The Digital Bloodline: Tracing Blood Tribe’s Network Across Telegram

Blood Tribe is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist organization founded in 2021 by former U.S. Marine and tattoo artist Christopher Pohlhaus, better known as “Hammer.” The group claims chapters across the United States and Canada and has built its identity around an explicitly white-supremacist worldview. Its stated objective is the creation of an all-white ethnostate through the removal of Jews and non-white minorities it considers enemies of the white race. Its ideological influences include Norse Paganism, Odinism or Wotanism, and esoteric Hitlerism.

The group's development has also been closely tied to efforts to build physical and online communities. Before Blood Tribe's wider expansion, Pohlhaus attempted to establish a white-supremacist camp on property he purchased in Springfield, Maine. The project ultimately failed, but Pohlhaus subsequently focused on expanding Blood Tribe's presence across social media and recruiting new members.

Ohio occupies an important place in that history. Blood Tribe's first public appearance took place in Wadsworth, Ohio, in March 2023, followed by further activity around LGBTQ+ events in Ohio and Wisconsin. The group later became prominent in the controversy surrounding Springfield, Ohio, in 2024, where Blood Tribe members participated in spreading racist claims about the city's Haitian community. Christopher Pohlhaus and Blood Tribe second-in-command Drake Berentz subsequently became defendants in a federal civil lawsuit brought by the City of Springfield and others.

The group's name itself, Blutstamm, is German for “Blood Tribe” and reflects the organization's use of German terminology and Nazi symbolism. Its imagery also incorporates Armanen runes, which Blood Tribe uses as part of its wider neo-Nazi and esoteric visual identity.

Against this background, the investigation focused not simply on Blood Tribe's public identity, but on how its digital presence was organized: where its channels led, how regional structures were connected, which identities appeared behind them, and what other forms of activity could be identified from the digital trail.

Christopher Alan Pohlhaus aka Hammer, Leader of Blood Tribe

Where the Investigation Started

The investigation began with a simple keyword search in StealthMole's Telegram Tracker:

• Blood Tribe Ohio

The search returned a Telegram channel titled:

🩸 BLOOD TRIBE OHIO 🩸

• Channel URL: https://t.me/bloodtribeohio
• Channel ID: 1910294769

This became the starting point for the investigation.

Among the historical messages returned by StealthMole was a March 2023 post referring to “Hammer, Blood Tribe Ohio, and White Lives Matter” and celebrating their confrontation with opponents. Other captured material showed the channel being used to publish openly extremist content and to communicate with individuals discussing Blood Tribe's activities in Ohio.

One exchange was particularly revealing. An account identified as @Byehlik stated that they were in the Columbus Ohio chapter and challenged Blood Tribe Ohio to meet publicly. The account representing Blood Tribe Ohio responded that Columbus was “right where we're at” and invited the individual to name a time and place. The exchange provides evidence of an online interaction involving the Blood Tribe Ohio account and an individual claiming affiliation with the Columbus chapter. The claim of chapter membership, however, was made by @Byehlik and was not independently established by the screenshot.

Another historical post from the channel announced an upcoming rally and said that the group intended to gather “as many Nazis as we can.” The accompanying imagery contained Nazi symbolism and violent imagery.

The channel's historical statistics provided another indication of its reach. For the period 26 March–2 April 2023, StealthMole displayed:

• 4.3K followers
• +2.7K followers / +181.3%
• 75.26% enabled notifications
• 1.1K views per post
• 11 shares per post

The associated growth chart covered 10 March–2 April 2023 and showed a sharp increase in followers during the period.

The same initial investigation also surfaced a 55-page federal court complaint:

• gov.uscourts.ohsd.299994.1.0.pdf

The document relates to Case No. 3:25-cv-33 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, and names The Blood Tribe, Christopher Pohlhaus, Drake Berentz and John Does 1–7 as defendants. The plaintiffs include the City of Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue, city officials and Springfield residents.

The complaint alleges a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at people associated with Springfield's Haitian community. As a court complaint, however, these are allegations made by the plaintiffs and not findings established by the court.

The initial search therefore produced two important starting points: a dedicated Ohio Telegram channel with historical activity, and documentation showing that Blood Tribe's Ohio activity had subsequently become the subject of federal litigation.

Following the Messages Trail

Rather than stopping at the channel's public profile, the investigation moved deeper into its historical content using StealthMole’s Telegram Tracker. The search returned 952 messages.

