Fear Not Do Right: Cade Lamb’s podcast is obscure, and doesn’t appear to hold much sway. But it is also an extension of the family business, as his father’s close participation makes clear, and Mark Lamb is very much in the public spotlight.

Pinal County, Arizona, Sheriff Mark Lamb’s adult son hosts a podcast where he has platformed election deniers, QAnon-adjacent activists, and right-wing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse.

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The podcast hosted by Sheriff Mark Lamb’s adult son is a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories

Cade Lamb’s guests — including his sheriff father — push election denialism, QAnon-adjacent messaging, and reactionary vigilante violence

WRITTEN BY JOHN KNEFEL

PUBLISHED 05/08/23 1:05 PM EDT

"Cade Lamb’s podcast is called Fear Not Do Right, which shares the name of an apparel company initially owned by his father, according to financial disclosures, who has also been a guest on the show. Cade Lamb was listed as the new principal of the company in a subsequent filing.

Mark Lamb recently announced his candidacy for Senate in Arizona, triggering increased scrutiny into his extensive connections with right-wing figures. 

As Media Matters and others have previously reported, he has close ties to the extremist constitutional sheriffs movement and spoke at an anti-immigrant rally held by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. 

He has appeared on at least five QAnon shows and signed a book with a popular QAnon slogan. He also appeared on an antisemitic network and has defended at least two white men who have committed vigilante violence against people of color, including one appearance on a white nationalist program, on the grounds that they had the right to police their property.

Cade Lamb also expresses extremist sentiments. He recently promoted his father’s candidacy on Instagram by posting an image derived from a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster, asking if his apparel company should produce it as a T-shirt. Nostalgia for Rhodesia, the white minority-ruled country in what is now Zimbabwe that was closely linked with neighboring apartheid-era South Africa, is common among overt racist movements and individuals. Dylann Roof, the white man who shot and killed nine Black church parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, wore a Rhodesian flag patch on his jacket.

At the height of the uprisings in 2020 in response to the police killing of George Floyd, Cade Lamb tweeted that, “The #BlackLivesMatter movement is the most racist organization since the KKK #ChangeMyMind.” 

“BLM/Antifa are Democratic Party backed rogue leftist militia groups and insurgents,” he also wrote. “We need to be treating them like insurgents.”

CitationFrom Cade Lamb's Twitter account, posted July 27, 2020

When another Twitter user replied that right-wing “boogaloo” movement is a greater threat, Cade Lamb downplayed it. “A threat to what tho?” he wrote.

Like his father, Cade Lamb has also pushed Q-adjacent ideas. “How ironic that the politicians crying about covid killing kids are pedophiles who rape and kill children regularly,” he posted, also in July 2020. . .

Craig “Sawman” Sawyer pushes QAnon-adjacent messages

On April 24, Cade Lamb interviewed Craig “Sawman” Sawyer, an ex-Navy SEAL and the founder of Veterans for Child Rescue, which purports to combat child sex trafficking. Mark Lamb has previously praised Sawyer, saying his group is “an amazing organization. I work with Craig Sawyer, I love what he does.”  

. . .In the interview, Sawyer repeatedly warned of the dangers of communism and Marxism, including referencing the work of W. Cleon Skousen, a relatively obscure midcentury conspiracy theorist and supporter of the far-right John Birch Society.

“This cabal taking over the globe — they don't say, ‘Hey, how about you sign on for the utter tyranny of global Marxism that we want?” Sawyer said. “They say, ‘No, no no, no, no. It's democratic socialism — doesn't that sound nice? It's for the little guy.’ And behind it's the big donkey kick of global Marxism, what they’re really bringing.” 

Sawyer then implored listeners to “read the 45 communist goals from The Naked Communist,” written by Skousen in 1958. . .

Cade Lamb’s podcast also hosts election denialism, the “Three Percenter” myth, and anti-trans conspiracy theories

Cade Lamb’s other episodes of Fear Not Do Right are filled with more common but still destructive conservative tropes. . .

Most of this content would be standard fare for right-wing media, which tends toward conspiratorial thinking, and largely forgettable under different circumstances. Cade Lamb’s podcast is obscure, and doesn’t appear to hold much sway. But it is also an extension of the family business, as his father’s close participation makes clear, and Mark Lamb is very much in the public spotlight. 

Sheriff Mark Lamb presents himself as an aw-shucks mainstream figure but Fear Not Do Right undermines that act, showing that both Lambs appear to share an ideology on the far-right fringe of Republican politics."