#DomesticTerrorism

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Baron Cain Martin Baron Cain Martin, alias 'Convict,' is the first person in the United States charged under a federal terrorism statute as an alleged 764 Network member, with DOJ using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.
Ethan Phelan Melzer Ethan Phelan Melzer was a U.S. Army paratrooper and O9A member who in 2020 leaked his unit's classified deployment information to a believed ISIS-connected contact to enable a lethal attack on his platoon, sentenced to 45 years in federal prison.

764 Network 764 is a decentralized online child exploitation and coercion network founded around 2020, classified by the FBI as a Tier One terrorist threat with more than 350 active investigations as of 2026, operating within the broader Com ecosystem.
Atomwaffen Division Atomwaffen Division was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary network founded by Brandon Russell in 2015, linked to multiple murders and terrorism plots, that received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg, and dissolved through federal prosecutions after 2020.
Order of Nine Angles British neo-Nazi occultist network whose Insight Roles doctrine of crime as initiation shaped Atomwaffen Division and Tempel ov Blood; not proscribed in the United Kingdom as of 2026.
RapeWaffen Division RapeWaffen Division was a Telegram-based O9A nexion promoting rape and murder as ideological weapons, whose membership included U.S. Army soldier Ethan Phelan Melzer, convicted in 2022 for transmitting classified military intelligence to enable a mass-casualty attack on his unit.
Terrorgram Collective International accelerationist neo-Nazi Telegram network linked to attacks in several countries, whose members were prosecuted in the US, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark and Australia.

2026 Benson Polytechnic High School Incident A 15-year-old student mixed chemicals in the Benson Polytechnic High School cafeteria on September 8, 2026; charged October 2 with 19 counts including domestic terrorism, with a prosecutor citing FBI-found references to 764.
DoD Extremism Stand-Down (2021) The DoD Extremism Stand-Down was a 60-day Department of Defense-wide initiative ordered by Secretary Austin in February 2021 following the January 6 Capitol attack, culminating in a December 2021 working group report and multiple Inspector General evaluations documenting persistent gaps in tracking and prosecuting extremism in the military.
United States v. Humber United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025.
United States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190) United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.

18 U.S.C. § 2339A 18 U.S.C. § 2339A is the federal material support to terrorists statute that does not require a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, instead requiring only that support be provided knowing it will be used to carry out one of its listed predicate offenses.
Oregon Domestic Terrorism Statute ORS 166.125 and 166.128 define Oregon's domestic terrorism offenses, created by House Bill 2772 (Oregon Laws 2023, chapter 608), with 'widespread' defined as impacting at least 50 human beings.