Extremists, Groups, & Ideologies
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Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate is a male supremacist social media influencer who rose to prominence in summer 2022 after his most controversial clips went viral on social media. Tate preaches that women are men’s property and are fundamentally inferior to men. He is currently facing charges for rape and human trafficking in Romania. About Andrew Tate Andrew…
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Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights. The organization’s online Daily Citizen demonizes LGBTQ+ people, claiming they are unnatural and un-Christian, and promotes anti-trans pseudoscience, such as conversion therapy that seeks to change their sexual or gender identities of LGBTQ youth.…
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Blood Tribe
Blood Tribe is a white supremacist group with chapters in multiple states whose members stage brash, theatrical demonstrations using explicit Nazi imagery. Wearing their trademark black-and-red outfits and waving swastika flags, members of Blood Tribe have staged rallies in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Dakota and Pennsylvania since the group’s founding in 2022. While Blood…
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Michael Brown
Michael Brown is not typical of most who push the idea that a cabal of liberal media elites have orchestrated a so-called “homosexual agenda” to indoctrinate children into a lifestyle that makes a mockery of Christian values.
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Christian Supremacy
Christian supremacy is the idea that Christians have the God-given right or duty to rule, govern and control society, culture and politics. Those who espouse Christian supremacist theologies or ideas understand “Christian” in a very limited sense. Christians who do not agree with supremacist claims are often cast as part of the larger “enemy,” against…
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Neo-Völkisch
Born out of an atavistic defiance of modernity and rationalism, present-day neo-Völkisch, or Folkish, adherents and groups are organized around ethnocentricity and archaic notions of gender.
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Antigovernment General
Antigovernment groups are part of the antidemocratic hard-right movement. They believe the federal government is tyrannical, and they traffic in conspiracy theories about an illegitimate government of leftist elites seeking a “New World Order.” In addition to groups that generally espouse these ideas, the movement is composed of sovereign citizens, militias, overt conspiracy propagandists and…
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Veterans on Patrol
Veterans on Patrol (VOP) is an antigovernment militia located in Pima County, Arizona. The founder, Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer, is a Christian nationalist who rallies hard-right extremists and conspiracy theorists around the issue of immigration and encourages vigilantism.
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Antisemitism
Antisemitic hate groups seek to racialize Jewish people and vilify them as the manipulative puppet masters behind an economic, political and social scheme to undermine white people. Antisemitism also undergirds much of the far right, unifying adherents across various extremist ideologies around efforts to subvert and misconstrue the collective suffering of Jewish people in the Holocaust and…
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Constitutional Sheriffs
The origins of constitutional sheriff ideology lie in the two concepts of the county supremacy movement: The county – not the state or federal governments – should control all land within its borders, and the county sheriff should be the ultimate law enforcement authority in the U.S. These ideas were pioneered by Christian Identity minister…