EXTREMISM GLOBAL PROJECT AGAINST HATE - Key Persons
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- German Member of the Identitarian
Alexander "Malenki" Kleine, a German member of the Identitarian movement since 2015, is best known for the Ein Prozent-funded YouTube channel "Laut Gedacht" ("Thinking out loud") he created with Philip Thaler that same year. In 2018, Malenki succeeded Tony Gerber as the regional manager of Identitäre Bewegung (Identitarian Movement, IB) Saxony while retaining his position as the self-appointed director of IB Leipzig. As of 2022, he continues to lead IB Saxony.
Pettibone Sellner is now using her YouTube channel for new ventures. Recent Pettibone Sellner videos are listed as sponsored by outside companies, which presumably allow her to raise funds. One of her backers is Ground News, an aggregator that claims to help "see the news from a different perspective." Other videos are backed by what appears to be a business newly affiliated with Pettibone Sellner that sells preparedness goods. She is prominently featured on their website, My Patriot Supply, selling food packages and other materials for preppers that advertises "Prepare with Brittany" next to a photo of her.
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- Member of FONAPA and Closely Associated With Bandera Negra
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- Co - Founder and Vice President of the Transnational Anti - LGBTQ Organization, Political Network for Values
Cortés Jimenez was convicted in 2023 for gender-based political violence against a transgender member of congress, Salma Luévano, whom he repeatedly and deliberately misgendered on social media. Cortés was given a symbolic punishment upon conviction, fined about 20,000 pesos and ordered to publish the court ruling and an apology written by the court to his social media accounts, daily, for 30 days. Cortés was also ordered to take a course on "gender-based political violence" and was entered into the National Registry of Persons Sanctioned in Political Matters against Women. The American powerhouse anti-LGBTQ+ legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADFI), represented Cortés in his failed appeal. ADFI also announced in January, 2024, that they had filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Cortés.
Dodici Raggi, or Do. Ra., a militant neo-Nazi organization founded in 2012 from the union of the Ultras 7 Laghi and Varese Skinhead group, seeks to facilitate the "rebirth of the natural order" through open support for fascism and National Socialism. They are currently led by Alessandro Limido and are supported by the former leader of the neo-Nazi group Manipolo D'Avanguardia Bergamo (MAB), Enrico Labanca. The name Dodici Raggi is based on the "Black Sun," a Nazi symbol consisting of twelve rays emanating from a black circle depicted in Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler's redesign of Wewelsburg Castle. Fascist and Nazi influence are evident in the group's Telegram group, which is rife with antisemitism and justifies fascism due to capitalism and communism existing "in the shadow of the Star of David." Do. Ra. idolizes Benito Mussoloni and performs pagan rituals associated with Nazism. They have celebrated the anniversary of Mussolini's fascist organization "Italian Fasces of Combat," co-opted his slogan "a noi!" ("to us!") and protested the release of an anti-Mussolini book. Unsurprising given their inspiration from Himmler, Do. Ra. gathers for pagan rites such as swastika burning rituals to celebrate the summer solstice and regularly gathers to place ritualistic runes on the graves of Nazi officers.
Heidi Beirich - Chief Strategy Officer, Founder
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- Chief Strategy Officer
- Co - Founder
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- German Professor of Languages in Guanajuato
A farmer in Longford, James Reynolds, is the party's vice president. In the early 2000s, he served as chairman of the Longford branch of the Irish Farmers' Association (1999-2003). He was elected as treasurer of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association in 2016 but was removed from his position after a vote of no confidence prompted by his National Party activism.
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- Founder and President of Consejo Mexicano
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- Confirmed As FBI Director: a Dangerous Step Toward Political Repression and Retaliation
The confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI Director marks a dangerous transformation of American democracy's guardrails into its gallows. The Senate has elevated a man who celebrates political revenge to command the nation's top law enforcement agency, authorizing what may become the most comprehensive weaponization of justice in American history.
