The AltRight Corporation is an

alt-right The alt-right, an abbreviation of alternative right, is a far-right, white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late 2000s before increasing in popularity during the mid-2 ...

organization based in

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. It began operations in January 2017, and runs the website "altright.com". The site claims to feature "the best writers and analysts" of the alt-right, and lists three founders:

Daniel Friberg Daniel Friberg (born 1978) is a Swedish businessman, publisher, and writer, described as a leading figure of the Swedish neo-fascist movement and global alt-right movements. He is the CEO and co-founder (in 2010) of Arktos Media. He co-founded ...

Jason Jorjani Jason Reza Jorjani (born February 21, 1981) is an American philosopher, writer, former New Jersey Institute of Technology lecturer, former editor-in-chief of the European New Right publishing company Arktos Media, and co-founder of the AltRigh ...

, and Richard Spencer.Teale, Chris (January 26, 2017
"The 'alt-right' arrives in Alexandria"
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'' Because of the involvement of Friberg and Spencer, the creation of the corporation has been described as "merger of the

National Policy Institute The National Policy Institute (NPI) is a white supremacist think tank and lobbying group which is based in Alexandria, Virginia. It lobbies for white supremacists and the alt-right. Its president is Richard B. Spencer. It has been largely inac ...

, run by American white supremacist Richard Spencer, and an antisemitic Scandinavian media platform." At the time of its formation, it was reported that the corporation had been created in partnership with

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groups from

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.Murriel, Maria (May 3, 2017
"White nationalism in Sweden has a long history. Now it also has partners in America"

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The organization's purpose was reported by

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to be to "unite global factions of the so-called alt-right", but it has also been described as intended to create a "more ideological Breitbart ews. The

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considers the AltRight Corporation to be a

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.Pitoksky, Marina (July 23, 2018
"What is the alt-right? And how is it using social media to spread its message?"
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Departures

In September 2017, AltRight Corporation co-founder Jason Jorjani claimed that in 2016, funders "very close" to then-presidential candidate

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, had offered him funding to "infiltrate" the alt-right, with the intention of convincing its leaders to drop their

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rhetoric, and move away from race-based politics, and this is the reason he affiliated himself with Spencer and the alt-right. In October 2017, Jorjani published an essay which claimed that members of the " Deep State" would arrange for the funding to create a corporation combining Spencer's National Policy Institute and Friberg's

Arktos Media Arktos Media is a publishing company known for publishing authors of the European New Right, as well as translating European far-right literature into English. History Arktos was founded in India in 2009 by Swedish businessman and former acti ...

, as well as Henrik Palmgren's Red Ice Radio and Television network of Sweden. Johnson, Greg (October 2017
"The Altright Corporation & the American Deep State"
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Counter-Currents Gregory Johnson (born 1971) is an American white nationalist and advocate for a white ethnostate. He is known for his role as editor-in-chief of the white nationalist imprint Counter-Currents Publishing, which he founded in 2010 with Michael Po ...

'' Jorjani, Jason October 1, 2017
"The Coming Persian War"
''Majorityrights com'' Once the AltRightCorporation was founded, after spending months making speeches on behalf of the alt-right and public appearances with Richard Spencer, Jorjani said that influencing the movement was more difficult than he had thought it would be. He resigned from the AltRight Corporation in August 2017, Jorjani, Jason (September 20, 2017
"Why I Left the Alt-Right"
''Jason Jorjani'' shortly after the violence at the

Unite the Right rally The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017. Marchers included members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, ...

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. Jorjani has since written the one of the reasons for his leaving was that he "watched the corporation that was my brainchild turn into a magnet for white trash."Schaeffer, Carol (March 18, 2018
"Alt Fight"
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'' He also said that Richard Spencer is "smart in the sense of the word 'smartass.'" and that Spencer had "pretty much destroyed the alt-right brand" by his emphasis on race and "all kinds of other stupidity."Mazzola, Jessica (September 2017
"I'm a leftist, not a Nazi, says N.J. professor at center of Hitler video controversy"
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'' In 2018 Arktos Media, which was co-founded Friberg, announced that it had also departed from the AltRight Corporation. With the departures of Jorjani and Friberg, Richard Spencer is the only co-founder left at the corporation. In August 2018, Greg Conte, a close ally of Spencer, resigned from multiple Spencer-related positions he held, including one at the AltRight Corporation.Barrouquere, Brett (August 15, 2018
"Greg Conte, a key Richard Spencer ally, walks away from multiple alt-right operations"

References

{{reflist Alt-right organizations Companies based in Alexandria, Virginia 2017 establishments in Virginia

Departures

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