JD Vance follows a who's who of extremists on Twitter, including antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists.
Thread on the weirdos and freaks that the VP candidate follows: 🧵
Pedro Gonzalez is a right-wing influencer who has said "as a group" Jews are "problematic" and advocated for "screening them for movements"
Richard Hanania wrote on for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym, advocated for forced sterilizations of "low IQ people" who he claimed were mostly Black and opposes "race-mixing". A lot more here huffpost.com/entry/richard-…
Darren Beattie was fired from the Trump administration after it was revealed he attended a white nationalist conference
Jack Posobiec is a pizzagate conspiracy theorist who has collaborated with neo-Nazis and pushed Russian backed disinformation campaigns splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
Aimee Terese is a "post-left influencer" who advocates to put "misogynists back in the Oval Office" and advocated against consent
Laura Loomer is a white nationalists an self-described "proud Islamophobe" (Trump recently praised her at a rally"
"Bronze Age Pervert" is huge on the far-right: He's an extreme misogynist who has written for white supremacist publications
"Raw Egg Nationalist" is another similar influencer: far-right "lifestyle" influencer and extreme misogynists who's appeared on Infowars and made racist statements online
Scott Greer was fired from the Daily Caller after it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacist website
Candace Owens: antisemite, transphobic, racist -- we know who she is
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"Winding down its policy operations" is misleading.
The policy work has been largely complete since they published their 900 page book in April 2023. Project 2025 includes an indispensible concentration of policy proposals in the conservative movement mediamatters.org/heritage-found…
Kevin Roberts on 7/12: “Never before has the conservative movement been this unified around a governing agenda”
Project 2025 is about securing the legacy of Trumpism for the next GOP administration and beyond.
NEW: @mmfa has launched a major new project tracking Trump's closest advisers across the entire right-wing media. This resource will be updated on a weekly basis.
We are tracking a close-knit circle of operatives -- from podcast hosts to think tank presidents to far-right internet trolls, based on public reporting on who's exerting influence behind the scenes on Trump.
Trumpworld is a volatile, back-biting universe. Power centers rise and fall on an extremely fluid basis. We're going to update this peice with breaking news as it develops.
Christian Zionist Michelle Bachmann tells Charlie Kirk at Amfest conference:
"It's time that Gaza ends. The 2 million people who live there, they are clever assassins. they need to be removed from that land, that land needs to be turned into a national park."
Crowd cheers
Bachman was on for several segments, during which she and Kirk pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, said Muslims shouldn't be serving in congress, said Somalians are turning Minnesota into a terrorist hellhole, I could go on.
Kirk is endorsing Elon Musk's antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are using immigration to destabilize the country, which he described as "the actual truth"
Last weekend Donald Trump called his political enemies "vermin", a Hitlerian term, the premise of which was used to justify the genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others he despised.