On March 5, 2024, voters in Massachusetts’ First Suffolk District will choose two candidates — a man and a woman — for the Republican State Committee. One candidate, Lori Kauffman, is an unabashed Neo-Nazi. A convert from Judaism to Christianity, Kauffman has vowed to “exile” Jews and, on a white supremacist podcast, said “we need to overthrow the government.”

Kauffman’s bizarre candidacy was first reported on by Boston Broadside, which pointed out her pro-Hitler posts on X (formerly Twitter). On Dec. 23, 2023, for example, she used her @Jews4Ye24 account — referring to antisemitic rapper Ye’s failed presidential bid — to declare, “I’m a Jew. Whatever the ‘holocaust’ was, Israel and J-ws are guilty of worse crimes against humanity. I love Hitler.”

Kauffman uses a second X account, @LoriKauffman13, to spew antisemitic rhetoric as well. On Aug. 3, 2023, before her conversion to Christianity, Kauffman wrote, “Yes I’m Jewish, but I have Christian values and believe Jews are destroying the world.” Just days ago she used this account to conflate Judaism with Satanism.

And on Feb. 25, 2024, she boasted that, if elected, she will ban same-sex marriage, criminalize transgender people, and “exile all Jews”:

And on her Instagram page, which is currently set to private, Kauffman once posted a photo of herself holding a book called Life in the Reich, by British Neo-Nazi Michael McLaughlin.

In order to gin up support for her campaign, Kauffman has appeared on shows hosted by notorious white supremacists. On Jan. 6, 2024, she went on Hoaxbusters, a show hosted by Diane King and twin Holocaust deniers Jim and Joe Rizoli. During this appearance Kauffman explained why she rejected her Jewish upbringing, and what inspired her to run for office.

Kauffman claimed that what “redpilled” her was rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West), who, in 2022, began to voice support for Adolf Hitler, the Nazis, and Holocaust denial. In an infamous X post, Ye vowed to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” And his ill-fated presidential campaign was aided by white nationalists like Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos.

“And everybody should’ve really woken up at this point when he sent a, we like to call it a sleepy tweet — ’cause that’s what he refers to it as — about the Jews. And the next day — saying they hold all the power in the world — and the next day he loses like $9 billion of his own money,” she said. “Did they not just prove his point, like, completely?”

Kauffman said she started “following [Ye] closely” and became a fan of Nick Fuentes and white nationalist broadcaster Stew Peters. On X, Kauffman has praised Fuentes and interacted positively with figures associated with his racist “groyper” movement such as Matt Evans, a streamer who goes by the name “Beardson Beardly”:

Eventually, she began assisting Ye with his campaign, and a “connection” of his told her to “look into volunteering for the GOP in Massachusetts.” After reaching out to more people, however, she decided to simply run for a position.

According to Kauffman, Daniel Kelly, who is also running for Republican State Committee, wanted her as his “running mate.” She also claims that Chris Ryan, chairman of the Western Mass GOP Patriots PAC and self-described “Theater Commander” of the RINO-Cutters Project, offered her “advice here and there.”

“He saw my Instagram which — that one’s now been banned, obviously, it was public — but he was like ‘Maybe you should address some of your content there. Maybe censor it a little bit,'” she said of Chris Ryan. “He goes, ‘But actually, never mind. Trump people love that shit.'” But she accused him of “[throwing] that stuff back in my face” at the “Western Mass. GOP meeting.”

On Dec. 15, 2023, the Massachusetts Republican Committee passed a resolution condemning Kauffman’s “prejudiced and antisemitic statements” and calling on her to withdraw her candidacy.

Co-host Jim Rizoli eventually spoke up to suggest Kauffman actually had an “advantage” due to her “Jewish name.” He explained that, “Unless they read the Boston Broadside they’re not gonna really know who the hell ya are, probably. But, having a Jewish name — you gotta understand that the Jews are tribal. They vote for Jews. So you could actually do well.”

Later in the show Kauffman expressed an interest in overthrowing the U.S. government and instituting a monarchy.

When Jim Rizoli asked Kauffman for her thoughts on Donald Trump, she said that she “never really liked him that much” and views him as “owned by Israel.” In fact, she admitted that she’s “still on Ye ’24.” But, she said, “what we need anyway is a monarchy. I’m over the government. It needs to be wiped out. Just call it what it is. We need to overthrow the government.”

Kauffman also decried America’s “fake elections” and claimed that “we’re not gonna get out of the system within the system — using the system itself.”

Jim Rizoli agreed, calling her remarks “absolutely true.” He stated that “You really need someone to take control that has to have the complete power,” and that “You’ll never see this unless you have a Hitler type of individual come in.” Diane King interjected to say that “We don’t deserve the kind of person that Hitler would be for a country that we have become.”

“We have Kanye,” Kauffman replied. “And we deserve him.”

Days later, Kauffman appeared on yet another white supremacist podcast, this time hosted by ex-Klan leader David Duke. During the interview, Kauffman railed against “Jewish supremacy” and went on an antisemitic tirade that appeared to even surprise Duke himself.

After briefly discussing her upbringing — claiming that the “turmoil” with in her own family helped “turn me off from Jews” — Kauffman said that she converted to Christianity “a year ago.” And, like other Christian antisemites, accused the Jews of “hat[ing] Christians” and being responsible for Christ’s death.

“It’s in their tendency to hate Christians, to have an issue with praising God,” she told Duke. “Obviously they killed Jesus. They really are an immoral, greedy, kind of money-worshipping, power-worshipping people.”

Duke said this was “true,” but cautioned that “we should be careful the way we word this.” He then began talking about people like Brian Roberts, the CEO and chairman of Comcast. According to Duke, Roberts’ grandfather changed his last name, which is something Jews do as a “form of disguise.”

“It’s like how a predator tries to disguise themselves like a leaf, you know, and so forth. And then the praying mantis gets the insect — the meal — for the day,” he said.