Earlier this year, flat-earth conspiracy theorist Kandiss Taylor announced that she was running for Congress in Georgia. Taylor unsuccessfully ran for governor of Georgia in 2022 and, despite her paltry showing in the Republican primary, steadfastly refused to accept that she had lost. Following her loss, Taylor became a Georgia GOP district chair and also began hosting a weekly program called "Jesus, Guns, and Babies" on the far-right Stew Peters Network.
In the following years, Taylor made multiple appearances on Stew Peters' shows as well as on her own program in which she regularly voiced radical views, insisting that non-Christians are not entitled to freedom of religion and even advocating the execution of those who oppose her Christian nationalist agenda.
Late last month, Taylor appeared on "The Patriot Party News" program, where she was joined by fringe right-wing figures such as Dave Daubenmire and Rochelle Richardson, better known as "Silk" of the fervently pro-Trump "Diamond and Silk" duo.
During the course of the discussion, Richardson complained that our political system has been "infiltrated with a lot of different foreigners who hate America," insisting that "the only people that should be in Congress and in the Senate are natural born American citizens."
"A lot of them are coming over here for nefarious reasons, going through our systems to become an American citizen and then getting into our political systems and and our other systems. And then they're taking and trying to bring their values over here and indoctrinate us with their values," she continued, saying that our laws are being written by "individuals from another country who hate Americans."
Taylor completely agreed, saying that Muslims "have no place in government."
"Muslims [are] coming to our country and they're infiltrating," Taylor said. "So, we have terrorists that are coming—and they're female too, they're not just males. Guess where they're infiltrating? Our Republican Party in every state. They tried to do it from the top and they couldn't, and then they tried to do it legislatively and get elected and they couldn't as a Republican. But in the Democrat Party, they already did it; they got it, we got them in the Senate. But in the Republican Party, they started doing it at the bottom level, in county parties and now in the state, they're trying to do it state by state."
"Are y'all following this whole movement of the Muslims coming here?" she asked. "Because I've said we elect Christians in America. We're a Christian nation. We're founded on God. We should be electing Christians. And because I said that I was called an antisemite. I don't have any problem with Jewish people. I love the Jewish people. They believe in God. I'm talking about Muslims. I'm talking about people who want to murder us. They have no place in government."
Regarding Taylor's relationship with Peters, it is worth remembering that she declared him to be her "best friend," which is telling given that Peters is a racist, far-right anti-LGBTQ bigot who regularly uses his nightly program, speeches, and social media accounts to promote white nationalism and virulent antisemitism while spreading wild conspiracy theories, bigotry, and calls for violence.
