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<div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">=rww <span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-weight="font-weight">Tag:  <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lauren-witzke/" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" outline-offset="outline-offset" em="em">Lauren Witzke</a> <div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">2x?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alex Henderson March 03, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the 1980s, far-right white evangelicals like the Moral Majority’s late Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sr., televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson railed against the Soviet Union relentlessly — often applauding President Ronald Reagan for standing up to the Kremlin. But times have changed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These days, Donald Trump, not the late Ronald Reagan, is the most influential figure in the Republican Party — and white evangelicals, journalist Anthea Butler explains in an op-ed published by MSNBC’s website on March 1, are among Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most ardent admirers in the United States.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“While the world looks on in horror as Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfolds,” Butler observes in her op-ed, “one group has been praising Russian President Vladimir Putin. It turns out Putin has a fan base in America’s right-leaning evangelical politicians and pundits.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">Butler continues, “At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which wrapped up over the weekend, Lauren Witzke, a GOP candidate for the Senate in Delaware, said: ‘Here’s the deal. Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. They’re actually Russian Orthodox.... I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Witzke’s praise of Putin, according to Butler, “isn’t an uncommon stance among some Republicans and white American evangelicals today” — as they have “admired Putin because of the alignment of their beliefs with his about homosexuality, authoritarianism and fealty to former President Donald Trump.” Far-right white evangelicals, Butler notes, believe that Putin’s Russia, Butler notes, “is the way America should be.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Evangelicals are a long way from how they historically thought about Russia and communism,” Butler observes. “Back in the 1950s, white evangelical leaders like Billy Graham preached against the evils of communism and called then-Soviet states ‘godless’ and a threat to Christianity and America. Fast-forward to the 21st Century, and today’s evangelical leaders, as well as Republicans, have embraced Russia — and, more specifically, Putin.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Butler adds, “In 2014, Putin made the cover of the evangelical magazine Decision in a piece in which Graham's son Franklin lauded his handling of the Winter Olympics and his protection of Christians. Franklin visited Russia in 2015, and ever since, has promoted Putin as a godly leader. A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, he asked people to ‘pray for Putin’ but not for Ukrainians, creating a decent amount of backlash.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of course, it cannot be stressed enough that far-right white evangelicals don’t represent all of Christianity. They are the radical lunatic fringe of Christianity, and many other Christians — from Mainline Protestants to Catholics — want nothing to do with their movement. And they don’t go around praising Putin’s authoritarianism or saying that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Butler, in fact, wraps up her article by noting all the non-evangelical Catholics and Protestants who have been speaking out against Putin and the Kremlin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Other faith leaders in America held a vigil for peace in Ukraine, and Pope Francis visited the Russian Embassy in Rome — a sign of the seriousness of the situation,” Butler writes. “As the conflict in Ukraine continues, admiration of Putin by some White evangelicals and Republicans may lead to more than they bargained for.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Janet Mefferd <a href="https://janetmefferd.com/2023/08/i-see-your-theonomy-and-choose-our-republic/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">says</a> that ideally “the best possible way to govern would be to have a solid Christian at every leadership helm and the Bible itself as every leader’s guiding light.”</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Tyler Russell is <a href="https://twitter.com/TylerRussellAF/status/1690030052069498880" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">excited</a> that “f<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">ascism has been normalized”: “5 years ago you could slander someone by calling them a fascist, now it’s just like ‘yeah and you aren’t?'”</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Elijah Schaffer <a href="https://t.me/slightlyoffensive/5632" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">can’t believe</a> that people get mad at him just for posting outrageously bigoted content on his social media pages.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Finally, Johnny Enlow <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1690066070625755140" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">warns</a> Christians that they had better get on “the Trump Train” because throughout the Bible, people frequently lost their lives “by not recognizing who God is working through.”</li></ul></div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/elijah-schaffer/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Elijah Schaffer</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/janet-mefferd/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Janet Mefferd</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/johnny-enlow/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Johnny Enlow</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lauren-witzke/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Lauren Witzke</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/tyler-russell/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Tyler Russell</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/leftovers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Leftovers</a></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div></div>=<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/far-right-conspiracy-theorist-lauren-witzke-is-seriously-considering-running-for-senate-in-delaware-again/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/far-right-conspiracy-theorist-lauren-witzke-is-seriously-considering-running-for-senate-in-delaware-again/</a>rww 5 23many lnx twtLauren Witzke Is ‘Seriously Considering’ Running for Senate in Delaware AgainKyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | May 24, 2023 In 2020, Republican voters in Delaware chose right-wing conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke to be the party’s nominee in the election for a seat in the United States Senate. Witzke was a QAnon conspiracy theorist and white nationalist who then tapped an antisemitic monarchist to manage her campaign.Witzke was summarily trounced by Democratic Sen. Chris Coons in the general election, though she continues to falsely insist that she actually won that race.Following her loss, Witzke landed a job with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles as a co-host for his “TruNews” program, only to be summarily fired just a few months later.Witzke then teamed up with bigoted racist Edward Szall, who had also recently been fired by Wiles, to launch a program called “CrossTalk News,” headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida, while also working as a producer for the far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters.Witzke has used her various platforms to promote an endless stream of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, misogyny, bigotry, and wild conspiracy theories.Earlier this week, Delaware’s other Democratic Senator Tom Carper announced that he will not be seeking reelection in 2024, prompting Witzke to declare that she is “seriously considering” returning to Delaware to make another run for the Senate.“I’m a Delaware girl,” Witzke said during Monday night’s “CrossTalk News” broadcast. “So I’m seriously considering a look at that Senate seat.”Claiming that she “would have won” the 2020 election had she not been cheated out of victory by an “unconstitutional” election, Witzke bragged that she nevertheless “ended up getting 50,000 more votes than any Delaware Senate Republican candidate in Delaware history.” As such, Witzke believes that she is well-positioned and well-qualified to run for the Senate once again.“I am seriously praying about it,” she said. “I’m considering it. I woke up to a bunch of text messages and calls this morning. People are asking me to run, but we will see what happens.”In the last few years, Witzke has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and castigated the United States, declaring that she identifies “more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden” and hoping that Putin will “liberate” the U.S.Witzke has also relentless promoted conspiracy theorist about the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine.Witzke also believes that the U.S. government is using “weather manipulation technology” to target and punish its domestic political enemies.Given Witzke’s penchant for conspiracy theories, it should come as no surprise to learn that she also believes that the Earth is flat.On top of all that, if Witzke does decide to run for office, she’ll have to explain why she is doing so in light of the fact that she has openly declared that allowing women to vote “was the worst thing that ever happened to America.”=rww 11 22  // thiel?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">When the “red wave” that many thought would sweep Republicans into power across the nation in the midterm elections failed to materialize, right-wing activists immediately began looking for someone to blame. One <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/they-will-vote-to-ruin-your-life-maga-republicans-blame-single-women-for-the-2022-midterms/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">target</a> of right-wing outrage has been young women, who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3731564-young-women-broke-hard-for-democrats-in-the-midterms/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">voted overwhelmingly</a> for Democrats in the recent elections.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">These results prompted Lauren Witzke—a <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1496937857839153168" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Russia-loving</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1449061647092523012" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalist</a> and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-witzke-blames-the-government-for-deadly-tornadoes-the-us-government-has-a-fetish-for-terrorizing-their-own-citizens/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theorist</a> who was <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">the Delaware Republican Party’s <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-nominates-another-qanon-candidate-this-one-for-senate-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">nominee</a> for the U.S. Senate in 2020—to declare that giving women <a href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/19th-amendment" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the right to vote</a> in 1920 “was the worst thing that ever happened to America.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Last Thursday, Witzke <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND9ndhexAbE" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">appeared on</a> Elijah Schaffer’s “Slightly Offensive” program, which has recently gone independent after Schaffer was fired from The Blaze for <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-pundit-elijah-schaffer-fired-from-the-blaze-after-sexual-assault-accusation" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> drunkenly groping a female colleague. During her appearance on the show, Witzke apologized to the nation “for the rest of my fellow female voters because they are voting our country away.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“In regards to women voting, that was the worst thing that ever happened to America,” Witzke said. “Women overwhelmingly vote on their emotions and liberals are very good at appealing to emotions, ‘Oh, look at these migrant children, they have nowhere to go, look at this pregnant migrant woman, she has nowhere to go, we have got to open up our borders and give her cash assistance for the rest of her life here in America.’ And women vote for that. They vote to have weapons taken away, our Second Amendment rights taken away.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Women used to not vote because their husband would make the choice for them,” Witzke continued. “Now, if just our husbands and landowners were voting, we’d be in a much better place than we are now. We’d have closed borders. We’d have no infringements on our Second Amendment rights. Red flag laws would be a thing of the past. And we as women wouldn’t have such authority and power over who gets into elected office because we don’t deserve it. The way that women vote, it’s been terrible. I’m apologizing as a female voter for the rest of my fellow female voters because they are voting our country away, and it is extremely dangerous.”[vid]<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">witzke is one of few women in the white nationalist America First movement, whose leading activists are known for <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/how-can-you-really-blame-a-guy-white-nationalist-vincent-james-blames-women-for-misogynistic-extremism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">misogyny</a> in addition to their white nationalist, Christian nationalist views.<div>=</div><a href=" https://www.thedailybeast.com/libertarian-conference-cancels-notorious-white-nationalist-nicholas-fuentes">https://www.thedailybeast.com/libertarian-conference-cancels-notorious-white-nationalist-nicholas-fuentes</a></div><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<div>A leading libertarian

