All legislators discussed in this report belong to far-right Facebook groups, running the gamut from COVID Denial outfits, to far-right School-Centered groups, to groups influenced by ideas associated with the violent, racist and antisemitic Posse Comitatus [See Chapter 4, The Far-Right Groups for the range and definitions of groups in this study.]
The ten legislators profiled below, including seven men and three women, come from different parts of the country but have in common membership in a range of far-right groups. Their political activism and legislative agendas point to the underlying threat to human rights and democracy posed by the mainstreaming of such ideas and goals.