[1][2][3][4] A member of the Republican Party, Boykin was a candidate in the 2024 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election.

[10] The event was also seen to link gays with the counter-jihad movement in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting, as other speakers included Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders.

[20] However, Boykin later suspended his congressional campaign, instead opting to run for the North Carolina House of Representatives.

[24][25][26][27] There was a series of more than two dozen demonstrations organized throughout the United States on March 4, 2017, in support of President Trump.

[33] Also in 2017, Boykin was the local coordinator for the Raleigh, North Carolina anti-sharia rally, one of a series organized nationally by ACT for America.

Although exact counts were difficult to gauge, the fifty or so people gathered for the anti-sharia event were outnumbered by counter-protesters by a factor of five or six.

The Washington Blade reported that about 100 people showed up around noon to the rally at the Lincoln Memorial, but then only 25 stuck around to march towards the White House after that.