{"id":13654,"date":"2026-03-16T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/16\/gun-rights-activists-are-a-long-established-force-in-republican-politics-but-no-candidate-with-a-credible-chance-of-reaching-congress-has-had-a-profile-quite-like-brandon-herrera-who-has-built-a-lar\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:00:56","slug":"gun-rights-activists-are-a-long-established-force-in-republican-politics-but-no-candidate-with-a-credible-chance-of-reaching-congress-has-had-a-profile-quite-like-brandon-herrera-who-has-built-a-lar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/16\/gun-rights-activists-are-a-long-established-force-in-republican-politics-but-no-candidate-with-a-credible-chance-of-reaching-congress-has-had-a-profile-quite-like-brandon-herrera-who-has-built-a-lar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-rights activists are a long-established force in Republican politics. But no candidate with a credible chance of reaching Congress has had a profile quite like Brandon Herrera, who has built a large online fan base as a \u201cguntuber.\u201d &#8211; facebook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxNRVA4SVh6ZmZLTlN4alZDTGtkVGlnOVVTa3pmeXRwUFRtTG5ESzZiQUJQV3NNTE5kWjY2WWluMUlzSHAyMVg5S3E1MlVGaExha2dKdDBuQ1hQV29Yd1d1M1ZQTDdUN1Z4NG9jLTRnelFCekp3R0FjcEtDclpleGdlZFpQbURTbnRrRHg5WUhKLW9PcHp5TEFrUktDVUd4V2NGcEFmRjFUZlpiRlhpeEVpM2FqajBtUXNDRFF4VkRvV3VMV3QxeEhMNWtrNFNTUjVQSkk4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Gun-rights activists are a long-established force in Republican politics. But no candidate with a credible chance of reaching Congress has had a profile quite like Brandon Herrera, who has built a large online fan base as a \u201cguntuber.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">facebook.com<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun-rights activists are a long-established force in Republican politics. But no candidate with a credible chance of reaching Congress has had a profile quite like&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/16\/gun-rights-activists-are-a-long-established-force-in-republican-politics-but-no-candidate-with-a-credible-chance-of-reaching-congress-has-had-a-profile-quite-like-brandon-herrera-who-has-built-a-lar\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}