The New York Young Republican Club is the oldest and largest chapter in the United States,[1][2] founded in 1911 with predecessor organizations going back to 1856.

[6] In April 1911, thirty-two young men, led by a young Manhattan lawyer Benjamin M. Day, along with, Philip J. McCook, Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Frederick Paul Keppel, Henry W. Goddard, Edward R. Finch, Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr., Lindon Bates Jr., Thomas D. Thacher, Albert S. Bard, and Robert McC.

Their goal was to grow the club through parties (e.g., alcohol), militant rhetoric, and endorsing “controversial far-right figures”.

[18] In December 2022, the club held a gala event in Manhattan that featured both Republican politicians and far-right extremists.

[19] At the event, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told attendees that if she and former Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon had organized the January 6 United States Capitol attack, "we would have won" and "it would have been armed.

"[19] Given top billing for the gala were Taylor Greene, Jack Posobiec (a far-right conspiracy theorist who pushed Pizzagate conspiracy theories), and Donald Trump Jr.; featured as "special guests" were three newly elected incoming Republican House members—George Santos of New York, Cory Mills of Florida, and Mike Collins of Georgia.

[19] Also attending the event were Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer,[20] Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigrant activist whose VDARE website publishes the work of white nationalists, and members of the Freedom Party of Austria and Alternative for Germany, two extreme-right European parties with an authoritarian heritage.