Citizens Organized to Restore Rights (CORR)

“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Often attributed to Sinclair Lewis

“The pastor (Pastor Mike Johnson) was right when he called us patriot soldiers, we’re fighting a war.”

Sue Ianni, SHFA member & Capitol rioter, at a CORR meeting
Background and Analysis

CORR is a Christofascist/Christian nationalist organization committed to organizing various unaffiliated groups to support extremist candidates for local seats of government. The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization dedicated to monitoring hate and extremist groups, said that they are tracking CORR and likened their ideology to the Patriot Movement. Their “big tent” philosophy is an effort to increase their numbers resulting in a mishmash of philosophies, a rich variety of fringe ideas, and a formless stew of half-baked and factually inaccurate political ideologies. They have described themselves as a “force multiplier” that is forming a networking hub for a wide range of right-wing groups that focus on different issues. They mobilize their base to support these various groups’ events. 

CORR has a charismatic leader in David Steinhof, who artfully navigates the complexities of their meetings despite, at times, his obvious discomfort with some speakers. In November 2021, CORR was met with fierce opposition when they, along with Super Happy Fun America (SHFA), attempted to spew their antisemitic, anti-trans vitriol on Boston Common. Since then, CORR has been advocating at every meeting that its members all get a license to carry firearms (in Rhode Island called a concealed-carry permit).

Importantly, CORR is focused on building power by running and supporting candidates for local political office. At one of their meetings, members discussed a strategy to “infiltrate the school committees [and] take them over from within.”

Their approach already seems to be bearing fruit in southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island; local elected officials with ties to CORR include:

CORR and Super Happy Fun America (SHFA) formed a coalition in 2022.  While they are not an obvious pairing, as leaders from both groups have indicated, each has different strengths. It appears that SHFA brings militancy and experience with violent confrontation, and CORR brings numbers and organizing skills. SHFA has a long history of violence, attracting Nazis to their gatherings; Proud Boys attend their CORR meetings, and their president, John Hugo, routinely invokes calls to violence.

To get a sense of who CORR is, watch this short video of speakers from their meetings:

Frequently Asked Questions

“A hate group is a social group that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violencetowards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other designated sector of society. According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a hate group’s “primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization.” Wikipedia

““CORR is on our radar. They’ve been brought to our attention by a number of
concerned community members over their activity and associations with related
groups,” said Rachell Carroll Rivas, interim deputy director of research for the
Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). One of SPLC’s primary goals is identifying and monitoring hate and extremist groups in the United States, and sharing this information with local, state and federal authorities.” Taunton-area officials with ties to ‘alt-lite’ group say they are not members
Daniel Schemer The Taunton Daily Gazette
Published 4:00 a.m. ET Sept. 21, 2022 Updated 9:37 a.m. ET Sept. 22, 2022

David Steinhof: CORR leader, complimenting Super Happy Fun America, “SHFA is always out there stirring it up, they don’t hesitate to stir it up on the streets and bring down and fight those people from antifa that come by.” Steinhof has publicly stated his willingness to resort to violence; when at a networking gathering in Auburn, MA, he said, “We as Americans are obligated to defend our constitution, peacefully if we can, forcefully if we must.” David Steinhof’s history of domestic violence: From the Fall River Herald News, “In an affidavit filed earlier this year in support of a restraining order, Steinhof’s wife claims…” Steinhof beat the family’s dogs with his fists “multiple times”
• He threw cats across the room in front of her, their children and his staff
• He threw her against a kitchen counter and slammed her into a door
• Steinhof has punched through doors and walls at his home and office
• He repeatedly assaulted her, on one occasion ripping out her earrings
• Steinhof’s wife said he punched and shattered the windshield of a car

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Sue Ianni: “One of the goals of the group is to do workshops on prepping, so maybe sometime we’ll take people outside and teach people how to fire a gun…The pastor was right when he called us patriot soldiers, we’re fighting a war.”

