James Stern, the California pastor and activist who took over one of the country’s largest neo-Nazi groups with plans to destroy it, died before accomplishing his goal, his attorney said.

The group behind this event is the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a neo-Nazi organization founded in 1994 in Detroit. It has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

His first move as president was to ask a Virginia judge to find the group guilty of conspiring to commit violence at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

The NSM is one of several groups being sued for conspiracy and negligence following their involvement in the deadly "Unite the Right" rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

National Socialist Movement Commander Jeff Schoep, second from right, leaves under police protection after a 2011 rally against illegal immigration in Pomona, ... Virginia, in 2017. ...

Another case in which NSM is a defendant was brought on behalf of 11 Charlottesville residents injured in the melee. It appears headed for trial in late 2019 or early 2020.

The black civil rights activist who claims to have taken over a decades-old U.S. neo-Nazi group was barred from representing the group in a lawsuit, the Associated Press reported Thursday. U.S.

NSM members used to attend rallies and protests in full Nazi uniforms, including at a march in Toledo, Ohio, that sparked a riot in 2005. More recently, Schoep tried to rebrand the group and ...

A member of the National Socialist Movement and other white nationalists rally in Newnan, Georgia on April 21, 2018. – Only about 25 NSM and white nationalists turned up for the rally in the ...

He paid $30 to ride in a 15-person van from Jacksonville, Florida, to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the 2017 Unite the Right rally, where he marched as part of the National Socialist Movement ...