Ali Alexander

Activism Alexander has been variously described as a Republican operative, far-right personality, and alt-lite. The New York Observer wrote in 2018 that Alexander "has a history of dog whistling to the nationalist wing of the MAGA movement". Alexander created and became the CEO of a group called the National Bloggers' Club, which he described as a non-profit. However, he never registered the group with the Internal Revenue Service. In 2014, Alexander was involved with the Black Conservatives Fund, which was described by Lamar White as a "mysterious" political action committee that "appear[ed] to have largely been a proxy for former Louisiana State Sen[ator] Elbert Guillory". Alexander also helped to create a right-wing website titled Culttture, since defunct. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, Alexander called for the creation of a penal colony in the United States and that "500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed".

Social media Alexander is a familiar social media personality among American conservatives. In early 2019, he was known for his livestream videos on Periscope, in which he shared his conservative, pro-Trump views. In July 2019, Alexander attended a social media summit at the White House—an event attended by a mix of politicians and far-right pundits. As of August 2019, Alexander had over 100,000 Twitter followers. Alexander has claimed he can time travel, and that Jews also time travel.

In February 2021, on a Trovo Live livestream, Alexander began soliciting donations to build a "MAGA mega-city" and another planned community in South America called the "City of Alexander". He also stated he would organize further Stop the Steal rallies and that he was creating "tools of creation and tools of chaos". Alexander's Twitter account was reinstated in January 2023 after the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. It was re-suspended in April 2023 in the wake of allegations that Alexander had engaged in sexual harassment of minors.

KXAS-TV reported that after Alexander had been banned by PayPal, he continued to earn money through the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. In a campaign titled "Protection and Team for Ali Alexander", he raised more than $30,000 over the days following the Capitol riot. KXAS-TV reported that the site had also been used by extremists, including members of the Proud Boys, to raise money to travel to Washington, D.C., on January 6. GiveSendGo later temporarily suspended Alexander's account after a payment processor used by GiveSendGo refused to process payments for Alexander. Although GiveSendGo restored Alexander's account, they said that the processor's refusal to provide services might result in Alexander being permanently banned from their platform.

Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris In February 2019, Alexander arranged for himself and two fellow conspiracy theorists, Jacob Wohl and Laura Loomer, to travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The trio filmed an online documentary about their trip, called Importing Ilhan, in which they investigated the baseless theory that Ilhan Omar, U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district and a Somali-American, had married her brother to grant him U.S. citizenship. During the trip, Alexander accompanied Wohl to a police station, where Wohl filed a police report in which he claimed he and his companions had been receiving "terroristic threats" on Twitter. Later reports indicated the threats appeared to have been falsified by Wohl himself, and Alexander publicly distanced himself from Wohl.

In August 2019, Alexander gained media attention for what The Washington Post said had been described as a "birther-like" campaign against then-Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. That month, he tweeted Harris was "not an American Black", further claiming that "I'm so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It's disgusting". Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the claim, then deleted it.

Stop the Steal

In 2020, Alexander founded Stop the Steal, a campaign promoting the conspiracy theory that falsely posits that widespread electoral fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election to deny Donald Trump victory over Joe Biden.

According to The Daily Dot, the 2021 Epik data breach revealed that Alexander was tied to 122 separate domains, many of which pushed "Stop the Steal".

January 6 attack

Alexander was among the people who encouraged Trump supporters to rally outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, the day of the Electoral College vote count.

Alexander announced in several livestreams in December 2020 that he had also organized his rally with Representative Andy Biggs, as well as Representatives Paul Gosar and Mo Brooks. In one livestream on Periscope, Alexander said, "We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting." Before January 6, Alexander self-identified as an "official originator" of the rally; and the probable creator of a since-deactivated website devoted to the event. He reportedly encouraged attendees of the Wild Protest, which occurred amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C., not to wear face masks.

Alexander was scheduled to speak on January 5 at Freedom Plaza, just west of the White House. At 4:30p.m. on January 6, about two hours after rioters entered the Capitol building, Alexander posted a video of himself looking out on a crowd outside the Capitol, in which he said, "I don't disavow this. I do not denounce this." He also said in the video that most of the people at the Capitol had been peaceful, and he applauded those who didn't enter the building. and that he wished people had not entered, or even approached, the Capitol building. Twitter banned Alexander's personal account and a Stop the Steal account on January 10. Alexander was banned from PayPal, Venmo, and Patreon following the riot, and permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram. On a February 2021 livestream, Alexander said he would "meet on the battlefield" any law enforcement that attempted to arrest him. On October 7, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack issued a subpoena requesting records and testimony from Alexander.

Post–January 6 After January 6, a Biggs spokesperson said Biggs had had no connection with Alexander; Biggs himself later said that Alexander had exaggerated Biggs' and other members' involvement.

Alexander said in April 2022 that he would cooperate with the Justice Department investigation into the attack, after receiving a subpoena from a federal grand jury that was investigating broad categories of people involved in Trump rallies prior to the attack. Alexander was close to longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, with whom he spoke about "logistics" and the "warring factions" of rally organizers prior to the attack. Alexander gave the January 6 committee all of his communications with Stone from the day of the attack. On June 24, 2022, Alexander testified for nearly three hours before a federal grand jury.

Sexual harassment allegations In March 2023, Milo Yiannopoulos published interviews on his podcast describing Alexander's history of allegedly propositioning teenage boys for sex and soliciting nude photos and video from them. "Nothing unlawful has occurred", he claimed.

Alexander had allegedly offered one boy the chance to become politically connected and to meet Yiannopoulos in exchange for explicit material. Nick Fuentes, another far-right activist with ties to Alexander, was himself criticized for allegedly pressuring one of Alexander's accusers to recant. Fuentes later said Alexander had pledged to withdraw completely from public life due to the scandal. , he lived in Texas. Alexander has stated that he is bisexual and is "battling with same-sex attraction."