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Following the Midterms, Far-Right Extremists Break with Trump and Encourage Violent Revolution and Rabid Antisemitism

The midterm elections, held on November 3, 2026, resulted in Democrat control over both the House and Senate. In a strong rebuke of Donald Trump’s bigoted, Christian nationalist Project 2025 agenda, voters elected five transgender and nonbinary candidates in states that had never elected a trans person into the legislature, four Democrat Black governors, and backed abortion rights in Virginia, Missouri, and Nevada.

Amid these results, far-right extremists who backed Trump in the 2024 election and cheered on his agenda, such as the neo-Nazi Active Club movement, the white supremacist Proud Boys, and other far-right influencers, are ditching their support for Trump. Others, such as irregular militias, are rejecting democracy altogether. Instead of Trump, white supremacists are searching for a more antisemitic leader, or the second coming of Adolf Hitler. In some cases, these groups and individuals are calling for revolution against the government and violence against marginalized communities.

Trump Was Neo-Nazis’ Final Hope for a “Political Solution”

The neo-Nazi Active Club movement, comprised of white supremacist fighting groups working towards becoming “minutemen in the early stages of the revolutionary war” (i.e., race war), has called for violence on the back of the midterm results, since Trump was their last hope for a “political solution” to their racist grievances. An umbrella account on X representing Youth Clubs, which are youth chapters of Active Clubs recruiting boys and girls aged 15 to 18, said: “the GOP has collapsed. Burn the fucking boats, the youth want revolution,” accompanied by a picture of a Nazi flametrooper in World War II.

A Telegram account called “Youth Transcripts,” which sends users to United Youth (Boys’ Youth Clubs) and Young Columbia (Girls’ Youth Clubs) channels, shared a post decrying Republicans for not following through on their promises of “mass deportations” and “construction of the border wall,” promises originally embraced by Active Clubs. Further, the post says Republicans’ “racial treason” leading to the midterm results is “Christmas come early” for “revolutionaries,” since “electoralism has lost.” The post ends with a quote by James Mason (“They keep in line, keep voting, keep the Beast System alive and in power… and in return they are raped, robbed, beaten, murdered and betrayed”), the neo-Nazi who wrote Siege, a book which promotes the hastening of society’s collapse through violence and terrorism (i.e., accelerationism).

United Youth, an umbrella account for the neo-Nazi Youth Club movement, shares a post saying “The GOP has collapsed. Burn the fucking boats, the youth want revolution.” (Source: X).

The Montana chapter of the transnational white supremacist White Lives Matter (WLM) movement shared a post saying “RIP GOP” followed by “should have fought for Americans instead of Israel.”

WLM Montana shares a post reacting to the midterm elections. (Source: Telegram).

Proud Boys Align Themselves With Neo-Nazi Ideology

The white supremacist Proud Boys, whose loyalty to Trump was previously unquestioned given their instrumental role in the planning and execution of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attacks, are breaking with Trump and are using the results as an opportunity to recruit new members. The throughline with the Proud Boys’ disillusionment with Trump is the perpetuation of antisemitic stereotypes of Jewish control over the United States and beliefs in the terrorist-inspiring “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio shared a clip on Telegram of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes discussing his refusal to support Republicans. In the clip, Fuentes says, “The only thing that’s going to make a difference is a radical intervention” since Republicans are “still welcom[ing] the Indian invasion.” Allegations of an immigrant “invasion” are a key tenet of the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges white people are being intentionally replaced by “elites.” Believers in the conspiracy have committed several acts of mass casualty attacks worldwide, including in the United States. One commenter on Tarrio’s post shared similar violent ideations: “can we just start pew pewing the traitors, and the Mooslims (sic) now… I for one is (sic) of these trogladytes (sic)… every last one of them.”

Enrique Tarrio shares a clip of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes suggesting the need for a “radical intervention” in place of Trump to advance white supremacy. (Source: Telegram).

The Cape Fear Proud Boys (based in North Carolina) shared a lengthy post on Telegram with an image of a tattered and torn “Make America Great Again” hat. Like the Active Clubs, Cape Fear Proud Boys were relying on the Trump administration to conduct mass deportations and build the border wall, and are now left with grievances such as “a new war in the Middle East” and “all the economic turmoil that comes with it,” further blaming Trump’s relationship with Israel as “put[ting] the interests of a foreign nation over the promises you made to Americans.” The Cape Fear Proud Boys ended their post by proclaiming a new found power over the Republican party: “You’re going to run people we like and you’re going to do what we say. If you don’t, we won’t vote for you.”

The Cape Fear Proud Boys share a post depicting a tattered and torn “Make America Great Again” hat on the ground in a disavowal of the MAGA movement. (Source: Telegram).

The Long Island Proud Boys reacted to an Alex Jones Live article titled “After Trump Put Israel First Jewish Voters Still Voted Democrat 67%” (according to exit polls shared by NBC, 68 percent of American Jews voted Democrat). Their antisemitic reply to the article said, “You can call Jews a lot of things, just don’t call them loyal,” falsely inferring that Trump’s support of Israel equates to support of the Jewish community as a whole, and therefore all Jewish people are part of a monolith that owe Trump their allegiance.

Leading up to the election, Long Island Proud Boys made posts saying “it’s necessary” to be against Jews and “politics is for f*gs, there is no political solution!” The phrase “there is no political solution” is associated with accelerationism, an ideology adopted by violent neo-Nazi groups such as the Atomwaffen Division and The Base.

Proud Boys chapters such as Virginia Proud Boys and Bourbon City Proud Boys are using the midterm results to recruit new members. A Telegram post by the Virginia Proud Boys said, “The left is on the rise, and we the Proud Boys are the only ones standing against it. Child murder and Homosexual degeneracy is popular. Stand up to the popular narrative, no one will save you but yourself, western man.” Similarly, the Bourbon City Proud Boys shared a post on Telegram saying, “things are not going to get easier,” accompanied by a video with the Proud Boys laurel leaves saying “JOIN TODAY.”

Bourbon City Proud Boys posts a recruitment message following the midterm results. (Source: Telegram).

Irregular Militias Reject Democracy in Antisemitic Posting Spree

Several irregular militia groups rejected the idea of voting altogether, arguing that Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt and that both serve Israel’s interests. Some, including Veterans on Patrol, shared an image depicting both Democratic and Republican masked figures as Jeffrey Epstein, reflecting conspiracy theories linking political elites to pedophilia and child trafficking, narratives commonly associated with QAnon.

A popular post among militias during the election, shared by Veterans on Patrol. (Source: Telegram).

Similarly, on Election Day, the Pacific Northwest-based Pine Korps reposted a message from the Restorative Party stating, “Make sure you go vote today, Moloch or Baal for the next 4 years,” comparing the two political parties to Moloch and Baal, figures associated with evil that have also been used in antisemitic conspiracy theories to demonize Jews through narratives linking them to child sacrifice and demonic worship.

Restorative Party post shared by the irregular militia Pine Korps. (Source: Instagram).

Another trend widely shared by irregular militia groups on Election Day was “Voting is a PSYOP” (psychological operation), portraying elections as a form of manipulation rather than a legitimate democratic process.

A popular trend among irregular militias is rejecting the idea of voting in elections. (Source: Instagram).

Online Bigots Want a New Hitler

Individual influencers and online social media users who ascribe to far-right ideologies have also become disillusioned with the Republicans and Trump, searching for a new white supremacist leader. Belgian Identitarian Dries Van Langenhove, a former member of the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), and whom a judge described as “revell[ing] in Nazi ideas that cause much suffering,” shared multiple posts across social media platforms advocating for Republicans to become more extreme. On X, Van Langenhove said “a Republican candidate that is pro remigration and against wars for Israel can win in 2028.” On Telegram, Van Langenhove speculated that Republicans need to “appeal to the interests of white people,” and suggested the election results prove his beliefs in the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

Andrew Torba, CEO of the unmoderated social media platform Gab, which is popular with extremists, called for the far right to create an “exit ramp” for former Trump supporters leading to more extreme beliefs. Like many others, Torba espoused racist language purporting the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, saying the “browner the nation gets, the more blue it will become. Republicans did nothing to stop this and in many cases they embraced and even accelerated it.”

