The Maury County Criminal Circuit Court sentenced Santa Fe man Daniel Walls to three years jailtime this week in connection to his involvement in posting racist flyers on Black churches in Columbia in July 2023. Walls, 39, pleaded guilty on four counts of civil rights intimidation Tuesday. In addition to his three-year sentence, Walls will […]
A candidate for Missouri governor with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the ballot as a Republican, a Cole County judge ruled on Friday. Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker rejected a lawsuit from the Missouri Republican Party seeking to remove the long shot candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan III, from the August […]
A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that a self-avowed former “honorary” member of the Ku Klux Klan can remain on the state’s Republican primary ballot for governor, despite Missouri Republicans seeking to keep him off the ballot. “The Plaintiff did not present to the Court any evidence that having McClanahan on a primary election ballot […]
A Missouri candidate for governor with reported ties to the Ku Klux Klan will remain on the ballot despite his own party’s efforts to oust him, a state judge has ruled. The state’s Republican party sued to stop Darrell McClanahan from appearing on the GOP primary ballot this August. The Missouri GOP initially accepted him […]
An honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the GOP primary ballot for Missouri governor, a judge ruled Friday. Longshot candidate Darrell McClanahan III survived a legal challenge by the Missouri Republican Party to shunt him from the ballot, which was denied Friday by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker. The […]
If Bessie Smith were alive today, she’d likely be singing the blues about North Carolina. A state advisory panel has recommended against approval of a highway historical marker for the night the blues legend stood up to the Ku Klux Klan nearly a century ago in Concord. Historians on the state Highway Historical Marker Advisory […]
A Cole County judge will decide whether the Missouri Republican Party can block a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican. Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker held a one-day trial in Jefferson City on Thursday over a lawsuit from the state party seeking to remove the […]
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Friday said he does not have the authority to unilaterally remove a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican. But Ashcroft, a Republican who is also running for governor, said he supported a lawsuit from the Missouri Republican Party […]
The Missouri Republican Party is working to remove a Republican candidate for governor from the ballot after a photo resurfaced online of the candidate saluting in front of a burning cross. The candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan, is depicted in the photograph next to a person who was wearing what appear to be hooded Ku Klux […]
A man running for governor of Missouri whose ties to the Ku Klux Klan were recently made public said that the state Republicans who are now working to oust him from the race were already familiar with his beliefs. “The Missouri GOP knew exactly who I am,” Darrell McClanahan III wrote on X. “What a […]
The Missouri Republican Party said it is working to remove a Republican candidate for governor after it was revealed he has ties with the Ku Klux Klan, and was seen in a photo giving a Nazi salute while standing in front of a burning cross. Darrell Leon McClanahan III “filed for Governor as a Republican […]