Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Harrison “Ted” Clark was elected Chair of the The Clay County Soil and Water Conservation District. He is also the son and campaign manager for Beth Clark, a member of the Clay County School Board in Florida. In January, he was arrested in Nassau County for traveling there to meet someone he believed was a fourteen-year-old boy to have sex (rape.) “Hope I’m not too old for ya,” he wrote in one of the several texts he exchanged with the putative 14-year-old.
Andrew Taake is an insurrectionist. He was charged with pepper spraying and whipping Capitol Police officers. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2023. Trump pardoned him in January 2025.
Benjamin John Martin is an insurrectionist from Fresno, California. He was well-known in the area for his anti-mark activism during COVID. He was convicted of participating in the insurrection and later convicted of possession of firearms despite being prohibited from having guns after his conviction for domestic violence.
Edward Richmond, Jr. is an insurrectionist from Louisiana. He was charged with assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, a metal baton. He was sentenced to four years in prison but was pardoned by Trump.
Kasey Von Owen Hopkins is an insurrectionist who was pardoned by Trump. He also wanted to join the Proud Boys white nationalist extremist group whose leaders were convicted of conspiring against the government and then pardoned.
Daniel Ball is an insurrectionist who was charged with throwing an explosive device at the January 6th attempt to overthrow the government. Before his trial, however, he was pardoned by Donald Trump. He was re-arrested, however, on weapons charges as he was already a convicted felon from previous felonies. He argued the case should be dismissed because the gun was found during his arrest for the insurrection for which he has been pardoned. The US Attorney, cravenly, also sought dismissal arguing the pardon extended to weapons charges.
Peter Schwartz is an insurrectionist from Kentucky who was sentenced to fourteen years for his participation in the January 6th attempt to overturn the government. He used a chair as a weapon against Capitol Police and also used mace. Prosecutors said he was one of the most violent of the insurrectionists who attacked the United States that day. Trump pardoned him.
Theodore Middendorf is one of the January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by Trump.
He was previously convicted of predatory sexual assault of a child and sentenced to nineteen years in prison. The child was seven years old. He was thirty-one.