Here, Torba is saying that immigrants vote Democrat or for pro-immigration Republicans, leading to the further “replacement” of white people. He then called on the GOP to “become the explicit and unapologetic party of White people and White interests.” Similarly, Eric Orwoll, founder of the whites-only Return To The Land (RTTL) settlement in Arkansas, said if people want “better results from Republicans,” they should “run candidates and support advocacy orgs like the RTTL foundation.” In other words, Orwoll is suggesting more white supremacists lobby Republicans, run for office, and support white nationalist projects.

Gab founder Andrew Torba shares racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory rhetoric saying immigration makes the nation “browner” and suggests following a more extreme form of nationalism. (Source: X).

An account called the U.S. Minutemen, a term commonly used by local militias, responded to a post saying “we have 2 years to find a new Hitler” with a video venerating Hitler and spreading antisemitism.

An account called U.S. Minutemen quotes a post saying “we have 2 years to find Hitler” with a video venerating the genocidal dictator. (Source: X).

This sentiment was shared by many other users on X, with some posts asking for a new Adolf Hitler eclipsing 880,000 views. Jeremy Kauffman, chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, responded to the midterm elections saying, “America needs a right-wing faction sincerely interested in winning via means other than democracy.” When asked to clarify if he meant violence, Kauffman responded with “first step [is to] have an aligned ultra wealthy person buy a major social media site where things like this can be openly discussed.”

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PJT 2025 REPORT

Project 2025 and the Unraveling of America

PJT 2025 REPORT GPAHE

Project 2025 and the Unraveling of America

SPECIAL REPORT

Project 2025 and the Unraveling of America

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Donald Trump said throughout his campaign. “I have no idea who is behind it.”

The lie collapsed on January 20, 2025, the coldest inauguration day in four decades. Trump took his second oath of office in the shelter of the Capitol rotunda, then decamped to the Capital One Arena, where thousands of supporters watched him sign executive orders one after another, holding each up before hurling his presidential Sharpie into a sea of outstretched hands. By midnight, he had signed 26. Despite his campaign disavowals, two-thirds of his day-one policies came straight from the pages of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

Fourteen months later, the distance between blueprint and policy has all but vanished.

Since Inauguration Day, the administration has eliminated 317,000 federal jobs and shuttered the Consumer Protection Bureau. The White House rescinded emergency abortion protections. It expelled transgender troops and erased LGBTQ+ Americans from federal data. The Justice Department abandoned consent decrees meant to curb police discrimination against Black communities. In Minneapolis, ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, detained Native Americans during what officials called the largest immigration raid in American history. Agents elsewhere have detained more than 170 U.S. citizens, including children—even as the administration insists that “ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens.” The birthright citizenship of American-born babies hangs in the balance before the Supreme Court.

The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) began sounding the alarm about Project 2025 in 2023, when the Heritage Foundation first published its authoritarian playbook. Before and since Inauguration Day, GPAHE has tracked its implementation week by week.

This report draws on that coverage to document what has already happened and what the playbook still demands.

The path to authoritarianism is not new, and the warning signs are well documented. Independent institutions get bent to serve the ruling party. Disinformation floods the public square. Executive power swells while the courts and legislatures meant to check it are sidelined. Dissent is punished. Vulnerable communities are scapegoated. Elections are corrupted. Violence becomes a tool of governance.

Project 2025 follows this script point by point. Here we lay out what has happened already—and what will happen next.

CONTENTS

Executive Summary

2. Dismantling Government

3. Deleting Consumer Protection

4. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Crosshairs

5. Erasing LGBTQ+ Americans

6. Police Reforms Under Fire

7. The Assault on Reproductive Freedom

8. Cutting Pay for Caregivers

9. Silencing Workers’ Voices

10. Rolling Back Child Labor Protections

11. Poisoning the Air and Water

12. Selling Off Public Lands

13. Dismantling NOAA and the War on Climate Science

13. Cutting Food from families

14. Destroying LGBTQ+ Families

15. Eliminating Head Start

16. Privatizing Medicare by Stealth

17. Dismantling Public Education

18. The War on Universities

19. Breaking Promises to Public Servants

20. Mass Deportation

21. Attacking the “Woke” Military

22. Press Freedom Under Siege

23. Looking Ahead

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July 29, 2026

Trump’s Red Scare

The Trump administration is reviving McCarthy-era tactics, portraying political opponents as communist threats while targeting protected speech, protest, and association. A recent State Department ministerial falsely linked recent attacks to left-wing extremism despite research showing the far right remains the deadliest domestic terrorist threat. Paired with a report praising Cold War blacklists, the administration is building a framework that threatens First Amendment rights.

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July 28, 2026

The Many Kingdoms of Sean Feucht

Sean Feucht built a multimillion-dollar Christian nationalist empire while becoming a regular presence in Trump’s White House. As whistleblowers allege financial misconduct and a major donor sues for fraud, this profile examines how one of the movement’s most influential figures built a vast political, financial, and religious network while remaining a key ally in post–Project 2025 America.

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07/28/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

Editor’s note: This profile is part of a GPAHE series examining the people shaping American Christian nationalism in post–Project 2025 America. Christian nationalism is distinct from Christianity itself; mainstream churches have publicly rejected the movement as a distortion of the Christian faith. The figures profiled here are the architects of a theocratic, political project working to fuse American national identity with conservative Christian supremacist rule and dismantle democratic institutions.

He helped Project 2025 architect Russ Vought scope out “a sound Christian Nationalism,” and has pushed the 12.3 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention toward Christian nationalist policies. In June, the denomination elected the president he campaigned for.

Key Takeaways

A few hours before the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) handed out presidential ballots in Orlando on June 9, 2026, Willy Rice stood at a lunchtime forum and told a room of young SBC pastors what he thought of their denomination’s decade. “I’m afraid … we’re going to hug ourselves to death,” he said. “We are going to wake up one day and be Kodak or Blockbuster.” That afternoon, the Clearwater, Fla. pastor, who had waved off the SBC’s sexual abuse crisis as closer to hoax than fact, took 5,217 votes — 57 percent — and the presidency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The man behind Rice’s talking points holds no office in the SBC. He has never pastored a church. Christian nationalist William Wolfe spent seven months as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the first Trump administration, and the day Rice won, he told Religion News Service the election was “a major vindication of the issues we have addressed and fought for.” Three months earlier, on March 14, 2026, from the pulpit of Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, Wolfe had explained what those issues add up to: “Frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you.”

Wolfe is the Christian nationalist movement’s inside man. Others preach for converts or run for office. Wolfe captures institutions that already exist. When the first Trump administration ended, he took a fellowship at Russ Vought’s think tank, the Center for Renewing America, where the work was planning the next Trump term. In March 2024, he turned the same method on his own denomination, which keeps a pulpit in nearly every county in the South.

The Orlando convention gave Wolfe more than a president.

Southern Baptist churches govern themselves; what binds them is the annual meeting, where congregations send voting delegates, the denomination calls them messengers, and where amending the SBC constitution requires a two-thirds vote in two consecutive years. Proposed amendments are also supposed to spend a year under executive committee review before messengers ever see them. On the meeting’s first day, messengers voted to skip that waiting period for a proposal from Al Mohler, president of the denomination’s flagship seminary. His “Truth and Unity” amendment proposes to expel churches that let a woman preach to the assembled congregation, and the next morning, it cleared the first of its two required votes with nearly 75 percent in favor.

