Kansas secretary of state and Republican nominee for governor Kris Kobach’s policies show that he’s a white supremacist. His list of supporters—including some of his earliest supporters—show Kobach is not a freelancer. He has deep connections in and has to be regarded as a part of a network of anti-immigrant white supremacists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center writes of John Tanton that he “spent decades at the heart of the white nationalist movement.” He wrote in 1993 that “I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”
In 2004, a $10,000 donation from US Immigration Reform Pac helped kickstart Kobach’s career. This year the group, which is run by Tanton’s wife, Mary Lou Tanton, donated $2,000 more to Kobach’s gubernatorial campaign. [...]
Kobach has also accepted financial support from KC McAlpin, executive director of another Tanton-founded organization, US Inc, which produces the Social Contract Press, a racist and anti-immigrant publication. In 2015, Kobach gave a speech at a Social Contract Press’ Writer’s Workshop conference. Approached by the TPM blog about the appearance, McAlpin said it was “absurd” to call the meeting a white nationalist conference and pointed to the presence of “several” individuals who were black, Hispanic and Asian. According to the SPLC, the Social Contract Press was banned as hate literature by Canadian border authorities.
Kobach’s other financial supporters include the Trump administration official who was forced to resign after his ties to white supremacists came to light, including his lighthearted response to an invitation to a “judenfrei” (free of Jews) dinner party. Kobach himself spent more than a decade working for the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, of which the SPLC wrote “FAIR leaders have ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists and have made many racist statements. Its advertisements have been rejected because of racist content.”
It’s not really a secret that Kobach, who will be overseeing the election in which he himself is on the ballot for governor, is a white supremacist, in other words. It’s just not something that gets mentioned as much as it should.
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