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The Far Right Is Having A ‘Coronation Ball’ At The Watergate Hotel To Celebrate Trump’s Inauguration

Major MAGA figures are set to attend the black-tie event, hosted by a publishing house whose marquee author has advocated for a “dictator” to run the U.S.

By

Christopher Mathias

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A far-right publishing house that publishes the works of historical and contemporary fascists is hosting a “Coronation Ball” at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Donald Trump’s second inauguration, featuring a guest list that’s a veritable who’s-who of MAGA influencers and so-called New Right luminaries.

Passage Press will throw the confab in the Watergate Hotel’s Moretti Ballroom on the evening of Jan. 19, the night before Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the U.S., according to an events page on the publishing house’s website.

That the event’s title refers to Trump’s inauguration as a “coronation” — a word typically reserved for the crowning of kings and queens in monarchies — underscores the anti-democratic, authoritarian nature of the black-tie soiree.

“Celebrate the inauguration of Donald John Trump,” Passage Press tweeted Monday, the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “Be there as NRX is introduced to the MAGA brain trust. Be there as MAGA meets the Tech Right.”

“NRX” stands for “neoreactionary” and is used as a shorthand for “the Dark Enlightenment,” a far-right movement whose adherents are often as explicit in their distaste for democracy as they are in their reverence for fascism and monarchism.

One of Passage Press’ biggest authors is Dark Enlightenment figurehead Curtis Yarvin. The former Silicon Valley programmer blogged for years under the pen name “Mencius Moldbug” before emerging as a kind of court philosopher for reactionary tech billionaires and prominent MAGA movers and shakers (including Vice President-elect JD Vance).

Yarvin has advocated for a “national CEO, [or] what’s called a dictator” to be in charge of America. He is scheduled to attend the Coronation Ball, according to a post from Passage Press, as are Jack Posobiec, Mike Cernovich, Christopher Rufo, Steve Bannon, Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova.

The publishing house later deleted its tweet listing the Coronation Ball’s “confirmed attendees.”

Hotels, particularly in the Washington area, have a history of canceling or refusing to host gatherings for white supremacists or other bigots.

Reached for comment about hosting a party whose organizers and prominent attendees have espoused fascist views, the Watergate Hotel — housed in the same building where former President Richard Nixon’s lackeys broke into the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in 1972, precipitating Nixon’s resignation — sent HuffPost the following statement:

“The Watergate Hotel prides itself on being a luxury destination that reflects the values of inclusivity and respect. As a hotel with a long-standing reputation for excellence, we prioritize the safety, comfort, and dignity of our guests and our dedicated team of employees.”

What we know about Passage Press comes largely from a remarkable Guardian exposé published by journalist Jason Wilson last year. In the piece, he unmasked the head of the company, a far-right influencer who went by the name “L0m3z,” as Jonathan Keeperman, a former English lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.

Jonathan Keeperman speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024.

Jonathan Keeperman speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. DOMINIC GWINN via Getty Images

As “L0m3z,” Keeperman accrued a following on X, where he currently has 95,000 followers, in part by posting invective directed at anti-racist protesters, queer people and journalists. He expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the armed teenager who fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, writing, “May a million Kyle Rittenhouses bloom.”

He also wrote the he was “coming around to the idea that the most powerful and effective political argument against the left in 2020 is probably simple as: shut up fag.”

And Keeperman once appeared to advocate the mass execution of journalists. “The press are in fact the enemy,” he tweeted. “They are mewling midwit scum. Sniveling liars and desperate status junkies. My abiding contempt for them is only ever confirmed.” As Wilson reported, Keeperman also posted a list of “policy proposals” that included the phrase “lamppost the journos” — an apparent call to kill reporters by hanging them.

Keeperman and Passage Press didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about these statements, nor did they respond to questions seeking further details about the Coronation Ball.

Under Keeperman’s leadership, Passage Press has reprinted “out-of-print or public-domain books by historical fascist and reactionary writers,” Wilson wrote, including works “by radical German nationalist and militarist Ernst Jünger; Peter Kemp, who fought as a volunteer in Francisco Franco’s army during the Spanish civil war; and two counter-revolutionary Russian aristocrats, White Russian general Pyotr Wrangel and Prince Serge Obolensky.”