In February 2019, the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News counted more than 700 people abused in SBC churches since 1998 and roughly 380 church leaders and volunteers accused of sexual misconduct. At his June 10, 2026, press conference, Rice signaled where the denomination’s abuse reforms are headed. The movement to address abuse, he said, “absolutely was weaponized, just like the Me Too movement in the secular culture.” Christa Brown, a survivor of abuse by an SBC pastor and a longtime advocate for reform, told the AP that if anyone politicized the issue, it was the people fighting over SBC power.

The Center for Baptist Leadership titled its post-convention podcast recap “SBC Reformers Just Scored Their Biggest Win in Decades” and walked listeners through how the show had mobilized messengers to Orlando. Baptist News Global counted Rice as the first reform candidate to defeat an institutional candidate for the presidency in 35 years.

The Title He Sells

Wolfe grew up lower-middle-class outside Charlotte, North Carolina, shopping at Goodwill. By his own account, politics came before faith. He traces his politics to watching his friends’ fathers lose construction work to trade deals and to contractors paying undocumented workers cash under the table — an experience he says “put a fire in my bones.” His 15-year-old brother died in June 2011, and his life collapsed. He was 22 when the pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., shared the gospel with him, Wolfe recounted in a 2024 interview. He was baptized into a congregation at the center of the SBC’s establishment wing. He earned a degree in history from Covenant College and stayed in the capital for a decade, working in three congressional offices. From the Hill, he moved to Heritage Action for America, then to the State Department as a director of legislative affairs, and finally to the Pentagon.

That last title is the one he sells. Conference bios introduce him as “a Senior Official in the Trump Administration.” The job lasted from June 2020 to January 2021, through the election and through January 6.

Instead of cashing in as a lobbyist, Wolfe went to Louisville to finish a master of Divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He already knew the school. Baptist News Global identified him as a former intern to its president, Al Mohler, whose amendment his group would one day whip votes for.

American Reformer takes its theology from the 16th-century Protestant reformer John Calvin and its politics from the hard right. The men behind the venture firm New Founding, a Project 2025 advisory board member, co-founded it. The magazine made Wolfe a fellow, and by September 2022, he was speaking at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) in Miami, where the transnational far right gathers. Three years later, he was back on the NatCon stage, in Washington this time, to lecture on “Recovering the Evangelical Political Voice.” To make America great again, he told the room, “We’re going to have to make it Christian again.” The talk was a call for “a Protestant Christian political Manhattan Project,” complete with a joke about rounding up Protestant pastors, putting them “in camps” for reeducation.

“A Sound Christian Nationalism”

Russell Vought was running the Center for Renewing America on January 25, 2023, when he tweeted that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.” Vought now directs the federal budget.

Three months after Vought’s tweet, Wolfe made an appearance on Christian nationalist Joel Webbon’s podcast for an episode recorded April 19, 2023. He had traded complementarianism, the mainstream evangelical teaching that assigns men and women distinct roles, for “biblical patriarchy,” he said. White guilt, he argued, drove the failures of evangelical leaders. His sign-off urged Baptists to “beat your plowshare into a sword” and join him on the front lines.

The 2023 Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel, which Wolfe drafted with Webbon and a third author, binds every nation, in every age, to the moral principle of each of the Ten Commandments. In October 2023, he went on the show of Stew Peters, a white supremacist who has urged the execution of Democratic officials, and told the audience that Christian nationalists in office must save America from “globo-homo nationalism.” That December, Wolfe posted part of the agenda and thought better of it; The New Republic preserved the deleted thread: end no-fault divorce, gestational surrogacy, and sex education in schools. Christian nationalism is “inevitable,” he argued, and young men disaffected by the secular order find the label appealing: “I want to work with those young men.”

Pulpits Money Can’t Rent

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) holds roughly 47,000 congregations by veteran Nashville investigative reporter Phil Williams’s count, plus six seminaries, two mission boards, the Lifeway publishing house, and a policy office in Washington. In Orlando, messengers approved a $186 million budget to run it all, even as the denomination has shed 3.6 million members over two decades, down to 12.3 million.

The SBC’s right turn did not start with Wolfe. Dallas hosted the 1985 showdown that sealed the conservative takeover of the convention and drove out its moderates. Decades later, Russell Moore ran the denomination’s policy office in Washington, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), where he refused to endorse Trump and pressed the denomination to face its sexual abuse crisis. After years of fighting SBC leaders over Trump and over immigration, Moore quit on May 18, 2021.

Twenty-one months after he left, on February 21, 2023, the Executive Committee expelled Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, the SBC’s second-largest congregation, for naming women pastors. Rick Warren, who founded Saddleback and wrote The Purpose Driven Life, flew to New Orleans that June and asked the messengers to let his church back in. They voted 88 percent to keep it out. Hours later, the same messengers gave first-round approval to a constitutional amendment barring women from any pastoral title. The votes were not there in Indianapolis in 2024 or in Dallas in 2025. Al Mohler, the seminary president Wolfe once interned for, rewrote the ban for Orlando. His version reaches past the title to the act: a woman preaching.

At that same 2025 Dallas meeting, a resolution went to the floor demanding the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, and calling for civil laws that “reflect the moral order revealed in Scripture and nature.” Nobody rose to argue. The SBC had condemned the ruling since it was issued in 2015, without ever asking the court to reverse it. The Southern Seminary professor who chaired the resolutions committee told reporters he was “clear-eyed about the difficulties” and has argued elsewhere that Christians are “called to play the long game.” Wolfe wasn’t playing anything that patient. Same-sex marriage, he said on a Liberty podcast that same month, “is fundamentally an impossibility. It doesn’t exist.” When SBC leaders drafted resolutions for Orlando warning against ethnonationalism and antisemitism on the dissident right, Wolfe grumbled that “The Ghost of Russell Moore stalks many of the SBC resolutions this year.”

A Clock, Not a Cudgel

Wolfe spent December 2023 calling the denomination’s most famous woman Bible teacher “an ungodly, even demonic, influence on the SBC.” He opened the Center for Baptist Leadership (CBL) — a pressure group with no official role in the SBC — three months later, on March 8, 2024, and the group announced its diagnosis on social media: “leaders in the SBC allowed CRT [Critical race theory], DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], and feminism to infiltrate our seminaries, our entities, and our churches.” The CBL’s first published piece urged Southern Baptists to elect leaders who would say that the claim of systemic abuse in the SBC “is a lie.” The “lie” was that February 2019 investigation. Wolfe describes the CBL as a subset of American Reformer’s larger project of Protestant renewal — “kind of like a House Freedom Caucus for the Southern Baptist Convention” — and his stump line is that the SBC has “less financial transparency than Planned Parenthood.”

The CBL’s main target was the ERLC. The commission had angered the hard right by opposing criminal penalties for women who seek abortions and by defending immigrants. Four months after the CBL launched, the chair of the ERLC’s board announced that the commission’s president, Brent Leatherwood, had been fired. The rest of the board overruled him, and the chair resigned instead. Leatherwood kept the job for another year. Willy Rice stood up at the Dallas meeting on June 10, 2025 — 40 years after the takeover fight in the same city — and moved to abolish the agency. Wolfe posted the talking point within hours: the vote “is not a cudgel, it’s a clock.”

On June 11, nearly 43 percent of messengers voted to abolish the commission. Any pastor who lost the confidence of 40 percent of his congregation “would resign the next day,” Wolfe said afterward. Leatherwood resigned on July 31, 2025, seven weeks later, the third ERLC president in a row to leave under fire. Wolfe’s CBL issued a statement the same day: Leatherwood “was not the right Baptist for this job.” On April 13, 2026, the trustees installed a new president, the change of leadership that the CBL had demanded in writing. The clock Wolfe set ran out on schedule.

The Iron Fist

Wolfe’s co-authors on the Statement on Christian Nationalism have records of their own. Joel Webbon wants a “Christian Nationalist Caesar” to rule the United States with an iron fist, Constitution be damned. The third author, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, sits on the CBL’s advisory board and files bills to criminalize abortion as homicide. CBL’s roster includes a sitting ERLC trustee who was also strategizing for the group trying to kill it.

