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A title that seems well justified by the ubiquitous presence of his columns in racist forums and his influence over the general direction of right-wing extremism. In recent years and until his death in 2005, he served as chief editor of Citizens Informer , the newsletter of the Council of...

Willis Carto

Although at one time he had access to leading politicians, Carto eventually became infamous for his pro-Nazi and rabidly anti-Jewish views and lost those connections. In 1978, he founded the first major American Holocaust-denial outfit, the Institute for Historical Review . Throughout his career,...

Ronald Doggett

He had his own cable TV hate program in the 1990s and has led several racist protests over the years in his hometown of Richmond, Va. A long-time and dedicated admirer of former Klansman David Duke, Doggett heads the Virginia chapter of the European American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), a...

David Lane

A member of the terrorist group The Order, which was responsible for the 1984 assassination of Jewish radio host Alan Berg and many other crimes, Lane became even more of a movement icon after penning what rapidly became the best-known slogan of the U.S. white supremacist movement, the so-called "...

Kevin DeAnna

Kevin DeAnna’s Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) – a far-right youth organization that he ran from 2006 to 2012 – served as the institutional basis for the web-savvy white nationalist movement that would come to be known as the “alt-right.” While DeAnna faded from the public eye in 2012 after...

Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow’s career as an anti-immigrant proponent spans three decades. He’s been one of the leading voices in the movement since the mid-1990s. The former Forbes editor and National Review columnist founded VDARE in 1999, and the site soon became a haven for anti-immigrant and white...

Edgar Steele

Since losing that case (and penning a 2002 coming-out essay entitled, "It's the Jews, Stupid!!!"), Steele has become a regular on the anti-Semitic and racist circuit. Steele envisions a future race war in the U.S., with white Americans forced to retreat to the Northwest. In his own words "To the...

Hal Turner

At the same time, he worked as an informant for the FBI between 2003 and 2007, providing information on white supremacist groups for the same government he frequently railed against. On his radio show, Turner has ranted about "bull-dyke lesbians," "savage Negro beasts," "f------," and even joked...

Jean-Philippe Rushton

In His Own Words: “Whites have, on average, more neurons and cranial size than blacks… Blacks have an advantage in sport because they have narrower hips — but they have narrower hips because they have smaller brains.” --J. Philippe Rushton, speaking at the 2000 American Renaissance conference “...

Jamie Kelso

Kelso joined the neo-Nazi group National Alliance in 2003. He then spent two years living in former Klan leader David Duke ’s house while working as his personal assistant, all the while serving as a moderator for hate web guru Don Black ’s forum, Stormfront . In 2010, Kelso joined the racist...

Kevin MacDonald

MacDonald also argues that anti-Semitism, far from being an irrational hatred for Jews, is a logical reaction to Jewish success in societies controlled by other ethnic or racial groups. After the publication of a 2007 Intelligence Report exposé detailing MacDonald's anti-Semitism, his teaching...

Kevin Lamb

In His Own Words: “This [New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina] is a racial tale in black and white. Once again, despite the deluge of negative images of whites and positive images of blacks emanating from Hollywood, media images from the real world feed into implicit stereotypes of whites as...

Tomislav Sunić

He is a prolific writer, a former radio host and a fixture on the radical-right speaking circuit, having addressed Klansmen, neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and neo-Confederates, among others. In His Own Words: “While it is a commonplace for White Europeans and Americans to critically talk in private...

Garrett Hardin

Hardin used his status as a famous scientist and environmentalist to provide a veneer of intellectual and moral legitimacy for his underlying nativist agenda, serving on the board of directors of both the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform and the white-nationalist Social...

Charles Murray

According to Murray, disadvantaged groups are disadvantaged because, on average, they cannot compete with white men, who are intellectually, psychologically and morally superior. Murray advocates the total elimination of the welfare state, affirmative action and the Department of Education, arguing...

Barbara Coe

Named to the OC Weekly 's "Bob Dornan Scary Orange County Hall of Fame" in 2011, Barbara Coe was known for her diatribes against Mexican “savages” and her wild conspiracy theories, including what she describes as a secret Mexican plan to “reconquer” the American Southwest and a shadowy “New World...

