Enid, Oklahoma, Holds A Recall Vote For Judd Blevins On April 2: That’s The Joke.

On Tuesday, April 2, Enid, Oklahoma, will hold an election on whether to recall Judd Blevins from his position as a City Council member. April 1 would have been more appropriate.

Why the recall? He was in Charlottesville, Virginia , in 2017, at the “Unite the Right” rally, along with avowed white nationalists and neo-Nazis chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” You know: one of those “good people on both sides” kind of people.

Voters elected Blevins in February 2023. Few seemed concerned, or maybe even aware, about his past associations, despite a front-page story in the Enid News & Eagle a month before the vote.

The article, “City Candidate Accused of White Nationalist Ties,” documented quite a history, much of which corroborated what had been reportedby various left-wing news outlets as far back as three years before Blevins ran for office.

From at least 2017 to 2019, Blevins was reportedly actively involved in Identity Evropa , which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a white nationalist hate group “at the forefront of the racist ‘alt-right’s’ effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism.”

Oklahoma has been a “hotspot of activity” for the organization, according to Right Wing Watch, a progressive news outlet.

In a 2018 podcast interview, Blevins asserted, “That old phrase, ‘You will not erase us, you will not replace us.’ We have to have that attitude. Every single day we have to have that attitude, we have to be of that mindset, and we have to spread our message to other people.”

Blevins declined to be interviewed by the newspaper, calling the article a hit piece. Instead, he gave a statement blaming the allegations of his white