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The faces

Fascism has organizers, donors, streamers and ministers. This page names them: white nationalist leaders and influencers, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers organizers the federal courts convicted, and the Kahanist extremists who now sit in Israel's cabinet or lead the settler violence that human rights groups and the US government have documented. Every entry carries the court filing, the government designation, or the reporting behind it, so you can check the record instead of taking this page's word for anything.

Everyone here is a public figure, an office holder, a convicted person, or somebody named in court records, a government designation, or published reporting that this page links to. Nobody is here for an opinion. Nobody here is a private person. If a source behind any entry does not say what the entry says, that is a bug: the contact link at the bottom of every page reaches the desk directly, and corrections ship with the next edition.

White nationalism, organized
Leaders, organizers, influencers
Held liableRichard Spencer

Richard Spencer

Alt-right founder · Unite the Right organizer

The white nationalist who coined the term alt-right and organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was killed. A federal civil jury found him liable for civil conspiracy and race-based harassment and awarded the plaintiffs more than $25 million in damages; the Fourth Circuit sent the punitive damages back for recalculation on a per-plaintiff basis in 2024. He still runs a media operation out of the same ideology.

Photo: Vas Panagiotopoulos, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Deplatformed, still organizingNick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes

White supremacist streamer · America First / Groyper movement

Runs America First and the Groyper movement, a young white nationalist audience the ADL documents as built on Holocaust denial, misogyny and antisemitism. YouTube banned him in 2020 and most platforms followed; he now streams on his own site to a following the ADL counts at roughly 724,000 across his accounts as of March 2025, and his Jan 6 testimony was entered into the congressional record.

Photo: Modern-Day Debate, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Founder, group convictedGavin McInnes

Gavin McInnes

Proud Boys founder · Proud Boys

VICE co-founder who announced the Proud Boys in 2016 in Taki's Magazine as a club of Western chauvinists. The group he created is now an ADL-designated right-wing extremist organization; at least 58 of its members and affiliates have been arrested over January 6, and its national chairman drew 22 years for seditious conspiracy. He left the group in 2018 and keeps relationships with its chapters.

Photo: Steven Crowder, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Found liableMatthew Heimbach

Matthew Heimbach

White nationalist organizer · Traditionalist Worker Party

Long treated as the face of a young generation of white nationalists: founded the Traditionalist Worker Party, marched at Charlottesville, and was found guilty of civil conspiracy in the Sines v. Kessler trial, where the jury awarded $500,000 in punitive damages against him personally.

Photo: DS-TV, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Convicted, 18 yearsStewart Rhodes

Stewart Rhodes

Oath Keepers founder · Oath Keepers

Founded the Oath Keepers and led the January 6 plot to keep Trump in power, including the quick reaction force weapons stash staged at a Virginia hotel. A jury convicted him of seditious conspiracy in 2022 and the judge sentenced him to 18 years, agreeing with prosecutors that his conduct should be punished as terrorism: at the time the longest sentence in the Capitol cases.

Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Convicted, 22 yearsEnrique Tarrio

Enrique Tarrio

Proud Boys national chairman · Proud Boys

Led the Proud Boys from 2018 until January 6, when a court barred him from Washington and he still directed the operation from a hotel room. Convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years, the longest sentence handed down in the Capitol attack, with the judge treating his conduct as an act of terrorism.

Photo: Original: Peter Duke, PhotographerRetouched: nagualdesign, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Convicted, 17 yearsJoe Biggs

Joe Biggs

Proud Boys elder · Proud Boys

Florida Proud Boys leader and the group's loudest propagandist before January 6, when he led the first breach of the police line at the Capitol. Convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 17 years with a federal terrorism enhancement.

Photo: Seminole County Jail, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Convicted, 18 yearsEthan Nordean

Ethan Nordean

Proud Boys sergeant-at-arms · Proud Boys

Proud Boys sergeant at arms who organized the Washington mobilization and was convicted of seditious conspiracy alongside Tarrio, sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Photo: Elvert Barnes, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Convicted, 10 yearsDominic Pezzola

Dominic Pezzola

Proud Boys member · Proud Boys

Proud Boys member who smashed a police officer's riot shield at the Capitol and used it to break a window into the Senate chamber; his video from inside became evidence in the trial. Convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 10 years.

Photo: FBI, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Convicted, new chargesChristopher Cantwell

Christopher Cantwell

White supremacist, the crying Nazi · Unite the Right participant

White supremacist from the Unite the Right rally, remembered for crying on camera when a warrant was issued for his arrest. A federal jury convicted him of extortion and threats over 2019 Telegram messages and he drew 41 months. Released in 2022, he was arrested again in March 2025 on a felony strangulation charge.

Photo: Derrick Horton, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Convicted, 2 yearsRR

Robert Rundo

Rise Above Movement founder · Rise Above Movement

Founded the Rise Above Movement, a fighting group that recruited at California rallies in 2017 and 2018 and sent members to Europe to train with far-right groups. Fled to Romania, was extradited, and in December 2024 was sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Anti-Riot Act.

Arrested, conspiracy to riotTR

Thomas Rousseau

Patriot Front founder · Patriot Front

Founded Patriot Front after Unite the Right in 2017; the group's manifesto calls for a white ethnostate and its members treat Black Americans, Jews and LGBTQ people as enemies. Arrested in June 2022 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with 30 other members packed into a U-Haul with riot gear near a Pride event, on conspiracy to riot charges. The SPLC identifies him as the founder.

