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{{Short description|American alt-right white nationalist website opposing immigration to the United States}}
{{Use American English|date=November 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox website
| name = VDARE
| logo = VDARE logo.svg
| type = [[Far-right politics]]<ref name="far-right" />
| founder = [[Peter Brimelow]]
| owner = VDARE Foundation
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1999}}
| current_status = Operations suspended since {{end date and age|2024|07|26}}
| url = {{URL|vdare.com}}
}}

'''VDARE''' is an American [[Far-right politics|far-right]]<ref name="far-right">Multiple sources:
*{{cite journal |last1=Tischauser |first1=Jeff |last2=Musgrave |first2=Kevin |title=Far-Right Media as Imitated Counterpublicity: A Discourse Analysis on Racial Meaning and Identity on Vdare.com |journal=Howard Journal of Communications |date=26 May 2020 |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=282–296 |doi=10.1080/10646175.2019.1702124 |url=https://www.academia.edu/44112053 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |s2cid=213418152 |via=[[Academia.edu]] |accessdate=February 9, 2021 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104213242/https://www.academia.edu/44112053 |url-status=live }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kaiser |first1=Jonas |last2=Rauchfleisch |first2=Adrian |last3=Bourassa |first3=Nikki |title=Connecting the (Far-)Right Dots: A Topic Modeling and Hyperlink Analysis of (Far-)Right Media Coverage during the US Elections 2016 |journal=[[Digital Journalism (journal)|Digital Journalism]] |date=15 March 2020 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=422–441 |doi=10.1080/21670811.2019.1682629 |publisher=[[Routledge]]|s2cid=211434599 }}
*{{cite book |last1=Caiani |first1=Manuela |last2=Della Porta |first2=Donatella |author-link2=Donatella della Porta |last3=Wagemann |first3=Claudius |title=Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States |date=February 16, 2012 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-964126-0 |pages=218, 227 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289232867 |access-date=9 February 2021 |language=en |via=[[ResearchGate]]}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Baele |first1=Stephane J. |last2=Brace |first2=Lewys |last3=Coan |first3=Travis G. |title=Uncovering the Far-Right Online Ecosystem: An Analytical Framework and Research Agenda |journal=[[Studies in Conflict & Terrorism]] |date=30 December 2020 |volume=46 |issue=9 |pages=1599–1623 |doi=10.1080/1057610X.2020.1862895 |doi-access=free |publisher=[[Routledge]]|hdl=2078.1/283421 |hdl-access=free }}
</ref> website that promotes [[Opposition to immigration|opposition]] to [[immigration to the United States]].<ref name="Thielman 2019">{{cite web |last1=Thielman |first1=Sam |title=The fascist next door: how to cover hate |url=https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/how-to-cover-hate.php |website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |access-date=9 February 2021 |language=en |date=May 9, 2019 |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806135212/https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/how-to-cover-hate.php |url-status=live }}</ref> It is associated with [[white supremacy]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mudde |first1=Cas |author-link=Cas Mudde |title=The Far Right Today |date=October 25, 2019 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-1-5095-3685-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD25DwAAQBAJ |access-date=10 October 2020 |archive-date=February 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217015421/https://books.google.com/books?id=aD25DwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Time>Sam Frizell, [https://time.com/4418591/republican-convention-white-supremacist-tweet/ GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech] . [[Time (magazine)|Time]], July 21, 2016</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |last1        = Arnold
 |first1       = Kathleen
 |year         = 2011
 |title        = Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
 |url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=nS12bSVKgmoC&q=%22vdare+a+hate+group%22&pg=PA89
 |publisher    = ABC-CLIO
 |page         = 89
 |isbn         = 9780313375224
 |access-date  = August 30, 2017
 |archive-date = June 25, 2024
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20240625020421/https://books.google.com/books?id=nS12bSVKgmoC&q=%22vdare+a+hate+group%22&pg=PA89
 |url-status   = live
}}</ref> [[white nationalism]],<ref name="white nationalism">Multiple sources:
*Holly Folk, ''The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.com."