Jeff Hall (a firearms instructor): Regarding his fears about gun access in America and reflecting on the truckers convoy in Canada… “If those people had had guns it would have been a completely different situation.”

John Hugo, President of Super Happy Fun America: “We need law and order,” he said, adding later, “This is a call to arms.” Boston Globe, Oct. 18, 2020

Mark Sahady joined the Proud Boys in Portland Oregon and was photographed armed. His group Resist Marxism (rebranded as Super Happy Fun America) recruited for the rally that turned violent. The violence perpetuated by the Proud Boys and their followers was deemed a riot by the Portland police. Southern Poverty Law Center, July 2018 

More resources:
“The organizers behind Boston’s Straight Pride Parade should concern you,” Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress, July 6, 2019 

CORR members Mark Sahady, Sue Ianni, Samson Racioppi, and Bao Chau Kelley were present at the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot.

Photo of Steinhof walking with a CORR member who is holding an expandable baton.
Steinhof organized “security” for Nov. 7, 2021. In the photo he is walking with a CORR member who is holding an expandable baton. While legal to possess, it is illegal to have expandable batons in public.

Below are terms used frequently at CORR meetings. Read why this matters:

Globalism
The term “globalist” has been used as a pejorative in right-wing and far-right politics and conspiracy theories. For example, during the election and presidency of United States president Donald Trump, he and members of his administration used the term globalist on multiple occasions. The administration was accused of using the term as an anitsemitic “dog whistle,” to associate their critics with a Jewish conspiracy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/globalism). As with the term “dual loyalty,” “globalist” implies that Jews, rather than having an allegiance to the United States (or to wherever they were born), are loyal instead to a worldwide order.

George Soros
George Soros, because of his Jewish identity, wealth, and philanthropy, has been described as “the perfect code word” for conspiracy theories that unite antisemitism and Islamophobia. One prominent Soros-related conspiracy theory is that he is behind the European migrant crisis or importing migrants to European countries. According to anthropologist Ivan Kalmar, “Many of his most outspoken enemies inside and outside Hungary saw him as leading an international cabal that included other Jews such as the Rothschilds, as well as Freemasons and Illuminati.” “George Soros – Wikipedia.” Wikipedia, 2022.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS
 
5/12/22 “No politician is going to make the difference  it’s up to we the people, look in the mirror, it up to you and me to form a united front, this is how we will take back our country … there is a war on Christianity now. This used to be a country steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition and now Christians are mocked, attacked, assaulted with impunity. We’ve got these Soros funded DA’s who let these people run wild, commit any crime and get a slap on the wrist.”
John Hugo, founder Super Happy Fun America and CORR North
 
6/19/23 “talk about the state of the republican party in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Fall River, Dighton, over an issue at the library that involved me…Taunton right now, big time infighting between republicans that is dividing the party. This s not a coincidence, should have learned a big lesson, what happened to Tommy Hodgson in the last election, when guys like Soros and Bloomberg get involved in local elections. if the party does not come together…guess who wins in the end, the democratic party.”
Lenny Hull, past member town of Dighton, MA. Board of Selectmen

“Let’s talk about who our enemies are, who we are fighting, we need a well-defined enemy…It’s globalist billionaires who despise our constitution and our way of life. Who would like to make us all industrial serfs.” 
John Hugo, founder Super Happy Fun America and CORR North
 
1/23/23 “ cabalist globalism…they can fund terrorists…antifa…BLM…they can build  countries…tear countries down that’s what they’re doing right now…behind them are the same families like the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and the Soros…they’ve been doing it for years and years…thanks to these new rules…control these funds…they are now shifting things at a rapid pace.”
David Steinhof, founder of CORR, dentist in Fall River
 
