We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now.

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At least 30% of adults turn to dating websites to find love these days. The largest platforms — like Match, Bumble, and Hinge — cater to a general audience. Others, like ChristianMingle and JDate, cater to specific ones. 

Then, there’s White Date.

“Ive never joined a dating site before, so I dont know what to expect here. I decided to try this because Im tired of relationships that go nowhere,” wrote one user in a bio for the now-defunct site. (sic)

That opening could have fit on any mainstream dating site. The second half, not so much.

“Its very hard to find a women nowadays that is white positive and wants a traditional relationship. I absolutely despise race mixing, I think its the trashiest thing a white women can do.” (Editor’s note: Please assume “sic” for all quotes.)

White Date, a website that has been described as “Tinder for Nazis,” catered to “Europids seeking tribal love.” (Read: white people.)

In late December, a woman wearing a pink Power Rangers costume took the stage at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress, an annual conference of hackers, in Hamburg, Germany. As previously reported by CyberNews, the costumed hacker went by the name Martha Root and presented findings from her successful infiltration of the White Date site. 

During her presentation, Root demonstrated how easy it was to obtain the website’s entire user lists by simply typing in a URL. Root remarked that the website’s cybersecurity was so poor that it “would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush” and described it as “the worst security that you can imagine.”

At the conclusion of her presentation, Root ran a series of scripts to theatrically symbolize the removal of the website from the internet. 

But much of the leaked White Date data still lives online at a website Root created, okstupid.lol, where impacted users can request their data be taken down. The Barbed Wire obtained a full archive of the data via a zip file that had been saved on a version of the site in Web Archive. The file included information that is not visible on Root’s website — such as user home addresses, email addresses, and removed profile photos. With this data, The Barbed Wire used tools like TruthFinder (an online background check service), PimEyes (a photo facial recognition tool), and osinst.industries (an open-source intelligence platform) to identify members of neo-fascist groups, active duty members of the military, doctors, public employees, and more. 

The Barbed Wire reviewed data from at least 300 Texas residents who’d created White Date accounts with an eye for what it could illuminate about the state of extremism in Texas and in online spaces. (For context, Texas has more than 30 million residents; White Date users account for roughly 0.0001%.)

The Barbed Wire is only publishing the names of those who have engaged in neo-fascist activism, or who have served in the military, as their beliefs in white supremacy could directly impact community wellbeing. At publication time, the profiles of the users named by The Barbed Wire were publicly visible on the site Root created. 

The Barbed Wire is not publishing the names of the hundreds of additional individuals; doing so would require hours of beyond-our-budget investigative work to vet the profiles’ identities and legal determinations around potential defamation claims. Instead, The Barbed Wire analyzed information from all Texas users in the context of broader political trends and the rise of alt-right ideologies. The results reveal a user base concerned with finding partners who adhere to traditional gender roles and wish to have large, explicitly white families as a way to ensure the continuation of the white race, which many users believe is under threat by immigration.

Beyond individuals, what we found is that White Date users do not neatly fit into any single far-right stereotype.

Users range from as young as 19 to as old as 73, with more than 58% of them under the age of 40. More than 85% of Texas accounts are registered as men seeking women. Users’ occupations include retirees, veterans, attorneys, doctors, business executives, computer scientists, and a wide variety of white and blue collar workers. Most of the accounts are based in or around major cities. Dallas had more accounts than any other Texas city, with 37 total accounts registered. 

However, hallmarks of far-right radicalization were prevalent in users’ biographies, self-described political views, “mindsets,” and even in the nature of the submission fields users were prompted to complete — shining a light onto what some people say and do when they think no one is looking. 

‘Have White Babies’

Founded in 2017, White Date described itself as a platform “exclusively for Whites” that was concerned with the survival of the white race. A flyer for the platform, created by “Aryan Graphic Design,” read: “Only white people create white societies, have white babies.”

Alongside demographic information, White Date asked users whether they had children, and whether they wanted children. One answer option was: “I would like to have more than 4.” 

In Texas, more than 10% of White Date users said they wanted four or more children. The average number of children per family in Texas is around two, close to the national average. And it has been the subject of conservative “pro-family policy” agendas, which push for increased marriage and birth rates.

