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Finally, Lance Wallnau is rushing off to South Korea to help Christians fight the "coup" against President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was recently impeached for attempting to impose martial law on the nation.
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tori Branum, who is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump running for Congress in Georgia, is attracting a significant amount of hate from Trump supporters over a recent controversial move.
The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Branum took responsibility for telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about a Hyundai battery plant under construction in the Savannah area employing undocumented immigrants. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it conducted a massive raid on the facility, arresting 450 people (Korean media reported that more than 500 people were detained, including 300 Korean nationals).
Branum admitted on social media that her decision to tip off the Trump administration about the hundreds of undocumented workers at the Bryan County, Georgia Hyundai plant made per an unpopular figure among the president's supporters.
READ MORE:'One of the loudest voices on the right' hammers Trump — and WH stays quiet 'out of fear'
“I have gotten hate mail from all over the country with people telling me to die or that I should be in fear,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “I served this country and I’ll go down with the ship before someone silences me.”
The Beast reported that many of the comments on Branum's post were less than complimentary, with many pointing out that her action stifled the manufacturing economy at a time when Trump is hoping to incentivize growth in the manufacturing sector by imposing steep tariffs on imported goods (Trump promised to lower tariffs on South Korea in exchange for South Korea investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States). One user said Branum "caused a serious geopolitical problem between us and S. Korea with your massively ignorant actions."
"Imagine backing Trump’s ‘bring jobs back’ tariffs then cheering the ICE raid that nuked Georgia’s $4.3B Hyundai plant—475 workers arrested, 40k jobs gone," another user wrote. "That’s not America First, that’s economic suicide. You’re a walking contradiction and a clown."
The Hyundai raid marked one of the largest immigration-related worksite raids of Trump's second term to date. News of the raid apparently angered South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, whose administration stated: "The economic activities of our companies investing in the United States and the interests of our citizens must not be unduly violated during the course of US law enforcement."
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On far-right US podcasts, South Koreans push baseless claims of election fraud
Claims of election fraud were a key reason for South Korea’s then-president to declare martial law in December
Written by Alex Kaplan
Published 06/02/25
Far-right podcasters and streamers in the United States have hosted right-wing South Korean figures to share baseless claims that the country’s recent elections were overwhelmed by fraud.
The appearances have come since South Korea’s then-president briefly declared martial law in December, citing supposed election fraud as one of the justifications for the move.
- On December 3, 2024, then-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced that he was imposing martial law, deploying troops to the country’s election commission and accusing his opposition of “trying to overthrow the free democracy.” South Korean officials have since rebutted claims of election fraud, and Yoon has been impeached and removed from office, but South Korean right-wing YouTubers are reportedly helping fuel the claims. Some South Korean supporters of Yoon have invoked phrases used in the United States in support of President Donald Trump, including “Stop the Steal,” the slogan used to push false claims of election fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Media Matters has found that far-right media figures in the United States, including some who pushed U.S. election misinformation, have hosted right-wing South Korean personalities to push false claims about the country’s elections and justifications for Yoon’s use of martial law.
- ## Catherine Engelbrecht and South Korean graduate student falsely claimed the US and South Korea elections were stolen
- On December 9, 2024, days after the martial law declaration, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the right-wing organization True the Vote — known for pushing election denial — hosted a South Korean graduate student named Yechan Bae on her podcast.
During the appearance, Engelbrecht said Yechan had seen “many similarities in what was happening in South Korea and in the United States relative to the elections,” adding that “their elections run on the same cycle.”
Before introducing Yechan, Engelbrecht called South Korea’s elections “chapter and verse of what happened here in 2020,” and said that “people didn’t appreciate … that martial law was declared to sequester the corrupt congress and to seize property at their election commission.”
Yechan claimed that the “same enemy rigged our — stole our elections in South Korea and the United States too.”
He also said he thinks Yoon declared martial law because “the whole legal system in this country is totally corrupted” and it “denied the election was fraud,” adding, “He didn’t try to get rid of democracy in this country.”
In response, Engelbrecht suggested that Yoon’s declaration of martial law was part of his “efforts to establish the election integrity necessary” and “the goal was to try and see for themselves what had really transpired in previous elections.”
