What the Emails Contained
The emails, sent between 2015 and 2016 while Miller was a top aide to then-Senator Jeff Sessions, repeatedly promoted content from white nationalist websites and organizations:
VDARE — Named after Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas. Publishes white nationalist, anti-immigration content. The SPLC classifies it as a hate group.
American Renaissance — A white supremacist publication that promotes pseudo-scientific racism and holds annual conferences attended by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Klan members.
"The Camp of the Saints" — A 1973 French novel depicting the destruction of Western civilization by mass immigration from the Third World. The book is widely regarded as a foundational text of modern white nationalism.
Miller pushed debunked racial IQ theories — the discredited claim that intelligence differs by race — as justification for restrictive immigration policies. He urged Breitbart editors to write stories promoting these ideas.
After Charleston
In June 2015, Dylann Roof — a white supremacist — murdered nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The massacre prompted a national conversation about Confederate symbols and their connection to white supremacist violence.
Stephen Miller's response, documented in his emails to Breitbart: his primary concern was protecting Confederate monuments. While the country mourned, Miller was feeding Breitbart editors talking points about preserving Confederate heritage.
The Network at Duke
The ideological roots run deep. At Duke University, Miller co-organized events with Richard Spencer — the man who would later coin the term "alt-right," lead the Charlottesville march, and chant "Hail Trump" in a Washington ballroom. Miller has denied knowing Spencer well. A 2007 email proves otherwise.
Also at Duke, Miller befriended Rabbi Ben Packer, a settler extremist living in occupied East Jerusalem who supports Kach — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Packer took Miller on a guided tour of the occupied West Bank and later declared him the savior of the Jewish people.
"Stephen Miller is not just my friend, he's not just our friend, HE IS US!" — Rabbi Ben Packer, Kahanist settler in occupied East Jerusalem
The Origin Story
Born in 1985 in the affluent "North of Montana" neighborhood of Santa Monica, California. Raised in a liberal Jewish family. His great-grandmother fled anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus. His grandfather arrived penniless through Ellis Island — the very immigration system Miller now works to dismantle.
His third-grade teacher told the Hollywood Reporter that 8-year-old Stephen "would pour glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it. He was a strange dude."
At 14, after a family financial setback, he abruptly stopped talking to a close Latino friend — his first documented act of racial self-segregation. He began listening to conservative talk radio. By 16, he was appearing on The Larry Elder Show. By high school graduation, he had invited David Horowitz — who claimed African Americans "benefited from slavery" — to speak at his school, and had told a rally that janitors should pick up his trash.
"Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?" — Stephen Miller, high school rally (2002)
His Family Speaks
Miller's own family has publicly repudiated him.
"If my nephew's ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out." — Dr. David Glosser, Miller's uncle, retired neuropsychologist
"I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil." — Alisa Kasmer, Miller's cousin
His parents operate Cordary Inc., which manages approximately 2,500 apartment units in immigrant communities across greater Los Angeles — buildings maintained by immigrant labor.
After reviewing the 900+ emails, the Southern Poverty Law Center added Stephen Miller to its Extremist Files — the same database that includes David Duke, Richard Spencer, and leaders of designated hate groups. Miller is the highest-ranking government official ever listed.
This is the man who controls U.S. immigration policy, who fabricated a narrative to cover up a shooting, and who — as the next chapter reveals — profited personally from the operations he directed.