Rhett Murry Loftis, the Texas Active Club leader, blurred his face but forgot to scrub his socials. From Steven Monacelli.
have identified the leader of a white nationalist group that distributed antisemitic and racist flyers in Weatherford, Mineral Wells, and Eagle Pass over the last year. In an online conversation with the, Rhett Murry Loftis, a 23-year-old resident of Weatherford, admits he leads the Parker County Active Club. Loftis, a former musician, said he first got active in the white nationalist movement in 2021 after spending several years lurking on online forums.
The Parker County Active Club is part of a decentralized network of “Active Clubs” that has spread across the United States and the globe since 2020. Described by theas among the nation’s most active white nationalist groups, Active Clubs use a combination of online propaganda, martial arts training, in-person gatherings, and small-scale demonstrations to drive recruitment and create new clubs.
Like other Active Clubs, the one in Parker County promotes white nationalist and neo-Nazi ideology, such as the “great replacement theory” and the white genocide theory, which proclaim the Jewish population and nonwhite immigrants pose an existential threat to the white race. Posts from the group’s Telegram chatroom quote Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Videos show members making stiff-arm salutes.
One of the earliest posts in the Parker County Active Club chatroom emphasized the importance of maintaining good operational security and not revealing identifying information. The handle of Loftis’ pseudonymous account on X linked him to past musical groups. One of those groups had posted a photo that included Loftis with a chest tattoo. That tattoo matched blurred face photos in Loftis’ X account’s profile and in the Parker County Active Club chatroom.