Insurrectionist and far-right extremist
MAGA Republican politician and
former dentist who has served as the U.S.
Representative for Arizona's 4th
congressional district since 2013. A
Republican, he was elected in 2010 to
represent the neighboring 1st congressional
district until redistricting. Gosar's
support of conspiracy theories and ties to
the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Holocaust
deniers have sparked controversy. Gosar
opposes the Affordable Care Act, abortion,
gun control, and immigration. He has been a
strong ally of former president Donald
Trump, and voted to overturn the results of
the 2020 U.S. presidential election. On
November 17, 2021, Gosar was censured by the
House of Representatives and stripped of
committee assignments for posting an edited
clip of Attack on Titan depicting him
killing a titan with Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's face and
attacking a character with President Joe
Biden's face on social media. It was the
first House censure since 2010 and the 24th
in American history. Gosar is a member of
the radical pro-insurrectionist "Freedom
Caucus".
"Arizona investigators
probing Republicans’ efforts to overturn the
state’s 2020 election results have subpoenaed
two members of Congress who were among
Donald Trump’s closest Capitol Hill allies
in the scheme. The subpoenas to Reps.
Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, which have
not previously been reported, ordered the two
Arizona Republicans to testify before a grand
jury." [ . . . ] "Biggs,
the chairman of the conservative House
Freedom Caucus in 2020 and 2021, and Gosar
were among the most vocal congressional
supporters of Trump’s efforts to overturn
Biden’s victory in Arizona. Both tried to
challenge the state’s presidential electors on
Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress met to certify the
results of the Electoral College. Gosar was
mounting that challenge at the same moment a
pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol and halted
proceedings."
"It’s part of what is
called the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a bill
originating with ... Sen. Kyrsten Sinema,
working with Sen. Mark Kelly and Republicans." [
. . . ] "When the bill came up for a vote in the
House, 24 Republicans sided with Democrats to
pass it. None of those Republicans were from
Arizona, which would reap the most benefits from
the legislation.
Republican Reps.
Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert all voted against it."
"Several Republican
members of Arizona’s congressional delegation
co-sponsored legislation that is receiving new
scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled
that frozen embryos are children. Republican
Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane, Paul Gosar and
Debbie Lesko co-sponsored the Life at
Conception Act, which would give constitutional
equal protection rights to the unborn. And Rep.
David Schweikert co-sponsored an identical,
older version of the bill in 2021. Unlike
similar legislation that Republicans ran in the
U.S. Senate in 2017, the House bill, which would
ban nearly all abortions nationwide, does not
include an IVF exception.
The
proposal is drawing comparisons to a decision by
the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled that
frozen embryos are considered children under a
Civil War-era state law that lets parents sue
over the death of a child."
Rep. Paul Gosar,
R-Bullhead City, has been skeptical of Ukraine
funding since the beginning – offering at one
point to arrange an Arizona summit between Putin
and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He
did not respond to a request for comment Friday,
but he made his position clear in an October
statement on the administration’s request for a
joint package of Ukrainian and Israeli aid. “I
will vote for necessary funding to assist Israel
in its time of need but if it is combined with
billions more for Ukraine, I will vote no,”
Gosar wrote then. “I have voted against every
dime spent supporting the proxy war in Ukraine
and I will not start now just because it is
wrapped in an Israeli flag.”
"U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar,
the erstwhile dentist who represents Arizona’s
9th Congressional District, may be
the only
member of Congress to have six of his siblings
denounce him and endorse his Democratic
opponent, as they did in 2018."
"Representative Paul
Gosar is livid that fewer white people are
joining the military, a shift he blames on
“‘woke’ ideologies.” The far-right Arizona
congressman sent out a fundraising email
Thursday night with the subject line
“dismantling woke marxist ideologies.” “The
number of white recruits has plummeted,” Gosar
wrote in the email, first reported on by Vice
News. “[It’s] a casualty of this cultural
skirmish that has left our Army beleaguered and
besieged by ‘woke’ ideologies.”"
"Arizona
actually had two fake elector
plots—one a bunch of sovereign
citizen goobers and the other
organized by the Arizona
Republican Party. The GOP was
very proud of their crime,
filming the whole thing and
posting photos on their Twitter
account. They smiled as they
committed a felony, telling
Republicans that theirs is the
“only slate of 11 you need to
worry about,” not the sovereign
citizens and certainly not the
duly elected and qualified
electors. The happy faces in
that photo are probably not
smiling now. Attorney Kenneth
Chesebro, who pled guilty in the
Georgia racketeering case, was
one of the movers behind the
fake electors scheme nationwide,
and as part of his plea deal
he’s agreed to testify against
other co-conspirators."
"It SHOULD come as a
surprise. But this is Arizona, so it
doesn’t. The argument made by the likes of
Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane, Paul Gosar and
Debbie Lesko would probably mimic the
claims of Republican House leadership. That
is: Santos has yet to be convicted in
court."