*Robert W. Sussman, ''The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea'' (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.
*Alan Rappeport, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/politics/alt-right-reaction.html?_r=0 Hillary Clinton Denounces the 'Alt-Right,' and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619040638/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/politics/alt-right-reaction.html?_r=0 |date=June 19, 2017 }}, ''The New York Times'' (August 26, 2016), A11: "The white nationalist website VDare..."
*John Woodrow Cox, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-financial-secrecy-behind-white-nationalist-group-known-for-hail-trump-nazi-salutes/2016/12/01/ae8e2e0a-b7d1-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html The financial secrecy behind white-nationalist group known for 'Hail Trump,' Nazi salutes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218201437/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-financial-secrecy-behind-white-nationalist-group-known-for-hail-trump-nazi-salutes/2016/12/01/ae8e2e0a-b7d1-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html |date=February 18, 2017 }}, ''The Washington Post'' (December 1, 2016): "Three white-nationalist nonprofits similar in size and mission — the VDare Foundation, the New Century Foundation and the Charles Martel Society..."
*Caitlin Dewey, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/ Amazon, PayPal and Spotify inadvertently fund white supremacists. Here’s how] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811105806/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/ |date=August 11, 2017 }}. ''Washington Post'' (March 17, 2015): "VDARE, a radical white nationalist site"
*{{cite news|title=Funding questioned; Critics say some Defend Colorado money tainted|first=Kevin|last=Flynn|work=[[Rocky Mountain News]]|date=July 15, 2006|page=4.A|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4846799,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719131656/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4846799,00.html|archive-date=July 19, 2009}}
</ref><ref name="Phillips">Kristine Phillips, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/26/a-resort-canceled-a-white-nationalist-groups-first-ever-conference-because-of-its-views/ Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group’s views] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107172913/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/26/a-resort-canceled-a-white-nationalist-groups-first-ever-conference-because-of-its-views/ |date=November 7, 2019 }}, ''The Washington Post'' (January 26, 2017).</ref> and the [[alt-right]].<ref name="splcPDI">{{cite web|last1=Beirich|first1=Heidi|last2=Potok|first2=Mark|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/paleoconservatives-decry-immigration|title='Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|work=[[Intelligence Report]]|date=Winter 2003|access-date=May 5, 2017|archive-date=December 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219074746/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/paleoconservatives-decry-immigration|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Piggott">{{Cite news|author=Stephen Piggott|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/21/ann-coulter-attends-vdare-christmas-party-%E2%80%93-her-second-white-nationalist-event-three-months|title=Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=December 21, 2016|language=en|access-date=May 9, 2017|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225115834/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/21/ann-coulter-attends-vdare-christmas-party-%E2%80%93-her-second-white-nationalist-event-three-months|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Hannah Gais|date=December 11, 2016|title=Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right|publisher=The Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek)|url=http://www.newsweek.com/cucking-nazi-salutes-night-out-alt-right-529688|access-date=May 9, 2017|archive-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809122157/https://www.newsweek.com/cucking-nazi-salutes-night-out-alt-right-529688|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia'' describes VDARE as "one of the most prolific anti-immigration media outlets in the United States" and states that it was "broadly concerned with race issues in the United States".<ref name="Jacobs">Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=nS12bSVKgmoC&pg=PA481 VDARE]" in ''Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia'' (ed. Kathleen R. Arnold, Vol. 1: A-R), pp. 481-82.</ref> Established in 1999, the website's editor was [[Peter Brimelow]], who once stated that "whites built American culture" and that "it is at risk from non-whites who would seek to change it".<ref name="Jacobs" />

