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Harriet Hageman - League of Conservation Voters
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05/19/2026
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The Justice Department’s recent wrongful indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for using paid informants to gather intelligence about violent extremist groups—a tactic routinely employed by the FBI—was widely recognized as a transparently corrupt political attack.
By targeting a nonprofit group with a long record of defending civil rights and criticizing right-wing peddlers of hate and misinformation, the Trump DOJ signaled the lengths to which this regime will go to try to intimidate and silence its critics. House Republicans have now moved to amplify those smears with a hearing featuring right-wing leaders who have tried for years to squelch the SPLC’s work.
The two announced Republican witnesses scheduled to speak at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee charging the SPLC with “manufacturing hate” have records of hostility toward the SPLC.
Tyler O’Neil is senior editor of The Daily Signal, which was the Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary platform until it went independent in 2024 while pledging “to continue to adhere to the same conservative principles that have guided our journalism for the past 10 years.” O’Neil wrote a 2023 book attacking the SPLC. In previous congressional testimony deriding the SPLC, he used “air quotes” around “domestic terrorism threat,” previewing recent propaganda that the indictment somehow proves that racism and violent right-wing extremism are not real. Not surprisingly, O’Neil’s coverage of the recent indictment reads as cheerleading for the DOJ. The Washington Blade has also called attention to his stridently anti-LGBTQ record.
Carol Swainis a former law professor who has made what Right Wing Watch called in 2017 “a long, strange journey from respected academic to culture-war propagandist.” More information about Swain:
Right Wing Watch noted that Swain employs inflammatory language about immigration, Muslims and other culture war topics. Swain, for example, told a right-wing publication that President Barack Obama “did everything to start a race war.” In 2024, after Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts, Swain lamented that "for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my nation."
Swain has apparently nursed a grudge against the Southern Poverty Law Center since a former staffer called her an “apologist” for a white supremacist after she praised a documentary made by a filmmaker who SPLC said had regularly referred to black men as “EVIL monkeys who are DESTROYING” America.
Swain narrated a 2017 Prager U propaganda video portraying the Republican Party’s well-documented racial “Southern Strategy” as a myth, a video Candace Owens later cited when challenged on her own claims that the Southern Strategy “never happened.” That year RWW noted, “Carol Swain claims that the GOP's ‘Southern Strategy’ had nothing to do with race. History begs to differ.”
Swain slammed Black Lives Matter but defended people who questioned President Obama’s faith and citizenship. She suggested that natural disasters could be divine punishment for rejecting “biblical injunctions against abortion, greed, homosexuality, fornication, and adultery.”
Back in 2017 and 2018, during one of the organized right-wing campaigns against the SPLC, Swain claimed it had “declared itself an enemy of Christians loyal to biblical teaching, and it fights a no-holds-barred propaganda war against them.” Speaking at Family Research Council (FRC) in 2017, she called liberal churches “agents of Marxism” that have “hijacked the civil rights movement.” She told the FRC audience, “We are at war.”
Honorable Mention to Rep. Harriet Hageman
It’s noteworthy that one Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Harriet Hageman, responded to the indictment by telling FRC head Tony Perkins and viewers of his Washington Watch program that SPLC staffers should be “thrown in jail for life.” At a time when racism, white nationalism, and antisemitism are raging on the far-right, Hageman has insisted that racism on the right does not exist.
As Right Wing Watch has reported, the claims from far-right figures that the SPLC indictment proves that racism is not real or that the SPLC organized the deadly white supremacist event in Charlottesville, Virginia, are so ridiculous that they have been debunked by the actual white nationalists who are proud of having organized it.
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CFACT co-sponsors 'Land and Liberty' gathering in Texas - National Today
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The 'Land and Liberty Conference' held on February 13-14 in Fort Worth, Texas brought together around 150 property rights activists from across ...
CFACT co-sponsors 'Land and Liberty' gathering in Texas
Around 150 property rights leaders convened in Fort Worth to discuss strategies and listen to speakers like former Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Published on Feb. 16, 2026
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The 'Land and Liberty Conference' held on February 13-14 in Fort Worth, Texas brought together around 150 property rights activists from across the country. The event, co-sponsored by CFACT, featured panels, workshops, and Texas hospitality including barbecue and a rodeo. Speakers included former Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Congressman Harriett Hageman, and Texas Agriculture Secretary Sid Miller.
Why it matters
The conference highlighted the growing movement of property rights advocates who are pushing back against what they see as an overreach of environmental regulations and a 'far-Left political agenda that is decidedly anti-human and anti-freedom.' The gathering aimed to reclaim the mantle of 'wise stewardship' of natural resources.
The details
The two-day conference covered topics such as energy security, financial exploitation of natural resources, reopening federal lands, and defending landowner rights. CFACT, a prominent co-sponsor, hosted a panel featuring its president Craig Rucker and communications director Marc Morano, as well as representatives from the Heartland Institute.
- The 'Land and Liberty Conference' took place on February 13-14, 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas.
- This was the third time in recent years the event has been held.
The players
CFACT
The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a nonprofit organization that promotes free market environmentalism and opposes what it sees as excessive environmental regulation.
Craig Rucker
The president of CFACT.
Marc Morano
The director of communications for CFACT.
Brooke Rollins
The former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Trump.
Harriett Hageman
A U.S. Congressman.
Sid Miller
The Texas Secretary of Agriculture.
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What they’re saying
“The Green movement has undergone a transition, one that moved from wise conservation and stewardship of the land, a position held by everyone a 100 years ago, to one that now promotes a far-Left political agenda that is decidedly anti-human and anti-freedom. We need to reclaim the mantle of 'wise stewardship' and save the environmental movement from itself.”
— Craig Rucker, President, CFACT (CFACT.org)
“I can feel the momentum building since our first gathering in Lincoln, Nebraska. President Trump's influence is clearly energizing the movement. I can't wait for next year!”
— Marc Morano, Director of Communications, CFACT (CFACT.org)
What’s next
The organizers plan to host the 'Land and Liberty Conference' again next year, building on the momentum from this year's event.
The takeaway
The 'Land and Liberty Conference' highlights the growing influence of property rights advocates who are pushing back against what they view as excessive environmental regulations and a political agenda that is 'anti-human and anti-freedom.' The conference aimed to reclaim the mantle of 'wise stewardship' of natural resources.
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Harriet Maxine Hageman (born October 18, 1962) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.
:{A Wyoming native, Hageman holds degrees from the University of Wyoming and has spent her career as a trial attorney. She unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for governor of Wyoming in 2018 and later served as a member of the Republican National Committee.
