Aryan Freedom Network (AFN)

Key Points

• Founded in 2018, the Aryan Freedom Network (AFN) is a small but growing neo-Nazi group based in De Kalb, Texas.
• The group claims to have chapters in 41 states.
• AFN promotes hardline white supremacist views, including the Great Replacement theory and Christian Identity, and largely directs its vitriol at Jewish people, Black people, immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community.
• The AFN logo, which includes a Totenkopf, or death’s head, acorns and oak leaves, is meant to convey the group’s willingness to defend the “racial purity” of the “white race.”
• Since transitioning from an online white supremacist networking site to a membership organization in January 2022, AFN has been regularly active in the offline world. The group has distributed white supremacist propaganda, held anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations and organized private gatherings.  
• AFN promotes the goal of white unity and holds events that bring together disparate white supremacist groups. 

Overview

Based in DeKalb, Texas, the Aryan Freedom Network (AFN) was founded in 2018 as an online white supremacist networking site. During its first few years of existence, AFN focused on aggregating other white supremacist websites as part of an effort to unify disparate white supremacist sub-movements. 

In January 2022, AFN became a membership organization. The group began charging dues to establish and maintain national, state and local chapters. As of September 2025, the group claims to have chapters in 41 states across the country. Soon after becoming a membership organization, AFN became increasingly active in the offline world, especially in Texas, holding private events, joining public demonstrations and distributing white supremacist fliers. 

Images from AFN gatherings.

Today, AFN continues its efforts to foster connections between different elements of the white supremacist movement by holding an annual “Aryan Fest” (formerly “White Unity Conference”) event to encourage collaboration with other white supremacist organizations. In early 2023, the group spearheaded a $150,000 crowdfunding campaign to construct an “Aryan Hall” for “pro-white events,” complete with a white supremacist museum. However, by early 2024, AFN dropped the sought-after amount by half to $75,000, which is where it currently stands.  

Origins

AFN is led by Tonia Sue Berry (aka Daisy Barr) and Dalton Henry Stout (aka Brother Henry). Berry’s father was the late Indiana Klan wizard Jeff Berry, while her brother, Anthony Berry, was the Indiana state leader (Grand Dragon) for the now-defunct Confederate White Knights. Stout’s father, George Stout, was a speaker at the 2018 “Arklatex White Unity Conference” organized by Dalton and in 2021, the elder Stout was outed as a member of the Church of the Ku Klux Klan. Tonia Berry and Dalton Stout married in 2020 but appear to have divorced in April 2022.

AFN is just the latest white supremacist group Dalton Stout has promoted or established in recent years. Before 2018, Stout led a Klan group called the White Knights of Texas, posting about the group on Stormfront as early as 2012. Stout first registered the website domain now used by AFN in 2018, when he organized the “Texas State Skinheads.” In April 2018, he claimed to have joined the white supremacist group League of the South (LoS), appearing in a photograph with LoS founder Michael Hill at a Knights Party event in Arkansas. In 2019, the domain was changed to serve as a webpage for the “ShieldWall Network,” a small Arkansas-based white supremacist group led by Billy Roper, who spoke at AFN’s 2021 White Unity Conference. By November 2019, the website was entirely dedicated to the Aryan Freedom Network.

Ideology

AFN espouses neo-Nazi hardline white supremacist views and directs much of its vitriol at Jewish people, Black people and the LGBTQ+ community. Though heavily influenced by Christian Identity tenets, the network attracts white supremacists from a variety of white supremacist sub-movements, including neo-Nazis, “traditional” white supremacists, racist skinheads and Odinists.

The group highlighted its antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist worldview in an August 2025 propaganda music video that intersperses clips of masked AFN members boxing each other, World War II Nazi Germany newsreel clips, an AFN swastika burning and members burning flags representing Israel, gay pride, Communist China, Black Lives Matter and President Trump. The video is synced to the white power song “Race Against Time.” 

AFN’s website features a section dedicated to survival or “prepping” tips for a supposed future racial holy war (“RaHoWa”), including links to firearms, ammunition and survival supplies for “doomsday preppers.” The site implores “every White Racialist to prepare themselves, their families and friends for the coming Racial Holy War (RaHoWa).” The group is now promoting offline group survival trainings, most recently in Georgia in June 2025.

On the “Fourteen Words” podcast hosted by white supremacist Sean Sweat (aka TexasVet), Berry claimed that if anyone “doubts” the racial “purity” of any AFN member, that member will be subjected to DNA testing.

