Neo-Nazis have an ally in the White House.

Under the leadership of Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department has waged a dangerous and ridiculous war against so-called “black identity extremists”—all while simultaneously ignoring right-wing extremism in America. In fact, they’ve not just ignored it, they’ve actually celebrated it. After Trump’s inauguration last year, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded funding for programs that serve to counter violent extremism from the right while reshaping the program to solely focus on Islamic terrorism. However, this would be a mistake. Since 2001, right-wing extremists have been responsible for a similar numbers of killings as Muslim extremists. Given this, plus Trump’s behavior after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer (as well as who he has hired to work with him and almost everything else he does), this behavior can only leave us with one conclusion: this president and his administration are definitely allies to right-wing terrorists.

So now that it’s been made abundantly clear, it shouldn’t shock us in the least that white supremacist groups are on the rise and that one group, in particular, is responsible for five killings since May 2017. The Atomwaffen Division is looking to change the world with “real-world apocalyptic violence,” according to Joanna Mendelson of the Anti-Defamation League.

Atomwaffen is German for "atomic weapons," and the group is extreme. It celebrates Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson, its online images are filled with swastikas, and it promotes violence. One of the group's videos shows young men, wearing scarves over their faces and camouflage, firing rifles during military-style training. The video begins with group members shouting in unison, "Race War Now," and concludes with the tag line, "Join Your Local Nazis." "Atomwaffen no doubt takes some of the white supremacist rhetoric to another level. The views that they articulate are white supremacists on steroids," [said Mendelson].

For the amount of chaos they are trying to cause, you’d think Atomwaffen would be bigger than it actually is. But according to various monitoring groups, they likely have less than 100 members around the country, with most of them concentrated in the states of Florida and Texas. However, it doesn’t take large numbers of members to kill people. And there have been three separate attacks in three states (Virginia, California, and Florida), with a total of five victims in all. All of the suspects have been linked to this one group, and all are young white men between the ages of 17 and 19.