With the endorsement of President Donald Trump, Hageman later defeated incumbent representative Liz Cheney, a Trump critic and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, by a landslide in the 2022 Republican primary election, garnering over twice as many votes as Cheney while spending less than a quarter of Cheney's campaign expenditures. She placed third out of six candidates in a prior, less-politicized campaign for Governor.}:
Hageman was sworn into Congress on January 3, 2023. She won re-election in 2024.[1]
Early life and education
Harriet Maxine Hageman was born in Douglas, Wyoming, on October 18, 1962, and grew up on a ranch outside of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, near the Nebraska border.[2][3][4] Her father, James Hageman, served as a longtime member of the Wyoming House of Representatives until his death in 2006.[5] She is a fourth-generation Wyomingite; her great-grandfather, James Clay Shaw,[6] moved to the then-Wyoming Territory from Texas in 1878.[7]
After graduating from Lingle/Fort Laramie High School, Hageman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Wyoming and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law.[8][9]
Legal career
Hageman served as a law clerk for Judge James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She has since worked as a trial attorney. In 1997, Hageman represented Wyoming in Nebraska v. Wyoming, a dispute over management of the North Platte River.[10][11] In the case, she advocated against the United States Forest Service's roadless rule and lost.[12][13][14] In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Hageman supported U.S. senator Ted Cruz and criticized Donald Trump.[15][16]
Hageman was a candidate in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, placing third after investment manager Foster Friess and the eventual winner, state treasurer Mark Gordon. Hageman was the Republican National committeewoman for Wyoming in 2020 and 2021.[17]
United States Representative
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Hageman_%2852588541790%29.jpg)Hageman at AmericaFest in 2022.
Elections
2022
Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming
:{:{On September 9, 2021, Hageman announced her candidacy for Wyoming's at-large congressional district, challenging three-term incumbent Liz Cheney for the Republican nomination in the 2022 election. In her campaign announcement, Hageman claimed that Cheney no longer represented the people of Wyoming due to her opposition to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and her vote to impeach him during Trump's second impeachment. Noting that Trump had carried Wyoming by landslide majorities in both of his campaigns, Hageman said that by opposing Trump, Cheney "betrayed Wyoming, she betrayed this country, and she betrayed me".[18][19]}:
She formally launched her campaign at a Cheyenne hotel later that day, saying that Wyoming needed someone in Congress "who represents Wyoming's conservative values" and had "Wyoming's best interests at heart". She also claimed that Cheney's drive to "destroy President Trump" made her ineffective in Washington. Two other primary challengers dropped out and endorsed Hageman.[20] She was quickly endorsed by Trump, who had personally interviewed several prospective primary challengers to Cheney.[21]}:
:{:{Hageman and Cheney had been close political allies for several years. Hageman was an adviser to Cheney's brief 2014 Senate campaign,[22] and introduced Cheney at a rally during Cheney's first congressional bid in 2016.[15] According to Hageman, the relationship cooled when Cheney criticized Trump for not acting on claims that Russia put bounties on American troops in Afghanistan and chilled even further when Cheney called for Trump to acknowledge that he had lost the 2020 election.[23][20]}:
Hageman claimed that when Cheney called her to say that any claims about irregularities in the 2020 election were untrue, "that was probably the end of our relationship". She added that had she known that Cheney would have voted to impeach Trump, she "never would have answered [Cheney's] first phone call" in 2016.[20] Hageman later claimed that Cheney and others had deceived her into opposing Trump but dismissed her previous opposition to Trump as "ancient history".[16] In a statement to The New York Times, she called Trump "the greatest president of my lifetime."[11]}:
Besides Trump, Hageman was endorsed by many other prominent Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.[24][25][26] She also received campaign support from several Trump administration staffers, including Bill Stepien, Justin R. Clark, and Tim Murtaugh.[27] In January 2022, it was reported that Hageman's campaign had raised $1 million, to Cheney's $4.5 million.[28]
Hageman raced out to a large lead in opinion polling. A University of Wyoming poll taken a week before the election showed Hageman with a 29-point lead over Cheney.[29] She defeated Cheney in the Republican primary in a landslide, winning 66.3% of the vote to Cheney's 28.9%. Hageman carried all but two counties in the state, Cheney's home county of Teton County, and Albany County, home to the University of Wyoming.[30]
In the general election, Hageman faced Democratic nominee and Native American activist Lynnette Grey Bull, who was Cheney's opponent in 2020. Hageman was overwhelmingly favored.[22] Republicans had a nearly 7-to-1 advantage in registration over Democrats,[31] and Trump won the state in 2020 with almost 70% of the vote, his strongest state-level performance in the nation.[citation ^needed]
Hageman won the 2022 election handily, defeating Grey Bull, 67% to 24%. Upon taking office in 2023, she became the fourth consecutive Republican woman to represent Wyoming in the House, after Barbara Cubin, Cynthia Lummis, and Cheney.[citation ^needed]
Tenure
In the contested 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, though many of Hageman's colleagues in the Freedom Caucus refused to support Kevin McCarthy, Hageman backed him on every ballot.[32]
Hageman in March 2025 attended a town hall meeting with hundreds in the audience in Albany County, Wyoming, where she received a negative audience response when discussing multiple issues, including the downsizing of the federal government initiated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.[33] Hageman told the audience: "It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with federal government … I’m sorry, your hysteria is just really over the top"; later amid the hostile response Hageman ended the event 15 minutes early.[33]
Committee assignments
- Previous
Source:[34]
Caucus memberships
Political positions
Hageman calls herself an "unyielding conservative". During her gubernatorial campaign, she claimed that government was too pervasive in American lives, to the point that it was replacing "community, the organizations you belong to, and family support."[7] Along similar lines, during her congressional campaign, she highlighted her past work in "defending our great state against the excess of government".[19] She argued that as part of her plan to "protect Wyoming", her priorities would be "energy independence, regulatory reform, restor[ing] power to the states, protection of our southern border and enforcement of our immigration laws." She added that while in Congress, she would "focus on what is in the best interest of the United States, and, specifically, what is in the best interest of Wyoming."[20] She believes the framers of the Constitution intended for "the Legislative Branch—and only the Legislative Branch" to make law.[35]
Public lands sale proposal
In 2025, Senator Mike Lee (R–Utah) introduced a provision in the Senate Republicans' budget reconciliation bill, the Big Beautiful Bill to mandate the sale of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent of BLM and U.S. Forest Service lands in 11 Western states, including Wyoming.[36] Hageman supported the measure, describing it as narrow and community-focused, targeting small, underutilized parcels near towns ^[37] She emphasized local input and the need for housing and economic growth.
However, groups such as the Wilderness Society argued the bill’s language allowed up to 250 million acres to be sold, warning of privatization risks.[38] The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable and other stakeholders criticized the plan as harmful to rural economies and public access.[39]
Widespread opposition culminated in a bipartisan rally at the Wyoming State Capitol with over 500 attendees.[40] Critics argued that even "less iconic" public lands are vital for local recreation and that the bill bypassed traditional oversight.Lee withdrew the proposal on June 28, 2025, citing the inability to block foreign and corporate land purchases.[41] Critics warned the effort may return and criticized Wyoming's delegation, including Hageman, for backing the measure.
Other positions
Hageman is a vocal supporter of the fossil fuel industry, saying at an August 2022 campaign event that coal is an "affordable, clean, acceptable resource that we all should be using".[42]
Speaking about presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in July 2024, Hageman called Harris "a DEI hire" (a reference to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives) who is "intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel".[43]
Syria
In 2023, Hageman was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H. Congressional Resolution 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[44][45]
Social Security
Hageman voted for the Social Security Fairness Act,[46] which eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), increasing Social Security benefits for public sector workers.[47]
Personal life
Hageman is married to Cheyenne-based medical malpractice defense attorney John Sundahl.[48] She is a Protestant.[49]
Electoral history
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politico 9 25
A new House panel will re-investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack with an eye toward recasting the narrative about the events in Washington that day.