"The U.S. House of
Representatives voted 336-95 to pass a
two-step government funding bill Tuesday,
with five Arizona Republicans opposed to the
measure. The Senate has the rest of the week
to pass the measure to avert a partial
government shutdown on Saturday." [ . . . ]
"Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane, Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert of Arizona were among
the 93 Republicans who voted against the
measure. Just two House Democrats opposed
it."
"Five Arizona
Republican members of the House voted
against a last-minute deal Saturday aimed at
preventing a government shutdown, but the
measure passed anyway. Republican Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane, Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert were among the 90
members of their party who opposed the
continuing resolution, which aims to keep
federal spending at current levels for
another 45 days
while cutting funding to
Ukraine."
"The federal
government is expected to shut down this
weekend, and 21 House Republicans on Friday
rejected Speaker Kevin McCarthy's stopgap
efforts to prevent that. Three of those
representatives are from Arizona. Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane and Paul Gosar joined
other hard-right holdouts and voted against
the latest spending bill."
"Rep. Paul Gosar
(R-AZ) used his weekly email
newsletter—hosted on a .gov domain that is
funded by American taxpayers—on Sunday to
launch a thinly veiled, homophobic attack on
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley,
shockingly suggesting Milley should be put
to death. The diatribe came in a section
commenting on former Capitol Police Chief
Stephen Sund’s testimony to the House
Committee on Administration last week, in
which Sund discussed the Capitol riot. Sund
called the events of Jan. 6 “an intelligence
failure” and said he wished several agencies
and individuals—from the Pentagon to
then-President Donald Trump—had reacted more
swiftly to provide back-up for local law
enforcement. But in Gosar’s recantation of
the day’s events, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
remained the villain of the riots, though it
was Milley—“the homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist
Chairman of the military joint chiefs”—who
delayed the deployment of the National
Guard, Gosar claimed."
"Three current and
former Republican lawmakers have been
rebuffed by the state Court of Appeals in
their bid to avoid paying the legal fees of
a Democrat who a trial judge said was
unfairly sued by them." [ . . . ] "In a
unanimous ruling Thursday, the three-judge
panel said that Yuma County Superior Court
Judge Levi Gunderson was absolutely
justified last year in requiring
Mark Finchem, Sen.
Anthony Kern, R-Glendale; and U.S. Rep.
Paul Gosar, R-Bullhead City, to shell
out $75,000 that Charlene Fernandez, then a
state representative from Yuma, had to pay
to her attorneys to successfully defend
against a defamation suit they brought
against her. He tossed their claim, ruling
the lawsuit “was brought for an improper
purpose, having been filed against a
political opponent primarily for the
purposes of harassment.”"
Neo-Nazi supporter and
Congressman Paul Gosar (R–AZ) once
again aligns himself with Hitler admirers.
This time, as in yesterday, he linked from
his House.gov newsletter to USSA News — a
site that calls the Holocaust the "Holohoax"
and has asked followers to "stand up for
Hitler,"
"A special
committee created by the Arizona
legislature to examine the
state’s response to COVID-19
will feature a litany of
speakers who have spread
disinformation about the
pandemic, vaccines, spoken at
QAnon events and have
conspiratorial beliefs about the
virus, including believing it
will usher in the “mark of the
beast.”"
[ . . . ]
"The “Novel
Coronavirus Southwestern
Intergovernmental Committee”
will hold two days of hearings
on May 25 and May 26 at the
Arizona Capitol, during which a
string of ostensible experts
will tell the state and federal
Republican lawmakers on the
panel their opinions on the
pandemic, and Arizona’s response
to it.
The Republican elected officials
on the panel include state Sens.
T.J. Shope
and
Janae Shamp,
the chair and vice-chair,
respectively, of the state
Senate’s Health and Human
Services Committee; state Rep.
Steve Montenegro,
who chairs the state House of
Representatives’ Health and
Human Services Committee; and
U.S. Reps.
Andy Biggs,
Eli Crane
and
Paul Gosar."
[ . . . ]
"Extremist
researchers on Twitter were
quick to note that the various
groups sponsoring the committee
had begun promoting it by the
acronym, NCSWIC, which is
commonly used within the QAnon
community to stand for “Nothing
Can Stop What Is Coming.” It
most often refers to an
unfounded belief that “Deep
State” collaborators will soon
be arrested."
