Nazis Provide Security for Moms for Liberty Mayoral Candidate
Members of the white supremacist Tennessee Active Club provided security for Gabrielle Hanson—a Moms for Liberty-backed alderman in Franklin, Tennessee and current candidate for mayor—at a recent candidate forum, according to local reporter Phil Williams.
The Tennessee Active Club is one of the most prominent cells in a rapidly growing network of groups that promote violent white supremacist ideology and provide training in combat sports, according to a recent report by Tim Dickinson. Like other far-right groups, Active Clubs "recruit with narratives of white victimhood" and see themselves as militias-in-training for future violent conflict.
Earlier this year, SPLC reported that the Tennessee Active Club has been training above the Lewis Country Store in Nashville, whose owner Brad Lewis responded to the report by declaring on Telegram, "I'm not a cuckservative, I'm an actual, literal Nazi." This week, Lewis told reporter Williams that the Active Club members were on hand at the forum because he is a friend of Hanson's.