New Mexico Republicans cancel rally after controversial paramilitary group and other speakers pull out

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  • New Mexico Republicans have canceled an August 22 rally that was supposed to pay "special tribute" to a far-right paramilitary group.
  • Following Business Insider's coverage of the event, the Curry County Republican Party took out a full-page newspaper ad stating that it "does not support any group that believes in racist ideologies or condones violence in any way."
  • The New Mexico Civil Guard itself pulled out of the rally, claiming it took offense to "blatant racist" remarks from other, unspecified speakers.
  • The Las Cruces Sun News reported on Friday that the event, which was to be held at the Curry County GOP's party headquarters, is no longer happening.
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Republicans in New Mexico have canceled a rally that was going to pay "special tribute" to a far-right paramilitary group — after that group earlier pulled out of the rally, citing "blatantly racist" remarks from some speakers.

As Business Insider was the first to report, the August 22 rally in Clovis, New Mexico, was billed as an event honoring law enforcement and the New Mexico Civil Guard. The paramilitary group, whose leaders include a neo-Confederate and a man who denied Holocaust, has appeared heavily armed at anti-racist events in the state, including one in Albuquerque where a former Republican candidate shot a protester.

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