©Glenna Gordon, “A Wife With a Purpose,” the online super star Ayla Stewart, poses for a portrait at a public park in Tennessee on August 23, 2017 along with her six children. She’s known for promoting #tradlife (traditionalist homemaking and white culture). She’s been kicked off twitter for hate speech, though has started accounts on Gab and other platforms, and continues to have a huge youtube following. Though she believes there are many definitions of the word Nazi, she says there is only one definition of the word racist and she claims she is not racist.

©Glenna Gordon, Amanda, the “den mother” of the League of the South, a neo-confederate group that publicly advocates for southern succession, and privately endorses slavery. This portrait was made at their annual convention in Wetumpka, Alabama on June 30, 2017. The League of the South takes great pains to distance itself and differentiate from the KKK, yet promotes many of the exact same ideas under a different outward facing rhetorical stance. The argument about ÒopticsÓ pits different hate groups against each other as they vie for local power. LOS is almost completely male in its power structure and women like Amanda can only play informal roles. Amanda is not from the south but when she met her now husband online as his nutritionist and moved to Mississippi to be with him, she joined. She said that all the people at the meeting (which did include Klan members) were the greatest people she’d ever met. This reporter was forcefully ejected and escorted out of the meeting without clear cause.

©Glenna Gordon, Elaine Willman hosts community leaders in her “War Room,” which is what she calls the basement of her Montana home. Though many insisted that they were racist and saw no color at all, they also spent time that day in and in their lives protesting immigrant rights and the advancement of Native Americans. Elaine’s home is covered in Native American art, and she insists she loves the people, just doesn’t like the tribal leadership.

©Glenna Gordon, While many who are active in pro white politics today eschew directly racists rhetoric or imagery, hiding it under layers of other issues like land use, the KKK still actively embraces racist symbols and works to promote hatred, fear, and bigotry in all that they do. While they argue they are a civil rights group and a charity group, this too is a layer of false rhetoric that hides their actual goals. It is important to note that they do engage in outreach and community involvement, and this is the work of women and it helps keep people involved in racist activism.

©Glenna Gordon, Amanda Barker, known as Imperial Komander Amanda, married Chris Barker, her high school sweetheart, who is the Grand Dagon of the Loyal White Knights, one of the most active chapters of the KKK in the country. Though Chris is the public face, it is widely acknowledged that Amanda does the bulk of the work to keep the operation afloat. Chris has an incredibly long criminal wrap sheet, which includes multiple accounts of beating Amanda up, but is seldom convicted in a court of law as he is thought to also be an FBI informant.

©Glenna Gordon, A klan document from the 1920s, photographed in rural North Carolina at the home of the Grand Dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, on August 18, 2017. Some of America’s most prominent suffragists used their political experience to become leaders in the Ku Klux Klan of 1920s, when the organization was at its peak with as many as four million dues paying members.

©Glenna Gordon, Laura Loomer, an anti-Islam activist, is unique in her role in the extreme right because she is Jewish. After being continuously trolled by David Duke and others, which included pictures posted of her photoshopped in to gas chambers, she decided to get a nose job so she could further her own agenda without appearing so Jewish. Her antiIslam activism drives islamophobia in the USA, and she also plays the important role of victim within the far right twittersphere. Lauren Southern and others enjoy taking pot shots at her, and Pamella Geller was quick to distance herself from the toxic Loomer as well.

©Glenna Gordon, Tara Bradley poses for a portrait in her official Òmourning gearÓ. She is a member of a group called the Order of the Confederate Rose. Though similar to groups like Daughters of the Confederacy, members of this group insist that they are not political and are open to all people. . On April 21, the group laid wreathes at a Confederate cemetery in Raymond, Mississippi for Confederate Memorial Month. The keynote speaker from the local Sons of Confederate Veterans group mentioned Hitler, the KKK and David Duke in his speech. One member of the Roses left in the middle, but it was later discovered that she did not leave in protest but because her feet hurt. After the ceremony, when pushed on dressing up as confederate slaveholders, members repeated false statistics like only 5 percent of Southerners owned slaves (in Mississippi, it was 55 percent), and argued that people also dress up as Union soldiers. When it was pointed out that no one dresses up like slaves, one woman exclaimed, “We’d love to have someone that would! All of the women present boasted about volunteer work and civic duty and none thought their costumes or activities were racists or offensive. Groups like the OCR help keep the traditions of the Confederacy and it’s racists policies alive and well.

©Glenna Gordon, Barbie Rogers, who runs the Patriot Information Hotline, which is a one woman outfit that connects people wanting to join the movement to their local militia groups. Though women like RogerÕs do not base their political activism around racist ideology, she holds certain racist beliefs, is staunchly antigovernment, anti immigrant, and is upset that the SPLC supposedly only lists her in their top 500 activist, not top 100 activists. (They do not list her at all on their hate map, though she is briefly mentioned in a blogpost from 2015 on nativist groups.) Rogers has been involved in citizen militia efforts to patrol the border and in recruitment for the group.

©Glenna Gordon, There’s domesticated bobcat, named Fancy, who apparently often licks Manzella’s feet.

©Glenna Gordon, Barbie Roger’s house has a sign that says “We Don’t Dial 911.” Barbie spends all day on the internet and facebook and promoting the hotline and spreading “information.”

©Glenna Gordon, Clarice Ryan is a wealthy donor in Montana politics, which in a sparsely populated state, gives her a large amount of sway. She is a proponent of conspiracies around Agenda 21 (a non binding UN resolution about climate change) and believes that the federal government is usurping rights through a land grab. She also actively demonstrates against immigrants and Muslims, and is against sharia law coming to Montana, a common platform for conservatives in the predominantly white and Christian state.

©Glenna Gordon, Though members of the clean cut group Identity Evorpa are technically not supposed to have tattoos, that didn’t stop Erika from joining. Her chest tattoo says, I will never be silenced. Like many on the far right, she believes she is unfairly censored by liberal tech companies and politically correct culture. The night of Charlottesville, she was the host of an IE party at a vacation rental home on the outskirts of the city. Though someone had died that day and many others were injured, IE partied hard. The ratio of men to women was about 15 to 1, but the women who were present bragged of enjoying the male attention and of their desire to preserve traditional feminine roles. Erika made sure the party ran smoothly and all could celebrate that day.

©Glenna Gordon, Amid intense arguments about optics, many groups on the far right insist that they are not Nazis and do not publicly use swastikas. Privately, many do this often and with irony. Image provided by a woman who dated a leader in one of the groups largely responsible for the violence at Charlottesville last year, who has since left the movement. Her ex boyfriend has also been outed for lying about his military record, but their group continues under new leadership.

©Glenna Gordon, Roadside in Montana.

©Glenna Gordon, Irma Hinojosa is the kind of woman who complicates the way we understand far right activism she is the head of Latino’s With Trump, and while she argues that she supports legal immigration, much of her rhetoric is strongly anti immigrant and pro border and security. She live casts, youtubes, and creates content constantly for her nearly 100,000 followers. At a freedom of speech rally in Washington DC organized by Richard Spencer and well known anti semite Baked Alaska, where someone gave a shout out to John Wilkes Booth in front of the Lincoln Memorial, she was the only woman who spoke on a line up of nearly ten people.