4/3/23 “Tomorrow is a watershed moment, not only for Donald Trump…also for republican party…a party that is split…MAGA and rinos…if we continue this division the democrats will win. …you’ve heard mention about antifa…who is funding antifa? George Soros…George Soros isn’t concerned about this country, George Soros is concerned about himself and part of a new world order” 
Lenny Hull, past member town of Dighton, MA. Board of Selectmen
 
7/23/23 “you know Pastor Mike, you are right that there’s a grand scheme behind this, unfortunately there’re a lot of people in this country that do not understand that we have become puppets to the communist party of China. when you take a look of the globalists’ major influence…when you take a look at the pandemic, who was behind the pandemic…the people’s republic of China…they’re atheist…they understand that once religion falls the nation and its moral fiber begins to fall…why would somebody like George Soros spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Sheriff Hodgson*, why, because there is an agenda, an agenda that is pushing CRT, that is pushing a breakdown of the church, that is pushing unbelievable, almost abusive stuff on little children…this is all part of a plan…” 
Lenny Hull, past member town of Dighton, MA. Board of Selectmen
*Sheriff Hodgson, former sheriff of Bristol County that houses 13% of Massachusetts inmates but has 25% of prison suicides, his tenure as sheriff was marred by a series of inmate abuses
 
4/14/22 “Klaus Schwab is a puppet of international bankers same as Soros same as Kissinger. The bankers are controlling this…They take over the banks of the country, they take over the country.”
Dianna Ploss, right wing provocateur, ran for governor, had a radio show

“Go to UN.org and look at one of these titles “Transforming our world, the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.” Klaus Schwab is a puppet of the international bankers. The same as Soros and the same as Kissinger. OK, the bankers are controlling this… They take over the banks of the country, they take over the country. That’s what’s going on.”
Dianna Ploss, right wing provocateur, ran for governor, had a radio show

2/5/24 “There are corporate contributions often funded by people like George Soros who will bring you down if you don’t follow the script.”
Dr. Mark Brody has lost his license for improperly caring for patients 

7/24/23 Give us patience and strength Lord as we go through these battles fighting  the enemy…Lord, we want your financial system, not the financial system of the globalists, we want your medical system, your justice system here on earth, because it’s perfect, we can’t continue the way it is going, we need you to intervene Lord, we’ll continue to pray and fight with you, together we come against the current systems a place run by evil men, we do not consent to it, we ask that you take it all  down and make things new and righteous…Just keep praying that he will bring his kingdom down here and we will wipe out these evil globalists, kabbalists.
Holly, CORR member

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

4/14/22 “they gonna open the south border and let all those illegals come up legally…the infiltrator of the enemy cross the border you and I have nothing to protect ourselves with.”
Chau Kelly  
 
4/14/22 “consequence of Biden getting elected… open borders parents being targeted by the Biden justice dept as domestic terrorists”
Bob May
 
5/12/22 “We do not want to give any business to people that want to molest our children, open our borders or take our money…Don’t work with the Communists…”
John Paul Moran 
 
5/12/22. “friends, patriots, my fellow Americans… we are rising up and people know it and the enemy is running scared… the other side, they’re insane…the country’s run out of 
baby formula but Joe Biden’s shipping it to illegal aliens…”
John Hugo, founder Super Happy Fun America and CORR North
  
8/22/22. “we have the issue of the illegals, we have the issue of the sanctity of life, we have the issue of millions of illegals entering this country every year… the democrats are now offering them free license, free health care free housing…we have to save this nation”
Leonard Hull 

12/5/22  “how many millions of illegals we got coming across the border every day, we don’t know who they are, we’re being infiltrated by the scum nobody would like it any more than to bring us down…”
Randy
 
1/23/23 Doc Brody “…what would you say right now are biggest issues that we are facing?” Audience member “invasion southern border…”

6/5/23 “the Islamic part that comes in…has infiltrated, they have written rules that no longer are they going to attack the country, they are going to come in and infiltrate it, change the laws and the rules…
Charlie Chase
 