conference invited a Nicholas Fuentes to show his film on cancel

culture. Then organizers figured out who he was and canceled his event.
Zachary Petrizzo

Politics Reporter
Will Sommer

Politics Reporter
Published Jul. 01, 2022 
The Most Canceled Man in America” has, in fact, been canceled.

Nearly two weeks ahead of the libertarian conference FreedomFest,

a lead conference organizer told The Daily Beast on Thursday night that

officials had booted the holocaust-denying, Vladimir Putin-applauding,

white supremacist rally-going Nicholas Fuentes from the conference’s

lineup.
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Fuentes had initially been scheduled to

appear on a Freedom Fest panel titled “How to Fight the Information

Police.” Fuentes was also supposed to host a screening of his short

film, “The Most Canceled Man in America,” according to an agenda

obtained by The Daily Beast.

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But

all of that was scratched, after the libertarian conference in Las

Vegas thought better of associating with the notorious white

nationalist.

FreedomFest

would have put Fuentes in the same conference as the likes of other

scheduled speakers like Fox News host Lisa Kennedy, former congressman

Justin Amash (L-MI), and failed presidential and New York City mayoral

candidate Andrew Yang. On Thursday, though, FreedomFest executive

director Valerie Durham told The Daily Beast that Fuentes had been

banned after several unnamed “leaders” complained about his appearance

on the schedule.

“FreedomFest strongly believes in the

fundamental right to free speech and free expression in our nation’s

civil discourse,” Durham said in an email. “However, we also reserve the

right not to endorse certain points of view that lead our nation away

from such discourse.”

Durham conceded that the conference “did not adequately vet the film.”

“During

this time, we were approached by several leaders we respect who gave us

further information,” Durham wrote. “Upon learning this information, we

took a deeper look into Mr. Fuentes’ ideology. As a result of that

further research, we decided to remove Mr. Fuentes as a panelist.”

Fuentes didn’t return The Daily Beast’s request for comment.

