Texas Gov Candidate Refuses To Fire White Nationalist

The Huffington Post reports:

A Republican candidate for governor of Texas says he will not fire a prominent white nationalist activist from his staff, despite extensive evidence of the staffer’s past leadership role in a deeply racist and anti-Semitic group.

Don Huffines, a former Texas state senator and one of three Republicans running in a primary against Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, told HuffPost on Tuesday that his campaign will “not participate in cancel culture” by severing ties with Jake Lloyd Colglazier, who once declared that the white “race is dying.”

On Friday, the social justice think tank Political Research Associates published a report detailing how Colglazier became a leading voice in the white nationalist America First, or “groyper,” movement. Prior to that, he was a host at the far-right conspiracist website InfoWars.

Read the full article.

Huffines last appeared on JMG when a man named Rick Perry also entered the gubernatorial race. Local media instantly figured out that Perry is a Huffines supporter.

Last October, Huffines boasted that he had pressured Texas into removing a link to an LGBTQ suicide hotline.

Don Huffinea Texas GOP Candidate For Governor Won’t Fire Staffer Jake Lloyd Colglazier who had a leadership role in a deeply racist and anti-Semitic group and hosted the far-right conspiracist website InfoWars. https://t.co/o3MiqOFUZo via @Yahoo

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