As of Thursday morning, Rogers was still following both @TheOfficial1984 and @9mm_smg. The first was identified by the Observer as 40-year-old Texas-based marketing official Cyan Cruz, also spreads pro-Hitler messaging and conspiracy theories around Holocaust denialism. The account has nearly 223,000 followers.
The second was revealed to be a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer named Michael Gramer, who identifies on the platform as a white nationalist, posts Neo-Nazi rhetoric like “14 words” — a code for a slogan coined by white supremacist David Lane — and “blood and soil,” which is a foundational Nazi slogan. Gramer also discusses his preference for fascism and national socialism over democracy with his roughly 221,000 followers.
Rogers isn’t the only elected official on the following the accounts. The Observer reported that Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky follows three of the four neo-Nazi accounts.
Any association with neo-Nazi ideology by an elected official would normally be a shocking, career-ending event, but that’s never been the case for Rogers. She has a large following of her own, with nearly 384,000 followers on X, and caters to them with the same kind of rhetoric. She’s also frequently associated herself with extremists and antisemites.
“Well knock me over with a feather,” posted Robbie Sherwood, communications director for the Arizona House Democrats. “Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers reportedly follows two of these exposed neo-Nazi accounts.”
On BlueSky, the account Arizona Right Watch wrote: “Of course, white supremacist AZ state senator Wendy Rogers is also following multiple accounts named here.”
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers was still following these two neo-Nazi accounts as of Thursday morning.
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Rogers’ extremist history
Rogers has a long history of extremist rhetoric and ties. In September, the Flagstaff Republican posted a Nazi rallying cry on X, writing “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles” after far-right parties in Germany’s government won multiple elections. Those lyrics were banned in Germany after World War II due to Adolf Hitler’s use of them to stir up nationalistic sentiment.Rogers has promoted the white supremacist-led Great Replacement theory, which suggests that there’s a conspiracy to displace white Americans with immigrants of color. She also attended a QAnon event in 2021 — with three other Republican legislators — that featured antisemitic imagery, and she appeared alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix.
In 2022, Rogers delivered a video message to a conference for the white supremacist organization America First Political Action. She called attendees “patriots” and praised the host of the event, known white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes. After Donald Trump’s election victory over Kamala Harris last month, Fuentes posted in support of rape by tweeting, “Your body, my choice.”
“I truly respect Nick because he’s the most persecuted man in America,” Rogers told the audience in 2022.
Rogers’ Senate colleagues challenged her over her speech at the conference and her support of Fuentes, but she refused to condemn him.
Rogers did not immediately respond to Phoenix New Times’ request to comment on the Observer’s reporting. She has remained active on X’s platform, though she hasn’t addressed the report there.
Instead, she has posted about anything else, including her support of controversial Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth, daylight saving time, President Joe Biden’s potential pardons, cryptocurrency and SpaceX satellites.
