This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.
Books
Thomas Milan Konda: Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America.
Anna Merlan: Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.
Ryan M. Milner & Whitney Phillips: You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape.
Russell Muirhead & Nancy L. Rosenblum: A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy.
Kathryn S. Olmsted: Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11.
Joseph M. Parent & Joseph Uscinski: American Conspiracy Theories.
Joseph Uscinski:
Recovering from Conspiracy Theories
Bristol Cable: The Conspiracist in Recovery: A short documentary.
Right Wing Conspiracy Theory News: 2024
January 5. Mack Lamoureux: It’s Not Even a Week Into 2024 and There’s a School Shooting Conspiracy: Conspiracy theorists think that a shooting that killed a sixth grader was really a coverup to protect Democrats from the recent Jeffrey Epstein revelations.
February 9. Odette Yousef: The border crisis is helping to mainstream a dangerous conspiracy theory.
February 21. Payton Armstrong: Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist’s show.
February 24. Ben Goggin: Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.
March 6. David Gilbert: He Promoted an Election Conspiracy Film. Now He’s Headed for Congress. Brandon Gill, a far-right 2020 election denier who helped promote the debunked 2000 Mules film, just won his Texas primary.
March 15. David Gilbert: New Far-Right Conspiracy Claims Boeing’s Accidents Are Intentional:Following a series of incidents involving the company’s planes, some conspiracists are baselessly alleging that Boeing is failing on purpose as part of a global plot to bring down Western civilization.
March 27. Anna Merlan: Transvestigation: What to Know About the Bizarre and Transphobic Conspiracy Theory.
April 5. David Gilbert: The Solar Eclipse Is the Super Bowl for Conspiracists: Far-right conspiracy theorists are claiming that “elites” will use the eclipse to control humanity, sway the presidential election, and everything else under the sun.
May 31. Tom Dreisbach: Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology.
July 14. NPR: Conspiracy theories surge following the assassination attempt on Trump.
July 23. Brandy Zadrozny: How the ‘second shooter’ conspiracy theory spread after the Trump assassination attempt: The FBI says the gunman acted alone, and the Secret Service says there’s no evidence of a second shooter. That hasn’t stopped the speculation online.
August 1. Jordan Green: Texas sheriffs engage conspiracy theorist who created Trump enemies ‘target list’.
August 7. Isaac Stanley-Becker & Beth Reinhard: JD Vance in texts with far-right figure: Profane and off-the-cuff. Private messages show Trump’s running mate entertaining conspiracy theories and scorning the late Sheldon Adelson.
August 7. Isaac Stanley-Becker & Beth Reinhard: JD Vance in texts with far-right figure: Profane and off-the-cuff. Private messages show Trump’s running mate entertaining conspiracy theories and scorning the late Sheldon Adelson.
August 8. Ben Makuch: Far-right online attacks against Tim Walz focus on conspiracy theory: Users of online platforms spread conspiracy theory that he changed Minnesota flag to mimic Somalia’s.
August 8. Anna Merlan: Can Elon Musk Really Sue People for Not Wanting to Be Seen With Him? A lawsuit claims that corporate advertisers avoided X as part of a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Older News
Shane Burley: Book Review: Jewish Space Lasers. The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories.
Elaina Plott Calabro: A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality: Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?
Cynthia Miller-Idriss:
- Tucker Carlson is the No. 1 champion of this leading far-right conspiracy. How Tucker Carlson revived and supercharged the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy.
- The racist theory that allegedly motivated the Buffalo shooter suspect, explained: The conspiracy theory is so powerful because it can easily be directed toward any demographic group seen as a threat to white people.
David Neiwert: Trump’s meltdown on Truth Social rips away façade as he embraces QAnon conspiracy theories.
Tess Owen:
- Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests: Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
- ‘Get Armed While You Can’: Far-Right Midterm Rhetoric Has Experts Alarmed: Conspiracy theories about election fraud, some being pushed by influential Republicans, have experts worried about the possibility of political violence.