9/11/23. “Christine Doughrty and Donnie Palmer are putting together an event in October…to protest the onslaught of illegal aliens into this area, those of you who have being paying attention to what little news you hear about this because they suppress it, you might already be aware that some of the hotels here in Somerset, Swansea are being filled with illegal aliens, one of the gentlemen who is a member of our group…he delivers bread to that Shaws in Raynahm and he said he saw a young family, husband wife 3 beautiful little kids living in a trailer that looked like it should have been retired a decade ago, an old beat up trailer…after seeing them there a second day, third day he went over and asked what was going on, come to find out, they, because of hard times they had been dealing with had been residing in one of the hotels up in that area, unfortunately they were told to vacate, they are American citizens and were born here told to vacate and illegal aliens were put in their place…this is what’s happening  ladies and gentlemen when I talked before about not hearing the truth about 911…the stuff that we’re seeing right now tells us the that government is lying to us and that can’t be acceptable…”
David Steinhof 

1/22/24 “it is estimated that since the new president Joe Biden has taken place maybe 14 million illegal immigrants have come into the country, that’s 14 states of RI and with that in any statistics is all the danger that we were studying about today, which is we have gang bangers, we have spies,we have people who are terrorists…and you know it doesn’t take much to create chaos…we need to elect people who understand that…our culture is at risk…”
Allen Waters -independent conservative for congress in the RI First Congressional District
 
2/5/24 “if Biden did get in I do believe the country would become ungovernable in that you have the whole general population…thousands and thousands of illegals and it seems that they are getting treated better than the citizens…we have laws on the books but nobody cares, then they’re going to start acting up and say hey, you know they don’t have to do it, we’re not going to do it, everybody’s going to do whatever they want…”
Audience member
 
2/5/24 “we’ve seen this country going through a metamorphosis…anyone who thinks we’re not literally at war is deceiving themselves… we have 14 million illegal aliens entering into this country…what other war in history has ever launched 14 million soldiers into another country, I can’t think of one, but we have it…, struggle to find housing for homeless American citizens…right now no place for American  citizens…who’s in those hotels on our dime, illegal aliens… you saw in NY just last week the kind of disrespect they have for this country, when they showed us this after they beat up cops and then were released immediately by some Soros elected DA, we have them right here, not just in New York…and they are purposefully trying to disrupt everything we consider decent and normal in this country, we are at war…
David Steinhof  
 
7/1/24. “we all agree that having people coming over the border is a huge problem because of our security, no one could disagree with that…”
Julie Hall        (co-chair Massachusetts veterans for Trump)    
 
9/23/24 “Remember, Massachusetts just recently voted to give the illegal aliens more rights than our homeless veterans, think about that…”
David Steinhof

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Sue Ianni: “We’ve all seen that flag, it’s all over this country. It’s a rainbow flag that says PEACE on it. What that really is, it is no different than the Nazi flag, it is a flag of intimidation, it is a flag of shut up, comply, and never rise up again conservatives, but we are rising up!”

Renee Arena, CORR member, is advocating for banning LGBTQ-positive books from the Waltham Public Schools, including “This Book Is Gay,” by Juno Dawson and “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe.

John Paul Moran spoke at a CORR meeting. “Log Cabin Republicans endorsed some of the most anti-LGBTQ politicians running for office. They endorsed 12 anti-LGBTQ extremists, including Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and a woman who thinks pedophiles are part of the LGBTQ community.” Commentary by Juwan J. Holmes Friday, October 23, 2020    
“Gay Republican group denounces ‘insidious’ Equality Act as ‘transgender ideology’”
They claim the landmark civil rights legislation would hurt Christians, force doctors to perform abortions, and eliminate all genders thereby wiping gay men out of existence altogether.” By Alex Bollinger Friday, February 26, 2021    

