Intra-party factionalism and media fragmentation have emerged as two major trends in U.S. politics. We explore potential connections between these developments. Rather than focus on partisan polarization, we analyze intra-party division among Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ engagement with far-right alternative news media during the 116th Congress. We develop three discrete measures to scale representatives’ positions using hyperlinks to far-right websites on Twitter. We demonstrate a strong association between these measures of news media engagement and proxies for ideological position, including roll-call voting, caucus membership, and political rhetoric. These findings have implications for our understanding of intra-party divisions and elite-media interaction in a fragmented media system. They provide further insight into divisions within the modern congressional Republican Party, and offer a new metric for scaling elites’ political positions, using hyperlinks to ideological news sources.