New: updated @HuffPost tally finds 57 state & local GOP officials at Jan. 6 rally that turned into the insurrection, most of whom are now resisting calls to resign.
These GOP officials included an extremist sheriff who discussed harming members of Congress, a town council member who is closely affiliated with the neo-fascist Proud Boys, and a county commissioner from Florida who once discussed beheading liberals. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60…
There were at least:
- 16 GOP members of state houses or assemblies
- 4 state senators
- 1 state AG
- 6 county commissioners
- 7 city council members
- 2 mayors
- 3 school board members
- 2 state GOP chairs
- 2 prosecutors
In 2019 I wrote a series of stories exposing a dozen US servicemen as members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa
Among them were 2 National Guardsmen....both of whom, after being exposed as fascists, were allowed to stay in the National Guard huffpost.com/entry/white-na…
New: My look at why police didn't see MAGA insurrectionists as a threat ahead of the siege on the capitol.
Institutionally, American police have seen pro-Trump extremists as allies, especially during 2020's historic anti-racist uprisings. huffpost.com/entry/cops-mag…
It's imperative to remember the scale of state violence visited upon Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.
And all the stories, so many stories, of cops choosing to ally themselves with white fascists showing up to confront & attack BLM protesters. huffpost.com/entry/cops-mag…
American police's institutional MAGA-ness also likely made them blind to the reality that the president's followers posed a threat to police themselves. huffpost.com/entry/cops-mag…
What Leaf didn't acknowledge in that interview is that he attended the 2019 conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which is closely tied to this country's anti-government patriot movement, which includes militias. huffpost.com/entry/michigan…
A vile neo-Nazi suddenly relocates to PA from Texas & starts a Lancaster-focused blog that's linked to a pro-Kremlin site run by a man — closely tied to a Russian oligarch —who recently bought a $440K house in Lancaster without evidence he has any income.
Then that Nazi blogger in Lancaster produces a bunch of bull shit propaganda about anti-racist protests that gets picked up by Fox News and promoted by MAGA propagandists like Ian Miles Cheong.
Jeremy admits he has a 2013 warrant for unpaid fines in another county.
@HuffPost confirmed the officers belonged to Spokane County Sheriff's Office, which would not explain why it felt suddenly compelled to arrest Jeremy on an old out-of-county warrant huffpost.com/entry/jeremy-l…