DON HUFFINES STANDS BY STAFFER WITH WHITE NATIONALIST TIES

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Don Huffines is one of the RWNJs running against Greg Abbott in the Texas GOP primary. Huffines and Allan West are RWNJs who are to right of Greg and Greg is trying to compete by doing nutty things like trying to build a wall and spending $2 billion to send the Texas National Guard to the border where they are doing nothing.

I do not see how Greg will out right wing nut job Huffines but this will be fun to watch. It is going to be tough to top Huffines defending having a known racist on his staff

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In his quest to primary Greg Abbott, former state senator Don Huffines has relied on an intensely right-wing agenda. His campaign frequently utilizes nativist and anti-immigrant talking points. And now, when a staffer has been alleged to have direct links to white nationalism, Huffines is not backing down.

The staffer is Jake Lloyd Colglazier, who formerly worked at the conspiracy website InfoWars, and is listed on numerous websites as the deputy communications director for Huffines. The think tank Political Research Associates has extensive documentation of Colglazier’s long history of trafficking in white nationalism in the America First and the “groyper army.” The “groyper army” refers to a group of white nationalist internet trolls that rally around the alt-right figure Nick Fuentes, who was recently subpoenaed by the January 6 committee investigating the Insurrection.

According to Political Research Associates, Colglazier used his platform as a groyper to broadcast his fears of a “demographic cliff” for white Americans. Several videos Colglazier uploaded to the streaming website DLive also show him mocking Black Americans killed by police. In one video he says, “I spit on the name George Floyd.”

When the Texas Tribune asked Huffines whether he would retain Colglazier, he sent a defiant written statement. “If I were to go through the social media history of any young Texan I would find something I disagree with,” Huffines wrote. “My campaign will not participate in cancel culture.”

Huffines has a ton of signs out in my county. Signs do not vote but I saw a dozen Huffines signs today and did not see even one Abbott sign

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1. a new low for a campaign steeped in xenophobia

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