• Telegram Channel: 1910294769

The expanded dataset provided a much wider collection of identifiers and links.

One of the first important artifacts was:

• B********M@protonmail.com

A message dated 30 January 2025 invited users who were “curious” to make contact through the address. The message was forwarded into the Blood Tribe Ohio channel from another Telegram source, meaning the email's presence in the channel is directly observable, but the forwarded origin should not automatically be treated as the email's operator.

The same channel history also contained references to Blood Tribe's wider online presence.

Among the identified links were:

• Blood Tribe Gab: https://gab.com/B******e
• Hammer Telegram: https://t.me/p********r
• Hammer Gab: https://gab.com/BL******G
• Hammer X: https://x.com/b*****g

A September 2024 forwarded post containing the Blood Tribe Gab account claimed that Blood Tribe was closely following events in Springfield, Ohio and claimed to have people on the ground and a network of local informants.

The channel also contained a February 2025 post instructing followers to follow Blood Tribe and its leader Chris Pohlhaus, also known as Hammer, across Telegram and X.

The 952-message history therefore changed the direction of the investigation. What initially appeared to be a single Ohio-focused channel was becoming a gateway to a much broader collection of accounts, platforms and regional structures.

When One Channel Points to Another

The next step was to take the known Blood Tribe Ohio URL and search it outside Telegram. It was searched in StealthMole's Dark Web Tracker.

• https://t.me/bloodtribeohio

That pivot surfaced material hosted on I2P. One of the results was:

• http://revx7if*************2.i2p/@TexasVet:6/Episode-114:3?nojs=1

The page was titled:

• “THE FOURTEEN WORDS PODCAST EP. 114 - 6MAY2023 Hammer”

The I2P page provided an important new set of pivots. Under “Hammer's links”, it listed:

• https://t.me/p***********er
• https://t.me/bl***********o

The page also identified:

Blood Tribe Merch: D************books.com

Blood Tribe new members: https://t.me/+2B**********E5

Donation: https://givesendgo.com/b*********e

The Telegram invitation was later found to be expired, while the GiveSendGo campaign was unavailable when checked.

The same I2P material also linked to the Odysee account:

• https://odysee.com/@Te*****6

A second I2P result, associated with @jqrcode, was titled:

• “The Hammer Interview, BloodTribe - 5/6/2023 - TexasVET”

This result again contained the same links to the Blood Tribe Ohio Telegram channel, Odysee and the GiveSendGo campaign.

These findings were significant because the same Blood Tribe and Hammer identifiers were no longer confined to Telegram. They appeared within I2P-hosted material and associated media content.

The investigation also encountered a commenter using a highly extremist username on one of the I2P pages. The account's comment praised Hammer and invoked the group's ideological beliefs. This was retained as an observed interaction, but not treated as evidence that the commenter was a Blood Tribe member.

The I2P results also provided a potential commercial lead:

• Di**********s Books

The page explicitly labeled Di*********books.com as “BloodTribe Merch.” This establishes the description used by the I2P content, but the page itself was not treated as independent proof that the site was operated by Blood Tribe.

Building the Map

The expired “Blood Tribe new members” invitation became the next investigative pivot.

• https://t.me/+2BEbDMSzgMNmMmE5

The invitation appeared in several Blood Tribe-related Telegram channels.

One message from Blood Tribe Dixie directed prospective members toward the invitation and referred to the process of joining the group's wider structure.

From these references, the investigation uncovered a much larger regional network.

United States

Blood Tribe Dixie 

https://t.me/BTDIXIE 

T.me/dixiecamps

Blood Tribe Upper Midwest 

https://t.me/BTUPPERMIDWEST 

T.me/uppermidwestcamps

Blood Tribe Pacific Northwest 

https://t.me/BTPNW 

T.me/pnwcamps

Blood Tribe South Central 

T.me/BTSOUTHCENTRAL 

T.me/btohio

Blood Tribe Ohio 

T.me/BLOODTRIBEOHIO 

T.me/btohio

Blood Tribe New England 

T.me/BTNEWENGLAND 

T.me/necamps

Blood Tribe Southwest 

T.me/BLOODTRIBESW 

T.me/BloodTribeSouthWestCamps

Additional regional artifacts included:

https://t.me/Bl************al

https://t.me/B******W

Canada

Blood Tribe East Canada 

T.me/BTEASTCANADA 

T.me/eastcanadacamps

Blood Tribe West Canada 

T.me/BTWESTCANADA 

T.me/westcanadacamps

The same investigation also identified:

https://t.me/B*************OT

The regional naming pattern was reinforced by a captured map dividing the United States and Canada into Blood Tribe regions. The map displayed areas including PNW, Southwest, South, South Central, Ohio, Upper Midwest, New England, East Canada and West Canada.

