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=pension?ginni ltr hold off or leader vote w stockman<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-scrapes-bottom-barrel-friendly-interview-steve-king-one-most-racist">https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-scrapes-bottom-barrel-friendly-interview-steve-king-one-most-racist</a><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox News’ top star Tucker Carlson recently interviewed former U.S. Rep. Steve King on his subscription-only show, offering the disgraced politician an opportunity to defend himself after racist remarks he made to The New York Times in 2019 torpedoed his political career.The almost-hour-long conversation aired on Tucker Carlson Today on Fox Nation, the network’s streaming platform that has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-more-extreme-ever-year-after-his-expanded-role-fox-nation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">invested heavily</a> in Carlson-branded content. Carlson also hosts a documentary-style <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/coup-shaped-hole-tucker-carlsons-new-film-about-brazil" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">series</a> available on Fox Nation, in addition to his regular cable show hosting duties. King appeared on the long-form, conversational show to plug a book he published earlier this year detailing his downfall and exile from the Republican Party after losing his <a href="https://www.axios.com/2020/06/03/steve-king-iowa-primary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">primary</a> in 2020. King spent the entire time either denying, downplaying, or justifying his various bigoted remarks over the years, as Carlson nodded along and interjected to praise the former congressman.King had previously appeared on Fox News 14 times since 2017, including 6 appearances on Tucker Carlson Tonight, sometimes <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/list-tucker-carlson-guests-who-have-links-white-nationalism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">for clean-up interviews</a> after pushing white nationalist talking points. King hasn't been on the show in years, but Carlson defended him throughout his various scandals. After the then-congressman tweeted that Americans “can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” (and then later <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/steve-king-babies-tweet-cnntv" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">doubled down</a> on the statement), Carlson hosted him on Fox News, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-defends-rep-steve-kings-racist-tweet-everything-you-said-i-think" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">saying</a>, “Everything you said I think is defensible and probably right.”King has a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-offensive-quotes.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">long history</a> of making racist remarks, dating back to at least 2002. “They just want to have this equivalency of multicultural and they say every culture is equal,” he told local news outlet <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2016/07/steve_king_defends_comments_qu.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Cleveland.com</a> during the Republican National Convention in 2016, referring to his critics. “Well, every culture has not equally contributed to the civilization we have today."Then, in 2019, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/steve-king-trump-immigration-wall.html?module=inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interviewed</a> King for a piece that framed him as a precursor to Donald Trump. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said in the interview, as reported by Gabriel. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"King disputed the quote, saying he had been referring to “western civilization” when he posed the question about offensive language, rather than “white nationalist” or “white supremacist,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">according</a> to follow-up reporting in the Times.Before Carlson even laid out that context for his audience, he began the interview by praising King effusively, after calling most politicians “sick” and “screwed up people.11/10 [vid]"So if you come across someone who's actually a good person, like a decent person who cares about other people, who loves other people on a basic level, you remember,” Carlson gushed. “And Steve King of Iowa was always that guy."</div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Carlson then made an allusion to the racist great replacement theory, which both <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-gives-full-endorsement-white-supremacist-great-replacement-conspiracy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">he</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-offensive-quotes.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">King</a> have repeatedly espoused. “You were always a, not a crazy, but like an immigration restrictionist,” Carlson said. “Like, we should take care of the people who already live here before we, like, just replace them with new people, because that’s our duty as a government."Carlson then defended the comments King made to Cleveland.com and CNN, beginning by playing tape of both. [vid]"I’m just going to start with that intro comment and then let you tell the story,” Carlson said. “Maybe times have changed a lot, but those seem like — that’s not hate, those are obvious observations.”</div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“A healthy civilization has kids, and a healthy civilization is proud of itself, and every civilization is the product of certain cultures,” he continued. “Those are not white supremacist positions, those are like obvious positions.”King explained himself by describing the political context at the time, summarizing the widespread, xenophobic fear of Muslims and other people from the Middle East migrating to European countries.“The ‘somebody else’s babies’ were the young men – 80% of them that were pouring into Europe at the time, horizon to horizon and shoulder to shoulder on gravel roads, pouring into Europe by the thousands daily — I went and walked with them,” King said.“They were somebody else’s babies 18 and 20 years ago,” he continued. “And so it’s too late for them, they’ve already bring their culture with them.”Later in the conversation, Carlson gave King an opportunity to challenge the Times’ reporting that led to party leadership stripping him of his committees and his eventual loss to a primary challenger. King described talking with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), arguing his remarks had been misconstrued and that he had simply been defending “Western civilization.”“I brought with me a sheet of paper on what I believed was said in that interview — there’s no tape and there’s no notes,” King <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3996808" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>. “I said, ‘There’s a separation between these two odious ideologies, a pause and separation between white nationalism and white supremacy – I’m defending Western civilization.’”The Times stood by its reporting, and even on King’s own terms, the phrase “Western civilization” is frequently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/11/nato-ukraine-refugees-whiteness/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">used</a> as a dog whistle to signal racist beliefs that at the very least heavily imply an adherence to white supremacy.King’s loss in 2020 relegated him to the dustbin of U.S. politics, at least for now. Even before his defeat, his open racism was something of an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-iowa-ap-top-news-steve-king-ia-state-wire-4ec76be4ad384eca6f9708fd26319988" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">embarrassment</a> to Republicans, because of not what he said but how he said it. To Carlson, however, King is the victim. Toward the end of the interview, King claimed that the few members of the Republican Party who had stood by him were scorned and punished for it.“It almost feels hopeless,” Carlson <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3996811" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>, shaking his head sadly. “Because that kind of cowardice just abets evil. 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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 11 22 badash</div><div align="left" style="">Political experts are warning about a group of nearly 60 far-right wing politicos including <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ginni+Thomas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas</a>, <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Matt+Schlapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Matt Schlapp</a>, and <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cleta+Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Cleta Mitchell</a> who reportedly will issue a letter calling for the House and Senate to delay votes on leadership positions including Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader.Axios’ Jonathan first reported the news, posting at least part of the letter and the <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1592132077184782337" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">list of signatories</a> (below).Some of the other more recognizable names on the letter include <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Mark+Meadows" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Mark Meadows</a>, the former Trump White House chief of staff; <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cleta+Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Cleta Mitchell</a>, the attorney who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/politics/republican-poll-monitors-election-activists.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The New York Times</a> calls the “architect of Donald J. Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election”; former Trump attorney <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Jenna+Ellis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jenna Ellis</a>; former U.S. Senator and former Heritage Foundation president <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Jim+DeMint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jim DeMint</a> (R-SC); former Trump deputy campaign manager <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22David+Bossie%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">David Bossie</a>, the right wing activist and head of the organization responsible for the <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Citizens+United%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Citizens United</a> Supreme Court lawsuit that made countless billions of dark money in political elections legal.READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/heist-ginni-thomas-tells-j6-committee-election-was-stolen-says-she-never-discussed-efforts-to-overturn-with-spouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘Heist’: Ginni Thomas Tells J6 Committee Election Was Stolen, Says She Never Discussed Efforts to Overturn With Spouse</a>Also, white supremacist and disgraced former U.S. Congressman <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Steve+King" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Steve King</a> (R-IA); convicted felon and disgraced former U.S. Congressman <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Steve+Stockman%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Steve Stockman</a> (R-TX), right-wing religious extremist <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kenneth+Blackwell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Kenneth Blackwell</a> of the <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Family+Research+Council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Family Research Council</a>, which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups, and others....</div>=<div>=</div><div>alt rt has afpac w/ gosar and steve king</div><div>
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</div><div><div>no lnx</div><div>Republicans' fascism two-step was on display at CPAC 2021</div><div>
</div><div> Amanda Marcotte March 01, 2021</div><div>   </div><div>
</div><div>If you want a perfect emblem of the current state of Republican politics, look to the story of how Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., spent this past weekend.</div><div>
</div><div>On Friday night, Gosar attended a conference for unvarnished fascists, where the main organizer gave a speech calling for America to be white nationalist country and openly celebrated the insurrection spearheaded by Donald Trump on Jan. 6. On Saturday, while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Gosar lamely claimed to denounce "white racism," clearly feeling that those magic words erased his participation in and support for those who are organizing white racists to take over the country through force.</div><div>
</div><div>It should be silly that Gosar believes that simply declaring "I denounce" is enough to negate all his concrete actions in favor of white nationalism, but the sad fact is that he has good reason to think it will work. After all, that's how things have been working for years in this country. Call it the fascism two-step: First, Republicans do something overtly fascist. Then they wave off concerns about their fascism by faking umbrage and relying on the widespread belief that "it can never happen here" to paint their critics as hysterical. Gosar was just a particularly blunt and obvious example, but it's the strategy that's been used throughout Trump's presidency and now is being heavily employed to minimize the attempted insurrection.</div><div>
</div><div>Much was written, both on social and plain old regular media, about how CPAC this year was cementing Trump's power over the GOP and turning the party into a cult of personality for their orange-hued buffoon of a leader. Indeed, it's both alarming and darkly funny, from the rapturous reception of his predictably whiny stemwinder to the ridiculous gold statue of Trump that was on display, which drew thousands of jokes about golden calves. But really, the Trump worship is only part of what is the bigger and much scarier story of CPAC.</div><div>
</div><div>The conference was geared around the task of completing the transformation of the Republican party into an overtly authoritarian — even fascist — party that is focused on seizing and holding power against the will of the American people. The Trump idolatry is part of that — what's a fascist party without a cult around a narcissistic leader? — but ultimately, Trump still functions as he always has, which is as a tool for his followers to get what they want, and not an ends in himself. And what they want, as CPAC made quite clear, is to make the U.S. a white nationalist country, which is always what the "MAGA" slogan stood for.</div><div>
</div><div>The CPAC straw poll showed only 55% of attendees endorsed Trump as their favorite for the Republican presidential nominee. However, a full 97% approved of Trump's performance in office, despite him ending his presidency by launching a coup that ended in a bloody attack on the Capitol. Trump himself they can leave or take. But the insurrection and the violent assault on American democracy? That is what the CPAC crowd is all about.</div><div>
</div><div>As Heather "Digby" Parton noted at Salon Monday morning, "Trump went out of his way to cancel a whole lot of Republicans he considers disloyal, promising to do everything in his power to 'get rid of 'em all,'" and then proceeded to name "every single GOP politician who voted for impeachment individually, his voice dripping with venom."</div><div>
</div><div>This is a result, of course, of Trump's famous narcissism and his obsessive cataloging of his enemies. But it is also, and more importantly, about something else: Purging the party of anyone who isn't on board with a fascist agenda. The targets of Trump's wrath are the only Republicans who drew the line at a violent attempt to overthrow the government. This isn't about just remaking the party in his own image, but remaking they party as one explicitly supportive of violent insurrections. Frankly, it won't be a hard task, since, as his pathetically short list showed, few Republicans were even interested in opposing his coup in the first place....</div></div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>habermn bk rev</div><div>...But having been present for the White House years, she also shows how poorly the same life history had prepared him for the office itself. He came to office still looking to his various gurus from Gotham, mayors like Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani and bigtime sports figures such as George Steinbrenner. And always, as other Trump biographers have recounted, relying on the teachings of Roy Cohn, the legendary lawyer for senators and mobsters who shaped Trump's worldview.</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Haberman begins her download with a succinct prologue that outlines much of what she wants us to know. Five hundred pages later, in her Epilogue, she writes "Trump had proven that the majority of Washington Republicans who had initially opposed him were exactly as craven as he had said they were, as he bent them to his will because they saw personally opportunity or necessity for survival, even after the Capitol riot."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That is the link from the Trump-centric era described in Confidence Man to the even more foreboding outlook in Draper's Weapons of Mass Delusion. Draper locates Trump in the worst traditions of his party – or of any political party anywhere. These include both the cynical politics of Machiavellian self-interest and the perpetuation of division within the body politic in service of that self-interest.<h3 class="edTag" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 35px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; max-width: 680px; position: relative; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Draper's difference</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Draper's access is also the key to his reporting, but it is won one interview at a time with persistence and old-school shoe leather. Draper, who writes for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, is well-known for getting out of Washington and working the hustings. He goes to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's home district in Bakersfield, Calif., to interview people McCarthy knew in high school contacts. McCarthy figures prominently in Weapons, not only because he could potentially become Speaker of the House (assuming a Republican majority beginning in January) but because he personifies the Trump transformation of the GOP.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We learn that McCarthy was a teenager when he was first attracted to that era's version of Trump as skyscraper builder and golden-touch businessman. Now known for Trump's nickname for him ("My Kevin"), McCarthy had a moment of rebellion on the night of January 6, but Draper reveals him repenting that moment step by step until he was back on the Trump track.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For contrast, Draper gives us generous helpings of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Republicans on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. But these are mournful, head-wagging sessions that underscore the interviewees' despair.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But while touching on the big names as he must, Draper returns to the grit of the political trenches. His fascination is with the GOP's fringe and its dramatic departures from mainstream politics. His passion is for fact-checking the fantasy that feeds those departures.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Draper saw a campaign ad referring to illegal immigrants leaving "a thousand pounds of rubbish" on the streets of San Luis, Arizona, he went to the little border town himself and interviewed many of the officials there to fact-check the ad (which turned out to be wildly misleading).<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The politician behind that ad was Paul Gosar, a dentist and junior member of Congress from northern Arizona, well-removed from the border but obsessed with it all the same. Gosar appears as the target of Draper's first chapter and again and often at length in Weapons. Also recurrent is Gosar's chief of staff Tom Van Flein, who previously had worked for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Gosar and Van Flein have shared much of their time and worldview with Draper, opening deep recesses of the current conservative movement to him.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Gosar also provides a narrative connection back to former congressman Steve King of Iowa, who was condemned by House Republicans for his comments on white supremacy and another connection to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman described as Gosar's "mentee" in chapters with titles such as "Arc of the Crazy."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greene's unswerving devotion to Trump and tireless pursuit of social media fame have propelled her to a prominence rarely granted to first-termers. To give her, or Gosar, so much space will prompt disbelief.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Are these outliers really the forerunners of Republicans in the future? Draper is clearly arguing that they are.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A film director begins a shot focused on the face of a single figure, then "pulls focus" back to reveal a wider cast of characters and the set that surrounds them all. So Haberman has given us a long and thorough exposure of Trump as the protagonist in our present politics, and Draper has pulled focus to the crowd of lesser pretenders in his wake – and the elements of the nation that have embraced them all...