GOP House Rep Attends White Supremacist Conference

Medium reports:

The far-right subgroup behind the conference calls itself the “America First” movement, deriving its namesake from the title of the broadcasts of extremist live-streamer Nicholas Fuentes, its most prominent figure. America First exists most notably as a fringe movement among conservative social media communities, home to its own micro-industry of influencers, vendors, and broadcasters.

Its followers have repeatedly antagonized competing Republican causes — sometimes in person — to boost the movement’s visibility on the national political stage and siphon younger activists into extremist projects. Two speakers at the conference, Fuentes and video producer Vincent James Foxx, were present on the east side of the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 attack.

Sitting congressman Rep. Paul Gosar has taken the stage at the “America First” white nationalist conference down the road from CPAC. pic.twitter.com/NNqb1Fr2Ji

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) February 27, 2021

Far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes announces that AZ Congressman @RepGosar is giving the keynote address for his AFPAC tonight pic.twitter.com/91zHOfNbaV

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) February 27, 2021

Gosar’s chief of staff was part of a Clubhouse chatroom days ago with Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander:https://t.co/AbX500kbqE

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) February 27, 2021

A speaker on before @RepGosar tells the crowd: “We must not be afraid of the idea of secession.”

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) February 27, 2021

Ex-Congressman Steve King, known for racist remarks and telling the NYT “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” is now speaking ahead of @RepGosar pic.twitter.com/GKEFSygea8

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) February 27, 2021

.@RepGosar defends anti-Muslim extremist and conspiracy theorist Larua Loomer, who is in attendance at the rally, for being banned from social media and calls her a “canary in the coal mine”

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) February 27, 2021

Rep. Paul Gosar spoke tonight at AFPAC, an event run by white nationalists. Right after Gosar, organizer Nick Fuentes said “white people are done being bullied,” and praised the Capitol riot as “awesome.”

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 27, 2021

At the white nationalist conference that Rep. Paul Gosar and former Rep. Steve King spoke at tonight, the headline speaker just said that if demographics change in America and there is no longer a white majority, that it “isn’t America” anymore.

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) February 27, 2021

Here’s @repherrell serving as Paul Gosar’s proxy in Congress so that he could at that very moment be speaking at a white supremacist convention instead pic.twitter.com/ZlMZcDjiTP

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) February 27, 2021

I served in Congress with Gosar. The Republican conference must penalize him. Censure him. Knock him off committees. They must unequivocally condemn white supremacy. But they won’t. https://t.co/niQIwviVt6

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 27, 2021

Here’s another bit from the Nick Fuentes speech at AFPAC, delivered right after Rep. Paul Gosar got off the stage. Gosar’s speaking at CPAC in a couple hours. Fuentes joked that he’d get a call from his lawyer afterward. pic.twitter.com/N0nX0maXrZ

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 27, 2021

Here is Cong Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and ex-Cong Steve King (R-IA) proudly posing with white supremacist, Holocaust denier and Jan 6 insurrectionist Nick Fuentes at his white supremacist AFPAC event yesterday. @GOPLeader @HouseGOP pic.twitter.com/7Eti7yn9Ss

— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) February 27, 2021