In June 2025, on a Liberty podcast episode billed as “America Was Made BY Christians FOR Christians,” Wolfe read the founders’ promise to “our posterity” as a bloodline. “When the founders of America wrote for our posterity, they did not mean millions of Indian immigrants. They did not mean millions of Muslim immigrants to America or millions of South American immigrants. Again, no offense, they have their own countries.”

At a Valentine’s Day gathering in 2026, Wolfe told a story about being “the only person in line speaking English” at a North Carolina DMV, and drew the conclusion himself: millions must be deported so his sons will not grow up as minorities. Right Wing Watch circulated the clip in March. Wolfe stood by the remarks (“I am actually not sorry”), called the group demons, then denied saying what the video showed him saying.

Southern Baptist messengers have gone the other way. In New Orleans in 2023, they affirmed the “inherent dignity and value” of immigrants regardless of legal status and asked the government to open legal pathways to permanent status. In 2011 and in 2018, they had called nativism inconsistent with the Gospel.

The Greene Tavern, an online talk show, comes out of the Nathanael Greene Society, the North Carolina chapter of the Old Glory Club, a nationwide network of men-only far-right clubs whose members, a 2025 Guardian investigation found, include “prominent antisemitic influencers.” One of its hosts posts under the name Kaiser von Lohengramm. On April 6, 2026, he answered a Phil Williams article titled “In Far Right’s Growing Remigration Talk, Echoes of KKK America.” “Yes, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not,” he posted over a video of an anime figure in the white robe and hood of the Klan, set to an anthem urging men to “go with the Ku Klux Klan.”

Days later, Wolfe joined the show. Rice “would very much be our guy,” he told the panel, and electing him was “really my main focus” in the run-up to Orlando. The campaign, he said, was transferable: for anyone “in another denomination that’s fighting with a leftist … what we’re doing is showing that you can win. You bring political grassroots organizing and activism and apply it to these denominational fights.” He gave the same advice about the Republican Party: show up at your local county GOP meetings with three or four friends, and “try to take these things over. I don’t mean it in a hostile sense.”

On air, Wolfe dismissed the Klan comparison as “completely laughable” and described the people who make such charges as “morally reprehensible troglodytes.” He called for “mass deportations, denaturalizations, and remigration” — “not out of hate for anybody,” he said, but “out of love for the American people.”

Messengers at the SBC’s 150th-anniversary meeting in Atlanta in 1995 repudiated “historic acts of evil such as slavery,” which the resolution tied to the convention’s 1845 founding, and resolved to “genuinely repent of racism of which we have been guilty.”

Laying Hands

In February 2025, Wolfe told a podcast that Trump was filling the government “with people who are our guys” and that the second term was “shock and awe.” Paula White-Cain runs Trump’s Faith Office, and on March 19, 2025, she gathered a group of religious-right leaders in the White House to pray over the president. Wolfe stood in the room with David Barton and laid hands on Trump. Barton’s WallBuilders operation supplies the movement’s version of American history. After the meeting, Wolfe posted a video in which he marveled at his access and explained that under a Harris administration, Christians like himself would have been shipped “to the gulags.” Three weeks later, on April 7, he described on a podcast what he had actually done with that access: urged the administration to accelerate deportations, because Southern Baptists and Christians “want to see mass deportations,” and the evangelical organizations objecting to Trump’s immigration crackdown were “astroturf.”

Per procedure, in June 2027, the convention meets again in Indianapolis. Mohler’s amendment comes back with it for its second and final vote, and the abuse reforms fall under Rice’s gavel. Wolfe will be there the way he was in Orlando: off the ballot, working the floor. At NatCon in Washington last September, he reminded the room that America “was essentially 98 percent Protestant at its founding.” “You’re very welcome here,” he said. “We’re glad to have you, but it is ours, and we would like at least some of it back.”

In His Own Words

“I want a Christian nation if only 5% of our population is Christians and somehow we’re the ones who control the reins of power and we pass good and just laws that will benefit the 95% of the population who aren’t converted. I still want that. That’s what I want.”

— April 19, 2023: his terms, offered on Joel Webbon’s podcast between calls to purge “loser theology.”

“If we have ever lived in a point in time in American history since then that we could argue that now is the time to arms again, I think we are getting close.”

— October 21, 2023: his warning at a “Jesus and Politics” conference, delivered while quoting a 1758 militia sermon.

“I don’t care how much they scream. I don’t care how much they cry.”

— January 2026: his defense of ICE deportation raids, given on a Liberty University show.

“I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities.”

— February 14, 2026: his case for mass deportations, made to a room of allies.

“I am going to enforce my morality on you, inasmuch as our morality is God’s morality.”

— March 14, 2026: his sermon at a West Virginia church, preached three months before his candidate won the SBC presidency.

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The Second Annual European Ethnic Cleansing Conference Looks to Trump for Inspiration

June 3, 2026

On May 30, around 500 far-right activists and their supporters traveled to Porto, Portugal, for the second annual Remigration Summit. Speakers focused on implementing policies of “remigration,” a call for ethnic cleansing which involves the forced removal of immigrants, refugees, and even citizens based on race, ethnicity, or perceived cultural belonging in their respective countries. The conference drew several American speakers and attendees, namely former Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, who oversaw Trump’s mass deportation operation from October 2025 to January 2026. Bovino’s tenure was made infamous by the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two American citizens, by agents under his watch.

The Remigration Summit account on X advertises former Trump Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino as a speaker. From left to right: Italian Andrea Ballarati, Austrian Martin Sellner, American Gregory Bovino, Portuguese Afonso Gonçalves. (Source: X).

“Remigration,” once confined to neo-Nazi and white supremacist circles, has been repackaged as a legitimate policy framework within far-right politics in Europe and the United States. Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) leader Alice Weidel endorsed remigration as policy, the leader of Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (Freedom Party of Austria, FPÖ) called for the “remigration of uninvited strangers,” former Lega per Salvini Premier (League for Salvini Premier) MEP Roberto Vannacci founded Futuro Nazionale (National Future, FN), which calls for the remigration of immigrants “who do not integrate and assimilate,” and the U.S. State Department opened an Office of Remigration while Trump enacts his mass deportation strategy.

Remigration is rooted in the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports a planned “replacement” of white people by politicians and other “elites.” Jews are often targeted as driving this “plan.” Remigration is a series of policy proposals, drafted by Austrian Identitarian and “former” neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, to end the so-called “replacement” by purging the continent of non-white people and eliminating all forms of multiculturalism. The goal is to make countries “European again.” Believers in the conspiracy theory have committed several acts of targeted mass violence against Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ+ people, Black people, and others. The Christchurch, N.Z., mosque shooter, who murdered 51 Muslims in 2019, donated €1,500 to the Austrian Identitarian movement and exchanged a series of friendly emails with Sellner.

The conference was organized by the European white nationalist Identitarian movement, namely Afonso Gonçalves, founder and president of the Portuguese Identitarian movement Reconquista (Reconquest). Among its sponsors were the American-based White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), Identitarian media organization Filmkunstkollektiv (Film Art Collective), Reconquista, Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat (Youth Action), French Identitarian organization Polémia, the Institute for Remigration (IFR), Deutschland Kurier (Germany Courier), and counter/cut. In the closing address, Belgian Identitarian Dries van Langenhove mentions an anonymous “Catholic and American” benefactor “who rightfully believes that we are all united in this struggle as Europeans.”

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A list of the event’s sponsors includes several Identitarian organizations, such as the American-based White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), neo-Nazi Swiss group Junge Tat (Youth Action), and Sellner’s newly founded Institute for Remigration (IFR). (Source: Remigration Summit).

Speakers Celebrate Trump As “Proof” Remigration Can Happen

This year’s Remigration Summit was dedicated solely to making remigration a reality transnationally, with the United States viewed as “proof” that their ethnic cleansing aspirations are possible.

