As journalist Teddy Wilson reported:

Return to the Land — which has a settlement project in Arkansas that The New York Times reported is “strictly for white, heterosexual people” and has “about 40 residents” that the co-founders had to “personally confirm” were white before they were “welcomed in” — reportedly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, wants to expand into Missouri, and is “currently in the initial planning process” for more community developments in the Ozarks region, Deep South, Appalachia, and the Pacific Northwest. 

Since June, the group and its settlement has gotten media coverage from other outlets like The Forward, Sky News, The Hill, WIRED, and TMZ. These outlets have noted that the organization is “one of the most established white supremacist residential communities in the United States today” and reported that legal experts suggested the settlement project would likely violate federal fair housing and anti-discrimination laws.

In response to media coverage, lawmakers and elected officials in both Arkansas and Missouri have condemned the community, with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin telling outlets that “racial discrimination has no place in Arkansas or anywhere in a free society. These allegations raise all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns,” adding that his office was “reviewing the matter.” However, Griffin’s spokesperson later told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that a preliminary review of the community had not found evidence that the group had broken the law.

A Media Matters review found that since Orwoll launched Return to the Land in late 2023, he has appeared on far-right streams nearly two dozen times to promote the whites-only residential community.

Stew Peters

In March 2024, Orwoll went on The Stew Peters Show, whose namesake is a white nationalist and Holocaust denier who has called Adolf Hitler “a hero” for burning books and said of the Nazis in 1930s Germany, “Turns out more people decided to support it than not, and that’s great.” During the interview, Orwoll said that Return to the Land’s legal structure was “a workaround of the letter of the law.” Peters called the settlement project “truly amazing stuff,” asserting that “this is how it was supposed to be from the very beginning.”

Lucas Gage

In August 2024, Orwoll appeared on Lucas Gage’s stream. Gage — who used to be named Angelo John Gage — has pushed claims of “white genocide” and has called Judaism “by far the most disgusting religion, ever.”

During the interview, Orwoll called Return to the Land “identitarian,” a movement “that sees its main purpose as defending Europe’s 'identity' and ethnic purity,” and bragged that the settlement project’s members had a “pretty good radar” to prevent Jewish people from joining. He also said that he became “radicalized by” his YouTube channel's comment section, “learning about race realism and other red pills.”

Gage told Orwoll that “your community gives hope” and urged his followers to “help these guys out.” (Gage has since claimed to have helped Orwoll raise funds for the community.)

Millennial Woes

In December 2024, Orwoll spoke with Colin Robertson, who is known online as “Millennial Woes” and has attended white nationalist conferences throughout the U.S. and Europe. During that Rumble stream, Orwoll said that the “national socialist perspective” was “by far, I think, the most popular in our circles,” and that “we want to make sure that when the first white-intentional communities are targeted legally, the ones that are attacked have their legal case as firm as possible because of the way that precedent works.”

Orwoll also told Robertson that he “appreciate[d] what you’ve done keeping this going all these years,” and Robertson suggested to Orwoll that the ideas behind the settlement project were “a very worthy goal indeed about setting up an institution to preserve that tradition.”

Red Ice TV

Orwoll has repeatedly promoted Return to the Land on Red Ice TV, an online channel operated by Henrik Palmgren and his wife Lana Lokteff that has pushed white supremacist, antisemitic, and other racist content. Orwoll has also said that he is discussing collaborating with the outlet.

During an appearance in August, Orwoll called Palmgren a “legend” who he had “much respect for,” and touted Tim Griffin’s preliminary finding that the residential settlement project did not violate the law, calling it “a very encouraging sign” that “we’re very excited” about and suggesting he doubted that the Trump administration would “override” that. In June, he also criticized the 1964 Civil Rights Act as opposing “the values of Western civilization” and in August wondered aloud to Palmgren if politicians supporting immigration were “trying to get us to, you know, go full 1933” (the year Adolf Hitler came into power).

When Jared Taylor — the founder of American Renaissance, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “one of the vilest white nationalist publications, often promoting eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists” — appeared on the channel with Orwoll in December 2024, he said that Orwoll's residential community was “hugely encouraging” and “just people who get together on a regular basis to celebrate their whiteness.”

Palmgren told Orwoll in June that “we all want one of these” kinds of settlements “to be successful.”

Jason Kessler

In April, Orwoll appeared on a podcast hosted by Jason Kessler, an organizer behind the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Kessler has uploaded his podcast to his YouTube channel, which YouTube apparently reinstated last year).

During the appearance, Orwoll said that Return to the Land had “kind of contacts and partnerships with groups outside the U.S.,” and cautioned people who wish to create similar settlements to do so “in a solidly red state in case you ever do get sued” because “you want to be before judges that are going to be sympathetic.” Kessler said that he wished he had “known about this project before I moved at the end of last year,” as he “would have considered going to it.”

Other far-right and white nationalist podcasts have hosted Orwoll

Orwoll has gone on multiple other far-right shows to promote the whites-only community, including:

• A podcast hosted by Mark Collett, who the BBC called a British “Nazi-sympathiser.” 

