'We need 200 more Ogles'; White nationalists praise Tennessee congressman
U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles wants to reinstate laws that give preference to immigrants from Northern Europe, and people who favor ethnic cleansing are applauding.
Far-right extremists with histories of white supremacist and neo-Nazi activities are applauding GOP Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles’ efforts to, in his words, “make America look like America again.”
Ogles has said he wants to push legislation repealing the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, which ended what was viewed at the time as a racist immigration policy. The diehard MAGA congressman has called for reimposition of quotas that severely restricted immigration to people from Northern European countries.
He has called not only for banning anyone who practices the Islamic faith, but he has also said he would deport all Muslims, even those who are legal immigrants. And he has boasted about his A+ “remigration score,” a reference to a policy that critics have described as ethnic cleansing.
Among those celebrating Ogles’ proposals has been far-right European figure Martin Sellner, who popularized the term “remigration” as a mechanism for driving out non-White immigrants from Western countries.
Sellner—who was investigated for his ties to the racist mass murderer in Christchurch, New Zealand, although no charges were ever filed—once considered himself a neo-Nazi but now prefers the label “identitarian.” He is banned from entering the U.S. and several other Western countries.
“Great,” Sellner said in a post on X in response to Ogles’ announcement of his desire to repeal the Hart-Cellar Act.
Also applauding Ogles was a social media channel associated with self-proclaimed fascist Robert Rundo, creator of a pair of white supremacist networks associated with preparing young men for street brawls.
Rundo has called for “making fascism cool again.”
“If you told anyone in 2016 that this would even be up for discussion you would be called a dreamer,” said a post on Rundo’s Telegram channel, White Lads Aesthetics. “In 10 more years who knows where we will be.”
Ogles also drew praise from an anonymous X account—known as “Captive Dreamer”—that has previously quoted Adolf Hitler, questioned the Holocaust, and expressed support for “an Aryan future.”
“This guy is like Thomas Massie but good,” Captive Dreamer posted about Ogles.
Praise from ‘White Papers Policy Institute’
Some of the most celebratory reactions have come from an X account for the so-called White Papers Policy Institute. That account, @WhitePapersPol, and the congressman’s official @RepOgles account follow each other on the platform.
Portraying itself as a think tank, the White Papers account claims it is “a team of analysts who seek creative, humane, and internationally cooperative ideas to promote remigration and the vitality of Western Civilization.”
White Papers presents cherry-picked statistics that it hopes will discredit immigrants while ignoring any data that suggests the positive benefits of immigration. It even lays out a plan to convince Black Americans to leave the country, suggesting that the young “would take up a free ride” to Africa.
When Ogles posted on March 12 that “America is for people named Andrew Jackson, NOT Mohamed Mohamed,” the White Papers account shared it with a euphoric GIF from the Amadeus film.
That far-right account posted the same image on March 10 in response to a post from Ogles stating that “paperwork doesn’t magically make you an American” and “Muslims are unable to assimilate; they all have to go back.”
White Papers expressed support for Ogles in a related post that same day.
“All Americans need to remember that membership in a nation is about heritage and inheritance,” it posted. “It is no accident of birth which makes Americans. It’s the work of our ancestors who have built a nation for themselves.”
That account, saying “we need 200 more Ogles,” has called the Tennessee Republican “one of the best Congressman we have on the issue of immigration, both illegal and more importantly LEGAL.”
So who is the White Papers Policy Institute?
According to a December 2023 podcast posted on the white-nationalist Counter-Currents website, the project was the work of a man who identified himself as James Karlsson. The antifascist Anonymous Comrades Collective later outed him as James William Kreger from Howell, Michigan.
Kreger’s name surfaced, according to the collective, in a leak from the short-lived neo-Nazi organization known as the Nationalist Coalition. The group also unearthed documentation linking Kreger to the neo-Nazi National Justice Party.
Now age 26, Kreger enlisted another white nationalist activist, Cyan Rose Quinn, in 2023 to become the spokesperson for the effort. The 36-year-old White blonde presents an unexpectedly pleasant face for the white nationalist project.
Antifascist researchers have previously linked Quinn to the American Identity Movement, an off-shoot of the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa. She later went to work for the white nationalist Counter Currents website, where she wrote positively of her interactions with confirmed white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
During that 2023 Counter Currents podcast, Kreger and Quinn outlined their plans for the White Papers Policy Institute.
“The entire project of White Papers,” Kreger said, “is to convince White people that we just have to give all these people a little push, and they’ll walk out the door.”
Quinn agreed.
“Overall, I’m definitely in favor of the secession of the non-White population back to their countries of origin,” she said.
Again, this is a group that is followed by Congressman Andy Ogles’ official X account.
‘A+ Remigration Score’
This follows my previous reporting about Ogles having shared on his X account the announcement that he had received an ‘A+ Remigration Score’ from a shadowy group known as the Providence Society.
The Providence Society’s webpage linked to an X account for what was described as the editor of the group’s publication arm. That account has expressed pro-Nazi views, as well as disdain for people of color.
Ogles’ office has not responded to my inquiries about the congressman’s awareness of that group and its members.
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