QAnon & Right wing Conspiracy Theories & Theorists

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Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories

After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-government-and-politics-db50c6f709b1706886a876ae6ac298e2

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Civil War

The congresswoman is too influential within the GOP—and too representative of its views—for her calls for secession to be dismissed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-secession-civil-war/673142/?

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Election conspiracies fuel dispute over voter fraud system

ATLANTA (AP) — A bipartisan effort among states to combat voter fraud has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election and now faces an uncertain future.

https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-conspiracies-trump-registration-republicans-0c8654a687e259be58b2c8ef232ad21e

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Election conspiracy movement grinds on as 2024 approaches

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — One by one, the presenters inside the crowded hotel ballroom shared their computer screens and promised to show how easy it is to hack into voting systems across the U.S.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-election-conspiracies-republicans-trump-f867ef5ed8d66f375066f8cbdb25cdf4?

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Trump's call for protests runs smack into a false flag conspiracy wall

Donald Trump's initial reaction to a potentially imminent indictment was to issue a call to arms.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/20/2159309/-Trump-s-call-for-protests-runs-smack-into-a-false-flag-conspiracy-wall?

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Lauren Boebert Waved Around Pictures of Dead Babies in Her Call to Gut the Endangered Species Act

Republicans used conspiracy theories and unsound science in a hearing proposing to end protections for wolves and grizzlies.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/endangered-species-lauren-boebert-wolves-grizzly-bear/?

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Ginni Thomas backed Donald Trump's attempted coup. Now the Supreme Court spouse has a new project

The Washington Post scrapes up a little more information on what the pro-Trump, sedition-backing conspiracy funnel Ginni Thomas has been up in the past few years. It looks like one of her side projects, when she wasn't Actively Conspiring To Overthrow The United States Government, was a new group called "Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/28/2160713/-Seditionist-Ginni-Thomas-newest-project-focused-on-waging-war-against-cultural-Marxism?

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In MTG’s grimy paws, a beautiful video becomes something sickening

“I’ll say it again,” Marjorie Taylor Greene says in a new video labeled “The Predator President.” “Democrats are the party of pedophiles.”

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/04/09/in-mtgs-grimy-paws-a-beautiful-video-becomes-something-sickening/?

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Tenure of new Michigan GOP chair who spread Beyoncé paganism conspiracy theory is off to a rocky start

After the Michigan Republican Party faced intense backlash for using Holocaust imagery on its social media to oppose what it says are Democrats’ restrictive gun proposals, the new chair of the state GOP party did not apologize – in fact, she doubled down on the party’s post.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/kfile-michigan-gop-chair-kristina-karamo-comments/index.html?

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Donald Trump embraces Jan. 6 defendant who wants Mike Pence executed

Micki Larson-Olson, who served months in jail for her actions on Jan. 6, told NBC News that politicians who certified the results of the 2020 election deserve to be be killed for treason.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-embraces-jan-6-defendant-wants-pence-executed-rcna81958?

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A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’

In “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” the religion reporter and writing professor chronicles his recent journeys across America interviewing QAnon acolytes, Christian nationalists, proud misogynists, unrepentant January 6ers, armed militia men and strict anti-abortion activists — all still in thrall to Donald Trump.

https://www.jta.org/2023/05/07/opinion/a-jewish-journalist-takes-sides-in-americas-slow-civil-war?

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Feds Eye Neo-Nazi Extremism in Texas Massacre by Ex-Guard

The gunman who murdered eight people and wounded seven others at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, was identified Sunday as a 33-year-old former security guard named Mauricio Garcia whose social media accounts suggested an interest in neo-Nazi ideology.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mauricio-garcia-identified-as-gunman-in-mall-massacre-in-allen-texas?

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QAnon Conspiracist Mike Flynn Is Suing Another Conspiracist Who Claims He Invented QAnon

Disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn loves a conspiracy theory—except when it’s about him.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3pmv/michael-flynn-qanon-conspiracy-lawsuit?

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Elon Musk claims there’s ‘no proof’ that Texas mall shooter with swastika tattoo was a neo-Nazi

Twitter CEO Elon Musk doubled down on a conspiracy theory he lent credence to, suggesting the gunman in the Allen, Texas, mass shooting was not a white supremacist, despite his Nazi tattoos and other damning evidence.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-texas-shooter-neonazi-proof-b2340842.html?

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Rep. Lauren Boebert to force House vote on impeaching Biden

The Colorado Republican is using a procedural tactic that requires the House to hold a floor vote on the resolution.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-lauren-boebert-force-house-vote-impeaching-biden-rcna90300?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little !@#$%’ on the House Floor

The messy feud between two of MAGA world’s biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a “little !@#$%” to her face on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-boebert-a-little-bitch-on-the-house-floor?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV

The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to say she thinks she is being spied on through her television, possibly by the US government, and that someone may soon try to kill her.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/majorie-taylor-greene-implies-tv-spying?

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The Leader of the JFK-QAnon Cult Is Dead. His Followers Think It’s All Part of the Plan.

Members of Michael Protzman’s conspiracy cult abandoned their families and spent their life savings to follow him to Trump rallies around the country.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x8b4/michael-protzman-negative48-jfk-qanon-dead?

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Potential problems with New Hampshire’s aging ballot scanners could prompt conspiracy theories

When New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary, many will do so using scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-new-hampshire-voting-ballots-cc340208015853deb16a3b307ce3aead?

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In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors.

https://apnews.com/article/conspiracy-theory-government-john-birch-c3809b7ad45afc3bee5f9881b2d9aa36?

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Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’ Conspiracy theories have a long history in America. But with the internet and now artificial intelligence, false claims and conspiracy theories can travel further and faster than ever. An examination by the AP has found that rapidly spreading misinformation on social media can have high costs for individuals, but also for democracy itself. Read more.

Why this matters: The number of violent events from extremists motivated by conspiracy theories is growing. Examples include the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, attacks on vaccine clinics and anti-immigrant fervor in Spain.   Extremists and authoritarians deploy disinformation to recruit new followers and expand their reach, using fake video and photos to fool their followers.   Conspiracy theories often reflect real life concerns and can act as a shortcut to understanding them. Social isolation and traumatic events can lead people to find ways to fill in the gaps and often reflect more about the believer’s inner beliefs than the events themselves.

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Donald Trump Is Fundraising With George Soros ‘Protégé’

Few Republican tropes are as overused as the George Soros boogeyman.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-fundraising-with-george-soros-protege-scott-bessent?

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QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com

For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/27/backpage-com-sex-trafficking-qanon-conspiracy-moral-panic/?

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This QAnon Candidate Could Cost Trump a Key Swing State

Trump loves this gubernatorial candidate, despite the liability he poses from his well-documented history of bonkers comments. “It’s not great,” a Trumpworld source fretted.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-candidate-mark-robinson-could-cost-trump-north-carolina?

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Bookman: Absurd claims like imagined plot to kill Trump would be big if true

When FBI agents converged on Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022, they did not come just to seize highly classified national-security documents that Donald Trump had taken illegally from the White House and then refused to return, in defiance of a court order. 

https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/05/30/bookman-absurd-claims-like-imagined-plot-to-kill-trump-would-be-big-if-true/?