Imagine: The authoritarian Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, headlines at CPAC.

Ken Bensinger, Jessica Garrison, & Jeremy Singer-Vine: Leaked Oath Keepers Data Shows At Least 28 Elected Officials Have Ties To The Group: The far-right group is sometimes associated with anti-government ideas, but on a local level, it has already made inroads in democratic institutions.

Annika Brockschmidt: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

Chris D’Angelo & Christopher Mathias: GOP Congressman Matt Rosendale Poses With Neo-Nazis: The Montana Republican was photographed outside the U.S. Capitol smiling alongside white supremacists Ryan Sanchez and Greyson Arnold.

Paul Gattis: Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’.

Joshua Green: Why Is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?

Cameron Joseph: The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland.

Joseph Lowndes: Far-right extremism dominates the GOP. It didn’t start — and won’t end — with Trump. How a decades-long movement helped the far-right fringe gain control of the GOP.

Christopher Mathias:

• Texas GOP Candidate For Governor Won’t Fire Staffer With Deep White Nationalist Ties.
• Gab Was Key To The Tree Of Life Shooting. Doug Mastriano Seems To Be Paying It For Followers. The GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania paid the far-right platform a $5,000 “consulting” fee. Now, new Gab accounts are automatically following him.

Sylvie McNamara: Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts.

MSNBC: Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics.

Sergio Olmos: Republicans to field more than 100 far-right candidates this year: Anti-Defamation League list includes at least a dozen with links to white supremacists, anti-government extremists and Proud Boys.

Tess Owen:

• Every Single House Republican Voted Against Investigating Neo-Nazis in the Military.
• ‘Very Inspirational’: MAGA Crowd Swoons For Strongman Against ‘Mixed-Race’ Society. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban kicked off CPAC to thunderous applause, just days after a senior advisor quit over a “pure Nazi speech.”
• Hard-Right Republican’s Staffer Reportedly a White Nationalist Groyper.

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Phil Stewart & Jarrett Renshaw: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College.

Jake Thomas: AZ Governor Doug Ducey Says GOP Candidate With White Nationalist Ties Better Than a Democrat.

William Vaillancourt: CPAC Welcomes Marjorie Taylor Greene Hours After She Appears at White Nationalist Conference.