“The

film festival is about cancel culture, and they cancelled our film

lol,” Fuentes said on the social media app Telegram, before urging his

fans to complain to the conference organizers.

After his FreedomFest exile, Fuentes now plans to screen his film elsewhere in Las Vegas during the conference.

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Another

far-right figure allied with Fuentes is having her own fight with

FreedomFest. Activist and failed Delaware Senate candidate Lauren

Witzke, who has aligned herself with Fuentes’s loyal “groyper army,”

complained on Telegram this week that FreedomFest booted her from a

panel.

Witzke

claimed that one of the sponsors of the event, Epik, a domain registrar

known for working with extremist websites, invited her to speak on a

panel alongside right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas, conservative

operative James O’Keefe, and Epik founder Rob Monster.

“I

was kindly invited on the panel by Freedom Fest Platinum Sponsor, Epik -

to which I am still extremely grateful for the invitation,” Witzke

wrote on Telegram.

According to Durham, though, Witzke never got

that far. FreedomFest’s lead organizer said the conference never agreed

to let her appear at the conference.

“With regard to Lauren

Witzke, she was invited by a sponsor to appear at FreedomFest, but we

did not consent to have her speak at FreedomFest,” Durham said.

Despite apparently never securing a spot to speak at the conference, in an email to The Daily Beast, Witzke claimed the conference was committing “egregious discrimination against outspoken Christians.”

