NOFX start 2026 swinging with “Minnesota Nazis”, a blunt, furious update of “Huntington Beach Nazis”, released right in the middle of federal ICE raids tearing through the United States.
This is the band’s first new music of 2026, following “A to H”, the opening chapter of their triple album project, a vault raid of demos and unreleased material capped with a few new cuts. But “Minnesota Nazis” isn’t nostalgia or fan service. It’s emergency punk.
Frontman Fat Mike rewired the 2022 song after what he calls the “recent heartbreaks” in Minnesota, reshaping it to confront what’s unfolding in real time. The track directly references the murder of Renée Good by an ICE agent, with lyrics that pull no punches and refuse poetic distance. It’s ugly, confrontational, and deliberately so.
Fat Mike has been clear about the limits and necessity of protest music. This song, he says, won’t stop the madness, but silence guarantees nothing changes. The message is painfully simple, and painfully unfashionable in 2026, love over hate, even when love feels absurdly underpowered.
What makes “Minnesota Nazis” land isn’t subtlety, it’s timing. Punk has always worked best as a flare, not a philosophy lecture. Released digitally, fast, reactive, almost reckless, it feels closer to a street flyer than a press cycle.
NOFX aren’t alone in responding to the ICE raids. Bruce Springsteen has released “Streets of Minneapolis”, also referencing Renée Good, drawing predictable backlash from the White House, which dismissed the song as “random” and “inaccurate”. Billy Bragg and Alex Pretti have also weighed in, while artists including Lamb of God, Tom Morello, Billie Eilish, Green Day, and Lady Gaga have publicly condemned the raids. Different genres, same alarm bell.
The difference is that NOFX don’t dress their outrage in metaphor. They never have. That’s why they’re still dangerous when they decide to be.
And yes, this is all happening after their final concert in October 2024. Retirement, it turns out, is flexible when the world is on fire.
Adding to the contradiction, the band recently announced the documentary “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up”, a career-spanning look at their DIY ethic, internal chaos, and improbable longevity. It will debut new NOFX music, but only at theatrical screenings. The band plans to crash SXSW in Austin this March with sneak previews, before rolling the film out globally from April.
So here we are. A punk band releasing one of the angriest, most relevant protest songs of the moment, while actively refusing to play the modern music industry game.
Punk isn’t dead.
It’s just selective about when it speaks.
Lyrics:
What I found behind the orange curtain
Is probably what you'd expect
Now I understand that D.I. song
They don't hang ten they surf goosy step
On the pier they love their hateful weekend rallies
Where bigotry is called freedom of speech
I don't know how they can be so angry
When they live at the fucking beach
Those Huntington Beach Nazis
Call themselves right wing renegades
They use to gather for the pyre fire mass burnings
Now they wear them on the brand new shirt brigades
Huntington Beach Nazis
Like to frame trade school and city college degrees
Don't it seem silly
That they still fly vote for Trump flags
These racists live way too close to me
On the corner of Rhine and Heil street
There's a bar called the Eagles Nest
There's a print shop called Swas stickers
Their white print on white t-shirts is the best
It's hard to find a legal place to skateboard
But easy to find a mask or book burning
And in a town where there's no Cesar Chavez Avenue
You know there's definitely no Martin Luther King
If those Minnesota Nazis
Are so sure they're part of the master race
Why do they cover their white faces when they're shooting
Friendly white unarmed lesbians in the face
Oh there's Nazis in my neighborhood
Old white bitter people can be so rude
When they've deported all of their Mexicans
They'll have to cook their own Mexican food
America, America, is ignorance and pride you call great?
America, America, seems more like Germany in 1938
America has paid the highest price
Now that we'll never clean all the blood off the I.C.E
America, why can't we all agree
It's ok to judge and have some hate for people
If you base it on their ethics
Not their ethnicity