Passage Press’ contemporary authors include Steve Sailer, a blogger for the white supremacist site VDARE. Sailer has written that Black people “tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups” and “need stricter moral guidance from society.” Sailer’s book for Passage Press, Noticing, is an anthology of his musings on, among other subjects, “human biodiversity,” the preferred white supremacist nomenclature for eugenics and so-called race science. (Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson provided a fawning blurb for the book, writing that “if the meritocracy were real, Steve Sailer would be one of the most famous writers in the world.”)

Passage Press also publishes a magazine called Man’s World, which is edited and run by the pseudonymous misogynist “Raw Egg Nationalist.” In the Fox Nation documentary “The End of Men,” hosted by Carlson, Raw Egg Nationalist argued that “globalists” were manipulating food supplies to lower testosterone levels and emasculate men. Before working with Passage Press, Raw Egg Nationalist published books with Antelope Hill, a neo-Nazi publishing house based in Pennsylvania.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to activist and New College of Florida trustee Christopher Rufo before signing three education bills on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla. on Monday, May 15, 2023. The Washington Post via Getty Images

Keeperman has also formed relationships with major figures in the MAGA movement, including Rufo, a fellow at the major conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute and close ally of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Republican governor is known for fanning the flames of outrage surrounding “critical race theory” and “trans ideology,” which right-wing figures like Rufo claim are being taught in America’s schools.

After Trump’s election victory in November, Rufo claimed he was set to meet with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago to pitch him on policy proposals.

Rufo is listed as an attendee of the Coronation Ball, according to a tweet from Passage Press, but didn’t immediately respond to a request to confirm his attendance.

Rufo, Yarvin and Keeperman are often considered part of the New Right, a rebranding of familiar counter-revolutionary and anti-democratic politics. It’s the same ideology that animated the “alt-right,” the white supremacist movement that exploded into the public consciousness for its close relationship to the 2016 Trump campaign, only to collapse in the wake of its deadly and disastrous “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Coronation Ball hearkens back to two alt-right gatherings in Washington D.C. celebrating Trump’s election win. In November 2016, the city hosted a conference held by the now-defunct National Policy Institute, the fascist organization helmed by suit-and-tie neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. Spencer finished his speech by declaring “Hail Victory!” — the English translation of the Nazi cry “Sieg Heil” — and “Hail Trump!” A viral video from the event captured Spencer’s supporters throwing up the stiff-armed Nazi salute in response.

There was also the Deploraball event in January 2017, on the eve of Trump’s first inauguration, attended by a slew of conspiracy theorists and bigots, including the anti-Muslim activist Pamela Gellar; Gavin McInnes, the founder of the violent fascist street gang the Proud Boys; white nationalist Lauren Southern; Jim Hoft, founder of the misinformation-heavy news site Gateway Pundit; Cernovich, a pundit and date rape denier; and Posobiec, a conspiracist with a long history of associating with extremists.

Cernovic and Posobiec are both scheduled to appear at this month’s Coronation Ball, according to a tweet from Passage Press. They also both confirmed that they would attend in posts on X.

Posobiec’s path from PizzaGate influencer to fancy Watergate gala attendee is representative of how Trump’s ascent in politics has catapulted a coterie of once-fringe media figures into powerful positions in American politics.

He got his start as a “Game of Thrones” blogger before pivoting to promoting multiple far-right conspiracy theories, all while developing extensive ties to white supremacists and publicly posting racist and antisemitic messages online.

Posobiec nevertheless became a MAGA star and a prominent pro-Trump propagandist, appearing regularly on Fox News and at the Conservative Political Action Conference, among other forums. Last year he published the book “Unhumans: The Secret History Of Communist Revolutions (And How To Crush Them),” in which he argues that Americans with left-of-center views are subhuman while praising the violent fascistic regimes of Franco in Spain and Augusto Pinochet in Chile. (Vance provided a blurb for the book.)

“President Donald J. Trump is waiting in the wings,” Posobiec said while promoting ”Unhumans” at the National Conservatism Conference last year. “And when he assumes office again, let me tell you, the globalists and their entire regime will be smashed to pieces and scattered to the winds.”