"U.S. Rep. Seth
Magaziner, alongside four other
representatives who are all Jewish or have
Jewish heritage, sent a letter to House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy asking him to censure
Rep. Paul Gosar for reportedly
harboring a neo-Nazi extremist within his
office." [ . . . ] “It is incredibly
disturbing that Rep. Gosar, who has already
been censured by the House of
Representatives for promoting violence
against elected officials, would employ an
individual who openly associates with
anti-Semitic white supremacists like Nick
Fuentes,” Magaziner said. “Rep. Gosar must
hold himself accountable for harboring an
outright bigot who is responsible for
spreading the violent ideologies of white
supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
"Evidence shows
Congressman Paul Gosar’s digital
director is behind an online persona that
Fuentes called one of his “strongest
soldiers.” "
May 14, 2023
Photo link via
The Southern Poverty Law Center
"At CPAC Hungary this week, Rep. Paul
Gosar of Arizona and Rep. Barry
Moore of Alabama will speak alongside a
global collection of radical-right
figures, including the leader of an
Austrian political party founded by Nazi
SS officers."
"Rep. Paul Gosar, a
far-right Arizona Republican with longtime ties to
white nationalists and pro-Nazi activists, condemned
the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine in the
yearlong war with Russia, suggesting that the U.S.
is aiding a Nazi regime. “$100 billion of your tax
money is going to help Nazis,” Gosar wrote in his
weekly newsletter published Sunday morning. “I will
never support Nazis and I condemn our country’s
support and military aid to Nazis.” Gosar linked to
a January article posted on a conservative website,
American Greatness, that claims “Ukraine is the
world’s first openly Nazi state since 1945” and
suggests that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the country’s
Jewish president, abandoned his faith and “mocks
Jewish culture.” It echoes Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s portraying of Ukraine as being
aligned with Nazism."
"Eleven GOP senators and 58
members of the House filed a brief supporting U.S.
District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to
suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval
of mifepristone, one of two drugs taken in pill form
in medication abortions." [...] "Kacsmaryk based his
decision on an 1873 anti-pornography law called the
Comstock Act, claiming that abortion drugs are
“nonmailable” and that the FDA didn’t follow proper
procedure in granting approval all those years ago.
Among the Republicans looking to set back women’s
reproductive freedom roughly a century and a half
are Arizona Republican Reps.
Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and
Debbie Lesko."
"On this date in 2015, 2016,
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022,
“Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted
profiles of profiled the current U.S. House
Representative from Arizona's 4th District, Paul
Gosar, who every time we profile him, gets more
hyper-conservative, partisan, and frankly, white
nationalist-y. We noted in our original profile that
he has consistently had one of the worst voting
records on issues that impact women, and not just on
abortion, because Gosar not only has voted against
the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, but
also voted against legislation that would allow
female victims of sexual assault within our military
to decide who determines their case, a military
trial or a civilian one. He also not only voted for
the 2013 Government Shutdown, but when the time came
to reopen the government, he voted to keep it
closed. During the standoff between the Bureau of
Land Management and Cliven Bundy in 2014, Gosar
actually traveled to Nevada to show support for
Bundy, stopping to take photos with him, his first
but certainly not last flirtation with domestic
terrorists. Gosar's also a conspiracy theorist,
having called for the impeachment of Attorney
General Eric Holder over Benghazi, immigration, Fast
& Furious, Guantanamo Bay and “violating criminal
smuggling laws”. In September 2015, as the nation
excitedly awaiting a visit from Pope Francis to come
speak before the United States Congress, Paul Gosar,
a Catholic in a district full of them, announced
that he would be boycotting the pontiff’s speech
because he refused to listen to the Holy Father’s
talk of climate change, instead insisting writing an
op-ed where he said he didn’t want to hear “leftist
talking points”, and saying that climate has been
changing since “first created in Genesis”."
"Far-right Rep. Paul Gosar
was slammed by Twitter users Monday for saying that
“Ukraine is not our friend, and Russia is not our
enemy” on the heels of President Biden’s first trip
to the war-torn nation. The Arizona Republican,
frustrated with the US government’s steady support
of Ukraine since Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion,
also slammed Biden for visiting Kyiv on President’s
Day."
"Trump
on
Saturday
actually
called
for
tossing
our
nation’s
foundational
document
into the
trash in
order to
overturn
the
results
of the
2020
election,
saying,
“Massive
Fraud of
this
type and
magnitude
allows
for the
termination
of all
rules,
regulations,
and
articles,
even
those
found in
the
Constitution.”
He has
since
tried to
walk
back his
comment
but no
need to
do that
on Rep.
Paul
Gosar’s
account.
Gosar
chose
the
occasion
of
National
Pearl
Harbor
Remembrance
Day to
announce
that he
agrees
with
Trump.
On the
day we
remember
the
2,403
service
members
and
civilians
who died
in one
of the
worst
attacks
our
country
has ever
seen.
Can you
imagine?
“I
support
and
agree
with the
former
President.
Unprecedented
fraud
requires
unprecedented
cure,”
Gosar
wrote in
his
since-deleted
tweet,
with the
attached
Trump
quote."
"Far-right GOP Rep.
Paul Gosar pushed a message for "white
advocates" after
Donald Trump's slate of election-denying
candidates lost races for governor, Senate, attorney
general, and secretary of state in Arizona.
