The Rise Above Movement (RAM) is a militant alt-right Southern California-based street fighting group which has variously been described as "a loose collective of violent neo-Nazis and fascists", white nationalists, white supremacists, and far-right persons. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), it "is inspired by identitarian movements in Europe and it is trying to bring their philosophies and violent tactics to the United States."

According to ProPublica,RAM has "...a singular purpose: physically attacking its ideological foes.RAM has "...a singular purpose: physically attacking its ideological foes.RAM's members spend weekends training in boxing and other martial arts, and they have publicly boasted about the acts of violence which they have committed during protests in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley.

The violent neo-Nazi Robert Rundo thought he’d won freedom last week after a US district court judge in California threw out a federal indictment against the white-nationalist militant, arguing prosecutors selectively went after him and did not put far-leftist protesters through the same treatment.

Federal prosecutors indicted Rundo in 2018 on anti-riot charges stemming from fights in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley, and he was extradited from Romania last year to face charges in the US.

On 21 February, the US district court judge Cormac Carney threw out the indictment, arguing prosecutors had selectively prosecuted the militant. Rundo’s public defenders had argued that their client and the rest of RAM were merely defending themselves against anti-fascist and leftwing protesters during melees, despite ample documentation that RAM trained for combat, instigated fights at the rallies and assaulted a journalist covering one of the protests at an Orange county beach.