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MAGA Family Moves To Russia In Bigoted Protest, Immediately Gets Scammed
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6:37Now PlayingA right-wing family from Texas, the Hares, who decided to move to Russia in a bigoted protest, ended up getting scammed out of their life savings and then abandoned by Russian police. John Iadarola and Abelina Sabrina break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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"There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russia—where gay and transgender people supposedly don’t exist, and … well, that appears to be the bulk of the motivation for fleeing. They imagine a utopia where “traditional values” rule and “wokeness” is banished, even if it means embracing Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Russia hasn’t just welcomed these ideological expats, it also markets itself as a refuge for them. In 2023, a Russian immigration lawyer publicly pitched a “migrant village” outside Moscow, designed to house hundreds of American and Canadian families who want a life of wholesome, state-approved traditionalism. Russian media breathlessly claimed that about 200 families were eager to sign up.
In reality? By mid-2025, the grand vision had fizzled into just two occupied homes—one of them belonging to a family you’re about to meet—and a PR stunt that played better on state TV than on the ground."
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