Extremism researcher Nick Martin reported, "last
night, Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted a link to a
column written by Kevin DeAnna, a white supremacist
who uses the pen names 'Gregory Hood' and 'James
Kirkpatrick.'" "The column was originally published
by American Renaissance, a website that promotes
eugenics and regularly claims Black people are
genetically inferior to white people"
"Gosar, R.-Ariz.,
shared a movie trailer for "The Most Canceled Man in
America," a new documentary about Nick Fuentes, whom
the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white
nationalist. The film frames him as a target of the
government after his involvement in the Jan. 6 U.S.
Capitol riot and other protests. Gosar previously
has supported, and then tried to distance himself
from, Fuentes, an extreme far-right figure in the
Republican realm. The Anti-Defamation League Fuentes
is a white supremacist leader and organizer who has
used his online platforms for anti-Semitic and
racist comments."
"An Arizona judge has
ordered three Republicans, including secretary of
state nominee Mark Finchem and U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar,
to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a
defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker
“primarily for purposes of harassment."
"In five lines of
text, Gosar,
R-Ariz., invalidated
a federal
investigation,
professed his
continued alliance
with Trump and
called for the
destruction of the
FBI."
"U.S. Reps. Paul
Gosar and
Andy Biggs
of Arizona were
among 11 House
Republicans who met
with then-President
Donald Trump in
December 2020 to
strategize how to
overturn the
presidential
election, according
to White House
visitor logs
unveiled Tuesday
during the Jan. 6
Capitol riot
hearings on Capitol
Hill. The White
House meeting
occurred Dec. 21,
just days after an
"unhinged" meeting
between White House
lawyers and Trump
allies, which also
was a focus of
Tuesday's hearings."
""Although our policy
positions differ significantly from Adam’s, we
endorse Adam Morgan over our brother Paul Gosar,
since Paul
is clearly unhinged, completely unfit for office,
and does not represent reality-based Arizonans,”
Jennifer, David and Tim Gosar said in a joint
written statement."
Jul. 14, 2022
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2022
Candidate
Questionnaire
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-9
Question 4: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates' Position: Oppose.
Question 9: Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
"As
the Jan.
6 committee continues to lay
out its findings to the
public about what happened
last year, a recording of
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar emerged
in which he said, "I was the
one who started the
revolution."
Gosar tied himself to the
insurrection at a June event
hosted by a Republican
club in Bullhead City,
according to a video
obtained by The Arizona
Republic.
"On
January 6th, 2021, I was the
one who started the
revolution in regards to
accountability of
elections," the Arizona
Republican said to some
applause.
The
comment was made
after statements about the
health insurance industry at
the 1:35 mark of the
approximately 2˝ minute
clip.
Gosar
has fervently denied the
2020 presidential election
results. He claims that
former President Donald
Trump lost because of
widespread voter fraud, a
notion that has never
been proven.
"Rep. Paul Gosar
tweeted, then deleted, a social media post on the ,
calling him a transsexual illegal immigrant.
Responding quickly to a relatively obscure tweet
Tuesday that presumed the gunman was "trash" who
supported far-right House members like Gosar, R-Ariz., and Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Gosar hit back with an acid
tweet of his own. "We know already fool. It's a
transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore
Ramos. It's apparently your kind of trash,"
Gosar wrote on his personal Twitter account. Gosar
later deleted the tweet"
"Rep. Paul Gosar boasts
he's been "relentless" in seeking to restore fiscal
responsibility and "common sense" when it comes to
the "bloated" federal government. "I will continue
to cut wasteful federal spending wherever I can,"
the Arizona Republican says on his official website.
"The American people and taxpayers deserve nothing
less." Yet Gosar doesn't seem to practice what he
preaches.
The House of Representatives
passed a bill designed to provide more military
assistance to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion with
overwhelming bipartisan support on Thursday.
Lawmakers approved the Ukraine Democracy Defense
Lend-Lease Act of 2022 by a vote of 417 to 10, with
all votes against the bill's passage coming from
Republicans."
"On Holocaust Remembrance Day,
Republican Congressman Paul Gosar posted —
and later deleted — a meme rooted in violent and
racist online culture that was praised by neo-Nazis
and white nationalists. Gosar’s social media
postings on Twitter and Gab featured a picture of
the Prescott Republican with a red filter that is
part of the meme movement known as “DarkMAGA,” an aesthetic that
evokes a dystopian view of the world and pushes for
former President
Donald Trump and other
conservatives to be more violent and hardlined with
their rhetoric."
"The motion, called the Ukraine
Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability
Act, has the goal to "collect, analyze, and preserve
evidence and information related to war crimes and
any other atrocities" committed by Russian armed
forces in Ukraine. The bill passed in the House of
Representatives on Wednesday, with 418 voting in
favor and only the seven Republicans voting against."