Jailed, 2 yearsSM

Sam Melia

Hundred Handers founder · Patriotic Alternative (UK)

Ran the Hundred Handers, the anonymous Telegram group that generated a library of racist stickers its members printed and stuck across Britain between 2019 and 2021, and served as Patriotic Alternative's Yorkshire organiser. A jury convicted him of inciting racial hatred and encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage; at sentencing in March 2024 the judge called him an antisemite with Nazi sympathies and jailed him for two years. Police found a poster of Hitler in his garage and a book by Mosley in his bedroom.

Arrested, under investigationAS

Ashlea Simon

All For England leader · Britain First, now All For England (UK)

Co-led Britain First and now runs her own All For England group. In October 2026 she filmed Salford street tours naming the addresses of homes she presented as migrant housing; Greater Manchester Police counted 38 incidents of criminal damage to homes across the city from October 5, including a severed pig's head left outside one family's home and a four-year-old's bedroom window smashed. She refused to condemn whoever was carrying the attacks out. On October 26 she was arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to commit criminal damage; she says the case is a stitch-up.

The other branch
Kahanists and settler violence

Same ideology, different flag: the Kahanist current that banned Israeli parties grew out of, the ministers who carry it now, and the settlers the US Treasury sanctioned for attacks on Palestinian civilians. The sanctions themselves were revoked in January 2025, which is exactly why they belong on a page like this.

Convicted, in governmentItamar Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir

National security minister · Otzma Yehudit / Kach

Kahanist lawyer who joined the banned Kach party as a youth and boasts of dozens of indictments; convicted in 2007 of incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist organization, after holding up signs reading Expel the Arab enemy. He now runs Israel's national security ministry, and his party Otzma Yehudit is Kach's ideological successor. Haaretz has called him the legal go-to man for Jewish extremists.

Photo: אלון נוריאל, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
In governmentBezalel Smotrich

Bezalel Smotrich

Finance minister, settler · Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism leader from the settlement of Kedumim, finance minister and the minister responsible for the West Bank. Told a Paris audience in 2023 that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people, urged the army to raze a West Bank village, and back in 2017 called for driving Palestinians out of the land, subjugating those who remain and killing those who resist.

Photo: איתן פולד. The original uploader was Atbannett at Hebrew Wikipedia., via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Banned from runningBaruch Marzel

Baruch Marzel

Kach veteran, Hebron · Kach / Otzma Yehudit

Kahane's spokesman for ten years and the man who led Kach after the rabbi's assassination; lives in the Tel Rumeida settlement in Hebron. Israel's Supreme Court banned him from running for the Knesset in 2019 over a record of extreme racism and incitement, and his police record includes assaults on Palestinians and suspended prison sentences.

Photo: eman, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Convicted of incitementBen Zion Gopstein

Ben Zion Gopstein

Lehava leader · Lehava / Kach

Heads Lehava, the Kach-linked organization that opposes intermarriage and harasses Arab-Jewish couples; lawmakers have tried to designate it a terrorist group. Jerusalem's Magistrate Court convicted him in 2024 of incitement to racism over statements made between 2012 and 2017, and three Lehava members were convicted over an attempt to burn down an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem.

Photo: Auther gave permission, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025YL

Yinon Levi

Sanctioned settler · Meitarim Farm outpost

Led a network of hardline settlers out of the Meitarim Farm outpost who assaulted Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, burned their fields and destroyed their property. The US Treasury sanctioned him in February 2024 under an executive order on West Bank violence, and later sanctioned two funds that raised $140,000 for him; the Trump administration revoked the sanctions authority in January 2025 and he was delisted.

Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025MS

Moshe Sharvit

Sanctioned settler · Moshes Farm outpost

Ran the Moshes Farm outpost as a base for attacks on Palestinians and Israeli human rights defenders. In October 2023 he threatened the residents of the Palestinian village of Ein Shibli while armed and ordered them to leave; up to 100 people fled their homes in fear. Designated by the State Department in March 2024 and delisted in January 2025 after the sanctions order was revoked.

Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025DC

David Chai Chasdai

Sanctioned settler · Huwara riot

Initiated and led the February 2023 riot in the West Bank town of Huwara that torched vehicles and buildings and ended in the death of a Palestinian civilian. Sanctioned by the US Treasury in February 2024; two funds that raised $31,000 for him were sanctioned later that year, and the authority behind the designation was revoked in January 2025.

Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025NB

Neriya Ben Pazi

Sanctioned settler · West Bank outposts

Expelled Palestinian shepherds from hundreds of acres of land, and took part in an August 2023 attack on Palestinians near the village of Wadi as-Seeq. Designated by the State Department in March 2024 and delisted in January 2025 when the West Bank sanctions order was revoked.

Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025ET

Einan Tanjil

Sanctioned settler · West Bank violence

Assaulted Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists with stones and clubs, according to the US State Department, leaving injuries that needed medical treatment. Named in the first round of West Bank sanctions on February 1 2024, and delisted in January 2025 after the Trump administration revoked the sanctions authority.

Sanctioned 2024, delisted 2025SZ

Shalom Zicherman

Sanctioned settler · Mitzpe Yair outpost

Video evidence documented him assaulting Israeli activists and their vehicles in the West Bank: blocking them on the street, trying to break the windows of cars that had activists inside, and cornering and injuring at least two of them. Named in the February 1 2024 round of West Bank sanctions and delisted in January 2025 when the sanctions order was revoked.

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