Joe Kent
American far-right political candidate and former army officer
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| April 9 2025 | Attended Senate confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he defended using Signal for discussing a military strike against the Houthi and expressed beliefs about the FBI's potential involvement in the January 6th Capitol attack. |
| March 15 2025 | Joe Kent was a member of the Signalgate chat while serving as acting chief of staff for Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director of National Intelligence. |
| February 3 2025 | Donald Trump nominated Joe Kent to be the next Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announcing the nomination on Truth Social. |
| 2024 | Ran again as the Republican nominee for Washington's 3rd congressional district and lost to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. |
| August 16 2023 | The Washington State Republican Party Central Committee announced an early endorsement of Kent's 2024 congressional campaign. |
| January 11 2023 | Kent announced his 2024 congressional campaign, challenging incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and criticizing her voting record. |
| 2022 | Defeated incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler in the Republican primary for Washington's 3rd congressional district. |
| 2022 | Kent spoke at a rally in defense of January 6 Capitol attack perpetrators, labeling them as 'political prisoners'. |
| 2022 | Kent ran a campaign focusing on false claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen from Donald Trump. |
| 2022 | Lost the general election for Washington's 3rd congressional district to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. |
| 2022 | Nick Fuentes made an early endorsement of Kent's campaign and participated in a call with Kent discussing social media strategy. Kent later claimed no further contact with Fuentes after this initial call. |
| December 21 2022 | After initially refusing to concede, Kent finally conceded the 2022 congressional election to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez following a recount. |
| September 2022 | During a debate against Perez, Kent publicly declared he was unvaccinated and claimed COVID-19 vaccines are a form of experimental gene therapy. |
| August 3 2022 | Kent finished second in the nonpartisan primary for the congressional race, advancing to the general election against Democratic candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. |
| June 2022 | Kent was interviewed by Greyson Arnold, a neo-Nazi YouTube streamer, and posed for a photograph with him that Arnold shared on social media. Kent's campaign spokesman stated Kent was unaware of Arnold's background and believed him to be a local journalist. |
| February 18 2021 | Joe Kent announced his campaign for Washington's 3rd congressional district, citing incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler's vote in favor of Donald Trump's second impeachment as a motivating factor. |
| 2019 | Joe Kent's wife, Shannon M. Kent, was killed in the Manbij bombing while deployed to Syria with the Intelligence Support Activity (ISA). |
| 2018 | Left the Army and began working for the CIA's Special Activities Center. |
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