"Just the other day Gosar
was making the press rounds claiming that his
attendance at white nationalist Nick Fuentes' AFPAC
conference was due to a "miscommunication" of some
sort, which he credited to his staff. And now a
similar event has popped up on his calendar, set to
take place on a date that holds special weight for
white supremacists."
"Just when you thought Arizona
Republican Reps. Paul Gosar and
Andy Biggs could bring no greater disgrace to
the GOP than their connection to the Big Lie and
their alleged association with organizers of what
became the Jan. 6 insurrection … Stop. I take that
back. If you’ve lived in Arizona for any amount of
time and follow politics even a little you know that
Gosar and Biggs are more than capable of bringing
even greater ignominious disgrace to the GOP."
"Reps.
Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, Arizona's most
contrarian members of Congress, again joined the few
in Washington to vote against banning Russian oil
imports and further economic sanctions. The largely
symbolic measure overwhelmingly passed the House of
Representatives 414-17, with the Arizona Republicans
joined by 13 GOP colleagues"
"Since 2018, when Gosar
dined with a European extremist who called for
banning Islam from Europe, the far-right Arizona
lawmaker has boosted the profiles of local antisemites,
attended a conference organized by a prominent White
nationalist, and repeatedly shared content from a
Holocaust denial website."
"Rep. Paul Gosar was one of
three members of the House of Representatives on
Wednesday to vote against a symbolic measure calling
for a cease-fire in Ukraine and support for its
people. The resolution passed 426-3"
"The
Republican state senator was
clear in what she wanted in a
recent post on Telegram, the
encrypted messaging app that has
become a haven for far-right
politics and extremists. “Dear
Groyper army, please hit Ron
Watkins. Love, Wendy,” she
wrote. State Sen. Wendy Rogers
was asking her fans and allies
in the “groyper army” to go
after the QAnon conspiracy
theorist turned Congressional
candidate because he had alleged
Rogers, who has built her
political brand on spreading
lies about the 2020 election,
was involved in some sort of
“backroom deal” that was
preventing Splunk logs and
routers from being examined for
alleged election fraud. There is
no evidence of such a backroom
deal."
"In a Jan. 24 Gab post, Gosar
defended extremist Nick Fuentes, whom the Southern
Poverty Law Center describes as a white nationalist:
"The phony January 6th Committee's partisan
witch-hunt continues as they have now set their
sights on young conservative Christians like Nick
Fuentes. This is pure political persecution and it
has to stop. @realnickjfuentes" Fuentes, who the
Anti-Defamation League also calls a white
supremacist leader and organizer, responded on Gab:
"Thank you Congressman!"
"The far-right congressman is
one of Trump’s most loyal backers in Congress,
earning him one of more than 90 endorsements made so
far by the former US president ahead of this year’s
crucial midterm elections. Gosar is the kind of
politician that Trump – who is embarking on a series
of rallies to try to cement his allies’ power in the
Republican party – is increasingly seeking to
support. But Gosar has extensive links to white
nationalists and Capitol rioters and,
many observers say, represents a dangerous new breed
of Republican politician, who would have once been
considered fringe, but whom Trump is increasingly
making central to Republican party politics."
"Kari
Lake, a former TV anchor who's running
for governor, began her speech with the
theme of some of the other speakers,
praising America under Trump and listing its
problems under Biden. As did others, she
called Trump “president” and slammed the
2020 election as “rotten to the core.""
[ . .
. ]
"We are so blessed to
have Donald Trump with us here today. We
know the election was stolen,” state
Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, said
when she took the stage, echoing the
sentiments of other speakers and crowd
members, who cheered her in response."
[ . .
. ]
"Arizona Republican
U.S. Reps.
Debbie Lesko,
Andy Biggs and
Paul Gosar, the
latter two national leaders in the spread of
falsehoods over the 2020 election, also
spoke at the rally"
"Even among radical voices in
Republican politics, Rep. Paul Gosar of
Arizona stands out as extraordinary. Plenty of GOP
officials peddle strange conspiracy theories about
Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat, but the Arizona
congressman — best known for his associations with
white nationalists and animated video in which he
was depicted killing one of his House colleagues —
is a special case. After all, Gosar has described
President Joe Biden as a "fraudulent usurper." He
called the certification of the election results as
"sedition." He praised Jan. 6 rioters as "peaceful
patriots." He recently claimed to have a secret CIA
source who told him about hundreds of thousands of
fraudulent votes, pointing to an intelligence office
that doesn't appear to exist."
"Gosar's aide, Tom Van Flein, hunted for a
plane from South Korea that conspiracy theorists identified as a
source of what they thought was election-changing levels of fraud
[...] They found a Korean Air plane, but no proof of stolen ballots."
"The
far-right representative
from Arizona voted against
the American Rescue Plan.
