Extremists, Groups, & Ideologies

Matt Walsh is a blogger and talk show host for the Daily Wire website. He frequently demonizes LGBTQ+ people and promotes racist and anti-transgender conspiracy theories. Walsh leads a campaign against gender-affirming health care that has targeted American hospitals with harassment and has advocated executing doctors who provide health care to transgender people. Walsh is…

Lydia Brimelow is the publisher of the white nationalist website VDARE.com and the president of the VDARE Foundation.

James Lindsay has quickly become a leading voice in the reactionary anti-student inclusion, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracy propaganda movements.

Understanding the Threat is the group that anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and former FBI agent John Guandolo, who now promotes himself as an independent national security expert, uses to run his Islamophobic training programs and other activities.

ProEnglish is the project of white nationalist and eugenicist John Tanton, the architect of the modern-day anti-immigrant movement. The group pushes for divisive and unnecessary measures to designate English as the official language of the United States.

Moms for Liberty is a far-right organization that engages in anti-student inclusion activities and self-identifies as part of the modern parental rights movement. The group grew out of opposition to public health regulations for COVID-19, opposes LGBTQ+ and racially inclusive school curriculum, and has advocated books bans.

Founded in 1987 by Bradley Smith, the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) has promoted and published antisemitic and revisionist conspiracy theories under the guise of intellectual authenticity and free speech.

Paul Elam is the founder of A Voice for Men, one of the most prominent and influential men’s rights activist (MRA) websites. Elam preaches that feminism has created a gynocentric society where women are favored at the expense of men. He has used his website to promote violent rhetoric against feminists and women in general.

The Nationalist Social Club, or NSC-131, is a neo-Nazi group based in New England whose activities consist of staging protests and distributing hate literature.

KrisAnne Hall is an antigovernment lawyer and activist in Florida who describes herself as a “constitutional attorney.” Hall runs a business called Constitutional Education and Consulting and travels the country preaching that U.S. citizens do not need to comply with the government. She also heads a non-profit that assists people who believe the government has…