Speaking on the similarities between the goals of the European far right and the Trump administration, retired Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol Gregory Bovino made it clear they share the same ethnic cleansing aspirations, saying “that problem [immigration] is the same in the United States as it is in Europe.” The difference is, according to Bovino, that the United States elected a president who campaigned on remigration: “80 million people voted for remigration. As we say in the U.S., mass deportations.” As a result, remigration has been “proof tested” by the United States and can now be done in Europe. Bovino’s speech, which received a standing ovation from the conference’s attendees, demonstrated how the European far right is inspired by Trump’s mass deportation operation in pursuing their own goal of remigration across the continent. Bovino claimed to have conversations with Sellner about their ideas, which “mirror each other,” and offered himself as help to others in the audience in case they needed advice on how to conduct mass deportation operations.

Gregory Bovino speaks to the Remigration Summit attendees about the shared goals of the American and European far right. (Source: Remigration Summit).

American Cyan Quinn of the White Papers Policy Institute spoke for the second time in as many years at the Remigration Summit. While she focused on the economics of remigration in last year’s event, this year she explored how she believes remigration can help return traditional gender roles to white people in the United States and Europe. She opened her address with a quote by former U.S. Representative Steve King (R-IA), in which he said “We can’t restore our civilization with someone else’s babies.” Quinn clearly believes that white women need to have more babies to halt the “Great Replacement” (pro-natalism is a core tenet of the conspiracy theory), and this is hindered by institutions encouraging women, in Quinn’s words, “to take positions they may not even want,” such as in law enforcement and on company boards. Instead, women should stay out of the workforce, get married, and have more children. Regarding foreigners, Quinn believes “remigration creates optimism.” She cited Trump’s 2016 election victory as an optimistic sign for white people, as, according to her, the following years saw decreased Hispanic birth rates, while non-Hispanic birth rates increased (this earned an applause from the audience). As she closed out her address, Quinn said “Diversity undermines continuity,” meaning she believes having non-white people in her country undermines white people’s existence.

Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC), which endorsed the Remigration Summit last year, used his allotted time to attack Muslims living in New York. He cited “feminist politicians wear[ing] a hijab on TV,” “40 percent of New Yorkers speak[ing] a language at home other than English,” and “the anti-American radical Islamic migrant mayor Zohran Mamdani” as reasons remigration is necessary. Forte frames diversity as an existential crisis, saying “this is no longer about politics…this is about survival.” The solution for Forte, aside from remigration, is to place his faith in Trump, who he believes “is responsible for the emergence of the new right throughout the world” and called Trump “our champion.” The Nouvelle Droite, French for “New Right,” describes an emerging Identitarian movement which began in the late 1960s.

Joey Mannarino, a MAGA influencer speaking on the Remigration Summit’s influencer panel, used his time to encourage the audience to “get the freaking people who don’t belong in Europe and America out of these countries” and “preserve western civilization.” He claims, “remigration is actually a very moderate solution” (“moderate solution” is a term used by the far right to denote the existence of a more extreme, and often violent, method to achieving their goals), and that migrants are “engaged in a war against us [white people].”

The Remigration Summit was hosted by Portugual’s Manuel Morgado, a local coordinator for Students For Liberty, an American youth libertarian organization.

The Next Phase of Identitarian Organizing

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The end goal of IFR is to translate metapolitical victories (such as making remigration a mainstream term) into political action, which Sellner describes as “gather[ing] the remigration vote.” The IFR will “reward” politicians who embrace remigration, and “punish” those who do not. The Institute for Remigration is clearly an Identitarian project, with Sellner as its CEO and former IB Vienna leader Philipp Huemer as its Managing Director.}:

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These articles bear a close resemblance to Sellner’s remigration policy proposal, which begins with expelling asylum seekers from Europe and finishes with eliminating “parallel societies” (i.e., non-white communities). Save Europe Act’s first signers include politicians and influencers from around Europe, with a few from the United States, such as MAGA influencers Joey Mannarino and Jack Posobiec. Other notable signatories are Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, Manuel Corchia of the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat, and leader of Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland (German Identitarian Movement, IBD) Maximilian Märkl. The website’s Imprint page shows the initiative is represented by Vincenzo Richter, the chairman of Identitäre Bewegung Saxony.}:

Some of the first signers of the Save Europe Act are prominent politicians, such Rupert Lowe, Bjorn Hocke, Lidewij de Vos, and Roberto Vannacci. (Source: Save Europe Act).

Louise Garnier, leader of the right-wing student organization l’Union nationale inter-universitaire (National Inter-University Union, UNI), announced the launch of a “new French national Identitarian movement,” to be made official in a few weeks. Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity, GI), the previous French national Identitarian movement, was dissolved by the French government in 2021 for “inciting hate, violence or discriminations of individuals based on origins, race or religion.”

Full List of Speakers

Austria: Martin Sellner (Institute for Remigration, Identitäre Bewegung Österreich)

Belgium: Dries van Lagenhove (Schild & Vrienden)

Canada: Daniel Tyrie (Dominion Society of Canada)

France: Louise Garnier (UNI), Jean-Yves Le Gallou (Polémia)

Germany: Björn Höcke (AfD), Lena Kotré (AfD), Maximilian Märkl (Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland)

Italy: Andrea Ballarati (Giovani Identitari), Lorenzo Caccialupi (Influencer), Roberto Vannacci (Futuro Nazionale)

Netherlands: Lidewij De Vos (FvD), Matthias Victorian (Code Victorian), Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Portugal: Afonso Gonçalves (Reconquista), Manuel Morgado (Students for Liberty)

Slovakia: Milan Mazurek (Republika)

Spain: Rocio De Meer (VOX)

Switzerland: Manuel Corchia (Junge Tat)

United Kingdom: Angloid (Influencer), Lucy White (Restore Britain), Sammy Woodhouse (Restore Britain)

United States: Stefano Forte (New York Young Republican Club), Joey Mannarino (MAGA Influencer), Cyan Quinn (White Papers Policy Institute)

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05/20/2026

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Peter Montgomery

At a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday morning, Rep. Clay Fuller (R-GA) may have unwittingly revealed a basic truth about recent right-wing attacks on the Southern Poverty Law Center: they are part of a broader authoritarian assault by the Trump regime on civil rights groups and the progressive community, or in Rep. Fuller’s words, “this nonprofit-industrial complex that is seeking to destroy our country each and every day.”

The press conference was a prelude to the House Judiciary Committee hearing in which Republicans accused the SPLC of “manufacturing hate.” Speaking to a handful of right-wing media outlets were representatives of right-wing organizations complaining about having been designated as hate groups or included in extremism reporting by the Southern Poverty Law Center, including the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, and Awake Illinois. Joining them was right-wing journalist Tyler O’Neil, author of an anti-SPLC book.

Before the event started, a correspondent for the Real America’s Voice network could be heard falsely telling listeners that SPLC had “staged” the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a claim commonly heard in right-wing propaganda promoting and going well beyond the claims in the Justice Department’s bogus indictment of the SPLC for using paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

Speaking for the Family Research Council was its executive vice president Jerry Boykin, who falsely claimed that SPLC’s hate map is based on “no criteria” except what might help make money for the group. In reality, whether or not you agree with any particular designation SPLC makes, you can find their reasoning on the website—for example, its report on FRC’s demonization of LGBTQ people and more.

While most of the speakers complained that there were dire consequences for being placed on SPLC’s hate map, the representative of TPUSA’s George Washington University chapter was a bit off-message, dismissing it as a “silly little map” and vowing that his group would not be intimidated by the “lunatic left.”

