Several major figures from America’s far right have been named as guests at a white nationalist conference in Tennessee, including Patriot Front’s Thomas Rousseau, according to a report.

The American Renaissance Conference took place on a weekend last month and WCVB in Nashville revealed the identities of some of the people who attended on Monday.

Newsweek has contacted American Renaissance via online contact form for comment.

Why It Matters

American Renaissance is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which describes it as “a self-styled think tank that promotes pseudo-scientific studies and research that purport to show the inferiority of Blacks to whites.”

The organization, which characterizes its work as “white advocacy” and “race realism,” says: “We seek

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