Florida will likely send a neo-Nazi to its state House of Representatives. Florida state House of Representatives nominee Marshall Rawson marched in the 2017 neo-Nazi “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. New reporting from Talking Points Memo Monday revealed that Rawson and his wife marched in the racist parade as part of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate, pro-secessionist group. He can even be seen in video near James Alex Fields Jr., the Nazi who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed #HeatherHeyer. Rawson, 34, also ran a violently racist anonymous Twitter account, and has been involved with the League of the South since at least 2014, when he was a college student at Shorter University. In 2023, he advocated for a religious justification for slavery. Once he did run for office in 2026, he got $15,000 in donations from individuals who identified as or had ties to white nationalists, according to an analysis from TPM. He even received $200 from Kristine Duke, the daughter of infamous Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Now he will likely win the general election in Florida’s 10th district in November. The League of the South is an extremely racist organization. Its leader Michael Hill has called for the group to “restore the South as White Man’s Land” and has long advocated for succession. “I pledge to be a white supremacist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe, and any other sort of ’phobe that benefits my people, so help me God!” Hill wrote in 2016.
siehe auch: Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature. The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal. Marshall Rawson — who won an upset victory in Florida’s District 10 Republican primary last month — attended the infamous Charlottesville rally, considered the largest white supremacist gathering in a generation, marching with the League of the South, a racist and antisemitic neo-Confederate group that advocates for the secession of southern states from the U.S. Video footage reviewed by TPM shows Rawson and his now-wife arriving at the rally and being greeted by name by League of the South members. A photo obtained by TPM, taken at a different point during the violent demonstration, shows Rawson standing near James Alex Fields Jr., the neo-Nazi who a short time later drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring dozens of others. (…) Rawson’s involvement with the League of the South was first noted in 2014 by a prolific antifascist researcher named Laura Sullivan. Sullivan — who passed away earlier this year — published an article on her blog, Lady Liberty’s Lamp, detailing how Rawson, then a college student at Shorter University, was appearing at League of the South events while simultaneously interning for then-U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) in Washington D.C. Rawson, Sullivan documented, was spending his internship posting League of the South propaganda throughout the city, including a “SECEDE FROM OBAMALAND” sticker in the U.S. Capitol building. Sullivan found another photo of Rawson passing out flyers for a League of the South rally. “IMMIGRATION IS BAD FOR SOUTHERN WORKERS,” the flyers said. In May 2025, in the early days of his campaign, Rawson published a post on his campaign’s Facebook page acknowledging his involvement with the League. “Apparently, the establishment isn’t happy with the level of success we’ve had on the campaign thus far,” he wrote, predicting that “the radical downtown Gainesville crowd and the spineless establishment ‘Republicans’” would attempt to attack him by citing a “defunct Antifa blog” and “my past League of the South involvement.”
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