Hidden away in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains is a tiny settlement home to around 40 residents.
While homestead communities are common across rural America, this one stands apart because of its strict membership rules.
Applications are only accepted from white people of full European ancestry who reject homosexuality and support what founder Eric Orwoll describes as traditional European values.
Orwoll heads Return to the Land, a private white-separatist membership association with more than 1,000 members nationwide.
Only a small number of families are ultimately chosen to live in the group's 165-acre settlement near Ravenden, where social media videos depict an idyllic lifestyle complete with roaming goats and chickens, children at play and members constructing wooden homes and churches.
Behind those peaceful images, however, is a community whose leadership promotes hard-Right ideology online. Children living there are homeschooled and taught subjects including the Holocaust and slavery from what Orwoll describes as an "even-handed" perspective.
As diversity and multiculturalism continue to shape much of the Western world, Orwoll has become one of the most prominent advocates of racial separation.
Despite the movement's beliefs, Orwoll rejects accusations that Return to the Land is racist.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said the group's aim is to preserve European identity rather than promote white supremacy.
"I think what we actually advocate is tolerance, free association, and self-determination. I don't think the movement itself is white supremacist. Are there people within the association who hold white supremacist views? Probably.
"It's a large organisation, and some people undoubtedly believe their own group is objectively the best."
While Orwoll says the organisation accepts members with a range of views, he says those holding what he considers "non-traditional" religious beliefs are unlikely to be accepted.
"We wouldn't automatically reject someone for being Christian, pagan, or agnostic, but if someone holds what we'd consider a non-traditional religious outlook - for example, they're a militant atheist who is intolerant of traditional religious beliefs - they're probably not a good fit for the association."
Prospective members complete a questionnaire before taking part in a 15-minute telephone interview.
Applicants are questioned on issues including same-sex marriage, gender identity, vaccines and abortion.
"The interview also focuses on values. It's not solely about race. For example, we ask how often someone thinks about the Roman Empire because we see it as part of a shared European heritage and want people who value preserving it," Orwoll explains.
"After the interview, the association's board votes on the application. If accepted, members are added to our online discussion groups and can attend our national events."
However, discussions within those online groups present a different picture from the one Orwoll describes publicly.
Although he insists Return to the Land is a peaceful organisation focused on preserving European identity and says he has nothing against Black or Jewish people, content shared by senior members includes Holocaust denial, references to "Jewish infiltration" and rhetoric that downplays racial segregation.
Among the group's best-known figures is Peter Csere, a close associate of Orwoll.
On public Telegram channels, Csere has shared the number "1488", a reference widely associated with white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology.
The number combines the "14 Words", a well-known white supremacist slogan, with "88", a code for "Heil Hitler" because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Orwoll has also spoken publicly about the prospect of a "second Hitler" and has praised former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
He is also linked to a wider network of hard-Right commentators, including white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes.
Posts shared within the movement's online channels frequently refer to what members describe as "Jewish propaganda" and "Jewish infiltration."
One post reads: "Generations of men raised on Jewish propaganda and consumer culture have been taught to be soft, weak, and self-indulgent."
Another states: "Even though towns are apparently White, the effects of Jewish infiltration and subversion can be seen, heard and felt."
An X user known as "Sheltered Max", who claims to live on the compound, has also written in favour of "cannibalising" and "eradicating" Jews and posted that "Jew hatred is the great unifier."
Orwoll, who uses the name Aarvoll online and has amassed almost 100,000 followers across social media platforms, has repeatedly argued that changing demographics pose an existential threat to white Americans.
The 36-year-old says his upbringing in a multicultural neighbourhood near Los Angeles helped shape those views.
After attending an arts high school and growing up among neighbours from a range of backgrounds, including many Jewish families, Orwoll says those experiences contributed to his current beliefs.
"As I started learning about demographic change and correlating it with my own experience growing up in California, and seeing that different groups of people have different behaviors and tendencies, I concluded that things would continue moving toward greater racial diversity, and that this would affect the ability of white Americans to preserve the kind of lifestyle we've built over the last few centuries.
"If current demographic trends continue, I think Europeans should ask what their societies will look like in the future," he said.
He also pointed to what he described as "sociological data" suggesting ethnic diversity weakens social cohesion.
"If you can't predict what someone is going to do, you can't really trust them. That's an observed characteristic of multiracial societies."
"It's really about preserving some sense of sovereignty and maintaining control over our own culture and society," he said.
"I think the problem with public education is that it's very focused on what it presents as the sins of Europeans throughout history, whereas I think there are multiple sides to these issues," he says.
When discussing American slavery, he says he would also teach children about the Barbary slave trade, in which many white Europeans were enslaved by Muslims and sold into Africa and other regions.
"When it comes to segregation, I'd explain that America was explicitly founded as a white country. Once formerly enslaved Black Americans became citizens, society faced the question of how to reorganize itself, because that wasn't part of what many people originally envisioned for the country.
"I'd explain that the separate-but-equal system was one attempt to address that, but that it went too far by coercively imposing segregation. At the same time, I'd argue that the integrationist policies that followed also overstepped."
On the Holocaust, Orwoll says the number of deaths has been "exaggerated" and argues children are taught "a very one-sided narrative" shaped by "Hollywood propaganda."
"In my view, many people who advocate violence against Nazis haven't actually read the writings of figures such as Rosenberg, Goebbels, or Hitler. Instead, they're relying on portrayals from films and popular culture."
He also claims many Holocaust victims died because of "terrible conditions" and argues there is "less evidence of an intentional, centrally directed campaign to exterminate all Jews."
"I don't believe there's an order from Adolf Hitler explicitly directing the killing of all Jews. I also believe that some stories commonly associated with the Holocaust - for example, claims about lampshades made from human skin - have been shown to be false, and I think some survivor testimonies include accounts that are physically impossible."
"I'd also explain what I see as the German perspective toward Jewish people at the time, namely that they viewed Jews internationally as opponents in a military conflict."
Orwoll added that he believes the Nazis had "redeeming qualities" and said children should receive "all the evidence" before forming their own historical opinions rather than being "brainwashed."
Last autumn, the Daily Mail spoke to Tess Ulrey, executive director of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, who argued Arkansas law leaves children living in the community particularly vulnerable.
"In a radically insular group like Return to the Land, the educational environment may uphold white supremacy ideology, promote speculative and fictionalised sciences, encourage harmful and unhealthy practices, and easily deny children access to the tools to form their own beliefs, or hear from a different viewpoint," Ulrey said.
"We believe that kind of homeschooling is a violation of children's rights, and harms their ability to thrive in a diverse and connected world."
Concerns about extremist influences have also been fuelled by reports that Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was seen on Orwoll's office bookshelf during a media visit last year.
The movement also discourages interracial marriage as part of its promotion of what it describes as traditional European values.
"There's a fair amount of evidence that interracial marriages tend to have worse outcomes. They don't last as long, have higher rates of domestic abuse, and are more likely to result in single-parent households.
"I simply think the more typical and adaptive pattern is for there to be continuity between extended families, traditions, and psychological tendencies. When people are more similar in those respects, I think things tend to harmonise more easily."