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From the December 9, 2024, edition of True the Vote's Onward, streamed on Locals
- ## On Headmaster’s Homeroom, South Korean Alfred Kim said his “election integrity” group is “similar to” the Proud Boys
- In May, after Yoon was removed from office, Kim Jeong-hyun (who goes by Alfred Kim in his American appearances) appeared on the right-wing Rumble podcast Headmaster’s Homeroom. On-screen text identified him as the “founder of White Skull Squad,” which Agence France-Presse has described as a “far-right youth group” whose name is a reference to “a unit that cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in the 1980s and 1990s.”
During the appearance, Kim said his organization is “similar to” the violent American far-right extremist group the Proud Boys and “stood up for election integrity.”
“There has to be some case, right, that authorities … make it clear that there was a fraud election, right?” he said. “But that never happened in South Korea. So my question is, so what … do we do? Like, what do we do when the higher hierarchy, like, high-rank authority, becomes corrupted?”
He also compared the situation in South Korea to “the January 6 when, you know, the fraud election cartel still, you know, stole the election, and Trump just has to, you know, step down” because “RINOs … turned out to be a betrayer.”
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From the May 17, 2025, edition of Headmaster's Homeroom, streamed on Rumble
- The host, who goes by “Lady Hamilton,” said Kim’s story of election fraud and “hacking” “sounds familiar” and that it’s “not the first time we've heard stories about election fraud and trying to be able to choose our president.”
“That just alarms me,” she said. “I mean, how did the people react? I mean, I guess you don’t have a choice, but that’s going to awaken a lot of people when you put down something like martial law.”
- ## On a Proud Boys-affiliated podcast, Kim urged Trump to investigate Korea’s election commission
- Days later, Kim went on a Proud Boys-affiliated podcast and pushed the same claims. He told host Barry Ramey and network co-founder Enrique Tarrio, the group's former chairman, that “we have to forbid this election machine, electronic machine, worldwide. We have to stop it, and I believe Donald J. Trump can do it, right away,” urging the Trump administration to investigate Korea’s election commission.
He added that it “is so crucial that, you know, President Trump and MAGA patriots are on our side.” He also said that he is planning to “establish White Skull Squad in the states.”
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From the May 21, 2025, edition of The American Rising, streamed on Rumble
- Ramey and Tarrio appeared to express sympathy for Kim. Ramey told him that he was “extremely brave and courageous” and noted that he “tried to spearhead the people understanding that there was some fraud in the election” in South Korea, and Tarrio said that “it is pretty insightful here talking to you that, you know, this … is a global problem.”
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In late May — four months into Donald Trump's second presidency — The Guardian reported that record numbers of Americans are applying for residency or citizenship in the U.K. Plenty of Americans are looking at countries in Continental Europe as well, and liberal American actress Rosie O'Donnell — a major critic of Trump — is now living in the Republic of Ireland and has no plans to return to the United States anytime soon.
But many observers of international politics are warning Americans who have hopes of becoming expatriates that Europe has its far-right populists as well, from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in France to Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
In an article published on June 1, Axios' Tal Axelrod examines the alliances between far-right MAGA Republicans in the U.S. and far-right movements in Europe.
READ MORE: How Trump is 'undercutting' America’s 'status' with 'all kinds of nuttery'
"MAGA media heavyweights are intervening in elections around the world, increasingly obsessed with exporting President Trump's brand of right-wing populism beyond America's borders," Axelrod reports. "Why it matters: What began as a nationalist reaction to America's perceived decline has evolved into a global ideological crusade. Now at the apex of its domestic power, MAGA is rallying behind candidates who share its views on immigration, globalism and the fight for 'western civilization.'"
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has held events in Hungary and Poland, and Axelrod cites examples of Trump allies promoting far-right movements in Romania and Germany.
"MAGA leaders — including Vice President Vance — excoriated Romanian authorities for annulling the results of December's election and banning the leading far-right candidate over allegations of Russian interference," Axelrod reports. "In last week's rerun, MAGA podcasters like Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon rallied behind pro-Trump candidate George Simion, who even described himself as running 'on the MAGA ticket. Simion ultimately fell short to centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, a result that MAGA blamed on globalist meddling…. Vance, Elon Musk and scores of pro-Trump influencers have championed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which had its best-ever showing in elections earlier this year."
