Fairbanks MAGA Damsel Plays Victim After Years of Playing Villain
If you’ve been paying even half-attention to what’s unfolding in Los Angeles, you’ve probably noticed Alaska’s far-right blogs foaming at the mouth, scrambling to rewrite reality and slap the “violent insurrectionist” label on Democrats, peaceful activists, and anyone to the left of Sarah Palin. The latest nonsensical spin is that the upcoming peaceful No Kings protests are teetering on the edge of chaos, with every progressive from Anchorage to Fairbanks ready to light their compost bins on fire and wheel said flaming compost into the governor's mansion.
As far-right blogs like Must Read Alaska work overtime to downplay the significance of the more than 1,800 No Kings rallies planned across the country, a curious if not downright deranged story has been bubbling up in Fairbanks. In true MAGA fashion, it involves conspiracy theories, political paranoia, and one Alaskan being falsely accused of threatening someone’s life.
Fairbanks’ own Kelly Lindsey “Nasty” Nash really shouldn’t need an introduction, but for the blissfully unaware, she’s a neat example of what happens when a failed state house candidate goes full MAGA meltdown. After her loss, Nash rebranded as a frothing anti-LGBTQ crusader and conspiracy peddler. She even flew to D.C. for the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally where she cozied up with her Proud Boy besties, and she’s been spiraling ever since.
More recently, Nash has enjoyed stalking social media accounts, snatching private photos and videos of teachers, queer folks, and everyday Alaskans, and feeding them straight to the stochastic terrorist account Libs of TikTok whose followers have called in bomb threats to schools and libraries across the country. She makes no apologies for her unhinged behavior, presumably because it's patriotic to incite harassment and doxxing doncha know? 🥰
Last week, “Nasty” Nash took a break from stalking queer Alaskans and harassing public school teachers to do something truly remarkable: she played the victim.
After stumbling across a comment on Facebook that said she was “gonna get herself shot one of these days lol I’ll have a cake when it happens,” Nash sprang into action. She screen-grabbed it, posted it to her personal Facebook page, and whined that she was the target of a "clear threat" on her life.
Let’s be honest: this is an awful lot of pearl-clutching over a Facebook comment that, while clumsy and ill-advised, was rooted in the uncomfortable reality that when you spend your days harassing people, stalking protests, and feeding people's private info to extremist networks, someone, somewhere, might not react to your lunacy with restraint. Was it the right way to say it? No. But the idea that this offhand comment was a credible threat to Nash’s life is laughable, especially coming from someone who has built her entire post-campaign identity around intimidating others.
Most unsurprisingly, "Nasty" Nash sent the comment and her own Facebook post about it off to the Must Read Alaska blog, which falsely claimed that "activist" Nash was the innocent target of a liberal who wrote a "social media post calling for the death of a conservative activist in Interior Alaska."
Curiously, Must Read Alaska's blog post made no mention about Nash's long track record of inciting harassment and amplifying hate against queer people and educators, no, no. She's been painted as a MAGA damsel under siege, bravely withstanding a left-wing assassination plot. 🙄
Speaking of assassinations, I was shocked that Must Read Alaska made no mention of the unhinged, violence-glorifying garbage "Nasty" Nash shares while claiming to be a victim of political threats. I hope we can all agree that her post below is grotesque, fascistic, and precisely the kind of rhetoric that actually encourages political violence.
Meanwhile, clearly in fear for her life, Nash stepped out into the open this week and spent an unhinged amount of time creeping around in public driving a silver Chevrolet Avalanche, following protesters like she's the far-right paparazzi, snapping photos and filming video so she can rush back to Facebook and smear and ridicule people peacefully exercising their First Amendement rights.
She also continues to promote reasonable public discourse by libeling peaceful Fairbanks protestors and Facebook group administrators as “terrorists."
With the No Kings protests just days away, it’s more important than ever to be mindful of how we show up online and in person. While we organize for justice and accountability, people like Kelly Lindsey "Nasty" Nash, as well as the far-right conspiracy mills, are hovering in the wings, ready to twist, distort, and weaponize even the most offhand comment to paint peaceful protestors as violent extremists. Choose your words carefully, speak with purpose, and stay grounded. Don't hand these lunatics anything they can spin.