<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/house-adopts-resolution-calling-for-a-peaceful-transfer-of-presidential-power-except-for-5-republicans" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/house-adopts-resolution-calling-for-a-peaceful-transfer-of-presidential-power-except-for-5-republicans</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">claiming that Democrats are trying to use mail-in voting to promote voter fraud, President Donald Trump has refused to say that he will accept the election results if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in November. The U.S. House of Representatives, in response, <a href="https://www.axios.com/house-peaceful-power-election-vote-mark-gaetz-f530d801-f8cb-4a94-8d4e-49ab2b791848.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">adopted a resolution</a> on Tuesday calling for a peaceful transfer of power in the presidential election — and it <a href="https://gov.mtopgroup.com/art1/live/house" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">passed 379-5</a>. Most House Republicans voted in favor of the resolution, but five didn't: Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana.</div>Gaetz, according to Axios reporter Rebecca Falconer, views the resolution as a Democratic attack on Trump even though many Republicans voted for it. Falconer quotes the Florida congressman as saying: "This resolution is a way for Democrats to attack the president and disguise the fact that they will refuse to accept the election results unless they win. Professional loser Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden that he should not concede — and I'm quoting — 'under any circumstances.'"Gaetz is taking Clinton's words out of context. During an <a href="https://www.axios.com/election-concede-hillary-clinton-rnc-chairwoman-7db08812-a1e6-4749-8c99-3248f618e015.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">August interview</a> with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/hillary-clinton-says-biden-should-not-concede-2020-election-under-n1238156" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jennifer Palmieri</a> for Showtime, Clinton stressed that under no circumstances should Biden, in a close election, concede until he is certain that all of the votes have been counted. Clinton fears that Trump will prematurely claim victory on Election Night before all of the votes have been counted in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona.Clinton, during that interview, said, "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances, because I think this is going to drag out, and eventually, I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch — and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is." But Clinton wasn't saying that Biden should never concede under any circumstances, only that under no circumstances should he concede until there has been a thorough vote count. And Clinton is confident that a thorough vote count will eventually favor Biden, who unlike Trump, has said that he would concede if a final vote count showed a Trump victory.During that interview, Clinton also said, "We've got to have a massive legal operation; I know the Biden campaign is working on that. We have to have poll workers, and I urge people who are able to be a poll worker. We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places. This is a big organizational challenge, but at least we know more about what they're going to do."<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>
<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/first-sessions-now-kobach-america-first-candidates-are-flopping-at-the-voting-booth/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/first-sessions-now-kobach-america-first-candidates-are-flopping-at-the-voting-booth/</a>Far-right anti-immigration hardliner <a title="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/" href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Kris Kobach</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/899128589/conservative-kris-kobach-projected-to-lose-kansas-gop-senate-primary" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">lost the Kansas Republican Senate primary</a> to Rep. Roger Marshall by more than 50,000 votes, marking the latest defeat for far-right “America First” candidates at the ballot box.<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In 2020, several high-profile Republican candidates championed by far-right and white nationalist political activists have been rejected by their constituencies. Right Wing Watch reported in January that <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/with-pompeo-out-of-the-running-white-nationalists-dream-of-a-kansas-senator-kris-kobach/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalists were excited</a> by the prospect of Kobach, the former secretary of state of Kansas, serving in the Senate. White nationalist podcaster James Allsup told listeners at the time that “having somebody like Kobach in the upper house, in a position of power, as an anti-immigration, as an immigration restrictionist leader, that would be immensely powerful going forward.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">On Tuesday night the race was called, and the far-right activists who had supported Kobach’s bid mourned his electoral loss online. Many “America First” white nationalist movement figures blamed the GOP for Kobach’s defeat.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Back to the hills. Of course, we’ve been there before,” Peter Brimelow, editor of the anti-immigrant, white nationalist publication VDARE, <a href="https://archive.is/YmOVG" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>. He added that it was “annoying” that far-right commentator Ann Coulter was right about President Donald Trump. Coulter, once an avid supporter of Trump, has <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/09/trump-ann-coulter-1214720" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">attacked</a> the president in recent years and called Trump the “<a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1264477349535416328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">most disloyal actual retard</a>” after he endorsed former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Republican primary opponent Tommy Tuberville in Alabama.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Fuck the weak Kansas Republicans who are looking at this primary as a ‘victory.’  No matter what you’re electing a member of the monoparty in November who hates you and will continue to sell you out to our globalist elites,” <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kansas-state-america-first-students-leader-condemned-for-racist-comments/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">far-right Kansas State student</a> Jaden McNeil <a href="https://archive.vn/rqRrt" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>. “Enjoy your state’s continued degradation.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Scott Greer, a former editor at The Daily Caller who was <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/a-daily-caller-editor-wrote-for-an-alt-right-website-using-a-pseudonym/569335/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">revealed</a> to be writing alt-right columns under a pseudonym, only offered <a href="https://archive.is/yQcQR" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">one comment</a> on Kobach’s loss: “Damn.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">White nationalist and alt-right poster boy <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/richard-bertrand-spencer-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Spencer</a> theorized that Kobach’s loss reflected the unpopularity of “conservative nationalism.” Spencer has been vocal in his disdain for the elements of the far-right that overtook him in popularity and the flaws he sees in those ranks.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Steve King . . . Jeff Sessions . . . Kris Kobach . . . then Donald Trump in November . . . The’America First’ conservatives and supposed ‘immigration hawks’ are falling like dominos,” Spencer <a href="https://archive.is/c8kl7" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a>. He later added, “You can blame Trump’s tactical failures—and there are many—you can blame Jared and Ivanka, etc. At some point you must conclude that conservative nationalism isn’t going anywhere, and it’s simply not very popular.” <p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Joshua Foxworth, a Republican “America First” candidate in Texas who was trumped by incumbent Rep. Randy Weber in  a blow-out loss in March, blamed Kobach’s loss on the media.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“The loss of Kobach in Kansas is upsetting but not surprising,” Foxworth <a href="https://archive.is/kUi3J" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>. “Almost no one can overcome a media that constantly promotes or opposes a candidate. Deplatforming of supporters doesn’t help. The GOP is in danger of becoming a party without core issues and without a base.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">But Kobach’s loss does not exist in a vacuum. Other far-right supported candidates, like Sessions, Iowa Rep. Steve King, and Arizona former sheriff Joe Arpaio have seen their hopes for high office dashed.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Sessions’ campaign attempted to earn the support of far-right and anti-immigration voters, going so far as to tap far-right columnist Michelle Malkin to <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jeff-sessions-taps-far-right-columnist-michelle-malkin-for-fundraising-email/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">author a fundraising letter</a> in May. Malkin made the play obvious, opening the letter by calling Sessions “an old friend of the America First movement.” But President Donald Trump, nursing a grudge against Sessions for recusing himself from the probe of Russian influence in the 2016 election, urged Republican voters to reject Sessions. Last month, Sessions <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/891290828/former-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-loses-alabama-runoff-election" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">lost Alabama’s Republican runoff election</a> to Tuberville by more than 100,000 votes.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">King, who has a sordid history of racist remarks during his nine terms serving in the U.S. House, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/steve-king-iowa-primary.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">lost the Iowa Republican primary</a> to Randy Feenstra by nearly 10 percentage points.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">And in Arizona, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a close contest against challenger Jerry Sheridan in a race to get his old job back after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/25/politics/sheriff-joe-arpaio-donald-trump-pardon/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">receiving a pardon from Trump</a> in 2017. (Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt in going after undocumented immigrants.) With 90 of 99 vote centers counted at the time of publication, Sheridan is shown <a href="https://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionresults/primary2020.aspx#tabs=0" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">slightly ahead</a>. Arpaio has not yet conceded the race.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">William Gheen, president of the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/americans-legal-immigration" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">anti-immigrant</a> Americans for Legal Immigration PAC mourned the loss of Sessions, Arpaio, Kobach, and King.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“All four of America’s top illegal immigration fighters have fallen.  Farewell Joe Arpaio, Kris Kobach, Jeff Sessions, and Rep. Steve King,” Gheen said. “ Who would have ever guessed after four years of Trump our top voices against illegal immigration would [be] gone.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“America First is inevitable,” white nationalist and anti-Semitic podcaster Nick Fuentes <a href="https://archive.is/n8hAO" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">declared</a> on July 7.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">It would seem that it’s actually anything but.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">However, these far-right losses at the ballot box are not indicators that extremism in the Republican Party is retreating, rather <a title="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/republican-extremists-advance-toward-congress-in-georgia.html" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/republican-extremists-advance-toward-congress-in-georgia.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the opposite appears to be true</a>. For certain far-right causes—like the “America First” movement—the defeats may prompt an exploration of options beyond electoral politics. And while extremists gaining legislative power can have disastrous consequences for a democracy, history has shown that extremists seeking solutions outside of the political system can also <a title="https://www.elpasotimes.com/in-depth/news/2020/07/30/el-paso-walmart-shooting-community-reflect-racist-motive-behind-attack/5450331002/" href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/in-depth/news/2020/07/30/el-paso-walmart-shooting-community-reflect-racist-motive-behind-attack/5450331002/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">prove to be dangerous</a>.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/first-sessions-now-kobach-america-first-candidates-are-flopping-at-the-voting-booth/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jeff-sessions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Sessions</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/joe-arpaio/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Arpaio</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kris-kobach/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Kris Kobach</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/nick-fuentes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Nick Fuentes</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/peter-brimelow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Brimelow</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/scott-greer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Greer</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-king/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve King</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/alt-right/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Alt-Right</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-immigrant/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">anti-immigrant</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/white-nationalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalism</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/vdare/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">VDARE</a></div></div><div>=</div></div></div></div>flanked?!  opponent did not crit rw nazi stuff but only loss of clout/pork?https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/good-riddance-to-very-bad-rubbish-here-are-5-of-the-ugliest-moments-in-the-steve-king-hall-of-shame/1119 about to label him crazy but then saw ingraham BS on soros not that much worse=primaried win flanked by wacko?! 6/20, is that good news?  did he loose juice pork when he lost committee seats?C<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/tjwjcdpspgwkwcrrkbhppkprrbkrsvmtjgpwhldhwlvb_cqhdtmqmftcjpmtjldc.html?a=&b=3015&c=21989&d=2" style="">ongressman Steve King wrongly outs George Soros’ son as Trump whistleblower</a>Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wrongly identified the whistleblower who triggered…<div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/how-total-fabrication-connecting-george-soros-son-whistleblower-went-underbelly-internet">https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/how-total-fabrication-connecting-george-soros-son-whistleblower-went-underbelly-internet</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How a total fabrication connecting George Soros' son to the whistleblower went from the underbelly of the internet to Rep. Steve King</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY ALEX KAPLAN</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>PUBLISHED 11/15/19 </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Rep. Steve King (R-IA) falsely suggested in a tweet that Alexander Soros, the son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, is the alleged whistleblower whose complaint sparked the current House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The tweet -- which was also shared by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) -- came after the falsity had spread on social media and on a prominent far-right message board.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>On November 14, King -- who has a history of embracing far-right and white nationalist figures and rhetoric -- tweeted a collage of four images of Alexander Soros with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), current Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), writing above the images, “Adam Schiff said, ‘I do not know the identity of the whistleblower.’ @RepAdamSchiff here are four strong clues.” (The collage had been previously used as part of the ongoing right-wing attacks on George Soros, who has been the target of anti-Semitic smears for years.) King has since deleted the tweet, and both George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and Alexander Soros criticized King for the false accusation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steve King falsity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gosar soon after shared King’s tweet, adding, “Is it the dude on the bottom left?”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Gosar falsity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before King sent the tweet, the same false claim with the same images had been circulating on Twitter -- particularly by those supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory -- as well as on Facebook and on 4chan.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How the lie spread</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Early on November 7, QAnon-supporting Twitter account Eyes on Q tweeted the images of Soros with Schumer, Pelosi, Clinton, and Warren, writing, “What's this all about then?” While the account did not claim that the person in the photos was the whistleblower, many users inferred that from the tweet (including a contributor for the conservative website The Houston Courant), and it received thousands of retweets. Hours later, the account noted it was Alexander Soros in the photos.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eyes On Q falsity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A little over an hour after Eyes on Q’s first tweet went out, the same images were shared in a pro-Trump Facebook group, with the poster writing, “Here is the identity of the whistleblower. He's a Deranged Trump-Hating DNC operative.” That afternoon, another Facebook page shared the false claim and images in a meme, getting more than a thousand shares.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Facebook post Soros1]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Around the same time, another QAnon-supporting Twitter account, @TrumpsWolfX, tweeted the images along with the photo of another person, a former Obama administration official who has received death threats after being falsely accused of being the whistleblower. The account wrote, “What is this guys name? ... Asking for a Nation.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@TrumpsWolfX falsity]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Later that afternoon, account @LJC36 tweeted some of the images she claimed showed the whistleblower, naming a different person than Soros, and sarcastically encouraged people to “please, PLEASE under no circumstances … retweet this picture.” (Media Matters has removed the alleged whistleblower’s name from the screenshots below.) The tweet received more than 5,000 retweets, including one from conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who, as Mother Jones noted, a few days later tweeted an article from an obscure right-wing site that had also pushed the photo collage and false whistleblower claim on November 8.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@LJC36 falsity]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shortly thereafter, another QAnon account posted the images, asking, “Are these pics of the #Whistleblower?” The account invoked the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all,” or “WWG1WGA.” It later acknowledged that the person was not the whistleblower.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Patriot Morehead falsity]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That evening, another right-wing Facebook page pointed to Soros as the whistleblower; that post currently has more than 7,000 shares.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Facebook post Soros3]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Over the next few days, the images and false claim continued to circulate around Twitter and Facebook (on both pages and groups with the latter). It also spread to 4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board known as “/pol/,” where users -- some citing the previous social media posts -- posted the images and continued asking if Soros was involved or accusing him of being the whistleblower.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4chan post Soros3]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>On November 10, The Buffalo Chronicle, a site that previously posted multiple articles and Facebook advertisements pushing viral disinformation about Canadian politics, posted the images and falsely wrote it showed the “CIA employee and Democratic Party political operative who filed a 'whistleblower' complaint.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buffalo Chronicle falsity]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A few days later, King and Gosar posted the images and the false claim from their own Twitter accounts, helping to further spread it on social media.</div></div></div><div></div><div>pizzagaetz:</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/meet-the-far-right-house-members-who-stormed-secure-hearing-room/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/meet-the-far-right-house-members-who-stormed-secure-hearing-room/</a></div><div>
