Republican Nominee Marched at Violent Neo-Nazi Rally
Florida’s Marshall Rawson joined the “Unite the Right” rally—and was even spotted with the man who drove his car into counterprotesters.
Florida will likely send a neo-Nazi to their state House of Representatives.
Florida state House of Representatives nominee Marshall Rawson marched in the 2017 neo-Nazi “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
New reporting from Talking Points Memo Monday revealed that Rawson and his wife marched in the racist parade as part of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate, pro-secessionist group. He can even be seen in video near James Alex Fields Jr., the Nazi who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed Heather Heyer.
Rawson, 34, also ran a violently racist anonymous Twitter account, and has been involved with the League of the South for years since at least 2014, when he was a college student at Shorter University. In 2023, he advocated for a religious justification for slavery.
Once he did run for office in 2026, he got $15,000 in donations from individuals who identified as or had ties to white nationalists, according to an analysis from TPM. He even received $2...