Final solution Pre-Machtergreifung Post-Machtergreifung Parties The National Socialist Movement (NSM or NSM88)[fn 2] is a Neo-Nazi organization based 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.

The group was tiny and largely unknown until 1993 when Herrington and another member wore Nazi uniforms to a Minnesota legislative committee hearing to protest a proposed gay rights bill.

[22] In April 2006, they held a rally on the State Capitol steps in Lansing, Michigan, which was met by a larger counter-rally and ended in scuffles.

[23] In January 2007, Gordon Creal Young, a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Maryland who had disbanded his chapter to join the NSM was arrested for statutory rape.

[25][26] In January 2009, the National Socialist Movement sponsored a half-mile section of U.S. Highway 160 outside of Springfield, Missouri, as part of the Adopt-A-Highway Trash Cleanup program.

[3] The National Socialist Movement held a rally on September 3, 2011, in West Allis, Wisconsin, to protest incidents at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 5, 2011, when a large crowd of young African-Americans allegedly targeted and beat white people as they left the fair around 11 p.m. Police claimed that the incident began as a fight among African-American youths that was not racially motivated.

[32][33] Dan Devine, the mayor of West Allis, stated on September 2, 2011, "I believe I speak for the citizens when I say they [the National Socialist Movement] are not welcome here.

"[34] On September 22, 2013, the NSM held a meeting in Leith, North Dakota in support of Craig Cobb's attempt to turn the town into a neo-Nazi stronghold.

[36][37] In November 2016, following the first election of Donald Trump, the organization replaced the swastika in its logo and flag with the othala rune in an attempt to enter mainstream politics, which they would use until March 2019.

[38][39] In January 2017, the pilot of the television series Hate Thy Neighbor featured the National Socialist Movement and prominent member Daniel Burnside.

In August 2017, the NSM and their former coalition, the Nationalist Front, infamously participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia during which a counter-protestor was murdered and thirty-five more were injured in a car ramming attack.

[45] On February 28, 2019, the Associated Press reported that, according to Michigan corporate records, Schoep had been replaced as director and president of the National Socialist Movement in January by James Hart Stern, a Black civil rights activist.

Stern also filed a lawsuit seeking a ruling barring anyone from interfering in his operation of the group, but he died of bladder cancer in October 2019, leaving Colucci as the de facto leader of the NSM.

[52][53] The NSM does not keep an official count of its membership, but according to the Anti-Defamation League, since Colucci took control of the NSM, its membership has fallen to one or two dozen and it has continued to fail to attract a significant amount of participation at its events, leading the ADL to comment that the dispute between Stern and Colucci negatively impacted the group's reputation.

[54] On November 23, 2021, a federal court in Virginia found the National Socialist Movement and its former leader, Jeff Schoep, liable on charges of civil conspiracy in the Sines v. Kessler case against the organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.

who had previously received international media attention, left the NSM, denounced the far-right, and asked for forgiveness for his past.[59][relevant?]