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CNN: A man who attended the Charlottesville Unite the Right rallies will lose his city council seat after his past was revealed

First published in CNN. 

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Right Wing Watch reporting tying Judd Blevins to the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally and other white supremacist organizations is cited in CNN reporting on efforts to recall the Enid City Councilman.

Several residents in Enid blasted city council commissioner Judd Blevins at a public meeting last fall for participating in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, that saw one counter protester killed and dozens injured. They also highlighted offensive comments he was accused of making online under a pseudonym.

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More than a month before Blevins was elected in February 2023, the local newspaper highlighted a 2019 report by Right Wing Watch, a left-leaning organization that monitors far-right extremism. The report identified Blevins as the Oklahoma recruiter for Identity Evropa, a group that has since disbanded and was described as a White supremacist organization by the Anti-Defamation League.

Read the full article at CNN.