Revealed: top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links

JD Vance's press secretary Parker Magid worked for Beck & Stone ( B&S ) and its subsidiary political consultancy Knight Takes Rook ( KTR ) The consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right Claremont Institute , the serial Arizona political candidate Blake Masters and the “counter-revolutionary” magazine IM1776 .

B&S was founded in 2014 , according to statements by its founders, Andrew Beck and Austin Stone .

Magid was also co-host of a Washington DC fundraising event for the then-candidate Blake Masters .

B&S ’s website portfolio includes some mainstream clients, but it is unclear how recent or extensive that work was.

Sample of work the agency cites for Condé Nast include mock-ups for Golf World , a magazine that ceased publication in 2014 .

More recently the agency has leaned into design work for newer or newly insurgent far-right organizations.

Beck, the agency's co-founder, posted on X that he had “created the brand identity, designed the mark, and crafted the website” for the Society for American Civic Renewal .

Beck has promoted far-right positions in opinion pieces and on social media, including arguments for “ Christian civilizationism” as a more expansive version of Christian nationalism.

Beck maintains other positions in the burgeoning institutional infrastructure of the anti-democratic “new right” movement.

He was appointed vice-president of communications at the Claremont Institute last month .