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- Founder of Old Great Bulgaria
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- Leader and Founder of Identitäre Bewegung Österreich
Nicolás Rodríguez Carrasco, a brigadier general under Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, led ARM during its most active period. Many founding members had been veterans of the Revolution, and their name came from Villa referring to his most elite soldiers as "los dorados" (the golden ones). Operating under the motto of "Mexico for Mexicans," the organization called for the expulsion of Jews and Chinese as well as those who held anti-fascist political views, supported trade unions, or were communists or socialists. They wanted their businesses expropriated and turned over to "Mexicans." Rodríguez claimed that blood tests carried out by ethnographers showed that Mexicans and Nordic peoples were of the same racial stock. The group was very active in union busting, with the Gold Shirts instigating violent clashes with striking workers.
Tensions between Calles and Cárdenas led the latter to suppress the Gold Shirts, as the group continued to grow. By 1934, the organization had more than 20 branches across the country. By 1935, ARM had approximately 4,000 members. On November 20, 1935, a violent clash between communists and Gold Shirts in Mexico City's Zócalo resulted in three deaths and more than 40 injured, including Rodríguez, who was stabbed twice in the abdomen and left critically injured.
The federal senate sought to ban the organization a day after the riot. But the dissolution didn't come and in February 1936, the group participated in anti-communist rallies in Monterrey and Puebla (they had already been involved in an incident where Gold Shirts raided Jewish businesses, destroying them and attacking their owners). The Monterrey rally was recorded by fascist film director and Gold Shirts supporter Gustavo Sáenz de Sicilia. Members of ARM engaged in gunfire with the police, leaving 10 members dead. Following this incident, Cárdenas ordered the dissolution of the group. In August 1936, Rodríguez was arrested for promoting "inter-labor conflicts" and expelled from the country.
Rodríguez moved to Laredo, Texas, and continued to lead the group, establishing an ARM headquarters in Mission, Texas. He approached wealthy Texas oilmen whose assets in Mexico were negatively affected by unions and government policy, receiving funds from wealthy Americans while publishing diatribes against the Mexican government, Jews, communists, and Cárdenas in The McAllen Monitor.
In 1937, Rodríguez also met with Henry Allen, a prominent figure in the antisemitic Silver Legion, a fascist organization inspired by Hitler. Allen offered Rodríguez protection and both directly received funds from the Nazi Party. By March 1937, Rodríguez was taking in between two and three thousand dollars per month from American and Mexican nationals for ARM.
Rodriguez' exile wasn't the end of the group. Since at least 1935, they had been plotting the overthrow of the Mexican government. That year, Carlos Walterio Steinman, a former colonel in the Mexican Army residing in New York, told Rodríguez he had raised some four million dollars for a "change of government." The Gold Shirts also received funds to purchase weapons from the former governor of San Luis Potosí, Saturnino Cedillo, a very close friend of Rodríguez. Cedillo, who by 1937 had close ties to the Nazis, had major political and personal grievances against Cárdenas. The Mexican government had received various reports about the plotting and purchases of weapons.
On November 13, 1938, the plot was launched in Tamaulipas. Troops had already been dispatched at the request of that state's Governor Marte R. Gómez. Following the thwarted rebellion, Rodríguez's finances dried up and he lost the support of the Gold Shirts. He remained exiled in Texas while continuing to publish articles for The McAllen Monitor until his death in 1940. Interestingly, this period of history, from 1939-1942, saw an influx of Spaniards, welcomed by Cardenas, who supported the fight for a republic in that country. After the republic's defeat in the Spanish civil war that brought dictator Francisco Franco to power in 1939, some 20,000 Spanish refugees migrated to Mexico and played important roles in developing sciences, arts, and humanities in the country, and had a major impact on elevating the status of Mexican universities, particularly the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.
Patrick Lenart, a leader of GI's Austrian chapter, has had ads from VRBO, Ashley HomeStore, Advance Auto Parts, and celebrity Jesse James Decker's company, Goli, running on his videos. Alex Malenki, of GI in Leipzig, has ads on his videos from a German video game maker. (In 2020, Vice revealed that a video game where players could kill antifa members allowed players to choose to be Malenki in the game. YouTube did remove GI channels Laut Gedacht and Ein Prozent in connection to this violent and racist game). There may well be more examples of such content as the ads change from day to day.