The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration [[Online hate speech|hate website]]" that "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, [[Scientific racism|race scientists]], and [[Antisemitism|anti-Semites]]", including [[Steve Sailer]], [[Jared Taylor]], [[J. Philippe Rushton]], [[Samuel T. Francis]], [[John Derbyshire]]<ref name="Thielman 2019" /> and [[Pat Buchanan]].<ref name="SPLCprofile"/> Brimelow acknowledged that VDARE published writings by white nationalists but said that VDARE was not a "white nationalist Web site".<ref name="BrimelowWhite">{{cite news|title=Speakout: VDare.com is no 'white nationalist Web site'|first=Peter|last=Brimelow|authorlink=Peter Brimelow|work=[[Rocky Mountain News]]|date=July 23, 2006|page=5E|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/speak_out/article/0,2777,DRMN_23970_4863292,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512081318/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/speak_out/article/0,2777,DRMN_23970_4863292,00.html|archive-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>Michael Kunzelman, [https://www.apnews.com/ae1c8163ac574bb3bd1f3facfca5fb83 White nationalists raise millions with tax-exempt charities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718221359/https://www.apnews.com/ae1c8163ac574bb3bd1f3facfca5fb83 |date=July 18, 2019 }}, Associated Press (December 22, 2016): "Brimelow has denied that his website is white nationalist but acknowledged it publishes works by writers who fit that description "in the sense that they aim to defend the interests of American whites."</ref>

In July 2024, it was announced that VDARE would be suspending operations in response to legal and technical issues. Brimelow also stepped down as president of the VDARE Foundation.<ref name="Gais">{{cite web | last=Gais | first=Hannah | title=White Nationalist Website VDARE Suspends Operations Amid Legal Scrutiny | website=Southern Poverty Law Center | date=18 September 2024 | url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/09/18/white-nationalist-website-vdare-suspends-operations-amid-legal-scrutiny | access-date=23 September 2024 | archive-date=September 23, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923164638/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/09/18/white-nationalist-website-vdare-suspends-operations-amid-legal-scrutiny | url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2025, New York sued to shut down the VDARE Foundation, alleging the non-profit was operated for the benefit of its owners Peter and Lydia Brimelow.<ref name="CNSVdareSued">{{Cite news |last=Uebelacker |first=Erik |date=September 3, 2025 |title=New York sues to shutter alt-right nonprofit VDARE over misuse of donor funds |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/new-york-sues-to-shutter-alt-right-nonprofit-vdare-over-misuse-of-donor-funds |access-date=2025-10-08 |work=[[Courthouse News Service]]}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Virginia Dare 5c 1937 issue.JPG|thumb|Postage stamp depicting [[Virginia Dare]] (child in middle), the namesake of the website.]]
[[Peter Brimelow]], who edits VDARE, is a former editor at the ''[[National Review]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=July 24, 2013|title=A Sermon on Race from National Review|author-link=Kelefa Sanneh|author=Sanneh, Kelefa|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|access-date=May 20, 2015|archive-date=December 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202025145/http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]''.<ref name="Jacobs"/> The English-born Brimelow founded the website in 1999 under the auspices of the Center for American Unity, a [[Virginia]]-based organization that he also founded<ref name="SPLCprofile">{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare|title=Extremist Files: Groups: VDARE|work=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=January 9, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008035521/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare|url-status=live}}</ref> in 1999.<ref name="splcPDI" /> VDARE was founded as an outgrowth of Brimelow's anti-immigration activism and the publication of his book ''Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster''.<ref name="Phillips"/> The website says it is concerned with the "racial and culture identity of America" and "honest consideration of race and ethnicity, the foundations of human grouping, that human differences can be explained and their social consequences understood, whether those differences are philosophical, cultural or biological."<ref name="Coaston">{{cite news|last=Coaston|first=Jane|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/8/22/17768296/peter-brimelow-vdare-kudlow-white-house-racism|title=Peter Brimelow and VDare, the white nationalist website with close ties to the right, explained|work=Vox|date=September 24, 2018|access-date=January 9, 2020|archive-date=June 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625020353/https://www.vox.com/2018/8/22/17768296/peter-brimelow-vdare-kudlow-white-house-racism|url-status=live}}</ref>

