White supremacist leaders from France, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States gathered on February 7, 2026, to discuss their efforts to build whites-only communities around the world.
The conference was hosted by Eric Orwoll, the founder and leader of “Return to the Land” (RTTL), a self-described “intentional community” that owns property in Arkansas. RTTL only allows people of European descent, who they vet to assure their white nationalist views, to build homes on the community’s land.
Billed as a rustic rejection of liberalism and multiculturalism and an attempt to preserve European society, Orwoll has used media attention to network and promote his project across the international far right. His second annual online “Intentional Community Conference” brought together speakers from multiple neo-Nazi groups, racist pagan networks, Christian sects that believe the Jews are the children of the devil, and other extremists, to talk about their community projects to keep anyone who is not white out.
“[A]ll of us are aware of the demographic replacement of indigenous European people in their homelands in Europe and also throughout our diaspora around the world in South Africa, Australia, North America, South America,” Orwoll said during his opening statement to the eight hour conference. “Wherever people of European descent live and have communities, those communities are being threatened,” Orwoll added.
Orwoll’s comments invoke the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, a white supremacist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant concept that posits white people are being replaced by immigrants, Muslims, and other people of color in their so-called “home” countries. The conspiracy often blames the “elite” and Jews for orchestrating these changing demographics, and has inspired mass violence against Jews, Muslims, and immigrants in multiple countries.
“Replacement is Real”
The conference, a personal project of Orwoll’s, featured 16 speakers, a roster that was a veritable “who’s who” of white nationalist community builders.
There was Dan Eriksson, leader of the “Det fria Sverige” (DFS—Free Sweden), a different type of community project than RTTL. Founded in 2017 by Eriksson, DFS’s intention was to purchase a meeting hall or property to serve as headquarters and a place to stage events, building a shared community space for the far right, rather than a private residential community.
Eriksson—and DFS co-leader Magnus Söderman—have extensive connections to Swedish neo-Nazi and far-right movements. Eriksson was among neo-Nazis who attacked the 2003 Stockholm Gay Pride march. He also worked with “Info14,” a Swedish neo-Nazi publication and network linked to the murder of trade union leader Björn Söderberg in 1999.
On his Substack blog, Eriksson decries non-white immigration of all kinds. Emblematic of his anti-immigrant rants, in January 2026 in Swedish he published, “The Trojan Horse from New Delhi,” which criticized a trade deal he felt was being used as a backdoor for increasing migration. “The great elephant in the room: fifty years of mass immigration have created ethnic tensions, parallel societies and displacement of indigenous peoples across Europe,” Eriksson opined. “Answering these problems with more immigration is to extinguish fire with gasoline.”
In October 2025, it was revealed that the meeting hall owned by DFS was used for a martial arts tournament held by the Swedish branch of the neo-Nazi Active Club, a decentralized movement of fascist work-out clubs with branches all over the world. Research by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism found that in 2025 there were a total of 187 Active Club chapters in 27 countries, a 25 per cent increase from two years before.
Eriksson has described Germany’s Nazi movement as a “breath of fresh air” and said of Holocaust Remembrance Day that, “The date which, for several years now, has made the most disgusting of sewer rats crawl out of their filthy holes, kneel to the star of hate and lick the blood splattered feet of the new world order.” He has also called immigrants in Sweden “black-brown, spice-stinking slew that should be sent packing.”
Eriksson told Orwoll during an interview in October 2025 that they were able to raise $150,000 for their headquarters. Opening the facility in 2019 in a small locality in Töreboda municipality, their meeting house also contains a coffee shop open to the public. In 2023, a second property was purchased in Skåne.
The Swedish anti-fascist publication Expo revealed in July 2025 that Minister for Migration Johan Forssell’s son was a far-right activist connected to DFS’s youth group.
Also speaking was the founder of U.K. far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA), Mark Collett. Collett has been a far-right activist since early adulthood, starting as a young, fresh-faced spokesperson for the fascist British National Party (BNP). He founded PA in 2019, and reaches an international audience through his livestreams, social media, written work, and speaking events.
