Editing Thomas Robb (section)

==Biography==
Thomas Robb is pastor of the Christian Revival Center in Bergman, Arkansas, a Christian Identity center where Robb espouses racism and [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitism]]. Robb's "Thomas Robb Ministries" website declares that "the Anglo Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and kindred people are THE people of the Bible."<ref name=SPLC/>

Robb took over the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from David Duke in the 1980s. In a bid to gain mainstream acceptance, he took the title "National Director" rather then "Imperial Wizard" and chose to rename the organization as "the Knights Party." He also decided to accept members via mail-in forms, rather than through initiation rites that had been common Klan practice in the past.<ref name=SPLC/> Robb defends the Klan as a harmless organization, claiming that it is "gentle, upbeat, and friendly"; when featured in the PBS documentary Banished, Robb compared a Klan hood to a businessman's tie, claiming that "it's just tradition."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021802005.html PBS's 'Banished' Exposes the Tainted Past of Three White Enclaves], ''The Washington Post''</ref>

Robb has maintained ties to other far-right groups; he has spoken at the [[Aryan Nations]]' annual "World Congress" of [[Hate Groups|hate group]] leaders, appeared on Jamie Kelso's white supremacist Voice of Reason Radio Network, and contributed regularly to the white supremacist Internet forum ''[[Stormfront]]''. In 1996 Robb began to pioneer the concept that [[Great Replacement|white people were being targeted for genocide]].<ref name=SPLC/>

In 2009, Robb's daughter Rachel Pendergraft and his granddaughters, Charity and Shelby Pendergraft, formed a "white nationalist" band called Heritage Connection.<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/06/another-adorable-white-power-sister-act/ Another Adorable White-Power Sister Act], Southern Poverty Law Center</ref>

The Knights' Party appeared in a documentary by Al Jazeera on American hate groups, wherein Rogers Police Department Sergeant Kelley Cradduck alleged that American white supremacists home-school their children to obfuscate [[Illegal Drug Trade|drug trafficking]] and [[Child Abuse|child sexual abuse]].

Robb's Party publishes ''The Crusader'', a quarterly publication. In November 2016, just days before the presidential election, Robb wrote an front-page article under the title "Make America Great Again" in ''The Crusader'', devoted to a lengthy endorsement of [[Donald Trump]] and Trump's message. The Trump campaign responded by denouncing ''The Crusader'' article.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/ KKK's official newspaper supports Donald Trump for president], ''The Washington Post''</ref>