It’s the latest sign that the deadly riot remains a wound on Congress that might never fully heal amid ferocious partisan sparring. Retribution, not reconciliation, appears to be the prime motivation behind the new probe, with the Republicans behind it still bitter over the work of the panel’s previous iteration, which was largely led by Democrats and concluded President Donald Trump was singularly to blame for the violence inflicted by his supporters.
One GOP member of the new panel, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, did not rule out questioning members of the prior committee.
“They were not invested in actual investigative work anyway,” said Higgins, who has pushed an unfounded theory that FBI agents helped coordinate the events at the Capitol. “That thing was never legitimate. It was always biased. And therefore, if we question them, it may be with the angle of having them implicate themselves in lies that they presented as truth.”
Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a committee investigating the previous committee” in a CNN interview Sunday and said the prior effort “was rigged.”
The panel’s chair, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, describes the investigation more soberly. He said in an interview that GOP staff have been quietly toiling for months, even before Johnson moved to formalize the probe this month.
Loudermilk said his team has been “talking to different entities,” reviewing documents and brainstorming potential investigative targets.
“We need to look at it from a factual standpoint,” he said. “It’s dangerous out there. There were a lot of civilians, as well as members of Congress and staff and even press that were here on Jan. 6. And I think we’re all interested to know, why did the Capitol get breached — regardless of who did it — how did it get breached?”
But to Democrats and even some Republicans, that rationale is a smokescreen for the panel’s true purpose: rewriting the history of Jan. 6, 2021, to minimize the culpability of the president and supporters who violently assaulted police officers and entered the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the final certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss.
The security failures Loudermilk cited have been the subject of a slew of wide-ranging investigations: a review by retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, a series of reports by the Capitol Police’s inspector general, a bipartisan Senate review and two appendices in the final report of the previous House Jan. 6 select committee.
That previous select committee concluded that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, and months of false claims to sow doubt about his defeat in the 2020 election, inflamed his supporters shortly before he directed them to march on the Capitol. But the review also acknowledged that Capitol security officials were underprepared for the onslaught, leading to the breach of the building and several near-confrontations between rioters and lawmakers.
“They can’t even seem to settle on which conspiracy theory they want to advance,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who served on the previous Jan. 6 panel and serves on the new one. “Was it Antifa? Did it not happen at all? Did Donald Trump really win the election? They can’t figure out what it is they want to say, and it’s because it’s just a tissue of lies and conspiracy theories.”
The backdrop for the new GOP-led investigation is Trump’s return to the presidency and his persistent efforts to reject any blame for the attack — and to accuse his political enemies of persecuting his supporters. On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,000 members of the mob and ordered his Justice Department to drop pending criminal cases against hundreds of others.
Trump has spent the intervening years downplaying the violence that occurred that day, which left more than 100 police officers injured. One officer died a day after the riot after suffering strokes, and several others died of suicide in subsequent weeks. Four Trump supporters died in the violence, including one who was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to enter the lobby that leads onto the House floor.
The attack remains a raw issue on Capitol Hill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) helped sink the nomination of conservative attorney Ed Martin to be Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, citing Martin’s advocacy for Jan. 6 criminal defendants and his comments about the attack. FBI Director Kash Patel has faced intense questioning about his own advocacy for Jan. 6 defendants and his role in producing a rendition of the National Anthem by some of the most violent offenders that day.
There is even an ongoing controversy over whether to hang a plaque previously commissioned by Congress to honor those who protected the Capitol that day. Johnson has refused to display the memorial, and Loudermilk, while expressing personal support for the officers, said that decision is “not in my decisionmaking wheelhouse.”
Meanwhile, the prior select committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), remains a particular sore spot for Trump and many Republicans. Even after it was disbanded, Trump continued calling its report a “Hoax” and its leaders “Political Hacks and Thugs” while championing Loudermilk’s work.
Reinvestigating the attack has been a longstanding priority for the Georgia Republican, who came under scrutiny by the previous Jan. 6 panel for hosting a tour of the complex the night before the Capitol riot. One person in his party was later found to have posted incendiary videos and marched toward, but not into, the building the next day.
Neither Loudermilk nor anyone in his tour group was accused of any wrongdoing, but the Jan. 6 committee interviewed one of the group members and questioned why Loudermilk did not inform authorities about the presence of his group.
After Republicans retook the House majority in 2023, Loudermilk led a probe “on the failures and politicization of the January 6th Select Committee” as chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight. In that investigation, some entities were uncooperative with his requests, Loudermilk said.
This time, in helming a select subcommittee under the Judiciary Committee, he has full subpoena power to compel compliance with his demands. “We think we’ve got a little more cooperation at this point,” he said.
The formal creation of Loudermilk’s panel followed months of negotiations over its scope and powers, with Loudermilk pushing for greater jurisdiction than Johnson’s team had been willing to give — and complaining to fellow Republicans about how GOP leadership was trying to stifle his effort. Then the Trump administration privately applied pressure to get the effort set up, Loudermilk told reporters earlier this year.
Johnson, who was central to the effort on Capitol Hill to overturn the 2020 election, acted quietly — inserting a provision establishing the panel as part of an unrelated procedural measure. One House Republican, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive dynamics around the panel, was unaware the subcommittee even existed before being asked about it by a POLITICO reporter.
Besides Loudermilk and Higgins, the panel’s members are Republican Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Troy Nehls of Texas and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, as well as Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Jared Moskowitz of Florida. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will serve as an ex officio member alongside Raskin, the top Judiciary Democrat.
These lawmakers are some of the most aggressive political messengers of their respective parties. Nehls sued the government over what he claimed was retaliation from the Capitol Police for his criticism of the force’s handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Hageman unseated Cheney after she was ostracized by her party for her leading role in the prior panel and her unrelenting criticism of Trump.
The panel is wasting no time in launching an effort to review the findings of that previous committee. Earlier this month, Loudermilk sent letters to some businesses and other entities that had been in contact with the previous Jan. 6 panel to request data that was deleted or not otherwise archived. That committee disclosed a host of information in its possession, but some materials — including footage of its interviews — remain unreleased.
Other details of what the panel’s work will entail in the coming months remain sketchy. Loudermilk said he anticipates releasing a final report, while hearings would be called “based on a need and based on the evidence that we’re collecting.”
He added that his team was focusing on the unsolved mystery of the pipe bombs placed near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee offices the day before the riot and the FBI’s use of confidential human sources who were present at the Capitol
Patel recently said the bureau’s pipe bomb investigation remained active and promising. The Justice Department’s inspector general reported in December that there were 26 FBI sources present in Washington on Jan. 6 but only three had actually been tasked by the bureau with tracking potential bad actors.
Both issues have fueled conspiracy theories about government involvement in the violence that day. Johnson in the CNN interview Sunday repeated an unfounded narrative endorsed by Trump that there were hundreds of FBI agents in the crowd as the Capitol was stormed — a misapprehension of data released by the bureau that includes agents dispatched to the scene after the violence broke out.
Loudermilk said he intends to steer his panel away from politics.
“I’m trying to make it clear I do not want this to be a partisan clown show,” he said. “This isn’t about getting clicks or media interviews.”
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AN 8 25 right after Flood got reamed in neb?
Comments from climate change denier Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) went badly at a recent town hall in rural Pinedale.
