(Old-school extremism, meet Heidi Ganahl — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl is speaking at an event this evening featuring a presentation by far-right conspiracist group, The John Birch Society (JBS). Joining Ganahl is talk radio host and Colorado’s RNC Committeeman Randy Corporon, state Rep. Mark Baisley (R-Roxborough Park) who is running for state senate, another talk radio host, former U.S. Senate hopeful Deborah Flora, and Turning Point USA’s Gabby Reichardt.
A spokesperson for We the Women, which is hosting the event at a church in Castle Rock, confirmed Ganahl’s appearance. The evening’s main speaker is JBS field organizer Leah Southwell, who’s given numerous talks warning that Marxists and communists are “taking over America from within.” Southwell has presented at We the Women events before.
JBS is one of the nation’s oldest conspiracy groups, long claiming “global elites” secretly rule the world, leading the Anti-Defamation League to call out JBS’ dangerous anti-Semitic statements as far back as 1967. Today JBS pushes conspiracies like the “Great Reset” and UN Agenda 2030 and continues to warn that “globalists have been planning an attack for years.”
Southwell’s employer, the John Birch Society, has advocated far-right conspiracies and fringe positions for decades, famously seeing communists everywhere. In the week following the insurrection, the Washington Post took a long look back at the history of Republican links to right-wing conspiracists in a piece titled, “Long before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and the GOP purged John Birch extremists from the party.”
“The Power of 500 is The John Birch Society’s long-standing and successful strategy for creating an informed electorate, which is the only long-term solution to restore and keeping America free and independent,” reads the JBS website. It then lists various goals members can attempt to achieve, all of which draw upon on various conspiracy theories, including the Big Lie, “sovereign sheriffs,” and the “Deep State.”
“The plan involves building understanding about how to affect change in a constitutionalist direction, the necessity for organizing, and the influence of 500 organized patriots, using the “100/10/6 Program,” to work towards common goals in one congressional district.
Such goals may include:
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Same old fascists.
The same fascists that thought war hero and President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a communist.
The same fascists that Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley tried to flush out of the Republican party. The founder of the Birchers, Robert Welch, was on a par with D.C. Stephenson, head of the Indiana KKK during the 1920s (the Birchers were founded in 1958 in my home town of Indianapolis).
With all these whack jobs, racists, and seditionists competing for attention, I suppose the Birchers were feeling neglected.
Did John Andrews have a prior obligation which kept him from attending?
Isn’t he swamped with the mayoral duties of his mythical, conservative paradise Backbone, CO, USA Merika?
Didn't he outsource that to a talking cat?
Perhaps this is where the furries movement began ….![surprise surprise](https://www.coloradopols.com/wp-content/plugins/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/omg_smile.png)
Still talking to her base, I guess.
Wonder if Danny Moore is going, even if he didn't get a speaking spot.