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These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
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There are five weeks left until the midterm elections, and extremism is on the ballot in much of the US.
Key facts
- Bo French, the GOP candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, is so extreme that Republican strategist Karl Rove has said he would vote for a Democrat rather than supporting a “bigot
- While many extremist candidates—such as groyper James Fishback and antisemitic influencer Dan Bilzerian, didn’t make it through GOP primaries, many made it to the general election, and several them
- The candidates are taking a page out of the Trump administration’s playbook,” Luke Baumgartner, a former research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tells WIRED
- President Donald Trump and his administration have openly embraced, endorsed and defended many of these candidates
Summary
At a local level, over 500 candidates running for state legislator positions in November are members of far-right groups on Facebook that promote militias, gun rights, and Christian nationalism, according to data collected by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and shared with WIRED. While many extremist candidates—such as groyper James Fishback and antisemitic influencer Dan Bilzerian, didn’t make it through GOP primaries, many made it to the general election, and several them are expected to win. “The candidates are taking a page out of the Trump administration’s playbook,” Luke Baumgartner, a former research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tells WIRED. Here are five races involving candidates who have shared extremist ideologies or have close ties to extremist figures, that WIRED is watching ahead of the November midterms.