Overview

• RTTL co-founder Eric Orwoll confirmed discussions about establishing a whites-only community near Springfield, Missouri, as part of a long-term goal to franchise its ethnonationalist model nationwide.
• The group’s membership policy restricts applicants to individuals of European ancestry and explicitly bars Jewish, Black, LGBTQIA+ and mixed-race candidates through a vetting video call process.
• Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said racial discrimination has no place in the state and his office is reviewing RTTL’s structure under federal and state civil rights laws.
• The Anti-Defamation League and NAACP have denounced RTTL as reviving discredited forms of segregation and urged enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and other anti-discrimination statutes.
• Orwoll argues that RTTL’s status as a private membership association exempts it from fair-housing regulations and frames its whites-only policy as protected First Amendment association rights.