King is the most overtly white nationalist sitting member of Congress. I'll briefly go over some of his greatest hits here for anyone who is not familiar with his ouevre.pic.twitter.com/GW1nTF5epY
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King is the most overtly white nationalist sitting member of Congress. I'll briefly go over some of his greatest hits here for anyone who is not familiar with his ouevre.pic.twitter.com/GW1nTF5epY
Back in 2006, King was already using apocalyptic language about immigration that has since become a political norm. In a May 27 speech on immigration that year, he said "we have a slow motion Holocaust on our hands," asserting that "illegals" had killed more Americans than 9/11
In a 2013 speech opposing DACA, King said "for everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. "
King has a longstanding love affair with the European extreme right. In 2018, he took a detour from a tour of Holocaust sites in Poland to go meet with members of the Austrian Freedom Party, a group led by neo-Nazi Heinz-Christian Strachehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/holocaust-memorial-group-unwittingly-funded-rep-kings-meeting-with-far-right-austrians/2018/10/25/a18f4f6a-d875-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html …
In October of 2018, King came out in support of Canadian fringe right political figure Faith Goldy, who did an interview with the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, and was eventually banned from Facebook for advocating extremist views.pic.twitter.com/8usBmGzSjm
In January 2019, King went too far even for the normally very tolerant Republican caucus. He was stripped of his committee memberships by Kevin McCarthy after defending white supremacy in a New York Times interview.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html …
Despite this breach, the Republican Party has never had a real problem with Steve King, whose main fault is that he says things out loud that colleagues are content to leave unsaid. King regularly chats with Trump, and expects to get his committees back after the 2020 electionpic.twitter.com/f98rBoYkWn
King's voters are less content. Even voters who share his extreme views on bedrock issues like abortion are not content to see their congressman pursue pet ideological projects at the price of losing a seat at the table on agricultural bills that affect their livelihood
In 2018, many of you here pitched in to support an unknown political newcomer, @JDScholten, an Iowa native who ran against King and came within three points of victory, swinging the district by 20 points. Scholten did it by working his ass off and winning Republican votes.pic.twitter.com/cA6BJYNELO
We raised nearly $300K for J.D. through the Great Slate. We watched his district go from "Solid R" to "Likely R" to "Leans R", and in the end, lost that allegedly impossible race by just 11,000 votes—the same number of voters as got registered this year, during the Iowa caucuses.
This year I'm asking you to help do it again. Help boot out King, help get rid of the equally noxious Don Young in Alaska, help boot out a climate denialist in Colorado, and help defeat Susan Collins in Maine's second district. Do it by giving money where it can do the most work!
We have less than two hours left before the close of books in Q1. Please give what money you can spare to help these candidates, who are fighting for a better future for all of us. With your support tonight, they can win in November.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
The next $1000 in donations will be matched by anonymous donor. Please post receipts to the thread!
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