</div><div>more  than two dozen Republican House members stormed a closed-door hearing with a top Pentagon official on Wednesday morning in protest of the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump.</div><section style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The storming stunt was staged a day after Trump had a White House meeting with members of the Freedom Caucus–who were among the Republicans storming the hearing–and has complained in recent days that Republicans have not been strong or vocal enough in their defense of him.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The House Republicans caused a five-hour delay, broke House rules, and compromised security by bringing cellphones and other electronic devices into the secure facility, where they are not allowed to protect sensitive information. One member, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, even tweeted from the secure hearing room, called the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF (pronounced “skiff”).<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">So who are these security-flouting congressmen and congresswomen? We rounded up a few that have graced our pages here at Right Wing Watch.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Matt Gaetz<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions,” Gaetz <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1187028992295161858" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said on Twitter</a> Wednesday morning. On Thursday, he <a href="https://www.towleroad.com/2019/10/matt-gaetz-300/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">compared himself to Spartans</a> in the Movie “300,” <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/23/congressman-matt-gaetz-storming-impeachment-hearings-300-trump-democracy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">telling TMZ</a>, “We were like the 300s, standing in the breach to try to stop the radical left from storming over our democracy.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Gaetz may now be best known for leading the stunt, but there’s plenty more to know about him. In 2018, he tried to <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-matt-gaetz-urges-gop-to-fight-vote-counting-in-the-era-of-donald-trump-we-can-go-farther/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">impede efforts to count all the ballots</a> in the tight Florida Senate race between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson. As Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt reported at the time:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Gaetz told listeners of “Breitbart News Daily” on SirusXM that Republicans should push back on the vote-counting efforts without fear of outraging voters.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“If the Democrats were in charge and this was happening in a Republican county, do you think that those supervisors of elections would still have jobs? I mean, they’d be gone. They’d be out on their rear ends,” Gaetz said.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">…<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">Gaetz said that Democrats will never “get better” and “treat us better,” so it’s important that Republicans “take the gloves off and fight like they do.”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Gaetz also pushed a conspiracy theory that the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee authored a secret memo that “proves that the Obama administration improperly sought to spy on Donald Trump and his presidential campaign,” Holt <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-matt-gaetz-goes-on-infowars-to-complain-about-being-called-a-conspiracy-theorist/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote in 2018</a>. Gaetz appeared on the conspiracy-theory outlet Infowars to complain about being labeled a conspiracy theorist. Gaetz also <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1052629557826736129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1052629557826736129&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Ffact-check%2Fsoros-caravan-refugees%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">pushed a conspiracy theory</a> that progressive billionaire donor George Soros organized and funded a ”caravan” of migrants.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">And in 2018, Gaetz <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/gaetz-florida-right-wing-troll-380577" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">brought</a> Chuck Johnson, a right-wing political operative who has posted Holocaust-denying statements online, to Trump’s State of the Union address.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Louie Gohmert<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">After storming the secure room, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/10/23/circus-texas-republicans-help-disrupt-closed-door-capitol-meeting-to-protest-impeachment-probe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly started</a> a shouting match with Democratic lawmakers.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Recently, Gohmert has claimed he knows the identity of the whistleblower who raised the red flag on Trump’s call to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the U.S. president asked Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Biden’s son, Hunter. Gohmert’s assertion is based on <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/huh-gop-rep-gohmert-introduces-new-conspiracy-into-congressional-record" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a conspiracy theory</a> involving the cybersecurity firm <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/26/how-far-right-conspiracy-theories-informed-trumps-ukraine-call/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">CrowdStrike</a>. But Gohmert is best known on our pages for homophobic remarks. In 2016, he said <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gohmert-homosexuality-flood/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">homosexuality was to blame for the flood described in the biblical story of Noah</a>. Right Wing Watch’s Brian Tashman reported on a <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/louie-gohmert-no-gay-space-colonies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">speech Gohmert gave</a> on the House floor in 2016:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">But due to the attacks on “natural order” and religious freedom, Gohmert said, “we don’t have much longer to go.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Gohmert also cited the work of Jonathan Cahn, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-blows-september-13-doomsday-prophecy-finds-convenient-explanation" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a far-right End Times preacher </a>who <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/end-times-preachers-chanukah-message-gay-rights-harry-potter-lead-fascism" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">believes</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cahn-gay-marriage-and-obama-s-re-election-are-signs-end-america" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">God </a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-god-will-judge-america-rainbow-lights-white-house-world-trade-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">is</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/capitol-prayer-service-god-will-punish-america-legalizing-gay-marriage" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">punishing</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/end-times-preacher-gay-marriage-victory-will-lead-gods-wrath" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">America</a> (<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-links-gay-marriage-paris-terrorist-attacks" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">and France</a>) <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cahn-america-should-prepare-gods-judgment-gay-marriage-september" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">due</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fitting-end-values-voter-summit-gods-judgment-coming-and-there-no-way-out" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">to</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-kim-davis-gay-rights-and-two-cows-prove-gods-wrath-imminent" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">gay</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-hurricane-joaquin-may-hit-dc-punishment-gay-marriage" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">marriage</a> with events such as the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/real-lesson-911-ban-same-sex-marriage" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">9/11 attacks</a>, to assert that the end is near.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">He also claimed that transgender people are disordered and “perverse” individuals who need help.</blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Gohmert also <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/louie-gohmert-child-abuse-universally-turns-boys-gay/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a> that sexual abuse turned boys gay, stating in 2016, “the boys just seemed like, universally, they ended up feeling that they were gay.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Debbie Lesko<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">A fervent supporter of Trump, Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko stormed the secure Capitol room and expressed <a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/10/23/arizonans-among-house-republicans-who-stormed-impeachment-hearing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">her outrage</a> about how the impeachment inquiry process was being handled.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Lesko has boosted the <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/are-house-gopers-going-all-in-on-crowdstrike-conspiracy-nonsense" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">CrowdStrike conspiracy theory</a> and supported anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. In June, Lesko attacked social media companies that had made it harder for users to find anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. As the Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-debbie-lesko-compares-facebook-and-google-downplaying-anti-vax-content-to-1984" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported </a>then:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">A Republican lawmaker slammed Facebook and Google on Wednesday for making it harder to find anti-vaccine content on their platforms, calling the companies’ efforts to stop the spread of the conspiracy theories “really scary stuff.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) attacked the platforms’ efforts at a House Homeland Security committee hearing on online terrorism and disinformation, where representatives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter faced their latest round of grilling from lawmakers.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">…<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Medical professionals and public officials have all warned that disinformation about vaccines (including a persistent and pernicious conspiracy that they can lead to autism) has fed public health epidemics. But Lesko suggested that anti-vaccine theories are just a difference of opinion.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">“What you deem as inaccurate, I do not deem as inaccurate, or other people may not deem,” she said.</blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Lesko is also an anti-abortion activist and believes “God has put me on a mission,” to be anti-choice, Lesko <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-debbie-lesko-says-god-has-put-her-on-anti-choice-mission/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said </a>at Family Research Council’s “Pro-Life Con” earlier this year.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Andy Biggs<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Andy Biggs, the former president of the Arizona Senate, was among those leading the charge to disrupt the hearing and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1187080810479923200" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">called the hearings</a> “secret, Soviet-style, Stalinist” on Wednesday. On Monday, Biggs<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/10/21/impeachment-update-andy-biggs-proposal-censure-adam-schiff-fails/4058417002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> forced a vote</a> in the House to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, which failed.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In 2015, Biggs sat silent when the founder of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia group, called for the hanging of Sen. John McCain of Arizona. As Right Wing Watch <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stewart-rhodes-defends-hang-mccain-comment-says-senator-is-like-adolf-hitler/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported at the time</a>:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes <a href="http://www.12news.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/12/arizona-lawmaker-doesnt-object-to-hang-mccain/27211307/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">told a Phoenix television station</a> yesterday that he<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oath-keepers-founder-john-mccain-should-be-hung-neck-until-dead" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> called for the hanging of Arizona Sen. John McCain</a> last week because McCain “is every bit as nuts as Adolf Hitler was.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">Rhodes made the comment while sitting next to Andy Biggs, the president of the Arizona Senate, who has <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/arizona-senate-president-says-first-amendment-stopped-him-rebuking-call-mccains-hanging" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">said that he didn’t speak up</a> because criticizing Rhodes would have violated his “free-speech rights.”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Steve King<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">White supremacist Rep. Steve King of Iowa was also among the lawmakers who stormed the SCIF. King may be best known for comments he made to the New York Times earlier this year in which he defended white nationalism.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he said in an interview with<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/steve-king-trump-immigration-wall.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> the New York Times</a>. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The New York Times reported:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">At the same time, he said, he supports immigrants who enter the country legally and fully assimilate because what matters more than race is “the culture of America” based on values brought to the United States by whites from Europe.</blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">But before his comments to the Times, King promoted white supremacists on his Twitter and has made other racist comments. In 2018, King quote-tweeted Lana Lokteff, who <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/white-supremacy-figured-out-how-to-become-youtube-famous/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">spread white supremacist hate on YouTube</a>  via the hate channel, Red Ice. Holt reported at the time:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">In June, King <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-white-nationalist-neo-nazi-retweet_us_5b200eaee4b0adfb826e8e40" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">promoted</a> Mark Collett, a well-established British neo-Nazi. Additionally, King has a <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/840997151740174338" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reputation</a> for professing white-nationalist rhetoric about undocumented immigrants, once comparing them to livestock, and racial demographics in America, claiming “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”</blockquote><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/meet-the-far-right-house-members-who-stormed-secure-hearing-room/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/andy-biggs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Andy Biggs</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/debbie-lesko/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Debbie Lesko</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/louie-gohmert/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Louie Gohmert</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rep-louie-gohmert/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Louie Gohmert</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rep-matt-gaetz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Matt Gaetz</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rep-steve-king/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Steve King</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-king/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve King</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/impeachment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Impeachment</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/republican-party/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a></div></div></div></div></div></section>one woman at town hall?<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/watch-iowa-congressman-steve-king-held-the-saddest-town-hall-of-all-time/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/watch-iowa-congressman-steve-king-held-the-saddest-town-hall-of-all-time/</a>..."What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” King asked a crowd at the Westside Conservative Club. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><div class="p10_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></blockquote>It’s pathetic to think Republicans sought this man’s endorsement in 2016. He’s been spewing racist and misogynistic comments throughout his career in Congress, but it wasn’t until he began sharing white nationalist views on Twitter that his colleagues finally began to turn on him. King was stripped of all his committee assignments, leaving him virtually powerless in Congress. Even some Republicans have called for him to resign. Of course, his colleagues could vote to expel him if they wanted to, but no Republicans have showed the courage to lead such a movement thus far.<div class="p11_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steve King is facing Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten, a paralegal and former professional baseball player. Scholten sat down with Daily Kos for our Making Progress series, check out that terrific interview here....<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/07/steve-king-primary-opponent-is-outraising-him">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/07/steve-king-primary-opponent-is-outraising-him</a>2020Rep. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00025237" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve King</a> (R-Iowa), most recently known for being <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">rebuked by his own</a> party for racist comments earlier this year, is trailing his primary challenger when it comes to fundraising. But it remains to be seen whether having a bigger bank account will be enough to knock off the incumbent Republican, who has held his northwest Iowa seat since 2002.King raised just $91,000 during the second quarter of 2019, trailing primary challenger and Iowa State Sen. Randy Feenstra, who raised $140,000 during the same time period. It was the second straight quarter in which Feenstra outraised the incumbent Republican; the state senator brought in $260,000 during the first three months of 2019 to King’s $62,000.The incumbent Republican’s campaign had just $18,000 in cash on hand as of June 30.The National Republican Congressional Committee <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/424839-nrcc-chair-says-committee-likely-wont-get-involved-in-steve-king-primary" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">said earlier this year</a> that it would not get involved in the primary for King’s seat.King, who was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">removed from his committee assignments</a> earlier this year after questioning why the phrase “white supremacist” was offensive, is running a campaign without establishment support, rare for an incumbent. He has been known throughout his tenure in Congress for his staunch anti-immigrant rhetoric and far-right views, though he mostly had Republicans’ backing until 2018.The 2018 midterms were King’s closest congressional race of his career. The congressman edged out Democratic challenger <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2018&id=IA04" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">J.D. Scholten</a> by 3 points during the general election.Earlier that year, King came under fire for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/26/steve-king-campaign-mocks-look-parkland-survivor-emma-gonzalez-facebook-post/460143002/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mocking a Parkland shooting survivor</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/politics/steve-king-collett-nazi.