The question from White Date aligns with the rise of the so-called “pronatalist movement,” which believes that falling birthrates are an existential crisis for developed countries. 

In 2025, NatalCon, a pronatalist conference in Austin, offered matchmaking services to its audience and conference speakers, which included far-right conspiracy theorists, neofascists, and eugenicists. 

“I subscribe to traditional family values and desire lots of children,” wrote one White Date user in Houston who said they wanted more than four kids. “I am seeking a partner to complete part of my life that I feel has been missing.”

Critics have described the contemporary pronatalist movement, which emphasizes traditional gender roles and having “the right kids,” as one built on racist, sexist, and anti-immigrant ideologies. In plain language, at NatalCon, fears of declining birth rates were secondary to the concern that “certain populations” may be reproducing faster than white populations.

The Barbed Wire found echoes of those same fears in the White Date data.

“My blonde hair and blue eyes were never made to muddle with this influx of brown immigrants and Jewish propaganda,” wrote another White Date user in Austin. “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

White Date users were also prompted to enter their IQ scores. The field corresponds with the far-right’s embrace of debunked eugenic “race science,” which falsely asserts that Black people have lower IQs than white people — ideas that have been mainstreamed in part thanks to President Donald Trump’s obsession with IQ and use of racist tropes, as he did earlier this month with a video comparing former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama to apes.

The obsession with IQ and the rise of the conservative pronatalist movement tie into a broader trend of right-wing personalities promoting the “great replacement” theory, a racist conspiracy theory that a cabal of elites — in many formulations, Jews — are deliberately “replacing” white populations through birth control and immigration. 

News outlets have reported that Elon Musk has been at the center of several episodes — in 2023, he replied to a user’s false claim on X that Jewish people were behind “hoards of minorities” flooding western countries, writing, “You have said the actual truth.” He also shared a video of a speaker at the 2023 Natalist Conference, writing on X, “If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end.” 

The Barbed Wire found that rhetoric throughout the White Date data.

A man in Midland called himself “Meineehreheisttreue” — the official motto of the Schutzstaffel (SS), which means “My honor is loyalty” — and wrote in his profile description that he was “one hundred percent Aryan.” Then he quoted the 14 Words, a slogan popular among neo-Nazis: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

The Barbed Wire has chosen to highlight the language here because the rhetoric has overlap with the Lebensborn program, which was designed by the Nazis in 1935 to increase Germany’s declining birthrate, encouraging the birth of children deemed “racially valuable” in order to increase Germany’s “Aryan” population. It began with discouraging unmarried women from obtaining abortions, which had already been criminalized. 

Nick Fuentes, the far-right political commentator who dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, said earlier this month on his America First podcast that, “just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women … They go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”

Language employed by White Date users, and by supporters of NatalCon, has found its way into the highest levels of American government, including the White House and Naval Observatory. Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson — whom the Washington Post reports has argued that women should be denied the vote and that Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground” — was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lead a worship service at the Pentagon last week.

The ideologies dovetail profoundly with pronatalist concepts promoted by Vice President JD Vance, and Trump’s administration more broadly, which has pushed an unprecedented anti-immigration campaign at the same time as a “pro-family” agenda and severe restrictions on reproductive healthcare. 

The Heritage Foundation, which created the Project 2025 policy wishlist — a Christian-nationalist blueprint to rebuild the federal government — is pushing the White House to create greater tax incentives for married couples, financially reward newlyweds, and open government-run “marriage bootcamps” for unmarried Americans. The Trump administration has already implemented about half of the goals from Project 2025’s nearly 1,000 page proposal in just the first quarter of his second term, The 19th* previously reported.

Heritage Foundation’s “Saving America by Saving the Family” framework says the camps would work like reeducation centers for unmarried couples, and the think tank’s documentation claims the federal government has already earmarked money for “marriage education programs,” Futurism reported. 

“Successful completion of the program would mean that couples are ready to walk down the aisle at a communal wedding by the end of the bootcamp,” according to the framework, which also offers cash incentives. 

One White Date user, who identified himself as a doctor of osteopathic medicine in Fort Worth, wrote in his bio that he was “fortunate to be brought up by parents who instilled pride in our remarkable race.” He wrote that he believes “the white race is what has made the wonder that we see as the modern world” and that “without us the world would be a primitive and dismal place.” The doctor said he wants to “continue on the great legacy past down to me by my amazingly creative ancestors by having a wonderful white mate and equally gifted white children.”