“I

was initially confirmed and approved by Freedom Fest as a speaker on

the panel,” she further claimed. “I wouldn't have just purchased plane

tickets to Vegas had this not been absolutely confirmed.”
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<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/qanons-influence-trumpified-radicalized-gop/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/qanons-influence-trumpified-radicalized-gop/</a>no lnx twtQAnon’s influence continues to grow and expand in 2022's Trumpified, radicalized GOPA QAnon flag on display in Richmond, Virginia on January 20, 2020, Wikimedia CommonsAlex Henderson June 03, 2022QAnon conspiracy theorists suffered a major disappointment when Donald Trump was voted out of the White House in 2020, but their presence in the Republican Party and the MAGA movement didn’t go away. QAnon’s ideas have been promoted by far-right members of the U.S. House of Representatives such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado — and QAnon devotee Lauren Witzke, who lost to Democratic Sen. Chris Coons in Delaware’s 2020 U.S. Senate race, is a pundit in Christian nationalist media broadcasts.Moreover, QAnon’s influence in the GOP has grown to the point that a QAnon activist — Wayne Willott, a.k.a. Juan O. Savin — is trying to get MAGA Republicans elected to secretary of state positions so that they will play key roles in the administration of elections. Journalist Will Sommer, in an article published by the Daily Beast on June 1, takes a disturbing look at Willott’s “growing influence” both inside and outside the QAnon cult.According to Sommer, Willott is doing a lot more than promoting conspiracy theories online. He is the co-founder of a group called the America First Secretary of State Coalition, and his candidates have been running in GOP primaries in the 2022 midterms.“While the 65-year-old Willott remains all but unknown outside of QAnon,” Sommer reports, “he’s a figure with growing influence in both the conspiracy-theory universe and the broader conservative movement…. The America First Secretary of State Coalition now stands poised to have its candidates win offices in key battleground states. One of the group’s candidates, Kristina Karamo, has already won the Republican nomination for the position in Michigan.”Sommer adds, “Another candidate, 2020 election denier and Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem, has won Trump’s endorsement and looks set to win his state’s primary as well. If victorious in the general election, both candidates could play a key role in how electoral votes from their states are allotted in 2024.”Alex Kaplan, a researcher for Media Matters, warns that Willott’s extremism should not be taken lightly.Kaplan told the Beast, “If one of these candidates in the future gets elected, there is a QAnon influencer that could help lead to a constitutional crisis.”QAnon conspiracy theorists have no problem believing ludicrous things. Supporters of QAnon claim that the United States’ federal government has been hijacked by an international cabal of child sex traffickers, Satanists, pedophiles and cannibals and that Trump was elected president in 2016 to fight the cabal. And some QAnon extremists, according to Sommer, believe that Willott is really John F. Kennedy, Jr.“Thanks to his ties throughout the conspiracy theorist community and rumors that he’s JFK Jr.,” Sommer reports, “Willott’s star shot up on the right in 2020 and 2021. Signed copies of his book promoting QAnon have sold for hundreds of dollars on eBay. With Q, the originator of QAnon, silent since December 2020, Willott quickly became one of the leading sources of QAnon information.”Sommer adds, “Willott’s rise to the top of the QAnon heap was abetted by the other QAnon promoters’ refusal to take the coronavirus vaccine. In the course of just a few months, two anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists who had promoted Willott, Robert David Steele and Cirsten Weldon, both died of COVID-19.”A recurring theme with QAnon is that Democrats, including teachers, are “groomers” who are trying to harm children by promoting homosexuality and bisexuality in schools and pushing a transgender agenda. In 2022, anti-trans bills sponsored by far-right Republicans have been plentiful in state legislatures.Journalist Kristi Pahr, reporting for Fatherly.com in late April, noted that at least 150 anti-trans bills had been introduced in state legislatures in 2022 — many of which were passed and signed into law.“Given the onslaught of hundreds of bills that are under consideration, it can be hard for parents of trans kids or parents who are transgender themselves to know what’s happening where they live — and how to press lawmakers to fight against anti-trans laws,” Pahr reported. “That’s why one group, the Trans Formations Project, developed a tool for tracking discriminatory legislation so the public can find out what’s happening in their states. The project also lists contact information for state legislators and provides descriptions of any proposed legislation in easy-to-understand language, without all the legal jargon and vagueness that tends to obfuscate what passed laws would actually do to our kids.”Pahr cited Texas, Utah, West Virginia, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Montana, Arkansas and Mississippi as examples of red states where anti-trans bills have become law. And Florida, a swing state, is the home of what has been widely criticized as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Pahr describes it as the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, reminding Fatherly readers that the law is not only anti-gay, but also, anti-trans.The anti-trans laws being introduced by far-right Republicans in state legislatures don’t mention QAnon specifically, but they underscore QAnon’s influence on the Republican Party. When Republicans talk about “groomers” in defense of anti-trans bills, it is right out of QAnon’s Democrats-want-to-harm-your-children playbook.Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race, is among the far-right MAGA Republicans and conspiracy theorists who hasn’t been the least bit shy about promoting QAnon. In July 2021, Media Matters’ Eric Hananoki reported that Mastriano had promoted QAnon in more than 50 tweets.Christian nationalist Witzke has been another outspoken QAnon promoter. When Witzke ran for the U.S. Senate seat in Delaware that was once held by now-President Joe Biden, she lost badly: In 2020, Democratic incumbent Coons defeated her by 22%.But the fact that Delaware Republicans nominated someone as extreme as Witzke in the first place is a frightening example of the GOP’s radicalization. And Witzke hasn’t grown any less extreme or any less kooky since 2020.These days, Witzke is making her presence felt in Christian nationalist broadcasts. Witzke praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a symbol of Christian piety in February and applauded the invasion of Ukraine. And now, she is implying that Democrats in the federal government and their "RINO" (Republicans In Name Only) allies are behind a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Witzke believes that Democrats targeted Robb Elementary School not only to promote gun control, but also, because they are worried about Latinos voting Republican.Witzke said, “I think about the conspiracy behind all of it. I’m like, OK, what do they gain from it besides the gun control push? But also, Hispanics are starting to vote Republican and conservative. They specifically targeted a school in an area that is majority Hispanic. It’s essentially Mexico is what it is.”Witzke went on to say, “They’re watching as Hispanics are starting to lean more conservative, and these people are crazy. Midterms are coming up. And there’s no limit to how far they’ll go to change the public narrative on things. So, I think it was multi-faceted. Of course, it was a federal operation in order to implement gun control…. All this stuff is organized and operated.”The claim that Democrats in the federal government are orchestrating mass shootings of schoolchildren because they believe it will help them politically is exactly the type of ludicrous conspiracy theory QAnon supporters are coming up with. And this type of thinking has become mainstream in the Trumpified, radicalized GOP.From Willott and Witzke to Mastriano, Boebert and Greene, QAnon is more than a movement of fringe conspiracy theorists who make wacky claims online. It is now a prominent influence in the Republican Party, even influencing anti-trans, anti-gay laws they are passing. And if Republicans enjoy a major red wave in the 2022 midterms, QAnon’s influence will only grow.=<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">random 5 22</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">josh Bernstein is <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1521494325930217473" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">confident</a> that either Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (who is not even serving on the court yet), or Justice Sonia Sotomayor or Justice Elena Kagan is responsible for leaking the Supreme Court’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">draft decision</a> striking down Roe v. Wade and he wants these “three evil bitches” investigated for treason.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Mario Murillo is likewise <a href="https://mariomurillo.org/2022/05/03/the-good-news-rove-v-wade-will-be-overturned-the-bad-news-the-evil-way-we-found-out/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">outraged</a> about the leak: “Instead of a glorious declaration by the highest court, the media delivered the best news we have heard in years on a dirty garbage can lid.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stew Peters <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1521516934516330496" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">revealed</a> that his film crew and executive producer, white nationalist Lauren Witzke, are responsible for producing Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor’s <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1521137106827063297" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">campaign ad</a> featuring the Georgia Guidestones.