WyoFile reports the community of Pinedale suffered alarming ozone spikes in the late 2000s, with one measurement surpassing that of Los Angeles. Residents — particularly those with preexisting respiratory conditions and asthma — had to avoid outdoor exercise on high-ozone days. WyoFile reports a doctor even advised one mother to drive her hypoxic newborn to a safer place 78 miles away from home.
So when Hageman appeared at a town hall and announced her support for “repealing” a landmark 2009 doctrine classifying greenhouse gases as pollutants and legally binding federal agencies to regulate them, attendees shouted her down.
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“The endangerment finding is absolutely based upon false science,” Hageman said, prompting a chorus of boos from the July 29 crowd along with guffaws and several loud shouts of “No!”
WyoFile reports Hageman tried to continue over the outburst: “CO2 [carbon dioxide] is not a pollutant. As far as the validity and the science that was the foundation for that, they cooked the books.”
But Sublette County constituents weren’t having it, reports WyoFile: “The booing continued, along with one person shouting, ‘Lie! Lie!’ as Hageman pressed on.”
Environmental Defense Fund Legislative Manager John Rutecki told WyoFile that “Wyoming didn’t get cleaner by accident,” referring to efforts to reduce ozone-inducing pollutants in Pinedale’s Upper Green River Basin. “It took years of effort by the Pinedale community and so many others.”
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The “non-attainment” status issued by the EPA, which Hageman opposes, forced Wyoming air quality regulators to impose healthier standards on fossil fuel drillers, and eventually the companies themselves got onboard.
Pinedale resident Mary Lynn Worl, who attended Hegeman’s town hall, told WyoFile that her state isn’t likely to weaken federal emission rules after recent successes.
“We were never against drilling and development,” said Worl. “We wanted it done right. We wanted it to be done as safely as possible.
Read the full WyoFile report at this link.
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TROLLING AUD AT TOWN HALL? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR OBSESSION WITH FED GOVT SMIRK
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It wasn’t a typical Friday night event in the downtown of Montana’s largest city.
The only music played at the event was a closing song, “America,” which brought the crowd of nearly 1,000 to its feet.
About the only people missing from the event that filled the spacious Lincoln Auditorium in Billings (capacity: 1,636) were the three chairs reserved for Sens. Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy as well as Rep. Troy Downing whose congressional district covers the Magic City and all of eastern Montana.
Not unlike dozens of other town-hall style meetings across America, the purpose was to ask questions of leaders about what is happening in Congress, with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. And not unlike many recent meetings, the elected leaders did not show up.
That did not stop residents, some from as far away as Missoula and Wibaux counties, from showing up, standing in long lines to ask a question, and former Gov. Marc Racicot from urging the crowd to fight for democracy. Racicot himself has been an example of the changing political winds: The former chairman on the Republican National Party was booted from the state Republican Party after criticizing the direction of the party and Trump.
The Daily Montanan reached out to all three Congressional representatives who were invited. Only Sheehy’s office responded.
“Here is my response to media asking if I will attend Democrat dark money group Indivisible’s left-wing rallies: No, I will not legitimize a radical group that wants to defund the police and abolish ICE,” Sheehy said.
Indivisible, a national group that started in the wake of George Floyd’s death, started as a movement to rein in abuse and to curtail funding to police and other law enforcement agencies. Yellowstone Indivisible organized the event, although during the event, not a single speaker spoke about defunding law enforcement or police brutality.
“There have been town meetings since this country was just 13 colonies and ruled by a king. We want to make it clear to our elected officials that we still don’t want a king,” said Yellowstone Indivisible co-leader Elizabeth Klarich. “We could be doing March Madness, or we could be attending the boys basketball tournaments at the Metra, but we decided to do democracy tonight.”
President Donald Trump campaigned on a far-ranging platform of reform, including to reshape government as well as reduce consumer prices and curbing inflation. Montana is also a heavily Republican state with every member of the Congressional delegation and the five state “constitutional officers” all being Republican. In Montana, Trump took 58% of the vote in the 2024 Election.
Speakers who asked questions and told raw personal stories drew applause, sometimes standing ovations, including for the opening Pledge of Allegiance.
“If we were hired to do a job and refused to do it, we’d get terminated,” Klarich said. “Have they forgotten we have the power to fire them?”
The organizers recorded the meeting, and said they will be delivering a copy of the video to Daines, Sheehy and Downing so they can see the response and turnout.
Billings resident Elizabeth Halvorson worried about the impacts of tariffs on Mexico and Canada, since they represent a combined 93% of imports to Montana.
“What are you going to do protect ag producers? What are you going to do to protect us from higher costs?” she asked.
Throughout the meeting, residents spoke to the trio of empty chairs, each with a placard naming the Congressman who didn’t show.
Steve Held, who ran for Congress as a Democrat and whose daughter was part of the historic youth climate trial that bears his name, spoke on climate change.
“Climate change doesn’t give a damn if you live in Broadus or Bozeman, and the Montana Club will not protect you,” Held said, traveling from Broadus to attend.
Bailey Desper, who is a transgender woman worried about Elon Musk, a common concern at the meeting in Billings and at other meetings, was using government data.
“How are they going to make sure that our rights to privacy are entrusted?” she asked.
Jason Severeid of Billings said that he’s been living independently for two years thanks to help from insurance programs like Medicaid. He has an autoimmune disease that requires infusions every three weeks. Without those programs for him, it’s literally a matter of life or death.
“What assurances can you give me so that my treatment can continue? Please don’t touch Medicaid,” he said.
Maybe the longest and most thunderous applause came for Peggy Wellknown Buffalo, a member and leader on the Apsaalooke (Crow) reservation. She has been lauded for her efforts of providing more than 2 million pounds of food during the COVID-19 pandemic on the reservation in southern Montana, and still runs a food assistance program.
At first she addressed the empty “Congress chairs” in Crow. Then, she spoke in English.
“Your First People are worse off. How much more do we have to give up?” she asked.
Randi Hall of Billings said she’s met Daines previously and voted for him.
“Canada is our friend. You’ve been to the Hi-Line and seen the flags together. You are turning our greatest ally into an enemy. Who would have thought that would happen? Who would have seen the day when Albertans refuse to buy from us? I voted for you and I feel betrayed. I am Montanan and begging you to start voting and acting like one,” she said.
Political science professor Paul Pope, who teaches at Montana State University-Billings, said he wasn’t speaking on any particular issue, but made a different kind of plea.
“If any of you want to seek public office, I am offering my help to run against these absentee representatives,” he said.
Sheehy ousted former three-term U.S. Senator Jon Tester, 53% to 45%. Downing won handily in the conservative Second Congressional district, capturing nearly two-thirds of the vote. And, Daines was the head of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee that helped the GOP regain control of the U.S. Senate. He will stand for re-election in 2026.
Elizabeth Sillerud, a pastor at American Lutheran Church, described the immigrant families her congregation has helped. Quoting from the Bible, she ticked off passages that urged kindness and hospitality toward foreigners and strangers.
“How are you all — descendants of immigrants and people of faith — responding to immigrants?” she asked.
Gerald Kessler, a retired school teacher and counselor, said he feared for America’s standing in the world.
“You have turned the world order upside down,” he said. “Russia, North Korea and Israel are now our friends when Canada, the U.K. and Denmark — Denmark, really? — are turned against us? In 1949, George Orwell wrote a book called ‘1984’ and I am sorry to say the only thing he got wrong was the date.”
Megan Cassel of Billings said she worried about how this period in history will be remembered.
