'Honorary' KKK member to appear at the top of Missouri's GOP gubernatorial primary ballot
Raw StoryThe name of a member of the Ku Klux could appear atop the Missouri gubernatorial primary ballot later this year. It has the name of white supremacist Darrell Leon McClanahan III listed above two better-known GOP contenders, Mike Kehoe and Jay Ashcroft, reported the Riverfront Times. "Hey @MissouriGOP I just learned the candidate listed first on our primary ballot for Governor is a cross-burning KKK member who ran for US Senate 2 years ago and freely admits his KKK membership & white supremacist beliefs," Dogan wrote. "Your statement about me being a cross-burning KKK member and white supremacist is false and damaging to my reputation.” McClanahan directed the publication to a defamation lawsuit he filed in federal court against the Anti-Defamation League and its leader Jonathan Greenblatt over a 2022 article that revealed its Center on Extremism had been tracking McClanahan for years due to affiliations with white supremacist and Christian identity groups. McClanahan also admits he "did attend in 2019 a private religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony falsely described as a cross burning."
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