Banners hang outside an arena in Enid, Okla., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)

On Tuesday, voters in Enid, Okla. decided to remove City Council member Judd Blevins in a special election that was spurred by the official’s affiliations with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

Blevins’ sketchy past came to light before he was elected to the Enid City Council in February 2023, when the publication Right Wing Watch reported in 2019 that Blevins worked as the Oklahoma recruiter for a now-defunct group called Identity Evropa. The Anti-Defamation League describes Identity Evropa as an alt-right white supremacist group that was founded in 2016 and reformed in 2019 into the American Identitarian Movement.

Last November, Blevins refused to acknowledge his involvement with the group and seemed to deny having white supremacist views during a city council meeting.

“I am a different man today than I was yesterday,” Blevins said. “There is no hate in my heart. All there is is the desire to follow the Lord. But I’m not going to apologize for things I never was.”

According to an AP News report, the 42-year-old Blevins admitted to participating in the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. in August 2017 through his connections with Identity Evropa.