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"Steve King. Ted Cruz. Marsha Blackburn. They're just 3 of a number of candidates with open white supremacist, nativist, anti-LGBTQ+ or antigovernment ties who won seats in the U.S. House and Senate during the 2018 midterms." #YearInHate bit.ly/2TVE2PC
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"Matt Gaetz
Florida | House
Won with 67.1%
Matt Gaetz was elected to his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He previously served in the Florida state House of Representatives."
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Florida | House
Won with 67.1%
Matt Gaetz was elected to his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He previously served in the Florida state House of Representatives."
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"Gaetz invited Chuck Johnson, a white nationalist “Trump Troll,” to Trump’s State of the Union address in January 2018. Johnson is a Holocaust denier who developed WeSearchr, a payment platform for racist “alt-right” crowdfunding."
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Matt Gaetz: 
"Clay Higgins
Louisiana | House
Won with 55.7%
Clay Higgins was elected to his second term in the U.S House of Representatives."
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Louisiana | House
Won with 55.7%
Clay Higgins was elected to his second term in the U.S House of Representatives."
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"In 2017, Higgins attended an event hosted by the antigovernment extremist group Oath Keepers whose founder Stewart Rhodes boasted of Higgins’ attendance, writing,..."
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"'You will be among thousands of like-minded American patriots from many groups and many states, with some excellent speakers.'"
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"Kevin Cramer
North Dakota | Senate
Won with 55.4%
Kevin Cramer, endorsed by the anti-LGBT hate group Public Advocate of the United States, filled out the group’s survey and received a 100 percent rating."
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North Dakota | Senate
Won with 55.4%
Kevin Cramer, endorsed by the anti-LGBT hate group Public Advocate of the United States, filled out the group’s survey and received a 100 percent rating."
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"The survey included questions like, 'Should public schools be prevented from brainwashing elementary school children with the Homosexual Agenda?'"
percent rating."
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percent rating."
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"Marsha Blackburn
Tennessee | Senate
Won with 55.7%
Marsha Blackburn was elected to her first term in the U.S. Senate."
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Tennessee | Senate
Won with 55.7%
Marsha Blackburn was elected to her first term in the U.S. Senate."
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"Blackburn has received an award from the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America. In 2017, she celebrated Trump’s inauguration with Iowa Rep. Steve King, who has well-documented sympathies with racist ideas."
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"Josh Hawley
Missouri | Senate
Won with 51.5%
Josh Hawley was elected to his first term in the U.S. Senate. Since 2017, Hawley has served as Missouri’s attorney general."
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Missouri | Senate
Won with 51.5%
Josh Hawley was elected to his first term in the U.S. Senate. Since 2017, Hawley has served as Missouri’s attorney general."
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"While a professor at the University of Missouri, Hawley spoke at a leadership conference hosted by anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). Since 2013, Hawley and his wife have earned $8,700 from ADF."
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"Greg Gianforte
Montana | House
Won with 50.9%
Greg Gianforte is serving his first full term in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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Montana | House
Won with 50.9%
Greg Gianforte is serving his first full term in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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"He was previously elected to the position in a 2017 special election to replace former Rep. Ryan Zinke. Gianforte’s family trust has given more than $1 million to anti-LGBT groups, including the hate group Family Research Council."*
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"Ted Cruz
Texas | Senate
Won with 50.9%
Ted Cruz was elected to his second term in the U.S. Senate."
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Texas | Senate
Won with 50.9%
Ted Cruz was elected to his second term in the U.S. Senate."
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"During his failed 2016 campaign for the presidency, Cruz dog-whistled to the antigovernment extremist movement when he released an ad vowing to remove federal stewardship of all public lands in Nevada,..."
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Ted Cruz:
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"Mark Harris
North Carolina | House
Won with 49.4%
Mark Harris was elected to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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North Carolina | House
Won with 49.4%
Mark Harris was elected to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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"Harris is a member of Watchmen on the Wall, a program of the anti-LGBT hate group FRC. He has a history of fighting LGBT equality in his home state.
💭 The #FRC is a #CNP org
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💭 The #FRC is a #CNP org
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His church gave $50,000 to the campaign against same-sex marriage in the state, and he has said being gay is a 'choice.'"
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