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Great Replacement Theory

2010

2010-01-01 Discussion of the Great Replacement Theory surfaced a lot more and even showed up later in 2022 during the Buffalo NY massacre when it was mentioned in the manifesto.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/the-french-origins-of-you-will-not-replace-us

https://forumtogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf

2015

2015-09-06 Stephen Miller allegedly recommended “The Camp of the Saints” to Breitbart News. This book a French novel about white genocide and the great replacement theory.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/stephen-miller/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/miller-pushed-racist-camp-saints-beloved-far-right/

2021

2021-04-14 During a hearing Representative Scott Perry pushed a Great Replacement theory that nonwhite immigrants were intentionally brought to the US to dilute voting power. Perry also allegedly voted against the Violence Against Women Act, claimed ISIS was behind a mass shooting in Las Vegas, and tried to repeal the ACA without any way to replace it.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/scott-perry-white-replacement-theory-tucker-carlson-fox-news

https://pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/2024-house-elections-congress-scott-perry-janelle-stelson-conspiracy-theories-antisemitism/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/racist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-explained/

https://www.rawstory.com/scott-perry-2668133539/

THIS PAGE WAS REMOVED https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/renewing-the-united-states-commitment-to-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-from-central-america/

2021-04-15 Senator Ron Johnson pushed the Great Replacement Theory on Fox, “Is it really they want to remake the demographics of America? To ensure that they stay in power forever?”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-ron-johnson-s-ugly-rhetoric-about-us-demographics-matters-n1264318

2021-07-26 JD Vance said, ”You can’t have so many people coming to the country at a time when our own families aren’t replicating themselves”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/26/jd-vances-plan-let-parents-vote-their-kids-might-not-work-way-he-thinks/

https://baptistnews.com/article/jd-vance-has-an-odd-way-with-words/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw

2022

2022-03-17 JD Vance claimed immigration was an invasion on Fox, “They can’t win re-election in 2022 unless they bring in a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here. That’s what this is about. We have an invasion in this country.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/democrats-want-to-replace-voters-that-are-already-here-j-d-vance-gives-nod-to-replacement-theory-during-interview-with-tucker-carlson/

2023 April

2023-04-09 Marjorie Taylor Greene openly embraced the Great Replacement Theory during a rally.

2023 October

2023-10-06 NBC reported that Elon Musk ally Mike Benz pushed the Great Replacement Theory on his podcasts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/michael-benz-rising-voice-conservative-criticism-online-censorship-rcna119213

https://www.ms.now/top-stories/latest/marco-rubio-antisemitism-michael-benz-rcna201770

2024 March

2024-03-01 Charlie Kirk said, “The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-pushes-great-replacement-conspiracy-they-wont-stop-until-you-and-your

2025 August

2025-08-22 Charlie Kirk said, “America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-says-he-cant-find-christ-compassion-long-term-immigrants-who-dont-speak

2025 September

2025-09-02 Eric Schmitt told a crowd at a National Conservatism meeting the left was “deracinating American tradition into an ideological creed”.

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/national-conservatism-conference-senator-eric-schmitt-and-others/665005

https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-5-2025/registration/

https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-5-2025/confirmed-speakers/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4142963946025590

https://newrepublic.com/post/199933/republican-senator-schmitt-speech-america-belongs-to-us

2025-09-10 Emma Waters of the Heritage Foundation addressed pro-life views, saying outsourcing IVF could invite birthright citizenship.

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/taming-ivfs-wild-west

2025 October

2025-10-15 Trump allegedly considered overhauling the refugee program to favor white people. During a rally at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pocono, Pennsylvania Trump lamented that the U.S. was not receiving more immigrants from places like Norway or Sweden.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-refugee-white-people.html

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-refugee-overhaul-to-favour-white-south-africans-europeans-report-9464721

https://www.newsweek.com/us-refugee-groups-sound-alarm-potential-trump-changes-10894034

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-ramps-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-embraces-phrase-hole/story?id=128279166

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/trump-immigration-north-europe

2025-10-29 JD Vance said, “It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-totally-acceptable-want-211843082.html

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/vance-seems-think-segregation-acceptable-193006549.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/29/jd-vance-immigrants-neighbors-language-racist/86966480007/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-neighbors-same-language/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naCsB7WxMBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw

2026 February

2026-02-04 Elon Musk reposted about the Great Replacement theory.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

2026-02-12 Trump nominated Jeremy Carl who faces scrutiny for his views on the Great Replacement theory and comments made about Jewish people.

