Ali Alexander



Ali Alexander (born Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar), previously known as Ali Abdul Razaq Akbar, is a far-right internet troll, woo-pusher, self-described "philosopher", and pro-Trump grifter of questionable competence, usually playing second fiddle to more prominent far-right personalities like Mike Cernovich, Roger Stone, Jacob Wohl, and Laura Loomer. He was one of the chief organizers of "Stop the Steal", the conspiracy theory and protest movement intended to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as a former fellow at the Council for National Policy. He's also a convicted felon.

Grifting
Alexander has a history of running various non-profit political organizations of questionable legitimacy. He was founder and CEO of the National Bloggers’ Club, nominally a group for conservative bloggers and writers, which was tied to "shady data collection operations" for GOP Super PACS, and was shut down by the state of Texas for failing to register as a 501(c)(3) charity despite claiming to be one. The Club also solicited donations for a fraudulent "Andrew Breitbart Scholarship Fund" that had no actual involvement from Breitbart himself.

He ran a number of Tea Party astroturf sites with loaded names like "American Liberty Alliance", "Americans For Prosperity", "Tea Party Brew.com" and "BlogBash", which were similarly scammy. His current operation, a digital marketing firm called Vice and Victory, also appears to be little more than just another front for Alexander to collect 'donations'.

Alexander, a self-declared "interpreter of energy", convinced right-wing billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer to donate him $60,000 through a PAC he had allegedly "advised".

Election and insurrection
Alexander was one of the primary architects of "Stop the Steal", a pro-Trump protest movement that sought to overturn the legitimate results of the free and fair presidential election, which the wannabe-dictator had lost bigly. Alexander organized various protests and rallies, in which he chanted "victory or death" (including on the day before the riot) — thus, already clearly indicating what he truly believes about America's democratic process. Alexander claimed that he organized "Stop the Steal" along with Congressional Representatives Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Paul Gosar. Due to a massive data hack of far-right web hosting company Epik by Anonymous, it was revealed that Alexander or someone working with him tried to remove information that linked Alexander to more than 100 "Stop the Steal"-related domains that Alexander owned shortly after the riot, thus showing consciousness of guilt.

Alexander, along with Alex Jones, was one of the chief organizers of the January 6th pro-Trump "Wild Protest" march that devolved into a riot when Trump sicced it on the Capitol building; the riot claimed the lives of five people. In the wake of the incident, Alexander, refusing to disavow the treasonous action of his supporters, promptly went right back to e-begging, claiming that he was "in hiding" and needed $2000 a day to pay for a security detail.

Alexander promoted violence on multiple social media platforms, including Twitter, but was only briefly banned by Twitter in 2019. He was not permanently banned until after the actual promoted violence occurred following January 6, 2021. This can be attributed to his friendship with Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey and Dorsey and Twitter's libertarian ideology of promoting far-right extremism.

Alexander has since been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Paypal, Venmo, and Patreon. One could conclude from all this that Alexander suffers from a persecution complex because he thinks that "is being persecuted for his faith in Jesus Christ and our republic", rather than for his support for the violent overthrow of a democracy.

On October 7, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack issued a subpoena requesting records and testimony from Alexander. After sitting through an 8+ hour deposition, he posted on his Telegram that he hoped lightning struck and burned down the White House.

Importing Ilhan
Alexander was one of the chief signal-boosters of the debunked conspiracy theory that Ilhan Omar's ex-husband was actually her brother and they only married so he could be granted US citizenship. The claim doesn't even make any sense, since US citizens can petition the USCIS to bring a brother or sister to the United States, making a marriage unnecessary.

Alexander arranged for himself, Laura Loomer, and Jacob Wohl to travel to Minneapolis, Omar's hometown, to "investigate" their own nonsense claims, fundraising thousands of dollars from their gullible fanbase in the process. Their visit to Minneapolis resulted in a series of weird tweets and streams by Wohl about Minneapolis being a no-go zone overrun by Somali Jihadists, and claimed he traveled around town in "armoured cars" with a team of security professionals in order to avoid hitmen. The armoured cars and security are conveniently never shown on camera and were likely yet another scam by Alexander to solicit donations.

The trio filmed an online documentary, Importing Ilhan, about the trip, which was posted to his Alexander's website Culttture. After word got out that Wohl had filed a false police report on-camera, the video was promptly taken down, and Alexander disavowed Wohl.

White supremacist dogwhistling
Like most prominent Trumpland personalities, Alexander has a long history of dogwhistling to the alt-right and Neo-Nazi elements of the MAGA movement. After Unite the Right, Alexander interviewed alt-right personality and Baked Alaska bestie known for propagating the phrase "Hitler did nothing wrong" on a Gateway Pundit podcast hosted by  Wintrich was later fired by Gateway for appearing in a podcast with Nick Fuentes, where he claimed antisemitic hate crimes were false flags.

Alexander has a habit of noting members of the media who are Jewish, a common dogwhistling tactic of the alt-right.

Other wackiness
Alexander was convicted in 2006 for theft and again in 2008 for debit card fraud. Changing his name probably has something to do with this.

He co-founded Culttture, a pro-Trump website featuring a number of MAGA personalities, which for a time was only soliciting money but now appears to be wholly defunct.

Alexander has a history of making equally bizarre non sequitur statements on social media on par with Alex Jones' claims that runoff from nuclear reactors is turning the frogs gay, which includes an assertion that orange is a sacred color given to him by God. Alexander had also previously propagated a series of birther-like claims, such as one that Kamala Harris is "not an American Black" (by his own criteria, Alexander wouldn't be either).

In 2018, Alexander met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey regarding whether it was advisable to ban Alex Jones from Twitter, stating that both he and Jones had "interesting points" to make. Alas, it was not enough to save either from the ban hammer.

After being banned from most social media platforms post-Capitol riot, Alexander made a series of bizarre and threatening claims on the livestreaming platform Trovo. Among other things, he announced plans for 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". He also called for the abolition of the free press, labeling them "systems that control us," and challenged law enforcement to combat if they attempted to arrest him. Given that most of these "plans" involved him soliciting donations, they're likely little more than additional grifts.

In 2023, Alexander was involved in a feud with Milo Yiannopoulos stemming from their involvement with the disastrous 2024 Ye presidential campaign. During the feud, Alexander (who was outed as bisexual by Yiannopoulos) was accused of allegedly proposing or sending nude pictures to two underage teenage boys. In mid April 2023, Alexander, who previously fervently denied these accusations, released an apology for "inappropriate messages" while insisting that "nothing unlawful has occurred", and claimed that he was being targeted by "fake accusers or literal honey pots eager to frame me." Alexander also stated "this is too gay" regarding the situation and apologized, but did not deny the allegations.

Stopped Clock
In a very bizarre article Alexander wrote to defend himself during the wake of the January 6th arrests, he stated how he sympathizes with black and Arab men who face persecution and racism (as he himself is half black and half Arab). However, the rest of the article is just him rambling on about how he was “innocent” during January 6th.