Far-Right, White Supremacist Group Identity Evropa Worked the Phones to Keep Steve King in Office

Source: Lawandcrime.com

Far-right, white supremacist group Identity Evropa, which has been designated as a hate group, worked feverishly to keep Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in office, according to internal chat logs released Wednesday by an independent media organization.

Released by non-profit media collective Unicorn Riot, those chat logs reveal that several members of the white supremacist organization frequently donated to King’s congressional campaign, called members of Congress to support King during media flare-ups and engaged in several attempts to contact King directly at his office.

The release contains more than “770,000 messages from chat servers associated with Identity Evropa,” according to the outlet. “This is the first report in a series about this large US-based neo-Nazi organization. Newly leaked chat logs from the alt-right group Identity Evropa show a continuing dynamic of racism and fascism, despite ongoing attempts to reform their public image following the deadly 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville.”

The searchable logs are available here. A Law&Crime search turned up 107 total references when using the search term “Steve King” but this does not account for additional references to “King” alone. The non-sophisticated nature of the search engine developed for the database, however, makes it difficult to account for such references. In other words, searching for “King” in isolation also turns up every word with a “-king” suffix like “talking,” “f***ing,” etc.

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