Christian Identity Ideology

AFN routinely espouses the rhetoric of Christian Identity, a longstanding segment of America’s white supremacist movement. Adherents believe that whites of European descent can be traced back to the "Lost Tribes of Israel." Many consider Jews to be the Satanic offspring of Eve and the Serpent, while non-whites are "mud peoples" created before Adam and Eve.

“Yahweh’s Elite” in AFN propaganda is a Christian Identity reference.

AFN’s website features an entire section dedicated to Christian Identity ideology, with downloadable readings and sermons from Christian Identity preachers such as Wesley Swift and James Wickstrom.

This emphasis on Christian Identity is not universally popular. Following the 2022 White Unity Conference held in October of that year, one individual associated with the American National Socialist Party (ANSP)—another Texas-based white supremacist group that considered merging with AFN in September 2022—complained that the event was “very Christian Identity leaning, which isn’t my scene.” Another poster agreed, writing on Telegram: “I was a fan also until I was forced to sit through 6 hours of church where heathens were bashed the entire time. One cant [sic] call it a unity conference if all you do is promote your own religion and bash those that don’t believe in the same sky daddy as [you].”

Anti-LGBTQ+ and Anti-Immigrant Ideology

Like most other white supremacist groups, AFN sees the LGBTQ+ community as a threat to their conception of traditional gender roles, which they believe could affect their white dominance and pose a threat to the innocence of white children. AFN promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are behind the LGBTQ+ movement and that those in the LGBTQ+ community are pedophile “groomers” corrupting children with their sexuality. AFN believes the LGBTQ+ lifestyle tries to “infect the minds of children to become homosexuals to stop White people from reproducing.”

Since 2022, AFN has organized and participated in seven public demonstrations promoting its anti-LGBTQ+ ideology. On March 11, 2025, a meager two members of AFN protested the OneIowa LGBTQ+ Day on the Hill event in Des Moines, Iowa. The pair handed out “anti-grooming” propaganda that read, “We stand against pedophiles and groomers. Do you? …” while holding a flag emblazoned with AFN’s logo. 

AFN protestors in Des Moines, Iowa in March 2025.

AFN also holds an explicitly anti-immigrant stance. They see immigration, specifically non-white immigration, as an invasion and a threat to America’s white demographics. One part of their posted mission statement is to “end non-White immigration to North America …” This anti-immigrant stance and the effort to demonize immigrants tends to be a focus of many of AFN’s propaganda fliers as well as their demonstrations, where they often display a banner that reads, "Stop the invasion, deport illegal aliens."

Since 2023, AFN has organized three such anti-immigrant public demonstrations, with the last two taking place in mid-2025 in Utah. AFN held one demonstration in Logan in April and another in Salt Lake City in June. During the march in Salt Lake City, eight people demonstrated in support of ICE and the deportation of undocumented migrants. The masked members carried an AFN and American flag as well as held signs reading, “Support ICE,” “Deport Invaders,” and “Undocumented = Unwelcome.”

AFN protestors in Salt Lake City, Utah in June 2025.

Activity and Tactics

Since AFN transitioned to engaging in offline action in 2022, the organization has organized or participated in at least 15 demonstrations in seven different states, with Texas and Ohio having the highest number of events, four and three, respectively. In addition to the anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigration activity, AFN held several events that promoted white supremacy and antisemitism or were recruitment efforts. Some demonstrations included a mixture of these topics.

In April 2025, four members of AFN marched down the streets of Marion, Iowa, carrying an AFN flag and a placard reading, “Scrutiny is not antisemitic. Diversity destroys social cohesion. America is a vassal state of Israel.” They also handed out fliers that read, “Who’s working in the interest of white Americans? The Aryan Freedom Network!” According to local media, the marchers stopped at various businesses trying to get people to join their cause.

AFN held an antisemitic placard and distributed a recruitment flier during their march in Marion, Iowa in April 2025.

In 2024, AFN only held two public demonstrations, both in September, which was somewhat of an anomaly compared to other years. The demonstrations were a recruitment effort by a half-dozen members outside of the Hood County Courthouse in Granbury, Texas.

Masked AFN members demonstrate in Granbury, Texas in September 2024.

In addition to these demonstrations, AFN organizes gatherings on private property. As of August 2025, AFN has promoted more than 30 private, in-person events in at least 32 states from Texas to Wisconsin, California to New Jersey and several states in between. These private events included meet-and-greets, survival and firearms training, paintball outings, and celebrations of Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

To advance the goal of “white unity,” AFN hosts several events drawing participants from a wide range of white supremacists, including neo-Nazi groups. Since 2023, AFN has held an annual “Aryan Fest,” usually in Oklahoma or Georgia, that tends to attract a couple of dozen attendees.  AFN usually opens up this event to members of other white supremacist groups and features speakers, boxing competitions and performances by white power bands. 