“History will not remember that we made America great for all the casual pain and hate,” she said.
Laura McGee, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, said that she had spoken repeatedly to Daines’ office about fraud and waste but hasn’t received an answer.
“We demand our treaties, our healthcare, our education and to protect our tribal colleges and universities,” she said.
University of Montana student Shannon Sheehy had pointed words for Montana’s newest senator.
“I’m Shannon Sheehy — no relation,” she said, as the audience laughed. “I am the only Sheehy with courage to get on stage. I am a student at the University of Montana. There is fear there because the climate studies students fear that their program will be dismantled. Trans students are told they are not safe here. And I am worried about student loans. You are not here tonight, and it is clear that no Republican is willing to stand up.”
She also had a different, more personal message for Sen. Sheehy, who often uses his last name as a recurring joke about pronouns, she and he.
“Also, don’t ever use my name as a transphobic punch line again,” she said.
Ryan Chaddick, a pastor in Billings, spoke about his concerns for those who are neurodivergent.
He said that politicians see neurodivergent folks as those who are broken or needing to fix.
“I live with an invisible disability and don’t always show it,” he said. “Many of our leaders are invisible tonight, but my message is that we are neurodivergent; we are here; and we are watching.”
Dozens of people spoke during the event. As the time wound down, ending before all could make it to the microphones, many left questions in a basket that would be forwarded to the trio of absent leaders.
As the town-hall style meetings have spread throughout the country in the wake of the upheaval of the Trump administration and Musk’s action, Republicans who have shown up to these meetings have faced stiff opposition and anger, even from people identifying as Republican. One of the more notable events happened when Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming appeared at an event in Laramie this week.
That event saw Hageman roundly booed, as she said it was “bizarre” that the audience members were so focused on the federal government. She urged them to calm down and suggested they were “hysterical.”
At a similar town-hall style meeting in Bozeman on Friday, an estimated 350 residents gathered but no member of the Congressional delegation attended.
Republican strategists and leaders have urged Republicans not to show up for the meetings, which is why Racicot appeared to lend some perspective as a Montana leader. Former U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, who was beaten in November by Sheehy, sent a message to the Yellowstone County crowd, too.
In a state where politicians brag about how many miles they put on cars traveling to meet constituents, the lack of participation is something new to Treasure State residents. The Daily Montanan had reached out to Pope, a noted political scientist, prior to the event to ask about the shift and the strategy behind not attending these events.
“By not attending, they simply can avoid saying the wrong thing or just defending their actions or inactions. The risk of making people angry by not showing up may be perceived as less than if they did and add fuel to their fire. They forget, they represent us, and the Constitution requires them to defend their own powers against a president who is trying to usurp both their law making and budgetary powers. I believe they are doing this out of party loyalty,” he said.
Pope did not mince words in his analysis of the dangers that the American democracy faces at this particular moment.
“If Congress and the courts fail to hold the President accountable to the Constitution and the rule of law, then they have no ability to constrain the people to the rule of law. This creates chaos and that kind of chaos often leads to violence. In short, Congress’ inactions to constrain the president could literally mean the end of the union,” he said.
Racicot spoke to the crowd and delivered a message to the crowd as people shouted “Racicot for president.”
He spoke about the crafting of the Constitution and the dangers of defying the rule of law, villainizing judges, and reaping pain by creating emergencies.
“It reveals a complete lack of respect for the rule of law. We have had a democratic republic for 237 years, and yet it is fragile and based on the concept that every American must choose it and practice self discipline to maintain order and a respect for fellow citizens,” Racicot said. “To those who seek to lead us at this existential moment of peril, we will strive to be informed and learn. And we will demand loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of law.”
The event closed after singing “America” twice, but not before Klarich declared the event a successful example of democracy alive.
“You beautifully saw how democracy works. We will not brandish pitchforks, we will join arms and not tear each other down,” she said. “The selfish greed of power-hungry oppressors will not rob us of seeking our dignity and our joy.”
Daily Montanan is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Daily Montanan maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Darrell Ehrlick for questions: info@dailymontanan.com.
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Nov 5, 2024Harriet Hageman (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District. She assumed office on January 3, 2023. Her current term ends on January 3, 2027. Hageman (Republican Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District. She declared candidacy for the 2026 election.
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the Republican-majority House of Representatives has just ten days to avert a shutdown of the federal government. Far-right Republicans, including those from the Freedom Caucus, are proposing amendments to attach to a funding bill that have little chance of passing in the Senate, like defunding Vice President Kamala Harris’ Office.
If Speaker Mike Johnson does not move forward legislation to fund the federal government that the Senate will pass, and President Joe Biden will sign, a government shutdown could be in effect at 12:01 AM November 18.
U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, a freshman Republican of Georgia, has proposed an amendment “that would halt any funding for Vice President Kamala Harris’ office,” according to The Messenger. Collins has called the Vice President a “Radical” Democrat.
Congressman Collin’s amendment is not the only one proposed to take aim at Democrats and Democratic principles.
“Multiple amendments that were offered targeted funding toward the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, while another by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., proposed reducing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel’s salary to $1,” Fox News reports. Greene recently complained the House was forcing members to vote on legislation at 1:00 AM.
READ MORE: Trump’s ‘Astonishing Admission’ Will Damage Any Potential Appeal: Experts
In March, Rep. Collins suggested on the floor of the House of Representatives that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were possible culprits in the Norfolk Southern train derailment.
“After seeing another Norfolk Southern train derailed this weekend, I was reminded of the fact that the company wrote to shareholders stating that it is focused on DEI,” Collins said, as The New Republic reported. “This administration’s focus on DEI is forcing private companies to rethink their goals and one has to wonder, was Norfolk Southern’s DEI policies directing resources away from the important things like greasing wheel bearings? Now this insanity must stop.”
During that speech, Collins targeted U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and DEI.
“From his first day in office, he has been more focused on diversity training and identity politics than on building and maintaining America’s transportation system,” Collins said, Fox News reported.
Claiming Buttigieg was “whining about too many white people in construction industries,” Collins said: “His policies have continuously put the wokes before the folks.”
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Collins earlier this year said: “Democrats follow ESG [Environmental, Social, and Governance] and DEI like a religion; it is, it’s called wokeism.”
In September, Collins in a committee hearing attacked Buttigieg, saying he is “pushing a far-left, woke, DEI socialistic experiment.”
Congressman Collins is not the only Republican targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.
“Two Offices of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (ODEIA) within the Biden administration are the subject of cost-cutting GOP proposals,” Fox News also reported Tuesday. “An amendment proposed by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., specified defunding the Treasury’s ODEIA, and a similar amendment by Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., hit the Office of Personnel Management.”
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...“A key responsibility of Congress is oversight, so this is rightfully something that we must do,” Hageman said in a Tuesday statement.
“As American citizens, we cannot continue to have our government work against us. Federal agencies have too much power, too much control, too much money, and have taken too much liberty from us.”
Hageman celebrates win, lays out priorities at Turning Point conference
Hageman’s appointment to the subcommittee follows Wyoming’s former Rep. Liz Cheney’s effort as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Select Committee to collect information about former president Donald Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The committee ultimately voted last month to refer criminal charges against Trump and others to the U.S. Justice Department.
Though the new subcommittee was created ostensibly in part as a reaction to the work of the Jan. 6 committee, Hageman pointed to other situations that the subcommittee will look into.