Philippe Vardon-Raybaud, better known as Philippe Vardon, (age 43), is a French politician from Nice, and long-time leader of the French Identitarian movement who has been a part of many of the major far-right formations over the past two decades. While he does not have a large social media influence, Vardon's career trajectory has led him to become one of the most influential Identitarians in French far-right party politics today.
Born to a Front National (FN) activist, Vardon joined a number of far-right groups in his student years, such as the Front national de la jeunesse (Front National of the Youth) and the Renouveau étudiant niçois (Niçois Student Renewal), and was close for a time with ex-FN leader Bruno Mégret's Mouvement national républicain (National Republican Movement). Prior to creating Nissa Rebela, Vardon went through a more extremist stage in his life as a part of the Union de défense des étudiants nationalistes (Defense of Nationalist Students). In 1998, he appeared in a documentary by the Franco-German TV channel Arte among individuals performing Nazi salutes, and cited Belgian Nazi Léon Degrelle as an influence on his ideological development. Around this time, he was also the singer of the Identitarian band Fraction, along with Fabrice Robert.
Vardon began his career as a politician with the Bloc Identitaire (Identitarian Block) which he co-founded with Fabrice Robert in 2003, and led the branch, Nissa Rebela. based in Nice. He stayed in this position for over a decade and made a name for himself by opposing Nice's mayor on the question of financing Mosques, spreading fear of a "great replacement," and advocating for "remigration." This did not translate into electoral success, however, as he received only three percent of the vote in 2008.
Today, his primary issues are pushing back against immigration and fighting the "Islamization" of France. He is the author of the book Imam Estrosi, tomorrow in Nice 20 mosques?, in which he attacks Nice's leaders for being complicit in the "Islamization" of the city. He also attended international Identitarian events abroad such as the second international meeting of the Portuguese Causa Identitária (Identitarian Cause) in 2008 alongside other leaders of the movement in Spain (Eduardo Nuñez - Asamblea Identitária), France (Fabrice Robert - Bloc Identitaire), and others.
Vardon's relationship with the Front National, now Rassemblement Nation (National Rally, NR), has always been contentious. After he left the Bloc Identitaire in 2013, he attempted to join the Front National's umbrella group of far-right parties for elections, the Rassemblement bleu Marine (the Marine Blue Rally, RBM), but was refused by Marine Le Pen, because it hurt her chances at "dédiabolisation" (de-demonization), or cleaning up the Front's reputation for racism and hate. After Benoît Loeuillet, the head of the FN in Nice, was forced to resign for making revisionist comments about the Holocaust, the FN's President of the Union of French Jewish Patriots, Michel Thooris, stated that Loeuillet was the "tree that hides the forest," and referred to Vardon as the "real thinking head of this ideological network."
The Identitarian wing of the party, however, supported him and brought him into the FN. During the 2015 regional elections, he was elected to the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur on the list of Marion Maréchal Le Pen, forcing Marine Le Pen to allow him to join the party. He was also given a position as the communications advisor to Nicolas Bay (now with Reconquête) in the European Parliament. Since then, he has operated as a campaign advisor for Marine Le Pen in 2017, deputy campaign manager for the RN in the 2019 European elections, and campaign manager for RN candidate Thierry Mariani in 2021, and run for office himself in the 2017 legislative elections and 2020 municipal elections in Nice under the RN banner.
Whereas most of the Identitarian movement quickly joined Reconquête in the lead up to the 2022 legislative elections, Vardon stayed with the RN, and only left in November 2022 to join the Zemmourists after the RN refused to further support his nomination for elected office. During that time, he was one of the few members to advocate for a broad union of the right with Reconquête, despite the RN party establishment's reluctance to be associated with the extremist party, which ended up ruffling feathers. Today, he is tasked with helping to run Marion Maréchal Le Pen's campaign for the European elections. He was recently seen with Marion Maréchal on the small Italian island Lampedusa to campaign against refugees coming into Europe alongside Damien Rieu (ex-GI), Alice Cordier (Némésis), and Erik Tegnér.
