February 22, 2025

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Violent Bigot Poses with GOP Gov. Candidate in Georgia – Weeks After He Threatened His Black, Female Opponent

Oh, Brian Kemp…you do realize that it is only by luck and a few criminal acts on your part that you will ever be Governor, right?

A little more than a month after White supremacists protested in Georgia outside an event sponsored by Black female veterans for Stacey Abrams, who may become the first African American woman to become governor in the United States, her Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp was seen in a photo posing with one of those who not only participated in that protest but threatened a Black military veteran with violent revolution.

A Twitter account called Georgia Democrats tweeted a photo of Brian Kemp embracing James Stachowiak while giving a thumbs-up sign. According to the tweet, Stachowiak, who at the time was wearing a shirt that readย “Allah is not God and Muhammad is Not His Prophet,”ย  live streamed one of Kemp’s campaign events with the blessing of the campaign.

On Sept. 3, Stachowiak joined members of the Nationalist Liberty Union outside a campaign event for Abrams hosted by the Women’s Veterans Club of the CSRA and was seen in videoย threatening one veteran with a Three-Percenter-led revolution if she is elected and her policies lead to the removal of the Confederate monument on Stone Mountain and gun control. In the past Stachowiak, who runs a racist and Islamophobic podcast called Freedom Fighter Radio, has made threats against Black Lives Matter, even going so far as producing a video where he encouraged viewers to shoot Black women and children in the back.

Kemp, who as Georgia’s Secretary of State is currently being accused of voter suppression for putting tens of thousands of voter registrations on hold before the election, mostly from voting districts of color, was also criticized for not speaking up against the September protest. Kemp’s campaign issued a statement a few days later saying, “Brian Kemp unequivocally condemns hatred, violence, and bigotry, and find claims of racial superiority to be indefensible and contrary to the highest ideals of our country.”ย Theย Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Kemp to apologize for this latest photo and was joined by theย Democratic Party of Georgia, whose chair DuBose Porter said the photo โ€œtells you everything you need to know about the kind of governor he would be.”

The Nationalist Liberty Union, whose Facebook page describes their mission as one to “unify America as a Euro-centric Christian nation,” has said that Stachowiak is not a member of their group.


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