'He is unfit for any office': Jan. 6 committee votes to refer charges against Trump
“This committee will examine why there seems to be a double standard for enforcing rules against some of us, but not against others,” Hageman said in the Tuesday statement.
“It will work to ensure thatdraconian lockdowns are never again enacted. It will find out to what degree thefederal government conspired with social media conglomerates to silence our free speech and suppress factual information. It will examine the practices ofIRS audits.”
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Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., spewed conspiracy theories about an environmental plan to Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman in August 2021 and 2022 baselessly claimed that conservation plans like the global initiativeare a government plot led by President Joe Biden to control Americans through starvation.
The congresswoman likened the environmental plans to African dictators starving their people to stay in power.
"Anytime their dictator needed to control the masses and needed to make sure that there would be no uprising, he just starves his people," Hageman said in the previously unreported video. "You can look at Somalia, you can look at the Congo, you can look at country after country after country after country, and what they've done is they control their people with food. That's what 30 x 30 is about. That's what the Green New Deal is about." [vid] RFID win, block mandate; USDA eartag 2023 file lawsuit oct 2019 knew illegal, stood down, wanted info on who proposed; afis did not comply, lost ct wyo; facha agency overreach; 10th circuit appeals, badly treated; want to cont w rfid; agRisk banner; 48% wyo public; DC launder$ effic to keep here;...unequal playing field unions prtic in elections but CORPS not?! 28 min ggl fb zuck trying to restrict free sp absolutist const; food indep, tyrants use food to control....feds play long game...only refis if move cow interstate; agy do not cae about legal, just what get away w;
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2022 R-CALF USA National Convention The Legal and Constitutional Challenges That We Face; How To Fight Back zzz Harriet Hageman, Water, Natural Resources and Constitutional Attorney
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the-then candidate's statements are similar to a number of anti-government conspiracy theories shared by anti-public land extremists. Many of these conspiracy theorists have also equated 30x30 with the Holocaust and Stalin's genocide of Ukrainians in the 1930s.
"History repeats, and I think it's being done again," said one 30x30 conspiracy theorist on...>. "They did the very same thing in Ukraine, and they intend to do it to us."
In another video, Hageman claimed that 30x30 is the first step towards government-led "starvation" in order to "control" citizens.
"Whenever those leaders want to control the masses, they starve them. They kill them. And that's how they keep control. And that's where the 30 x 30 program is headed," she claimed.
"We need to stop looking at this as preserving the environment," she added. "We need to stop talking about protecting water and natural resources. That isn't what it's about, it's about control. It's about control of you." [vid]
this is not the first, or second, time that Hageman has boosted conspiracy theories: she has a long history of espousing misinformation and fighting against conservation and public lands. Hageman proudly bears the nickname "Wicked Witch of the West," which she earned after opposing the Clinton administration's roadless forest rule.
"Harriet Hageman's unhinged conspiracy theories show that her motivations for 'oversight' are completely unrooted in reality," Jordan Schreiber, director of the Energy and Environment program at the left-leaning watchdog group Accountable.US, said in a statement to Salon. "The next time she alleges wrongdoing remember that she subscribes to a set of falsehoods that would make Alex Jones blush. She cannot be taken seriously as a legislator or an investigator."
During her unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 2018, Hageman suggested transferring one million acres of federal land to the state of Wyoming, which would have sold off significant hunting, fishing, and hiking areas, according to a report from The New York Times.
Two months before the midterm election in 2022, Hageman also claimed that the federal government controls too much land in the United States.
"Joe Biden has absolutely no authority whatsoever to try to take more private land out of production and use in this country," she said during a September R-CALF conference. "The federal government already has 612 million acres, and frankly, that's too many."
She further accused the World Wildlife Federation of trying to "destroy the livestock industry," calling them "evil people."
"They will put you out of business if you do not comply with their mandates that are going to be coming down the road,"
of the environmental organization. "They want to either destroy the livestock industry or make sure that it is only the elite that are able to eat beef in the future."
In addition to conspiracy theories, Hageman has also previously shared that she believes regulatory agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management are "destroying our republic."
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Liz Cheney Just Lost Her House Seat to Harriet Hageman, a Trump Convert
Aug 16, 2022Liz Cheney lost her House seat in Wyoming's primary election Tuesday to Harriet Hageman — an outcome that Cheney herself, the 56-year-old daughter of former president Dick Cheney, anticipated...
Hageman Energizes Crowd At Trump Rally With Vow To Fight Cheney ...
May 28, 2022By Leo Wolfson, Cowboy State Daily. Vowing to fight against Democrats in Congress if elected to replace U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, Harriet Hageman told her cheering supporters on Saturday she is determined to defeat the three-term congresswoman. Hageman, speaking to about 10,000 people at the Save America Rally at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper ...
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Sep 27, 2021In 2016, Ms. Hageman went to the Republican convention in Cleveland as a Cruz delegate after the Texas senator won Wyoming with 66 percent of the vote and 23 of 25 delegates at the state's county...
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Cheyenne lawyer Harriet Hageman likes to dress in black and is proud of the Halloweenish title. She says an environmentalist bestowed it on her years ago in an angry letter to the editor. Hageman ...
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in Washington, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is a major national figure. The former member of House Republican leadership has earned plaudits for her handling of the key role of vice-chair of the January 6 select committee and is considered the foremost critic of Donald Trump within the GOP.
But in Wyoming, that work is being used to paint her as out of touch with voters and the pocketbook issues they care about, and increase her already tough odds of holding on to her seat.
Cheney is under siege in her home state, facing a brutal primary against her Trump-backed opponent Harriet Hageman in the state where Trump had his best performance in 2020. The former president has already held a Memorial Day weekend rally in Casper to boost Hageman and deride Cheney and is likely to return to the Cowboy State before the August primary. Cheney has been censured by the local and national GOP. According to one Republican strategist supporting Hageman, the incumbent has a hard cap of around 30 percent of the primary electorate in polling.
Outrider PAC, a group founded earlier this month to boost Hageman, is out with a new ad this week, exclusively obtained by Vox, attacking Cheney — though not by name — and boosting Hageman. “We need fewer DC divas and more problem solvers,” the ad says, hinting that Cheney is too involved in Washington “fighting” while gas prices skyrocket. The ad heralds Hageman as a supporter of “bipartisan efforts [manchin?] to increase American energy independence and help bring more of the supply chain back to the US.”
The group has already spent over $30,000 on the radio advertisement and is anticipating spending over $100,000 solely on Wyoming radio in the seven weeks before the state’s August 16 primary, according to a source familiar. A Cheney spokesperson declined to comment to Vox about the ad.
The ad hits Cheney on a perceived strength in Wyoming’s Republican primary electorate, her ardent support of the energy industry in the biggest coal mining state in the country, and emphasizes Hageman, who is less well known in the state than Cheney, a second-generation member of Congress.
the race is already expected to be the most expensive campaign in the history of Wyomingand already several outside groups have targeted Cheney. An anti-Cheney super PAC, Wyoming Values, has already spent over $500,000 against the former GOP conference chair, while Club for Growth, the influential conservative group, has targeted her since 2021 when it ran an ad painting her as a “Clinton Republican.” However, according to the pro- Hageman strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the race frankly, Cheney’s major weakness in polling besides her opposition to Trump is the perception that “she is disconnected from Wyoming.”
