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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Jason Wilson

Activist with far-right ties fronts Marco Rubio-linked anti-immigration effort

a man in a suit looks out behind a microphone with a crowd behind him
Marco Rubio speaks during Donald Trump's campaign event at Trump National Doral golf club in Miami, Florida, in July. Photograph: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images

The rightwing activist Nate Hochman, who was fired last year by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for employing neo-Nazi imagery in a campaign video, is now the face of a Marco Rubio-linked thinktank’s efforts to spread anti-immigrant panic from Ohio to Pennsylvania.

Videos featuring Hochman recorded in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, have been boosted on X by a range of rightwing figures including the platform’s owner, the tech billionaire Elon Musk.

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