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

1/23/23  “I don’t mean to take up everybody’s time but I gotta say something… you were talking about the Fall River people protesting the transgender creatures the demons from the bowels of Hell…maybe level 7 when you’re going down…they had protest at Taunton public library…automatically they were considered neo nazis….what about people who have no morals and are freaks…It’s normal to have a man dress up like a woman? No..I don’t care what anybody says, it’s wrong and it’s on record…you should see what these creatures do in front of these children, it’s disgusting”
Robbie Lepage

5/12/22  “…this radical insane transgender nonsense. They’re pushing it – Disney, Rugrats, Sesame Street – they’ve all gone to the dark side. We need to protect our children. The sexualization of our children is something that must be fought, and it is not hate and bigotry as they say… Let’s take back our schools.”
John Hugo

4/14/22  “-who here is an American?  -the left can’t say that…I’m a conservative American hardcore… fighter..I like running for congress..I run an org called Grand Opportunity USA …the burning dumpster fraud I saw in last election…We have a problem -these dumb asses are ruining the country. We know they’re puppets…I saw the fraud, I’m still fighting in court, one of the few remaining lawsuits in the US still fighting for the 2022 election… What happened when I ran is that everybody said they agreed with me but voted for this creepy child grooming dude called Seth Moulton. The left, they’re all child groomers, right?…I’m gay, and I don’t like to promote it but I’ll promote it for one reason. (audience member says I’m gay too)Alright, you’re gay, but you know what you’re not? You’re not LGBTQ. Those letters have to go away. I want to see them demolished and go away forever. Who wants to see LGBTQ get destroyed? [applause]. I mean that. Not the people; the ideology, leftist insanity. We didn’t sign up for child grooming, did we? No. We wanted our rights, we didn’t want all that crap, so we have to break apart those letters…How many parents want to send their kids to school, worry about whether they’re going to come back a boy or a girl, undetermined, attack helicopter, a giraffe, what do you think? Even Democrats don’t want their kids coming back as giraffes. Bisexual, pansexual giraffes are not what they signed up for.”
John Paul Moran

5/12/22  “I went to Disney and we did a video…who wants their kid going as a boy and coming back as a girl…I will say this…it’s not only child abuse, it’s homophobic because most of these kids going to grow up and be comfortable with themselves and be gay or bisexual…it’s acutally homophobic, it’s heterophobic and it’s child phobic cause you’re taking kids that will commit suicide…and almost all become sterile, people pushing this are psychopaths…Child regendering is bs, If you’re adult you can make your decision, but if you’re a child it’s a different story. Hands off our kids.”
John Paul Moran

5/12/22  “I was there on the 7th in Boston on the Commons … they were violent we were peaceful -We now have state sanctioned terrorism in America -They want to destroy our country our way of life our bodies, minds and souls…
51:00 -so I’m a Jewish man…we do not turn boys into girls in the Jewish religion…
This is the worst evil that i’ve ever even thought of…that’s in the schools, grooming… we do not want our children groomed…we work with the parents movement getting this grooming propaganda out of schools…otherwise pediphilia will be normalized, it is already becoming normalized, sad to say…there are laws against this…-child sexual exploitation…corruption of minors…The teachers are doing this to the kids without parental consent… trying to protect this scheme of molesting children.”
Audience member

8/22/22  “I actually enrolled my oldest…in Christian private school because…several reasons…the person where I enrolled…my 3 children… was telling me that she’s an educator…she’s worked  in Cranston for 18 years..she was sharing with me that her 3rd grader had 3 children in the class, they’re all identified as transgender ‘the most evil demonic thing I can think of, polluting the mind of a child and she’s telling me she’s pulling all 4 of her kids…it’s so important that we stand up for these things…”
Christina, acolyte of Pastor Mike Johnson

8/22/22  “I heard something…from a parent…she pulled her kindergarten child on the Taunton public schools for something that happened in the classroom, her kindergarten child came home and said ‘mommy, I thought you said I was a boy’…she said ‘you are what are you talking about where did that come from’ ‘my teacher told me I am too young to know whether I am a boy or a girl’…that boy will never be in the Taunton schools again..this is what we are fighting for this November…this is about preserving the values that we have all grown up with, god, family, country.
Leonard Hull

