying. The rabbis rushed over to investigate. Scrawled on the brick that lay on their floor: a swastika and the words “No Jews.” ...