A former Marine who carried a tiki torch ahead of a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., pleaded guilty Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, S.C., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers who were protecting the Capitol. […]
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A man who attended the Charlottesville Unite the Right rallies is now fighting to keep his city council seat after his past was revealed
When a public official in a small Oklahoma city faced a censure vote that condemned his recent ties to White nationalism, he was saved – at least temporarily – by a Black man. Several residents in Enid blasted city council commissioner Judd Blevins at a public meeting last fall for participating in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rallies […]
Politician who attended Charlottesville white-supremacist rally faces recall
Voters in the north-west Oklahoma city of Enid are being asked to decide whether a councilmember who attended the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 should be removed from his post. Iraq war veteran Judd Blevins, 42, was elected to Enid’s city council to be the commissioner of its first ward last […]
Oklahoma official facing recall over white nationalist ties defends marching in Charlottesville
A City Council member in Enid, Oklahoma, defended marching alongside white nationalists in Virginia in 2017 at a public forum Tuesday night where he was questioned about his connections to racist groups. Judd Blevins, who faces a recall election next week, declined to provide details of his prior white nationalist activism. Asked about the groups […]