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The leaked list shows that these senior right-wing figures will be attending alongside leaders of major religious right groups closely linked to Trump, including Alliance Defending Freedom, Focus on the Family, and Family Research Council.


hey will be joined by representatives of prominent climate denial organizations including the CO2 Coalition, libertarian think tanks such as the Cato Institute, right-wing Silicon Valley figures like Palantir founder Peter Thiel, and anti-immigrant European political parties like Spain’s VOX and France’s National Rally.


ARC is backed by the UAE-based investment firm Legatum Group and British hedge fund millionaire Paul Marshall, who together own the right-wing broadcaster GB News. Marshall provided £1 million in funding to ARC in 2023, which is run by Conservative peer and UK government advisor Baroness Philippa Stroud.


But the corporate representatives at the ARC event are on the same attendees list as influential religious right activists that have campaigned aggressively, and successfully, against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
That includes a senior vice president with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal activist group that was responsible in 2022 for helping convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the constitutional right to an abortion. The group is reportedly expanding into the UK.
The Southern Poverty Law Center legal advocacy group argues that ADF should be deemed a “hate group because it has supported the idea that being LGBTQ+ should be a crime in the U.S. and abroad.”
Also on the ARC attendee list is an executive with the Canadian arm of Focus on the Family, a longtime religious right group that reportedly helped mobilize millions of Christian voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the recent U.S. election.
That executive is registered for the ARC conference along with the vice president of policy and government affairs for the evangelical activist and political group Family Research Council, which is also designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.