Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Joshua Barnard is one of the Boogaloo Bois, an extreme anti-government group advocating for civil war without a clear ideology other than being pro-gun and pro-violence. Barnard was arrested for suspicion of breaking into a motor vehicle, looting, larceny, aggravated breach of peace, and instigating a riot. In June 2020, just weeks after that arrest, he was arrested again and charged with 11 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
David Ray Barker is a white nationalist and affiliated with the Texas Patriot Network, a violent, radical group. In 2001, he was convicted in two separate cases of indecency with a child by contact. The victim was 9 years old. Because of that he was required to register as a violent sex offender for life. He failed to do so and got in trouble again. He appealed, arguing that the sex offender law was unconstitutional, but his appeal was denied.
Steve Wukmer was on the staff at Agape Christian Boarding School, infamous for allegations of abuse, neglect, and trafficking. He was also a children’s minister in Ohio.
He was arrested in November 2022 on 215 charges related to child sex abuse material. Bail was set at $12.9 million.
Jeffery Williams was a Salvation Army youth pastor in Fountain, Colorado. He was arrested in October, 2022, for sending sexually explicit inappropriate material to a minor.
David Lynn Richards was the pastor of My Father’s House in Lenoir City, Tennessee. When his adopted daughter was sixteen years old, she told her guidance counselor that her father put her hand down his pants. The next day she had a forensic interview and revealed he had been raping her for two years. While he denied it and said it was motivated by defiance. However, police found his seminal fluid that matched his DNA on her bed frame.
Bud ‘Marty’ May, who lost the race for South Dakota House District 27 to his mother, was arrested a week after the 2022 election and charged with rape. It happened in a bar bathroom. Police were called. When police arrived she had blood, dirt, and abrasions on her. May fled the scene. After he was detained, he claimed it was just a hug.
David Lloyd Walther was the pastor of Faith Baptist Church, an anti-gay church in Round Rock, Texas. He also was arrested and faces federal charges for distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. I am not going to write out what all he collected.
Leticia McCormack was an elder and, soon-to-be-ordained at The Rock Church, an anti-gay archconservative FourSquare Evangelical church in San Diego. She and her parents were charged with child abuse and the murder of her adopted daughter. McCormack’s husband killed himself when sheriff deputies’ contacted him.
Matthew Foster was the District Attorney for Washington and Hancock counties in Maine. A Republican, he was defeated in his run for a third term in October 2022 perhaps because he was caught in a life during a candidate forum. He was asked if he had been investigated by Maine’s attorney general’s office and he said no, but he was investigated in 2017 and 2018.
Matt Walsh is a rightwing political podcaster. He describes himself as a theocratic fascist. He’s not wrong about that. He also has a column at The Daily Wire. He is mostly defined by what he is against rather than what he is for. He is against Black mermaids, drag queens, and people who are trans. He hatemongers with claims of grooming and pedophilia. Meanwhile, he thinks sixteen-year-olds should get pregnant, that adolescence is nonsense, and child marriage is peachy.