{"id":66830,"date":"2026-02-20T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:57:25","slug":"texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/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":"<p>After tech billionaire Peter Thiel and others donated to Jace Yarbrough\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump endorsed him<\/p>\n<p>A rookie congressional candidate in a nine-way Texas primary has received the imprimatur of wealthy hard-right donors including tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/peter-thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/jace-yarbrough-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After tech billionaire Peter Thiel and others donated to Jace Yarbrough\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump endorsed him A 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/texas-congressional-candidate-with-extremist-views-backed-by-hard-right-donors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}