National Socialist Movement (United States)
American Neo-Nazi organization (1974-)
The National Socialist Movement (NSM or NSM88) is a neo-Nazi organization based in the United States. Although it was once considered to be the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi organization in the United States, since the late 2010s its membership and prominence have plummeted. It was a part of the Nationalist Front and it is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The NSM is described by the Anti-Defamation League as "one of the more explicitly neo-Nazi groups in the United States." It seeks the transformation of the United States into a white ethnostate from which Jews, non-Whites, and members of the LGBTQ community would be expelled and barred from citizenship.
History
Early history
The NSM was a schism of the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP) in the years following the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell.
The National Socialist Movement was founded on March 18, 1975 in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Robert Brannen, Greg Hurles, and James Mason, immediately after Mason was released from prison. It has often been incorrectly reported that the group was founded earlier by Brannen and Clifford "Cliff" Herrington. Herrington knew the founders and affiliated early on, but was not involved in its founding.
It aimed to promote militancy in the various other schisms as a continuation of Joseph Tommasi's ideology.
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