Extremists

Newsweek reports: A group of January 6 defendants has filed a class action lawsuit against 21 Capitol Police officers and officials for “millions of dollars in damages,” inmate Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang told the conservative cable channel Real America’s Voice on Friday. Lang, who describes himself as a “January 6 political prisoner,” was arrested soon after the attack on the …

“There are no conspiracies here in the War Room, we don’t believe in them, but there’s also no coincidences. I’m just saying if you check the timing that when we started the interview with the great-grandmother who’s now up for sentencing for three years in federal prison for praying in the Capitol, that’s when an earthquake hit New York City. …

The New York Times reports: Even by a conspiracy theorist’s standards, the wild claims made by Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, stand out. The hard-right congressman, now in his fourth term in the House, has said that “ghost buses” took agent provocateurs to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to instigate the riot. He has claimed that the federal …

ABC News reports: Prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party with a second count of uttering a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers at a political event. Björn Höcke was already scheduled to go on trial in Halle on April 18. Prosecutors in the eastern city …

From the Justice Department: A Washington state man was sentenced to over seven years in prison today after he was previously convicted of assaulting law enforcement and other felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from his conduct 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. …

“They’ve been sold a lie through culture, through media, through even some of their parents that you basically have to go pursue this corporate trajectory, and that men are always the problem, and suppress your biological impulses. “A lot of them are on birth control, too. And birth control like really screws up female brains, by the way. Every single …

The Washington Post reports: Nebraska is one of two states that does not have a winner-take-all policy, where the winner of the statewide vote receives all the state’s electoral votes. Nebraska’s electoral votes are instead split among the statewide and congressional district winners, including a swing district in the Omaha area that President Biden carried in 2020 as Trump easily …

Crooks & Liars reports: David Hancock was the spokesman for Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and his family during Killer Kyle’s criminal proceedings three years ago. At the time, Hancock was laying it on as thickly as anyone, trying to portray Killer Kyle as a poor innocent waif of a boy just trying to do the right thing and who just wanted …

“Remember when you’re dealing with satanic and demonic forces, they’re plenty smart. ‘I can’t stand these people. They’re so stupid.’ No. They’re very cunning. They’re not good people, but they’re very cunning and very smart. And they understand. Why do you think they’re coming? I said this for months and months and months over the last year. They’re going to …

“They hate him because they understand your commitment to him and part of your commitment is you understand, wait for it MSNBC, wait for it, wait for it, no, don’t, wait for it, he is an instrument of divine providence. “Yep. He is. Of that there’s no doubt. There’s empirical evidence of that. This is one of the reasons people …

“This trial on the 15th is not about business records. The trial on the 15th is to destroy Trump in front of the American people and particularly women. Although, I don’t — I’m pretty adamant you shouldn’t go out of your way to chase that vote. You put forward your program and if it votes for you, great, and if …

Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports: Deputies in Wilson County are investigating after a trailer containing Bibles was reportedly set on fire Easter Sunday. Deputies reported the trailer had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and then “intentionally set on fire.” Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church took to social media Sunday morning to share pictures of …

Media Matters reports: On March 28, America’s Future — a group run by Michael Flynn and his family which has become increasingly tied to QAnon, with multiple QAnon figures including Liz Crokin being involved with the organization — hosted Mike Smith at Mar-a-Lago to screen both his film Out of Shadows and his sequel, Into the Light. The film Out …

Via press release from Texas Democrats: Leaked video shows Hood County Constable Scott London, Hood County GOP Chair Steve Biggers and Hood County GOP Chair candidate Greg Harrell attending a meeting held by Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) where they supported the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. London and Harrel have also signed …

The Army Times reports: The U.S. Army is launching an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo to its official Instagram account this week that showed a service member with a patch that appears to depict a Nazi SS Totenkopf, a specific skull-and-crossbones image that was adopted by Adolf Hitler’s elite corps. The 20th Special Forces Group, headquartered …

“In 2020, absentee ballot voting was at its highest. And so when President Trump got on the phone with our secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and said, ‘can you find the votes? Where are they?’ “He was basically looking for ballots, and these ballots have been lost in the mail. And so there was nothing wrong with Trump, with what …

“You know, everyone always wants to get into all the little gossip of the right-wing personalities and things. I’m not saying that you want to do that, but a lot — like, on Twitter and even when you do interviews – Piers Morgan was trying to do this to Ben the other day. I could not possibly care less about …

NBC News reports: “Maybe the Judge is such a hater because his daughter makes money by working to ‘Get Trump,'” one of his posts said. He also accused her of having posted a picture of him behind bars on social media —an allegation that appears to have originated from a Trump ally, far right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, …

Media Matters reports: Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to head North Carolina’s schools, has spent years working for a group that’s spread extreme conspiracy theories. Those include claims that the “deep state” is behind school shootings; 9/11 was an inside job; former President Barack Obama has a “Hitler blood line” because “allegedly Hitler is Obama’s grandfather”; elites drink the blood …

“So this week, several of Diddy’s homes were raided by the Department of Homeland Security in a trafficking investigation. To me, that’s all whatever. I mean, it’s just some rapper. OK. Not a huge surprise. “But it’s interesting because Diddy might have the potential to be a new version of Jeffrey Epstein with lots of people implicated in his behavior. …