Cheney has maintained a significant fundraising advantage overHageman, a longtime party activist who wasonce a vocal opponent of Trump. According to the most recent FEC reports, Cheney has raised over $10 million this cycle and has over $6.8 million on hand. In contrast, Hageman has raised over $2 million so far and has over $1 million on hand. A third candidate, state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, who has denounced the Trump-endorsed Hageman as insufficiently MAGA, has under $50,000 on hand. Bouchard’s political prospects dwindled after it was revealed that he had impregnated a 14-year-old when he was 18, which was one reason Trump backed Hageman instead of him last year.
Yet despite Cheney’s massive fundraising advantage and incumbency, she is considered an underdog in a race that will be another big barometer of Trump’s sway within the Republican Party. A May poll paid for by Club for Growth has Cheney down 30 points to Hageman. Further, Hageman has not just been backed by Trump, but is also supported by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a majority of the House Republican Conference.
While Cheney has the backing of key figures from the GOP’s past like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, she is counting on Democrats and independents to help carry her to victory. Although Wyoming is the most Republican state in the country, it has open primaries and Cheney will need a significant number of crossover votes from non-Republicans who admire her stalwart opposition to Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. However, the pro-Hageman strategist expressed skepticism that there were enough Democrats in the state, let alone Democrats willing to vote for a Cheney, to make the difference.
While some Republicans who have pushed back against Trump’s spurious claims of election fraud have managed to win their primaries, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia, none of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump have successfully won a primary so far in 2022. Four have announced their retirement, Tom Rice of South Carolina lost his reelection bid earlier in June, and David Valadao’s race in California’s top-two primary has yet to be called more than two weeks after Election Day in the Golden State.
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over the last several months, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has emerged as one of the most vocal Republican lawmakers to speak out against former President Donald Trump and his allies who advocated for his push to overturn the outcome of the presidential election.
While she has been applauded for her courage to speak out against the former president, one political action committee (PAC) is looking to use her work against her.
As the former Republican leader faces an uphill midterm election battle against Trump-backed candidate, Harriet Hageman, the Outrider PAChas made it its mission to not only bolster support for Hageman but also to make Cheney look as blemished as possible.
Per VOX Media:
Outrider PAC, a group founded earlier this month to boost Hageman, is out with a new ad this week, exclusively obtained by Vox, attacking Cheney — though not by name — and boosting Hageman. 'We need fewerDC divas and more problem solvers,'the ad says, hinting that Cheney is too involved in Washington 'fighting' while gas prices skyrocket. The ad heralds Hageman as a supporter of 'bipartisan efforts to increase American energy independence and help bring more of the supply chain back to the US.'
The group is reportedly preparing to spend six figures to push its campaign for Hageman. That amount is just a percentage of what is expected to be spent as this election campaign is projected to be one of the most expensive in Wyoming state history. Other far-right PACs are also launching political attacks against Cheney.
VOX Media reports:
An anti-Cheney super PAC, Wyoming Values, has already spent over $500,000 against the former GOP conference chair, whileClub for Growth, the influential conservative group, has targeted her since 2021 when it ran an ad painting her as a 'Clinton Republican.' However, according to the pro- Hageman strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the race frankly, Cheney’s major weakness in polling besides her opposition to Trump is the perception that 'she is disconnected from Wyoming.' [unlike dr oz]
In Outrider's latest ad, Cheney is being attacked for a number of reasons including "her ardent support of the energy industry in the biggest coal mining state in the country, and emphasizes Hageman, who is less well known in the state than Cheney, a second-generation member of Congress."
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The attacks being launched against Cheney come as the other Republicans who pushed back against Trump have faced daunting outcomes in the 2022 midterm elections. So far, none of the 10 Republican lawmakers who voted in favor of Trump's second impeachment have managed to win a 2022 midterm election.
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on Monday, June 13 — the second day in a series of public hearings being held by the January 6 select committee — a deposition by former Donald Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien was featured. Stepien, during the deposition, said that after the 2020 presidential election, “There were two groups: my team and Rudy’s team.”
Stepien described his group as “Team Normal,” depicting former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his allies as being unapologetically aggressive in promoting Trump’s claim that the election had been stolen from him.But Never Trump conservative Tim Miller, in a scathing article published by The Bulwark on June 14, slams Stepien’s attempt to clean up his image — arguing that he was part of “Team Coup,” not “Team Normal” in 2020.
“Bill Stepien testified that he advised the president to give a measured statement about how it’s ‘too early to tell’ (on Election Night),” Miller writes. “He wanted Trump to be dignified about how the team was ‘proud of the race we ran’ and close by offering that he would ‘have more to say’ after the votes came in. LOLOLOL. Are you shitting me, Bill? You thought Donald J. Trump was going to be gracious?”
Miller continues, “That was never going to happen…. After Trump rejected Stepien’s ‘advice’ and went in front of the cameras to allege a ‘fraud on the American public,’ what did Stepien do? During videotaped testimony to the January 6 Committee, Bill said that in the days after the election, he ‘stepped away’ from the crazy because he is ‘honest,’ and thus couldn’t be a part of it." [twt]
the Never Trumper goes on to say that Stepien was hardly honorable in the weeks after the 2020 election.
“Bill and ‘Team Normal’ did their stepping away ‘behind the scenes,’ as Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey reported,” Miller writes. “Stepien ‘didn’t want it widely known’ that he disagreed with the party line.So, in other words, ‘Team Normal’ wasn’t functionally any different from the ‘Ultra-Krakens.’ They just didn’t want to get their hands dirty. They had professional reputations to keep.”
These days, Stepien is working with Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman, who is challenging Rep. Liz Cheney in a GOP congressional primary in that state.
“Bill Stepien wasn’t on ‘Team Normal,’” Miller declares. “He was on ‘Team Coup.’ After the election, he just decided to move back to the jump seats rather than keep riding shotgun, so as to protect his career.”
Miller adds, “If you need any more evidence this is the case, do you know what job Bill Stepien took, after the crazy he presided over had passed? Stepien is now consulting for Harriet Hageman, the fellow confederate, who was a former Never Trumper but who is now primarying Liz Cheney for the crime of speaking truths that she, and Stepien, both know.In Stepien’s view, the bad actor that needed to be punished wasn’t Rudy and the rest of Team Crazy. It was Liz Cheney, for holding his manhood cheap, and saying publicly everything he knew to be true in private. For being not only on Team Normal, but on Team Courage and Team Democracy.”
Miller wraps up his article by stressing that Stepien is hardly a profile in courage.
“Stepien had the opportunity to do what Cheney did,” Miller explains. “He could’ve lived up to his obligations, and demonstrated that he was the honest professional he thinks himself to be. But he chose not to. He chose Team Coup.”
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https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/peter-thiel/
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Billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel is bankrolling election conspiracists and primary challengers against Republicans who backed Donald Trump's impeachment after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including an Arizona Senate candidate who is literally on his payroll.
Thiel, the Facebook board member who co-founded PayPal and later the controversial data-mining company Palantir, has long been a top Republican benefactor, donating millions to GOP candidates and political action committees. But in the wake of Trump's 2020 defeat, Thiel has grown more aggressive in his political investments, dropping more than $20 million to support two far-right Senate candidates and helping to fund primary challengers against Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and other Republicans who called for Trump's removal after the deadly riot.
