Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidates have campaigned with an extreme anti-government group whose members attended the "Stop the Steal" rally ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Pennsylvania has "emerged as a hotbed for hate groups," local news outlets reported last year, ranking it as one of the top five states with the highest concentration of hate groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 36 different hate groups in the Keystone State and the Anti-Defamation League reported a record-high increase in hate incidents in Pennsylvania last year. Some of these groups helped storm the Capitol and Pennsylvania had the third-highest number of federal cases against individuals involved in the Capitol riot, behind only Florida and Texas, according to the George Washington Program on Extremism.
