Which Ku Klux Klan groups reported the most activity or arrests in 2024–2025?
Executive summary
Available reporting does not produce a clean, ranked list of Ku Klux Klan factions by arrests or activity for 2024–2025; instead, civil-rights monitors and research groups describe a small, fractious Klan scene marked more by churn, chapter collapses and reorganization than by a single dominant, widely arrested organization [1] [2]. Major mentions in recent monitoring include the collapse or reconfiguration of chapters such as the Old Glory Knights and the Loyal White Knights, while aggregate counts place Klan groups in the low dozens nationally and total membership in the low thousands—context that matters when assessing “most active” groups [2] [1] [3].
1. What the records actually show: fragmentation, not dominance
Contemporary research from the ADL and SPLC captures the Klan as a collection of small, short-lived local outfits rather than a coherent national machine, noting that “more than half” of active Klan groups were formed in the previous five years and that overall active chapters number in the low tens to low thirties depending on the tracker [1] [4]. That fragmentation makes head-to-head comparisons for 2024–2025 unreliable: incidents and arrests are scattered among tiny cells that change names, split, or vanish, so no public dataset in the provided reporting lists a definitive “most-arrests” Klan faction for the period [1] [4].
2. Which groups appear most in recent monitoring: Loyal White Knights, Old Glory Knights, and splinter cells
The organizations singled out by monitoring groups for 2024 reconfigurations include historically notable chapters such as the Loyal White Knights (LWK) and the Old Glory Knights, both of which were reported as undergoing collapse or reshuffling into 2025—an indicator of internal crisis rather than increased, concentrated criminality attributable to a surviving chapter [2]. Smaller splinter groups like the Elders Blood-NBlood Out Knights (EBBOK) are cited as examples of how leadership disputes and accusations (for example, over informants) produce new micro-chapters that generate occasional local activity or media attention without translating into a sustained, high-volume pattern of arrests [1].
3. Arrests and law enforcement records: limited public detail, historical context matters
Historical FBI prosecutions demonstrate that Klan members have been arrested for violent conspiracies and bomb plots in past decades, and federal attention has at times focused on Klan networks [5] [6]. However, the reporting provided does not include a contemporaneous federal/state arrest tally for 2024–2025 by named chapter; the sources therefore cannot substantiate claims that any single named Klan group led the nation in arrests during those years [5] [6]. Civil-rights monitors emphasize persistent criminal association among Klan adherents alongside the declining organizational footprint, a pattern that complicates simple ranking [1].
4. Geography and scale: pockets of activity, small memberships
Estimates put total Klan membership in the low thousands (commonly cited ranges of roughly 3,000–6,000) and identify higher concentrations in certain Southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee—facts that help explain where most incidents tend to be reported even if they do not name which chapter had the most arrests in 2024–2025 [3] [1]. Statista’s citation of SPLC data notes only a single-digit or low-double-digit number of Klan groups in recent years, reinforcing that any one group’s activity is likely to be limited and local rather than sweeping nationally [4].
5. Competing narratives and reporting limits: what to watch for
Advocacy organizations may emphasize continuity and threat to sustain monitoring resources while news outlets may spotlight isolated arrests to produce headlines; both dynamics can skew perceptions of which Klan faction is “most active” [1]. The provided sources indicate reorganization and chapter collapse (Old Glory Knights, Loyal White Knights) as the most salient developments cited for 2024–2025, but they do not provide a comprehensive arrest-based ranking—an evidentiary gap that must temper any definitive claim about which Klan groups reported the most activity or arrests in 2024–2025 [2] [1].