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Julián Castro stated on March 08, 2016 in Hillary Clinton campaign news release:

"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."

By Filipa Ioannou• April 30, 2016

Tennessee Republican Party stated on February 25, 2008 in a news release:

"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."

By Robert Farley• March 14, 2008

André Carson stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":

"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."

By Jon Greenberg• December 18, 2015

X posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a tweet:

Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization.

By Caleb McCullough• February 16, 2022

Viral image stated on May 04, 2020 in a Facebook post:

A photo shows Rob Cantrall at a recent Michigan protest.

By Ciara O'Rourke• May 7, 2020

Brian Sims stated on March 12, 2016 in In a fundraising email to supporters:

"The right-wing extremists are trying to take this seat so they can push their anti-choice and anti-equality agenda through our State House."

By Mark Dent• March 18, 2016

Pete Buttigieg stated on August 05, 2019 in a Medium post:

"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."

By Amy Sherman• August 9, 2019

Cory Booker stated on January 16, 2018 in an interview on CNN:

"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."

By Amy Sherman• January 18, 2018

Raphael Warnock stated on December 06, 2020 in a debate:

Says Kelly Loeffler “welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview.”

By Tom Kertscher• December 9, 2020

Kelly Loeffler stated on December 06, 2022 in a tweet:

On the day of the Dec. 6 runoff, “armed groups of Black Panthers” were “reportedly patrolling certain voting locations” in Georgia.

By Gabrielle Settles, Amy Sherman• December 8, 2022

Michael Caputo stated on September 13, 2020 in a Facebook video:

"There are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second term for President Donald Trump.

By Bill McCarthy• September 17, 2020

Bloggers stated on May 25, 2018 in a blog post:

"$1.8 billion Of Soros’ money just intercepted – he could officially go to prison for years"

By Katie Akin• July 13, 2018

Liberty Institute stated on March 29, 2010 in a Web site:

"An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child."

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 30, 2010

Focus on the Family Action stated on March 26, 2008 in an article written by Tom Minnery:

Obama "supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality."

By Robert Farley• April 23, 2008

Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate stated on April 05, 2017 in a fund-raising email:

Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."

By Tom Kertscher• April 17, 2017

Cory Booker stated on March 27, 2019 in a CNN town hall in South Carolina:

Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."

By Amy Sherman• April 11, 2019

Dennis Prager stated on May 18, 2017 in an appearance on CNN:

"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."

By Louis Jacobson• May 22, 2017

Scott Dawson stated on May 15, 2018 in campaign press release:

"Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers’ money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism."

By Manuela Tobias• May 29, 2018

Barack Obama stated on February 21, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas.:

"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."

By Robert Farley• February 22, 2008

Sebastian Gorka stated on August 08, 2017 in an interview with MSNBC:

"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."

By Louis Jacobson• August 10, 2017

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