He then added: “We don’t negotiate with unhumans because that’s the stakes of this — humanity versus unhuman; populist nationalist versus atheistic Marxist; strength, beauty and genius versus weakness, ugliness and stupidity; civilization versus barbarism; crime and chaos versus law.”

Other expected guests at the Coronation Ball, per Passage Press, include Joshua Lisec, a ghostwriter for right-wing influencers and a co-author with Posobiec of ”Unhumans.”

Jack Posobiec, center, attends the cocktail hour of the New York Young Republican Club's annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New York.

Steve Bannon is set to attend, too, according to Passage Press. He cofounded Breitbart, which he called the “platform for the alt-right,” before running Trump’s 2016 campaign and later serving in Trump’s White House. Bannon was recently released from prison after serving four months for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. He is currently the host of the popular ”War Room” podcast. Bannon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about whether he would attend the Coronation Ball, but his War Room co-host, Natalie Winters, tweeted that she will be at the event.

Two other popular podcasters, Khachiyan and Nekrasova, hosts of “Red Scare,” are also scheduled to attend the Coronation Ball, according to Passage Press. Khachiyan and Nekrasova started the podcast years ago as a nominally left, socialist program, but eventually emerged as apostles of the New Right, cozying up to Yarvin and far-right tech billionaire Peter Thiel, along with the type of conspiracy theorist they used to skewer — InfoWars’ Alex Jones. Neither Khachiyan or Nekrasova immediately responded to a request for comment.

Grimes, the famous musician and ex-wife of Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and a close Trump ally, currently on a campaign of embracing Europe’s most extreme right-wing and fascist political parties — was listed by Passage Press as a “confirmed attendee,” but a representative told HuffPost she will not be in attendance.

Also listed as an attendee is Jeremy Carl, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, the influential MAGA think tank. Carl is the author of the book ”The Unprotected Class,” which ludicrously asserts that “anti-white racism is the most predominant and politically powerful form of racism in America today.” Carl didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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On Tuesday morning, Passage Press tweeted that the Coronation Ball was sold out. That tweet was deleted Tuesday afternoon, around the same time the ticket price for the event on the Passage Press website shot up from $250 to $875.

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It’s Back: After 2019 Outrage, American Priority Festival and Conference 2020 Promises Golf Tournament—and a Who’s Who of Far-Right Speakers

By Kristen Doerer | September 15, 2020

Simona Papadopoulos (left) poses with her husband George Papadopoulos (center) and another model after her bathing suit fashion show at the American Priority Festival and Conference. Screenshot of Simona Papadopoulos' since deleted tweet.]

At last year’s American Priority Festival and Conference, a macabre video that superimposed President Donald Trump’s face on a figure shooting the president’s perceived political opponents in a mass killing spree, reported on by The New York Times, caused outrage. This year, the AMP festival, unhindered by the global coronavirus pandemic, will feature a who’s who of right-wing and far-right speakers, all gathered together at the Trump National Doral Miami Oct. 8-11.

The “YUGE lineup”—their words, not ours—includes returning speakers, such as far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, convicted felon Roger Stone, whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, and far-right activist and One America News Network figure Jack Posobiec, who pushed the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, according to an organizer’s email Monday.

Anti-Muslim activist and right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer will also return to the stage. After winning the GOP nomination to represent Florida’s 21st Congressional District in the U.S. House in August, Loomer received Trump’s congratulations as she rubbed shoulders with a series of far-right figures at her victory party. Failed congressional candidate and QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine, who recently accused Trump of “taking his base for granted” by wearing a mask, is another featured speaker. (We’ll see how many COVID-19 cases come out of this year’s festival.)

George Papadopoulos—who went to federal prison for making false statements to FBI agents about the timing of his contact with Russian intermediaries in 2016—will return to Trump Doral as well. Last year, Papadopolous spoke on an “Unmasking the Russian Hoax” panel, while his wife Simona Papadopolous held a swimsuit fashion show during the pool party portion of the festival.

Described as “Four days of God, country, and MAGA at the spectacular Trump National Doral resort in Miami, FL,” the conference promises “everything you could want in a patriot event.” And in case that description doesn’t excite you, the email promotes a golf tournament for an additional cost, a “MAGA pool party”—which no doubt means more patriotic swimsuits—and even spa deals:

AMP is also hosting a celebrity golf tournamenton the world-famous Blue Monster course with net proceeds benefiting the American Priority Foundation! Come play golf with some of the most patriotic names in sports, TV, and politics. Tournament entry is $500 and available as an option when you register. This makes a great gift for those golf fans!