Kyle Rogers

Rogers heads the South Carolina chapter of the CCC, one of the group’s most active U.S. chapters; serves on the CCC’s national board of directors; ran its national website until June of 2015; and has served as editor-in-chief of Citizens Informer , the hard-copy magazine mailed to members and...

Kyle Bristow

The pugnacious college student also spearheaded anti-immigrant and anti-gay campaigns organized by Young Americans for Freedom, prompting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to take the unusual step of listing the campus club as a hate group. In His Own Words: “Trump’s Wall is humanitarian...

William Shockley

Despite having no training whatsoever in genetics, biology or psychology, Shockley devoted the last decades of his life to a quixotic struggle to prove that black Americans were suffering from “dysgenesis,” or “retrogressive evolution,” and advocated replacing the welfare system with a “Voluntary...

Richard Lynn

For 50 years, Richard Lynn has been at the forefront of scientific racism. An unapologetic eugenicist, Lynn uses his authority as professor (emeritus) of psychology at the University of Ulster to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people. Lynn believes that IQ tests can be used to...

Arthur Jensen

Jensen promoted eugenics as the only practical solution to the problems facing the black community, arguing that they lacked the intelligence necessary for compensatory education programs to be successful. His ability to repackage fringe racial theories in the dry, dispassionate rhetoric of science...

Jared Taylor

Taylor is the founder of the New Century Foundation and edited its now-discontinued American Renaissance magazine, which, despite its pseudo-academic polish, regularly published proponents of eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists. After the last print issue of American Renaissance...

Raymond Cattell

He also spent decades working to develop and promote a “scientific religion,” Beyondism, which was based on eugenic ideology and an obsession with “competition” between racial groups. Cattell was an early supporter of National Socialism and adherent of Nazi racial theories, which he continued to...

Paul Ray Ramsey

A scathing critic of “cultural Marxism” — once an actual school of socialist thought but now a bogeyman to radical rightists who see it as a secret conspiracy to destroy Western society from within — Paul Ramsey is a white nationalist who posts Internet videos of himself talking to the camera under...

John de Nugent

De Nugent has run for elected office, and has even vowed to one day become president. While maintaining racist views about numerous racial and ethnic groups, de Nugent is particularly anti-Semitic, believing that the Jews are, along with nefarious space aliens, intent on exterminating the Aryan...

Richard Bertrand Spencer

In his own words “We’re going to be back here, and we’re going to humiliate all of these people who opposed us. We’ll be back here 1,000 times if necessary. I always win. Because I have the will to win, I keep going until I win.” — Interview with DailyMail.com, several days after the 2017 “Unite...

Don Black

While the site remains popular in racist circles today, Black came under criticism in 2008 from other white supremacists for toning down its offensive content and for the claimed renunciation of racism made by his wife, Chloe Black, to a reporter. In his own words "The people that visit Stormfront...

Virginia Abernethy

A longtime associate of such hate groups as the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), Abernethy stepped onto the national stage in 2012 as the vice presidential candidate for the racist American Third Position ticket. Her CCC ties drew widespread condemnation of her role as...

William Daniel Johnson

As early as 1985, Johnson proposed a constitutional amendment that would revoke the American citizenship of every nonwhite inhabitant of the United States. A quarter century later, in 2010, he was still actively supporting white nationalist causes, serving as chairman of the racist American Third...

Gordon Baum

Baum supported former Klan boss David Duke in his bid to be the governor of Louisiana, and his organization became more openly racist after being "outed" in a 1998/1999 political scandal, when it was revealed that then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) had spoken at the group's meetings...

Henry Harpending

Harpending is most famous for his book, co-authored with frequent collaborator Gregory Cochran, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution , which argues that humans are evolving at an accelerating rate, and that this began when the ancestors of modern Europeans and...

Matthew Heimbach

Following his graduation in the spring of 2013, Towson University’s White Student Union was folded into the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), a white nationalist organization that cloaked itself in “traditionalism” that was founded by Heimbach and his father-in-law, Matthew Parrott. TYN later...

