Political / Ideological

White-supremacist Christian Identity terror group founded by Robert Mathews (1983). Conducted multiple armoured-car robberies and the 1984 Alan Berg murder. Mathews killed in FBI siege December 1984. Subject of Steve Earle's song and many academic studies.

Neo-Nazi accelerationist terror organisation founded 2015. Multiple US members convicted of murder; UK proscribed as terrorist organisation 2021. Heavily entwined with Order of Nine Angles esoteric materials.

Political-ideological organisation that evolved from the late Lyndon LaRouche's Marxist origins through a series of name changes (US Labor Party, NCLC, LaRouche PAC). Documented decades of intense internal control, financial demands, and legal trouble. Founder died 2019; offshoots continue under his widow Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Schiller Institute).

Decentralised online conspiracy movement originating from anonymous '8chan' posts (2017+) claiming a high-ranking US government insider ('Q') was revealing Deep State child-trafficking plot. Despite no central organisation, exhibits documented cult-like patterns of total information control, family severance, and apocalyptic timelines.

Modern online recruitment networks for caliphate-restoration ideology beyond ISIS Central. Multiple national terrorist designations.

Cross-reference — see qanon-movement and qanon-2024-2026-evolution.

Neo-Nazi accelerationist organisation founded 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro. Designated terrorist organisation in UK, Canada, Australia. Multiple US members convicted of weapons and conspiracy charges.

Cross-reference entry tracking QAnon's 2024–2026 evolution after Q drops largely ceased and the movement migrated to A-list 'anon' figures and Telegram channels.

American Maoist organisation founded 1975. Bob Avakian has been chairman since founding. Distinctive cult-of-personality around 'BA' and his 'New Synthesis of Communism'. Multiple ex-member testimonies.

Political-therapeutic movement developed by the late Fred Newman (d. 2011) blending Marxism-Leninism, Wittgensteinian philosophy, and 'social therapy' group practice. Affiliated with the All Stars Project youth programmes, the Castillo Theatre, and various third-party political ventures including the Independence Party of New York.

Decentralised American antigovernment movement claiming individuals can opt out of legal jurisdiction through pseudo-legal filings. FBI classifies it as a domestic terrorism threat after multiple violent incidents.

Russian private military company founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin (2014). Documented mass civilian casualties. Prigozhin killed in 2023 plane crash following his June 2023 mutiny; rebranded as Africa Corps under Russian state control.

Philadelphia-based Black-liberation back-to-nature movement founded by Vincent Leaphart / John Africa (1972). Subject of the May 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of MOVE's Osage Avenue compound, killing 11 including 5 children.

American white-nationalist hate group founded by Thomas Rousseau (2017) after splitting from Vanguard America. Distinctive uniformed flash-mob demonstrations. SPLC hate-group designation.

Russian white-supremacist paramilitary organisation. Designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US State Department in 2020. Trains foreign neo-Nazis at Partizan camp.

Indian Hindu nationalist paramilitary-style organisation founded by K.B. Hedgewar (1925). Largest volunteer organisation in the world. Documented links to political violence including the 1948 Gandhi assassination.

Bulgarian-Indian-marketed cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme founded by Ruja Ignatova (2014). Estimated $4+ billion fraud. Ignatova disappeared in 2017; FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list since 2022. Multiple co-conspirator convictions.

Small global Trotskyist organisation. Documented internal control patterns including ideological subordination to leadership and severance of departing members.

American Trotskyist organisation founded by James Robertson (1966). Documented patterns of strict ideological control, severance of dissenting members, and intense personal commitment.

Cross-reference — see anti-mask-anti-vax-2026-movement.

Decentralised online accelerationist movement (mid-2010s+) preparing for / accelerating second American civil war. Multiple violent incidents including 2020 California Federal Protective Service officer killing.

Decentralised white-nationalist combat-sports network founded by Robert Rundo (Rise Above Movement). Combines MMA training with explicit white-nationalist ideology. SPLC hate-group designation.

Umbrella entry for online communities around specific right-wing news influencer figures that exhibit cult-like parasocial dynamics. Substantial subscription costs and severance from family who criticise.

Continuing online anti-vax / 'health freedom' movement post-COVID-19. Documented family-severance patterns and substantial financial extraction via supplement and supplement-protocol sales.

