To apply to live in “Community 1”, a 160-acre site in the rolling hills of remote Arkansas, you must meet a very particular set of criteria.

You must be Christian. You must be heterosexual. You must be able to prove your European heritage. And you must be white.

The “whites-only” enclave in the Ozarks is the brainchild of Eric Orwoll, the far-Right founder of the white separatist Return To The Land (RTTL) movement, who wants to create racially exclusive settlements with the goal of resegregating society.

Some 4,500 miles away, Simon Birkett, a prominent British fascist, is accused of attempting to do the same, first in rural Wales, then in every county in the UK.

It is no coincidence.

Mr Orwoll revealed to The Telegraph that his organisation is allied with Mr Birkett’s and he knows his British counterpart, who runs The Woodlander Initiative (TWI), a land-buying scheme. The pair consort with other far-Right figures across the world.

“When people from the UK apply to us, we generally refer them to the Woodlander initiative,” Mr Orwoll said.

Mr Orwoll wants to build whites-only towns to “start from scratch again”, owing to the “failure” of modern society. Mr Birkett says he is building an alternative to the “multicultural hell” of modern Britain.

Both organisations are growing. Mr Orwoll revealed for the first time that RTTL was already building more segregated communities, but would not specify where. Meanwhile, Mr Birkett announced in June that TWI had bought five plots of land across the UK.

The links between the two are the latest sign of growing transnational relationships between far-Right white-separatist and supremacist movements across the world.

Their ideology is rooted in racist conspiracy theories, preying on economic anxieties and disillusionment with mainstream politics, and exploiting the surge in anti-immigration sentiment.

‘The British countryside is ours, we are taking it back’

Nearly four dozen people are making Community 1 their permanent isolated home. It is found down a long, dusty track, half an hour away from the nearest town.

The residents live in tents while they construct basic wooden homes. Goats and chickens roam the land and children are homeschooled.

By couching the project in the idea of traditional Christian values, it evokes a particular nostalgia for a mythologised “golden age”. Far-Right groups around the world leverage cultural anxieties about the perceived moral decay of our current multicultural societies, contrasting it with an idealised, homogenous past.

Mr Orwoll, a classically trained French horn player who The New York Times reported used to livestream his own sex videos, would not grant The Telegraph access to the site.

His homesteading Ozarks project is larger and more successful than Mr Birkett’s initiative, for now.

The Wiltshire-based tattoo artist, who has been a member of various fascist parties including the British National Party and the National Front over the past 30 years, claims the TWI is not “a political organisation”.

He launched his scheme in 2023, trying and failing to buy land in Cumbria and East Sussex before succeeding in Wales. In June, he said five areas of land had been secured and 20 members were officially landowners.

He repeatedly shares AI-generated images of white couples or families strolling through woodlands. “That British countryside is ours, and we are taking it back, literally,” he wrote online recently.

The Ozarks and Wales projects are far from the first. There has been a long tradition of white supremacist groups trying to create isolated living communities, including the “white homeland” movement in the US’s Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.

Recently, attempts have been made to create racist enclaves in North Dakota, Maine, Kentucky, South Africa, Sweden and Germany.

“Instead of it being just one of the worst things that a person could imagine, it’s like, ‘oh, here’s another one’,” said Wendy Via, head of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

She argued that she is less concerned about the individual movements themselves, but more concerned about the ideas that they espouse.

“It has almost become commonplace now to report on the mainstreaming and normalisation of white supremacy.”

RTTL’s fundraising page describes it as a fight for “the rights of all Americans”, citing the “constitutional right to free association and free assembly”.

Mr Orwoll told The Telegraph his was “not a political movement”, but an effort “to secure the right of European people to freely associate”.

Civil rights groups strongly disagree, arguing RTTL’s broader plan is to raise money to find legal loopholes in anti-discrimination laws to build a segregationist community model.

Mr Orwoll himself has not previously hidden this. “You want a white nation? Build a white town,” he said in one social media video. “It can be done. We’re doing it.”

RTTL was sued for discrimination in May, which Mr Orwoll said he was anticipating.

The suit was brought by Michelle Walker, a real estate agent, whose application to purchase land from RTTL was denied based on her Jewish ancestry and her husband being black.

RTTL argues it is a private members’ association and therefore exempt from the Fair Housing Act, a federal law that prohibits discrimination by real estate companies or landlords.

Mr Orwoll said he was confident “our whole legal strategy will pan out and accomplish our goals”.

He believes the cultural climate is behind his mission. “People used to be much more onboard with anti-white narratives,” he said, arguing that Americans had become “jaded by the woke perspective and the politics of victimhood”.

Groups such as RTTL see it as an opportune moment to seize. The Trump administration had unravelled diversity and inclusion policies, carried out mass deportations and pardoned far-Right extremists, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

“They see it as a possibility now, when it was not considered a possibility before,” said Ms Via.

Anti-rights groups across the globe, she argued, have been emboldened by the actions of the Trump administration.

‘Part of a much-broader ecosystem’

Hope Not Hate, the UK-based anti-fascist and anti-racism advocacy group, first revealed the TWI’s purchases of land near Llanafan Fawr, a village in mid-Wales.

It also reported that Mr Birkett had run training camps for members of the Patriotic Alternative, one of Britain’s largest far-Right white supremacist groups, run by Mark Collett, an admirer of Adolf Hitler.

“Purchasing land is a long-standing aspiration for many on the far-Right, who desire a space in which they can host events with fewer risks or, more ambitiously, to withdraw into ‘whites only’ enclaves,” Hope Not Hate wrote in its report.

The anti-fascist group also exposed RTTL’s links with white supremacy and neo-Nazi organisations across the world. It described a webinar hosted by Mr Orwoll last February as “a ‘who’s who’ of global far-Right extremists”.

On the call, a slew of far-Right figures shared their own plans for whites-only communities.

At one point, Mr Orwoll praised Mr Birkett’s efforts in the UK, saying: “It’s a difficult country, but you’re the one really pioneering what needs to be done.”

Joshua Fisher-Birch, researcher at the Counter Extremism Project in New York, said it would be a mistake to view any white, ethnonationalist group as being focused on the local, instead of the national or global.

“They want to create a model for others that they can replicate themselves elsewhere,” he argued. “While they appear to be focused on creating their own community, they are certainly interacting with many others. They participate in white-supremacist networks, they host people from other groups, they repost their content online.

“Each is one part of a much broader ecosystem.”