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">retweeting a self-identified Nazi sympathizer</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/18/17990718/steve-king-faith-goldy-white-supremacist-canada-iowa-republicans" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsing white nationalist</a> Faith Goldy for mayor of Toronto, among other incidents. Despite growing backlash, he easily fended off a primary challenge from Sioux City resident and community college executive <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/alsorun?cid=N00042109&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cyndi Hanson</a> that year before facing Scholten in the general election.<div style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; text-align: center;"> </div>The NRCC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/gop-fund-wont-help-steve-king-in-tight-race-due-to-white-supremacist-support.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">said shortly before the election</a> that it would not support King, and his district’s largest newspaper, the Sioux City Journal, <a href="https://siouxcityjournal.com/opinion/editorial/our-opinion-scholten-represents-best-choice-in-th/article_1f6bb4f7-637b-59d0-ab28-95d57eeb0492.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed his opponent</a> for the first time ever.Scholten, meanwhile, received significant backing from national Democrats, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2018&id=IA04" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">raising a whopping $3.25 million</a> compared to the incumbent Republican’s $877,000. But King still came out ahead on election night with 50.3 percent of the vote to Scholten’s 47 percent.Iowa’s 4th District leans strongly Republican, with a <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/pvi-map-and-district-list" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cook PVI of R+11</a>. President <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/candidate?id=N00023864" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> won 60 percent of the vote there in 2016, while now-Sen. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00000286&newmem=Y" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mitt Romney</a> (R-Utah) won 53 percent of the vote in the district when he ran for president in 2012.In addition to Feenstra, two other candidates are wading into the Republican primary, which will be held on June 2. Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/402/201907159150857402/201907159150857402.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">raised $10,000</a> in the second quarter, bringing him to $68,000 raised in 2019. Army veteran Bret Richards raised $5,000, bringing his total raised this year to nearly $23,000.No Democratic candidates have filed to run for King’s seat in 2020, though Scholten <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/23/jd-scholten-2020-running-office-house-senate-steve-king-joni-ernst-working-hero-iowa-nonprofit-eitc/2656030002/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">said earlier this year</a> that he is considering running again.A <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=IAS2" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">competitive Senate race in Iowa</a> in 2020 could also affect down-ballot races in the state.Sen. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00035483&cycle=2020" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Joni Ernst</a> (R-Iowa), who has condemned King’s comments in the past, also faces re-election next year. Ernst was one of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-go-back-gop-reactions-list/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">first members</a> of her party to decry Trump’s weekend tweetstorm telling four Democratic lawmakers or color — three of whom were born in the United States — to go back to the countries from which they came, a move that might cost her support from the president down the stretch.Ernst <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/806/201907159150937806/201907159150937806.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">brought in $740,000</a> during the second quarter, ending June with <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4IA00129/?tab=summary" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$3.4 million</a> in cash on hand. Her likely challenger, businesswoman Theresa Greenfield, got off to a strong fundraising start. Greenfield, who has earned the support of the Democratic establishment, <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/143/201907159150842143/201907159150842143.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">raised more than $600,000</a>between her candidacy announcement June 4 and the end of the month.<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/steve-king-asks-for-crowd-to-pray-he-gets-his-committee-assignments-back/" rel="bookmark" title="Steve King asks for crowd to pray he gets his committee assignments back" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important"> King asks for crowd to pray he gets his committee assignments back</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-leaders-defend-steve-kings-honor-demand-apology-from-house-gop-leader-mccarthy">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-leaders-defend-steve-kings-honor-demand-apology-from-house-gop-leader-mccarthy</a>
<div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding-top: 0.5em;">Religious Right Leaders Defend Steve King’s Honor, Demand Apology from House GOP Leader McCarthy</h1><h1 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post_author/kyle-mantyla/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Kyle Mantyla</a> | <span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" webkit-transform="webkit-transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear">January 18, 2019 2:46 pm</h1><div class="postimage" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Religious Right leaders and right-wing activists are rallying in support of embattled Rep. Steve King, who has been under fire since a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/steve-king-trump-immigration-wall.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times story</a> quoted him wondering when terms like “white nationalist,” “white supremacist,” and “Western civilization” became offensive. His comment served to highlight his <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/rep-steve-king-must-be-held-accountable-for-his-use-of-dehumanizing-racist-language/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">long history</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-a-history-of-racism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-kings-long-history-of-white-nationalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">unabashed</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-steve-king-told-the-nyt-what-hes-been-saying-for-years-hes-racist/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">racism</a> and has resulted in King being <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">stripped of his committee assignments</a>, as well as a <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/15/iowa-representative-steve-king-should-resign-from-congress-white-supremacy-comments-liz-cheney/2580887002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">wave</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/15/steve-king-chris-stewart-resign-cuomo-vpx.cnn" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">of</a> <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/steve-king-mitch-mcconnell-racism-white-supremacist/2019/01/14/id/898180/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">calls</a> <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/2019/01/15/steve-king-should-resign-des-moines-register-iowas-sake-white-supremacy-nationalism-immigration/2581889002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">for his</a> <a href="https://siouxcityjournal.com/opinion/editorial/our-opinion-steve-king-should-resign/article_eb88ce4b-2a33-5b68-b6a4-62cad82b68f9.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">resignation</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Amid this controversy, Religious Right leaders are voicing their support for King, thanks to an effort organized by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-radical-religious-right-activist-behind-ohios-heartbeat-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">radical right-wing activist</a> Janet Porter. King is a close ally of Porter’s and even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-steve-king-introduces-federal-version-of-anti-choice-heartbeat-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">introduced</a> a federal version of her “Heartbeat Bill” in Congress in 2017 that aimed to outlaw abortion, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/janet-porter-hopes-her-federal-heartbeat-bill-will-outlaw-abortion-before-the-mother-even-knows-shes-pregnant/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">in Porter’s words</a>, “before the mother even knows she’s pregnant.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Porter is currently <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1101796939293&ca=84ff9af0-07f2-4cb1-894d-60773c0769a8" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">gathering signatures</a> for a letter in support of King that will be sent to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, urging him to issue an apology to King and reinstate his committee assignments. King and right-wing activist Ed Martin, one of the signers, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-slams-gop-leaders-says-conservatives-privately-express-support-for-him/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">slammed McCarthy</a> earlier this week for not defending King.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Among those who have already added their names to this letter of support are James Dobson, Tom DeLay, Rick Scarborough, Matt Barber, Sandy Rios, Stephen Strang, Frank Gaffney, Lance Wallnau, Jim Garlow, Brian Camenker, Larry Pratt, Scott Lively, Peter LaBarbera, Gordon Klingenschmitt, and dozens more:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; background: rgb(239, 243, 243); padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Dear Leader McCarthy,<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">We are appalled that Republican leadership would choose to believe a liberal news organization famous for their bias over an outstanding member of Congress who has served the people of Iowa and the United States honorably and faithfully for 16 years.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">If Congressman Steve King believed and stood by the outrageous misquote of the New York Times, then the actions taken against him would have been warranted, but the opposite is true.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Unlike North Korea, we in the United States are “innocent until proven guilty” and hold to the principles of Western Civilization, as Rep. King so admirably does. The foundational principle begins with the self-evident truth that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” These are the principles to which Rep. King was referring and which he has championed for more than two decades of public service.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Don’t make the fatal mistake of turning the reins of the U.S. Congress over to the liberal media, allowing them to target, misquote, and falsely brand any member of Congress they wish to remove.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">We call on you to do the right thing as Minority Leader: issue a public apology and reinstate Rep. King to his committee assignments. If we don’t stand with this good man against the media-manufactured assault today, none of us will be safe from it tomorrow.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Tom DeLay<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Former Majority Leader<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />United States House of Representatives<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Dr. James Dobson<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Janet L. Porter<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President & Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Faith2Action<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Dr. Rick Scarborough<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Vision America<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Dick Bott<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder, Bott Radio Network<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Andy Schlafly<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Phyllis Schlafly Eagles<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Troy Newman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Operation Rescue<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Matt Barber<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Co-Founder and General Counsel<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Christian Civil Rights Watch<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Stephen Strang<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Charisma Media<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Paul Blair<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Reclaiming America for Christ<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Lance Wallnau<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />CEO Lance Learning Group<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rena Lindevaldsen<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Professor<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Liberty University School of Law<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Dr. Jim Garlow<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Rosemary Schindler Garlow<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />International Pro-Family Leader<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Stephen E. Broden<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Black Pro-Life Coalition<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Protect Life and Marriage<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Mary Drabik<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />South Florida Bible College<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Sandy Rios<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Director of Governmental Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />American Family Association<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Steven F. Hotze, M.D.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Conservative Republicans of Texas<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />National Conservative Leader<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Cynthia Dunbar<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />National Committeewoman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />RNC<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Help Rescue Our Children<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Father Stephen Imbarrato<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />LifeMinistriesUS<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Frank Gaffney<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Center for Security Policy<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Bill Johnson<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />American Decency Association<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">James Michael Francis Komaniecki<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President, CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Restore American Liberty<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, PhD<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Pray in Jesus Name Ministries<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Nationally Syndicated PIJN NEWS<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />(in 54 million homes)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Ed Martin<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagles<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Beni Johnson<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Bethel, Redding, CA<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Bill Federer<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Best Selling Author,<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />National Speaker<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Joe Shrewsbury<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />The Obadiah Fellowship<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />(704) 281-6017<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Rodney Lord<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Sr. Pastor Freedom Gate Church<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Marietta, Ohio<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Randall Murphree,<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />American Family Association Journal<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Larry Pratt<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />National Conservative Leader<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Kevin Folger<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Cleveland Baptist Church<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rachelle Heidlebaugh<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Witness<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Scott Lively<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Scott Lively Ministries<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Brian Camenker<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Mass Resistance<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Art Ally<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President, The Timothy Plan<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Lori Viars<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Chairman Warren County<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Republican Party Central Committee<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Ernie Sanders<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />What’s Right What’s Left<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Radio Ministry (12 million)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Golda Ross<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Morningstar<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Willem McAndrews<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Obadiah Fellowship<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Ann C. Eubank<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Alabama Legislative Wachdogs<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Caleb Moore<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Conservative States of America PAC<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Mauren Hendricks<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Intercessors of South Carolina<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Cathy Martin<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Fort Mill, Republicans<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />South Carolina<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Thom Smith<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Early Light Fund<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peter Han<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />LA House of Prayer<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Mark Valenti<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />People’s Baptist Church<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Lisa Pannett<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />The Sanity Project<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Jim Walchle<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Films4Flyovers, Inc.