Umbrella entry for the 'conspirituality' phenomenon — overlap of wellness, conspiracy theory (especially QAnon), and online religious-influencer communities. Documented extensively in the Conspirituality podcast.

Online 'incel' (involuntarily celibate) community. Documented links to multiple violent terror incidents. Distinct online radicalisation pipeline.

Umbrella entry for documented online radicalisation pipelines — red-pill (manosphere), black-pill (incel-nihilist), alt-right (white-nationalist) — that radicalise users from mainstream content into extreme communities.

Decentralised American militia network founded 2008 by Mike Vanderboegh. Multiple chapters and members convicted in January 6 2021 prosecutions. Some state chapters formally classified as hate groups.

American 'Western chauvinist' far-right group founded by Gavin McInnes (2016). SPLC hate-group designation 2018. Multiple senior leaders convicted for January 6 2021 Capitol attack including seditious conspiracy.

American anti-government militia founded by Stewart Rhodes (2009). Stewart Rhodes and other leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy for January 6 2021 Capitol attack.

American white-nationalist political party founded by Mike Peinovich (2020) emerging from The Right Stuff podcast network. SPLC hate-group designation.

Umbrella entry for online manosphere figures whose paid communities exhibit cult-like patterns. Substantial fees, parasocial loyalty, severance from female family/friends documented.

Hindu nationalist religious-political organisation (1964) founded under RSS auspices. Major role in 1990s Babri Masjid demolition and subsequent communal violence.

Small American Marxist-Leninist party founded by Sam Marcy (1959). Documented internal cult-of-personality patterns around Marcy. Continues post-2014 Marcy death.

Russian extremist political-ideological party founded by Eduard Limonov (1994). Distinctive 'national Bolshevik' synthesis. Banned by Russia 2007. Limonov died 2020.

Umbrella entry for small far-left cadre sects beyond the named entries (Spartacist, IBT, WWP, PSL, RCP USA). Common documented patterns of intense discipline.

Cross-reference entry tracking The Newman Tendency's continuation through the All Stars Project youth programmes after Fred Newman's 2011 death.

Umbrella entry for parallel left-wing online influencer parasocial cult communities. Substantial subscription costs and severance documented in specific sub-communities.

Historical Trotskyist sect founded by J. Posadas (1962). Distinctive doctrine combining Trotskyism with UFO contact theories. Small surviving network.

Online neoreactionary ('NRx', 'Dark Enlightenment') movement crystallised by Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land (2007+). Substantial influence on Silicon Valley far-right.

2017 cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that collapsed January 2018. Founder Satish Kumbhani indicted 2022. The promotional culture (Carlos Matos 'BitConneeect!' speech, parasocial community) is a textbook 2010s crypto-cult case.

Specific online sub-communities around Elon Musk exhibit parasocial cult-like dynamics — total defence of Musk against criticism, substantial financial commitment to Tesla / SpaceX adjacent investments, severance from family who criticise. Most Musk fans are not in such communities.

Umbrella entry for online 'traditional wife' influencer parasocial communities. Substantial overlap with Christian patriarchy / quiverfull movements documented.

Umbrella entry for the documented online accelerationist Silicon Valley parasocial communities (Marc Andreessen 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' adjacent, e/acc, etc.).

Umbrella for documented far-right religious-political movements with parasocial cult dynamics — Christian Reconstructionism, Theonomy, Seven Mountain Mandate adjacent.

American Marxist-Leninist party (2004 split from WWP). Documented cadre-discipline patterns and substantial member commitment.

Mainstream Effective Altruism movement (2009+, William MacAskill, Toby Ord). Substantial controversy after the 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX collapse exposed EA-aligned governance failures.

Rationalist community around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong (2009+) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Documented sub-community concerns including the 2022–2025 Ziz cult-of-personality murders.

Intelligent Design think-tank (1990, Seattle). Center for Science and Culture is the primary ID-promoting unit. Distinguished from young-earth creationism.

Broader US Communist Party (CPUSA) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Mainstream political parties. Distinct from cadre-Trotskyist sects.

Longtermist philosophical movement (2010s+, William MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord). Mainstream academic ethics with substantial documented critique especially post-FTX.

Umbrella for religious-political fundraising organisations across the spectrum (Family Research Council, ADL, CAIR, etc.). Mainstream low-moderate.