Brimelow was president of the center,<ref name="splcPDI" /> which funded VDARE.com until 2007, when the center announced an intent to focus on litigation.<ref name="SPLCprofile"/> The VDARE Foundation, a [[501(c)(3)]] organization, was formed by Brimelow to take the place of the center as the website's sponsor.<ref name="SPLCprofile"/> Brimelow's wife, Lydia Brimelow, is VDARE's advancement officer.<ref name="Phillips"/>

The name ''VDARE'' and the site's logo, the head of a white [[deer|doe]], refer to [[Virginia Dare]], the first child born to [[English people|English]] settlers in the [[New World]] in the late 16th century.<ref name="splcPDI" /><ref name=VD>{{cite web|url=http://www.vdare.com/about|title=Why VDARE.COM/The White Doe?|publisher=VDARE.com|access-date=March 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314135837/http://www.vdare.com/about|archive-date=March 14, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Dare disappeared along with every other member of the [[Roanoke Colony]].<ref name="Jacobs"/> ''Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia'' explains that "For Brimelow, [[Anglo-Saxon]] Americans and their culture are in danger of disappearing like Virginia Dare; he writes that he considered adding a fictional vignette at the end of his book ''Alien Nation'' (1995), in which the last white family flees Los Angeles, which had been overrun by the crime and pollution caused by its non-white residents."<ref name="Jacobs"/>

Brimelow has written on the site that United States immigration policy constitutes "[[Adolf Hitler]]'s posthumous revenge on America". In a radio interview with [[Alan Colmes]], he said he wished to return to the US immigration policies before 1965, when restrictions to non-whites were lifted, as "the US is a white nation."<ref name="Coaston" />

=== New York Attorney General investigation ===
[[File:BerkeleyCastle WestVirginia.jpg|thumb|The Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage, which was purchased by the VDARE Foundation in 2020.]]
In February 2020, the VDARE Foundation purchased the [[Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage]] (also known as the Berkeley Castle or Berkeley Springs Castle), a [[Middle Ages|Medieval]]-style castle located on a hill above [[Berkeley Springs]], in the [[Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia|Eastern Panhandle]] of [[West Virginia]], for $1.4 million.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hayden |first1=Michael Edison |date=March 19, 2020 |title=West Virginia Tourist Hub Rejects VDARE's 'Negative' Message |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/19/west-virginia-tourist-hub-rejects-vdares-negative-message |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222004501/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/19/west-virginia-tourist-hub-rejects-vdares-negative-message |archive-date=February 22, 2021 |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=Hatewatch |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |language=en}}</ref> [[New York Attorney General]] (NYAG) [[Letitia James]] alleged that VDARE had violated New York law by misusing non-profit resources while residing on the castle grounds since March 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Newton |first=Creede |date=May 24, 2023 |title=Experts: VDARE's Real Estate Deals May Cost Group Nonprofit Status |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/24/experts-vdares-real-estate-deals-may-cost-group-nonprofit-status |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503094936/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/24/experts-vdares-real-estate-deals-may-cost-group-nonprofit-status |archive-date=May 3, 2024 |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Hatewatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Gais-2024">{{Cite web |last=Gais |first=Hannah |date=June 20, 2024 |title=What We Know About the VDARE Legal Situation That They Say 'Finished' Them |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/06/20/what-we-know-about-vdare-legal-situation-they-say-finished-them |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Hatewatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref> VDARE Foundation is registered in New York and thus subject to New York regulation.<ref name="Gais-2024"/>

In March 2024, a New York state judge found the VDARE Foundation in [[civil contempt]] for failing to turn over evidence related to the investigation. The organization was required to pay a $250-per-day fine until it complied with a subpoena issued by the NYAG in 2022.<ref name="Gais-2024" /> In July, it was announced that VDARE would be suspending operations, with Brimelow resigning as president of the VDARE Foundation. A spokesperson for the attorney general's office said that the website's closure would not affect their investigation.<ref name="Gais" />

In September 2025, New York sued the VDARE foundation and its owners, alleging the non-profit was operated for the benefit of its owners Peter and Lydia Brimelow. Saying her office would "shut down this fraudulent organization", the state attorney general alleged, "The Brimelows used VDARE like their personal piggy bank, draining millions in charitable assets to enrich themselves."<ref name="CNSVdareSued"/>

