Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US 'dissident' right

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
Jason Wilson and Ali Winston

Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards

The Wagon Box Inn in Story, Wyoming. Photograph: Google Maps

A long and convoluted tale...

A vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.

Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called “dissident right”, political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the “network state” movement.

The dissident right is a term that describes rightwing intellectual currents that go beyond and even attack mainstream conservatives for their perceived concessions to liberals on issues like race, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Network state proponents envision a network of extra-national communities that exist beyond the control of nation-states.

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Reverse diasporas

Srinavisan is an entrepreneur and investor formerly associated with companies including Andreessen-Horowitz and Coinbase. (That company’s current CEO, Brian Armstrong, is another outspoken booster of network states).

For more than a decade, Srinivasan has advocated a radical anarcho-capitalist vision in which like-minded people can “exit” and place themselves beyond the legal and economic reach of nation-states in parallel, networked special economic zones.

His ideas are often couched in vituperative attacks on his perceived enemies, including academics, government employees and the media.

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