jr majewski

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MMA 1022
Republican House nominee and former right-wing streamer J.R. Majewski appeared on a program hosted by a pro-Confederate Oath Keepers member to promote his campaign. The Oath Keepers are a far-right militia that has been involved with numerous acts of violence, including on January 6, 2021. Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation <a href="https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/oath-keepers" 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;">wrote</a> that the group “has often carried out operations that implicitly or explicitly threaten violence, such as participation in armed standoffs with federal agents and protesters. Most notably, the group participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” Oath Keepers founder <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/elmer-stewart-rhodes" 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;">Stewart Rhodes</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/seditious-conspiracy-trial-tucker-carlsons-favorite-january-6-insurrectionist-thomas" 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;">other</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/oath-keeper-trials-jan-6.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;">members</a> are currently on <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/10/oath-keepers-trial-jan-6/8194692001/?gnt-cfr=1" 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;">trial</a> for charges related to the insurrection. Majewski previously hosted an online streaming program where he <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/us-house-nominee-jr-majewski-2021-i-believe-everything-thats-been-put-out-q" 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;">pushed</a> QAnon conspiracy theories. He is also a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/meet-qanon-affiliated-insurrectionist-running-congress-ohio" 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;">January 6 insurrectionist</a>. The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-afghanistan-ohio-campaigns-e75d2566635f11f49332bd1c46711999" 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;">reported</a> in September that Majewski “misrepresented” his military service by presenting “himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” Military documents, however, “indicate Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan but instead completed a six-month stint helping to load planes at an air base in Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally that is a safe distance from the fighting.”Majewski appearing on a program hosted by an Oath Keeper is just the latest example of the increasing overlap between the GOP and extremist media.He has been going on far-right programs to double down on his claim that he deployed to Afghanistan and build support for his campaign. Those programs include ones hosted by <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/following-ap-reports-his-military-record-jr-majewski-turns-white-nationalist-host" 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;">white nationalist</a> Stew Peters; <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/invoking-tucker-carlson-militia-linked-radio-host-calls-100-million-people-take-arms" 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;">militia-linked</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/far-right-media-trumpet-conspiracy-theory-buffalo-and-uvalde-mass-shootings-were-false" 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;">extremist</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994751" 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;">Pete Santilli</a>; and Kristi Leigh, who is a contributor to conspiracy theorist <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones" 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;">Alex Jones</a>’ network. Prior to the AP report, Majewski also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/jr-majewski-january-6-insurrectionist-group-youll-have-ready-access-me-all" 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;">appeared</a> on the streaming program of a right-wing group that said it had hundreds of members in D.C. during the January 6 insurrection.On October 11, Majewski <a href="https://www.facebook.com/livetruthradio/videos/1457748701378284/" 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;">appeared</a> on the LiveTruth Radio program for nearly 30 minutes. The show is hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/livetruthradio/posts/pfbid0S9kVZvRarCCypZNTk6PczLHh3d5BiiwpXqfv4UxPiRrrbgDL5EPVc2xc2CdY44mWl" 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;">Oath Keeper</a> <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/02/patriot-movement-az-founder-yes-im-pretty-hateful" 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;">Brian Lange</a>. During the interview -- and throughout the show -- the program <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/static/D8Image/2022/10/14/livetruth-jrmajewski.jpg?VersionId=jWLd1xnIlYDRWC3q40Oxc3D_zqi.ifLR&itok=pxTV9v0n" 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;">displayed</a> a small picture with the Oath Keepers logo and the words “get involved!”The show’s <a href="https://livetruthradio.com/" 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;">website</a> displays a logo for the Ohio Oath Keepers as well. On the program, Majewski criticized the Associated Press and asked Lange’s audience for their support and contributions. Following the interview and at the conclusion of the show, the Oath Keeper <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995230" 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> he endorses Majewski. Lange is also a supporter of the Confederacy and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/livetruthradio/videos/603864627171840/" 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;">displayed</a> the Confederate flag during one of his prior episodes. During that program, he said: “For all you Blacks and others out there that have been declaring that the Confederate flag is racist: You're a communist racist son of a bitch that doesn't even know the history of the Confederate