==Hate speech and white nationalism==
===Designation as a hate website===
The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC), which tracks extremist groups in the United States, wrote that VDARE was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page" but had become "a meeting place for many on the [[Radical right (United States)|radical right]]" by 2003.<ref name="splcPDI" /> The SPLC describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent [[white nationalism|white nationalists]], [[Scientific racism|race scientists]] and [[Antisemitism|anti-Semites]]".<ref name="splcPDI" /> The SPLC cited examples such as a column concerning immigration from [[Mexico]] that warned of a "Mexican invasion" where "high [[Teenage pregnancy|teenage birthrates]], [[poverty]], ignorance and disease will be what remains", and an essay complaining how the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]] encourages "the garbage of [[Africa]]" to come to the United States.<ref name="splcPDI" />

The SPLC has described VDARE's contributor list as "a [[Rolodex]] of the most prominent pseudo-intellectual racists and anti-Semites. They include people such as [[Jared Taylor]] and [[Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)|Kevin MacDonald]].<ref name="splcPDI" /> Taylor (who Brimelow acknowledges is a "white nationalist")<ref name="SPLCprofile" /> once wrote that [[black people]] are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization, while MacDonald is a retired professor who wrote a trilogy claiming that [[Jews]] are genetically driven to undermine the [[Christendom|Christian societies]] they live in. Another former contributor, [[Samuel T. Francis|Sam Francis]], was the editor of a newspaper published by the [[Council of Conservative Citizens]], a white supremacist group.<ref name="splcPDI" /> Francis died in 2005.<ref name="SPLCprofile" />

The [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) similarly concluded that "VDARE posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites".<ref>[https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf Brenda Walker and Dan Amato Inject Anti-Immigrant Fervor into the Blogosphere] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811142723/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf |date=August 11, 2017 }}, [[Anti-Defamation League]] (2012).</ref><ref>[https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Immigrants-Targeted-UPDATE_2008.pdf Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811142806/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Immigrants-Targeted-UPDATE_2008.pdf |date=August 11, 2017 }}, [[Anti-Defamation League]] (2008), p. 11: "VDare, a Web site that publishes racist, anti-Semitic, and antiimmigrant
articles."</ref>

===Attempted domain name delisting===
In June 2020, the domain registrar [[Network Solutions]] announced plans to terminate the account for VDARE. An attorney for Network Solutions cited a policy prohibiting customers using its domains from "display[ing] bigotry, racism, discrimination, or hatred in any manner whatsoever", and stated that VDARE had until June 26 to transfer its [[domain name]] to a different registrar before it would be deleted.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kunzelman |first=Michael |date=2020-06-23 |title=Online registrar threatens to drop anti-immigration website |url=https://apnews.com/f6768b9395b2e3c4cbe018694ab3adfc |website=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=2020-06-26 |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627075718/https://apnews.com/f6768b9395b2e3c4cbe018694ab3adfc |url-status=live }}</ref> An update to its [[WHOIS]] data was made on June 26, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=DomainTools WHOIS History|access-date=26 February 2023|url=https://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/search/?q=vdare.com|archive-date=February 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226093920/https://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/search/?q=vdare.com|url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2023}}, the domain exists under a different registrar.<ref>{{cite web|title=DomainTools WHOIS|access-date=26 February 2023|url=https://whois.domaintools.com/vdare.com|archive-date=February 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226093849/https://whois.domaintools.com/vdare.com|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Social media presence and bans ===
In August 2019, VDARE's [[YouTube]] channel was banned. The ban was later reversed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Jared |date=2019-08-30 |title=YouTube Reverses Course, Apologizes to Far-Right Channels & Unbans Them |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/youtube-reverses-course-apologizes-to-far-right-channels-unbans-them/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=[[Right Wing Watch]] |language=en-US |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322154216/https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/youtube-reverses-course-apologizes-to-far-right-channels-unbans-them/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The channel was permanently banned in August 2020 for violating YouTube's policies against [[hate speech]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Jared |date=2020-08-10 |title=White Nationalist VDARE Suspended From YouTube. This Time It's Permanent |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/vdare-suspended-from-youtube-and-this-time-its-permanent/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Right Wing Watch |language=en-US |archive-date=April 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428233756/https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/vdare-suspended-from-youtube-and-this-time-its-permanent/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In November 2019, ''[[The Guardian]]'' identified VDARE as one of several white nationalist websites which had remained active on [[Facebook]], contrary to Facebook's stated intention to ban such material.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Julia Carrie |author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |date=21 November 2019 |title=White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623013532/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/21/facebook-white-nationalists-ban-vdare-red-ice |archive-date=June 23, 2022 |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> In May 2020, VDARE and the similar website ''[[The Unz Review]]'' were banned by Facebook. According to Facebook, the sites formed a network of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" intended to influence the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]] via fake accounts.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |date=5 May 2020 |title=Facebook Bans Anti-Immigrant Group VDARE for 'Inauthentic Behavior' |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-bans-anti-immigrant-group-vdare-for-inauthentic-behavior |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529082914/https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-bans-anti-immigrant-group-vdare-for-inauthentic-behavior |archive-date=May 29, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |work=The Daily Beast |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=April 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report |url=https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/april-cib-report/ |access-date=16 June 2020 |work=About Facebook |date=5 May 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511001305/https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/april-cib-report/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