12/5/22  “we went to a school today for my little 3 year old… a catholic school…I asked him point blank early on how did you handle the  masks and forced vaccinations…he said, to quote Ron Desantis…this is where woke goes to die…we made masks optional, never pushed the vaccines, no CRT in this school and there are two genders.”
David Steinhof

2/6/23  “look what’s going on in our libraries…our schools…we’re having a problem in Dighton right now over the open display of genderfication,  books for young children…I’m sure some of you witness the protests in Fall River over the drag queen situation…parents they’re your children, protect them, stand up for them.”
Leonard Hull

3/6/23   “I’ve been filmed far more than I thought I was, so were you, so was anybody else speaking or here…I’m the most wanted in all of Massachusetts…in all the different  hit lists…different LGBTQXYZ lists” 
Pastor Mike Johnson

6/5/23  “everybody should see the Great Awakening…documentary movie about what’s been happening over the last 3 years…about underlying agenda behind all the woke stuff…transgender stuff…concluding a lot of this stuff is marxism…communist China trying to weaken us.”
Dr. Mark Brody

7/24/23  “I wasn’t supposed to be here tonight… in RI tonight is the  RI Democratic Women’s Caucus Congressional whatever… but there’s a problem…the problem is, the head, the chair of the Rhode Island democratic women’s caucus is not a woman, it’s a man (someone in audience ‘oh for crying out loud’) when they invited me to go and speak I said no…I am not going to speak in front of a person who says they’re a woman but they’re not a woman….I’m worried about what I call the transgender mafia pushing, and the communist and the marxists in this country pushing something…on the rest of us…but these people should not be in what we call traditional American women’s spaces…and we have to stop that.”
Allen Waters

5/2/24 “Can you vote for a party that wants to castrate little boys and call them little girls, give double mastectomies to little girls and call them little boys…sending children to schools right now, that said we’re going to transition your child…won’t tell you nothing about it…this is insanity”
Vince Ellison

CHRISTOFASCIST: A Christian religious extremist. Often a person who believes in forcing a right-wing Christian, hetero-patriarchal, white supremacist agenda on the rest of the world. Also known as a “fundamentalist” or more recently “evangelical.” According to Vice, Christofascists believe they are fighting a battle between “good and evil,” an idea that CORR members frequently invoke. Michael Johnson, pastor at Baptist Temple Ministries in Fall River is CORR’s minister.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM is the belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way. Popularly, Christian nationalists assert that America is and must remain a “Christian nation”—not merely as an observation about American history, but as a prescriptive program for what America must continue to be in the future. Their use of imagery associated with the Crusades and with modern fascist movements underscores that Christian nationalists are prepared to enforce their agenda through violence. Christian iconography was prevalent at the January 6, 2021, right-wing Capitol insurrection. What Is Christian Nationalism? An explainer on how the belief differs from other forms of nationalism, patriotism, and Christianity. Christianity Today, Paul Miller, February 3, 2021

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

2/21/22 “That which separates American Christians from everyone else on earth is that we’d rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
David Steinhof, founder of CORR, dentist in Fall River
 
 4/4/22 “This great experiment the United States of America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. It’s imperative that we never forget that, that we know that is at the heart of everything we do…  We are here to make sure the future of this country is everything we enjoyed and more [for the children/future generations].”
David Steinhof, founder of CORR, dentist in Fall River
 