AMP is also hosting a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s blockbuster new film ‘Trump Card’, shooting a music video for a brand new patriot anthem by Alex Jordan, kicking off with a MAGA pool party, and hosting many surprise special guests.

The festival and conference was conceived as a pro-Trump, millennial-focused alternative to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington, D.C., byAli Alexander, a right-wing political operative, and Alex Phillips, a conservative donor who owns a small telecom company in Virginia. Alexander—who previously went by Ali Akbar and who has ties to far-right figures such as Unite the Right white supremacist attendee Matt Colligan—has recently floated the idea of revamping a 2018 effort discredit mail-in voting ahead of the 2020 presidential election, dispatching Trump supporters to places where ballots are being counted?. Posobiec, who helped announce the first AMP festival in 2018, also promoted Alexander’s latest ploy to discredit mail-in voting.

The first AMP festival, held in 2018 in Washington, D.C., was effectively a flop, with one speaker even canceling after seeing the dismal turnout. Last year’s event, held in Doral, managed to attract more attendees but not quite the millennial and Gen Z crowd that was intended. Though younger conservatives were in attendance, the event attracted plenty of Generation X and baby boomer attendees, featuring such groups as the graying “Bikers for Trump.” Millennial MAGA stars were featured, including the Deplorable Choir, Ricky Rebel, a singer-songwriter known for being unapologetically both pro-Trump and gay, and right-wing activist Scott Presler.

It also ironically prevented reporters from covering its events—centered around the concept of free speech and the First Amendment—by allowing only “invited” media, barring Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt from entry. In 2018, Alexander had explained the “invite only” policy this way: “Frankly, any press reporter who writes a hit piece on us is not getting a press credential.”

An Aug. 7 email promises panels with “leading experts on Medical Tyranny, Tech Censorship, Educational Freedom, The China Threat, Pandemic Response, and much more!” Last year, speakers peddled conspiracy theories and called for civil war. After coverage of the events and the crude video by the New York Times, ProPublica, and other outlets, AMP temporarily took down its page.

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As Right Wing Watch reported last year, “The conference could have been dismissed as a meeting of the fringe, but big-ticket speakers like Don Trump Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders lent legitimacy to the conference, as did more respectable Republican groups like the Leadership Institute, which held a series of trainings in side rooms.” While AMP 2020 has yet to secure high-profile Trump administration or Trump family speakers, its location at the Trump Doral and the degree of coziness Trump has gotten with such formerly fringe figures say enough.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeploraBall

DeploraBall was an unofficial inaugural ball event organized by GOTV group MAGA3X and held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on the evening of January 19, 2017, to celebrate the victory and inauguration of Donald Trump. The event fomented controversy due to its alleged association with members of the alt-right, and triggered violent protests outside the venue while the event went on as scheduled inside.[1][2][3][4]

 In addition to the MAGA3X event, the "DeploraBall" name has also been used to refer to additional events for Trump supporters in Washington, D.C. and other locations.[5] The name is a play on Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment made during her 2016 presidential election campaign.[1][3][6]

Background[

"DeploraBall" was conceived in early November 2016 by a marketing team as a brand name for various parties and events celebrating the election of Donald Trump.[7] Among the organizers was **Jack Posobiec**.[8] The loosely organized GOTV group MAGA3X became one of the first sponsors of a DeploraBall event,[7] which MAGA3X originally announced would be held on January 19, 2017 (the night before the Trump inauguration), at the Clarendon Ballroom in Arlington, Virginia. After MAGA3X had sold over 500 tickets, the Ballroom declined to host the event, stating that no event contract had been signed and that the venue had decided not to issue a contract "due to the suspicious actions of the organizers" in selling tickets before a contract was in place. However, event organizers alleged that the Ballroom had acquiesced to pressure from Hillary Clinton supporters. The Ballroom subsequently became "overwhelmed" with harassing phone calls and threats, although Arlington County police said there were no "credible" threats.[8][9]

