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James Allsup
Allsup on the air on a KZUU radio show in 2016
President of the WSU College Republicans
In office 2015 – August 14, 2017
Personal details
Born	(1995-09-07) September 7, 1995 (age 29) Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Residence(s)	Pullman, Washington, U.S.
Education	Washington State University
Occupation	Activist, YouTuber
Known for	YouTube, Unite the Right rally

James Orien Allsup (born September 7, 1995) is an American white supremacist and the former president of the College Republicans chapter at Washington State University (WSU), where he was a political science major before graduating in the fall of 2017. In August 2017, Allsup attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He resigned as president of the College Republicans at Washington State University in 2017.

Early life and education

Allsup was born in Beaverton, Oregon on September 7, 1995. He graduated from Bothell High School in 2014, and then enrolled at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington to pursue degrees in political science, criminal justice, and Chinese. While attending Washington State University he was president of WSU College Republicans and hosted events that brought Republican candidates such as Bill Bryant and Chris Vance to the university.

Political activities

President of the WSU's College Republicans chapter

Allsup was elected president of the WSU's College Republicans chapter in 2015, and remained president until resigning on August 14, 2017. According to one student who attended meetings of the organisation Allsup changed the nature of the organisation dramatically.

In January 2017 Allsup arranged for Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at WSU; the event ended up being canceled due to weather. The President of the WSU Young Democrats Gavin Pielow continued to host a "Civics 101" program that was planned as an "alternative event" to Milo's planned visit.

As President of the College Republicans, Allsup consistently participated in public forum debates with his counterpart Gavin Pielow, the President of the WSU Young Democrats. In the spring of 2017, ASWSU Senator Kevin Schilling moderated a debate between Allsup and Pielow in which the two discussed Russia’s involvement in President Donald Trump’s administration, Supreme Court confirmations, U.S. foreign policy, the proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the national budget and health care. Debates between Allsup's College Republicans and Pielow's Young Democrats range as far back as October 2016.

WSU's campus political leaders had, on occasion, got together for lunch to foster understanding and peace by creating an opportunity for communication between those with different opinions.

9th district legislative race

In an interview with The Daily Evergreen, Allsup described political candidate Hailey Roemer as "the clear choice" to replace Representative Dye.

Students for Rand

In 2016, Allsup served as the Washington State Coordinator for Students for Rand, the youth division of Rand Paul's presidential campaign.

Students for Trump

Following the suspension of Paul's campaign, Allsup was hired by Ryan Fournier to serve as the Senior Advisor at Students for Trump, a non-profit political organization based in Campbell, North Carolina supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign, unaffiliated with the official campaign organization.

Allsup helped to organize the May 9, 2016 construction of the "Trump Wall" at the University of Washington. The wall was 10 by 8 ft (3.0 by 2.4 m) and built out of plywood, painted to resemble a brick wall, with the phrases "Blue Lives Matter" and "Make America Great Again" painted on the front. The event, which was co-hosted by UW Students for Trump and UW College Republicans, was met with "about 100" protesters,. Allsup stated that the intended message of the event was "that we need to have a strong immigration policy and enforce the law," and regarding the exposure the event generated, that “the reason people demonstrate is for exposure, media or otherwise.”

In January 2017, he attended an inauguration celebration outside the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C., where he stated he had been attacked by a protester with a flagpole.

Participation in Unite the Right rally

Allsup attended the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottsville on August 12, 2017. At the rally, he documented events and delivered a speech defending the protesters there. Allsup was open about his participation in the rally, including his plan to speak, which was disrupted by left-leaning protesters. On the Monday after the rally, he resigned from his position as head of the College Republicans group at WSU, a move he said he had been planned in advance but had subsequently expedited. In an interview with KREM, he said that he attended the rally "in a media capacity" and was unexpectedly asked to speak by one of its organizers. He also said that he disagreed with the violence that occurred there and with the hateful symbols, such as swastikas, that were being displayed by some of the rally's attendees. After attending the rally in Charlottesville, it was reported by unnamed sources that he uploaded a video documenting his experiences there, which was almost immediately taken down.

Images of Allsup attending the rally posted on social media led to demands on social media platforms that WSU expel Allsup, including a petition. Allsup stated on Twitter that if college administrators did expel him, it would result in a "huge civil rights lawsuit win for me." As of the week of August 14, he was not enrolled in classes for the fall semester at WSU.

Social media

Allsup runs a YouTube channel on which he discusses social issues, current events, and right-wing/liberterian politics. As of February 10, 2018, his channel had over 190,000 subscribers.

His account on Twitter was suspended on Christmas Day 2017. At the time of the suspension, his account had nearly 24,000 followers.

Views

Allsup has described himself as a "paleoconservative" and a "right-wing libertarian". He has been described as a white nationalist by The Atlantic and a "budding alt-right figure" by The Washington Post. He is a former Liberty Conservative writer. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Allsup "...advocates for advancing white nationalism through the infiltration of the Republican Party rather than by the radical, revolutionary action favored by vanguardist groups on the extreme fringe."

Race

In May 2017 he expressed support for the views of psychologist Richard Lynn, a professor at the University of Ulster known for his belief in racial differences in intelligence.

References

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2. Flynn, Kerry (August 16, 2017). "After Charlottesville, Tech Companies Are Forced To Take Action Against Hate Speech". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2018. Uber banned white supremacist James Allsup from its ride-hailing platform over the weekend after he made racist remarks while using service.
3. Statt, Nick (August 17, 2017). "Uber says it will continue to ban white supremacists from its platform". The Verge. Retrieved March 3, 2018. Over the weekend, Uber banned notable white supremacist James Allsup after Allsup and his passenger, alt-right personality Tim "Baked Alaska" Gionet, made racist remarks while riding past the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC. The Uber driver, an unidentified black women, felt so uncomfortable that she asked the two to leave the car.
4. O'Donovan, Caroline (August 15, 2017). "Uber Bans Racists Too". Buzzfeed. Retrieved March 3, 2017. Uber permanently banned white supremacist James Allsup from its ride-hail platform on Saturday after an Uber driver in Washington, DC, kicked him and alt-right leader Tim Gionet, better known as Baked Alaska on Twitter, out of her car for allegedly making racist remarks. The decision makes Uber one of a handful of tech companies that denied service to groups or individuals associated with the violent white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.
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External links

• YouTube channel

• Washington State University alumni
• Washington (state) Libertarians
• American YouTubers
• Washington (state) Republicans
• People from Bothell, Washington
• Alt-right writers
• Living people