Red Familia supported and promoted an online petition in 2022, alongside partner organization Frente Nacional por la Familia (National Front for the Family), warning that banning conversion therapy "affects doctors, psychologists, ministers of worship, parents and any citizen since the freedom of religious expression and education of parents towards their children is being restricted." They added, "This is extremely urgent since if any type of treatment, therapy, service or practice is carried out, taught, applied, required or financed that hinders, restricts, prevents, undermines, nullifies or suppresses sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of a person, they can impose jail and a fine." RF has partnered with and helped organize the anti-LGBTQ+ meeting of the World Congress of Families (WCF), an American group that holds annual conferences around the world that bring together major anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-women's rights groups to strategize, when it was held in Mexico City in 2022. The other organizers were similarly anti-LGBTQ+, including Spain's CitizenGo and the Global Center for Human Rights, led by a former staffer of the American anti-LGBTQ+ legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom, which also participates in WCF events and is a key supporter of the American authoritarian Project 2025.
Rui da Fonseca e Castro has advocated for "identify[ing] its members" and "confiscating its assets." Habeas Corpus began as an off-shoot of the Spanish group "Médicos por la Verdad" (Doctors for the Truth), a COVID conspiracy group, that led to Rui da Fonseca e Castro's "Juristas pela Verdade," (Lawyers for the Truth), which was later replaced by the Facebook-organized group "Habeas Corpus." Though the group has no identifiable primary location, and much of their organizing happens online, Habeas Corpus supporters do regularly gather for protests and other activities that are documented on their Telegram channel and in YouTube videos. The health measures put in place during the pandemic are seen as evidence of the diabolical nature of the "totalitarian" regime. In August 2021, Rui da Fonseca e Castro filed a criminal complaint for "crimes against humanity" against the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, and the Government for the healthcare restrictions.
He blamed his lack of success with the complaint on a judiciary "captured by an occupying Regime and integrated by a parasitic elite controlled by Freemasonry." He also argues these elite groups "control" the media, stating: "Who has free access to the regime's propaganda media? Freemasonry." Habeas Corpus adherents are also believers in Pizzagate and QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories of pedophilia rings among the Portuguese elite. Rui da Fonseca e Castro has called President of the Assembly of the Republic Ferro Rodrigues a "pedophile," which led Ferro Rodrigues to be verbally attacked by protesters while having lunch in Lisbon. This resulted in Rui da Fonseca e Castro being criminally prosecuted for defamation.
In 2021, protests took place during an administrative hearing of Rui da Fonseca e Castro and turned violent between protesters and police. Inside, during the hearing, Rui da Fonseca e Castro ranted about the evil motivations of the government to impose health restrictions, the "magnetic" characteristics of the vaccine, and the "corruption" of pharmaceutical companies that created vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson. The case resulted in Rui da Fonseca e Castro no longer being able to practice law. Members also believe in the Great Reset conspiracy theory, which alleges that a global elite is using the pandemic to dismantle capitalism and enforce radical social change.
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- Spokesperson for Génération Identitaire
Anne-Thaïs du Tertre d'Escoeuffant, (age 24), better known to the public as Thaïs d'Escufon, is a young French Identitarian activist from the Toulouse area known for being one of the most recognizable faces of the movement today. Most of d'Escufon's public beliefs are in line with those of the Identitarian movement. When speaking on the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for example, she wrote on Telegram, "let's not forget that the great replacement is THE REAL subject which already has a concrete and direct impact in our daily life in a sure way."
D'Escufon got her start in far-right politics when she joined the antisemitic, monarchist organization Action Française (French Action). Around the time she was studying for her licence (bachelor's degree) in literature and foreign languages around 2014 to 2016, she joined the local chapter of the Les Identitaires youth group, Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity, GI). Some of her GI comrades were known for violence, including several who attacked a procession of Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) in February 2019. In 2018, she replaced Anaïs Lignier as the national spokesperson for Génération Identitaire and appeared to remain in that position until the group's dissolution by the French state in 2021. During her tenure, she participated in a number of protest events, including the infamous protest against the NGO SOS Méditerranée, and the Justice Pour Adama collective ,where the group hung a banner reading "Justice for the victims of anti-White racism" on the roof of a building in Paris, overlooking social justice protesters. She also regularly went to the borders of France to prevent the entry of migrants.