At the hearing itself—the second one focused on the SPLC—Republican members of the Judiciary Committee trotted out expected claims about SPLC’s paid informants being used to “manufacture hate” and to allege that the SPLC smears Christians and “good pro-family organizations,” in Rep. Jim Jordan’s words. Reflecting that level of discourse was Rep. Glenn Grothman, who sighed, “They just hate Christianity, don’t they?” Rep. Michael Baumgartner said he had favorable memories of the SPLC playing a role in helping people in eastern Washington respond to an Aryan Nations compound, but he charged that the group has now become “an almost militant weaponized arm of a progressive Marxist political project.”

Right-wing witnesses also made clear that their goal is broader than taking down a single organization. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins argued that investigations should not stop with the SPLC, which he called a “hub,” but should expand to other organizations and companies that made decisions about groups based on their SPLC designations—the “spokes.” Tyler O’Neil, a reporter at The Daily Signal, which started as the Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary platform, called for a broader investigation of SPLC “and its offshoots,” naming specifically the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which was started by a former SPLC staffer.

Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, portrayed the DOJ prosecution as outrageous political persecution, in the memorable words of Rep. Lucy McBath, “charges so flimsy they would make Bull Connor and George Wallace blush.”

While Republicans suggested that the SPLC was somehow responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, several Democrats noted that before the Unite the Right rally, the SPLC gave the FBI a 45-page dossier warning that violence could erupt, and that SPLC had also shared information from informants that led to the conviction of members of the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division.

Committee Democrats also effectively used some of their time to focus on the scandalous corruption revealed this week: the DOJ’s creation of a nearly two billion dollar slush fund for the president to dole out to insurrectionists and other allies; and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s apparently related agreement in connection to Trump’s bogus lawsuit against the IRS to drop any current audits or investigations and grant a permanent blanket of immunity for any wrongdoing by Trump, his family, or their massive business networks at any time in the past. Rep. Raskin moved for the committee to subpoena administration officials involved in the creation of the slush fund, but Republicans voted to table his motion.

More than one Democratic member of Congress referred to Monday’s shooting at a San Diego mosque, in which teenagers who bonded online over white supremacist hatred killed three people before killing themselves, as evidence that far-right violent extremism deserves more attention from the committee.

Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was the witness called by Democrats. She delivered a powerful opening statement calling the campaign against the SPLC part of “a coordinated attack on civil rights non-profits that work to ensure voters can vote, children can learn history, and unions can protect workers,” and she deftly responded to GOP members’ often ridiculous questions. Here’s more from her opening statement:

But this case and today’s hearing aren’t about how to protect people from violent hate and extremist groups or better understand how we can prevent hate and bias. They are about using the powers of prosecution as a weapon, with the sole aim of stopping speech and activities that this administration dislikes and denying the real threats that we should all be concerned about.

In the past year, we have seen countless examples of this weaponization. This administration is coercing law firms, universities, and media companies. It is threatening to brand advocates as “domestic terrorists.” It is cutting off billions in federal grants to non-profits that do important work to track and prevent hate and bias. It is letting law enforcement off the hook for systemic misconduct that violates rights of people who need protection. It is letting violence and even extrajudicial killings by federal agents go unpunished. In all of this and more, the President has not even tried to hide his motives. And for the past year, he has also been open about his willingness to weaponize criminal law. So cases like this were inevitable. And our concern is that no organization seen as dissenting from administration policy, large or small, will ultimately be safe. …

Each year, the SPLC issues a report on hate and extremism in our country. This report is so important because it tracks organizations promoting the ideologies that brought us the Charlottesville riot that left Heather Heyer dead, and the massacres at the Tree of Life synagogue, the Emanuel AME church, and the El Paso Walmart. It is sadly part of the reason SPLC is being targeted. It is uncomfortable for an administration that has backed away from and cut grants for tracking white nationalism, which the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration defined as our greatest domestic threat.

The SPLC is far too busy fighting hate to “manufacture” it. You don’t have to like or agree with all of its strategies for doing so. But the fact that SPLC is now being criminally charged for its work only shows how much more work it has to do.

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Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.

Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and decentralized networks to recruit, radicalize and prepare members for racist violence. The clubs commonly use encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram, Wire and Matrix to coordinate internally. For broader propaganda and outreach they rely on alternative social media platforms such as Gab, Odysee, VK and sometimes BitChute. They also selectively use mainstream sites such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok, until those sites ban the clubs.

Active Club members have been implicated in orchestrating and distributing neo-Nazi recruitment videos and manifestos. In late 2023, for instance, two Ontario men, Kristoffer Nippak and Matthew Althorpe, were arrested and charged with distributing materials for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division and the transnational terrorist group Terrorgram. Following their arrests, Active Club Canada’s public network went dark, Telegram pages were deleted or rebranded, and the club went virtually silent. Nippak was granted bail under strict conditions, while Althorpe remains in custody.As a sociologist studying extremism and white supremacy since 1993, I have watched the movement shift from formal organizations to small, decentralized cells – a change embodied most clearly by Active Clubs.

IFrame Content An investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tracks down two Ontario-based Active Clubs that recruit and train young men to fight.

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According to private analysts who track far-right extremist activities, the Active Club network has a core membership of 400 to 1,200 white men globally, plus sympathizers, online supporters and passive members. The clubs mainly target young white men in their late teens and twenties. Since 2020, Active Clubs have expanded rapidly across the United States, Canada and Europe, including the U.K., France, Sweden and Finland. Precise numbers are hard to verify, but the clubs appear to be spreading, according to The Counter Extremism Project

, the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and my own research. The clubs reportedly operate in at least 25 U.S. states, and potentially as many as 34

. Active U.S. chapters reportedly increased from 49 in 2023 to 78 in 2025. The clubs’ rise reflects a broader shift in white supremacist strategy, away from formal organizations and social movements. In 2020, American neo-Nazi Robert Rundo introduced the concept of “White Nationalism 3.0

” – a decentralized, branded and fitness-based approach to extremist organizing. Rundo previously founded the Rise Above Movement, which was a violent, far-right extremist group in the U.S. known for promoting white nationalist ideology, organizing street fights and coordinating through social media. The organization carried out attacks at protests and rallies from 2016 through 2018. Active Clubs embed their ideology within apolitical activities such as martial arts and weightlifting

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An actor reconstructs how British broadcaster ITV News infiltrated and secretly filmed inside Active Club England, documenting its recruiting process, activities and goals.}:

‘You need to learn how to fight’

Active Club messaging glorifies discipline, masculinity and strength – a “warrior identity” designed to attract young men. “The active club is not so much a structural organization as it is a lifestyle for those willing to work, risk and sweat to embody our ideals for themselves and to promote them to others,” Rundo explained via his Telegram channel. “They never were like, ‘You need to learn how to fight so you can beat up people of color.’ It was like, ‘You need to learn how to fight because people want to kill you in the future,’” a former Active Club member told Vice News in 2023.These cells are deliberately small – often under a dozen members – and self-contained, which gives them greater operational security and flexibility. Each club operates semi-autonomously while remaining connected to the broader ideology and digital network.

Expanding globally and deepening ties

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While publicly presenting as fitness groups, they may collaborate with white supremacist groups on recruitment, training, propaganda or public events. Figures connected to accelerationist groups – organizations that seek to create social chaos and societal collapse that they believe will lead to a race war and the destruction of liberal democracy – played a role in founding the Active Club network. Along with the Rise Above Movement, they include Atomwaffen Division and another neo-Nazi group, The Base – organizations that repackage violent fascism to appeal to disaffected young white men in the U.S.}:

Brotherhood as a cover

By downplaying explicit hate symbols and emphasizing strength and preparedness, Active Clubs appeal to a new generation of recruits who may not initially identify with overt racism but are drawn to a culture of hypermasculinity and self-improvement.Anyone can start a local Active Club chapter with minimal oversight. This autonomy makes it hard for law enforcement agencies to monitor the groups and helps the network grow rapidly. Shared branding and digital propaganda maintain ideological consistency.