In January 2026, Collett gave a speech during a conference organized by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, a banker and owner of the Kremlin-aligned Tsargrad media group. Collett was one of several ultranationalist speakers, including Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian political philosopher whose theories have inspired far-right groups across Europe. Collett told the Guardian that his comments during the presentation focused on the reduction of white Britons into a minority and “that eastern European countries must not allow the same thing on their soil.”
Mark Collett during his talk at the Intentional Community Conference on February 7, 2026. (Source: YouTube).
Despite PA never successfully registering as a political party, Collett has encouraged fellow believers to involve themselves in mainstream politics. In 2024, he wrote an article for the neo-Nazi publication Heritage and Destiny dubbed “Right to Reply – Nationalist Community Politics.” In his piece, Collett reportedly advocated not only for white ethnostate community projects, but for supporters without public or law enforcement records connecting them to extremist movements to join the Reform U.K. Party. Reform is led by Nigel Farage, one of the architects of the U.K.’s movement to leave the European Union (Brexit). Reform is frequently accused of spreading racism and Islamophobia within the U.K.
At the conference, Collett spoke about his time as a staffer and eventual candidate for the BNP, decrying watching regions of the country where he distributed party literature in transition from being majority white into “multicultural communities.”
“Replacement is real. It’s not a conspiracy theory,” he told the listeners. “It’s a conspiracy against our people. A conspiracy enacted by powerful people in the establishment who hate us. And this replacement happens quicker than you think.”
Compounds And Communities
One of the more prominent speakers was Simon Birkett (also known as Woodlander), a long-time far-right activist with connections to Patriotic Alternative, and past associations with fascist U.K. political parties like the BNP and National Front. Initially building a following on YouTube, Birkett is the leader of “The Woodlander Initiative” (TWI), a land-buying scheme similar to RTTL with two properties in rural Wales.
Simon Birkett (Woodlander) during the Intentional Community conference. (Source:YouTube)
TWI has become Orwoll’s preferred project in the U.K. Rather than attempting to build support for eventual U.K. branches of RTTL—as he has indicated he is working on in other parts of Western Europe—he defers to Birkett when contacted by people inside the country.
“If anyone from Great Britain reaches out and asks about RTTL, I just refer them to the Woodlander because it’s a very particular context,” Orwoll said during the conference while introducing Birkett. “It’s a difficult country, but you’re the one really pioneering what needs to be done.”
During his talk, Birkett advocated for “remigration or deportation of close to 20 million people” as a possible solution for “the demographic issue.” Remigration is a white supremacist policy idea that calls for the forced removal of immigrants, refugees, and their descendants — including legal residents and citizens — based on race, ethnicity, culture, being perceived as “non-white,” or a failure to “assimilate.”
He added that “[Remigration] in itself, although possible, is going to cause an enormous amount of trouble. And whichever way you look at it, people are going to be looking for safe places to live, safe places for their children and that’s what we’re going to be able to provide them with.”
Another speaker was Will Williams, the current leader of the now largely defunct but once one of America’s largest and most violent neo-Nazi groups, the National Alliance (NA). Williams appeared with a Dillion Rau, purported to be the group’s membership coordinator, from a property owned and maintained by the group.
Williams began his presentation by reading a passage by the late William Pierce, founder of the National Alliance and author of the racist and antisemitic The Turner Diaries, the novel that inspired the Oklahoma City bombing. Largely considered to be far past its prime in terms of importance in America’s neo-Nazi movement, the NA still maintains a 350-acre West Virginia property bought by Pierce in 1985.
Other speakers included a representative from the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA). AFA is a whites-only, pagan organization based loosely on the practices of ancient Nordic beliefs, though it is ostracized by many other pagan groups due to its racist beliefs and practices. At time of writing, the AFA has five places of worship (called “hofs”) in California, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Ohio.
