Aryan Freedom Network

AFN is the latest white supremacist group established by Dalton Stout in recent years. Before 2018, Stout led a Klan group. In April 2018, he claimed that he had joined the white supremacist League of the South (LS), appearing alongside LS founder Michael Hill at a Knights Party event in Arkansas. He also attempted to establish and promote a skinhead group prior to forming AFN. ==Ideology==

According to The Forward, AFN describes itself as engaging in a "racial holy war based on the ideas of White Racial Supremacy and establishing an Aryan Homeland for our People," and is "on the hunt" for communists in Texas. The group frequently shares videos showing dozens of members undergoing armed training and shooting mannequins painted with Stars of David. ==Actions==

The AFN holds an annual "White Unity Conference" and it organized multiple anti-LGBTQ "anti-grooming demonstrations." In 2022, the group organized at least 12 private gatherings across several states, including Texas, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Idaho, and Nebraska. In January 2023, the AFN announced "Aryan Fest," a white supremacist music festival. During one anti-LGBTQ event, armed AFN members menaced Grand Prairie drag show attendees. In 2022, the AFN also organized an event in Hayden, Idaho, at the former headquarters of the Aryan Nations. Both AFN and Aryan Nations share an ideological affinity for the antisemitic Christian Identity movement. A few dozen AFN members and supporters protested a Pride in Celina, Ohio in June 2023. Ohio Representative Angela King caused controversy for taking part in the protest. In 2023, the AFN held an event and it also circulated flyers in Lexington, Kentucky. The flyers read: "You know who else was condemned for 'hate speech?' Jesus Christ." In March 2026, the AFN distributed leaflets in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The leaflets included the Fourteen Words; “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” Some Carlisle residents organized an anti-hate rally in response. The AFN gave a statement to the news that “Due to outreach, I can confirm that there are many pro-white residents in the area as well [as] surrounding areas.” ==Leadership==

The AFN is led by Dalton Henry Stout (also known as "Brother Henry"), Tonia Sue Berry (aka Daisy Barr), and Stout's father, George Bois Stout, an arms dealer based in De Kalb. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Berry and Dalton Stout got married in 2020 but they appear to have gotten divorced in April 2022. However, according to Reuters, their divorce was a legal move to protect their assets from civil rights lawsuits, effectively, it was a divorce in name only. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stout's family leads De Kalb's Ku Klux Klan chapter. Berry's father was also an Imperial Wizard of the KKK, and the couple has been described as "racist royalty". == References ==