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Texas Observer
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Justin Miller

Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis

Above: Former Republican State Representative Jonathan Stickland laughs during a 2015 debate on the House floor.

The Texas GOP’s full-on embrace of extremism continues unabated.

Over the weekend, a majority of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) voted to remove language from a resolution affirming support for Israel that would have prohibited party associations with people and groups “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial.” Members of the state party committee—who are elected by party delegates—voted 31-29 to remove that language. About half the committee also tried to block a public record of the vote. 

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