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Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:58 PM Jan 2022

Ex-Oaf Creepers spokesperson warns of right-wing 'propaganda'

Showing off his latest paintings celebrating Pride Month -- what he calls "a whole body of work using only trans models" -- Colorado artist Jason Van Tatenhove looks and talks nothing like he did five years ago, when he was a national spokesperson and, as he put it, "propagandist" for the Oath Keepers militia.

At the time, wearing a camouflage jacket in Oath Keepers videos posted online, Van Tatenhove regularly warned "good Americans" that the federal government was trying to "take more of your liberties away," and urged "fellow patriots" to "take a stand."

It's "a battle between good and evil," he declared in a December 2015 video.

But now he rejects such rhetoric as "absolutely dangerous" propaganda, pushed by militia leaders and their right-wing media allies for personal and financial gain.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-oath-keepers-spokesperson-warns-of-right-wing-propaganda/ar-AASutBj

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