The Telegram evidence and the map together provide a picture of an organization attempting to divide its presence geographically.

The distinction between the regional Blood Tribe channels and the associated “Camps” channels is also notable. The evidence does not establish that every regional channel was equally active or operational, but it does show a repeated organizational pattern: a Blood Tribe regional identity paired with a separate Camps-related identifier.

The evidence therefore moved beyond a single Ohio presence. It pointed toward a broader U.S.- and Canada-facing online structure with regional identities and recruitment-oriented spaces.

The People Behind the Addresses

The BL*******M@protonmail.com address provided another investigative pivot.

A search for the address in StealthMole's Telegram Tracker returned a Telegram identity associated with:

Nathaniel Higgers

• Telegram ID: 5743881965
• Username: @Y*********Nate
• Bio: “Forehead Connoisseur”

The significance of the finding was not limited to the current profile.

StealthMole's historical results showed the same Telegram identity appearing under multiple names and usernames over time. The captured historical variants included Nathaniel Higgers, Herzog Higgers, and several different usernames, including @Y*******Nate and other highly extremist handles.

This historical variation is important because the Telegram ID remained the more useful identifier than any individual username.

The investigation also found a direct contextual connection between the email address and Blood Tribe's recruitment process. A HAMMER message dated 20 March 2024 stated that the group's Telegram vetting account had been banned and directed prospective members to:

• B*********M@protonmail.com

The message instructed people seeking to join the group's “Camps” to use the email address for further instructions.

This was one of the clearest examples in the investigation of the value of historical identity data. A single current username would have provided only a snapshot; the historical Telegram records exposed changes that would otherwise be easy to miss.

The HAMMER Channel

The investigation then moved directly into the Telegram channel associated with HAMMER:

• https://t.me/p************r
• Channel ID: 1700136522

The channel became an important central pivot because its posts connected several of the artifacts already discovered.

The channel contained Blood Tribe-related links, recruitment material and references to other parts of the group's online ecosystem.

Among the identified artifacts were:

• https://t.me/b*******ohio
• https://t.me/Bl*********al
• https://t.me/B****W
• https://t.me/BT*******T

and:

• https://gab.com/Bl*********Midwest

The channel also contained material directing followers to external platforms and accounts.

A January 2024 post linked to the older X/Twitter account:

• https://twitter.com/hammer_pohlhaus/

A specific post was captured at:

• https://twitter.com/hammer_pohlhaus/status/1749888513737359668

The January 2025 material instead showed the X identity:

• Chris Pohlhaus: @blut_konig

The captured account contained Blood Tribe-related content and references to other far-right figures and accounts.

A separate December 2024 post from the same displayed identity contained explicit praise of Adolf Hitler and rejection of the historical defeat of Nazi Germany.

The investigation also identified another X account, which was suspended when checked.

• https://x.com/blutstamm

The combination of Telegram links and cross-platform references showed that the HAMMER channel was not operating as an isolated communications point. It repeatedly directed followers toward Blood Tribe regional infrastructure, recruitment-related resources and external social platforms.

Merchandise, Weapons and the Money Trail

The investigation also uncovered evidence of activity extending beyond communication and recruitment.

Merchandise

The I2P material identified: Dissident Minds Books as “BloodTribe Merch.”

A separate HAMMER Telegram post later directed followers toward a Blood Tribe merchandise page:

• https://www.thesh*******p.com/product/blood-tribe-blutstamm/

The post advertised new Blood Tribe shirts and directed users to the external store.

Weapons

Blood Tribe Ohio promoted content also contained imagery advertising a weapon.

The captured listing described a: “Black oak handle Sæx” with a 7.5-inch blade and a displayed price of $150.

The associated material directed prospective buyers toward and stated that payment was accepted through Cash App.

• vol***********e@protonmail.com

These artifacts demonstrate the circulation of weapon-related commercial content through the Blood Tribe Ohio ecosystem. They do not, without further evidence, establish who manufactured or operated the associated sales infrastructure.