As of October 2023, VDARE operated a verified [[Twitter]] account.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Darcy |first=Oliver |date=2023-10-06 |title=Elon Musk's X faces advertiser backlash after placing marketing for major brands on notorious white supremacist account |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/media/x-advertisements-reliable-sources/index.html |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=[[CNN Business]] |language=en |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019122412/https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/media/x-advertisements-reliable-sources/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===White nationalist writings===
VDARE is regarded as a [[white nationalist]] website.<ref name="white nationalism" /> [[David Weigel]] wrote in 2010 that the site "is best known for publishing work by white nationalists while maintaining that it is not a white nationalist site".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weigel |first=David |author-link=David Weigel |date=June 18, 2010 |title=An immigration restrictionist chart at Mint.com |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/an_immigration_restrictionist.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131123733/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/an_immigration_restrictionist.html |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |access-date=June 25, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

Brimelow "denies that the organization itself is white nationalist, but he admits that VDARE.com provides a forum for a variety of viewpoints, including white nationalism".<ref name="Jacobs"/><ref name="BrimelowWhite"/> Of individuals like Taylor, Brimelow has written they "aim to defend the interests of American whites. They are not [[white supremacist]]s. They do not advocate violence. They are rational and civil." As immigration from the developing world increases, he believes "this type of interest-group 'white nationalism' will inexorably increase."<ref name="SPLCprofile" /> Brimelow has participated on panels multiple times with Taylor and [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] on the aims of the [[alt-right]].<ref name="Coaston" />

Brimelow sued the ''New York Times'' in 2020, alleging [[libel]] over several articles describing him as a white nationalist and the VDARE web site as "animated by race hatred."  The suit was dismissed.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Josh |last=Gerstein  |date=January 10, 2020 |title=Anti-immigration author sues NYT over 'white nationalist' label |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/brimelow-new-york-times-lawsuit-097095 |access-date=2025-10-08 |work=POLITICO }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Tom |last=Hals |title=NY Times fires back at defamation plaintiff with anti-SLAPP lawsuit |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ny-times-fires-back-defamation-plaintiff-with-anti-slapp-lawsuit-2022-04-15/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230603081301/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ny-times-fires-back-defamation-plaintiff-with-anti-slapp-lawsuit-2022-04-15/ |archive-date=2023-06-03 |access-date=2025-10-08 |work=Reuters}}</ref>

==References==
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* {{Official website|www.vdare.com}}
* [https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare SPLC Profile]

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