Axelrod adds, "Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned German intelligence's since-retracted decision to classify AfD as a right-wing extremist organization, calling it 'tyranny in disguise.'"
READ MORE:Social Security payments could shrink for some recipients in June — here's why
Axelrod points out, however, that "MAGA's influence abroad has yielded mixed results."
According to the Axios reporter, "The AfD has been shut out of government in Germany, Simion lost in Romania, the liberal candidate is favored to win in South Korea.… A win in Poland would be a major symbolic victory — and a sign MAGA's global playbook might finally be working."
READ MORE:Another 'narcissist': MSNBC panel slams Trump ally's 'tremendous conflicts of interest'
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- During a prayer event organized by the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins in response to the terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared that "fear is not supposed to exist in America" because this nation is protected by God.
- Nick Fuentes announced that he is migrating back to Telegram because of Elon Musk's censorship campaign against far-right voices: "The events of the past three weeks have demonstrated that Elon Musk is not absolutely reliable or as committed to free speech as we thought."
- "Prophet" Charlie Shamp issued a remarkably vague prophecy about "an unusual unity" that will appear in the Senate at some point in the future. The prophecy was so laughably nebulous that just about anything that happens will "confirm" it.
- Stew Peters declares that "if Trump doesn’t issue a blanket pardon for EVERY J6 political prisoner, he’s a complete piece of shit."
Finally, Lance Wallnau is rushing off to South Korea to help Christians fight the "coup" against President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was recently impeached for attempting to impose martial law on the nation.
On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march.The sheer turnout of people from all walks of life and the participation by a wide range of advocacy groups were a testament to the impact of climate change on every aspect of life: human rights, women’s rights, religion, food insecurity, and labor rights. For many of these advocacy movements in Seoul, recent crises like COVID-19 have brought home the urgent need to address the climate crisis.
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
Opening with a rally in Namdaemun Plaza at 3 p.m., the two-hour march occupied four out of six lanes of Seoul’s main Sejong-daero Boulevard. Standing on moving flatbed trucks, people spoke about the intersectionality of the climate crisis and other issues, including labor insecurity, housing instability, and social discrimination.
Ten megaphone-mounted flatbed trucks placed at regular intervals logistically ushered large crowds of protesters—brightly clad youth in headdresses in sunflower or coral reef shapes, families wrapped in “Carbon Neutral” cloak-like banners, Buddhist monks with globe-painted temple lanterns, Catholic nuns wearing “Save the Earth” tunics and holding “Anti-nuclear NOW” placards, regional community groups demanding a stop to coal plants and new airports, and countless union members in matching vests, flying union banners.
The groups of protesters regularly chanted in unison: “lives over profit” and “we can’t live like this anymore!” Drumming, music, and dance filled the streets. During a five-minute “die-in,” protesters fell to the ground, front to rear, like cascading dominoes.
The march was the result of three months of planning, promotion, and fundraising by Action for Climate Justice, a coalition of more than 400 civic, regional/community, and trade union movements united under the guiding concept of climate justice.
Like previous marches, environmental NGOs played leading roles in the organizing, such as Green Korea United and the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM), alongside youth movements. But 2022 also saw a large influx of long-established and new movement groups not exclusive to environmental activism but for whom the climate crisis has become central to their agenda—human rights groups, women’s groups, social movements, political parties, religious networks, food cooperatives, irregular contract workers, and trade union movements.
From the Human Rights Movement Sarangbang, combating the violence of political and economic discrimination and exploitation since 1993, to the recent Human Rights Movement Network Baram working to secure the rights and dignity of discriminated groups, such as women, the disabled, LGBTQ communities, immigrants, and irregular contract workers—the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the climate crisis to the fore of their activities.
Climate policy has likewise become a pressing issue for the Anti-Poverty Alliance, which emerged during mass layoffs and bankruptcies following the 1997 financial crisis and neoliberalization of the Korean economy. This “IMF era” alliance has grown to include 49 member organizations engaged in various struggles for livelihood, from the fight for a universal basic income to alternatives to substandard housing (including polytunnel villages where people live in greenhouse-like shelters made out of vinyl) and housing instability in the face of Korea’s speculative housing markets and climate change.
