Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is calling for an investigation into the white nationalist group Patriot Front after hundreds of its masked members marched through Washington, D.C., over the Independence Day weekend.
“What I find odd about Patriot Front is how under Biden they were never investigated,” Luna wrote in a post on X. “Well funded. Never investigated. The FBI under Biden looked into Catholics instead,” urging the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to “do some digging.”
Luna appeared to reference a long-running conspiracy theory promoted in some right-wing circles that Patriot Front is secretly a federal law enforcement operation or informant network. The claim has been amplified over the years by figures such as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, radio host Jesse Kelly, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, podcaster Joe Rogan, and billionaire Elon Musk. The Patriot Front itself has repeatedly denied the allegation, calling it “slander.”
Roughly 400 members of Patriot Front marched through Washington on July 4 near the Capitol and Eastern Market wearing matching khaki pants, navy shirts, white face coverings, and hats. The demonstrators carried American flags, some flown upside down, as well as Confederate flags, as police monitored the event.
Patriot Front was founded in 2017 by Thomas Rousseau after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group espouses white nationalist and white supremacist ideology, advocating the creation of a white ethnostate and opposing multiculturalism. It is known for organizing marches, distributing propaganda, and vandalizing public spaces.
Several Republican lawmakers also condemned Patriot Front following the march.
“This tough lady is surrounded by a bunch of creeps,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) wrote on X while sharing an image of a woman riding a Washington Metro train alongside members of the group.
This tough lady is surrounded by a bunch of creeps. pic.twitter.com/47BW4uyfLM
— Rep. Don Bacon
(@RepDonBacon) July 4, 2026
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) similarly rejected Patriot Front’s message during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union.
“What I’ll say is that that is not the soul of America,” Carter said. “We are all created equally. That is what our whole impetus is based on here in this country. … That does not represent the soul of America. We in America believe in equality, and that is simply not reflective, certainly not of the Republican Party.”
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also denounced the group’s ideology while defending its constitutional right to demonstrate.
“Certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with,” Burgum said on CNN’s State of the Union. “But one of the foundational principles of the United States … is free speech. There are plenty of things that I see that I might personally find offensive, reprehensible, but in America, free speech is allowed.”