Antigovernment groups believe the federal government is tyrannical, and they traffic in conspiracy theories about an illegitimate government of leftist elites.| Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.| Southern Poverty Law Center
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is an anti-LGBT hate group founded in 1997 by Brad Dacus. PJI and Dacus have compared legalized gay marriage to Hitler and the Nazis’ ascent in Germany; endorsed so-called “reparative” or sexual orientation conversion therapy; claimed marriage equality would lead to legal polygamy and incest; fought against protections for trans children and fabricated a story of harassment by a trans student; and said that LGBT History Month promotes gay pornography ...| Southern Poverty Law Center
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.| Southern Poverty Law Center
Willis Carto has been a major figure on the American radical right since the 1950s, when he set up his anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby with offices not far from the White House.| Southern Poverty Law Center
An intellectual and key white nationalist writer, the late Sam Francis has been referred to by analyst Leonard Zeskind as the "philosopher king" of the radical right.| Southern Poverty Law Center
The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as “the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,” but the group’s real specialty is defaming LGBTQ people.| Southern Poverty Law Center
Greg Johnson is the editor-in-chief of the white nationalist publishing house Counter-Currents, an epicenter of “academic” white nationalism.| Southern Poverty Law Center
Although he died in prison in 2007 at the age of 69, David Lane remains one of the most important ideologues of contemporary white supremacy.| Southern Poverty Law Center
Atomwaffen Division (AWD) is a terroristic neo-Nazi organization that formed out of Iron March, an influential fascist forum that went offline in fall 2017.| Southern Poverty Law Center
Originally established in 1999 by Peter Brimelow, VDARE has provided a crucial bridge between the more mainstream anti-immigrant movement, including major players in the Republican Party, and the white nationalist fringe. Though the site has declared its mission as “inform[ing] the fight to keep America American,” its roster of white nationalist contributors throughout its two-plus decades online belies Brimelow’s attempts to paint the site as solely a haven for “civic nationalist” ...| Southern Poverty Law Center