MAGA3X then announced that the event would move to the National Press Club.[10] Following the change of venue, one of the original organizers, Tim Treadstone (known online as "Baked Alaska"), was reportedly banned from the DeploraBall after posting "anti-Semitic and racist comments" on Twitter, sparking an online argument with another organizer, Mike Cernovich.[3]

White supremacist Richard Spencer, who had recently made news for leading a group Nazi salute during a pro-Trump conference at a restaurant, was also uninvited from the event.[3][11] Cernovich subsequently told TMZ that racist gestures, such as the Nazi salute, were banned from the event. Images of Pepe the Frog were also banned.[12] 

Other MAGA3X organizers also made statements disavowing any affiliation between the DeploraBall and white nationalism. The organizers' limitations on speech and banning of Treadstone and Spencer were criticized by some alt-right members as bowing to mainstream pressure.[2][10][13][14] Both the outgoing and the incoming presidents of the National Press Club stated that the club would hold the private event in honor of the incoming President Trump "as we have for incoming presidents of both parties for decades," but would neither endorse nor sponsor the event.[2][10]

Event[

On the evening of January 19, 2017, the MAGA3X DeploraBall event was held at the National Press Building (the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the National Press Club). The event had sold out its 1000-ticket capacity in advance.[2] Although journalist Milo Yiannopoulos had been invited,[13] he did not attend.[15] Political consultant Roger Stone arrived at the venue, but left without entering the event after learning the organizers had not provided sufficient tickets for his family members accompanying him.[16] The event was broadcast live by Right Side Broadcasting Network.[17] To mark the conclusion of DeploraBall, Scott LoBaido painted a "live-speed" portrait of Donald Trump.[18][17][19]

A second Washington, D.C.-area inaugural ball dubbed "Gays for Trump DeploraBall Gala" was held at the Bolger Center Hotel in Potomac, Maryland on the following evening, January 20, 2017.[20][21][22] The event was attended by over 200 people. Another "Gays for Trump DeploraBall" was planned to be held on July 4, 2017.[23] However, the event was renamed and pushed back to July 1.[24] Additional inaugural events using the DeploraBall name took place in other US locales, including California, North Carolina, Arizona, and Ohio.[5] According to the official DeploraBall marketing website, over 50 DeploraBall events were held nationwide and in three countries around the time of the Trump inauguration.[25]

Attendees included Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke, activist James O'Keefe, businessman Martin Shkreli, and social media personalities Mike Cernovich, Jim Hoft, and Gavin McInnes.[2][26][27][15]

A similarly named inaugural celebration called the "Deplorables Inaugural Ball" was organized by Deplorables Nation and took place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on the evening of January 19, 2017.[28][29]

Protests[

A few weeks before the DeploraBall, members of Project Veritas infiltrated meetings of the protest groups DisruptJ20 and the DC Antifascist Coalition, and filmed members discussing plans to disrupt and "crash" the DeploraBall. According to an affidavit released by police, three people associated with the protest groups plotted to get into the National Press Club and tamper with the sprinkler system to release butyric acid, acting as a stink bomb, over the DeploraBall attendees. At least one conspirator had purchased tickets to the event, which were cancelled by the organizers upon seeing the Veritas videos.[30][31] After the videos became public, a spokesperson for the protest groups claimed that their members knew Veritas was monitoring them, and deliberately fabricated the alleged DeploraBall plot, which they did not intend to actually carry out, in order to distract the Veritas infiltrator from their real protest plans.[31][32] The video led to the arrests of three men involved in the plot, all of whom later pled guilty to conspiracy charges.[32][33][34]

During the evening of January 19, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters demonstrated outside the National Press Building.[4][35][36][37] Protesters clashed with police in riot gear,[38] who formed a human shield to protect DeploraBall attendees as they arrived and entered the building.[39] Protesters also threw bottles at attendees who were leaving the venue.[38] One Trump supporter suffered a head injury after being hit by a protester.[36][40] Ellison Barber of local CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reported that she had seen "at least four fights" outside the venue.[38] A young boy at the protest, later identified by TMZ as the 11-year-old son of actor Drew Carey, told a Fox News reporter at the scene that he had started a fire in the street near the venue.[41][42] Police eventually used pepper spray to disperse the protesters.[38]

