Republican Arizona state senators voted to censure fellow GOP Senator Wendy Rogers for talking on the America First Political Motion Convention, an occasion organized by a white nationalist.

In her speech on the convention, Rogers known as for gallows to be constructed to hold "high-level criminals" and "traitors who've betrayed our nation." She additionally expressed respect for the convention's organizer, Nick Fuentes, calling him "probably the most persecuted man in America."

Fuentes is a right-wing media determine whom the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has labeled a white supremacist. He has spoken favorably of Adolf Hitler, believes individuals of shade are conducting a "white genocide" and has been banned from most social media platforms for violating their hate speech insurance policies.

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Republican Arizona state senators voted to censure fellow GOP Senator Wendy Rogers for talking on the America First Political Motion Convention, an occasion organized by a white nationalist. On this photograph, Jose Munoz holds a poster of the Arizona Flag with a Ku Klux Klansman within the heart throughout a protest exterior Wrigley Area earlier than the beginning of the Cubs sport in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks April 29, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson/Getty

On Tuesday, the Arizona Senate voted to censure Rogers by a vote of 24 to 3. All the chamber's Democrats and most of its Republicans voted in assist of her censure. Rogers herself was one of many three Republicans who voted in opposition to it.

Rogers' censure follows rebukes by nationwide Republican leaders in opposition to U.S. GOP Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona who additionally spoke on the convention.

The morning earlier than the vote, Rogers wrote by way of Twitter, "So immediately is the day the place we discover out if the Communists within the GOP throw the candy grandma underneath the bus for being white."

After the vote, Rogers stated that she thought of the censure vote as an assault on her freedom of speech.

"I don't apologize, I cannot again down and I'm sorely dissatisfied within the management of this physique for colluding with the Democrats to aim to destroy my popularity," Rogers wrote by way of Twitter. "Ultimately, I rejoice in figuring out I do and say what is true and I converse as a free American whatever the actions of this corrupted course of immediately."

In response to Rogers' posts, Republican Senate President Karen Fann stated, "We do assist First Modification freedom of speech. We completely assist it. We struggle battles over it," the Related Press reported.

"However what we don't condone is members threatening one another," Fann continued. "To break one another. To incite violence. To name us communists. We do not do this to one another."

Rogers has made headlines for social media posts pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories and supporting former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him by an unprecedented nationwide conspiracy of voter fraud.

In a weekend submit, Rogers wrote that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "is a globalist puppet for [Jewish billionaire donor George] Soros and the Clintons," referring to former President Invoice Clinton and former presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"Globalist" is a phrase typically utilized by antisemites to disparage Jews.

In late February, Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey stated he most popular Rogers, even along with her white nationalist sentiments, over having a Democrat within the state Senate.

"What I would like as a governor is governing majorities in order that I can move dollars into our social security web so we will present applications...that may assist youngsters from throughout our state. The truth that we will move budgets that may put 8.67 billion further dollars into Ok-12 training. So that is what I wished to do, is transfer my agenda ahead," Ducey stated.

"I am happy with what we have been capable of accomplish," he added. "And [Rogers] continues to be higher than her opponent Felicia French."

Newsweek contacted Rogers' workplace for remark.