flag.” =<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/war-afghanistan/seven-times-jr-majewski-claimed-media-he-deployed-afghanistan">https://www.mediamatters.org/war-afghanistan/seven-times-jr-majewski-claimed-media-he-deployed-afghanistan</a>=<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/jr-majewski-january-6-insurrectionist-group-youll-have-ready-access-me-all">https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/jr-majewski-january-6-insurrectionist-group-youll-have-ready-access-me-all</a>=torba<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/gab/gop-house-nominee-jr-majewski-praised-antisemitic-gab-ceo-andrew-torba-one-americas-greatest">https://www.mediamatters.org/gab/gop-house-nominee-jr-majewski-praised-antisemitic-gab-ceo-andrew-torba-one-americas-greatest</a>==an 6 22in  Ohio, much of the focus on former President Donald Trump’s endorsements of Republican candidates has been on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/03/donald-trump-backed-candidate-jd-vance-wins-ohio-senate-republican-primary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance</a>, who is competing with Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, in Ohio’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. One Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate and GOP nominee in Ohio who hasn’t received nearly as much national attention as Vance is J.R. Majewski, a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/13/jr-majewski-trump-ohio-republican-candidate-capitol-attack" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">full-fledged QAnon conspiracy theorist</a> running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives via Ohio’s 9th Congressional District.Majewski is hoping to unseat the Democratic nominee, long-time Rep. Marcy Kaptur. If the 43-year-old Majewski managed to defeat Kaptur, it would be a political shocker; the Ohio Democrat was first elected to the U.S. House in 1982. Kaptur, now 75, has the distinction of being the only woman who has been serving in that branch of Congress for almost 40 years.Kaptur survived the red waves of 1994 and 2010 and was reelected both years. But thanks to gerrymandering, it isn’t out of the question that Majewski — even with his support of QAnon — could win.The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt, in an article published on June 13, observes, “This is no quixotic campaign…. The 9th District has been redrawn for 2022, and is now rated as a toss-up by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the Cook Political Report</a>, ahead of elections in which Republicans are increasingly hopeful of winning the House and the Senate. If that happens, (President) Joe Biden will face extreme difficulty in passing any meaningful legislation for the rest of his first term.”Majewski is among the extremists who buys into the Big Lie and doesn’t believe that Biden legitimately won the 2020 presidential election — never mind the fact that numerous recounts confirmed the fact that he did. The Ohio Republican marched with fellow Big Lie promoters in Washington, D.C. on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/politics/kfile-jr-majewski-jan-6-qanon-material/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">January 6, 2021</a>, although he wasn’t part of the mob who broke into the U.S. Capitol Building.The Big Lie isn’t the only conspiracy theory that Majewski believes. QAnon has been claiming that the United States’ federal government has been hijacked by an international cabal of pedophiles, child sex traffickers, Satanists and cannibals and that Trump was put in the White House to fight the cabal.Majewski, Gabbatt notes, repainted a pro-Trump sign on his front law so that it was changed into a sign promoting QAnon.“The sign repainting wasn’t Majewski’s only dalliance with QAnon — a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory which has been labeled a potential domestic terror threat by the FBI — and which states, among other things, that a cabal of Democrats and liberals are engaged in child trafficking,” Gabbatt reports. “In a television interview about the sign, Majewski was wearing a QAnon t-shirt — and Media Matters, a media watchdog, documented multiple instances of Majewski posting images and hashtags relating to the baseless conspiracy theory.”Majewski has also called for red states to secede from the United States. In a video posted on the Periscope app, Gabbatt notes, Majewski said, “I didn’t want to be a hype beast, but I’ve had it in my back pocket to say that every state that went red should secede from the United States. I don’t think it sounds out there.”=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/gop-congressional-candidate-ad-rifle/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/gop-congressional-candidate-ad-rifle/</a>no lnx twt pix djt sharpie liar aocGOP congressional candidate shows images of Democrats and wields rifle in ominous campaign adBrandon Gage February 24, 2022A Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives released a campaign ad on Thursday in which he displayed images of President Joe Biden, Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Ilhan Omar (D-Illinois), and ex-quarterback Colin Kaepernick that preceded footage of him wielding a rifle and pledging to "do whatever it takes to return this country back to its former glory."JR Majewski of Ohio's 9th Congressional District, which includes Toledo, is an Air Force Veteran who supports former President Donald Trump and wants to "make Ohio and America great again." His area of expertise is managing projects within the nuclear power industry.In his 60-second spot, Majewski accuses Democrats of "pushing unsustainable environmental solutions that waste taxpayer dollars on useless government subsidies that are killing our jobs. They're not creating new energy besides the energy to run their mouths."Pictures of AOC, Omar, Kaepernick, and Biden provided the backdrop for Majewski's remarks.He then declared that liberals "will undoubtedly destroy our economy" and that "we are losing our country and every classroom, every county, every police station, every company, and with every illegal vote."The progressive agenda is "bringing America to its knees," Majewski added, which led into him carrying a firearm and promising to "do whatever it takes to return this country back to its former glory."Watch below via PatriotTakes:PatriotTakes – an account that monitors right-wing hate speech on social media – condemned Majewski's "implied threats of violence."PatriotTakes also pointed out that Majewski was in Washington, DC during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection."Everyone who helped incite, plan, or participate in the January 6th riot should be banned from political office," PatriotTakes said.=