As spokesperson for Génération Identitaire, d'Escufon became a recognizable face of the movement especially after being invited on a range of far-right media platforms, such as Boulevard Voltaire, TV Libertés, Sud Radio,and Livre Noir. It was not, however, until she was brought onto a show on several occasions with a massive audience, C8's Touche Pas à Mon Poste! (Don't Touch My Television), hosted by Cyril Hanouna, that she became a household name. On one occasion, she was invited on the show after claiming to be an alleged victim of a home invasion and sexual assault in Lyon in early December 2021, and given that the perpetrator was, according to her, of "Tunisian" origin, used the opportunity to paint all immigrants from the Maghreb with a broad brush and call for their expulsion.
In 2021, both Génération Identitaire and d'Escufon ran into legal troubles. After she posted a video at the Col du Portillon on the French-Spanish border in which she made racist and denigrating comments about migrants, she was charged, and eventually convicted of public insult, alongside fellow GI member Jérémie Piano, who received a conviction for "provoking racial hatred," and was fined 3,000 Euros. In March 2021, Génération Identitaire was completely dissolved by the Council of Ministers for "inciting violence and discrimination." Since then, she and other former GI members co-founded the organization "ASLA: Soutien aux Lanceurs d'Alerte" (Help for Whistleblowers) to provide legal support to Identitarian militants and "reveal all the censorship on immigration and islamization."
Union, Nacion, Revolucion (Union, Nation, Revolution, UNR)
Victor Aubert is the leader of the French, far-right Christiana Academia (Christian Academy, CA), founded in 2013 in the wake of the Manif pour tous (demonstration for everyone) protests against gay marriage, and a rising star in the Identitarian movement. Aubert, a teacher at the Institut La Croix des Vents, a private Catholic school in the Sées (Orne) whose curriculum is not recognized by the state, runs Christiana Academia alongside his vice-president Julien Langella, one of the original founders of Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity). Academia Christiana is characterized by the fusion of both French Identitarianism and French Catholic fundamentalist beliefs, seeking to "add a Christian message to the fight for identity" and presents itself as a "think tank," and "a political training institute." CA has become a centralizing institution for many French far-right groups.
Academia Christiana is an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. In an article attempting to justify the sexual crimes done to children by the Catholic Church over the past few decades, Langella argues that homosexuals are "one step" away from being pedophiles themselves. They go beyond typical reactionary takes with regards to women's rights and argue that women should not work and instead stay at home to take care of the family. Academia Christiana's opposition to abortion is not simply on the grounds that it is state-sanctioned "murder," but that it is murder of French, non-immigrant children. Academia Christiana's Catholic nationalism and Identitarian views are fundamentally opposed to republicanism, laïcité (French secularism), and multiculturalism. In interviews with France Info, members have stated that while Academia Christiana has antisemitic members in their ranks, they are "not the majority," and that the "best regime France had in the 20th century was Vichy," the Nazi puppet state, "notwithstanding the anti-Jewish laws and the collaboration." Certain members have also called for others to train with firearms. When asked by France Info, Victor Aubert denied that his members hold the beliefs, and stated that AC was a "training institute that doesn't call for any armed struggle and is foreign to all obsessions with the Jews."
Another ROD board member, Vladimir Sheytanov (Владимир Шейтанов), is a lawyer rabidly opposed to gender-affirming care, which he calls sex change operations, and LGBTQ+ people, who he claims are not discriminated against, "the traditional Christian family is discriminated against…We are against imposing practices [LGBTQ+ rights] that are not part of our culture. The law cannot apply laws that are against the traditions, customs and morals of Bulgarian society." ROD is skeptical of the EU, which it views as imposing rights, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community, that discriminate against conservative family values, Christianity, and harm children. The group shared a post by Georgi Markov (Георги Марков), former GERB MP, that read, ‘'Brussels is on the way to bury Christian Europe."
Wendy Via - Founder, President