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Tony Perkins <a href="https://youtu.be/lyfAOOfUS-k?t=655" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">says</a> that the Family Research Council is launching its own news operation.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;">Finally, Stewart Rhodes, who has been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/18/stewart-rhodes-jail-seditious-conspiracy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">charged</a> with seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9opo8ZnJlZMJ:www.standardnewswire.com/news/6034918289.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">announced</a> the creation of legal defense fund “to assist the legal fees and expenses of various non-violent, peaceful Americans who demonstrated and exercised their First Amendment rights in Washington, D.C. on January 5-6, 2021.”</li></ul><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-three-evil-bitches/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/josh-bernstein/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Josh Bernstein</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kandiss-taylor/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Kandiss Taylor</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lauren-witzke/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Lauren Witzke</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/mario-murillo/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Mario Murillo</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/stew-peters/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Stew Peters</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/stewart-rhodes/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Stewart Rhodes</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/tony-perkins/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Tony Perkins</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/capitol-insurrection/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Capitol Insurrection</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/leftovers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Leftovers</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/family-research-council/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Family Research Council</a></div></div><div>=</div></div></div></div>=<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">on  Thursday, far-right activist Lauren Witzke issued an apology that could only be described as groveling; in fact, she described it as such.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“I feel like I’ve been going through—it’s almost like a breakup. I wanted to say publicly how sorry I am,” Witzke said on her livestream. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“It’s been a rough last few days. I’ve been crying like a woman. And of course, I did what any rational adult would do and called Mommy Malkin to help me. So like I said, this is a groveling session, I have to pay my penance where penance is due, apologies where they are well deserved, and that’s why I am doing this stream,” Witzke said. “I respect our great and merciful leader, who has forgiven me by the way."<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">twt]<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">that “great and merciful leader” is Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who organized the<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/marjorie-taylor-greene-bridges-white-nationalism-and-the-gop/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> America First Political Action Conference</a> held last week in Orlando, Florida. So why was Witzke, who was the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-nominates-another-qanon-candidate-this-one-for-senate-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">GOP nominee for U.S. Senate</a> in Delaware in 2020, apologizing to Fuentes?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Witzke had defended her boss, the far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, who had criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Fuentes and his self-described army of<a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/groyper-army-and-america-first" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> “Groypers”</a> defended Greene—who spoke at AFPAC and whose initials they chanted during her speech—in the only way they knew how: with harassment of her critics. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The unfolding drama among the far-right activists who attended AFPAC offers a glimpse into Fuentes’ and his white nationalist America First movement’s commitment to bring their message into the mainstream GOP discourse—and to make dissenting voices fall in line. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Witzke had made the mistake of defending her boss. But Peters, who hosts “The Stew Peters Show,” is not getting off easy either. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">After Greene gave her opening speech in which she spoke about Christian nationalism and attacked transgender people, a slew of other extremist speakers followed, including Vincent James, who<a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/afpac-iii-elected-officials-support-white-supremacist-event" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> promotes</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/freshman-infowars-host-keeps-booking-white-nationalists-and-they-sound-just-like-him/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> white nationalism</a> on his livestream, and Peters.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters said on his show Monday that he was unaware that Greene was the surprise mystery speaker. When one of his producers, presumably Witzke, asked whether they should change his speech in which he had planned to criticize Greene (as he has done in the <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1435262097324232709" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">past</a>), Peters said he decided to go ahead with his speech as planned.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">At the AFPAC podium, Peters blasted Greene, calling her a “faker.” He criticized her as perpetuating the “useless own-the-libs conservatism” and accused her of “embracing race-based reparations to own the libs”—”disgusting!” he added. (Later in the speech, he also declared that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “hanging by the end of a noose somewhere” and that Georgia congressional candidate Vernon Jones “belongs in a prison cell, actually, truthfully, he probably belongs in an electric chair.”)<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">As the evening wound down, Fuentes made a point of thanking Greene for her appearance. “God bless Marjorie Taylor Greene, you have no idea what a big deal it was for her to come out and do that,” Fuentes said, adding that it was easy to talk and yell but that it was hard work to bring the fight to Congress.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of course, the next day, Greene spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference and told reporters that she didn’t know Nick Fuentes or his views and that she was only there to speak to “young conservatives.” <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters was livid. “It is unsurprising to see liar and fraud Marjorie Taylor Greene so quickly stab Nick Fuentes in the stomach mere hours after pretending to fawn all over his fast-growing movement,” he<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1497642142411468800" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> told</a> The Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But instead of appreciating the attack on Greene, Fuentes’ America First crowd lashed out at Peters, calling him a “boomer.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Very disappointing that Stew Peters— a former ‘rapper’ and criminal is trying so hard to sabotage a perfect night by running to Zach Petrizzo at the Daily Beast to attack one of our featured speakers. He was disrespectful to our staff, looked like a slob, and stormed out of the conference after his speech,” Fuentes wrote on Telegram. (If you’re wondering what his rapping sounded like, give<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1456616426127646720" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> this</a> a listen.) “And for people who think he’s just ‘too hardcore’ or whatever, he also tried to get me to promise to stop saying the n-word before even agreeing to attend the conference lol. Good riddance loser.” <p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In a broadcast Monday, Peters appeared bewildered by what took place. He explained why he attacked Greene—she’s “fake”—claimed “we always promise to give you the unvarnished truth,” and recounted the so-called <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/11/20948317/alt-right-donald-trump-jr-conservative-tpusa-yaf-racism-antisemitism" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">“Groyper Wars”</a> of 2019 in which Nick Fuentes and the “Groypers” attacked Charlie Kirk, influencing him to take more extreme positions. That’s what he was trying to do, Peters said, adding, “Her speech was lame, too.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters brought on his guest Neil Kumar, a candidate for Congress in Arkansas who has peddled white nationalism, whom Peters looked to for reassurance. Kumar delivered,<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1498731585679638530?s=20&t=r8Y7BYxuNFH-yZRyABo5TA" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> accusing Fuentes and the “Groypers” of being sellouts</a> for chasing clout by “simping for this serial adulterer who wears hot pants everywhere she goes. Marjorie is a pathological liar and a total fraud.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peters went on to take a softer tone, hoping only that the “Groypers” would find their way back. <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The Groypers’ attacks on the far-right who disagree with them wasn’t limited to Peters and Witzke. They lashed out at Joe Kent, an<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> extreme MAGA</a> congressional candidate in Washington state whom Fuentes had endorsed last year, for<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1499441105405984775/photo/3" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> disavowing</a> Fuentes Thursday. That harassment continued even after Kent stood by his comments that Fuentes should not have been placed on a no-fly list. On Thursday night, Fuentes spent his livestream trashing Kent.