Through this approach, Active Clubs have built a transnational network of echo chambers, recruitment pipelines and paramilitary-style training in parks and gyms.Club members engage in activities such as combat sports training, propaganda dissemination and ideological conditioning. Fight sessions are often recorded and shared online as recruitment tools.Members distribute flyers, stickers and online content to spread white supremacist messages. Active Clubs embed themselves in local communities by hosting events, promoting physical fitness, staging public actions and sharing propaganda. Potential members first see propaganda on encrypted apps such as Telegram or on social media. The clubs recruit in person at gyms, protests and local events, vetting new members to ensure they share the group’s beliefs and can be trusted to maintain secrecy.

From fringe to functioning network

Based on current information from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, there are 187 active chapters within the Active Club Network across 27 countries – a 25% increase from late 2023. The Crowd Counting Consortium documented 27 protest events involving Active Clubs in 2022-2023. However, precise membership numbers remain difficult to ascertain. Some groups call themselves “youth clubs” but share similar ideas and aesthetics and engage in similar activities. Active Club members view themselves as defenders of Western civilization and masculine virtue. From their perspective, their activities represent noble resistance rather than hate. Members are encouraged to stay secretive, prepare for societal collapse and build a network of committed, fit men ready to act through infiltration, activism or violence.

Hiding in plain sight

Law enforcement agencies, researchers and civil society now face a new kind of domestic threat that wears workout clothes instead of uniforms.Active Clubs work across international borders, bound by shared ideas and tactics and a common purpose. This is the new white nationalism: decentralized, modernized, more agile and disguised as self-improvement. What appears to be a harmless workout group may be a gateway to violent extremism, one pushup at a time.

Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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07/23/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

A new Wall Street Journal report said the president's name "appeared multiple times" in the Jeffrey Epstein files — and he was told that during a briefing.

Forget about putting “everything out there and let the people decide it.” That was last week.

First Lady Brigitte Macron is suing right-wing firebrand Candace Owens for a “relentless and unjustified smear campaign” that alleges Macron is secretly a man.

Ryan Walters' far-right curriculum changes are getting snubbed by publishers who refuse to rewrite history.

Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents.

On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a post on Twitter alleging “the most powerful people in the Obama administration,” including former President Barack Obama, were involved in a “years-long coup” and a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump. Her post quickly went viral, amassing over 13 million views over the weekend, and galvanized the online fringe to fantasize about violence against their political enemies. Trump fanned Gabbard’s flames, sharing a racist AI-generated video of Obama being arrested on Truth Social, which Trump owns.

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07/18/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

The Wall Street Journal published its highly anticipated story on the relationship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, and Trump is already threatening to sue.

Republicans have gone into total meltdown over allegations that President Donald Trump sent a spicy letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a drawing of a nude woman.

The president denied a Wall Street Journal report alleging he had sent a salacious birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

Why does the House speaker think the president’s approval rating is “skyrocketing”? Because from his perspective, Democrats literally don’t count.

Robert Burns won a coin flip to become mayor—and he's turned a neutral office into a pulpit for his right-wing religion.

John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.

On January 6, 2021, Christian flags, wooden crosses, and “Jesus Saves” signs mingled with pro-Trump banners as insurrectionists, inspired by a buzzing undercurrent of religion and outrage, reacted with violence and stormed the U.S. Capitol.

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Trump’s nominee for D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, and Donald Trump’s Department of Justice more broadly, are taking cues from right-wing influencers — allowing some of the loudest media figures on the right to influence significant decisions, including who gets fired from the DOJ and who and what gets investigated.

It’s the latest way in which Trump’s DOJ has shirked its duty to uphold even the appearance of independence from the White House, and from Trump’s allies and friends in the right-wing social media sphere who have their own political agendas.

“It’s unprecedented for government officials to take direction or suggestions from highly polarized people and act on it within our government, especially when we’re talking about the DOJ,” Wendy Via, president and co-founder of The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said in an interview with TPM. “It eradicates all the DOJ is supposed to be — independent, for justice.”

Most recently, Martin — who has been serving in the role to which he was nominated in an acting capacity since January — targeted a former DOJ prosecutor who was a part of Special Counsel Robert Muller’s team, Aaron Zelinsky, with a letter alleging Zelinsky had somehow intentionally “sent an innocent man to jail.” The most striking part of the letter, though, was that a section of it was pulled directly, without attribution, from an old article on a website run by investigative journalist-turned-MAGA-aligned conspiracy theorist John Solomon.

As Mother Jones points out in a recent report on the letter of inquiry to Zelinsky, Martin’s letter includes a portion that appears to be fully lifted from a 2020 article from “Just the News,” a right-wing outlet started by Solomon.

Solomon started Just the News in 2020 after publishing a series of articles for The Hill highlighting claims by Trump allies who, at the time, were attempting to conjure up allegations of a corruption scheme involving Joe Biden and Ukraine — an effort that eventually led to Trump’s first impeachment in the House during his previous administration.

The April 14 letter accuses Zelinksky of making “false statements” that aided in sending “an innocent man to jail in an attempt to advance the false narrative that the campaign of a serving President had colluded with Russia to win the presidency,” according to Mother Jones‘ reporting. This is a reference to right-wing conspiracy theories that emerged around Trump ally George Papadopoulos’s prosecution.

Just The News did not respond to TPM’s request for comment.

Then in March, the White House appears to have taken a cue from right-wing political activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, firing a career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles without reason.

The prosecutor, Adam Schleifer, had been working on a case against the founder of Fatburger, Andrew Wiederhorn, who, according to the New York Times, was a donor to political action committees that have supported Trump.

Right before Schleifer’s dismissal, though, Loomer posted on X, sharing screenshots of old posts where Schleifer had been critical of Trump. “Why is Biden holdover @AdamSchleiferNY Adam Schleifer still working for the US Attorney’s office under the new Trump administration? He is a Trump hater who has been working at the US Attorney’s office since 2021,” she wrote. “Fire him. He supported the impeachment of President Trump and said he wanted to repeal Trump’s tax plan.”

And in February of this year, Denise Cheung, who was in charge of the criminal division of the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned from her post after refusing to comply with an order from Martin to open a grand jury investigation into Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency grants. The only known evidence that Martin had to support this order for both an investigation and a potential asset freeze was a 5-minute video clip from a right-wing conspiracy theory website, Project Veritas.

The Project Veritas video clip purported to show a former Biden-era EPA employee talking about distributing climate specific funding to non-profit organizations ahead of the start of the Trump administration.

“When I explained that the quantum of evidence did not support that action, you stated that you believed that there was sufficient evidence,” wrote Cheung in her resignation letter to Martin. “As I shared with you, at this juncture, based upon the evidence I have reviewed, I still do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to issue the letter you described, including sufficient evidence to tell the bank that there is probable cause to seize the particular accounts identified.”

Via, from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, called the DOJ’s reliance on right-wing influencers and conspiracy theorists “incredibly bizarre.”

“Of all of our agencies, the DOJ, and then of course under that the FBI, are supposed to be the most independent, the least affected by politics,” she added. “When I say it’s unprecedented, I don’t even know what other words to use, because it is so antithetical to who America is.”

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On Telegram, a Violent Preview of What May Unfold on Election Day and After

Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging followers to watch the polls and stand up for their rights, in a harbinger of potential chaos.

Telegram played a small but significant role in the 2020 election as an organizing tool for planners of the Jan. 6 attack.Credit...Jason Andrew for The New York Times

By Paul MozurAdam SatarianoAaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers

Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers analyzed more than 1 million posts from election skeptics and right-wing extremist groups on Telegram.

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Groups backing former President Donald J. Trump recently sent messages to organize poll watchers to be ready to dispute votes in Democratic areas. Some posted images of armed men standing up for their rights to recruit for their cause. Others spread conspiracy theories that anything less than a Trump victory on Tuesday would be a miscarriage of justice worthy of revolt.

