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“Southerners are ridiculed, scorned, and defamed at every turn,” Marshall Rawson said in a speech at a 2021 League of the South conference, adding: “Yes, is it OK to be white and of Caucasian origin. Yes, Southerners are a distinct people, a nation.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

A photo of Rawson, who is expected to win a seat in the Florida statehouse, shows him standing near James Alex Fields Jr. Not long after the photo was taken, Fields drove his car into counterprotesters, injuring dozens of people and killing Heather Heyer. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

@letsgomathias.bsky.social found that Rawson's donors include -the League of the South's Florida chapter leader -the caretaker for the childhood home of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest -a former lawyer for the KKK -a white nationalist publishing house talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

Police officer Josh Doggrell lost his job over his involvement in League of the South. He gave Rawson’s campaign $100: “I believe he is a fine man and will do a great job as a legislator" Doggrell is now a lieutenant w/Alabama's Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

And Sam Dickson, the former KKK lawyer who became a leading figure in multiple white supremacist groups, including the Council of Conservative Citizens and the National Policy Institute, gave $1,000 to Rawson’s campaign. Here's why: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

Rawson is widely expected to win the general election in Florida's House District 10, raising the prospect that an unrepentant white supremacist will attain elected office in one of the country’s most populous states with no pushback from the Republican Party. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...