He’s now calling some of its
funding “essential” "
"Paul
Gosar has repeatedly
denounced the American
Rescue Plan, a bill passed
by Congress earlier this
year to help Americans and
businesses during the
pandemic. Gosar labeled the
plan, which cost $1.9
trillion, “a Democrat
spending bonanza” and
agreed with his colleague
Matt Gaetz’s contention that
it’s nothing more than “a
trojan horse for socialism.”
Gosar voted against the
plan, of course, but in
a Monday press release
he happily took credit for a
$32,000 American Rescue Plan
grant that will help an
Arizona airport clean and
sanitize its facilities,
calling the funds
“essential.”
“I am
pleased to announce that the
City of Kingman will receive
this critical funding for
economic relief related to
operational costs for
cleaning and sanitizing the
Kingman Airport to combat
the spread of COVID-19,”
Gosar wrote. “This funding
is essential to maintaining
safe and reliable air
service to the community.”
Included in the release was
a quote from Kingman Mayor
Jen Miles thanking the
Arizona representative for
his “continued support.”
“We
are grateful for Congressman
Gosar’s continued support,
and this funding will help
with the ever-growing
Kingman Municipal Airport
operations,” Miles said.
Gosar
and Miles’ offices did not
immediately respond to a
requests for comment from
Rolling Stone.
As a
refresher, here are
some of the initiatives
that were
funded by the American
Rescue Plan: $1,400
stimulus checks, increased
child tax credits, extended
unemployment insurance,
rental assistance, and
emergency funds for
governments, in addition to
funds for businesses. When
Gosar voted against the
plan,
he called it a “supposed
Covid relief bill” and
claimed that the legislation
“fails to compensate small
and medium-sized businesses
while providing only meager
relief for the American
people.” Not only did he
vote against it, he
proposed an amendment to
give Americans $10,000
stimulus checks in an
attempt to strip a number of
other priorities from the
bill."
"Representative Paul Gosar
(R-Ariz.) has credited his "Marxist" siblings for
"screaming and squealing" about a video showing him
killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
as inspiration to "keep on going. Gosar was censured
and removed from his House committee assignments
last month over tweeting the edited anime video,
which depicts him killing Ocasio-Cortez with a sword
before turning the blade towards President Joe
Biden. The Arizona Republican initially deleted the
video from Twitter shortly after controversy ensued.
However, he quickly reversed course, praising the
video and sharing it in another tweet minutes after
being censured. [...] Several of Gosar's siblings
did disavow the video and blast their brother after
he posted it.
Jennifer
Gosar, the congressman's youngest sibling, called
him "a sociopath" while urging Congress to
hold him "accountable" during a CNN interview last
month. Jennifer celebrated his censure during a
later interview with MSNBC, adding that she hoped
the move was "not the end" of his punishment."
"Rep. Paul Gosar is
decrying the treatment of insurrectionists held in a
Washington, D.C., jail. But where is his concern
about mistreatment of inmates here in Arizona?"
"The four Republicans who ...
circulated baseless conspiracy theories about a 2020
Donald Trump presidential victory in Arizona and
pushed for the Senate's partisan audit of Maricopa
County's election results are continuing on the same
path more than a year later. [...] U.S. Reps.
Andy Biggs and
Paul Gosar, state Rep.
Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, and former
Representative
Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, were at the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, encouraging the overturn of
election results."
"The
House censured Rep. Paul
Gosar and booted him from
his committees Wednesday
over a violent social media
post in which he threatened
prominent Democrats"
"“In a moment where you’ve got an
avowed white nationalist in Rep. Gosar who
has posted a video advocating the killing of another
member, the idea that our leader will not stand
against that, but that he’s somehow going after and
allowing attacks against 13 members who are
conducting themselves in a serious and substantive
way is really outrageous,” Ms. Cheney told The
Associated Press."
"The House Representative,
whose siblings have endorsed the last two Democratic
Congressional nominees over their own brother, has
earned two more points into the political hall of
shame and disrepute."
"The special House committee
examining the Jan. 6 riot is reportedly planning to
seek phone records from former President Donald
Trump and other Republicans involved in the "Stop
the Steal" rallies, including Reps.
Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar of Arizona."
"On Friday, Rep. Dean Phillips,
D-Minn.,
recounted how he vented his anger at Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.,
as the rioters stormed the Capitol and halted the
certification of the Electoral College vote."
"Unless your GOP
colleagues step in,
you are doomed to go
down in history as a
cautionary tale: a
person who betrayed
his family, his
country and
himself."
"You may have seen Arizona Rep.
Paul Gosar in footage from Jan. 6, standing
on the floor of the House of Representatives — an
American flag mask hanging beneath his nose, his
head bobbing up and down — objecting to the
certification of Joe Biden’s presidency on the floor
of the U.S. House of Representatives, shortly before
insurrectionists attempted to break into the chamber
to do the same. Gosar has devoted himself to former
president
Donald Trump’s false claims about his election
loss, promoting “Stop the Steal” rallies, referring
to President Biden as “an illegitimate usurper” and
calling the angry masses who laid siege to the
Capitol “peaceful patriots.”"