4/4/22 “When the [Christian] church gets together with the patriots, we’ll call ourselves patriot , we’ll call ourselves two groups, the Christian conserve[mumbles]…God’s church, when they merge …historically it is success, easily provable, through all American history especially. Dr. Dave [Steinhof] is really zealous about that too. We need to have these pastors coming to the old sacred, patriotic prayer and praise picnic rallies.”  …More pasters are understanding and seeing what’s going on…Satan begins to take charge temporarily of a country or a town or an area, or the world, it’s his goal. But once God’s people unite with those soldiers kind of people, not  that their separated, because they are intertwined often, but generally speaking, when the church and the patriot soldier, when they merge, that’s what you don’t want to see on the other side.
Pastor Mike Johnson, pastor of Baptist Temple Ministries, Fall River
 
5/2/22 “The economies that we’re in don’t make sense and we are giving money to people who hate us and we should stop doing that. I’d like to see us identify people that share our values so we can do business with those people, and support each other in those ways, Christian and patriotic organizations. I’d like to see everyone work to whatever extent possible to divest yourself from the system, because the system hates you, the system hates people like us. 
Quentin, guest speaker, friend of Jeff Hall
 
5/12/22 “We are rinsing up and the people are scared. …No politician is going to make a difference it’s up to the people, it’s up to you and me. Form a united front this is how we will take back our country…  There is a war on Christianity now. This used to be a country steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition and now Christians are mocked and attacked, assaulted with impunity.”
Hugo

5/16/22 “One of the things they (communists) absolutely want to get rid of is our belief in God. Because this country is predicated on Christianity. It is absolutely, our founding fathers took their beliefs for the constitution from the Bible, from Christianity.”
David Steinhof, founder of CORR, dentist in Fall River

7/24/23 Give us patience and strength Lord as we go through these battles fighting  the enemy…Lord, we want your financial system, not the financial system of the globalists, we want your medical system, your justice system here on earth, because it’s perfect, we can’t continue the way it is going, we need you to intervene Lord, we’ll continue to pray and fight with you, together we come against the current systems a place run by evil men, we do not consent to it, we ask that you take it all  down and make things new and righteous…Just keep praying that he will bring his kingdom down here and we will wipe out these evil globalists, kabbalists.
Holly, CORR member

5/16/22
“[George] Washington once said that the reason why God is so important to this country is the very fact that without God the family would begin to crumble. And once the family
begins to crumble, the nation will begin to crumble. His words are very prophetic. The issue of abortion could explode this summer. It has already been a threat to the nation. God, Family, Country. Those are the values of the GOP. They’re just words. We have to live the values and principles that many of you believe in, the Christian values. That is [a] very important part of what America was, and still must continue [to be]  if we are going to continue to be the beacon on the hill that our early ancestors, our early, first governor John Winthrop said about Massachusetts and this nation. It is America first, but the rest of the world looks upon us, and we are the strength of the world, and we get that strength through the Lord.”
Lenny Hull

Read About New England Known CORR Members/Affiliates
New England Known Supporters/Speakers
  • Tyler Bonin (East Providence, RI)
  • Lonnie Brennan (Editor/Publisher, Boston Broadside)
  • Taryn Carbone
  • Shana Cottone (Norfolk, MA – Boston Police Sergeant (placed on administrative leave in January 2022); Leader, Boston First Responders United)
  • Joan Quinn Eastman (Hopkinton, MA – affiliated with Beacons of Light, Love & Liberty)
  • DJ Ferguson
  • Donnamae Harkness (Lynn, MA – affiliated with North Shore Team Trump)
  • Renee Hensley (Saugus, MA – affiliated with North Shore Team Trump)
  • Thomas E. Johnson (Regional Coordinator, Tactical Civics)
  • Joshua Joseph (Woonsocket, RI)
  • Pam Kulibaba (Mashpee, MA – Upper Cape Regional Leader, United Cape Patriots)
  • Adam Lange (Brewster, MA – Founder, United Cape Patriots)
  • Phil Lapointe (Tiverton, RI – President, East Warren Rod & Gun Club)
  • Jeann Lugo (Warwick, RI)
  • Bob May (Peabody, MA – running for Congress in the MA 6th District)
  • Dianna Ploss (Peabody, MA) “I did attend and speak at two CORR events in Peabody. However, I did NOT ever support this group, not do I support this group now. I will never support this group.” ~Dianna Ploss, Nov. 26, 2022
  • Phyllis Sprout (Mashpee, MA – Member, United Cape Patriots)
Affiliated Groups

