Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought his 12-state, cross-country to the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania late last month, providing a platform for the disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and other luminaries of the far right to promote their campaign of lies and disinformation about an America under siege by immigrants and a shadowy cabal of 鈥済lobalists.鈥
The white nationalist website VDARE, which has ties to former White House aides who helped shape the Trump administration鈥檚 harsh immigration policies, suspended operations earlier this year amid a slew of legal and technical challenges.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp鈥檚 field director, Brad Hughes, sat in on lobbying meetings between the governor, his policy staff and two political groups that Hughes is affiliated with, emails from a public records request show. Frontline Policy Action, the lobbying arm of an anti-人兽性交+ hate group that Hughes helps lead, endorsed and funded efforts to reelect Kemp in 2022, finance records show. Hatewatch previously reported that in 2024, the group also gave $350,000 to Kemp鈥檚 Georgians First Leadership Committee.
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Anti-人兽性交+ and anti-abortion groups have joined forces with Georgia鈥檚 largest association of Baptist churches to sway Gov. Brian Kemp in support of a far-right policy agenda that rolls back the rights of transgender children, according to emails obtained through a public records request.
After Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd in late May 2020, the U.S. and the world were on the precipice of a cultural reckoning on racial injustice, marked by mass protests that swept the world. The day after the murder, as video of the violence hit the news and tensions were about to ignite, Bedford County, Virginia, passed a resolution in support of 鈥渢he militia.鈥 A similar resolution had passed in Campbell County, Virginia, earlier that year.