White nationalist groups have attracted young men around the U.S. Now, they're recruiting girls.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

June 25, 2026 / 11:25 AM EDT


Photos of two young women on a sunny Wisconsin hike picked up traction on the messaging platform Telegram in May. The photos, plain and anonymous, feature a woman in a white dress, her head cropped out of the photo and a girl in pink, heavily blurred, turning away from the camera to reveal a braid garnished with a delicate bow.

That obscurity is intentional because they're members of a newly established white nationalist youth group for girls, the first known of its kind in the U.S., according to experts on extremism.

"When we think of extremism — especially when we think of violent extremism — we think of men," said Willis Shaw, an investigative researcher at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. "But there have always been movements in the United States that are white supremacist that also accept women, and this seems to be one of those as well."

"White European descent, female, nationalist"

The group's formation was announced on Telegram in early May by United Youth, an umbrella organization under which white nationalist Youth Clubs for young men ages 15 to 18 operate across the U.S. The all-female branch, Young Columbia, was born out of "high demand," according to the announcement, which said the group will have "their own separate supportive roles and mission."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-nationalist-groups-recruiting-girls-youth/

[Lovie777]

1. These groups have been around for years.................

at this point in time they feel stronger because of the present administration as well as shithole and the republican party.

Actually the Republican Party is the KKK.

[electric_blue68]

13. Ever since drumphf "gave permission" back in his first term to the racists to.....

come out from under their rocks.
Plus signaling he might be one of them on rhe campaign trail with his "birtherism" crap...
It's gotten increasingly worse.


And I've seen enough historical photos of women (usually) in The South ugly screaming at black people along with the men. So, yeah.

[pat_k]

2. Disturbing. It sounds like an offshoot of White Nationalism 3.0

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/active-clubs-are-white-supremacys-new-dangerous-frontier/

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Since 2020, Active Clubs have expanded rapidly across the United States, Canada and Europe, including the U.K., France, Sweden and Finland. Precise numbers are hard to verify, but the clubs appear to be spreading, according to The Counter Extremism Project, the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and my own research.

The clubs reportedly operate in at least 25 U.S. states, and potentially as many as 34. Active U.S. chapters reportedly increased from 49 in 2023 to 78 in 2025.

The clubs’ rise reflects a broader shift in white supremacist strategy, away from formal organizations and social movements. In 2020, American neo-Nazi Robert Rundo introduced the concept of “White Nationalism 3.0” – a decentralized, branded and fitness-based approach to extremist organizing.

White nationalism 3.0
According to private analysts who track far-right extremist activities, the Active Club network has a core membership of 400 to 1,200 white men globally, plus sympathizers, online supporters and passive members. The clubs mainly target young white men in their late teens and twenties.

[OC375]

3. It takes a village, apparently.

[SeattleVet]

6. Just a few village idiots.

[CousinIT]

4. For their breeding program?

Yeah, that's harsh, but considering that white nationalists are also typically pro-forced birth and consider women and girls state-owned breeding livestock instead of humans deserving of human rights, bodily autonomy, and self-determination...well, it would make sense.

[Solly Mack]

5. No surprise there.

[Blumancru]

7. I doubt that they want girls

So much as their reproductive capacity.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. They want to manufacture "Trad Wives"

a la "Stepford Wives" style.

The modern concept -

[GenThePerservering]

8. "their own separate supportive roles and mission."

this is a fucking **ladies** auxiliary.

[electric_blue68]

14. Yeah, as soon as I saw THAT phrase.

[J_William_Ryan]

9. The fascist right is recruiting.

Make no mistake: this is mainstream conservativism, neither fringe nor atypical.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Are these girls joining solely for white supremacy (like an offshoot of the Klan), or

is this the answer to the male incels? Someone to hook up and breed later?

Or the American version of the female branch of the Hitler Youth, the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, or BDM). It was divided into two main age groups: Jungmädelbund (Young Girls' League): Ages 10 to 14; Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM Proper): Ages 14 to 18. Additionally, girls aged 17 to 21 could voluntarily join Glaube und Schönheit (Faith and Beauty Society), which focused on preparing them for marriage, domestic life, and specific vocations.

[MrsCheaplaugh]

12. Holy pick me, Batman

Any young woman joining this swill is in for a rude awakening somewhere down the line.

[GenThePerservering]

15. They can match them up with incels

that may make them see reason.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Probably because most women want nothing to do with them.

[JustKay]

17. So ugly....