Established in 1995, AFA only allows “ethnic European folk” to join. Its leadership and members have been connected to violent groups like Blood and Honour and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as deadly events like the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. When asked by a guest at the conference if AFA allowed any non-white people, the speaker, Clifford Erickson, responded that “it is exclusive to white heterosexual monogamous human beings.”
The longest speech of the day was delivered by the leader, Thomas Rousseau, of the U.S.-based white supremacist group Patriot Front (PF).
Headquartered in Texas, PF was formed by Rousseau and former members of another extremist group, Vanguard America (VA), after one of VA’s associates drove a car into protesters after the “Unite the Right” rally. PF believes that only white people of European descent can truly be considered Americans.
PF’s chapters, called networks, are spread across the United States. They frequently attract attention through large scale marches. Rousseau discussed media attention during his talk as a way to navigate around censorship on social media, as the coverage, even when negative, serves to promote the group’s activities.
“It’s a news cycle of our content, of our choosing at our planned time, right?” he told the conference. “We don’t always get to choose when the news cycle is happening broadly, but with our own marches, we can.”
Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau during the Intentional Community Conference. (Source: YouTube).
Rousseau boasted about PF having physical spaces like gyms and places to create content across the country. While he did not specify how many or where they were, he hoped by the end of the year there would be at least “a dozen.” PF is already developing a property in Tennessee that it has managed since 2021. They have erected several buildings and conduct trainings, group meet-ups, and ceremonies there.
Others who appeared included Austin Buttorff, a member of the Church of Israel, a congregation that follows the teachings of Christian Identity (CI). CI is a white supremacist religion that emerged in the U.S. during the early 20th century and relies on specific reinterpretations of passages within the Bible that cast white Europeans as “God’s chosen people.” Modern Jews are viewed as the children of Satan.
Buttorff emphasized this point during his talk, saying “our explanation is that Cain is the father is the the son of Satan and he’s the progeny of modern Jews.”
Two headlining guests did not attend. Long-time white nationalist publisher Jared Taylor, who runs American Renaissance, canceled due to confusion over when he was to speak. Australian neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell also was pictured on the website as a speaker, but similarly was absent due to a scheduling problem.
Sewell was a leader ofthe neo-Nazi groups National Socialist Network, European Australia Movement, and White Australia. He disbanded the groups in January 2026 after the Australian government passed new legislation that would ban Sewell’s groups .
In over a decade as a neo-Nazi activist, Sewell has been alleged and sometimes found guilty of acts of violence and intimidation. In 2025 alone, he is accused of leading the NSN in an attack against an Indigenous encampment, giving a speech that broke the state of Victoria’s offensive behavior laws, and been found guilty of intimidating a police officer and his wife.
Sewell and Taylor both spoke at the last conference in 2025.
Returning
Return To The Land (RTTL) has had a banner year for self-promotion. There have been multiple large profiles of its efforts in major news publications across the world. The coverage is often negative, but like with Patriot Front, any publicity is seen as good publicity.
“Return to the Land has grown very, very quickly, especially since August of last year,” Orwoll told the conference audience. “Many people criticize us for ever inviting the media in to interview us, to film many documentaries. Why would we expose ourselves like this? Well, it was a calculated risk. Ultimately, it tripled or quadrupled our membership. We’re now over a thousand members and other people are emulating this strategy at a much faster rate. People have to see that it’s possible.”
The Arkansas land that Orwoll and other other members of RTTL live on has been dubbed “Communtiy 1,” a indication of the group’s plans to expand their racist homesteading project across the United States, and the world. Besides their main base in America’s Ozarks, Orwoll indicated there were members in other states including Texas, though that there were legal hurdles within the state that would make building a similar RTTL community difficult.
Despite some significant setbacks, which include states drafting laws to preemptively block RTTL-style projects and accusations of fraud surrounding a senior member, Orwoll has risen quickly from relative obscurity to a significant figure within the transnational far right, using the attention to connect hateful community builders across borders, networks and ideologies.
