All posts tagged "Tennessee Active Club"

One of the hazards of participating in racially motivated extremist activity is getting banned from U.S. military facilities — as David Fair can attest.

Fair is no longer “allowed to enter military bases,” according to a disclosure he made during chat sessions on the encrypted messaging app Telegram that caters to racist skinheads in the United States and Europe.

“I honestly don’t know if it’s the fact that I’m the leader of a white nationalist group or January 6th involvement,” Fair elaborated in a voice chat posted in the channel, which Raw Story has reviewed. “Trying to figure it out myself. I don’t know what to tell my boss. Which one’s worse?”...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Diners lined the sidewalk to snag one of the coveted tables at Puckett’s Grocery on Sunday as this small city south of Nashville hummed through one of the last perfect days of autumn.

It was a convivial scene replicated throughout the day with boisterous teenagers on soccer fields at Pinkerton Park and patrons at Kimbro’s Pickin Parlor playfully bantering on the music hall’s front porch during an LGBTQ happy hour.

One missing element — Nazis....

Gabrielle Hanson, a far-right candidate for mayor of Franklin, Tenn., today used the statements of neo-Nazis in an attempt to distance herself from supportive neo-Nazis.

A press release posted on Hanson’s X account on Wednesday afternoon juxtaposed a statement from Hanson indicating that she “did not hire” neo-Nazis who showed up to support her two days ago at a candidate event with a set of screengrabs from the Telegram channel of the Tennessee Active Club, led by neo-Nazi Sean Kauffmann.

What Hanson’s statement did not include was an unequivocal denunciation of neo-Nazis....

William Beals, a violent Three Percenter who was involved in the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol, went on to link up with neo-Nazis in Tennessee to harass drag shows.

More than two years later, the FBI has arrested Beals, Raw Story has learned.

Raw Story reviewed a Facebook update by one of Beals’ friends, who wrote that “a brother of ours has been took in.” That update from Thursday was then shared by another friend of Beals, who added the hashtag “#FBICorruption.”...