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Amalia Halikias, The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 government relations director and former campaign director for Blake Masters鈥� failed 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, RSVP鈥檇 yes to Nathan Lyons鈥� wedding in June 2022, according to publicly available data on wedding registry website The Knot. Lyons, a former U.S. Army Ranger, attended the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection with Nicholas Fuentes, a white nationalist livestreamer who aims to move the Republican Party further to the extreme far right.

Lyons also appeared in a photograph at a white nationalist fitness club in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2020.

Halikias wrote, 鈥淟ooking forward <3 Amalia鈥� on her RSVP. The Data Lab was unable to confirm Halikias attended the wedding.

Halikias and The Heritage Foundation did not respond to requests for comment.

The Data Lab discovered Halikias鈥� plan to attend the wedding using public data available from The Knot鈥檚 source code and comments Fuentes made on his livestreamed program, 鈥淎merica First.鈥�

On a June 24, 2022, episode of 鈥淎merica First,鈥� Fuentes explained that he was supposed to be at a wedding that day but decided to stay home and do a show about the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 Roe v. Wade reversal instead.

Fuentes congratulated 鈥淣athan and Katelyn鈥� on their wedding in Florida during the show. He encouraged the couple to go 鈥渕ake some white babies.鈥�

The Data Lab determined that the 鈥淣athan and Katelyn鈥� referred to in the Fuentes monologue are Nathan Lyons and Katelyn Swett, according to The Knot鈥檚 source code.

Fuentes concluded, 鈥淎nd we actually have some friends in the Blake Masters camp who are at the wedding, too,鈥� referencing Masters鈥� unsuccessful 2022 campaign to become a U.S. senator for Arizona. One article called Masters 鈥�,鈥� and another said 鈥溾�� in his campaign.

The data suggests the wedding attendee from 鈥渢he Blake Masters camp鈥� is his former campaign manager Halikias. The Data Lab checked all salaried employees and contractors the Masters campaign listed in federal election filings with the wedding鈥檚 guest list. Halikias was the only name that appeared. She served as the Blake Masters campaign manager beginning in 2021.

There is no evidence to suggest that Fuentes and Halikias have met.

Lyons and Halikias are part of an Ivy League friends鈥� circle comprising Yale University and Columbia University anti-abortion activist groups, including Halikias鈥� brother, Dimitrios. Social media shows their circle has remained in contact.

One photo appears to show shows Lyons and Halikias attending a joint Ivy League anti-abortion conference at Yale. The two are connected on social media, including Instagram, where Lyons鈥� profile does not include his name and Halikias鈥� profile is private.

Lyons did not invite most of the Ivy League friend circle to the wedding, but did invite Halikias and three more, including Phil Jeffery, a deputy opinion editor at Newsweek. Jeffery responded 鈥渘o鈥� to the invitation.

Lyons did not respond to a request for comment.

Project 2025

Project 2025 is a proposal to dramatically reshape the U.S. government should former President Donald Trump become president again. The project embraces a controversial interpretation of the , which claims the entire executive branch is under the president鈥檚 direct control. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees. this is a precursor to

Multiple Project 2025 contributors have and association with racists, according to a report by USA Today. These include Richard Hanania, a right-wing academic; Corey Stewart, a 2018 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Virginia; Michael Anton, a conservative speechwriter and former Trump administration official; Stephen Moore, who withdrew from consideration for an appointment to the Federal Reserve Board under the Trump administration; and Jason Richwine, whose 2009 doctoral thesis claimed 鈥淗ispanics鈥� may never reach 鈥淚Q parity with whites,鈥� a trope of the 鈥渟cientific鈥� racism movement.

Project 2025 lists Halikias as a contributor. The document does not reveal to what extent she contributed to the plan.

Trump has publicly disavowed the project. But his vice-presidential running mate, U.S. Sen. of Ohio, has ties to Project 2025鈥檚 key personnel, including Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts.

Halikias has ties to numerous conservative figures and a history of conservative activism. Vance and Halikias were , a pay app that has limited social media features.

Halikias attended Yale from 2011 to 2015. In her first semester, Halikias was part of a for her choice to check only 鈥渨hite鈥� as her race during the admission process, even though she is half-Asian. She told the Associated Press that she 鈥渄idn鈥檛 want to be grouped into that stereotype ... I didn鈥檛 want to be written off as one of the 1.4 billion Asians that were applying.鈥�

While at Yale, Halikias was a leader in the conservative Tory Party of the Yale Political Union. After college, she worked for U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, the Utah Republican, as a committee communications director. She was named a Claremont Institute fellow for rising conservative leaders. She also worked as the membership director of the conservative RightNOW Women PAC and was the press assistant for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign before serving as the campaign policy director for U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican.

Halikias would later co-author a conservative book series for children called Liberty Lane alongside Yale graduate Josh Bansal.

Far-right ranger

The groom, former Army Ranger Nathan Lyons, has extensive ties to the far right.

The wedding invitation Fuentes received from Lyons came after the two attended the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection together.

Lyons appeared in photographs and was captured on video during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol standing with Fuentes and chanting, 鈥淎merica First.鈥�

Before that, Lyons near extremist Alex Jones at the 鈥淢illion MAGA March鈥� in November 2020 in Washington, D.C. The far-right protesters were there to demonstrate against the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

Lyons also appears to have been a member of racist weightlifting club Vengeance Strength Kvlt [sic]. The club鈥檚 founder, Christopher Leaming, who goes by Sky Lemyng, is the co-author of the handbook for Operation Werewolf. Operation Werewolf is a white nationalist fight club envisioned by brothers Paul and Matthias Waggener, the founders of the neo-V枚lkisch hate group Wolves of Vinland.

The gym鈥檚 Telegram channel, last updated in 2021, is rife with racist posts.

Lyons appeared in a 2020 photograph of people training at Vengeance Strength Kvlt鈥檚 Nashville location featured on the racist gym鈥檚 website.

It is unclear what Lyons does for work. Federal Election Commission records show that on Aug. 9, 2021, Lyons made the maximum donation of $5,800 to Blake Masters鈥� Senate campaign, listing 鈥淓ntrepreneur鈥� as his job title. He donated $616 to the Ron Paul presidential campaign in 2012, listing Century 21 Real Estate as his employer.

In 2017, Lyons used an address in Illinois to register a business called Bitcoin Application Group LLC in New Mexico.

Lyons served as an Army Ranger from 2005 to 2010. He invited several other Army soldiers to his wedding, including Stuart Adcock. Adcock was in the same Army Ranger battalion as Lyons. Adcock pleaded guilty to a charge of transporting explosives without a license in December 2011 following a tip about Adcock . The court sentenced him to two years鈥� probation.

In May 2022, Lyons was elected 鈥淓xecutive Officer鈥� or XO of his local Army Ranger Association club, the John Minatra Ranger Base in Franklin, Tennessee. Social media posts show Lyons hosting members of the Army Ranger veterans club at his College Grove, Tennessee, home in 2021.

In 2013, Lyons enrolled in a at Columbia University for former military members. According to his LinkedIn profile, Lyons graduated in 2016. Facebook posts show him remaining active in the Columbia Right to Life student organization, traveling with the group to demonstrate at the 2018 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

Columbia University did not respond to requests to confirm Lyons鈥� tenure at the university.

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