"the American Dental
Association has finally cut off donations to
Gosar, who made headlines earlier this year for
speaking at a white nationalist conference organized
by Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes."
The
Arizona
Republic
via The
Rose Law
Group
Reporter
Jul. 15,
2022
"Elected
officials
and
candidates
for
office
in 2022
continue
to
challenge
and
question
the
results
of the
2020
presidential
election
in
Arizona.
The
results
have
been
examined
and
re-examined,
challenged
in court
and in a
monthslong
ballot
review.
No
evidence
has been
found of
widespread
fraud or
error in
the
results.
Yet
candidates
deny the
outcome.
Others
don't
quite go
as far.
But they
raise
questions
about
potential
irregularities
they say
could
have
influenced
the vote
and
should
be
examined.
The
Arizona
Republic
is
listing
candidates
by
category
by the
race
that
they are
entered
in. This
list is
not
complete
and will
be
updated
throughout
the 2022
election
season.
Election
deniers
These
candidates
in
Arizona
races
deny
that Joe
Biden
won the
2020
presidential
election,
either
in
Arizona
or
nationwide."
"The American Dental
Association has donated over $75,000 to the
Republican congressman from Arizona, a former
dentist, since he was elected to Congress in 2010,
making them his top donor. "
"Six months to the day after a
mob broke into the U.S. Capitol in a direct attack
on democracy, Rep. Paul Gosar on Tuesday came
once again to the defense of one of those who died
in insurrection. Oh, not one of the police officers
who lost their lives in the days and weeks after the
attack. Gosar has steadfastly refused to honor any
of the men and women who defended the nation’s
Capitol (and him) that day. Instead, Gosar chose the
six-month anniversary of that now-infamous day to
pay tribute to one of the rioters and to continue
his quest to sic the mob on the Capitol police
officer who killed her."
"Whether it's lying about the
2020 election, distorting the events of January 6th,
or sharing the stage with a holocaust denier,
far-right Congressman Paul Gosar is making a
name for himself as one of the most
conspiracy-addled Republicans in Congress"
"Three of Arizona's four House
Republicans voted Tuesday against banning
Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol in an
issue shaped by the Jan. 6 riot and GOP pushback on
discussing systemic racism."
"GOP Rep. Paul Gosar of
Arizona is set to host a fundraiser with Nick
Fuentes, a far-right political commentator and
streamer who was identified as a white supremacist
by the FBI and is seen as the leader of a
nationalist movement called the "Groyper Army.""
"I consider him a traitor to
this country. I consider him a traitor to his
family," Dave Gosar said. "He doesn't see it. He's
disgraced and dishonored himself."
"National Stop the Steal
organizer Ali Alexander claimed that Arizona
Representatives Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and
Andy Biggs (R-AZ) joined him to “plan pro-Trump
rallies. That included the one that ended with an
attack on the Capitol.” The consequences of their
actions are chilling."
"Rep.
Paul Gosar’s
(R-Ariz.) brothers
on Thursday
apologized "on
behalf of the actual
sane members" of the
Gosar family for the
Arizona Republican's
false claims about
the deadly attack on
the U.S. Capitol on
Jan. 6."
"Gosar said Babbitt had
been "executed" and that "(t)he Capitol Police
officer that did that shooting appeared to be
hiding, lying in wait and then gave no warning
before killing her." The Arizona Republican also
questioned why the name of the officer has not been
made public."
The Arizona Republicans were
among the few members in the House and Senate to
oppose the measure, which now heads to President Joe
Biden, who is expected to sign it into law.
"Gosar, during a House
hearing earlier in the day, said Capitol Police were
"lying in wait" for Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and
killed during the breach at the Capitol that day.
Gosar reportedly described Babbitt as being
"executed" by Capitol Police."
"Gosar tweeted Tuesday
that Brian Sicknick, a Capitol
Police officer who
engaged Jan. 6
rioters, was not
killed by the
rioters and instead
died of natural
causes. He called
the claim that
Sicknick was killed
by rioters a “lie."
"Messages leaked to the Washington Post implicate
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) in a plot to create a
so-called "Brooks Brothers Riot" in his home state
to block President Joe Biden's victory."
"Rep.
Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is finding that
Democrats who once worked with him on bipartisan
bills no longer want to touch them with a 10-foot
pole if he’s involved."
"Trump
Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar-White
Nationalist-Election
Denying
Collaborating
Quislings Andy masks
take away freedom
Biggs and Paul my
family will not vote
for me Gosar found
time last Friday to
costar with fellow
traitors-fringe-potential
underworld figures Majorie Jewish
Lasers cause
California Wildfire
Taylor Greene and
Matt the indictment
probably is coming
soon Gaetz at a big
lie America First rally at the Mesa Community
Center."
