Up until this year, new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home. Good times.

But to really understand WRR, you need to know its founder and leader Seth Gruber. Gruber—who likes to say that pro-lifers should “make the death penalty great again”—doesn’t believe it’s enough for abortion patients to face murder charges. For ‘equal protection’1 to be a true deterrent, Gruber says women need to be executed “in the public square.” He also argues that pro-choice Americans should not be allowed to hold public office, and that abortion involves “demonic pagan rituals.”

Well that all seems very normal and reasonable and not insane. At least they’re not calling for everyone to have access to healthcare and education.