Have any high-profile Ku Klux Klan members been arrested or convicted in 2025?

1. Search of the record: what the supplied reporting shows (and does not show)

A review of the supplied documents finds thorough historical accounts of major Klan prosecutions—such as the post‑Civil War Ku Klux Klan Act prosecutions of 1871–72 that produced many arrests and convictions in South Carolina ^{[1] [2]}—and FBI historical summaries of Klan investigations over the 20th century ^[5], but none of the items in the collection report a high‑profile Klan arrest or conviction occurring in calendar year 2025; the closest 2025‑dated item is a short documentary profiling a former Klan member’s exit story, not a criminal prosecution ^[4].

2. Historical precedent often invoked in modern cases

Federal statutes passed to counter Klan violence—the Enforcement Acts (often called the Ku Klux Klan Act) of the 1870s—are repeatedly cited in the sources as anchors for governmental authority to arrest and prosecute Klan members historically ^{[2] [1]}, and the FBI’s modern Klan files document arrests and conspiracy investigations through the 20th century and into the 1990s ^{[5] [3]}, underscoring that while the legal mechanisms exist, the supplied reporting does not show these mechanisms producing a prominent 2025 conviction.

3. 2025 cultural reporting versus criminal enforcement

One of the only explicitly 2025 items in the set is the short documentary "Hate Undone: Leaving the Ku Klux Klan," which follows an individual’s disaffiliation from white supremacist circles and is framed as a redemption narrative rather than a law‑enforcement story ^[4]; that sort of cultural coverage—profiling deradicalization or personal exits—does not substitute for reporting on arrests or convictions and therefore does not change the finding that no high‑profile KKK arrests/convictions in 2025 are documented here ^[4].

4. Modern statutes and contemporary analogies can complicate coverage

Several items show that post‑Civil War statutes originally aimed at the Klan remain in play for contemporary federal prosecutions and are sometimes invoked in non‑Klan contexts—reporting around other prosecutions notes that the Conspiracy Against Rights and Enforcement Act provisions have been used against a variety of vigilante or mob behaviors in modern cases ^{[6] [7] [8]}—which suggests that even when federal prosecutors have tools tied to the Klan’s history, their application in 2025 is not necessarily to Klan figures and the supplied materials do not evidence any such application to high‑profile Klan leaders in 2025 ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Alternative viewpoints, possible agendas and reporting limits

Some sources are historical summaries (History, Federal Judicial Center, Britannica) that emphasize past successful campaigns against Klan violence ^{[1] [2] [9]}, while others (FBI history pages, Wikipedia) catalogue episodes of enforcement and conviction across decades without exhaustive day‑to‑day news coverage ^{[5] [3]}; the ensemble therefore tilts toward documenting precedent rather than current events, creating a reporting gap for contemporary prosecutions—if a high‑profile 2025 arrest or conviction occurred, it is not captured by these sources, and that absence should temper any categorical claim that none occurred beyond the limits of the provided record ^{[5] [3]}.

6. Bottom line

Based on the supplied reporting, there is no documented instance of a high‑profile Ku Klux Klan member being arrested or convicted in 2025; the sources instead recount historical enforcement, FBI investigations across the 20th century, and a 2025 documentary about leaving the Klan, and they show that the legal framework to prosecute Klan‑style conspiracies remains available even as the present‑day evidentiary record in this set does not report a notable 2025 prosecution ^{[1] [2] [5] [4]}.