These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
这些极端分子正在参加十一月的选举
There are five weeks left until the midterm elections, and extremism is on the ballot in much of the US. A WIRED review of candidates running for statewide and federal positions in November, along with exclusive data on candidates running for state-level positions, reveals hundreds of Republican candidates who openly express virulently hateful ideologies, share racist content online, have close ties to white supremacist and antisemitic figures, and are members of far-right groups online. President Donald Trump and his administration have openly embraced, endorsed and defended many of these candidates.
距离中期选举还有五周，极端主义已成为美国大部分地区选票上的议题。《连线》（WIRED）对十一月竞选州级和联邦职位的候选人进行了审查，并结合了有关州级候选人的独家数据，结果显示数百名共和党候选人公开表达极其仇恨的意识形态，在网上分享种族主义内容，与白人至上主义者和反犹太主义人物关系密切，并且是网上极右翼组织的成员。唐纳德·特朗普总统及其政府公开拥护、支持并捍卫了其中许多候选人。
At a local level, over 500 candidates running for state legislator positions in November are members of far-right groups on Facebook that promote militias, gun rights, and Christian nationalism, according to data collected by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and shared with WIRED.
在地方层面，根据“人权研究与教育研究所”（Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights）收集并与《连线》共享的数据，十一月竞选州议员职位的候选人中，有超过 500 人是 Facebook 上极右翼组织的成员，这些组织宣扬民兵武装、枪支权利和基督教民族主义。
While many extremist candidates—such as groyper James Fishback and antisemitic influencer Dan Bilzerian— didn’t make it through GOP primaries, many made it to the general election, and a number of them are expected to win.
虽然许多极端主义候选人——例如“Groyper”运动成员詹姆斯·菲什巴克（James Fishback）和反犹太主义网红丹·比尔泽里安（Dan Bilzerian）——没能通过共和党的初选，但许多人还是进入了大选，且预计其中一些人将会胜出。
“The candidates are taking a page out of the Trump administration’s playbook,” Luke Baumgartner, a former research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, tells WIRED. Baumgartner claims that many of the candidates running in November have been inspired by those in the White House. “In essence, the executive branch has handed them a permission slip to say and do what would have been unthinkable during the George W. Bush, McCain, or [Mitt] Romney eras of the GOP,” he says.
“这些候选人正在照搬特朗普政府的剧本，”乔治华盛顿大学极端主义项目的前研究员卢克·鲍姆加特纳（Luke Baumgartner）告诉《连线》。鲍姆加特纳声称，十一月参选的许多候选人都受到了白宫中那些人的启发。“从本质上讲，行政部门给了他们一张‘通行证’，让他们去说、去做那些在共和党乔治·W·布什、麦凯恩或[米特]·罗姆尼时代不可想象的事情，”他说。
Extremist rhetoric has led to real world political threats. In 2025, terrorism and targeted violence incidents rose 19 percent compared to 2024, according to researchers at the University of Maryland; the US Capitol Police reported an increase in “threat assessment cases” against members of Congress for the third year in a row, with a 58 percent increase from 2024; and the US Marshals Service documented threats against almost 400 judges, a roughly 5 percent increase from the previous year.
极端主义言论已导致现实世界中的政治威胁。据马里兰大学的研究人员称，2025 年的恐怖主义和针对性暴力事件比 2024 年增加了 19%；美国国会警察报告称，针对国会议员的“威胁评估案件”连续第三年增加，比 2024 年增长了 58%；美国法警局记录了针对近 400 名法官的威胁，比上一年增加了约 5%。
Here are five races involving candidates who have shared extremist ideologies or have close ties to extremist figures, that WIRED is watching ahead of the November midterms.
以下是《连线》在十一月中期选举前密切关注的五场竞选，涉及的候选人要么分享过极端主义意识形态，要么与极端主义人物关系密切。
The Texas Railroad Commissioner Race
得克萨斯州铁路专员竞选
Bo French, the GOP candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, is so extreme that Republican strategist Karl Rove has said he would vote for a Democrat rather than supporting a “bigot.”
得克萨斯州铁路专员的共和党候选人博·弗伦奇（Bo French）极端到连共和党战略家卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove）都表示，他宁愿投票给民主党人，也不愿支持一个“偏执狂”。
Earlier this month, French posted racist comments about students celebrating at a University of Texas at Austin football game. “Like bodycam footage exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners,” French wrote alongside a picture of students of South Asian descent celebrating a victory over Ohio State. “It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine.” (Former Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino wrote in reply, “Mass deportations will solve it in very short order.”)
本月初，弗伦奇在社交媒体上发布了关于得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校橄榄球赛庆祝学生的种族主义评论。在配有一张南亚裔学生庆祝战胜俄亥俄州立大学的照片旁，弗伦奇写道：“就像随身摄像机曝光罪犯一样，社交媒体正在曝光有多少美国人被外国人取代。这种情况无处不在，比我们任何人想象的都要糟糕得多。”（前边境巡逻队负责人格雷格·博维诺回复道：“大规模驱逐出境很快就能解决这个问题。”）
While many Republicans, including senator John Cornyn from Texas, criticized French for his post and called on him to take it down, French instead doubled down, telling a conservative radio host that while he didn’t “have anything against the people specifically in that picture,” he wanted to “prioritize Americans.”
