Welcome to what is the 1035th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Irene Armendariz-Jackson, who was a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 16th Congressional District, as a challenger to Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar. She is decidedly in the “Latinos for Trump” camp, constantly calling for the completion of a full useless border wall along the U.S./Mexico border.
She’s also the latest Republican we’ve profiled who is an adherent of the Qanon conspiracy theory. Texas Monthly saw her social media accounts linked to several Qanon accounts and would occasional use Qanon hashtags, so they decided to ask her what she knew about it… and it got vey weird, very fast:
“Conservatives know there is a conspiracy, a deep state conspiracy. The Democratic party is very much intertwined with the satanic church.” She continued that the bodies of aborted babies are used to promote satanic worship and then described once driving by a condemned building in Omaha, Nebraska, where politicians and celebrities had sex with children. Which of course, she never reported to anyone to shut it down and can’t remember where this building is today… but whatever, right? She insisted the longer Donald Trump was in power, the more Armendariz-Jackson believed these secrets will be exposed.
“I know a lot of Americans are waking up to understand the darkness behind everything going on right now.” She’s also spread conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden, as well as election fraud conspiracy theories in the year since the election.
Irene Armendariz-Jackson lost to Congresswoman Escobar badly in 2020, getting just 35% of the vote. She has since been banned from Facebook, but somehow thinks being removed from social media platforms will help her win office in 2022, where she’s already filed to run again. We can only take solace in knowing that given the lean of the district, it’s highly unlikely she ever does more than she did in her first run.
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Five Years Ago, October 16th, 2016: Gordon Klingenschmitt (CO)… 2016 Update
Six Years Ago, October 16th, 2015: Gordon Klingenschmitt (CO)… 2015 Update
Seven Years Ago, October 16th, 2014: Gordon Klingenschmitt (CO)… Original Profile