American Blackshirts

The American Blackshirts Movement is a white supremacist group active in the southern United States, primarily in Florida and Texas. Named after the paramilitary wing of the Italian fascist party of the 20th century, the group advocates for “American fascism” and a strictly white Christian nation. Like their namesake, the American Blackshirts are intensely anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic.

Since officially forming in October 2023, the group has held numerous demonstrations and distributed white supremacist propaganda. Members of the group have also engaged in “combative training drills” and committed acts of vandalism, spray painting white supremacist phrases and symbols onto buildings. The group’s logo, a fasces embedded in a stump, is meant to symbolize chopping “the tree of liberty back to its roots” to restore “order” and “unity.”