"He wants to be the patron of the Trump wing of the Republican Party," said Max Chafkin, a Bloomberg reporter and author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Thiel is focused on building out "Trumpism after Trump," Chafkin said in an interview with Salon, describing the tech billionaire as "in many ways further to the right than Trump."
Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to back Trump in 2016, has made an even bigger splash this election cycle with a $10 million donation to back his protégé Blake Masters, who plans to run for the Republican nomination in next year's Arizona Senate election. Masters is uniquely connected to Thiel, serving as the chief operating officer of Thiel Capital, the billionaire's venture capital fund, and co-writing Thiel's book "Zero to One."
While candidates like Virginia's Glenn Youngkin have stepped away from their corporate careers to run for office, Masters appears to still be on Thiel's payroll. He earned $775,000 from Thiel Capital last year and received more than $340,000 in royalty payments from the sales of "Zero to One," according to a personal finance disclosure that was first reported by Insider. Masters did not respond to questions from Salon about whether he still collects a salary from Thiel's company, but still lists himself as the firm's COO on his LinkedIn page.
Thiel last month hosted a fundraiser for Masters' campaign at his Los Angeles home that cost up to $5,800 to attend.
Saving Arizona PAC, the Thiel-funded effort that has already spent nearly $1.7 million in Arizona, has launched ads attacking state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Masters' principal GOP opponent, for rejecting Trump's lie that voter fraud cost him the election.
"Mark Brnovich says President Trump is wrong on voter fraud. Really? Brnovich failed to convene a grand jury, certified Biden as president. Now he's nowhere to be found, making excuses … instead of standing with our president,"
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Brnovich was one of multiple state officials, including Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who certified the election results. The ad does not explain why Brnovich should have convened a grand jury. There has been no evidence of widespread fraud in Arizona or any other state, and courts have repeatedly rejected challenges by Trump allies seeking to overturn Biden's win.
The PAC also blasted Brnovich on Twitter, arguing that he is "nowhere to be found in the fight against voter fraud."
Masters is the "only candidate who will demand fair and transparent elections," the PAC said.
The Saving Arizona PAC recently made yet another six-figure ad buy attacking Brnovich for not being Trumpy enough.
Masters, who was endorsed by Trump's former national security adviser Robert O'Brien this week, has walked a fine line when discussing the presidential election. He has stopped short of claiming that the election was stolen outright, but has boosted conspiracy theories on Twitter about "dead people voting," Dominion voting machines and fears about election "integrity," echoing a trope employed by numerous other Republicans who have tried to distance themselves from the voter fraud lie while still trying to appease Trump loyalists.
After the dubious so-called audit in Arizona's Maricopa County actually showed Biden gaining a handful of votes compared to the official total, Trump and other Republicans began to claim that the audit had turned up serious questions about the election administration. In fact, Republican audit officials testified to Congress last week that the county held a "**free, fair and accurate election."Masters, however, sided with TrumpWorld throughout the process, teasing the release of the audit report, echoing Trump's claims about "fake" polls and "anti-Trump disinformation," and making the evidence-proof argument that "no matter what the audit finds, we know this election wasn't fair."
Masters later demanded action from Brnovich in response to the audit, though he did not say exactly what he wanted the state attorney general to do.
"The AZ audit findings have been referred to the Attorney General," Masters tweeted. "The ball is now in Brnovich's court. He has a track record of doing the bare minimum, so let's pay attention, and we'll see if the Republican establishment is serious about election integrity."
Masters also demanded that Ducey immediately "call a special session" to impose new voting restrictions, even though Ducey had already signed a bill to restrict mail ballots and purge the state's popular early voting list in the spring.
"Get the legislature back to work so they can tighten up our election laws," Masters tweeted. "Starting with universal voter ID for every kind of ballot — nothing less is acceptable."
Masters did not respond to questions from Salon about whether he believes Biden legitimately won Arizona, or what he would like Brnovich to do in response to the "audit" results.
The attacks on Brnovich come as Masters seeks to close a massive early polling deficit against the attorney general. A Republican poll conducted last month showed Brnovich leading Masters, by 41% to 6%. Another September poll from OH Predictive Insights also showed Masters polling at just 6% and performing the worst of any candidate against incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat.
"It's clear Blake Masters is threatened by AG Brnovich," Joanna Duka, a spokeswoman for Brnovich, said in a statement to Salon.
Thiel has also dropped another $10 million to back J.D. Vance, another longtime business associateand the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," in Ohio's Senate race. As with Masters, Thiel has a long business relationship with Vance, who got his start in venture capital working at Thiel's Mithril Capital Management, which is named after a fictional metal in "The Lord of the Rings." Vance later got an investment from Thiel to help start his own venture fund, Narya Capital, which is named after one of the Elven rings in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic. Both men recently invested in the right-wing video platform Rumble.
Masters and Vance are "kind of extensions of Peter Thiel," Chafkin said, describing them as "hardcore ideologues" who are more disciplined and coherent than Trump, but largely focused on the same issues.
Vance has tried to stay away from election conspiracies but defended rioters at the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as mostly "super peaceful." Thiel's allies have generally avoided directly claiming that the 2020 was rigged, but have continued to raise irrelevant or baseless questions about the result.
"They're trying to walk a line and come up with some kind of intellectually respectable version of The Big Lie," Chafkin said, adding that the Thiel-backed candidates have tried to "cozy up" to hardcore Trump backers and "be perceived as friendly to them."
Thiel himself has also cultivated relationships in TrumpWorld. He developed close ties to former Trump campaign chief and White House strategist Steve Bannon, whom Chafkin described as Thiel's "ideological" ally who shares his views on the "deep state." Thiel routed his big 2016 donation to back Trump through the super PAC controlled by Rebekah Mercer, also a major donor to far-right Republicans. Mercer was a longtime patron of Bannon and his projects and has joined Thiel in funding Vance's Ohio campaign. Mercer has spent **millionsto support some of the leading proponents of Trump's election lies, as well as election objectors who fueled the Capitol riot.
More recently, Thiel met with Trump at the ex-president's Bedminster, New Jersey, resort and began funding candidates in support of the former president's revenge tour against pro-impeachment Republicans, according to Politico.
Thiel donated the maximum $5,800 to Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed primary challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Hageman has continued to claim that there are "legitimate questions about what happened during the 2020 election" and supported the Arizona "audit."
Thiel has also donated to Joe Kent, the Trump-backed primary challenger to Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., who also voted to impeach Trump after the riot. Kent spoke at the recent "Justice for J6" rally in Washington in support of the Capitol rioters charged in the attack. He vowed to lead a "full congressional inquiry" into the 2020 election if elected. Kent was among a group of Trump supporters who filed lawsuits last month in Washington state accusing multiple counties of "flipping votes" and calling for a "full forensic audit" of the election.
Thiel's funding for candidates pushing election lies is "totally consistent" with his embrace of Trumpism, Chafkin said. Though Thiel ultimately decided not to donate to Trump in 2020 out of frustration about the former president's "perceived competence," the billionaire has sought candidates who will pursue Trump's hardline policies on immigration, relations with China, regulation of tech companies, "political correctness" and globalization.
On all those issues, Thiel "basically agrees" with Trump, Chafkin said. "He wants to be involved in this movement and what you're seeing now is he's making that play. He's trying to be the main patron to his part of the Republican Party."
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