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These pro-Trump influencers are all-in on chattel slavery MAGA influencers and a GOP operative have been offering defenses and outright endorsements of slavery in recent weeks.

Oct. 20, 2025, 3:23 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

A strain of explicit pro-slavery sentiment is coursing through the MAGA movement. Operatives and influencers aligned with the movement — which has made the treasonous Confederacy into a cause célèbre and sought to keep the history about the brutality of chattel slavery out of public view — have been documented in recent weeks offering wholehearted defenses, if not outright support, for the idea of owning other human beings.

Joshua Haymes — a far-right podcast host and former pastor at Defense Secre

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