"House Democrats, aided by 35
Republicans, voted 252-175 to pass a bill to create
a 10-member commission. [...]
Biggs was joined in voting no Wednesday by
fellow Arizona Republicans Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko and
David Schweikert, all three of whom are Freedom
Caucus members."
"Four
of the most polarizing Republicans in the U.S. House
of Representatives called on a top Justice
Department official to allow Arizona's audit of
Maricopa County ballots to continue unimpeded."
"Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar has become
white nationalists’ favorite Republican because he's
quick to jump into action when they start throwing
fits based on their paranoid fantasies."
"Rep.
Paul Gosar
once again
distinguishes
himself as Arizona's
biggest crackpot
congressman. This
time, by defending
Jan. 6 rioters. Or,
as he sees them,
"peaceful
patriots'."
"Louie
Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar
[have] been circulating material championing “a
common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political
traditions.”"
"House Republicans seem to have a
permanent slot for a designated white nationalist
member in their ranks these days. Steve King, the
Iowa congressman who finally stepped aside in the
election, used to play the role. Nowadays, Paul
Gosar of Arizona seems to have become the go-to
guy. Last Friday, Gosar was the keynote speaker in
Orlando, Florida, at the America First Political
Action Committee (AFPAC) conference organized by
white nationalist troll Nicholas Fuentes, leader of
the alt-right “Groyper Army.” He followed that up
Monday by tweeting out a meme featuring the group’s
motto, “America First is Inevitable.”"
"As he darted down to Florida
last week and skipped crucial House votes,
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona
neglected to tell GOP Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri
the full story behind why he needed her to vote in
his place."
"Rep.
Paul Gosar skipped voting on the $1.9 trillion
virus aid bill on Friday, suggesting the pandemic
prevented him from being physically present in
Congress on the same day he spoke to conservatives
in Florida."
Arizona
Representative
Paul
Gosar, a
proud
member
of the
January
6 Trump
Insurrection
at the
U.S.
Capitol
building,
on his
way to
join the
attempted
takeover.
Facebook
post now
deleted.
"In July he said the pandemic
was 'waning.' Now he pawns it off as hyped up by
Trump enemies. There have been 6 million cases
in the U.S. and more than 183,000 deaths."
Position Sought:U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
5:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
Question
12:
Adding
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
"Rep. Paul Gosar has
used his social media perch to back a far-right
Florida congressional candidate who has claimed some
mass shootings were staged and lost online accounts
of her own over her anti-Muslim views."
"six of
Gosar's
siblings – Tim, Jennifer, Gaston, Joan, Grace, and
David – say that their brother's positions on
immigration, the environment, and health care have
effectively torn their family apart."
Sep. 21, 2018
Center
for
Arizona
Policy
2018
Candidate
Questionnaire
Position Sought:U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
4:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their conscience.*
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
9:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
"A fringe think tank that vilifies Muslims bankrolled
Arizona Congressman
Paul Gosar's
trip to the U.K. last month to attend a rally for a
jailed far-right activist."
"Gosar has denigrated
entire Muslim communities in the United Kingdom by
supporting a dangerous far-right extremist who, by
his own admission, is supported by Nazis,"
"Gosarraised far-right
conspiracy theories.
He suggested the deadly Charlottesville,
Virginia, white supremacist rally was the work of a
supporter of former President Barack Obama and that
liberal activist George Soros had turned Jews over
to the Nazis as a boy."
Position Sought:U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
4:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their conscience.*
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
9:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
3:
Arizona’s voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage should be defended to the fullest extent legally possible.
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
4:
Protecting individuals and businesses from being required to provide services or use their artistic expression in a manner that violates their moral or religious beliefs.*
Candidates'
Position:
Support.
Question
8:
Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in antidiscrimination law.
Position Sought:
U.S.
House of
Representatives
CD-4
Question
3:
Amending the United States
Constitution to define marriage
as the union of one man and one
woman.
Candidates'
Position: Support.
Question
8:
Adding
“sexual
orientation,”
“gender
identity,”
or
“gender
expression”
to the
protected
classes
of race,
religion,
age,
sex, and
ancestry
in
nondiscrimination
law.
Candidates'
Position: Oppose.
Question 13: Repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and declares states do not have to recognize same-sex marriage from other states.
Question 5:
Amending the
United States Constitution to
define marriage as between only
one man and one woman.
Candidates'
Position:
Support.
Question 8:
Protecting healthcare workers
from being required to perform
procedures that violate their
moral or religious beliefs.*
Candidates'
Position:
Support.
Question 10:
Adding “sexual orientation,”
“gender identity,” or “gender
expression” to the protected
classes of race, religion, age,
sex, and ancestry in
discrimination law.
Candidates'
Position:
Oppose.
Question 14:
Repealing the federal Defense of
Marriage Act, which states that
marriage is the union of one man
and one woman and declares
states do not have to recognize
same-sex marriage from other
states.