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Marian DuVall<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Freedom Gate Church<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Steve Baer<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Former President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />United Republican Fund of Illinois<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Ron Feathers<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Washington County<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Ohio Commissioner<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Mike Foreman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Pastor Rejoicing Life Church<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Stacy Lynn Harp<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Bible News Radio<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Twanna Aman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Broward County Right to Life<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Scott Ross<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Healed by Love<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Amy Contrada<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Research Director, Mass Resistance<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Justin Perry<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />MorningStar Fellowship Church<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Dean<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />The Life Center<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Tom Trento<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President & Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />The United West<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Craig Bergman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Fair Taxation for America<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Bonnie Jones<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Bonnie Jones Ministries<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">July Busby<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President and Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Malachi<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Stephanie Cartin<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Global Intercessors<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Mark Gurley<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Michigan Oak Initiative<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pastor Jeff and Mary Jane Kolodziej<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founders<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Psalmist Global<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Jason Jones<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Movie to Movement<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rev. Bill Niesmith<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder & President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Harvest Light Ministries<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Glenn Newman<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Past President Ohio Liberty Coalition<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder Marietta OH 9-12 Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Founder GOV Connector<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Monica Rylski<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Turn Around Toys<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Kayla Moore<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Foundation for Moral Law<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Peter LaBarbera<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President and Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Americans for Truth<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Judd Saul<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Patriots for Christ<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Melanie Moore<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Ashland Pregnancy Care Center<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Monica Rylski<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Turn Around Toys<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Rich Swingle<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Actor, International Speaker<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Jeremy Salupo<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />President & Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;" />Elevate<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Larry Cirignano<br style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen Strang</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/steve-king/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve King</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/tom-delay/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Tom DeLay</a></div></div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/steve-king-depths-freedom-party-austria">https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/steve-king-depths-freedom-party-austria</a>...FPÖ was <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/413201-gop-lawmaker-met-with-far-right-austrian-group-after-europe" style="text-decoration-line: none;">founded</a> by an SS officer and is currently led by Heinz-Christian Strache, who formerly participated in neo-Nazi groups. The party now distances itself from past connections to the Nazis, but even today takes an extreme, hardline stance on immigration reminiscent of President Donald Trump's.In the Unzensuriert interview, held in August and published in September, King openly endorsed white nationalism, saying that Europe and America are threatened by low white birthrates and an influx of Hispanics and Muslims, and that "If we don’t defend Western civilization, then we will become subjugated by the people who are the enemies of faith, the enemies of justice." He added, "What does this diversity bring that we don't already have? Mexican food, Chinese food, those things — well, that's fine, but what does it bring that we don't have that is worth the price? We have a lot of diversity within the U.S. already."King also expressed his belief in the "Great Replacement", a conspiracy theory that nonwhite immigration is an orchestrated plot to replace the white population of Europe. He suggested that George Soros, the Hungarian-born liberal billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor, is behind it, insisting, "if you trace it back, you can connect it to his foundation."According to the Post, King stands by his claims about Soros, calling him "a leftist operator that's been engaged in upsetting freedom," and echoing a right-wing smear that, instead of being a Holocaust survivor, Soros actually <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/glenn-becks-remarks-about-soros-and-the-holocaust-offensive-and-over-the-top" style="text-decoration-line: none;">collaborated with the Nazis</a> as a teenager.Jonny Daniels, president of From the Depths, said that he had no idea King had gone to meet with FPÖ leaders after the end of the tour, but expressed his dismay. "You sort of hope that a trip like this gives a better understanding to a parliamentarian, understanding that the connection between hate speech and hatred of any people or nation leads directly to places like Auschwitz-Birkenau."King has met with a number of other far-right European politicians, including French National Rally leader <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-and-the-trump-supporting-us-congressman-steve-king/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marine Le Pen</a> and Dutch anti-Muslim firebrand <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/22/we-get-it-steve-king/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Geert Wilders</a>. He also recently <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/steve-king-retweet-nazi-sympathizer/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">retweeted</a> a Nazi sympathizer activist who has praised Adolf Hitler, and refused to apologize when questioned about it.This November, King faces a challenge from Democratic former professional baseball player <a href="https://www.scholten4iowa.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">J.D. Scholten</a>.RU sonali muslim advocates org study, he is one of few not hurt by islamophobe?mueller indict unnamed congr asked for oppo----<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://act.pfaw.org/go/23483?t=5&akid=5060%2E2556770%2EdypMKJ" style="text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Steve King Quotes a White Supremacist While Comparing ‘Leftists’ to Nazis</a><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-steve-king-keeps-winning-214913">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-steve-king-keeps-winning-214913</a>
While most of the country was freaking out about Steve King’s recent comments about America’s demographic destiny—“racist old white man,” “disgusting human being,” “you need to resign” were just a few of the comments on Twitter—Iowans were a bit less surprised. Count the state’s governor among them.“Steve King is Steve King,” Terry Branstad, a fellow Republican, said of the U.S. congressman’s latest explosive rant.It was far from the first time that Iowa’s most controversial politician had provoked outrage. On the possibility of a President Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, he <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/republican-cong.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>, “The Al Qaeda, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11.” On the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage in <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/26/marry-your-lawn-mower-colbert-rips-kings-comments/72874818/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">2015</a>: “Their ruling really says anybody can marry anybody. … You could marry your lawnmower.” King had also <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/house-could-vote-to-block-harriet-tubman-from-20-bill-224637" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">tried to block</a> abolitionist heroine Harriet Tubman from becoming the new face of the $20 bill, and <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/11/steve-king-provokes-criticism-displaying-confederate-flag/86947746/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">displayed</a> the Confederate flag on his desk in Washington—never mind that Iowa fought with the Union during the Civil War.On Sunday, King, who represents the state’s northwest corner, had <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a> in defense of the Dutch anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders: “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” When observers pointed out that the sentiment mirrored the infamous 14-word credo of white supremacists—“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”—King didn’t back down. Asked about the tweet on CNN, the congressman <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/steve-king-babies-tweet-cnntv/index.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">declared</a> that he had “meant exactly what I said” and added, “If you go down the road a few generations, or maybe centuries, with the inter-marriage, I’d like to see an America that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.” At the end of the interview, he recommended that viewers read The Camp of the Saints, a French novel about immigration that is widely considered xenophobic, if not openly racist. Not long afterward, in another interview, King predicted that “Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other” before the country becomes majority-minority. In the midst of it all, the white supremacist website the Daily Stormer embraced King as a “<a href="https://twitter.com/jasonnobleDMR/status/841337852319416320" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">hero</a>.”And yet, King keeps winning—and by large margins. He has served Congress for 14 years, making him the state’s most senior member in the House, and served in state politics for six years before that. His position has made him a—forgive the cliché—kingmaker not just in Iowa politics, but also nationally, given our state’s place in the presidential election process. In 2015, nearly a dozen Republican hopefuls trudged up to Des Moines for King’s year-old “Iowa Freedom Summit” in a testament to his growing political clout.All of which helps explain why Chelsea Clinton, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and CNN commentator Ana Navarro were enraged by King’s latest comments, labeling them racist, but his fellow Republicans are generally loath to criticize him too harshly. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, GOP House Whip Steve Scalise and former presidential candidate Jeb Bush all spoke out against King’s remarks without using “racist” in their initial condemnations. Neither did most every prominent <a href="http://whotv.com/2017/03/13/iowa-gop-chair-slams-steve-kings-somebody-elses-babies-comments/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">Iowa Republican leader</a>—Governor Branstad, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, State Republican Party Chair Jeff Kaufmann and others—even as they artfully tried to distance themselves from the comments.How does King seemingly survive every flare-up?It helps to understand the district he represents—Iowa’s 4th—which covers much of the western half of the state and stretches across the northern third, as well. While the area includes mid-size cities like Ames, Fort Dodge, Mason City and Sioux City (with populations between 25,000-85,000), most of it is made up of rural areas and far smaller cities where the census bureau counts in the hundreds, not thousands. They are towns like Cleghorn, Mallard and Lytton that no one outside the state has ever heard of—unless they are professional political operatives.Geographically, the district encompasses 39 of Iowa’s 99 counties, making it the largest of the state’s four congressional districts. (Iowa used to have five districts but lost one over the past decade as the stagnant population failed to keep up with growth in other parts of the country.) King, who founded a construction company before entering politics, lives in the heart of this Republican bastion, in rural Kiron, a town struggling to reach a population of 300.Locals here in the Hawkeye State are generally proud to think of their neighbors as “Iowa nice.” But another word—besides the four-lettered kind his critics often use—comes to mind for those who have watched King, 67, for years: blunt. It’s a descriptor they use almost with a sense of endearment.“He’s blunt and says what he thinks,” says Gwen Ecklund, who earlier this year concluded eight years as the Republican chair of Crawford County, in western Iowa. King grew up in the area, and Ecklund has followed and supported his political career for decades. As she explains it, that brusqueness turns some people off—while others love it. “I think it is the same phenomenon as Donald Trump,” she figures.“He’s very charismatic,” says her husband, Arlan, who sat nearby in the couple’s home in Denison. “He’s a gifted orator. He can easily speak for 45 minutes without notes.”But there is more to King’s tells-it-like-it-is appeal. Northwestern Iowa is changing. Financially, the farm community has struggled over the past few years with commodity prices for corn and beans often falling below the cost of production. That’s helping to shrink the rural population, especially among younger people, who are increasingly looking to bigger cities like Des Moines and Cedar Rapids for better job opportunities. According to the U.S. Census, King’s home county of Crawford now has a population of about 17,000 people—about 4,000 fewer than it had in 1900.The area had been nearly all white for generations, but that, too, has been slowly changing as more Hispanic immigrants have arrived. In 2000, the county was about 93 percent white. That’s now dropped to 82 percent, with Hispanics accounting for nearly all of the change. Eager to make a living for themselves, many newcomers have been willing to take lower-paying jobs in agriculture, manufacturing and meat-packing. And not everyone is comfortable with the changing look of schools, grocery stores and churches in town.“There are some ‘Steve Kings’ out there,” says immigration attorney Jason Finch, who practices in Denison and nearby Storm Lake, two communities with rising immigrant populations. And he doesn’t mean it as a compliment. “I had a county attorney tell me it was his life’s mission to deport as many immigrants as he could.”Still, Finch reckons that anti-immigrant sentiment is held by a shrinking majority in the region, and where it exists, he says, it tends to be rooted more in ignorance than racism. “The younger generation handles it a lot better than the older generation does,” Finch says.Politically, much of King’s district is deeply conservative, with registered Republicans (nearly 200,000 of them) easily outnumbering registered Democrats (fewer than 125,000). That makes it hard for challengers to take on King, no matter how many controversial assertions he makes.In 2012, King was tested by a genuinely tough reelection fight. His opponent was Christie Vilsack, the spouse of a popular former Democratic governor, Tom Vilsack, who would later become U.S. secretary of agriculture. King’s district had been redrawn, and was less Republican as a result. But King ended up getting a boost from Branstad, who had grown concerned with the dynamics of the race and personally sent staff to help the campaign. King won by 8 points.The next year, as Congress debated comprehensive immigration reform, King took a stand as one of the most conservative—and controversial—voices speaking out against illegal immigration. “For every one who’s a valedictorian,” he told Newsmax, referring to young undocumented immigrants crossing the border, “there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds. And they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’ve been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” Iowa Republicans cringed at the words, but no prominent leader strongly denounced King at the time....=<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/15/rep-steve-king-s-anti-immigrant-page-cites-white-nationalist-website/220447">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/15/rep-steve-king-s-anti-immigrant-page-cites-white-nationalist-website/220447</a> Steve King (R-IA) hosts a page on his congressional website about “illegal immigrant stories” that cites the white nationalist publication VDare.King is a racist congressman who has a <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez8a44/a-short-history-of-congressman-steve-king-saying-racist-shit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">history</a> of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-kings-long-history-of-white-nationalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">pushing bigotry</a>. He recently <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/12/rep-steve-king-elevates-neo-nazi-twitter/220424" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">promoted</a> <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-white-nationalist-neo-nazi-retweet_us_5b200eaee4b0adfb826e8e40" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">British neo-Nazi</a><a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/mark-collett-britains-alt-right-social-media-propagandist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Mark Collett</a> on Twitter (the congressman has since <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congressman-steve-king-nazi-tweet_us_5b22dba4e4b0a0a52779f388" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a> ignorance of Collett’s views).King’s house.gov <a href="https://steveking.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">website</a> features a <a href="https://steveking.house.gov/illegal-immigration-stories" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">page</a> titled “Illegal Immigration Stories” that contains information about “illegal aliens” allegedly committing crimes. King has <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/steve-king-criminal-aliens/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">frequently</a> <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/steve-king-most-outrageous-immigration-rhetoric/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smeared</a> immigrants as prone to criminality; in reality, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/30/upshot/crime-immigration-myth.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">studies show</a> that <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/trump-painted-dark-picture-immigrants-despite-facts/1081208001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">immigration</a> <a href="https://news.wisc.edu/study-shows-undocumented-immigration-doesnt-increase-violent-crime/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">does not</a> increase the rate of crime.One of King’s <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2018/06/15/kingvdarelink.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">citations</a> on that “Illegal Immigration Stories” page is an April 2016 VDare <a href="https://www.vdare.com/posts/drunk-driving-illegal-alien-kills-woman-is-granted-bail-and-disappears" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">piece</a> headlined “Drunk Driving Illegal Alien Kills Woman, Is Granted Bail and Disappears.” The VDare piece, by anti-immigrant writer <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Brenda Walker</a>, begins by stating: “Funny how after all these years of Americans being run down by drunk driving illegal aliens, the crime of inebriated vehicle operation by unlawful foreigners is still not taken seriously by authorities.”The Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote</a> that VDare “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.” The Anti-Defamation League <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf#page=3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote</a> that VDare is a racist site that “posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites.”Media Matters has documented past VDare headlines <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/20/hilton-el-conquistador-cancels-plans-host-upcoming-white-nationalist-vdare-conference/218277" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">including</a>: “One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior,” “Indians Aren`t That Intelligent (On Average),” “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted,” “America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa,” and “Roll Over, JIHAD—There’s Also HIJRA, Muslim Conquest By Immigration.”King praised <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tags/peter-brimelow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Peter Brimelow</a>, the white nationalist founder and editor of VDare, while <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-and-white-nationalist-cpac-panel-warn-that-americas-greatest-threat-is-its-diversity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">appearing</a> with him during a 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) <a href="https://www.theroot.com/cpac-panel-to-include-white-nationalist-1790889858" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">panel</a>. Then-BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rep-steve-king-not-worried-about-being-on-panel-w?utm_term=.fq1Z3doEn#.gn2N5PgMl" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote </a>of King in February 2012:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left; width: 612.75px;">Iowa congressman Steve King is unconcerned about the implications of his appearance during a CPAC panel on "The Failure of Multiculturalism" featuring a white nationalist author, Peter Brimelow."I don't know anything about that," King, who came to the event to talk about his English Language Unity Act, told BuzzFeed -- though he'd earlier told Brimelow that "I've read all your books!".</blockquote>