David Duke

He is also known for his avid pursuit of women and, especially, money — so much so, in fact, that he finally went to prison in 2002 for using cash raised to support white supremacist causes to pay for his own gambling and home improvements. Since then, Duke has become an itinerant anti-Semitic...

Lydia Brimelow

Lydia Brimelow, the 38-year-old wife of VDARE founder Peter Brimelow, 75, became president of the website’s eponymous foundation in 2020. While Brimelow has actively supported VDARE-tied business ventures since 2008, she has since become an integral part of her husband’s white nationalist...

Roger Pearson

Pearson advocates for total racial isolation, arguing that the possibility of “interbreeding” between “higher” and “lower” races will result in the “devolution” of the more “highly evolved” race. He has also been, either directly or through his organizations, among the most significant recipients...

Linda Gottfredson

Following a long tradition of scientific racism, Gottfredson argues that racial inequality, especially in employment, is the direct result of genetic racial differences in intelligence. Relying heavily on money obtained from the white nationalist Pioneer Fund, Gottfredson has worked tirelessly to...

Michael Levin

Writing in both academic outlets and fringe political newsletters, he rejects the very idea of equality—insisting that black, female, gay or disabled people are at best inferior to and at worst parasites on straight, white, able-bodied men. Levin’s views are so extreme that in 1991 CUNY took the...

William H. Regnery II

In his own words: “In my ethnostate, I would exclude, as a rule of thumb, non-whites, non-Europeans, wherever, however you want to define them. So, that includes blacks. We keep getting back to blacks, but we’ve got to throw in Han Chinese, have to throw in Amerindians, people who are distinctly...

Bradley Dean Griffin

Brad Griffin is the proprietor of Occidental Dissent (OD), a blog devoted to white nationalism. Griffin has reported on the movement’s happenings — from street demonstrations to infighting — with a dedication that has yielded him one of the most loyal followings among white nationalist websites...

Nathan Benjamin Damigo

In his own words “America was founded by white people. It was founded for white people. America was not founded to be a multiracial, multicultural society. The founders were well aware of the importance that identity played in the make-up of a nation. And how fundamental it was to the future...

Michael "Enoch" Peinovich

Mike Peinovich, more commonly known by his pseudonym “Mike Enoch,” is the founder of The Right Stuff (TRS) and a co-host of the Daily Shoah, a seminal podcast of the Alt-Right . Peinovich was doxed in January of 2017 and has since become one of the most recognizable white nationalist voices,...

Jason Kessler

In his words “Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist. Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time.” — August 19, 2017 “Like Black Lives Matter , militant Islam exists as a call to action for the violent rage some minorities feel towards the white majority.” — From Jason...

Greg Johnson

Through books, articles and podcasts, Counter-Currents is the flag-bearer of what Johnson calls the “North American New Right,” a concept whose main objective is to legitimize the idea of a white ethnostate. Despite professing that it is aimed only toward those whose IQ is superior to 120, Counter-...

James Orien Allsup

Allsup built his brand on base, reactionary conservative tropes, appealing to Donald Trump's supporters, and creating "triggering" videos, before fully descending into the white nationalist politics of the alt-right. Allsup has spoken at alt-right events such as Richard Spencer’s Free Speech Rally...

Thomas Rousseau

Thomas Ryan Rousseau grew up in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, where he attended Coppell High School. He honed his propaganda skills in the school’s newspaper, which later propelled his rapid ascension into leadership on the racist right, first with Vanguard America and later with his founding of...

Paul Nehlen

Nehlen acts as an elder statesman for a group of white supremacists intent on pushing their movement in a terroristic direction. Experts on extremism sometimes refer to this supremacist philosophy as a “leaderless resistance,” built on sporadic bursts of violence such as mass shootings. Nehlen is...

Nick Fuentes

Through his nightly “America First” show and his America First Foundation, Fuentes has stated his aim is to remake the Republican Party into “a truly reactionary party.” In livestreams and public appearances, Fuentes has described his goal as working within the political system to become “the right...

James Edwards

His show has featured a wide roster of white supremacists, anti-Semites and other extremists, such as the longtime Klan leader David Duke and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Its mission statement says it “stands for the Dispossessed Majority” and is “pro-white.” In His Own Words: “A lot of their...