Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links

A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “#clandestine #actions” and has links to a network of extremist groups and think tanks, the Guardian can reveal.

#Parker #Magid was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary
His employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics.
Vance’s staffer links him to 🔸Beck & Stone🔸 (B&S) and its subsidiary political consultancy 🔸Knight Takes Rook🔸 ( #KTR ).
The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right #Claremont #Institute,
the serial Arizona political candidate #Blake #Masters and the
“#counter-#revolutionary” magazine IM–1776.

B&S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, #Andrew #Beck and #Austin #Stone. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City.

Beck, also 🔸a Claremont co-founder🔸, is closely involved with the ♦️Society for American Civic Renewal♦️ ( #SACR ), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/jd-vance-far-right-aide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Secretive #Christofascist fraternal order looking to franchise #Fascism.

This should shock us all into action, but how do we fight it?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/far-right-fraternal-order-sacr

#SACR #Antifa #Antifascist #AntifaAF #ArtFED #TVAC #RedStateInsurgents

Revealed: US professor Scott Yenor
was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies

Boise State University (BSU) professor and #Claremont #Institute scholar #Scott #Yenor was the hidden hand behind #Action #Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that 💥Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D #Klingenstein.💥

He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, #Pedro #Gonzalez, to lead the initiative.
Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about #antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020.

They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal ( #SACR ), a secretive fraternal #Christian #Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.

Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the 💥potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.💥

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/boise-state-university-professor-scott-yenor-action-idaho?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), otherwise known as Really Scary Shit
https://youtu.be/6rE3TrfUJ9g?si=-VXO4oaRIzcu-pc2

#SACR #CrazyRightWingPlot #Religion #ReligiousExtremism #Misogyny #MAGA

#SACR #ClaremontInstitute #RedCaesar
"New documents have shed light on the origins and inner workings of the shadowy Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR)..."

The Guardian US:
Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order

"New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/far-right-fraternal-order-sacr

Josh Kovensky asks what white men are complaining about. He's looking at the secret society about which he recently produced a blockbuster report, the Society for American Civic Renewal. It's comprised of powerful white Christian men (heterosexual only) who claim that the power of straight white Christian men in the US is being eroded, and they're mad as hell. This society was founded for them to rule, and they intend to take it back.

#SACR #men #white
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/sib-archive/tpms-the-weekender-why-are-the-white-men-complaining