<a href="https://www.vdare.com/posts/steve-king-tells-truth-gets-attacked-we-cant-restore-our-civilization-with-someone-elses-babies" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">VDare</a> and <a href="https://www.vdare.com/articles/theres-a-reason-for-the-two-minute-hate-against-steve-king-hes-right" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Brimelow</a> are also fans of King and Brimelow wrote a pro-King op-ed for <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/15/daily-caller-publishes-pro-steve-king-piece-white-nationalist-leader/215689" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Daily Caller</a> last year.While King’s “Illegal Immigration Stories” page also cites news outlets including The Associated Press and The Boston Globe, it additionally uses sources such as the anti-immigrant hate group <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Federation for American Immigration Reform</a> and Breitbart.com. Six of the Breitbart.com pieces cited by the page are by Katie McHugh, who was <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/katie-mchugh-breitbart-islamophobic-tweets-b3a2cb42f4c2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fired</a> from the site for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/business/media/breitbart-editor-fired-tweets.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">racist remarks</a> on Twitter last year (no small feat given the site’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/06/breitbart-not-just-bigoted-also-moronic-immigrant-edition/217853" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 153, 255);">open bigotry</a>)=omg pension plan<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060080855">https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060080855</a><header class="headline_block" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="headline " style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Agency hires GOP operative to promote maintenance fund</h1><section class="byline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Kellie_Lunney" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Kellie Lunney</a>, E&E News reporter<time datetime="2018-05-04 13:10:40 -0400" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">Published: Friday, May 4, 2018</time></section></header><section class="login" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="excerpt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A veteran GOP strategist and former aide to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has joined the National Park Service as a top adviser.</section></section>=<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-deported-dreamers-can-teach-home-countries-how-a-civilized-people-interact-with-each-other">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-deported-dreamers-can-teach-home-countries-how-a-civilized-people-interact-with-each-other</a>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/13/steve_king_and_donald_trump_go_back.htmlrepub  Iowa Rep. Steve King got a lot of attention over the weekend by asserting, in an approving tweet about far-right anti-immigrant Dutch politician Geert Wilders, that <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/12/gop_congressman_steve_king_tweets_white_supremacist_rhetoric.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Americans need to protect "our" civilization from the demographic threat of "somebody else's babies."</a> On CNN Monday morning, King elaborated by <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/13/so_is_steve_king_a_white_nationalist_or_what.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">stating that his ideal society would be "homogenous."</a> Although King <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexYablon/status/841311211484528641" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">did not say Monday that his preferred "homogenous" society would be a white one</a>, the broader eugenicist ring of his comments should be taken in context with his specific past disparagement of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-steve-king-stands-by-divisive-immigration-comments/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Mexican immigrants</a> and other nonwhite "subgroups," not to mention his vocal support for an Austrian party <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/17/head_of_austrian_freedom_party_says_he_ll_attend_trump_inauguration.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">literally founded by Nazis</a>.<div class="text-2 text parbase section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="text-3 text parbase section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While King was once thought of as an extremist even in the Republican Party, his worldview is now more or less shared by that party's leader. Though King supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 Iowa primary, he's since become an ardent Donald Trump supporter, a defender of Trump voters, and a liaison from Trump's America to the European far right. To wit:</div><div class="text parbase text-4 section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1em;">Appearing on MSNBC during the Republican National Convention during which Trump was nominated, King defended an RNC crowd that another guest had described as consisting of "dissatisfied white people" by <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/18/republican_congressman_steve_king_criticizes_nonwhite_races_for_failing.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">complaining that black and Mexican "subgroups" had not contributed as much to "civilization" as Europeans</a>.</li><li style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1em;">In September, King <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/26/iowa_congressman_steve_king_on_german_race_suicide.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">endorsed a German politician</a> who belongs to a party whose officials have complained that "Africans" are threatening Germany by reproducing too quickly. Said King's endorsement: "Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end."</li><li style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1em;">After the release of the video in which Trump bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy," at a time when other prominent Republicans were distancing themselves from what seemed like a struggling campaign, King—a proud <a href="https://steveking.house.gov/issues/traditional-and-family-values" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">"family values"</a> Christian—<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/iowa-rep-steve-king-donald-trump/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">appeared on CNN</a> to aver that he was "sticking with" Trump and to urge other conservatives to do the same.</li><li style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1em;">King met with the leader of Austria's Freedom Party, the one founded by former Nazis, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/austrian-party-founded-by-nazis-is-in-d-c-for-political-meetings-e79e48ce59b8#.bpve6e71l" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">two days before Trump's inauguration</a>.</li></ul></div><div class="text parbase text-5 section">A few years ago, King was <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/steve-king-once-gop-pariah-emerges-critical-2016-player" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">seen as a nuisance to the GOP establishment</a>. He helped kill George W. Bush's efforts at immigration reform, and John Boehner <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/the-party-of-steve-king" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">once reportedly called King an "asshole"</a> and denounced remarks he'd made about immigrants as "hateful." But the new Republican establishment just enacted an immigration ban crafted by an adviser who's <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/06/steve_bannon_and_the_camp_of_the_saints.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">obsessed with a novel about feces-eating, dark-skinned immigrants destroying white civilization</a>. It's not hyperbole to say that Steve King's beliefs are closely aligned with the United States' ascendant ruling philosophy.</div><div class="text text-6 parbase section">In 2014, Donald Trump—then a long-shot novelty presidential contender—endorsed King's congressional candidacy at <a href="http://theiowarepublican.com/2014/donald-trump-and-steve-king-kindred-spirits/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">an event in West Des Moines</a>. Said Trump: “I’m here to support Steve King—a special guy, a smart person with, really, the right views on almost everything."</div>
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/9-ultranationalist-trump-supporters-who-are-rapidly-losing-patience-his-presidency. Steve KingLast year, the Iowa Congressman argued that white people have <a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/03/13/steve-king-is-a-virulent-racist-why-be-surprised-he-represents-the-current-republican-party-perfectly/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">"contributed more to civilization"</a> than any other racial "subgroup." Just last month, he defended Holland's far-right presidential candidate Geert Wilders, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2017%2F03%2F13%2Fsteve-king-is-a-virulent-racist-why-be-surprised-he-represents-the-current-republican-party-perfectly%2F" style="text-decoration-line: none;">tweeting</a> "Widers understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore civilization with someone else's babies." In a related story, he was one of Donald Trump's most faithful supporters in Congress throughout the 2016 Republican primary and presidential election. King has grown increasingly <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-base-supporters-turn-on-him-237200" style="text-decoration-line: none;">disheartened</a> about Steve Bannon's marginalization in the Trump administration. "A lot of us look at [him] as the voice of conservatism in the White House," he told Politico.7. & 8. Nigel Farage and Marine Le Penhttp://www.alternet.org/labor/trump-gutting-labor-unions-advancing-right-work
Alternative facts are nothing new; politicians have been making stuff up since they first crawled out of the primordial swamp. One of the most successful lies in modern US politics has been that of “right to work” laws, which break unions under the guise of protecting workers, one of which was <a data-link="" href="http://joewilson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wilson-and-king-introduce-national-right-to-work-legislation" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none;">introduced</a> in Congress on Wednesday afternoon and will probably break unions in the country for good.A national right to work law has been a pipe dream of corporate lobbyists, the chamber of commerce, the Koch brothers, and the politicians on their payroll for decades, and is about to become a reality. Right to work laws already exist in more than half the states in the country, where unions are weak or nonexistent, wages are correspondingly low, and workers are correspondingly disposable. In theory, these laws are about guaranteeing workers’ freedom of association. In practice, they’re about keeping workers from forming unions, by making unions financially unsustainable.The main lie told by right to work proponents is that such laws put an end to “compulsory union membership”. It’s flat-out false; there is no such thing, and hasn’t been since 1947, when the <a data-link="" draggable="true" href="https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/our-history/1947-taft-hartley-substantive-provisions" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none;">Taft Hartley Act</a> made the closed shop – a type of contract where union membership was a condition of employment – illegal. Nowhere in the US, whether you’re in a right to work state or not, can you be forced to be a member of a union, or fired for refusing to join one.The second lie is that such laws protect workers from having their dues money go to political causes they don’t support. Nowhere in the country can you be forced to donate to a politician, campaign or political organization you don’t support. If you’re a dues-paying union member, you already have a right to simply not donate to your union’s political fund, and plenty of union members exercise it.What right to work laws, including this bill, do is outlaw a specific type of voluntary, private employment contract that employers and employees may agree on. Under this agency shop contract, which must be voted on and approved by a majority of employees, workers agree to pay a fair share provision – a fraction of the dues amount that union members pay – to cover the costs of bargaining and enforcing the workplace contract.The reason such contracts exist at all is because, under the same 1947 law that banned compulsory union membership, unions are bound by what are called “duties of fair representation”. Under DFRs, they are legally required to provide the same services to everyone in a workplace, such as filing grievances, providing legal counsel, or defending someone if they’re disciplined, whether they are union members or not.This also assures that everyone gets the same benefits from a union contract: health insurance, vacations, rules that say your boss can’t just fire you if he wakes up one day and decides he doesn’t like your face. The idea is to prevent unions from discriminating against those who choose not to join. Obviously, if you’re going to receive a benefit automatically whether you join or not, the incentive is to free-ride. Agency shop contracts are set up to make sure everyone shares the costs so that those grievances get filed. Right to work laws encourage everyone to free-ride until the union is broke, can’t provide those benefits to anyone, and eventually ceases to exist.Right to work proponents often point to the money unions throw at politicians, mostly Democrats, as justification for starving unions financially. But right to work laws don’t defund political activities, because no worker is compelled to fund them in the first place. The only union functions this law will defund are things like contract bargaining and grievance filing: precisely those everyday workplace activities that <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans" name="auto-linked-tag" id="auto-linked-tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Republicans</a> say unions should be restricted to doing.It bears repeating: the contracts this law will ban are voluntary and agreed on democratically. They are not imposed on anyone by the government, the union or the company. Normally, outlawing a voluntary business contract between private parties is the kind of thing Republicans consider government meddling. And there’s something distinctly unconservative about forcing an institution to provide benefits to non-paying non-members while encouraging them to freeload. But if it’s about crushing unions, they always manage to find an excuse.Certainly bill sponsors Steve King and Joe “<a data-link="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgce06Yw2ro" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You Lie</a>” Wilson would never let ideological consistency get in the way of an opportunity to crush their opponents. Nor would President Trump, who was elected promising to fight for American workers. Unions are, after all, the only real vehicle for workers to defend their interests, whether in the workplace or the political arena. Taking that away from them leaves workers at the mercy of their bosses and politicians. Which is the whole point, and the only thing this law was ever designed to do.<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/steve-king-putin-allows-freedom-dissent-because-he-hasnt-murdered-garry-kasparov-new-york">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/steve-king-putin-allows-freedom-dissent-because-he-hasnt-murdered-garry-kasparov-new-york</a>http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-steve-king-introduces-federal-version-of-anti-choice-heartbeat-bill<div></div><div><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/austrian-party-founded-by-nazis-is-in-d-c-for-political-meetings">https://thinkprogress.org/austrian-party-founded-by-nazis-is-in-d-c-for-political-meetings</a></div><div>
</div><div><div>A major Austrian party founded by Nazis is in DC for political meetings</div><div>The leader of the Austrian Freedom Party says he met with Trump’s NSA adviser in December.</div><div>
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</div><div>Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the anti-migrant and anti-EU Freedom Party FPOe, smiles as he arrives in a TV studio in the Hofburg in Austria’s capital Vienna Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. CREDIT: AP Photo/Ronald Zak</div><div>
</div><div>An Austrian right-wing party founded by Nazis sent a delegation to Washington, D.C. this week for a series of political discussions.</div><div>“There is a series of invitations to talks with interesting political representatives of the United States on the sidelines of the US president’s inauguration on our packed schedule,” Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Freedom Party, said recently.</div><div>
</div><div>The Freedom Party was founded in 1956, and its first leader was a former SS officer. The nationalist, nativist party recently lost domestic elections, albeit by a narrow margin. Norbert Hofer, the party’s presidential candidate, made anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments the core tenets of his campaign.</div><div>Strache recently called for “minus immigration” and compared Islam to Nazism. He claimed to have attended a meeting with President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn at Trump Tower in December, though Trump’s team denied the meeting.</div><div>
</div><div>Strache’s itinerary is unclear. His delegation was pictured with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Thursday evening, though there is no indication whether or not they will be in attendance at the inauguration.</div><div>
</div><div>One right-wing figure who will be at the inauguration, though, is Nigel Farage, former leader of the U.K. Independence Party and a key figure in pushing for Britain’s split from the European Union.</div><div>
</div><div>Farage was invited to attend the inauguration by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R). Farage also threw an inauguration party Thursday night in honor of Trump’s ascent to power, the Guardian reported.</div><div>
</div><div>Other right wing figures in Europe, like France’s Marine Le Pen of the Front National (FN) and Frauke Petry of Alternative for German (AfD), will be attending a conference in the German city of Koblenz. Le Pen was seen in Trump Tower last week, though she claimed it wasn’t to meet Trump, despite her steadfast support for his campaign.</div></div><div></div>Two members of Congress hosted Dutch Politician and founder of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom Geert Wilders Wednesday. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) invitation for Wilders to <a href="http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/discrimination-racism-bigotry/adl-distressed-two-members-congress-hosting-anti-muslim-bigot-geert-wilders.html#.VUE2hyFViko" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">speak</a> to the Conservative Opportunity Society as “deeply distressing.”“Muslims can be moderates. But there is no moderate Islam,” Wilders <a href="http://www.pvv.nl/index.php/36-fj-related/geert-wilders/8324-speech-geert-wilders-for-us-congressmen-washington-dc-conservative-opportunity-society-29-april-2015.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a> to the crowd. “Islam has changed Europe beyond recognition.”<span id="trigger-slidedown" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.44px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wilders has a history of using discriminatory speech, particularly against Muslim immigrants and Islam, and he did so again at Wednesday’s speech by comparing the religion to National Socialism, or Nazism.In fairness, one must point out that politicians don't merely parrot industry claims and spout junk-science rationalizations purely for the campaign cash it brings in. Some, like Iowa Representative Steve King, who gets little campaign money from Big Oil, do it just because it's <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/07/2429331/steve-king-climate-religion/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a cheap sop to constituents</a> who might be persuaded that climate change could do them some good, in that "we'd probably raise a little more corn." cmd==

