After Helping Incite a Capitol Riot, Josh Hawley Just Had His Best Fundraising Month Ever

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Josh Hawley’s role in inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th has been widely acknowledged. Hawley was the first senator to pledge to object to counting Joe Biden’s completely legitimate electoral votes, giving a strong air of legitimacy to Donald Trump’s false claims that those votes were “rigged” or “stolen.”

The photograph taken of him in the hours before the riot, holding his fist up to the soon-to-be violent insurrectionists, speaks volumes.

Following the riot, Hawley seemed to see a bit of pushback. His book deal with Simon & Schuster was canceled (and then rebought under a conservative imprint distributed by S&S). Corporate donors including Marriott (which also canceled some of Hawley’s scheduled events), Dow, and Missouri-based Hallmark announced they were suspending political contributions to Hawley and others who objected to counting those electoral votes and in some cases even requesting their past donations be returned. Hawley said he was being “muzzled” and censored—a claim he was able to make in a front-page op-ed in a major publication, like all truly censored people.

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But despite all of that, it turns out helping incite an insurrection is actually a fine financial move, even a great one. After the events on the 6th, January ended up being Hawley’s biggest fundraising month of his entire career to date, bringing in thousands of new donors who apparently don’t care—or, more realistically, love–that he tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power to our legitimately elected new president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-helping-incite-a-capitol-riot-josh-hawley-just-had-his-best-fundraising-month-ever/ar-BB1dHD6E?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnbfcL

A lot of righties with more dollars than sense.

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Of course he did.

The same way the racist remark by that country singer bumped his sales through the roof.

I don’t think people realize just how much danger we’re still in. We’re one election cycle from full on fascism. And we will be for a long time unless something is done about these bastards.

[underpants]

4. Funding for Zimmerman and Rittenhouse

the Kentucky church lady etc.

[Whiskeytide]

2. THIS is why they won't go against Тяцмр. Ever. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

3. Thousands of new donors who LOVE what he did.

The racist, white supremacy movement is alive and well.
And still with us.
God help us.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. This repels me. For josh 'overbite' hawley, being a representative of MO (where I live now)

sickens me. I will vow to support any decent candidate that runs against josh 'overbite' hawley. With money. Scumbag is literally causing people in MO to sit up and take notice of him. And what's funny about it, is that you don't hear much from the primary Senator, Roy Blunt. Now I know that Roy doesn't mouth off as much as 'overbite' does, and that's keeping in tradition w/ Missourian politicians. A fine attribute. If you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

'Overbite' hawley came from a tiny, literally unknown town in MO, located east of KCMO. I wish that he stayed there. It's amazing that our main reps for Missouri don't come from either of the two big Missouri cities. Talk about rigging voting districts...MO is rift w/ them.
And our legislature is rift w/ republicans too. We have a long way to go.

Roy Blunt does have a possible candidate running against him in 2022. I will keep an eye out and of course try and support this candidate. For FYI:

Scott Sifton, a former state representative and state senator, announced his candidacy on Monday. In his campaign launch video, Sifton accused Blunt and Josh Hawley, the state's junior senator, of not speaking out against the false allegations of election fraud spread by former President Donald Trump and members of the Republican Party.

[marble falls]

6. Maybe he can spend it at the prison commissary to buy some "friends", later this year.

[MyMission]

7. If most donations are from individuals

Can we track them, investigate them, watch them? Corporate donors have pulled back, but individuals who contributed are clearly sympathetic to his fascist agenda.

Didn't one of the inciters (tubberman?) say it's time to start taking names?!?

[moondust]

8. Taking names and kicking ass?

That was Mo Brooks of Alabama.