No Gods No Masters, or NGNM, is an anarchist network that hosts more than 100 websites. It says its sites now run on servers it owns. It began building its own "micro-data center" in 2024, "long before we knew about" an FBI case, it says. Its goals are "resilience, censorship resistance, and independence." In November, it added a backup server. It cited the FBI case and a fear that hosts could be named terrorists "without due process."
What the FBI asked for
Papers NGNM posted show FBI requests for records on its accounts and people. Profoundd could not verify them. AnarchistFederation.net is a news site NGNM hosts. Cloudflare, which routes its traffic, said it got an FBI court order about NGNM's account in April 2025. A Lexington grand jury subpoena asked Google for the names, addresses and billing records behind a Gmail account. NGNM says the FBI sought its old admin Gmail and two team members' own accounts, to "identify NGNM administrators."
The papers do not say what crime is being looked into. Grand jury work is secret by law. Prosecutors did not answer the Washington Examiner. NGNM says it has done "nothing illegal." It says it runs only the servers. A separate group runs the site and picks what it posts, NGNM says. Its own post calls the two people "Two Admins of AnarchistFederation.net." Its home page says its programmers built the site's platform. Its worry, it says, is "whether that technical association is being wrongly framed as evidence of authorship." It has asked the FBI for its files.
The A/I designation
In August, the U.S. named an Italian tech group, Autistici/Inventati, or A/I, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." The State Department said A/I "builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells." It said Rose City Antifa used A/I to spread doxing lists of ICE staff, with calls for attacks "in their homes." Others used it to claim a Berlin power-grid attack that "resulted in a fatality," State said. A/I denied it: "Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism."
Treasury says the U.S. "does not sanction persons for engaging in political speech." The designation needed no court ruling. NGNM says it has "no evidence" the FBI case is tied to the A/I designation, "but neither can we pretend" the designation "is irrelevant."
The wider policy
A 2025 presidential memo, NSPM-7, ordered a plan to "investigate and disrupt networks" that "foment political violence." It lists "anti-capitalism" among the "common threads" of that violence. A December 2025 Justice Department memo told the FBI to look into "matters from the past five years that involved potential acts of domestic terrorism." It also says no investigation may be opened "based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment." NGNM says its case may be "politically motivated, targeting us because of our ideas." The Cloudflare order came first, so NSPM-7 did not start the case. The papers do not show whether politics played a role.
NGNM's own words
In 2025, NGNM offered "bulletproof" hosting abroad. If police come, it said, "there's nothing to hand over — no names, no accounts, no usable trail." Its hosting guide says it "cannot provide a magical solution that allows illegal activities without consequences." In September, its tech team helped launch Abolish-ICE.net, which maps "ICE sightings and community reports." The launch post began, "Hi, FBI. We heard you like RSS aggregators." NGNM says the site offers news and a legal-help directory.
In 2020, a claim of responsibility for rail sabotage in Washington state appeared on It's Going Down, a site in NGNM's network. Two women were convicted. The site said it does not take responsibility for what it publishes.
Reporting through Thursday, November 12, 2026. Sources: No Gods No Masters Network, data center, June 22, 2026; backup server, Nov. 9, 2026; Cloudflare notice, July 14, 2026; Google notice, July 29, 2026; grand jury subpoena, Aug. 17, 2026; A/I statement, Aug. 28, 2026; Abolish-ICE.net launch, Sept. 13, 2026; FOIA request, Nov. 3, 2026; "bulletproof" hosting, May 2, 2025; hosting FAQ and home page, read Nov. 12, 2026; U.S. Treasury, press release, Aug. 26, 2026; U.S. State Department, fact sheet, Aug. 26, 2026; The Intercept, Aug. 28, 2026; The White House, NSPM-7, Sept. 25, 2025; U.S. Attorney General, NSPM-7 memo (as published by Criminal Legal News), Dec. 4, 2025; Washington Examiner, Aug. 31, 2026; NL Times, Oct. 14, 2026; Wikipedia, It's Going Down, read Nov. 12, 2026.
