Extremists

From the Justice Department: Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested by federal agents and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility. “As charged, Skyler Philippi believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology – but …

Politico reports: A white nationalist worked on the Trump campaign in an important position in Pennsylvania for five months — until Friday, when the Pennsylvania GOP fired him after learning about his views from my reporting. Last week, I confirmed that Luke Meyer, the Trump campaign’s 24-year-old regional field director for Western Pennsylvania, goes by the online name Alberto Barbarossa. …

NBC News reports: As Donald Trump yet again tells his supporters he can lose Tuesday only if there’s massive voter fraud and as he ramps up violent rhetoric about Democrats and other “enemies,” members of the far-right group that put more “boots on the ground” than any other at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, say they’re mobilizing. At …

“At the Trump rallies, they’re yelling trash for Trump, trash for Trump. And I saw other people. I saw white guys. I saw Hispanic guys, Hispanic guys inside trash cans jumping out of them with Trump signs, white guys with garbage bags that say trash for Trump. That was the moment when I realized Trumpism was a cult. That was …

“Not since we dropped the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, the second one in August of 1945, and decided that we were gods and that God himself no longer existed — since then, we have been a secular society, and that’s why we’re now being destroyed in my view. “But even if you don’t buy any of that, you have to …

The New York Times reports: Groups backing former President Donald J. Trump recently sent messages to organize poll watchers to be ready to dispute votes in Democratic areas. Some posted images of armed men standing up for their rights to recruit for their cause. Others spread conspiracy theories that anything less than a Trump victory on Tuesday would be a …

“I’m never going to stop. You can send me in prison, you can keep in prison me, you can take me out like you’ve tried to take out Trump, I don’t care. But I’m never going to quit. “And particularly, you greaseballs, the way you sit there and steal it and then talk to people, where are your votes? Where …

Mother Jones reports: Musk offered people money to register to vote and then subsequently got sued by the Philadelphia district attorney and warned by the Justice Department that the scheme is likely illegal. And in late August, he made a $1 million donation to a political action committee founded by Scott Presler, a man who even the RNC has declined …

“Douglass MacKay, as we’ve talked about on the show many times — if you listen to the show, you’re familiar with the case — he posted a meme, encouraging Hillary supporters to vote by text, and apparently, some of them were dumb enough to actually do it. But it was a joke because, of course, you can’t vote by text. …

USA Today reports: Some prominent pro-Trump Republicans are already saying supporters will go to ballot counting locations if the winner of the presidential election isn’t clear on Election Day, Nov. 5. Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first White House national security advisor who played a central role in 2020 efforts to overturn the election results, said on Oct. 20 …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: A polling company sued Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign on Tuesday over a $114,000 bill it claims was never paid. The company, Vox Insights LLC, claims that the campaign “without excuse or justification” failed to pay for polling data it provided last month within a 30-day deadline set out in its contract. …

“This is the difference between Trump and his opponents. It’s maybe the key difference. Of all the many differences, this is maybe the key difference. There’s so much incessant discussion about Trump’s rhetoric, his insensitive language, his crass comments, etc, etc. “When’s the last time he even said anything shocking? You know, I mean, even by their — obvious, it’s …

“Desperate people do desperate things. So now we all have to look out for really desperate measures, whether in the days before Election Day or in the days after a Trump victory. Here are a few scenarios I believe may be coming. “Option number one I suspect we may experience a false flag mass shooting or supposed domestic terrorist attack …

Media Matters reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) campaigned for his reelection bid and for the Republican Senate leader position on the streaming show of Laura Loomer, who said a few months ago that Puerto Ricans shouldn’t be allowed to serve as federal judges because they supposedly aren’t “from this country.” (They are.) The bigoted remarks are part of a long …

“So he made fun of Puerto Ricans, Black people, Jews, and Arabs. You know, that’s — pretty equal opportunity offender. Were they offensive jokes? I mean, yeah, if you’re a whiny little baby, they’re offensive to you. If those jokes are offensive to you, then you’re just a whiny, pathetic, ridiculous, sad sack of a human being. “If you heard …

The New York Times reports: Stephen K. Bannon, the combative and calculating strategist who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the White House and became one of the most influential voices of the hard right, was released from federal prison early Tuesday. He wasted little time reprising his role as one of the leading provocateurs of the former president’s political …

“Curious how you can call me a racist for saying ‘the White House will smell like curry’ and call for me to be silenced and banned from Trump world… but then you can defend and laugh at @TonyHinchcliffe’z comment about Puerto Ricans being trash. Can you just be honest that you are a jealous bitch with Roid Rage and you …

CNN reports: British far-right political activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after he admitted to being in contempt of court by repeating false accusations about a Syrian refugee, according to court documents. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted on Monday to breaching UK court rules 10 times. Robinson, the founder of the now-defunct anti-immigration English …

ProPublica reports: A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants “in trauma” in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term. In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, …

NOTUS reports: Steve Bannon is getting out of prison, just in time for Election Day. As Trump ramps up violent rhetoric about weaponizing the Justice Department against judges, prosecutors and journalists while simultaneously utilizing the U.S. military against his perceived adversaries he calls “the enemy within,” his 2024 presidential campaign will soon have one of its loudest and fiercest surrogates …