尽管包括得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn）在内的许多共和党人批评了弗伦奇的帖子并要求他删除，但弗伦奇反而变本加厉，告诉一位保守派电台主持人，虽然他“对照片中的具体人员没有任何意见”，但他想要“优先考虑美国人”。
This wasn’t the first controversy for the candidate: French has previously called for the removal of 100 million people from America, including US citizens, and repeatedly used homophobic slurs.
这并不是该候选人第一次引发争议：弗伦奇此前曾呼吁将 1 亿人从美国驱逐出去（包括美国公民），并多次使用恐同歧视用语。
The Texas Railroad Commissioner is an incredibly powerful position that has no role in regulating railroads, but instead oversees the state’s oil and gas industries, which in Texas drill more oil and other hydrocarbons than the rest of the US combined. The role will also be critical to deciding how the burgeoning data center industry in Texas will be powered.
得克萨斯州铁路专员是一个权力极大的职位，其职责与监管铁路无关，而是负责监督该州的石油和天然气工业——得州的石油和其他碳氢化合物产量超过了美国其他地区的总和。该职位对于决定得州蓬勃发展的数据中心行业如何供电也至关重要。
New polling this week suggests French, who has not been publicly endorsed by Trump, is a slim favorite to win the seat.
本周的最新民调显示，尽管尚未获得特朗普的公开背书，弗伦奇仍以微弱优势有望赢得该席位。
Arizona’s 5th Congressional District Race
亚利桑那州第五国会选区竞选
Mark Lamb, the GOP nominee for Arizona’s 5th district congressional race, is a former sheriff and reality TV star. He has deep ties to paramilitary groups, anti-immigration organizations, and the far-right constitutional sheriffs movement.
亚利桑那州第五国会选区共和党提名人马克·兰姆（Mark Lamb）是一位前警长和真人秀明星。他与准军事组织、反移民组织以及极右翼的“宪法警长运动”有着深厚的联系。
Lamb has protested Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates, expressed support for the “stop the steal” movement,” and sympathized with the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6. He is in favor of private militias and even authorized the formation of a civilian posse while serving as sheriff of Pinal County in response to Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. He is a regular on right wing podcasts, including those hosted by white nationalists and conspiracy theorists.
兰姆曾抗议新冠封锁和疫苗强制令，表达了对“停止窃选”（stop the steal）运动的支持，并同情 1 月 6 日冲击国会大厦的暴徒。他支持私人武装民兵，甚至在担任皮纳尔县警长期间，为应对 2020 年的“黑人的命也是命”（Black Lives Matter）抗议活动，授权组建了一支平民治安队。他是右翼播客的常客，包括那些由白人民族主义者和阴谋论者主持的节目。
Lamb, who is supported by Trump and conservative student organization Turning Point USA, won his primary despite accusations of multiple sex scandals. When one woman threatened to expose him, a Facebook account featuring an avatar of Lamb’s face threatened to use Arizona’s revenge porn law against her.
兰姆得到了特朗普和保守派学生组织“美国转折点”（Turning Point USA）的支持，尽管面临多起性丑闻指控，他还是赢得了初选。当一名女子威胁要曝光他时，一个以兰姆头像为头像的 Facebook 账号威胁要利用亚利桑那州的“复仇色情法”对付她。
Lamb is almost certain to be elected in the deeply red district that includes Phoenix.
兰姆几乎肯定会在这个包含凤凰城的深红选区当选。
Texas’ 23rd Congressional District Race
得克萨斯州第二十三国会选区竞选
Brandon Herrera, who rose to fame as a so-called “guntuber,” is running for Congress in Texas in the district that represents Uvalde. Incumbent GOP congressman Tony Gonzales resigned after admitting to an affair, making Herrera the GOP candidate.
布兰登·埃雷拉（Brandon Herrera）因作为所谓的“枪支博主”（guntuber）而声名鹊起，他正在得克萨斯州代表尤瓦尔迪（Uvalde）的选区竞选国会议员。现任共和党国会议员托尼·冈萨雷斯（Tony Gonzales）在承认婚外情后辞职，使埃雷拉成为了共和党候选人。
Herrera has a very long history of sharing sexist, racist, and antisemitic opinions. He has said that a Nazi-era submachine gun was “the original ghetto blaster” and “Hitler’s street sweeper.” He has compared feminists’ weight to whales, elephants, and nuclear bombs and described liberal women discussing guns as “both fat and wrong.”
埃雷拉有着长期分享性别歧视、种族主义和反犹太主义观点的历史。他曾称纳粹时代的冲锋枪是“最初的贫民窟爆破手”和“希特勒的街道清扫机”。他曾将女权主义者的体重比作鲸鱼、大象和核弹，并形容讨论枪支的自由派女性“既肥胖又错误”。