Brittany Sellner (; born October 7, 1992) is an American political activist, author and

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. She has been active as a

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, and advocates anti-feminist views and the

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Political activities

Sellner began her political activism in 2016 in support of

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. She then actively promoted the

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, and co-hosted the

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''Virtue of the West'' with Tara McCarthy. The following year, she was one of the speakers at events that led to protests at Berkeley. She also traveled to France to support French presidential candidate

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, and to

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to join

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's efforts to stop NGO boats of African migrants. In 2018, she was refused entry to the United Kingdom and deported along with her boyfriend, Austrian Identitarian activist

Martin Sellner Martin Michael Sellner (born 8 January 1989) is an Austrian Right-wing politics, right-wing to far-right political activist, and leader of the Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs, Identitarian Movement of Austria, which he co-founded in 2012. He is ...

, after having come to Britain with the intention of interviewing

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. The same year, together with

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, she met with and interviewed Russian ultranationalist

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. Sellner has also been noted to be a friend of Dutch right-wing influencer

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, and appeared in anti-COVID-19 vaccination demonstrations. Sellner describes herself as a "Catholic American nationalist", and advocates a "full stop on mass immigration". Critics such as the Anti-Defamation League have described her as an

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activist who traffics in

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ideas, while she has been a major promoter of the

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. She has also promoted the

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and

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conspiracy theories. At the same time, she is noted for presenting a "soft" and feminine

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influencer lifestyle on social media like

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, appealing to a more mainstream audience.

Personal life

Together with her identical twin, Nicole, Sellner authored the

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and

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novel ''Hatred Day'' under the pseudonym T.S. Pettibone in 2016. The novel was selected as one of

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' Best Books Of 2016. Originally from

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, she married

, and moved to Austria in 2019. The couple had originally planned to get married in

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...

in the US, while Brittany was still living in

Post Falls Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the gateway city to Northern Idaho off Interstate 90, just west of Coeur d'Alene, and east of Spokane, Washington. The population is an estimated 44,798 in 2023 according to th ...

. Howevert, Sellner's visa was cancelled, even though the couple had received backing from the

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Republican Central Committee. In June 2019, the investigation of Martin for alleged contacts with

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terrorist

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widened to include Brittany, for her interview with Australian

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. Brittany and Martin Sellner had a son in 2021.

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