AFN’s 2024 Aryan Fest, which took place in Lexington, Georgia, garnered media attention when it became known that the event was held on the private property of a staff member of the University of Georgia’s College of Engineering. The person involved was placed on administrative leave during the university’s investigation into the situation and was reinstated when it was determined that no university policy was violated.

In May 2025, AFN announced “Aryan Fest” would be held in October 2025 with a lineup of Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands and would conclude with their typical swastika burning.

Swastika burning at AFN’s “Aryan Fest” in October 2024.

Prior to organizing the more recent annual fall “Aryan Fest,” AFN hosted its first “White Unity Conference” in September 2021, which included a broad array of attendees from other white supremacist groups, including the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM), White Lives Matter Texas (a close ally of AFN), Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Oklahoma chapter, White Christian Brotherhood (an Ohio-based Klan group), American National Socialist Party (a Texas-based neo-Nazi group), Occidental Templars (a white supremacist group based in Kentucky), Shield Wall Network and the American Futurists (an accelerationist publication group). In October 2022, at AFN’s second annual “White Unity Conference,” an anti-fascist group used a drone to photograph vehicles belonging to participants at the event, which appears to have been held at the home of AFN’s leadership, Tonia Sue Berry and Dalton Henry Stout, in De Kalb, Texas.

Another goal of AFN’s effort to build “white unity” is to invite other white supremacists who are disaffected with their current groups to join under their banner. Though these efforts represent a different kind of unity effort than their large events, these offers are intended to encourage people to move from their seemingly less ideological white supremacist groups to AFN’s more extreme version, thereby building the movement. AFN began these efforts in December 2023, when they posted an online invitation to motorcycle club members who were disgruntled because their club had “turned away from their racial policies of Whites Only Motorcycle Clubs” and welcomed them to join AFN. A month later, in January 2024, AFN announced that any member of a racist skinhead crew who wanted to patch over to AFN would have an expedited membership process. AFN claimed mergers took place with a small Utah-based white supremacist group, Onkels Wolves, in March 2024, and with the Mississippi Active Club in November 2024.

Propaganda Distribution

Since January 2022, AFN has distributed dozens of pieces of propaganda across the country. The group’s propaganda emphasizes neo-Nazi and antisemitic messaging, including white racial “pride” and “purity.” Many of their propaganda fliers are aimed at recruiting new members into their organization and seek to capitalize on alleged discrimination faced by white people by asking: “Tired of being discriminated because you’re white? Join! Aryan Freedom Network.” Another AFN recruitment flier makes the ominous claim, “We are everywhere!” promoting the idea that any random white person in the community can be a member of AFN. The message concludes with: “Your race is calling. Will you answer?” 

Like some of AFN’s public demonstrations, the group’s fliers have targeted the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities, as well, with messages that include wording such as, "Would you open your home to a fugitive you don’t know? Then, why should we open our borders?" and "Straight Pride."

AFN fliers distributed in 2024 and 2025.

AFN’s Aryan Youth Program

The group has also tried to encourage young people to be involved in their efforts. In March 2024, AFN launched an “Aryan Youth” division to incorporate members’ children into their community with the hope that they would remain part of it as they get older. Prior to this, membership was restricted to men and women 18 years of age or older; however, Aryan Youth is exclusively for children (male and female), ages 14 to 17, who have at least one parent or guardian who is a full AFN member. Aryan Youth requires members to reject “all forms of pettiness and decadence, whether it be Negro Rap music, effeminate hair styles, sloppy clothes, vulgar talk and Jewish thought control.” Aryan Youth’s promotions, in some ways, sound like other youth social organizations (i.e. Scouts), purportedly offering camping and hiking trips, survival skills, leadership, physical fitness and learning about farming and agriculture. However, they also ostensibly teach “racial education classes” and military skills and enforce opposition to race mixing, multiculturalism and immigration.

AFN post to Telegram of their June 2025 campout in Georgia showing a young child firing AR-style rifles.

In July 2025, AFN posted to its Telegram account a collage of images allegedly taken at the group’s Georgia campout held at the end of June. The most prominent image in the collage shows a small child shooting what looks to be an AR-style rifle. The collage is captioned “Aryan Freedom Network Georgia Chapter gathering together for a weekend to teach Survival skills to new AFN members. AFN Georgia Chapter also teaching Firearm Safety & Education to Aryan Youth and sisters of the AFN Valkyrie Division.” The AFN’s “Valkyrie Division – Sisterhood of Aryan Women” is the group’s female-only support division, aimed at promoting “Aryan Freedom Networks [sic] ideals, values, morals and upholding the Blood and Soil ideology.”