Sen. Josh Hawley has a new publisher after losing book deal in Capitol riot backlash

Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher for his book less than two weeks after being dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.

Hawley’s “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” a book critical of big tech corporations including Google and Facebook, was set to publish in June. But the day after the riot on Capitol Hill, Simon & Schuster said it would no longer be publishing the senator's book.

Conservative publisher Regnery announced Monday that Hawley's "The Tyranny of Big Tech" will arrive this spring.

"Regnery is proud to stand in the breach with him. And the warning in his book about censorship obviously couldn't be more urgent," Regnery president and publisher Thomas Spence said in a statement.

Earlier, Simon & Schuster explained its decision to drop the book: "We did not come to this decision lightly," the publisher said in a statement. "It will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints; at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”

Hawley was among six Republican senators – along with Ted Cruz of Texas, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama – who objected to the Nov. 3 election results in a failed bid to hand President-elect Joe Biden’s win to Trump.

After news of his book's cancellation, Hawley took to Twitter and criticized the "woke mob" at Simon & Schuster.

Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, has been widely condemned for his encouragement of the Jan. 6 protest that ended with a violent mob rampaging through the Capitol.

“This could not be more Orwellian,” Hawley wrote. “Only approved speech can now be published. This is the Left looking to cancel everyone they don’t approve of. I will fight this cancel culture with everything I have. We’ll see you in court.”

Critics soon questioned Hawley's invocation of author George Orwell. Orwell was notably a committed anti-fascist whose celebrated dystopian book "1984" is a critique of totalitarian governments.

Contributing: Barbara VanDenburgh, Joey Garrison, Deirdre Shesgreen and Matthew Brown

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Josh Hawley's book 'Tyranny of Big Tech' picked up by new publisher