Extremists

“They held a primary! People—they had ballots! They filled out circles that went to the voting booths! They spent money on advertisements, and as President Trump said, the Republican Party spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden. “Now they’ve just woke up one morning and said: ‘Never mind, we’re canceling the entire primary, we’re getting rid of …

The Guardian reports: The multimillionaire and prominent election denier Patrick Byrne has been boosting his funding to the MAGA-allied America Project and using it to steer six-figure checks to far-right groups that push voting conspiracies in Arizona, Michigan and elsewhere, according to tax records and voting experts. Byrne, the former CEO of online retailer Overstock.com, said last fall that only …

From the Justice Department: A Virginia man was sentenced to prison today after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. …

From the Justice Department: A South Carolina man was sentenced to prison today after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential …

From Glenn Beck’s personal website: Glenn Beck’s newest book and first novel for young adults, Chasing Embers, is an epic story of two teenagers faced with a life-altering decision: do you comply with a tyrannical regime, or do you choose freedom and liberty? Chasing Embers teaches crucial lessons for teens and young adults in our present time. What do you …

“Why does the government do these sorts of things? So I learned in that book about the Charles Manson murders. I very much believe that the reason for that was they wanted to end the hippie generation because they were very anti-war and our government wanted to go to war. “And so by conducting this hippie commune, conducted these terrible …

The Washington Post reports: Federal prosecutors have begun moving to drop charges accusing Jan. 6 defendants of obstructing Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results, offering new plea deals after the Supreme Court last month restricted the government’s use of that count, according to court filings. Some beneficiaries include members of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who …

From the Justice Department: A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a four-count indictment today charging Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, 21, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher and Butcher, with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence in New York City. According to court documents, Chkhikvishvili was arrested pursuant to an Interpol Wanted Person Diffusion, which …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I mean, you see a guy who gets shot and he then fights his own agents and says fight, fight, fight. Let me be very clear – if you are a man in this country and you don’t vote for Donald Trump, you’re not a man. I mean, like, who are you? …

“I think what happened on Saturday, the assassination attempt against President Trump, reminded a lot of people this, or awakened a lot of people to this. “There is a spiritual battle underway. There is no logical way to understand what we’re seeing now in temporal terms. You just can’t. “We call it leftism or neoliberalism or communism or anarchism. We …

Ryan Walters writes for the Moonie Times: Mr. Trump’s track record of appointing strong, conservative judicial candidates underscores his alignment with evangelical values. His vision to “make America great again” is not just a political slogan but a call to restore America’s Christian heritage since its greatness came from the Christian faith that inspired her. He will end diversity, equity …

Via email from Gab CEO Andrew Torba: For nearly a decade now these people have spent every waking moment demonizing tens of millions of ordinary, hardworking Americans as “nazis,” “racists,” and “deplorables” while marking Donald Trump as “Hitler 2.0.” There can be little doubt that this led to the violence we saw unfold this week. They want you to forget …

Mediaite reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), the party’s nominee for governor in 2024, is slated to speak at the Republican National Convention this week despite swirling controversies around his inflammatory rhetoric. Robinson made national headlines when he called for “killing” his fellow Americans during a wild speech. Notably, Robinson’s call for extrajudicial killings and his continued embrace …

Wired reports: Militia and anti-government groups across the United States are using the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump as an opportunity to organize, recruit, and train. “An attack on President Trump was an attack on us, people like us—like-minded American patriots,” says Scot Seddon, the Pennsylvania-based founder of the American Patriots Three Percenters (APIII), in a video posted …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: For the second time in just nearly as many weeks, a hate group stationed themselves in downtown Nashville and passed out flyers against those who were Jewish and in the LGBTQ community. The group kept passing out flyers that labeled Jewish people as pedophiles and screaming that those who are LGBTQ needed to “get the f—k …

Via email from GAB CEO Andrew Torba: While we may feel anger and frustration in the wake of tonight’s tragic event, it is crucial that we respond with wisdom and grace. As the CEO of Gab, I urge all users to refrain from posting any threats of violence or even remotely hinting at it. Gab disavows all threats of violence …

“We are in a battle between GOOD and EVIL. The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars. They want to lock up their political opponents, and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it. The Democrat party is flat out evil, and yesterday they tried to murder President Trump.” …

Mediaite reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson will be speaking on the night Donald Trump is nominated at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin next week, it was reported on Saturday. According to an update shared Saturday morning ahead of the convention in Milwaukee, sources tell New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan that Carlson will have …

“He can invoke something called Schedule F, which allows him to fire federal employees at will. He should have done it in the first term, but there was a lot of question about it. And we need to fire thousands of federal employees, especially the ones that have been working against our interest and working against the interest of the …

From the Justice Department: Andrew Takhistov, 18, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested yesterday and made his initial appearance in court today for allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities. “Andrew Takhistov was allegedly on his way to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps when we arrested him on charges of recruiting an individual to destroy an …