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GPAHE Brings You the Latest News in Far-Right Hate and Extremism
Project 2025 Is Here: February 18th
This week, we look at three moves that show how more Project 2025 policies are becoming reality. Heritage’s former Project 2025 personnel recruiter now runs the gutted DHS civil rights office — the one responsible for investigating two American citizens killed by ICE in Minneapolis. The EPA rescinded the legal foundation for every federal climate regulation on the books. And the National Park Service finished erasing transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument.
Our blog series provides essential updates on how Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint is being enacted. Now you can view all of our Project 2025 blog posts in one convenient place on our website. We encourage you to explore this series to stay informed and engaged.
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GPAHE Highlights: Senators display GPAHE graphic and use our research in confirmation hearing for a senior State Department nominee
Jeremy Carl’s nomination to a senior State Department post appears doomed as senators assailed Carl’s record of antisemitic and racist statements in his confirmation hearing this week. GPAHE provided research to the Judiciary Committee outlining Carl’s troubling track record and cataloguing years of statements in which Carl promoted the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, minimized the Holocaust, invoked the “Jewish Question,” and characterized the Civil Rights Act as an “anti-white weapon.” Lawmakers harshly questioned Carl about his beliefs, and warned of the dangers in elevating someone with such views to a senior diplomatic role.
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New from GPAHE: A “Who’s Who” of Global Far-Right Extremists, Gathered to Share Plans for Whites-Only Communities
GPAHE’s new investigation revealed that white supremacist leaders from across Europe, North America, South Africa, and Australia gathered online in February for a conference centered on building whites-only “communities.” Hosted by Eric Orwoll of the Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the conference featured figures from racist and neo-Nazi organizations including Sweden’s Det fria Sverige, the U.K.’s Patriotic Alternative, and the U.S.-based Patriot Front and National Alliance. Several speakers discussed acquiring land, creating compounds and community hubs, and leveraging media coverage to grow their extremist movements. The event highlights a broader shift within the transnational far right towards building physical infrastructures designed to expand their movements.
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New from GPAHE: Religious Freedom for Some
A coalition of Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, and interfaith groups has filed a suit to block Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission. The lawsuit, Interfaith Alliance et al. v. Trump, contends the commission violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act by operating as a secretive panel that promotes the view of the United States as a Christian nation while sidelining minority faiths and the nonreligious. The challenge comes after Trump used the National Prayer Breakfast to outline a sweeping faith-based policy agenda, moves that came directly from Project 2025. “Religious freedom for some is religious freedom for none,” said Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, as faith leaders warn the administration is weaponizing religious liberty to favor one faith.
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GPAHE in the News:
Recent coverage of GPAHE investigations shows extremist movements expanding their reach: recruiting on children’s gaming platforms, influencing federal agencies and amplifying propaganda through official government accounts, and advancing inside European political institutions.
The New York Times highlighted how hate groups and terrorists are recruiting minors through popular gaming platforms such as Roblox and Minecraft. GPAHE was cited for its research documenting the rapid spread of all-white “active clubs” across 27 countries, noting that roughly a quarter of new chapters function as youth wings targeting boys ages 15 to 17. With minors now accounting for 42% of terrorism-related investigations, authorities warn that extremist recruitment pipelines are accelerating faster than efforts to disrupt them.
On NPR, GPAHE co-founder Heidi Beirich warned that white nationalist slogans, memes, and imagery are no longer confined to fringe spaces. “That is the thing that I’m most worried about,” she said. “The government, the federal government, is spreading white supremacist propaganda to millions of people, normalizing it and exposing people to things that are just simply heinous.” When extremist messaging is amplified by federal institutions, she argued, it legitimizes hate and speeds its migration into the mainstream.
Finally, Politico EU reports that battles over transgender rights that reshaped politics in the U.S. and U.K. have reached Brussels, as anti-LGBTQ+ networks press their agenda within EU institutions. Wendy Via, GPAHE co-founder, warned that targeting trans people is a deliberate opening move: “Cruelly stripping human rights protections from trans people is the first phase to erase the LGBTQ+ community and take back hard-won rights from women worldwide.”
