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NatSoc Florida (NSF) is a neo-Nazi organization that was founded by US Marine Corps veterans Josh Nunes and Garrett Newman in Jacksonville, Florida in 2022. NSF was modeled after the Nationalist Social Club of New England and the National Socialist Network in Australia, and NSF held protests against communism, abortion, and Judaism. In August 2022, ten NSF members held a rally on a Pinellas County, Florida overpass, holding banners reading, "End abortion, save white babies," "Communism is Jewish," and a sign with imagery claiming that Nazism and NSF were the solution to Judaism and communism. The group also promoted "groomer" conspiracy theories alleging that the LGBT community sought to sexualize children, protesting outside the drag-themed Hamburger Mary's restaurant in Jacksonville in June 2022. NSF received significant news coverage on 28 October 2022 after the group used a laser projector to proclaim, "Kanye is right about the Jews" in reference to Kanye West's recent anti-Semitic remarks on social media. In the aftermath of a 26 August 2023 mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida carried out by a white supremacist gunman and targeting Black people at a dollar store near an HBCU, several CNN analysts suggested that the shooting may have been linked to the neo-Nazi presence in Jacksonville, and that "lone wolfs" no longer existed in a society where angry young men can be radicalized by hate groups and other fringe influencers online.

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