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">These attacks could be seen as far-right actors following the whim of their leader who<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/nick-fuentes" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> operates his movement like a cult</a> and will suffer no criticism without striking back twice as hard. But it is also clear that Fuentes has already decided that this is the moment for the movement to partner with extreme politicians whose ideology may not directly align with his in order to bring white nationalism to more mainstream Republican audiences.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">While Greene’s politics lie, as<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cpac-afpac-nick-fuentes-marjorie-taylor-greene-1313210/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> Rolling Stone put it</a>, “at the area of greatest overlap between ‘bigotry’ and ‘self-promotion,’” her speech at AFPAC didn’t dip into white nationalism. Instead, it focused on transphobia and Christian nationalism—takes that anyone sensible would find deeply troublesome but which the “Groypers” consider child’s play.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In a livestream Monday, Vincent James, a close ally of Fuentes,<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalist-praises-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-mainstreaming-our-message-by-speaking-at-afpac/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> explained</a> why what she said in her speech didn’t matter.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“We are breaking through this Overton Window, and speakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene… it doesn’t matter what they say. You have to really think about the end game here,” James<a href="https://youtu.be/ZrWnb6wTLBI" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> said</a>. “It’s about gaining legitimacy.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s about mainstreaming our message,” James added.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">And while Kent, Peters, and Witzke may be useful to Fuentes and his movement, they’re nowhere near as valuable as Greene in spreading their message to a broader audience.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back on Witzke’s livestream—where the live chat included takes like “Never trust a femoid” and incessant use of the N-word—Witzke thanked Fuentes for forgiving her.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Thanks, Nick, for forgiving me,” she said. “I’m glad I’m not getting the Joe Kent treatment right now because God knows, I guess I deserved it.”<div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/why-are-the-far-right-of-afpac-fighting/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/joe-kent/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Kent</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/marjorie-taylor-greene/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/neil-kumar/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Neil Kumar</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/nick-fuentes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Nick Fuentes</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/stew-peters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Stew Peters</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/vincent-james/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Vincent James</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/america-first-political-action-conference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">America First Political Action Conference</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/groypers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">groypers</a></div></div>=no lnx<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/pro-putin-anti-gay-qanon-supporter-lauren-witzke-continues-to-be-delawares-most-embarrassing-republican/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/pro-putin-anti-gay-qanon-supporter-lauren-witzke-continues-to-be-delawares-most-embarrassing-republican/</a>Pro-Putin, anti-gay and QAnon: Meet Delaware’s most embarrassing Republican[Lauren Witzke, from Facebook]Alex Henderson March 04, 2022In Delaware, the most famous Democrat is President Joe Biden, who commutes between the White House and his home in that heavily Democratic state. Delaware’s most famous — or infamous — Republican, meanwhile, is far-right Christian nationalist and QAnon supporter Lauren Witzke, who drew widespread condemnation in late February when she praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a symbol of Christian piety. But Witzke’s praise of Putin is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her extremism and her ability to embarrass the state of Delaware.During an appearance on the Christian Right program “Cross Talk,” the 34-year-old native of Delmar, Delaware — who suffered a landslide defeat when she ran against Sen. Chris Coons in Delaware’s 2020 U.S. Senate race — made it clear that she supports Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.The QAnon Republican said, “Russia is a Christian nationalist nation…. I actually support Putin’s right to protect his people and always put his people first, but also, protect our Christian values. I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”Witzke went on to say, “Christian nationalist countries also are a threat to the global regime — like, the Luciferian regime that wants to mash everything together. But Putin takes care of his people. He looks out for his people.”Witzke’s comments were slammed by everyone from Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California to Mother Jones’ David Corn, who pointed out that the Delaware GOP “fully supported” her.Indeed, Delaware Republicans passionately rallied around Witzke when she received the GOP nomination in the state’s 2020 U.S. Senate race. Democrats had their share of disappointments in 2020, losing U.S. Senate races in Maine, Iowa and North Carolina. But Coons, running against Witzke, was reelected by 22%. Nominating someone as extreme as Witzke did not serve Delaware Republicans well.Witzke gave Coons’ reelection campaign a wealth of material to use against her. She happily accepted the endorsement of White nationalist Nick Fuentes, praised the violent Proud Boys as examples of “patriotic masculinity,” called for a ten-year ban on all immigration to the United States, described Black Lives Matter as “violent terrorists,” proudly said she was a “Christian nationalist,” and called Coons a “Christian-hating baby killer.”Witzke is vehemently anti-gay and anti-trans, and she has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory — which claims that the United States’ federal government has been taken over by an international cabal of pedophiles, child sex traffickers, Satanists and cannibals and that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 to fight the cabal. QAnon also believes that R&B superstar Beyoncé isn’t really Black, but is only pretending to be Black and is really an Italian woman named Ann Marie Lastrassi who works for billionaire Democrat George Soros.Delaware Republicans had options other than Witzke in 2020, when she ran against former U.S. Marine James DeMartino in the state’s GOP U.S. Senate primary. But Witzke slammed the conservative DeMartino as a RINO (Republican In Name Only). Although the Delaware GOP endorsed DeMartino during the primary, Delaware Republicans gave Witzke the nomination and got behind her in the general election — which wasn’t enough to save her from losing badly to Coons.In 2022, Witzke continues to make the Delaware Republican Party look bad every chance she gets — and when she praised Putin during its invasion of Ukraine, Witzke did exactly that.<div>
</div>=11 21 trms? wants state troopers to reclaim her stolen property/seat pod stewpeters?https://nationalzero.com/2021/11/02/losing-delaware-gop-senate-candidate-implores-the-state-police-to-help-her-retrieve-the-seat-stolen/"Chris Coons is not the US Senator from the state of Delaware," declares former GOP candidate for Senator from Delaware Lauren Witzke declares. "It's looking like Lauren Witzke is. Uh, irrefutable evidence of election fraud, ah, and the stolen election, and I'm asking the Delaware State Police to stand with me to help me retrieve the people's stolen property. So that is my plan to reclaim my Senate seat. And it is, without reasonable doubt that that seat is mine, you know daggone well that I'm gonna take it."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: none; line-height: 1.476; margin: 0px auto 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 4rem); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: none !important;">Witzke lost the 2020 election for the Delaware Senate seat to incumbent Chris Coons by a 59.4% to 37.9%.=1020 cmdDelaware GOP Sticks with Senate Candidate Who Backs White Nationalist Group and QAnonBy <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://default.salsalabs.org/T236ae54b-42cd-43c9-87c9-f11652b78c60/ac94ac0d-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alex Kotch</a> | October 8th, 2020 at 2:42 PM (CDT)White nationalist ideas and extremist conspiracy theories find a home in the Republican Party, as its Delaware U.S. Senate nominee Laurne Witzke embraces Proud Boys, VDARE, and QAnon.
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</div><div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">Who are you? Tell us about yourself.I am a Delaware native from Sussex County. Respected graduate of Goldey Beacom Business College with a BA in Business Management. Former Teen Challenge program director, and experienced political activist. I am a young, passionate, Christian Conservative who also worked as a successful field organizer for the Trump Victory Campaign of Iowa. I have travelled across the United States, and can bring a first hand account to the issues at hand, offering real solutions on how to address them. I am a problem solver, and unapologetically, America First.

