Extremists, Groups, & Ideologies

Gays Against Groomers is a chapter-based organization that amplifies dehumanizing anti-trans rhetoric, perpetuates anti-LGBTQ+ stereotypes by falsely claiming that LGBTQ+ supporters of trans rights are dangerous to society – including equating gender-affirming health care with pedophilia and calling trans people a “bloodthirsty terrorist cult.” It directs online harassment and intimidation campaigns targeting LGBTQ+ people and…

Chaya Raichik is the founder of the social media account @LibsofTikTok (LTT) who helped revive in right-wing propaganda the anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” slur, which implies that all LGBTQ+ people are pedophiles. She spreads the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory that “groomers” have infiltrated every social institution with the intent of “sexualizing” children. Under the LTT pseudonym, Raichik originally…

Faith Education Commerce, also known as FEC United, is an antigovernment group with its own militia that uses violent rhetoric when talking about public officials, propagates conspiracy theories and hosts and participates in activities related to disinformation and anti-democracy.

Tucker Carlson is a veteran television personality who emerged in 2016 as one of the most influential figures of the authoritarian, anti-democracy, right-wing movement that rose to prominence around the political career of former President Donald J. Trump. Carlson’s propaganda, which obsessively portrays white men as being victims of a corrupt, feminist, multicultural system, often…

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.