White nationalist groups have attracted young men around the U.S. Now, they're recruiting girls. [View all]
Source: CBS News
June 25, 2026 / 11:25 AM EDT
Photos of two young women on a sunny Wisconsin hike picked up traction on the messaging platform Telegram in May. The photos, plain and anonymous, feature a woman in a white dress, her head cropped out of the photo and a girl in pink, heavily blurred, turning away from the camera to reveal a braid garnished with a delicate bow.
That obscurity is intentional because they're members of a newly established white nationalist youth group for girls, the first known of its kind in the U.S., according to experts on extremism.
"When we think of extremism — especially when we think of violent extremism — we think of men," said Willis Shaw, an investigative researcher at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. "But there have always been movements in the United States that are white supremacist that also accept women, and this seems to be one of those as well."
"White European descent, female, nationalist"
The group's formation was announced on Telegram in early May by United Youth, an umbrella organization under which white nationalist Youth Clubs for young men ages 15 to 18 operate across the U.S. The all-female branch, Young Columbia, was born out of "high demand," according to the announcement, which said the group will have "their own separate supportive roles and mission."
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