“The day is fast approaching when fence sitting will no longer be possible,” read one post from an Ohio chapter of the Proud Boys, the far-right organization that was instrumental in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “You will either stand with the resistance or take a knee and willingly accept the yoke of tyranny and oppression.”

The messages were all posted on Telegram, the lightly moderated social media platform with nearly one billion users, which has become a harbinger of the potential actions and chaos that could unfold on Election Day and after. More so than other social apps, Telegram is a prime organizing tool for extremists, who have a tendency to turn digital coordination into real-world action.

A New York Times analysis of more than one million messages across nearly 50 Telegram channels with over 500,000 members found a sprawling and interconnected movement intended to question the credibility of the presidential election, interfere with the voting process and potentially dispute the outcome. Nearly every channel reviewed by The Times was created after the 2020 election, highlighting the growth and increased sophistication of the election denialism movement.

The Times reviewed messages from “election integrity” groups across a dozen states, including battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Michigan. Their posts overwhelmingly spewed disinformation and conspiracy theories and featured violent imagery.

More than 4,000 of their posts went further by encouraging members to act by attending local election meetings, joining protest rallies and making financial donations, the analysis found. Posts from other right-wing groups reviewed by The Times urged followers to be prepared for violence. These calls to action extended the right-wing language typically found on other major social media sites into the physical world.

In New Hampshire, one Telegram channel instructed people to question local officials in person about absentee ballot tallies. In Georgia, followers of a local Telegram channel were urged to attend election board meetings to argue for limits to absentee voting. In New Mexico, people were told to monitor voting stations with cameras, file police reports if necessary and be ready to “fight like hell.”

“If you have ever said, ‘What can I do?,’ this is your opportunity,” said one post from a Telegram group focused on Pennsylvania.

Katherine Keneally, a former intelligence analyst with the New York Police Department, said views shared on Telegram should not be dismissed as the musings of a fringe minority but rather seen as a warning about what could happen on Election Day and beyond.

“Telegram is very often central to actually organizing people to engage in offline activity,” said Ms. Keneally, who now works for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a research firm that monitors Telegram. She recalled attending a meeting in 2022 of election skeptics in Montana, where participants taught one another how to use Telegram. Among more extreme movements, she said, Telegram is used “very strategically to radicalize and recruit.”

In a statement, Telegram, whose founder was arrested in France in August on charges related to the spread of illicit material on the service, said it had ramped up content moderation leading up to the election. The company added that it would cooperate with the authorities to remove “criminal content.”

“Telegram does not tolerate content that encourages disrupting legal democratic processes through violence or destruction of property,” it said.

Telegram played a small but significant role in the 2020 election as an organizing tool for planners of the Jan. 6 attack. Today, its influence is greater and potentially more ominous, according to The Times’s analysis.

Right-wing media channels post a stream of news, memes and misinformation about perceived voting irregularities, which are then picked up by other groups that use them to argue that the Democrats have begun to steal the election. Mixed in are calls for citizens to show up at the polls and to monitor and report irregularities — or fight if necessary.

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Right-wing media channels on Telegram post a stream of disinformation about perceived voting irregularities, which other groups pick up to argue that Democrats have already begun to steal the election.Credit...Bing Guan for The New York Times.

“While other platforms are primarily about self-expression, ‘owning the libs’ and hateful buffoonery, Telegram often generates an ambience of ‘let’s get something done,’” said Paul M. Barrett, the deputy director of the Stern Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University.

The “election integrity” movement on Telegram includes a loose network of accounts devoted to “auditing” the vote and amplifying election malfeasance theories, such as false claims that election workers are giving Republican voters Sharpies that are incompatible with voting machines.

One channel focused on election auditing in New York featured recruitment ads from United Sovereign Americans, which calls itself a national “election validity” advocacy group. One of its lawyers is a former solicitor general of Pennsylvania who defended Mr. Trump during his second impeachment in 2021 after Jan. 6.

Under an image of Uncle Sam and a bold red “WE NEED YOU!” banner, the group recently claimed, without any credible evidence, that 2022 voter records showed “millions of ‘irregularities’ which, when ignored, are election fraud.” Many claims about voter fraud have been debunked. The group did not respond to a request for comment.

Another group, focused on vote auditing in Pennsylvania, offered paid compensation for election monitors but only if they worked in the traditionally Democratic stronghold of Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is.

“Fill out your information, and we’ll contact you to get you trained and ready for Election Day!” the group said.

Another Telegram channel run by a group called the People’s Audit posted a video that offered a “hypothetical situation that is totally possible,” in which the Department of Homeland Security used the driver’s licenses of undocumented immigrants to cast votes en masse for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. The video floated the scenario even though it is illegal and rare for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.

“Yes, they would be engaging in ID theft, election interference and treason, which is punishable by death,” the video concluded.

Kris Jurski, who posted the video, said on Telegram that it had been taken down from X. He said he was grateful that the video had remained on Telegram, which he used later to advertise a webinar teaching people how to secure voter rolls and deter fraud. He did not respond to a request for comment.

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Trump supporters wore attire associated with the Proud Boys — the group’s colors are yellow and black — at a rally in December 2020.Credit...Luis M. Alvarez/Associated Press

Many posts casting doubt on election reliability made their way into the channels of extremist groups like the Proud Boys, which has preferred Telegram to other platforms after being restricted by sites like Facebook, Instagram and X.

The group’s posts questioned why states might not be able to fully tally election results on election night and repeated misleading claims about voter registration numbers in Michigan. In one video, a truck with a Confederate flag chased after immigrant children, with a caption reading: “1/20/25: Trump is sworn in as President. 1/21/25: Me and the Proud Boys begin the deportation.”

“When you look at the postings, even if it’s not actually calling for violence or even if it’s not saying we need to get whoever, there’s a very ugly tone to it,” said Wendy Via, a founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which tracked a 317 percent spike in election denialism on Telegram in October. There was no significant left-wing movement like this, she said.

In recent months, many Telegram channels run by chapters of the Proud Boys have celebrated a return to relevance, including perceived attention from Mr. Trump and his allies. Several accounts pointed to the black-and-yellow ties and hats — which are Proud Boys colors — worn by Mr. Trump in the days before, and the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson during, a recent rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Recent posts on Telegram channels associated with the Proud Boys celebrated a perceived show of support from Mr. Trump.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

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Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, at a recent Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.

Asked whether Mr. Trump had intended to send a signal, a spokeswoman for his campaign responded, “Lol. No.” Mr. Carlson did not respond to a request for comment but posted on X that The Times “knows a Proud Boys necktie when they see one.”

“They feel activated,” said Michael Loadenthal, who researches political violence at the University of Cincinnati, adding that Proud Boys groups had assembled publicly less often than they had before the 2020 election. “There’s a feeling they are in the right.”

Recruitment messages on the public Telegram accounts of various Proud Boys chapters have sought to capitalize on the perils of election fraud, often implying a need for violence. One popular image showed an armed man wearing a balaclava.

“Free men do not obey public servants,” it read.

Another portrayed a tit-for-tat with “leftist Democrats” going back to Mr. Trump’s presidency.

“Enough is enough!” read a part of the post. “Be ready for anything and everything!”

Methodology

The Telegram channels reviewed in this article were provided in part by researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. The Times used software, including large language models, to organize and analyze the posts and to identify messages with calls to action.

A correction was made on Nov. 4, 2024: An earlier version of this article misstated the year in which Katherine Keneally of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue attended a meeting of election skeptics in Montana. It was in 2022, not this year.

When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nytnews@nytimes.com.Learn more

Paul Mozur is the global technology correspondent for The Times, based in Taipei. Previously he wrote about technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. More about Paul Mozur

Adam Satariano is a technology correspondent for The Times, based in London. More about Adam Satariano

Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation and disinformation from San Francisco. Since joining The Times in 1989, he has reported from around the world, including Moscow, Baghdad, Beijing and Seoul. More about Steven Lee Myers

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