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An analyst warned of a "dangerous rot inside the modern Republican Party under [President Donald] Trump" amid rising "Nazi rhetoric" that Republicans appear unclear on how to address.

Just in the last few weeks, an alarming number of Neo-Nazi-related scandals — including the leaked Young Republicans racist, homophobic and antisemitic messages and Paul Ingrassia's messages saying he has a "Nazi streak" — are tied to the GOP and its followers, Bulwark Managing Editor Sam Stein and journalist and political commentator John Avlon discussed Thursday in a Substack interview.

Avlon has covered Neo-Nazism and written his book "Wing Nuts" about it. Stein asked him about "what Republicans should do about this — and the divide that's emerged on the right over whether to condemn it, or to do the JD Vance thing, which is there are no enemies to my right." ...

A neo-Nazi former porn actor who fantasized about launching a white supremacist “ground war” against the U.S. government, destroying electrical substations and assassinating political enemies was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday.

Paul Kryscuk, 38, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to damage an energy facility.

Justin Hermanson, a 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran and Kryscuk’s co-defendant who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture firearms and ship interstate, received a sentence of one year and nine months in prison....

Three neo-Nazis alleged to have planned an attack on the energy grid as part of a plot to launch a race war are set to go before a federal judge on Thursday for sentencing.

Liam Montgomery Collins, a one-time Marine who allegedly led the neo-Nazi terror cell known as “BSN”; Paul Kryscuk, a former porn actor; and Justin Hermanson, who also served in the Marine Corps, are expected to appear before Judge Richard E. Myers in federal court in Wilmington, N.C.

Kryscuk pleaded guilty to conspiracy to damage an energy facility, while Collins and Hermanson respectively pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of unregistered firearms, and conspiracy to manufacture firearms and ship interstate. ...

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. ...

Sean Kauffmann, a neo-Nazi and violent white supremacist whose harassment of LGBTQ+ people and journalists has been highlighted by Raw Story, faces charges for aggravated assault and child abuse following a report that he punched the mother of his infant son in the head.

A sheriff’s deputy in Perry County, Tenn., was dispatched to Kauffmann’s home in Linden, Tenn., at about 8:09 p.m. on March 22, according to a police report obtained by Raw Story.

Kauffmann’s partner, whose name is redacted in the report, told the deputy that Kauffmann “assaulted her by punching her numerous times in the face and head, while she was holding their infant son.” ...

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.

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