Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-Per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth

Organizers down a pronatalist league with far-right ties successful Austin, Texas this play person acceptable up matchmaking events for attendees that see the enactment of getting joined connected tract arsenic portion of their greater effort to repopulate the world, WIRED has learned.

According to its website, the sold-out Natal Conference, taking spot March 28-29 astatine a edifice operated by the University of Texas astatine Austin, has “no governmental oregon ideological extremity different than a satellite successful which our children tin person grandchildren.” But the event, an earlier mentation of which was promoted by Elon Musk, features speakers similar Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Crémieux, an online pseudonym linked, according to The Guardian, to Jordan Lasker, who discusses falling birthrates and promotes eugenics.

Natal Conference organizer Kevin Dolan, a begetter of astatine slightest six, according to Politico, has antecedently stated that eugenics—the content that achromatic radical are genetically superior—and the pronatalist question are “very overmuch aligned.”

Publicly-available details astir the Natal Conference are scant, with the vague online league docket promising closed-door sessions to code collapsing commencement rates.

However, an email obtained by WIRED promoting a pre-conference mixer held Thursday nighttime reveals matchmaking whitethorn play a important relation astatine the league and successful the pronatalist question much widely.

“This is simply a peculiar email to NatalCon attendees who indicated they were highly funny successful uncovering the missing puzzle portion for singles, matchmaking, marriage, and household formation,” reads the email, sent by an lawsuit shaper named Luke, who did not motion with his past name.

“We were stunned to person galore emails saying, ‘NatalCon needs to beryllium focusing connected this, close now!’ And we're present to service you. This is coming from each sectors: singles, parents with dating property children, grandparents, newlyweds that privation to assistance their friends commencement families, and more,” the email said.

Attendees are instructed to registry to larn the nonstop venue (though it is listed elsewhere connected the website), and registration was listed arsenic costing $10,000 for the afloat weekend—an summation from earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile the outgo was 90 percent cheaper. (A Saturday-only summons is $500.) Last year’s VIP bundle was $1,000, according to the NatalCon website. After recognition paper details are handed over, organizers vet imaginable attendees, requiring them to taxable their societal media handles. The website says prospective attendees aren’t charged unless they’re approved.

NatalCon organizers, including Dolan, did not respond to messages from WIRED seeking comment.

Single registrants are directed to capable retired a survey that asks their desired fig of children (listing 1 to implicit 7 arsenic options), “religious, spiritual, cultural, lifestyle” values, and whether they would beryllium unfastened to a “Q&A with a NatalCon talker to present yourself to the room.”

Speaking to Edward Dutton—who has been described arsenic a “proponent of pseudo-scientific ‘race science,’” by anti-extremism radical Hope Not Hate—on a Jolly Heretic podcast successful 2023, Dolan described his alma mater Brigham Young University arsenic a “breeding program” for astute Mormons. He said his pronatalist events are a antagonistic to the “perverse incentives successful the dating app market.”