{"id":80046,"date":"2026-02-20T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:00:48","slug":"texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f3f6d45266e0dda5cc2ab9cd2b771d9dd08ff90b\/76_0_1768_1415\/master\/1768.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=f62637a6b193f29dadb1cd8cb1024e9c\" alt=\"Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">After tech billionaire Peter Thiel and others donated to Jace Yarbrough\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump endorsed himA rookie congressional candidate in a nine-way Texas primary has received the imprimatur of wealthy hard-right donors including tech billionaire Peter Thiel, Claremont Institute board chair Thomas Klingenstein and Charles Haywood, who once expressed a desire to be a \u201cwarlord\u201d, according to new Federal Election Commission filings showing early donations to his campaign.In a recent candidate forum, Jace Yarbrough unapologetically staked out a series of extremist positions, saying that critics may call his approach to politics \u201cbigoted and backward and oppressive and Nazi-ish\u201d, but that he is \u201cpast trying to placate that in any way, shape or form\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/jace-yarbrough-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors After tech billionaire Peter Thiel and others donated to Jace Yarbrough\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump endorsed himA rookie congressional candidate in a nine-way Texas primary has received the imprimatur of wealthy hard-right donors including tech billionaire Peter Thiel, Claremont Institute board chair Thomas Klingenstein and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":80047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}