Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.
The photo of Judd Blevins was unmistakable.
In it, Blevins, bearded and heavyset, held a tiki torch on the University of Virginia campus, on the eve of Unite the Right, a 2017 coming-together of the nation’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Connie Vickers had found the photo online along with others showing Blevins marching alongside an angry mob — a crowd of men recorded throughout the night spitting and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Vickers had it enlarged at a local print and copy shop. On a January night in 2023, she and Nancy Presnall, best friends, retirees and rare Democrats in a deeply red Oklahoma county, brought it to a sparsely attended forum where Blevins, a candidate running to represent Ward 1 on Enid’s six-seat City Council, was making his case.
They had hoped to get a question in while Blevins was on stage, but settled for confronting him after.
The question assumes they actually want to vote him out. People voting for him will just excuse it by pretending the Unite the Right riot was not a white supremacist really despite it being organized by white supremacists. Hell, here in Washington we had a white supremacist terrorist in our state House. It didn’t matter that it was publicized that he beat his wife for having the audacity to wake up before him or that he published a manifesto calling for gays to submit our be killed or that he helped organize the Bundy standoff. He was re-elected for 10 years and left on his own accord. And then went on to traffic children in Ukraine.