Extremists

Susan Collins “Wouldn’t Be Surprised” If Member Of Congress Gets Murdered As Threats By Cultists Soar

The New York Times reports: In the five years after President Donald J. Trump was elected in 2016 following a campaign featuring a remarkable level of violent language, the number of recorded threats against members of Congress increased more than tenfold, to 9,625 in 2021, according to figures from the Capitol Police. In the first quarter of 2022, the latest …

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Oath Keepers To Put Trump At Center Of Their Defense

The Associated Press reports: The defense team in the Capitol riot trial of the Oath Keepers leader is relying on an unusual strategy with Donald Trump at the center. Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes, founder of the extremist group, are poised to argue that jurors cannot find him guilty of seditious conspiracy because all the actions he took before the siege …

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Capitol Riot Judge Targeted In Swatting Incident

Bloomberg News reports: In what law enforcement later described as a “swatting” incident, an unknown person had placed a call to an emergency services line pretending to be US District Judge Emmet Sullivan. The caller claimed a violent situation was unfolding at the judge’s home. Local police responded to the scene. The following day, the US Marshals Service sent an …

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Gosar Promotes Film About Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes

Kristen Doerer reports at Right Wing Watch: So much for distancing himself from Nick Fuentes. On Friday, Rep. Paul Gosar promoted a film about Fuentes portraying the white nationalist and Christian fascist as the “most canceled man in America.” Gosar has rubbed soldiers with the 24-year-old Fuentes since he came onto the political scene, notably appearing at Fuentes’ America First …

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WA Candidate Gave Interview To White Nationalist Nazi

CNN reports: Despite disavowing White nationalism last spring when one of its adherents endorsed him, a US House candidate in Washington subsequently gave a previously unreported interview in June to a Nazi sympathizer and White nationalist. While Republican Joe Kent touted his support for prominent far-right figures like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Gosar and supported MAGA policies, he …

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Jury Seated In Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy Trial

CBS News reports: Twelve Washington, D.C. residents have been selected out of a pool of dozens to serve as jurors on the highest-profile trial to date in the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The jury was selected by prosecutors and defense attorneys for the five defendants on trial; members of the …

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Man Shot By Rittenhouse Files To Change His Name After “Years Of Death Threats By Right Wing Lunatics”

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: It’s been two years since Gaige Grosskreutz became linked to the deadly actions of one-time homicide suspect Kyle Rittenhouse, and he says he can’t shake them. This week, Grosskreutz filed a secret petition to change his legal name — that was quickly reported by a conservative news outlet, prompting his call for a leak investigation by …

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Interfaith Group Warns On Rise Of Christian Nationalism

Religion News Service reports: An interfaith group of activists and religious advocates voiced concerns about the rise of Christian nationalism on Wednesday (Sept. 28), arguing the ideology is a threat to democracy during a briefing on Capitol Hill. “We are convening this Christian nationalism briefing because we feel it represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and to …

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Michael Flynn Claims Governors Can “Declare War”

Mediaite reports: Michael Flynn gave a speech in Arizona where he essentially claimed states are likely go rogue from the federal government as governors exert their own authority and “declare war.” Flynn was speaking at a campaign event for Mark Finchem, a Republican candidate for Arizona’s Secretary of State who has been cozying up with other election deniers, conspiracy theorists …

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Prospective Oath Keepers Juror Fears For His Safety

Courthouse News reports: A judge presiding over the biggest trial to date to stem from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection agreed Thursday to dismiss a potential juror who said he would be concerned for his family’s safety if chosen to serve. “I worry about how anonymous I actually would be,” the juror explained to U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler after the …

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Cultists Move To Purge Tens Of Thousands Of GA Voters

CNN reports: One morning in late August, Zach Manifold showed up at his job running the elections office in Gwinnett County, Georgia, to find eight boxes waiting, all filled with documents challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of people to cast ballots. It was the physical manifestation of a law passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2021, making …

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Broken: MTG’s Husband Files For Divorce After 27 Years

TMZ reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not being re-elected at home … because her husband just pulled the plug on their marriage. MTG’s husband, Perry Greene, beelined it to court Tuesday and filed to divorce the Congresswoman from Georgia after 27 years of marriage … according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ. Marjorie and Perry tied the knot back …

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New Video Shows Trump Banner Used As Battering Ram

Mediaite reports: As several trials and sentencing hearings for Jan. 6 rioters took place this week, new details and video footage from the day of the attack have emerged. Among those new details is a video showing a giant Trump banner being used as a “battering ram against police” by pro-Trump rioters attempting to break police lines to enter the …

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Romance Novel Cover Model Guilty Of Beating Cops

NBC News reports: When former President Donald Trump called on supporters who believed his lies about the 2020 election to go to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, a Michigan bodybuilder-turned-construction worker responded with enthusiasm. “I’ll be there,” Logan Barnhart wrote in response to a @realDonaldTrump tweet. When he arrived at the U.S. Capitol, he now admits, he battled cops and …

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Mastriano To Campaign With “Rape Melania” Extremist

Media Matters reports: Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano is scheduled to do a campaign event with far-right commentator Jack Posobiec this weekend. Posobiec has collaborated with white nationalists and neo-Nazis and targeted Jewish people with antisemitic hate. Several media outlets have accurately noted Posobiec’s history of extremism when writing about him. For instance: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that he’s “a …

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STUDY: 13 Million Support Violence To Reinstate Trump

CBS News reports: More than 18 months after the rioting at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, an estimated 13 million U.S. adults, or 5% of the adult population, agree that force would be justified to restore former President Donald Trump to the White House and an estimated 15 million Americans believe force would be justified to prevent Trump …

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MTG Melts Down Over Article On Her Wild Hogs Hunt

Posted today to MTG’s Truth Social account: Huffington Post, I demand you change this headline and your lies about me immediately. Your freedom of press is not freedom to lie about me. I NEVER said anything like this and did NOT call for violence on Democrats. Lee Moran, your political activist posing as a journalist writing for your hard left …

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MTG: Help Me Shoot Wild Hogs To Fight Communism

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) has asked people to sign up for a chance to take flight above Texas with her to shoot feral hogs in a new campaign gimmick. Greene promised in a video released on YouTube Tuesday that ridding the Lone Star State of its wild swine will fight inflation, help farmers and finally accomplish the …

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Rioter Who Assaulted Officer Fanone Gets Seven Years

NBC News reports: Donald Trump fan who brought his teenage son along as he assaulted then-D.C. police officer Mike Fanone and another officer at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Tuesday. Kyle Young, a 38-year-old HVAC worker from Iowa whose lawyer said was he “injected” with lies about the 2020 election …

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Rioter Guilty Of Six Felonies In Assaults On Capitol Cops

The Portland Press-Herald reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has found a Lebanon man who participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol guilty of assaulting two officers who were guarding the building that day, as well as trying to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras read his decision Tuesday, finding Kyle …

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