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James Orien Allsup (born September 7, 1995) is an American far-right political commentator, podcaster, and former YouTube personality. Allsup has been described as a white supremacist.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He has stated that he prefers the term "American nationalist."[7][8] He is a member of the American Identity Movement, a white nationalist and neo-Nazi organization.[9][10][11] Allsup currently podcasts for the neo-Nazi network The Right Stuff.[12]

In 2015, Allsup was elected president of Washington State University's chapter of the College Republicans. In August 2017, Allsup attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, mainly to record the events for his YouTube channel. After the rally turned violent, he resigned as president of the College Republicans at WSU in 2017, before being re-elected later in November of the same year.[13] He was unable to take the position per university rules as he was set to graduate.[13]

In June 2018, he was elected to the minor position of a precinct committee officer for the Whitman County, Washington Republican Party.[14][15]On January 7, 2019, the Whitman County Republican Central Committee voted unanimously to eject Allsup from the party.Although he will officially keep the title of precinct committee officer, all of his power in that position has been stripped, including his voting right.

Early life and education

Allsup was born in Beaverton, Oregon on September 7, 1995.[16] He graduated from Bothell High School in 2014,[17][18] and then enrolled at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Washington,[19] graduating in 2017.[20] While attending WSU, he was president of WSU College Republicans and hosted events that brought Republican candidates such as Bill Bryant[21] and Chris Vance[22] to the university.

Activities

President of the WSU's College Republicans

Allsup was elected president of the WSU's College Republicans chapter in 2015, and remained president until resigning on August 14, 2017. According to one student who attended meetings of the organisation, Allsup changed the nature of the group dramatically.[23][24]

In January 2017, Allsup arranged for Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at WSU, though the event was cancelled due to weather.[24] The President of the WSU Young Democrats, Gavin Pielow, continued to host a "Civics 101" program that was planned as an "alternative event" to Yiannopolous' planned visit.[25]

As President of the College Republicans, Allsup consistently participated in public forum debates with his counterpart Pielow. In the spring of 2017, ASWSU Senator Kevin Schilling moderated a debate between Allsup and Pielow in which the two discussed Russia's involvement in President Donald Trump's Administration, Supreme Court confirmations, U.S. foreign policy, the proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the national budget, and health care.[26]

In 2016, Allsup served as the Washington coordinator for Students for Rand, the youth division of Rand Paul's presidential campaign.[27]

Students for Trump

Following the suspension of Paul's campaign, Allsup was hired by Ryan Fournier to serve as the Senior Advisor at Students for Trump,[27] a non-profit political organization based in Campbell, North Carolina supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign, unaffiliated with the official campaign organization.[27]

Allsup helped to organize the May 9, 2016 construction of the "Trump Wall" at the University of Washington. The wall was 10 by 8 ft (3.0 by 2.4 m) and built out of plywood, painted to resemble a brick wall, with the phrases "Blue Lives Matter" and "Make America Great Again" painted on the front.[28] The event, which was co-hosted by UW Students for Trump and UW College Republicans, was met with "about 100" protesters.[29] Allsup stated that the intended message of the event was "that we need to have a strong immigration policy and enforce the law," and regarding the exposure the event generated, that "the reason people demonstrate is for exposure, media or otherwise."[30]

In January 2017, he attended an inauguration celebration outside the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C., where he stated he had been attacked by a protester with a flagpole.[31]

Unite the Right rally and aftermath

Main article: Unite the Right rally

Allsup attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottsville on August 12, 2017. At the rally, he documented events and delivered a speech defending the protesters there.[24] Allsup was open about his participation in the rally, including his plan to speak, which was disrupted by protesters.[32] On the Monday after the rally, he resigned from his position as head of the College Republicans group at WSU, a move he said he had been planned in advance but had subsequently expedited.[33][32]

In an interview with KREM, he said that he attended the rally "in a media capacity" and was unexpectedly asked to speak by one of its organizers. He also said that he disagreed with the violence that occurred there and with the hateful symbols, such as swastikas, that were being displayed by some of the rally's attendees.[34] After attending the rally in Charlottesville,it was reported by unnamed sources that he uploaded a video documenting his experiences there that was almost immediately taken down.[24]

