Insurrectionists storm the Capitol. Republican lawmakers incited and worked with them.
Read MoreCongressman-Elect Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) shares in an interview that he had attempted to convert Jews and Muslims to Christianity.
Read MoreShortly after winning his primary, Madison Cawthorn, the Republican nominee for U.S. House District 11 in North Carolina, is exposed as having expressed views sympathetic or referential to Nazism on multiple occasions.
Read MoreRepublican politicians have praised these “Reopen” protests from the start, and continue to do so even as the involvement of antisemitic and white nationalist groups grows — from overtly antisemitic signs, to the presence of the Proud Boys, to the involvement of people who attended Unite The Right in Charlottesville in 2017, to messaging comparing Democratic governors to Hitler and stay-at-home orders to Nazi takeovers.
Read MoreAt a rally in North Carolina, Trump claimed: “There are fringe globalists who would rather keep our borders open than keep out infection.” This claim invokes the antisemitic dog whistle “globalists” — often used as code for “Jews” and promotes the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are secretly responsible for immigration, and for the spread of COVID-19.
Read MoreDan Bishop (R-NC), an early investor in Gab, a Nazi recruitment site, wins a special election for U.S. Congress.
Read More23 Republican members of Congress vote against a resolution condemning antisemitism and Islamophobia. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), an overt white nationalist, votes “present.”
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