  Collett told Orwoll that the settlement project was “fantastic” and “the way forward.” Orwoll claimed on Collett’s show that “in the far right in America, basically every major faction or actor has been supportive of us,” and said that medieval European pogroms, or violent attacks against Jewish people, occurred because “the average serf was red pilled on the JQ.” The “JQ,” or the “Jewish Question,” is an antisemitic framework that posits the Jewish diaspora is a “problem that needed to be solved.” It provided a pretext for the Nazi government to undermine the freedoms of Jewish Germans, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• Endeavour News, which calls itself “New Zealand’s Nationalist News Network.” 

  During the appearance, Orwoll claimed that America is “controlled by ... a foreign minority” as opposed to “heritage Americans.”

• Logos Academy, hosted by self-proclaimed “Jew hater” Zach Kidd. 

  Orwoll told Kidd, who has also claimed to be part of the “alt-right,” that Return to the Land aimed to gain local and potentially statewide political power eventually and was necessary since he was “not expecting, you know, Hitler 2.0 to come down from the clouds or something and save us.” Kidd praised the community as “a fantastic initiative.”

• A stream from Jason Köhne, who the SPLC has described as “a white nationalist podcaster and vlogger known online as ‘No White Guilt.’” 

  Orwoll told Köhne that he was “impressed” with his content, and Köhne told Orwoll that Return the Land “impressed” him as well and was “the kind of thing that I think we need to be doing.”

• Multiple appearances on far-right figure Elijah Schaffer’s podcasts. 

  Schaffer told Orwoll that the settlement project was “fantastic,” and Schaffer’s collaborator said Schaffer planned to visit it.

• White Rabbit Radio — reportedly “an online community of racists” run by Tim Murdock, whom the SPLC has called an “avowed anti-Semite.” 

  Orwoll told Murdock that he wanted “our own legal advocacy groups and we can start lobbying and even changing some laws” so that Return to the Land can be in “all 50 states.” Murdock called the settlement project “important.”

• A podcast co-hosted by far-right media figures Rebecca Hargraves and David Reilly. 

  During the appearance, Orwoll threatened to “go bigger and found more communities and be something they can’t ignore” if “they decide to stop attacking us.”

• A show hosted by pastor Jesse Lee Peterson, who The Daily Beast described as “one of the right’s most vocal anti-gay figures.” 

  During the appearance, Peterson told Orwoll that the settlement project was “amazing” and lauded its inhabitants’ “courage.”

• The conspiracy theory network Infowars.

  During the appearance, host Harrison Smith asked Orwoll if Return to the Land was part of a “push to stop, you know, white people from being destroyed in our own countries.”

In addition to all of his appearances on far-right outlets, Orwoll has hosted multiple white nationalists on his own streams and discussed Return to the Land with them.

Nick Fuentes

In July, Orwoll hosted white nationalist and Holocaust denier podcaster Nick Fuentes. Orwoll — who has said he attended Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference (or AFPAC) and claimed that he and Fuentes “share some similar intuitions as far as what society should look like” — said he’d pitched “thoughts” to Fuentes and asked him for advice on what “sorts of projects that we could” do to “mobilize our people.” Orwoll also said setting “legal precedent that it’s OK to do this sort of thing” would “embolden more people to follow suit and” create “a lot of possibilities.”

Fuentes told Orwoll that he was “brilliant” and “a big fan of” what Orwoll is doing, “not just with ... content, but also with the intentional community.” Fuentes also said that he hoped Orwoll would win a legal precedent as a “breakthrough for everybody,” and claimed that he would visit Return to the Land “soon.”

Keith Woods

Just days after hosting Fuentes in July, Orwoll hosted Irish streamer Keith Woods, who reportedly described himself as a “raging antisemite” in a now-deleted 2019 social media post and has connections to well-known white nationalist and antisemitic groups and figures. Orwoll asked Woods, who called the whites-only community “a good initiative” during an October 2024 stream, for “very direct advice” on “good next steps for someone in my position.” Woods told him to create content promoting the whites-only community, which Orwoll said he would consider adding to the settlement project’s upcoming podcast. Woods also told Orwoll that Return to the Land “aligns nicely with the anti-woke movement and just the general direction of where things are going.”

Thomas Rousseau

In April, Orwoll hosted Thomas Rousseau, the founder of the white nationalist group Patriot Front. Orwoll previously said that he applied to join Patriot Front, and told Rousseau they were “really good guys” who his followers should also join. (According to WIRED, a researcher observed figures connected to Rousseau taking part in events on Return to the Land.) Orwoll also told Rousseau that “a lot of what [he] said” about Patriot Front’s strategy “overlaps with what Return to the Land is trying to do.”

Additionally, in July, Orwoll and Rousseau appeared together on far-right MMA fighter and podcaster Jake Shields’ Fight Back with Jake Shields. During that appearance, Orwoll said that he wanted to “work with” Rousseau because Patriot Front’s “personnel and expertise” could “be used to benefit Return to the Land.”