Fundraising

The previously identified fundraising page was:

• https://givesendgo.com/bloodtribe

When checked, the page displayed: “This fundraiser is not active.”

The historical I2P material nevertheless preserved the URL as part of the Blood Tribe-related online ecosystem.

More importantly, HAMMER's Telegram channel contained a message providing a Bitcoin address in the context of supporting Blood Tribe.

• BTC address: 3My2**************************wau

StealthMole's Crypto Tracker was then used to investigate the address. The blockchain displayed an amount of 11.26697765 BTC and a Graylist classification.

• 4 transactions
• 2 incoming transactions
• 2 outgoing transactions
• 0.039062 BTC received
• 0.039062 BTC sent
• Current balance: 0 BTC
• First transaction: 15 April 2023
• Last transaction: 3 November 2023

The address-level blockchain view records only 0.039062 BTC received and sent, while the Crypto Tracker displayed the much larger 11.26697765 BTC figure in its transaction visualization. Because the available evidence does not establish exactly what the larger figure represents, it should not be interpreted as the amount transferred by the Blood Tribe-associated address.

The external blockchain view also displayed a BetVIP label associated with the destination. That label was not treated as evidence of any relationship between BetVIP and Blood Tribe.

The strongest conclusion from the financial investigation is therefore narrower: a Bitcoin address was publicly provided through HAMMER's channel in connection with support for Blood Tribe, and StealthMole was able to trace its historical blockchain activity.

The Names Change, the Network Remains

The final stage of the investigation brought together the cross-platform identity artifacts that had appeared throughout the earlier searches.

The older X account was directly referenced from HAMMER's Telegram channel.

• https://twitter.com/hammer_pohlhaus/

The later X identity appeared in captured material identifying the account as Chris Pohlhaus.

• https://x.com/blut_konig/

The investigation also identified, which was suspended when checked.

• https://x.com/blutstamm

On Gab, the investigation found:

• https://gab.com/Bl*****e
• https://gab.com/BL*****G
• https://gab.com/Bl**********Midwest

These accounts appeared through Blood Tribe-related Telegram and I2P content rather than being discovered independently.

The cross-platform evidence also highlighted why historical preservation matters in extremist investigations. Accounts can disappear, usernames can change and channels can become inaccessible. In this case, StealthMole's historical records preserved references to identities and links that were no longer necessarily available when revisited.

The investigation therefore did not depend on any single live account remaining online. Instead, the relationships between the historical artifacts provided the investigative value.

Conclusion

The investigation began with a single search term and an Ohio Telegram channel. By following the artifacts surfaced through that channel, the picture expanded into a network spanning regional Telegram channels, “Camps,” recruitment and vetting mechanisms, historical identities, social-media accounts, I2P-hosted content, merchandise, weapons-related material and financial-support infrastructure.

The most significant finding is not simply that Blood Tribe maintained an online presence. It is that its digital footprint was distributed across multiple interconnected layers.

At the center of the investigation was the Blood Tribe Ohio channel. From there, historical messages exposed links to HAMMER and other Blood Tribe accounts. The Dark Web Tracker extended those connections into I2P content. The I2P material exposed recruitment and fundraising artifacts, which in turn led back to Telegram. The expired recruitment invitation opened another path into regional channels and Camps. Finally, searches for individual identifiers such as B*********M@protonmail.com produced historical account data that added an identity layer to the network.

The resulting picture is therefore one of a distributed digital ecosystem rather than a single Telegram channel.

StealthMole's historical preservation was particularly important in reconstructing that ecosystem. Several of the artifacts identified during the investigation were no longer fully accessible when revisited, including the expired Telegram recruitment invitation, the inactive GiveSendGo campaign and the suspended @blutstamm X account. The ability to locate historical references allowed those artifacts to remain part of the investigation even after their original availability changed.

Editorial Note

Dark-web and extremist-network investigations rarely provide absolute attribution. Accounts change usernames, content is forwarded between channels, platforms disappear and third-party infrastructure can be referenced without being controlled by the group being investigated. The findings in this report should therefore be understood according to the strength of each individual artifact and the relationships that can be demonstrated between them.

In this case, StealthMole's ability to preserve historical Telegram content and correlate identifiers across Telegram, I2P, social platforms and blockchain data helped turn a single search result into a much broader picture while still leaving room for uncertainty where the evidence does not support a definitive conclusion.

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