Religious orders are also a sizable part of the movement now. Building on their legacy of sheltering democracy movement activists in the 1970s and 1980s, Korea’s faith-based groups have been organizing a climate movement that is cross-denominational and transnational such as the pan-Asian Inter-Religious Climate and Ecology Network.
The large outpouring of protesters in September 2022 even surpassed organizers’ expectations. Over the past two years, pandemic restrictions on gatherings and suspension of protest permits in South Korea have brought activism online and into classrooms and have included the unconventional occupation of public spaces. Some of the most visible climate actions in Seoul in 2021 appeared not on the city streets but rather above and underneath them, on large billboards mounted on skyscrapers and LCD screens installed inside subway lines. The yearlong campaign from 2020 to 2021, Climate Citizens 3.5, which was jointly conducted with artists, environmental groups, and researchers, used a chunk of its total budget, the largest allotted by Arts Council Korea, to rent 30 large-scale outdoor electronic billboards, 219 digital screens inside 21 subway stations, and all of the advertising space in 48 subway cars. Spread across the city, the billboards and displays were tailored to convey climate change-focused messages targeted to each location—climate policy changes for the traffic-heavy city center at Gwanghwamun and consumption-related taglines for shopping districts in Myeongdong and Gangnam: “Spend Less, Live More!”
Such overlapping and expanding networks in the climate justice coalition attest to the burgeoning consciousness of the climate crisis for a population whose Cold War-divided peninsula placed North Korea and South Korea in the shadow of a nuclear winter long before the threat of exterminism via global warming became an issue. As policy researcher and activist of the Climate Justice Alliance Han Jegak states, “while climate change denial is not a widespread problem in South Korea as it is in other countries, there is still a generalized denial about the urgency to act, the attitude is that we can follow what other countries are doing.” He adds, “people express fear and depression over climate change, but such feelings do not lead to proactive actions. We need to forge alternatives collectively in place of mostly individualized actions like hyper-recycling. The movement needs to harness the anger related to the climate crisis and mobilize that.” One such concrete outcome from the march was the exponential rise in signatories successfully introducing a civil memorandum to stop the opening of new coal plants to the National Assembly floor.
For many in the movement, the unprecedented rainstorms and flooding that took the lives of several people including a family in a semi-basement flat in Seoul in August 2022 has inflamed the call to action. For the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), this incident came as a personal loss, as one of the deceased was a union activist. The largest independent democratic trade union association in Korea with 1.1 million members, KCTU formalized its participation in climate action networks when it voted in a special committee on climate justice within its organization in February 2021. Environmental groups have long reached out to KCTU for more active participation in the movement as “public and energy sector unions and irregular contract workers are situated at the forefront of struggles over policy changes as well as facing the brunt of its effects,” as emphasized by KFEM activist and member of the climate coalition Kwon Woohyun. In many ways, the union’s participation in the climate movement was a significant development, explains Kim Seok, KCTU policy director, because “it was a decision to make the climate issue a key component of KCTU policies, including the collective bargaining agreement process, which is the most fundamental activity for unions.” In 2022, KCTU members circulated the most posters and mobilized 5,000 union activists to join the climate march.
For a country whose export economy is centered on energy-intensive industries, environmental activism by labor unions faces complicated challenges. KCTU must contend with internal pressure from rank-and-file workers seeking compensation for job losses from the transition to clean energy as well as the broader national context in which the state has relinquished the development of clean energy industries to profit-seeking private sector companies.
In the face of these challenges, KCTU’s proactive participation in the Action for Climate Justice coalition and its actions to work jointly with wide-ranging environmental and social movements hold the promise of broadening and solidifying the foundations of the climate movement going forward, while signaling the beginning of a potentially powerful new form of climate activism taking shape in South Korea.
Author Bio: Alice S. Kim received her PhD from theRhetoricDepartment at UC Berkeley and is a writer, researcher, and translator living in Seoul. Her publications include “The ‘Vietnamese’ Skirt and Other Wartime Myths” in The Vietnam War in the Pacific World (UNC Press, 2022) and “Left Out: People’s Solidarity for Social Progress and the Evolution of Minjung After Authoritarianism,” in South Korean Social Movements (Routledge, 2011).