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A white separatist group is openly planning a network of whites-only settlements across rural America that aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs.
Why it matters: The communities are launching in the Ozarks, Appalachia and the South as the Trump administration has backed off prosecuting many civil rights cases.
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What we're watching: If the federal lawsuit reaches the discovery phase, it could expose RTTL's membership rules, land agreements and plans for additional communities — details the group has largely kept private.
A white separatist group is openly planning a network of whites-only settlements across rural America that aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs.
Why it matters: The communities are launching in the Ozarks, Appalachia and the South as the Trump administration has backed off prosecuting many civil rights cases.
- They're also surfacing at a time when the nation is becoming increasingly diverse, and as the racist "great replacement theory" has become a staple of far-right politics in recent years.
- Those plans amount to intentionally challenging the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which banned discrimination in housing. They've been inspired partly by recent decisions by the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court and the Trump administration's reversal of much of President Lyndon Johnson's civil rights legacy.
- Using an AI-generated corporate framework discovered on 4chan, the founders structured the community as a "private membership association" linked to a for-profit LLC, according to court documents.
- They boast that this dual structure creates a loophole that allows them to bypass requirements of the Fair Housing Act and explicitly filter their neighbors by race and religion.
- The group said work has begun on a second site in Arkansas, and it's planning more projects in the Ozarks, the South and Appalachia.
- It seeks to create "a decentralized movement" and aims "to create many independent and fully functioning parallel societies."
- The group also helps people and groups with "common ancestry" purchase rural land.
- An application fee for the private membership association costs $25, after which members undergo background checks and share information about their ethnic background.
- RTTL had raised more than $200,000 as of May 2026, including $105,158 for additional chapters and $94,401 for legal-framework research, court records show.
- "You're going to get Hitler 2.0 when you deserve him. He's not just going to show up to a people that aren't putting in the work themselves. We have to put in that work," Orwoll said in a video posted on X.
- RTTL and its lawyer did not respond to Axios' request for comment.
- The lawsuit alleges that RTTL's founders want to illegally build small whites-only neighborhoods and scale them quickly.
- Founders also want to develop settlements of up to 50,000 people and eventually "cities of thousands," the suit alleges.
- Seicshnaydre said the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is the group's most formidable legal hurdle, noting that the Reconstruction-era statute has zero exemptions and prohibits all racial and cultural discrimination. Much of the language of that law is empowered by the 13th Amendment.
- "I would be very surprised to see the court take this step because it would be quite a radical one, and would unravel just very fundamental principles of property rights and inclusion," Seicshnaydre said.
- "Regarding Return to the Land, we began looking into the development after receiving complaints last year. We have no updates we can share at this time."
What we're watching: If the federal lawsuit reaches the discovery phase, it could expose RTTL's membership rules, land agreements and plans for additional communities — details the group has largely kept private.