‘Radicalization Tale as Old as Time’

White Date users were given the choice to describe their political orientation. Commonly chosen political ideologies include “Pro-White,” “Alt-Right,” “Ethnonationalist,” and “National Socialism.” Common “mindsets” include “White Genocide” and “Corona Plandemic.”  

Others used more innocuous language to describe their political views, such as “conservative,” “pro-white,” “traditionalism,” or “fully redpilled.” (“Redpilled” is a term cribbed from the film “The Matrix” meant to indicate that someone has come to understand “truths” about gender roles.) Many chose no political descriptors at all.

Taken at their word, some White Date users were simply seeking other white people who shared things in common — but did not view themselves as espousing hatred. One user in Dallas wrote that he is “not really into politics” and “just want(s) to meet like minded people.” 

Another user in Dallas without political descriptors wrote that “loving my European heritage doesn’t mean I hate others, it simply means that I’m proud of my people and all of their accomplishments” — but also that they had been “redpilled.” 

“It isn’t difficult to see how the less extreme descriptions incorporate subtle hints or dog whistles about what some of the users might really believe,” said Luke Baumgartner, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. “Describing yourself as someone who ‘loves’ or is ‘proud of my race,’ “people,’ and ‘heritage’ is a common tactic that was used by a lot of prominent hate groups in the past.”

By joining White Date, these ostensibly “nonhateful” and “nonpolitical” users found themselves in the same dating pool as other users — like Midland’s “Meineehreheisttreue.” 

In this way, White Date served as a possible on-ramp into more extreme far-right ideologies. 

“It’s a radicalization tale as old as time, and frankly, the internet,” said Baumgartner. “It used to be that some conservatives would get drawn into more extreme ideologies through innocuous-enough sounding organizations like the John Birch Society — which has a long history of funneling white supremacists into more extreme circumstances. I would say White Date is comparable in that it can be considered another on-ramp in the same way that Reddit, 4chan, X, and other platforms were and continue to be.” 

In at least three cases, The Barbed Wire found that users in Texas have engaged in neo-fascist activism. 

One user, Patrick, provided a zip code for the Addison, Texas area. He described his political views as “Pro-White, Traditionalism.” Photos uploaded to the account depict Kieran Patrick Morris, a known member of the Patriot Front, one of the largest and most influential neo-Nazi groups in the United States. Several photos uploaded to the White Date account depict Patriot Front gatherings. Several other photos clearly show Morris’ face, including two in which he is seen posing with the Patriot Front flag. In a recent Texas Observer story, Morris was identified as an employee of Veteran Brothers Roofing, one of four businesses in North Texas with ties to Patriot Front. On Jan. 25, Patriot Front posted a video to its Telegram channel that the group said was taken at a recent anti-abortion demonstration in Washington, D.C. In the video, Morris is shown saying to a group of people: “You might have seen, there was a hit piece in Texas that came out last week. I’m a subject of the article, but basically North Texas Patriot Front guys have like a network of businesses — it’s like five or so — of businesses we own.”

Morris did not respond to multiple requests for comment sent to his Telegram account. 

Another user in Austin, Texas named “Hefeweizen” described his political orientation as “Pro-White, Alt-Right, National Socialism.” The account is associated with a Gmail address linked to the LinkedIn account of a software developer named Andrew Liebenow. A photo uploaded to the White Date account matches Liebnow’s LinkedIn photo, according to facial recognition software. In 2018, Liebenow was issued a trespassing warning, according to a police report, for posting white supremacist flyers around Texas State University at San Marcos. Following that incident, antifascist researchers identified Liebenow as a participant in a 2017 Patriot Front march in Austin. Liebenow was also identified by the antifascist researchers as a participant of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that drew hundreds of white supremacists — and international headlines — when one of the demonstrators rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old civil rights activist Heather Heyer and injuring 35 people.

Liebenow did not respond to requests for comment The Barbed Wire sent via email and LinkedIn, and calls to a phone number associated with his name were not returned. 