Right now, a House and Senate conference committee is hashing out the details of the 2013 Farm Bill.

Within the House version of the bill is an amendment offered by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) that has the potential to wipe out states’ rights to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

The amendment includes sweeping language about states’ rights to regulate food and farming, and could nullify a wide range of state and local measures regarding food safety, labeling, environmental requirements, humane treatment of farm animals, labor standards, and other important issues.

The amendment could also overturn current bans on dangerous agricultural chemicals like methyl iodide, and allow a flood of these pesticides into our food supply.

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6. Rep. Steve King knows personally—don’t ask him how—that Saddam Hussein purchased uranium from Niger.

Who can forget the fiction that fueled the invasion of Iraq in 2003? Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, was building the bomb, and was ready to use all of it against us or Israel. He got his uranium from Niger, high-level intelligence said. President George Bush even said so in a speech.

Cut to a couple months after “Shock and Awe” and not even Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney or President Bush was standing by that statement. They were misled by some bum intelligence. Sorry. Our bad.

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<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/22/728071/steve-king-multicultural-groups-are-people-that-feel-sorry-for-themselves/">http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/22/728071/steve-king-multicultural-groups-are-people-that-feel-sorry-for-themselves/</a>

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A day after claiming that climate change was more "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/steve-king-global-warming_n_3719568.html" target="_hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">a religion than a science</a>," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) reasserted that many scientists overreact when discussing the consequences of global warming.

“There’s bad and there’s good and we need to look at the bad and the good and be objective about it,” King said at an event in Carroll, Iowa, <a href="http://www.iowahorserace.com/2013/08/steve-king-discusses-benefits-of-climate-change/" target="_hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">according to Iowa Horserace.</a> “We’d probably raise a little more corn.”

King offered his own analysis of how global warming would likely lead to increased rainfall, perhaps helping crops in drought-prone regions, including Iowa.

“If [the temperature of the earth] went up, there’d be more evaporation of the 70 percent of the earth that’s covered by water," King said. "And so I know by Newton’s first law of physics, if it evaporates up, what goes up must come down, has got to come down in the form of rain. So if the earth is warm, it’ll rain more and more places.”

<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/4/4298250/rain-will-more-extreme-global-warming-study" target="_hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">A recent NASA study</a> showed that global warming will increase rainfall in already wet areas and exacerbate drought in dry areas. Dry areas will experience a 2.6 percent increase in time without rainfall, according to the study.

King said the public needs to focus on the positive aspects of climate change by joking.

“I spent a lot of my life cold, it felt pretty good to get warmed up,” King said.

Watch King's <a href="http://www.iowahorserace.com/2013/08/steve-king-discusses-benefits-of-climate-change/" target="_hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">full speech</a> above.

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<table id="topContrib" class="tablesorter" style="margin: 10px 0pt 15px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(205, 205, 205);"><tbody><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Club for Growth</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$267,507</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$257,271</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$10,236</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">American Bankers Assn</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$49,500</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$1,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$48,500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Beer Wholesalers Assn</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$47,500</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$47,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">National Assn of Home Builders</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$47,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$47,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Auto Dealers Assn</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$47,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$47,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">AG Processing</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$44,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$44,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Cable & Telecommunications Assn</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$40,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$40,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Rain & Hail Insurance Society</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$39,295</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$39,295</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Associated Builders & Contractors</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$39,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$39,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$39,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$39,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Berkshire Hathaway</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,800</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$19,300</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$19,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Terra Industries</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$38,400</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$37,900</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Crystal Sugar</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$38,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">National Assn of Realtors</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$35,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$35,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eagle Forum</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$32,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$32,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Mail Services LLC</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,900</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$30,900</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch Industries</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,500</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$27,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Hawkeye PAC</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$27,000</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$27,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cnos</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$26,750</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$26,750</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td style="padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">National Pork Producers Council</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$26,750</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td><td class="number" style="text-align: right; padding: 4px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$26,750</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2>Steve King (R-IA): Incoming Vice-Chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law</h2>

With one of the most stringently anti-immigrant and ultraconservative records in Congress, Steve King of Iowa is a right-wing firebrand whose admiration for Joe McCarthy is reflected both in his politics and policy proposals.

King <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/18/103946/birthright-citizenship-will-be.html#ixzz162RCgtT5">claims</a> that his first priority in the 112th Congress will be to abolish birthright citizenship, a right plainly established in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. He said that his legislation will attempt to end what he calls the “anchor baby industry” and that if his bill is ruled unconstitutional he will move to amend the Constitution to repeal birthright citizenship.

King, who has <a href="http://www.adl.org/Civil_Rights/anti_immigrant/rhetoric.asp">appeared with</a> violent vigilante groups, defended his proposal to have electrified wire on border fences by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/13/king-fence/">saying</a> on the House floor, “We do this with livestock all the time.” He <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/paranoid-style-redux/getting-immigrat">erroneously</a> claimed that illegal immigrants kill <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/border-vigilante-uses-made-numbers-attempt-equate-immigrants-and-crime">25 Americans each day</a>, and <a href="http://www.adl.org/Civil_Rights/anti_immigrant/rhetoric.asp">referred</a> to all immigrants as criminals and disease-carriers. King compared illegal immigration to a “slow motion Holocaust” and a “slow-motion terrorist attack on the United States.” Opposed to a pathway for citizenship for illegal immigrants working and residing in the country, he <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/21/king-immigration-plan-deport/">said</a> that he would only support comprehensive reform if “every time we give amnesty for an illegal alien, we deport a liberal.” He <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-steve-king-tells-congress-he-is-a-victim-of-profiling-as-a-white-man-in-a-suit/">defended</a> profiling by asserting that police officers should be able to distinguish illegal immigrants from citizens “from what kind of clothes people wear – my suit in my case – what kind of shoes people wear, what kind of accident [sic] they have, um, the, the type of grooming they might have.”

After the deadly earthquake in Haiti, King resisted plans to give Haitian refugees temporary protection status, instead <a href="http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/rep-steve-king-deported-haitians-could-help-with-relief-effort.php">suggesting</a> that deporting refugees already in the U.S. would help Haiti since the country is in “great need of relief workers.” King also <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/11160_stevekingtherepublicanpartysimmigrationwarrior">fought legislation</a> that would give protective status to translators from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and provide legal status to service members who don’t have citizenship and their families.

In 2005, King successfully marshaled opposition to naming an Oakland post office after former Oakland city councilwoman and activist Maudelle Shirek because he <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2005/10/post-office-battles">believed</a> that Shirek was “un-American.” After Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee accused him of McCarthyism, he said, “If Barbara Lee would read the history of Joe McCarthy she would realize that he was a hero for America.”

On the House floor, King <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/01/king-minority-caucuses/">blasted</a> the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus as “separatist groups,” and <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/steve_king_black_farmers_settlement_is_slavery_rep.php?ref=fpblg">suggested</a> that a “very, very urban senator, Barack Obama” provided “slavery reparations” through the USDA Pigford II settlement with black farmers.

During the presidential election, King <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-10-king-obama_N.htm">maintained</a> if Obama won that Al-Qaeda “would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror.”

King <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17506.html">said</a> that it was “bizarre” for Obama to say his middle name “Hussein” during the inauguration, and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007729-503544.html">asserted</a> that the President “has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person.” He also <a href="http://www.americanindependent.com/133225/king-obama-is-a-%E2%80%98marxist%E2%80%99-who-is-in-%E2%80%98violation-of-his-oath-of-office%E2%80%99">dubbed</a> the President a “Marxist” who “doesn’t have an American experience” and is in “violation of his oath of office.” When asked at a rally in support of Arizona’s draconian SB 1070 immigration law if Obama was “bringing small quantities of Muslims into this country,” King <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/21/king-immigration-plan-deport/">replied</a> that he “wouldn’t be surprised that that is the real factual basis.”

Just days before Obama’s victory at the polls, he <a href="http://iowaindependent.com/7522/king-electing-obama-could-lead-to-totalitarian-dictatorship">warned</a> Americans, “When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship. There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.” Earlier this year, he <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/04/king-democrats-pontius-pilate/">said</a> that Democrats were similar to “Pontius Pilate” and would have supported the Pharaohs of Egypt over the enslaved Israelites in the Bible. On Glenn Beck’s show, King <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87665-rep-king-r-slams-sabbath-vote">declared</a> that Democrats were trying to “take away the liberty that we have right from God” by having members vote on the health care reform bill on a Sunday.