JEREMY CARL GREAT REPLACEMENT TWEET https://web.archive.org/web/20210918220057/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4/status/1438943009937240078

JEREMY CARL SAYS GEORGE FLOYD IS IN HELL https://newrepublic.com/post/200965/trump-nominee-jeremy-carl-deletes-racist-posts-liberal-execution

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-nominee-jeremy-carl-racist-views

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-nomination-senior-diplomatic-post-doubt-over-insensitive-remarks-2026-02-12/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/kfile-jeremy-carl-state-department-deleted-tweets

https://web.archive.org/web/20210918220057/https://twitter.com/jeremycarl4/status/1438943009937240078

https://apnews.com/article/biden-juneteenth-federal-holiday-9bb62a3448376e05d87ac79cf27970d2

2026-02-16 Donald Trump endorsed MAGA donor and great replacement theorist Jace Yarbrough for Texas’ 32nd Congressional District.

https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump

https://www.jaceforcongress.com/about

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/jace-yarbrough-texas

https://www.ms.now/opinion/jace-yarbrough-texas-congress-trump-maga-gerrymandering

https://vdare.com/articles/the-great-replacement-the-1965-immigration-act-and-the-think-tanks

https://www.thewellnews.com/political-news/speaker-johnson-unveils-gop-joint-fundraising-committee/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116083521755181713

https://evangelicaldarkweb.org/2026/02/15/trump-snubs-woke-pastor-in-texas-32nd-primary/

2026-02-27 The Trump administration aimed to process 4500 white-only refugees per month from South Africa and installed trailers at the U.S. embassy in Pretoria for refugee processing.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/white-south-african-refugee-admissions-set-to-rise-to-4500-under-new-us-plan/2mbjwbf

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aims-bring-4500-white-south-africans-per-month-refugees-document-says-2026-02-26/

https://www.africanews.com/2026/02/27/south-africa-us-aims-to-process-4500-refugee-applications-each-month/

https://africa.com/u-s-plans-to-admit-4500-white-south-africans-monthly-as-refugees/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-limits-annual-refugees-to-u-s-to-7500-itll-be-mostly-white-south-africans

2026 March

2026-03-12 Trump accused South Africa of white genocide and invited white South Afrikaners to migrate to the US. By March many of the white South Afrikaners returned to South Africa, citing better cost of living, less racism, and less violence. One South Afrikaner stated, “People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed. I don’t want to live in a place like this”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-white-south-africans-are-persecuted-some-are-returning-better-life-2026-03-11/

https://www.latintimes.com/some-white-south-africans-are-reportedly-leaving-us-return-home-amid-safety-concerns-i-dont-595588

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/11/world/trump-white-south-africans-better-life/

2026 June

2026-06-13 At a Houston Texas GOP convention on Judeo-Christian values, Texas Republicans promoted “Don’t Sharia My Texas” and then quickly rejected Muslim attendees. One attendee said, “Halal food is going to be a giant money maker. It is everywhere that Islam goes. The problem is you eat meat that’s been sacrificed to their fake God…”

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/religion/2026/06/16/554663/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tP7JyVzi9A&list=WL&index=2&t=201s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt6XyUDV_eo&list=WL&index=1

2026 July

2026-07-08 Far-right Pastor Dale Partridge claimed in a sermon that God assigned Black people to subordination and dependence due to a biblical curse of Ham and then called for a “return to European Christian colonization of African nations”.

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/dale-partridge-calls-return-european-christian-colonization-african-nations

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/controversial-pastor-revives-discredited-doctrine-1807853

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkeRqTlVPe8&list=WL&index=4&t=11s