Immigration- I am passionate about immigration reform in the United States. Establishing the borders of our nation is essential to our sovereignty and has been vehemently opposed by globalist elites on both sides of the aisle. I believe this nation needs a time of recovery and healing as we address issues on our own turf. I support a full 10 year moratorium on legal immigration; only allowing migrants to replace migration out of the country; netting at zero.

Opioid Crisis- As a member of the recovery community, I am an expert at recovery solutions. I will propose bills that provide federal funding for faith-based solutions for recovery. Faith-based solutions have merit, there is validity in the results they produce. High level organizers of drug rings will be punished to the full extent of the law, this will work in tandem with immigration enforcement.

Pro-Life- I believe that life begins at conception, and that fact does not change, no matter the circumstance. I will pursue a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn.

</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?Candace Owens is a huge role model for me. I admire her boldness and the passion she has for Black America. Many of my platforms were developed after hearing her concerns about Black Americans, the three biggest issues being: Fatherless homes, immigration, and abortion.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?I suggest reading two books. Open Borders Inc. by Michelle Malkin, and The Death of The West by Pat Buchanan.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?Putting the interest of Americans first, before those of any foreign nation, ally or not.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?I'm passionate about fixing my country! I've experienced first hand what evil people are doing to this country, especially migrants and their role with the opioid crisis. Having almost been destroyed by it myself, I have emerged from the rubble stronger than ever. My lived experience is my strength.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?Someone elected to the U.S. Senate must legislate on the side of truth, while at the same time representing the interest of their constituents. Ultimately the truth is what is necessary for long term solutions, and vision.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What legacy would you like to leave?Win or lose, I want to be remembered as someone who fought to restore America to its former greatness. Restoring the traditional values, and re-building our families and communities.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?The Monica Lewinsky scandal and President Bill Clinton's impeachment. I was 10 years old.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">What was your very first job? How long did you have it?Territory Manager and Pharmaceutical Sales Representative for Forest Pharmaceuticals. 1.5 years.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">What is your favorite book? Why?The Lord of the Rings series. It expresses a meta-physical truth via the three part story structure. We need more literature like this to help restore a traditional culture.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?Lady Galadriel.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What was the last song that got stuck in your head?The Thrice Holy Hymn.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">What is something that has been a struggle in your life?I have overcome substance abuse, thanks in large part to the Teen Challenge Recovery Center. Faith based solutions do work!</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?The ongoing Immigration crisis and the restoration of traditional values and culture in America.

