The Daily Stormer

Andrew Anglin is the founder and editor of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.[1][2][3] He is known for his crude language and organizing harassment campaigns.[12][14] Anglin's influence is significant within the neo-Nazi movement, and he has been involved in legal issues due to his activities.[1][10] Canary Mission also describes him as the founder and publisher of the site and notes that, as of June 2020, he was listed as its editor; it further says he has expressed violent hatred toward Jews, women, and Black people and advocated Nazi policies.[1] The Daily Stormer itself was founded on July 4, 2013, and is presented by multiple sources as Anglin's platform for neo-Nazi and white supremacist commentary.[1][2][3]

The Daily Stormer promotes a shared sacred assumption that Jews are responsible for societal ills. This is evident in their style guide, which instructs writers to always blame Jews for problems.[1] The site's stylistic and editorial framework is also described as being built around spreading anti-Semitism, and reporting on the style guide says its goal is "to spread the message of nationalism and anti-Semitism to the masses".[2] The New Yorker reported that the guide includes explicitly racist language and even instructs writers to use exaggerated praise for racist and anti-Semitic subjects, showing that anti-Jewish belief is embedded as a core organizing premise rather than an occasional theme.[3][4]

The Daily Stormer pursues a mission of promoting white supremacy and antisemitism, justifying extreme actions to "save" the white race. This mission is seen as transcendent by its followers.[1] Canary Mission describes the site as publishing far-right political commentary while promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, racism, misogyny, and homophobia.[2] Wikipedia states that the site advocates for a second genocide of Jews, and ADL reports that Anglin said he started the site "to serve as a hardcore front for the conversion of masses of people into a pro-White, Antisemitic ideology," which frames the project as an ideological campaign with quasi-redemptive aims.[1][3][4]

The Daily Stormer documents a pattern of subordinating individual identity to group conformity through its propaganda style and internalized movement language. Its style guide reportedly prescribes a rigid house style, including many slurs and a demand for "extreme exaggeration," which pushes writers to adopt a standardized in-group voice rather than an individual one.[1][2] The site also describes an organized "Troll Army," indicating coordinated participation in collective action under a shared identity.[3] More broadly, social conformity involves aligning beliefs and behavior with those around one, and the site's publication practices appear designed to intensify that pressure by rewarding repetition of group-approved tropes and language.[4][5]

The Daily Stormer has repeatedly faced isolation from mainstream internet infrastructure and from parts of the broader white nationalist ecosystem. SPLC reported that legal judgments and a feud within the white nationalist community left the site isolated as it struggled to remain online.[1] Cloudflare terminated service to the Daily Stormer, and the site later made a "nomadic journey" across hosts after being booted by hosting and domain providers.[2][3] The Times of Israel reported that when forced offline, the site moved toward the dark web, where users may need Tor software to access it, showing a practical form of digital isolation from ordinary web access.[4] Wikipedia and other reporting also note that the site was hacked or seized by Anonymous at one point, adding to its instability and separation from normal distribution channels.[5]

The Daily Stormer has a private vernacular, using terms like "Troll Army" and specific slurs as outlined in their style guide, to create a unique language among its members.[1] The New Yorker described the style guide as a fastidious handbook listing eighteen "advisable" racial slurs and advocating "extreme exaggeration," while the Brandeis Center said the document is full of racist speech, epithets, and conspiracy-laden jargon.[2][3] Wikipedia also notes that the site orchestrates a "Troll Army" for Internet trolling of political opponents, reinforcing an in-group vocabulary tied to coordinated harassment.[4]

The Daily Stormer fosters an us-versus-them mentality, particularly against Jews and minorities, as seen in their content and harassment campaigns.[1][2] SPLC reports that Anglin supported Donald Trump and that the Daily Stormer posted hundreds of articles in support of Trump while attacking his Republican opponents, showing that the site's political framing could still sharply divide insiders and enemies.[3] Media Bias/Fact Check similarly says the site is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist outlet that frequently promotes Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBTQ views, and other exclusionary propaganda.[4] The site has also been criticized by other white nationalist outlets, indicating factional boundary-drawing within the broader extremist milieu as well as against out-groups.[2][4][5]

Available search results do not document the Daily Stormer directly exploiting unpaid labor in the way this criterion usually contemplates. The clearest labor-related facts in the results are that the site was funded through donations, that Anglin later complained he was laying off writers because the website was not generating enough money, and that the outlet depended on contributors and staff who could be cut when revenue fell.[1][2][3] Those facts show precarious labor relations around the site, but the search results do not provide verifiable evidence of coercive unpaid work, forced labor, or systematic labor exploitation by the organization itself.[1][2][3]

The Daily Stormer appears to impose high exit costs through reputational, social, and practical barriers to leaving its orbit. The site is explicitly neo-Nazi and advocates a second genocide of Jews, so association carries severe stigma and likely exposes adherents to social and legal consequences.[1][2] The organization also relies on trolling and harassment campaigns; for example, Anglin was held liable for an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against a Jewish real-estate agent, and another suit over racist harassment of a Black student produced a substantial default judgment, suggesting that participation can entangle followers in litigation and public exposure.[3][4][5] The Daily Stormer has also been forced offline, moved between hosts, and later headed to the dark web, which can further increase the difficulty of disengaging from its ecosystem once someone is embedded in it.[6][7]

As their endgame nears, the Daily Stormer justifies extreme behavior, such as harassment and promoting violence, as necessary to achieve their goals.[1] In litigation over the Tanya Gersh "troll storm," the site argued that neo-Nazi memes posed "no true threat," while reporting described that Anglin had targeted Gersh with a coordinated harassment campaign.[2][3] Another case described how users revealed a Black student’s personal information after media coverage, followed by an Anglin article about her, showing that the site escalated attacks in response to public attention.[4][5] Canary Mission says the site spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming Jews "infiltrate societies and feed off of them through trickery, scams and fraud," illustrating the logic used to rationalize hostile actions against out-groups.[6]