Right Wing Watch research is cited in this story about white supremacist Judd Blevins who was removed from his city council seat in Enid, OK.
Judd Blevins is a veteran of the Iraq War. He performed manual labor in Tulsa before returning home to Enid, OK, to take over his father’s roofing business. Blevins proclaims himself to be a man of God, and when running for the city council in Enid, he touted the city as a place where “traditional values” remained the norm.
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The association of Judd Blevins with white nationalists didn’t immediately register in Enid, a town of about 50,000 people. The 1980 census reported Enid as 90% white; by 2020, that number had fallen to less than 75%. Like the rest of America, Enid is becoming more diverse. A month before the election, Enid News & Eagle published a news story documenting Blevins’ ties to a white nationalist organization known as Identity Evropa/American IdentityMovement. The newspaper reported the research on Blevins done in 2019 by Right Wing Watch, which operates under People for the American Way. The article documented photos of Blevins and social media posts he made under a pseudonym about his participation in the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally where marchers chanted, “Jews will not replace us!” Blevins labeled the article a hit piece and was elected anyway with 422 votes over his opponent’s 386 votes.
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