CORR brings together a range of conservative and Far Right groups into a loose network. The below groups are associated with the network:

  • Americans for Prosperity (libertarian; Koch-backed)
  • Beacons of Light, Love and Liberty (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • Boston First Responders United (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • Bristol County Freedom Fighters (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • Camp Constitution (Christofascist; patriot/nationalist; libertarian)
  • Convention of States (libertarian; Koch-backed; “states’ rights”)
  • Dighton Republican Town Committee (party Republican)
  • Gaspee Project (libertarian; oppose education about race, LGBTQ issues, and diversity in schools)
  • God Given Freedom Fighters (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx; Christofascist)
  • Government Integrity Project (libertarian; COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx; oppose education about race, LGBTQ issues, and diversity in schools)
  • Grand Opportunity USA (libertarian; party Republican; oppose education about race, LGBTQ issues, and diversity in schools)
  • Health Rights MA (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • Make Americans Free Again (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • North Shore Team Trump (MAGA; party Republican)
  • Parents United RI (oppose education about race, LGBTQ issues, and diversity in schools; COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • People’s Convoy (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx; patriot/nationalist)
  • Proud Boys (white supremacist; misogynist/male supremacist; Islamophobic)
  • Rescue Our American Republic (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx; anti-immigrant; Christofascist)
  • Rhode Island Freedom Fighters (COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • Super Happy Fun America (anti-LGBTQ; white supremacist; antisemitic; alt-right; election-denier)
  • Tactical Civics (patriot/nationalist; Christian nationalist)
  • United Cape Patriots (patriot/nationalist; anti-immigrant; white supremacist; antisemitic; Back the Blue; COVID denial/anti-mask/anti-vaxx)
  • 5G Free Rhode Island (conspiracy theory)
Associated Venues
  • Baptist Temple Ministries (Fall River, MA – church)
  • Century Sportsman’s Club – (Auburn, MA – gun club)
  • East Warren Rod and Gun Club – (Warren, RI – gun club)
  • Italian American Citizens’ Club – (Peabody, MA – private club)
  • Laughing Hummingbird Farm – East Greenwich, RI
  • Monument Beach Sportsman’s Club – (Buzzard’s Bay, MA – gun club)
More Resources

“With ties to hate groups, #ParentsUnitedRI offers slate of conservative extremists for local office,” Uprise RI, September 29, 2022

“Taunton-area officials with ties to ‘alt-lite’ group say they are not members,” Daniel Schemer, The Taunton Daily Gazette, September 21, 2022

“Taunton City Councilor accused of making threats against city resident,” Ken Paiva, Fall River Reporter, September 22, 2022

“Far-right protesters gather outside FBI office in Chelsea,” Alexander Thompson & John Hilliard, Boston Globe, August 21, 2022 (original link)

“Far Right Group Behind Boston’s “Straight Pride” Also Organized ‘Reopen’ Protest,” William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, May 5, 2020

“Homophobic Stunts in Boston Part of Long-Term Far-Right Pattern,” Dan Feidt & Jenn Schreiter, Unicorn Riot, February 21, 2020

“The organizers behind Boston’s Straight Pride Parade should concern you,” Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress, July 6, 2019 

“‘Straight pride’ parade organizer has held and attended far-right events,” Jason Wilson, The Guardian, June 8, 2019

“Far-Right Street Brawlers Just Can’t Escape Their Violent, Hateful, and Bigoted Roots,” David Neiwert, Daily Kos, May 27, 2019

“Massachusetts has a white supremacy problem. Pride Month is just the latest victim,” Amaad Rivera, Commonwealth Journal, June 14, 2019

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