Chuck Darwin<p>Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links </p><p>A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “<a href="https://c.im/tags/clandestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clandestine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/actions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actions</span></a>” and has links to a network of extremist groups and think tanks, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Parker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Magid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Magid</span></a> was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary <br>His employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics.<br>Vance’s staffer links him to 🔸Beck &amp; Stone🔸 (B&amp;S) and its subsidiary political consultancy 🔸Knight Takes Rook🔸 ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/KTR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KTR</span></a> ). <br>The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right <a href="https://c.im/tags/Claremont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Claremont</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Institute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Institute</span></a>, <br>the serial Arizona political candidate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a> and the <br>“<a href="https://c.im/tags/counter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counter</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a>” magazine IM–1776.</p><p>B&amp;S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andrew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Beck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beck</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stone</span></a>. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City.</p><p>Beck, also 🔸a Claremont co-founder🔸, is closely involved with the ♦️Society for American Civic Renewal♦️ ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/SACR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SACR</span></a> ), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/jd-vance-far-right-aide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/aug/28/jd-vance-far-right-aide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>