</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What qualities does the U.S. Senate possess that makes it unique as an institution?The U.S. Senate provides legislative stability, in contrast to the two year election cycle in the U.S. House. It also has an extremely important role in confirming Presidential appointees.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">Do you believe that it’s beneficial for senators to have previous experience in government or politics?I believe that the government was created for Americans who love their country and her people. Life-long politicians have proven inept and to be poor representations of the interest of the American people. It is time for new candidates in every branch of government that have not been deluded by far left ideologies, or bought out by corporate and foreign lobbyist to replace the establishment elite's pawns.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What do you think of the filibuster?The filibuster should only be used as a last resort in extreme circumstances. For instance, when a bill is rushed through with little to no time to review it in its entirety.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What criteria would you apply when deciding whether to confirm presidential appointees?Moral character, competence, and the prioritization of America First principles.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do you believe it’s beneficial to build relationships with other senators?Yes.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you are not a current senator, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?The Judiciary Committee, more particularly the Border Security and Immigration sub-committee. Also, the Foreign Relations Committee, due to the relationship between foreign policy and immigration.</div><div class="survey-result" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;">Is there a particular senator, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?Not particularly. But I like to look at Senators such as Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden as examples of what not to be.</div></div><div>
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Lauren Witzke, the Republican-backed Senate candidate running in Delaware, recently praised the neo-fascist Proud Boys for providing “free security” for her and her supporters at a rally. Witzke’s support for the group is the latest instance of her promoting and endorsing far-right extremism. The Proud Boys, founded by right-wing commentator <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/gavin-mcinnes" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Gavin McInnes</a>, is a far-right street gang that’s <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/who-are-the-proud-boys_n_5f74ac42c5b66377b27c1fc8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">engaged</a> in numerous acts of <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/proud-boys-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">political violence</a> across the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center has <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stated</a> that “rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists” and also push “anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric.” In the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/proud-boys-and-far-right-figures-cheered-trumps-debate-call-them-stand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supercharged</a> the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/proud-boys-celebrate-after-trump-s-debate-call-out-n1241512" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Proud Boys</a> by telling them to “stand back and stand by.” The group has been celebrated by toxic commentators like <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40AnnCoulter%20proud%20boys&src=typed_query&f=live" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Ann Coulter</a>, <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/michelle-malkin-is-attempting-to-normalize-white-supremacy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Michelle Malkin</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-endorses-extremist-proud-boys-member-hawaii-state-representative" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Roger Stone</a>. Witzke, who is running a longshot campaign against incumbent Democratic Sen. Chris Coons,  tweeted her support of the Proud Boys on September 30: </div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Delaware Republican Party and chair Jane Brady did not respond to a request for comment about Witzke’s support for the Proud Boys and whether the Delaware GOP has a position on the group. The party has been supporting Witzke despite her <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lauren-witzke/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interactions</a> with extremism. For instance: <ul dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Witzke is a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supporter</a> of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">QAnon</a>, the violence-linked conspiracy theory that started on message boards and has been labeled a potential domestic terror threat by the FBI. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Witzke has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/vdare/gop-backed-senate-candidate-lauren-witzke-frequently-shares-content-white-nationalist-site" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">frequently promoted</a> VDare, a white nationalist website that also pushes anti-Semitism. She recently twice thanked VDare founder and editor Peter Brimelow -- who is also a white nationalist -- for, according to him, donating the maximum allowed amount to her campaign. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Witzke has twice thanked white supremacist and anti-Semitic commentator Faith Goldy for supporting her campiagn. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Witzke has <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-nominates-another-qanon-candidate-this-one-for-senate-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">thanked</a> anti-Semitic commentator Nick Fuentes for supporting her campaign. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Witzke’s former campaign manager <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-senate-hopeful-employs-monarchist-and-anti-semite-to-manage-campaign/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promoted</a> anti-Semitism on his podcast. </li></ul>In a September 18 <a href="https://www.delawarepublic.org/post/delaware-gop-lines-behind-primary-winners" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interview</a> with Delaware Public Media, the Delaware GOP’s Jane Brady said that Witzke has “shown great energy, she's very bright, and she's worked very hard. And she's earned the support of the party." </div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Update (10/2/20): On her <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1311759620029980684" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Twitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1311805313494982658" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">account</a>, Witzke defended her support of the Proud Boys. She and her campaign also <a href="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/01/witzke-thanks-proud-boys-providing-free-security-rally/5878156002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praised</a> the group in a statement to the Delaware News Journal. =11 21 duckDelaware — Political newcomer and firebrand Lauren Witzke, who campaigned on halting U.S. immigration for 10 years and has tried to distance herself from accusations that she supports a ...<div id="r1-1" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="ballotpedia.org" data-hostname="ballotpedia.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; 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Lauren Witzke ( Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Delaware. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020. Witzke completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. 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By Julia Craven. Sept 16, 2020 7:09 PM. Lauren Witzke.</div></div></div><div id="r1-4" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="en.wikipedia.org" data-hostname="en.wikipedia.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius); max-width: calc(var(--max-content-width) - 50px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><h2 class="resulttitle js-result-title" style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0.29em; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: middle; position: static; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; letter-spacing: -0.01px; order: 1;"><a class="resulta js-result-title-link" rel="noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Witzke" style="margin: 0px 0px -0.05em; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.22; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Lauren Witzke - Wikipedia</a></h2><div class="resultextras js-result-extras" style="margin: 1px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; position: relative; min-height: 1.57em; top: 0px; order: 0; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="resultextrasurl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 600px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="resulticon " style="margin: -3px 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; width: 16px;"><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=witze%20delaware+site:en.wikipedia.org&atb=v293-1" title="Search domain en.wikipedia.org" class="js-result-extras-site_search" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-src="/assets/icons/favicons/wikipedia.png" title="Search domain en.wikipedia.org" class="resulticonimg js-lazyload-icons" src="https://duckduckgo.com/assets/icons/favicons/wikipedia.png" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 16px;" width="16" height="16" /></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Witzke" rel="noopener" class="resulturl js-result-extras-url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; top: 2px;"><span class="resulturldomain" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">https://en.wikipedia.org<span class="resulturlfull" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;"> › wiki › Lauren_Witzke</a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">Lauren Elena Witzke (born February 9, 1988) is an American far-right QAnon supporter, conspiracy theorist, and former TV show host on TruNews. A member of the Republican Party, Witzke was the Republican nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Delaware</div></div></div><div id="r1-5" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="nationalzero.com" data-hostname="nationalzero.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius); max-width: calc(var(--max-content-width) - 50px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><h2 class="resulttitle js-result-title" style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0.29em; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: middle; position: static; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; letter-spacing: -0.01px; order: 1;"><a class="resulta js-result-title-link" rel="noopener" href="https://nationalzero.com/2021/11/02/losing-delaware-gop-senate-candidate-implores-the-state-police-to-help-her-retrieve-the-seat-stolen/" style="margin: 0px 0px -0.05em; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.22; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Losing Delaware GOP Senate candidate implores the state ...</a></h2><div class="resultextras js-result-extras" style="margin: 1px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; position: relative; min-height: 1.57em; top: 0px; order: 0; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="resultextrasurl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 600px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="resulticon " style="margin: -3px 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; width: 16px;"><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=witze%20delaware+site:nationalzero.com&atb=v293-1" title="Search domain nationalzero.com" class="js-result-extras-site_search" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-src="//external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/nationalzero.com.ico" title="Search domain nationalzero.com" class="resulticonimg js-lazyload-icons" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/nationalzero.com.ico" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 16px;" width="16" height="16" /></a><a href="https://nationalzero.com/2021/11/02/losing-delaware-gop-senate-candidate-implores-the-state-police-to-help-her-retrieve-the-seat-stolen/" rel="noopener" class="resulturl js-result-extras-url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; top: 2px;"><span class="resulturldomain" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">https://nationalzero.com<span class="resulturlfull" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;"> › 2021 › 11 › 02 › losing-delaware-gop-senate-candidate-implores-the-state-police-to-help-her-retrieve-the-seat-stolen</a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">"Chris Coons is not the US Senator from the state of Delaware," declares former GOP candidate for Senator from Delaware Lauren Witzke declares. "It's looking like Lauren Witzke is. Uh, irrefutable evidence of election fraud, ah, and the stolen election, and I'm asking the Delaware State Police to stand with me to help me retrieve the people's stolen property. So that is my plan to ...</div></div></div><div id="r1-6" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.delawareonline.com" data-hostname="www.delawareonline.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius); max-width: calc(var(--max-content-width) - 50px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><h2 class="resulttitle js-result-title" style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0.29em; 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