Heritage president Kevin Roberts is aligning the think tank with Paul Gottfried’s Chronicles magazine and its paleoconservative network, signaling a shift toward figures tied to white nationalism. The article chronicles Samuel Francis’s praise for David Duke and extremist groups, and Gottfried’s defense of those views, to show how paleo ideologies are gaining influence in mainstream conservative institutions.

• Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts is publicly partnering with Chronicles magazine and Paul Gottfried after Gottfried defended Roberts over the Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes controversy.
• Samuel Francis, a leading paleoconservative writer once published in Chronicles, urged David Duke in 1991 to build a nationwide movement and praised his "respectable racism" as potentially more effective than mainstream GOP messaging.
• Francis also expressed admiration in 1985 for neo-Nazi group The Silent Brotherhood, praising their "determination to act" as a model for mobilizing right-wing revolt.
• Francis was fired from The Washington Times in 1995 after calling for whites to unite "in explicitly racial terms" and had defended the Southern Baptist Convention's refusal to apologize for slavery.