Great piece this morning from @KELLYWEILL, whose work is consistently as bold as her all-caps Twitter handle.
White nationalist org Identity Evropa is being welcomed into the GOP, and we're going to keep seeing more entryism from the alt-right.https://www.thedailybeast.com/whiter-every-election-cycle-how-identity-evropa-a-far-right-hate-group-joined-the-gop …
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Just as an example, the recently leaked Identity Evropa chats from
@UR_Ninja exposed@DentonCountyGOP official Joseph Kane as a member of the white nationalist group.https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1103980397665357824 …AntiFash Gordon added,
AntiFash Gordon @AntiFashGordon1/ An@NBCDFW piece defended a GOP official, Joseph Kane, who was exposed as a white supremacist based on his Twitter activity. New Discord leaks show that he was a member of the white nationalist Identity Evropa. You want to issue a correction,@NBCDFW?#IdentifyEvropa https://twitter.com/hailseitan6969/status/1103864904476446720 …Show this thread1 reply 11 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
The leaks also exposed that Identity Evropa raised funds and worked phones for Rep. Steve King (R-IA). For more on that, see this coverage from
@AndyBCampbell.https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/identity-evropa-steve-king-chats_n_5c802d39e4b06ff26ba54911 …2 replies 28 retweets 39 likesShow this thread -
Identity Evropa isn't the only hate group making inroads with the Republican Party, either. As
@_grendan noted in October, "The Proud Boys aren’t just a less overtly racist branch of the alt-right; they’ve become a militant wing of the Republican Party."https://thebaffler.com/latest/boys-to-men-oconnor …2 replies 30 retweets 57 likesShow this thread
And for more on that, see @EmilyGorcenski's wonderful @PRAEyesRight piece, "The Proud Boys: A Republican street gang."http://feature.politicalresearch.org/the-proud-boys
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