A participant in the “Million MAGA March” in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2020, carries a flag for America First, a group formed by while nationalist Nick Fuentes. /Photo by Elvert Barnes | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republican politicians, including a sitting state senator, are scheduled to speak at a white nationalist conference in Florida next week.
Flagstaff Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are all listed on the America First Political Action Conference website as being in attendance, with Rogers and Arpaio as “featured speakers.”
The third annual America First Political Action Conference, or AFPACIII for short, is the brainchild of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. It is designed to be a rival to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and is scheduled on the same days at a nearby location.
Rogers responded on Twitter to a reporter who publicized her listing as a speaker by saying the journalist has “no idea” what he was talking about.
“I have been supportive of America First for a long time. This isn’t ‘news,’” she wrote.
She did not return requests for comment from the Arizona Mirror.
