WASHINGTON (JTA) — Corey Stewart, a politician with associations with neo-Confederates, the “alt-right” and a well-known anti-Semite, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia. The Republican establishment battled hard to thwart Stewart in the three-way primary race Tuesday to decide who faces Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine in November, backing State Delegate Nick Freitas. Stewart…
President Trump tweeted his congratulations on Wednesday to Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart, who has several ties with the “alt-right.” “Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia,” Trump tweeted. “Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your…
During his failed primary bid for Virginia governor in 2017, Republican Corey Stewart paid far-right commentator Paul Nehlen $759 as a “fundraising commission” in May, according to a June 2017 campaign finance filing with the Virginia Department of Elections. Stewart’s payment to Nehlen, made to his company the “Paul Nehlan (sic) Group” in the filings,…
Virginia GOP Senate primary favorite Corey Stewart has not renounced calling Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes” in a December 2017 video, despite Nehlen’s subsequent emergence as a racist anti-Semite, The Weekly Standard reported Tuesday. Nehlen has been banned from Twitter for racist and anti-Semitic tweets. His clashes with other white…
Less than a year after hosting a massive rally of white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us,” Charlottesville, Virginia is again at the center of a controversy over politics, free speech and anti-Semitism. But this time, the moral lines are much murkier. Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for…
(JTA) — The Republican Party of Virginia accused the Democratic nominee for a congressional race of being a “virulent anti-Semite.” Leslie Cockburn received the Democratic nomination for the 5th Congressional District race on Saturday afternoon, during the Democrat’s convention in Farmville, Virginia. She beat out three other candidates and will face incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Garrett…
A conservative activist in suburban Washington, D.C. is recovering from being shot and hit by a car, allegedly by a former Marine he hired to investigate the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Jack Burkman told The Washington Post that he had hired Kevin Doherty to help him build a psychological profile…
A farm well-known in northern Virginia for wearing its politics on its sleeves decided it was time to tone it down. A sign reading “Rise & Resist” had led to an outpouring of vitriol from neighbors and fellow Virginians over a perceived attack on Trump. They thought changing it to “Resist White Supremacy” would make…
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