“An ‘America First’ White Nationalist Is On Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Don Huffines’ Staff”

An open White nationalist leader within the America First/groyper movement, best known within the movement as Jake Lloyd, appears to be currently serving as deputy communications director for far-right Texas gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines.¹ Huffines’ campaign has promoted virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy and is dragging the Texas GOP even further toward the Right. While the Huffines campaign doesn’t list staff on its website, Lloyd—who’s called for maintaining a White “supermajority” in the U.S. and founded a far-right chatroom where members called for “death to all minorities”—is advertised as serving in that role in at least three upcoming speaking events with the influential conservative organization True Texas Project, which strongly supports and regularly hosts events with Huffines’ campaign. In a December 2021 interview with the conservative outlet Current Revolt, the 24-year-old Lloyd wrote that he is currently “focused on electing real conservatives to the Texas government (Don Huffines for Governor btw).” 

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