Let’s meet Miami’s new black face mayoral candidate, Alexander Otaola. @alexotaola
This “anti-communist” grifter personality is known for racist rants & disinformation on his “Hola Ota-Ola!” YouTube show but he’s also chummy w the Miami GOP and the Proud Boys. Let’s go! 🔥🧵1/
Alexander Otaola’s protest antics and his connection to pushing far-right false narratives are well documented by local media.
And local politicos like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar have also been known to pull strings for him. 👮🏻♂️🚔 2/
Alexander Otaola enjoys hobnobbing w the local Miami GOP scene. 🍸
He attended the @MiamiDadeGOP 2021 Christmas Party, posing with GOP chair Rene Garcia & alongside Jan 6 insurrectionist Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG + her BF, disgraced former exec director Brandon Diaz. 3/
Alexander Otaola, who is openly gay, hosted on his June 21 YouTube show Miami anti-LGBTQ hate pusher and Moms for Liberty chair Eulalia Jimenez.
Eulalia swore up and down she’s opposed to homophobia but her and M4L’s track record says otherwise. 🤥 4/
Accompanying Eulalia Jimenez to the interview and posing with Alexander Otaola was “low libido” Miami Proud Boy Nowell Salgueiro who holds a seat on Miami GOP executive committee.
Nowell is also known for shouting homophobic remarks at journalists and promoting Pinochet. 😬 5/
As to the insanely racist blackface segment Alexander Otaola hosted on his show, in 2017 he impersonated Cuban reggaeton artist Chocolate MC. 🎤
In fact, website AfroCubaWeb @afrocubaweb has compiled links and media around on racism in the white Cuban community — Alexander Otaola has 5 entries and even his own page.
More of Alexander Otaola pressing the flesh with local Miami GOP figures at the Lincoln Day dinner: Marco Rubio, Rene Garcia, Joe Carollo and Ileana Garcia. 🍸🍸
EXTRA: Apparently @alexotaola has picked up a few enemies.
Someone made a change.org petition giving this “anti-communist” activist a dose of his own medicine: accusing him of working for the Cuban government and demanding the US revoke his residency. 😂😂
EXTRA: A quick skim of Alex Otaola’s Twitter feed shows him retweeting the Post Millennial, the sinking outlet edited by far-right propagandist Andy Ngo, and the newly elected QAnon congresswoman Maya Flores.
Always so predictable!
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Today we reveal funders of far-right Proud Boy ally Chris Nelson running for Fort Lauderdale mayor. Let’s meet Morgan Stanley financial advisor Gregory Hugh Cousins of Pompano Beach, FL.
Gregory donated $500 & is behind the Twitter persona “Frog Capital” @FrogNews 1/🧵
It’s never a good idea to fund hate — especially when there’s very public records & it’s easy to connect the dots.
Morgan Stanley broker and financial advisor Gregory Hugh Cousins with his office based in Boca Raton, FL found out the hard way. 2/
And of course there’s more!
Also funding Chris Nelson’s hate fueled far-right campaign for Fort Lauderdale mayor with a $100 donation is Nancy Ferrante Gemma of Pembroke Pines, FL. 3/
Meet the man currently nominated for a Florida State GOP Committeeman seat by the Miami GOP @MiamiDadeGOP.
Former Proud Boy & January 6th rioter Chris Barcenas. #USAPB
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Following the scandal caused by NYT coverage of the Proud Boys & allies holding seats on the Miami GOP Republican Executive Committee (REC) in 2022 — many remain active, including Barcenas.
This is also why the Miami GOP keeps membership a secret. 2/
Keep in mind two Proud Boys, Gabriel Garcia & Gilbert Fonticoba, were sitting Miami GOP REC members when indicted for J6 charges. Both since convicted.
A third REC member, Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG, was indicted in Dec 2023 for being inside the Capitol on J6 w Garcia. 3/
Rafael Verde, b. Dec 1968, is behind a string of short lived real estate & investment LLCs & currently “Ice Mountain LLC.”
Public records show a mountain of personal debts — his house went into foreclosure this month & he’s facing two credit card lender lawsuits for $27k. 2/
Proud Boy Rafael Antonio Verde has records for evictions in 2000, 2015, 2018 & another foreclosure in 2006. Former employer Bankers Life & Casualty sued him in 2015 for not returning $12k in commissions — likely signed up fraudulently based on later criminal charges. 3/
NEW: Today we present a special reveal featuring the president of Miami’s Vice City Proud Boys & two associates.
Let’s meet Alejandro “Alex” Reyes, the 50 year old discount rack Liver King who irons his beard & lives in a $2.5 million house in the burbs of Kendall. 1/🧵
Roid raging Proud Boy & president of Miami’s Vice City chapter Alejandro “Alex” Reyes is known for his appearances at the Miami school board @MDCPS opposing LGBTQ history month alongside PB ally groups, Miami Moms for Liberty (RIP) and the Christian Family Coalition. 2/
Miami Proud Boy leader Alejandro “Alex” Reyes has been a fixture at rallies + events & we know he’s the president because his telegram profile tells us: VCPB = Vice City Proud Boys.
In 2022 he was one of several Proud Boys who signed on as local poll workers w @MDCElections 3/
Let’s meet Patrick Bet-David who invited neo-fascist & white supremacist Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau, currently facing charges for the tiki torch Nazi march during Unite the Right, to his Fort Lauderdale studio for a ‘friendly chat’ on his PBD Podcast for YouTube.
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Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid is a 45 year old multi-level marketing ‘entrepreneur’ & podcaster based in Fort Lauderdale living in a $20 mill mansion in the posh neighborhood of Bay Colony.
800 feet of waterfront with a boat slip as well. 🛥️🐳 2/
Patrick Bet-David is a cretin of the right-wing media sphere with a recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show and last year did a “5 hour sit down” with underage model trafficker (allegedly) & professional misogynist Andrew Tate. 3/
A special update on the Hitler praising antisemitic Florida lawyer William Bavier who we revealed Last year to be behind the infamous “attorney fren” Twitter persona.
He is now working immigration cases for the prominent Miami law firm of Alex Hanna @AlexHannaLawyer 1/
How did we find him?
Easy. William Bavier, aka “attorney fren,” has a Florida bar profile which lists his email address as “” and it took only minutes to find him in a December 2023 social media post from Alex Hanna’s law firm @AlexHannaLawyer. 2/ alexhanna.com
Hey @AlexHannaLawyer is this the type of racist bigot you want on your team handling immigration cases?
Below: Original March 2023 post revealing “attorney fren” aka William Bavier’s identify. 3/