Images of Allsup attending the rally posted on social media led to demands on social media platforms that WSU expel Allsup,[24] including a petition.[35] Allsup stated on Twitter that if college administrators did expel him, it would result in a "huge civil rights lawsuit win for me."[34] As of the week of August 14, he was not enrolled in classes for the fall semester at WSU.[36]

Election to local Republican Party position

In an uncontested election in June 2018, Allsup was elected to be the Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) for Precinct #129, a minor "hyperlocal" position of the Washington State Republican Party. PCOs elect the Republican leadership in their respective counties.[14][15][20] Allsup was unopposed for the position and the party rules state that an unopposed candidate automatically wins. His election was criticized by many Republican leaders in Whitman County.[37]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, Allsup's intentions have been to achieve his white nationalist anti-immigration agenda "through the infiltration of the Republican Party rather than by the radical, revolutionary action favored by vanguardist groups on the extreme fringe." Allsup told a white nationalist podcast in 2017 "You have a seat at the table, and that’s the most important thing, getting that seat at the table, and you can get that seat at the table by, yes, showing up, yes, by bringing people in." Keegan Hankes, a senior research analyst at the SPLC, commented that "Anytime that someone who holds extreme political positions has any foothold in mainstream politics, it’s a problem," and pointed out that using uncontested elections to get a foot in the door has long been a strategy for white nationalists.[20]

On January 7, 2019, the Whitman County Republican Party Central Committee voted unanimously to eject Allsup from the party ranks. As his election for PCO was publicly held and the party is a private organization, they are unable to officially strip him of his title. He will remain a PCO but all of his powers have been taken away, including his right to vote within the party. Several party officials, including County Commissioners Art Swannack and Michael Largent, commented that Allsup was hardly a Republican. They pointed to the fact that Allsup himself has denied being a Republican.[37][10]

Social media

Allsup's account on Twitter was suspended in December 2017.[38] At the time he had amassed about 24,000 followers.[39]

In August 2019, Allsup's Instagram and Facebook accounts were deleted. According to Facebook, this was "for violating our policies against dangerous organizations and individuals". His YouTube channel was also demonetized around this time.[40] Several days later, the channel was one of several which were deleted from YouTube by Google as part of a policy shift to remove content affiliated with white supremacy.[41][42] At the time it was deleted, the channel had more than 450,000 subscribers. In September 2019, Allsup became a co-host for the Fash The Nation podcast hosted by The Right Stuff.[12]

Views

Allsup has described himself as a "paleoconservative" and a "right-wing libertarian".[43] He has been described as a white supremacist or white nationalist by many news outlets.[44][2][1][3][4] The Southern Poverty Law Center lists him as an extremist and describes his ideology as alt-right and white nationalist.[45] The Washington Post described him as a "budding alt-right figure" in 2017.[46] He argues that he is not a white nationalist. Shortly after stepping down as president of the WSU College Republicans, he told KCPQ that "I have fully condemned the KKK, I have fully condemned Nazis, all of that kind of stuff."[8]

Support of Richard Lynn

In May 2017, Allsup expressed support for the views of psychologist Richard Lynn,[47] a former professor at the University of Ulster known for his belief in racial differences in intelligence and the claim that black Africans have an average IQ of less than 70. Lynn used selective data by systematically ignoring Africans with high IQ scores, and there is no evidence to back up Lynn's claims.[48]

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One local Project Veritas operative assigned to coordinate with Aaron Harris in Texas is also a former undercover volunteer: Cassandra Spencer, codenamed “Foxtrot” and sometimes “Foxtrot Smith” internally. In 2017, Spencer became O’Keefe’s “Facebook Insider” after leaving a public information officer post with the Pflugerville, Texas, police department to join Facebook’s contingent workforce operations at BCForward in Austin as a social media content moderator.

Spencer has positioned herself at the extremely online intersection of gaming culture and the alt-right. She has described herself as a “Proud Boy’s Girl” on Medium and attended “Austin’s premier anime convention” IKKiCON in Final Fantasy X cosplay. She traveled to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural DeploraBall and operates her own Twitch stream, which she dubbed “a First Amendment zone” for her conservative followers, “not like many others.”For the 2020 Democratic primary in Iowa, Spencer posed as a volunteer for presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as part of a Project Veritas sting then-codenamed “Gold Mine."