{"id":4833,"date":"2026-08-16T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:33:49","slug":"exposed-nazi-jokes-trigger-massive-headache-for-texas-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"Exposed Nazi jokes trigger massive headache for Texas Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A number of lawmakers and aspiring lawmakers in both parties have resigned in disgrace recently, from Maine\u2019s former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner to Texas\u2019 former Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales. As a result of the latter\u2019s resignation, Texas Republicans are now rallying behind YouTuber Brandon Herrera as his successor \u2014 but his history of offensive jokes is making that difficult to do.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4831\">Trump is sweating over a law that could finally put him in jail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA self-described gun-rights absolutist and YouTuber known for his inflammatory humor, Mr. Herrera, 30, was initially opposed this year by both Mr. Johnson and President Trump as he challenged the district\u2019s Republican incumbent, Tony Gonzales, for a second straight time,\u201d reported The New York Times&#8217; Bayliss Wagner on Sunday. \u201cMr. Gonzales and his allies spent millions painting Mr. Herrera as extreme, highlighting old videos in which he made wildly offensive jokes like saying that a Nazi-era submachine gun was \u2018the original ghetto blaster\u2019 and \u2018Hitler\u2019s street sweeper.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cBut after a sexual misconduct scandal forced Mr. Gonzales out of the race and then out of Congress this year, top Republicans quickly closed ranks around Mr. Herrera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wagner added that there is a controversial July 2022 video of Herrera in which he \u201cused crude language to insult Shannon Watts, who founded the gun-control group Moms Demand Action after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.\u201d His upcoming opponent in the congressional election, Democrat Katy Padilla Stout, described Herrera as a result of those remarks as \u201cnot the type of person you want making decisions for you and your children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4830\">Trump is trashing a national treasure for donors \u2014and Texans can\u2019t stop it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Padilla Stout \u201chas also pointed to a video of Mr. Herrera highlighting his ownership of a 1939 English edition of \u2018Mein Kampf,\u2019 and has circulated clips of him joking about Nazi atrocities against Jews,\u201d Wagner wrote. \u201cIn the interview, Mr. Herrera vehemently denied that he was antisemitic, and said he owned an annotated copy of \u2018Mein Kampf\u2019 as part of a historical book collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The journalist further reported, \u201cYehuda Remer, a Second Amendment activist who has known Mr. Herrera for a decade and is Orthodox Jewish, said the idea that Mr. Herrera was a Nazi was preposterous. \u2018If Brandon was actually antisemitic, he wouldn\u2019t have helped me along my journey, and continued to help me,\u2019 Mr. Remer said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far back as 2024, Herrera was a controversial figure. 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