Meanwhile, one user in Houston, Chance, used his first name and Gmail account to register on White Date. Chance did not select descriptors for his political affiliation and simply described himself as “a Christian man who is seeking traditional woman.” The osint.industries tool links Chance’s Gmail on White Date to a number of accounts under the name Chancellor Purvis. Purvis is a resident of Houston and a registered private security guard in Texas. He bills himself as the chief of Iron Legionnaire Private Security, which does not currently have a registration with the Texas Secretary of State or the Texas Department of Public Safety. 

Purvis also has a YouTube account where he has promoted the American Reformation Front, a Christofascist organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group, as recently as 2021. Purvis also posted a video in 2023 in which he said he represents the “Christian Nationalist Front.” The Facebook page for Iron Legionnaire Private Security is followed by the Christian Nationalist Front, which uses fasces iconography that is popular with neo-fascist groups.

In a statement to The Barbed Wire from his Iron Legionnaire email address, Purvis admitted to prior involvement with the American Reformation Front and said he left the group years ago “after concluding its members were unserious and inconsistent” with his views. 

“I have had no involvement with it since, and I do not support or affiliate with extremist or hate-based movements,” Purvis said.

Purvis clarified that Iron Legionnaire Private Security is a “pre-formation project and is not an operating company.” He also said he lost access to his Gmail account in 2021, has been unable to recover it, and denies any involvement with White Date or any use of his Gmail account since 2021.

“Any activity, registrations, or associations attributed to that account after that point were not made by me and were not authorized,” Purvis said. “I have never used, registered for, or had any knowledge of the website you reference, and I was not aware of its existence prior to your inquiry. I have no involvement with White Date. For the avoidance of doubt, any publication that attributes to me accounts, activity, or affiliations with which I was not involved would be factually incorrect.”

Purvis’ Gmail account is associated with a Google Maps account, which features an image of Purvis as the profile picture and includes reviews in the Houston area as recently as December, including one from October 2024 with a photo of a receipt that has his first name visible on it. 

When provided this information, and asked if he denies leaving the 2024 Google Maps review and whether he believes he has been impersonated online, Purvis wrote: “Please stop contacting me.”

Former and Active Duty Military 

At least nine Texas-based White Date accounts described themselves as veterans or activity duty members of a military branch. 

One user in Bellaire, Texas, James2000, wrote that his “ideology is national socialism,” that his views on Christianity are the same as Christian Identity (a racist and antisemitic movement), and that he is in the Texas National Guard. The email associated with the account uses his full name and according to osint.industries is linked to multiple accounts that use his full name, James Jacoby, including a Google Maps account. 

Multiple requests for comment from The Barbed Wire to email addresses and phone numbers associated with Jacoby were not returned.

One user in Grapeland, TallTex, described himself as a “combat veteran” who does not approve of “miscegenation or race mixing” and wants “a pure white woman one that hasn’t been tainted” 

The email associated with the White Date is linked to a Google Maps user named Brandon Graham who left a review of the Lufkin Army Recruiting Station in 2025: “I went through Lufkin recruiting back in 2005 it was a good place….. However now DEI is no longer part of the military thank God recruiting should see an uptick.”

Multiple requests for comment from The Barbed Wire to Graham’s email address, LinkedIn, and phone numbers associated with Graham were not returned.

Political Fallout

There has yet to be a fully extensive reporting into the identities of the thousands of White Date users and no notable American politicians or public figures have been tied to the website. But the leak of the White Date website has not been without political consequence. 

Lilith Osborn, a conservative city councillor in the United Kingdom, was suspended from her political party after her White Date account was exposed. The councilor, who joined the site before she was elected, described her political orientation as “pro-white” and wrote that she was seeking a partner interested in “indigenous European spirituality.” She told the British outlet The Observer that she discovered White Date while researching modern paganism, and went on it “once or twice.” Osborne also said that she has mixed-race children and only described herself as pro-white in order to be trusted on the site. 

Why exactly Osborn wanted to be trusted on the site, which went beyond mere matchmaking and shared links to “pro-white” films and “cultural content” curated by a self-described Aryan activist, is unclear — even if the intentions of its creator were quite apparent. White Date’s creator, a woman who goes by the name Liv Heide and claims to be from Germany, wrote in 2019 that people should “look at humans as animal breeders look at animals” and that finding a partner was a “eugenic choice.”

Though the White Date website may now be gone, the reality that hundreds of Texans were drawn to it remains.