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    How a gun-carrying, far-right activist plots a run at the US Senate

    Joey Gibson, a far-right activist whose political rallies have prompted counter-protests and violence, is running for Congress in Washington state
    by Jason Wilson Jun 03, 2018 5 minutes
    Joey Gibson, wearing his John 3:16 shirt. ‘Gun-free zones disgust me because we’re not protecting the kids on the campus. People look at it backwards.’ Photograph: Jason Wilson

    It is unusual for a Republican Senate candidate to find themselves handcuffed and face down in a parking garage. But that was what happened recently when Joey Gibson was detained by University of Washington police.

    Gibson, 34, is a far-right activist who has come to prominence under the Trump presidency, staging political rallies across the Pacific north-west under the banner of his Patriot Prayer group. He is now running for Congress in a crowded Republican field.

    Three days after 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, last month, the officers who arrested Gibson were acting on a complaint from someone on the UW campus in Seattle who said they had seen a man brandishing a gun.

    A cellphone video was taken by one of Gibson’s companions, Tusitala Toese, a hulking 21-year old who goes by the nickname “Tiny”. It showed Gibson and

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