A fierce opponent of LGBT equality, King <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/15/house-democrats-insert-gay-rights-immigration-debate/">strongly opposes</a> the Uniting American Families Act, which allows U.S. citizens and legal residents to petition for their permanent partners (including same-sex partners) to obtain U.S. residency or citizenship. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/king-if-gays-dont-want-be-discriminated-against-they-should-stay-closet">told</a> the Family Research Council that gay Americans should stay in the closet if they wanted to avoid discrimination, and <a href="http://iowaindependent.com/2156/congressman-steve-kings-greatest-hits">equated</a> gay rights with rights for “unicorns and leprechauns.” After the Iowa Supreme Court said that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, he <a href="http://steveking.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=6c9c6ef1-19b9-b4b1-12c8-fa02454cc0f4">claimed</a> that Iowa could soon become a “gay marriage Mecca due to the Supreme Court’s latest experiment in social engineering.” King has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/23/king-gay-marriage-socialist/">compared</a> homosexuality to incest and described marriage equality as “a purely socialist concept.” While addressing a rally of supporters of the successful effort to remove three Iowa Supreme Court judges from the bench, King <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/judge-bus-fighting-shakespearean-evolutionary-conspiracy-warehouse-children">said</a> that gay marriage will lead to the breakdown of the family, religion, and the Constitution:

I think that if we can’t defend marriage, that it becomes very hard to defend life. So, if we lose marriage — for instance, if our children are raised in warehouses, so to speak. There have been civilizations that have tried to do that. The Spartans did that. They took the children away and taught them to be warriors. It’s a good way to defend a country, but not much of a way to run a civilization.

So, I’m afraid if that happened — if we lose the marriage, we lose the home, we lose the nuclear family then we can’t teach our values. We won’t be able to teach our faith. We won’t be able to teach life. We won’t be able to teach our Constitutional values either. That’s why I’m afraid it’s going to be very, very difficult to defend life.

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King was also the <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/gop-rep-steve-king-is-only-vote-against-recognizing-history-of-slave-labor-in-capitol.php">only</a> member of the House to vote against a plaque commemorating the slaves who helped build the Capitol, <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/steve-king-i-opposed-yet-another-bill-to-commemorate-slavery-in-order-to-protect-judeo-christian-her.php">which he said was</a> part of a plot “by liberals in Congress toscrub references to America’s Christian heritage from our nation’s Capitol.

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King</a>

Steve King is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U. S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">U. S. House of Representatives</a> and has represented the 5th District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Iowa" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Iowa">Iowa</a> since 2003. (<a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ia05_109.gif" class="external text" title="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ia05_109.gif" rel="nofollow">map</a>)

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Record_and_controversies">1 Record and controversies</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Environmental_record">1.2 Environmental record</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Sunlight_Act">1.2.1 Sunlight Act</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Joseph_McCarthy">1.3 Joseph McCarthy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Voting_integrity_legislation">1.4 Voting integrity legislation</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Restricting_Speaker_Pelosi.27s_travel">1.5 Restricting Speaker Pelosi's travel</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Congressional_career">2.1 Congressional career</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#2006_elections">2.1.1 2006 elections</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Money_in_politics">3 Money in politics</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Committees_and_Affiliations">4 Committees and Affiliations</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Committees">4.1 Committees</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29">4.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Coalitions_and_Caucuses">4.2 Coalitions and Caucuses</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#More_Background_Data">5 More Background Data</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Contact">6 Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Resources_and_Articles">7 Resources and Articles</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Resources">7.1 Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Articles">7.2 Articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites">7.3 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li>

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<h2>Record and controversies</h2>

<div style="margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Steve King voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</div>

<div style="margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(220, 232, 248); border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._House_of_Representatives_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War">U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div>

<h3>Environmental record</h3>

For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a>

<h4>Sunlight Act</h4>

Rep. King introduced the Sunlight Act of 2006 (H.R.4967) on March 15, 2006, and was referred to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Rules, where no action was taken. The bill contained the following:

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<li>Requires all FEC reports be filed electronically and placed on the internet in a searchable database.</li>

<li>Require all private travel reports be put on the internet in a searchable database.</li>

<li>Require all personal financial disclosure reports to list the actual dollar amount rather than using a range. Also, require all personal financial disclosure forms be put on the internet in a searchable database.</li>

<li>Require all bills and conference reports be placed on the internet at least 48 hours before a vote, all amendments made in order by a rule within one hour after the rule is filed, and all amendments made under open rule immediately as it is being offered.</li>

<li>Require the House to project onto a wall the topic of debate on the floor for the viewing of members and the gallery.</li>

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<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Transparency%26_Disclosure_Legislation%28109th_Congress%29" title="Transparency & Disclosure Legislation (109th Congress)" class="mw-redirect">Transparency & Disclosure Legislation (109th Congress)</a></dd>

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<h3>Joseph McCarthy</h3>

King has expressed admiration for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph McCarthy">Joseph McCarthy</a>, calling him "a great American hero."<a href="http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

<h3>Voting integrity legislation</h3>

In January 2005, King introduced legislation (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00278:@@@X" class="external text" title="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00278:@@@X" rel="nofollow">THOMAS bill info</a>) requiring verifiable hardcopies of ballots. The legislation was referred to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_House_Administration" title="House Committee on House Administration">House Committee on House Administration</a>, but no action was taken. <a href="http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000527.php" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000527.php" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

<h3>Restricting Speaker Pelosi's travel</h3>

On June 21, 2007, King introduced an amendment to the FY2008 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill that would not allow the usage of State Department funds for travel to states that are known to have sponsored terrorism: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. It would have restricted funding for Speaker <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a>'s (D-Calif.) trip to Syria in April 2007. King believed that Pelosi violated the 1799 Logan Act, signed into law by President John Adams, which prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from interfering with relations between the United States and foreign governments.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

King was born May 28, 1949 in Storm Lake, Iowa. He briefly attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, and was a business owner and member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:Iowa Senate">Iowa Senate</a> before entering the House.

<h3>Congressional career</h3>

After redistricting took 5th District incumbent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Latham" title="Tom Latham">Tom Latham</a> (R) out of the district, King ran in a four-way Republican primary for the seat. Since the 5th is the most Republican district in Iowa and one of the most Republican in the nation, it was generally thought that the district's next representative would be chosen in the primary. King won 30 percent of the vote, five points short of winning the primary outright. Under Iowa law, a nominating convention was required, and King won on the fourth ballot. He went on to win handily in the fall and won reelection just as easily in 2004.

King has carved out one of the most conservative voting records in the country. In 2005, the American Conservative Union rated King one of the "Best of the Best," assigning him a 100% consrvative voting record. <a href="http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2006/0604052pr.asp" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2006/0604052pr.asp" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> In the 109th Congress, King chairs the Conservative Opportunity Society, an organization founded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> and others that laid the groundwork for the Republicans' 1994 takeover of the House.

<h4>2006 elections</h4>

In 2006, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> nominated <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joyce_Schulte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joyce Schulte (page does not exist)">Joyce Schulte</a> to face King in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) <a href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=IA&year=2006" class="external autonumber" title="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=IA&year=2006" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> King retained his seat.

<h2>Money in politics</h2>

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<table class="prettytable"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Steve King

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td>Fundraising profile:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by industry:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00025237" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=King%2C+Steven+A" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=King%2C+Steven+A" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Steve King</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00025237" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Steve King</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00025237" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00025237" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Steve King</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

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<h2>Committees and Affiliations</h2>

<h3>Committees</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="House Committee on the Judiciary" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">House Committee on the Judiciary</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims -Ranking</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Agriculture" title="House Committee on Agriculture">House Committee on Agriculture</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Small_Business" title="House Committee on Small Business">House Committee on Small Business</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Finance and Tax</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare, and Trade</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<h4>Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Agriculture" title="House Committee on Agriculture">House Committee on Agriculture</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Conservation Credit Rural Development and Research</li>

<li>Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture</li>

</ul>

</li>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Task Force on Antirust</li>

<li>Subcommittee on the Constitution</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Claims</li>

</ul>

</li>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises Agriculture and Technology</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<h3>Coalitions and Caucuses</h3>

<ul>

<li>Chair, Conservative Opportunity Society</li>

</ul>

<h2>More Background Data</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS034389" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS034389" rel="nofollow">Background information on Steve King from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS034389" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS034389" rel="nofollow">Interest group scorecard ratings for Steve King from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000362" class="external text" title="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000362" rel="nofollow">Voting record for Steve King from the Washington Post database</a></li>

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<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=IA05&site=congressmerge" class="external text" title="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=IA05&site=congressmerge" rel="nofollow">Information on Steve King from Congress Merge</a></li>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> also has an article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King" rel="nofollow">Steve King</a>. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" rel="nofollow">GFDL</a>.

<h2>Contact</h2>

DC Office:

1432 Longworth House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-4426

Fax: 202-225-3193

Email: steve.king AT mail.house.gov

<a href="http://www.house.gov/writerep" class="external text" title="http://www.house.gov/writerep" rel="nofollow">Web Email</a>

<a href="http://www.house.gov/steveking" class="external text" title="http://www.house.gov/steveking" rel="nofollow">Website</a>

District Office- Council Bluffs:

40 Pearl Street

Council Bluffs, IA 51503

Phone: 712-325-1404

Fax: 712-325-1405

District Office- Sioux City:

526 Nebraska Street

Sioux City, IA 51101

Phone: 712-224-4692

Fax: 712-224-4693

District Office- Storm Lake:

607 Lake Avenue

Storm Lake, IA 50588

Phone: 712-732-4197

Fax: 712-732-4217

<h2>Resources and Articles</h2>

<h3>Resources</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.house.gov/steveking" class="external text" title="http://www.house.gov/steveking" rel="nofollow">Official website</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.kingforcongress.com" class="external text" title="http://www.kingforcongress.com" rel="nofollow">Campaign website</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.kingwatch.org" class="external text" title="http://www.kingwatch.org" rel="nofollow">KingWatch website - Keeping an Eye on Steve King</a></li>

<li><a href="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" class="external text" title="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" rel="nofollow">Open Secrets</a> - 2006 congressional races database</li>

</ul>

<h3>Articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>Zachary Coile and Patrick Hoge, <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/28/MNGF8EV3UB1.DTL" class="external text" title="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/28/MNGF8EV3UB1.DTL" rel="nofollow">"Berkeley lefty snubbed by House Republicans. They kill plan to name post office after longtime Councilwoman Maudelle Shirek,"</a> San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2005.</li>

<li>Jane Norman, <a href="http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690" class="external text" title="http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690" rel="nofollow">"'McCarthy' comment by Steve King stirs debate. Democrats criticize Rep. Steve King when he objects to naming a California post office for an activist,"</a> Des Moines Register, September 29, 2005.</li>

<li>Jed Herrington, <a href="http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000527.php" class="external text" title="http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000527.php" rel="nofollow">"Election Reform Stumbles on HAVA Hangups,"</a> Newsdesk.org, February 23, 2006.</li>

<li>Joseph Richey, <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2410/Border_for_Sale" class="external text" title="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2410/Border_for_Sale" rel="nofollow">"Border for Sale. Privatization of immigration control means a bonanza for connected firms,"</a> GNN.TV, July 11, 2006.</li>

<li>Judd Legum, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/13/king-fence/" class="external text" title="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/13/king-fence/" rel="nofollow">"Rep. King Designs Electrified Fence For Southern Border: 'We Do This With Livestock All The Time',"</a> Think Progress, July 13, 2006.</li>

<li>Brett Hayworth, <a href="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/10/13/news/local/82d38b9f581aa59286257206000c802b.txt" class="external text" title="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/10/13/news/local/82d38b9f581aa59286257206000c802b.txt" rel="nofollow">"King faces three challengers for U.S. House,"</a> Sioux City Journal, October 13, 2006.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Local blogs and discussion sites</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/" rel="nofollow">Bleeding Heartland</a></li>

<li><a href="http://klsnow.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://klsnow.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Diary of a political madman</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.politicalforecast.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.politicalforecast.net/" rel="nofollow">Political Forecast</a></li>

<li><a href="http://commoniowan.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://commoniowan.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Century of the Common Iowan</a></li>

</ul>

Corresponding article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> and <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Steve_King" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Steve_King" rel="nofollow">Cause Caller</a>. (If Cause Caller link does not work, pick from its list of <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Senator" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Senator" rel="nofollow">senators</a> and <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Representative" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Representative" rel="nofollow">representatives</a>.)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King"> </a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_King">At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) </a><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/209785-rep-king-pelosis-stasi-troops-force-use-of-efficient-light-bulbs">yesterday</a>, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) asked the crowd, “What is happening to our liberty?,” before launching into a long-winded story about how he took back his freedom by replacing the energy-efficient “curlicue bulbs” at the Capitol with “good Edison light bulbs.” At some point during his anecdote, King even went so far as to compare the Capitol Hill janitors who replaced his incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient ones to “<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/209755-steve-king-throws-red-meat-to-conservative-crowd">East German communist secret police, describing them as “Nancy [Pelosi]‘s Stasi troops</a>.”

So I got this green bag right here. And I filled it up with the black market light bulbs. And I brought them back to my office here in the Capitol. Whenever I need to put a bulb in the lamp, I reach in this green bag and I screw it in there and smile. A little bit of my liberty back. A little bit of our freedom back. And I want to challenge you to do the same thing. Bring back some of that liberty, some of that freedom.

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Following his attack on energy-efficient light bulbs, Rep. King took on the water-saving showerhead in his shower, before bringing his tirade to a close with the declaration, “I want my liberty back!”

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