Alexander Ritzmann, the author of the 2023 CEP study, stated "I've never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast. Usually it takes years to build a transnational network." , the
Anti-Defamation League found that Active Clubs have claimed to be present in at least 33 U.S. states. Active Clubs have also been formed in Lithuania, France, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, and Croatia. In June 2025, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) reported that there were now 187 active AC chapters in 27 countries. They reported that this represented an increase of 25% since late 2023. Half of the new AC chapters were "Youth Clubs" that "recruit teen boys 15 to 18".
Australia In August 2024, it was reported that Australia had an Active Club Network. Known neo-Nazi
Thomas Sewell leads a group in
South Australia known as Croweater. Sewell was suspended from
X in July 2024, but the Croweater page remains, featuring a photo of masked members carrying a banner reading "Australia for the white man". However the clubs were not well-established in Australia as of August 2024.
Canada As of March 2026, over 30 clubs operate in Canada. According to an internal
Public Safety Canada brief which was obtained by CBC News, Canada has a "disproportionate" number of active clubs compared to other nations. This is not counting the over 15 chapters of the
Second Sons, an organization which the report by Public Safety Canada describes as "a similar far-right group." The
Nationalist-13 active club which is based in
Hamilton, Ontario has been noted by CBC News for becoming more public and active in 2025. Members of Canadian active clubs often use the
Canadian Red Ensign flag, believing it to be the "true" Canadian flag.
Estonia Estonian Active Club members were involved with the "NS/SK!НОВ" Telegram channel that spread terrorist propaganda and organized far-right violence. Estonian member ran the "Pedo Hunting Estonia" channel. In 2024, three Active Club Estonia members were convicted of far-right vigilantism. According to an
Estonian Internal Security Service report Active Club Estonia is "a group mainly engaged in promoting
Tesak-style vigilante operations in Estonia". Active Club Estonia has members fighting in Ukraine and has organized charity drives for them. Estonian Active Club was allegedly founded with the support of Estonian Atomwaffen member.
Finland In Finland, local groups operate at least in the
Uusimaa and
Päijät-Häme regions and
Oulu,
Turku,
Tampere, and
Kokkola as of May 2024. Active Club Finland took part in the 2024
Independence Day march commemorating the SS organized by neo-Nazis and the
Finns Party. Active Club members assaulted leftist counterdemonstrators and stole and burned their flags and signs. Finnish journalists have concluded that Active Club Finland shares members with the fascist
Blue-and-Black Movement.
Finnish Security and Intelligence Service has classified group as
extremist that threatens public order and security. Active Club Finland took part in the 2025 Independence Day torch march in its own masked black bloc. At the starting point of the march, a group of masked men were observed assaulting a woman of foreign background. The men were wearing similar balaclavas to those used by Active Club.
France In April 2022, a branch of the Active Club was established in France, initially in
Normandy. In 2024,
Libération reported that it had around 20 local chapters and '''' reported that it had about a hundred members. Its logo features a knight's helmet on a
fleur-de-lis and
Celtic cross background. The organization maintains links with other French far-right groups such as
Action Française and
Groupe Union Défense. It brings together ,
identitarians and
royalists. The movement's French Telegram channel, created in 2022, has over 11,000 subscribers. Several clubs in
Ostwestfalen were raided by German authorities for
illegal possession of firearms in October 2025.
Sweden Local groups established themselves in Sweden in 2023, under the names Gym XIV and . The emergence of these groups coincided with the decrease of members in the
Nordic Resistance Movement who consist of similar demographics. Active Club members have multiple times been aggressive against participants at Pride events in Sweden. An investigation by
Expo identified approximately 80 members of Swedish Active Clubs, of which more than half had a criminal record, some of which included assault, illegal threats or
incitement to ethnic or racial hatred. In October 2025 the prosecutor brought charges against four men aged 20 to 24 in connection with a wave of violence that occurred in Stockholm in August. According to the prosecutor, the acts were motivated by racism, and each of the accused is linked to the activities of the Swedish branch of the Active Club. Oliver Sima Petrell, Olof Pantzar, Casper Englund and Joey Greven received sentences ranging from three years to three years and six months.
UK In May 2023, Active Club Scotland (ACS) posted its first video. Members of the group have made bomb threats and marched with
National Action, a banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation, and some members have links to
Patriotic Alternative. There are also other groups in the UK drawing on elements of the international Active Club movement. ACS often sends messages using the white supremacist slogan
14 Words on its Telegram channel. Active Club England has at least 100 members and 8 chapters. A BBC investigation found that Active Club UK Telegram channels had more than 6,000 subscribers. These channels contained celebration of Hitler's birthday and images of members wearing
Waffen-SS t-shirts. They offered guidance on how to avoid police detection during the
2024 riots which followed the
Southport stabbings. Active Club England was able to recruit many new members after the riots. One member, Jay Barlow (calling himself "Glenn") had previously been jailed for a knife attack in a supermarket. He joined the group just weeks after being sentenced for other offences, while still under probation and attending a mandatory "thinking skills" programme. The branch included members from Ukraine, Romania, Spain and Italy. In April, a 28 year old man was arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
United States California The Guardian reported in August 2023 that some in the Clockwork Crew, a cell of about one dozen members in
Long Beach, California, were serving or had served in the United States military. One cell member was expelled from the Marines after he and five others were caught "stealing more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and several grenades from a weapons depot at
Camp Pendleton" in 2021. A Clockwork Crew co-founder was
court-martialed, sentenced to eleven months in the
brig and given a bad conduct discharge for violating the Marine Corps's ban on the advocacy of extremist ideologies. The Anti-Defamation league reported in August 2025 that members of the Kalifornian Nationalist Youth (KNY), an Active Club-like youth group which has been active since August of 2024, have been regularly distributing white supremacist propaganda and engaging in
vandalism in California. KNY describes themselves as "a
fraternal organization made up of White youths across the state of California" who are "dedicated to organizing the Youth of our state to defend one another from the likes of
antifa and the hooked nose
zionists." The group also encourages training in MMA like most other Active Clubs. KNY announced their first regional chapter in
Sacramento called Sutter City. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reported in June of 2025 members of KNY were using hateful imagery in their stickering, including the
Black Sun which was popularized by Nazi SS leader
Heinrich Himmler. Open Measures reported in December 2025 that KNY was one of the largest youth chapters in America along with the Atlantic Youth Club.
Missouri The
Kansas City, Missouri Active Club is led by a former marine who closely cooperates with the
militia Mid Missouri Minutemen. The MMM are an explicitly antisemitic and white nationalist militia that has made posts like "GAS THE K-‑-‑-‑-
RACE WAR NOW" on their social media. The MMM and Active Club have had shared events, like firearm drills and
rucking with firearms in nature.
Tennessee In January 2026, two members of the Tennessee Active Club were arrested and charged with conspiracy to
traffic illegal firearms by the
FBI.
Virginia The
Wolves of Vinland, a group associated with active clubs, operates a compound in
Lynchburg, Virginia. The compound acts as a training ground for "riot-style combat events" for various active clubs, the
Patriot Front, and the
Hammerskins. ==References==