Extremists

The Hill Reporter reports: Ethan Schmidt, a friend of Arizona MAGA candidate Kari “KKKari” Lake, was arrested on an outstanding warrant on Sunday in Mesa. Schmidt showed up at a March For Our Lives rally with an assault weapon. Then, he found out what happens when you show up at an anti-gun rally with an assault weapon. This is the …

The New York Times reports: President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has for months consistently trailed in the polls ahead of the country’s crucial presidential race. And for months, he has consistently questioned its voting systems, warning that if he loses October’s election, it will most likely be thanks to a stolen vote. Those claims were largely regarded as talk. But …

The Spokane Spokesman-Review reports: All 31 members of a white nationalist group arrested on suspicion of conspiring to riot in Coeur d’Alene during a Pride event had bonded out of the Kootenai County Jail as of Sunday afternoon. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office released the names and photos of all suspects on Sunday, a day after the Coeur d’Alene police …

San Francisco’s CBS News affiliate reports: The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a group of men who disrupted a drag queen storytelling event at the San Lorenzo Library Saturday with homophobic slurs. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library located on Paseo Grande. Authorities said a …

The Houston Chronicle reports: More than 200 days after they first gathered in Dallas last November, QAnon cult leader Michael Brian Protzman [above left] has once again ordered his followers to return to Dallas this weekend for the true culmination of his prediction that JFK will return to the site of his 1963 assassination. Protzman told his followers in a …

Newsweek reports: A video of Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert saying she prays that President Joe Biden’s days are few has gone viral on social media. Speaking on Saturday at the Charis Christian Center Family Camp Meeting in Colorado, where she was a guest speaker, the Republican politician referred to bible verse Psalms 109:8 as she spoke about the 79-year-old Biden, …

The Washington Post reports: Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested. Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul …

From a June 3rd report by the New Republic: In the last month, two very different videos, both threatening to confront Pride celebrations with armed protest or “hunting” LGBTQ people and allies, have raised fears of how Republicans in state legislatures have enabled an environment for anti-LGBTQ violence and emboldened far-right extremists. At the end of April, GOP Idaho state …

Penn Live reports: Prosecutors filed a motion Friday asking a judge not to loosen restrictions on suspected Capitol rioter Riley Williams because they say she recently met with a man who wanted to shoot up a synagogue and lied about it. Williams, 23, who is accused of directing rioters inside the Capitol and stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop, told probation officers …

Miami’s ABC News affiliate reports: A former Republican lawmaker is calling for a former Republican senator and Miami-Dade Commissioner to take action to remove members of the far-right group Proud Boys from the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee. Seven current or former Proud Boys are members of the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee. Republican Senator Marco Rubio was at a joint appearance …

Vice News reports: It’s been 220 days since more than 1,000 people traveled from across the U.S. to Dallas at the behest of Michael Protzman, a QAnon influencer known as Negative 48, who promised his followers that John F. Kennedy would reappear at Dealey Plaza. JFK didn’t reappear, of course, but the QAnon cult is now returning to Texas. More …

SF Gate reports: A California secretary of state candidate who pushed discredited election fraud lies, supported QAnon talking points and once said she had a prophetic dream about a “witch” neighbor has been trounced in her race — but not before praying for “angels” to intervene. On her campaign site, she claims “Los Angeles County has 144% of voters registered …

Law & Crime reports: Former Alabama Judge Roy Moore’s attorney compared his client to Johnny Depp in a federal appeals court on Friday, in a bid to revive his $95 million defamation suit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over a sketch lampooning the would-be politician as a pedophile. “He deserves a jury,” Moore’s lawyer Larry Klayman declared during oral arguments …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist MAGA pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, declared that if he is elected, he will reinstate the House Un-American Activities Committee so that the government can “start executing people” guilty of treason. Who does Burns believe is guilty of treason? Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol begins a marathon of public hearings with a prime-time session Thursday, as it seeks to convince a divided nation that former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election incited his followers to try to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power. The …

“There is something terrible happening in this process and it’s called defamation of character. The 45th president of the United States’ character is being defamed. And all of his staff and his family and all Republicans. “Everyone’s reputation is being defamed as lies are being told about all of us and President Trump just for politics. And it just makes …

ABC News reports: Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested followed the Proud Boys through Washington as members of the extremist group marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and clashed with police officers. His firsthand, searing account of the riot will be a central piece of the House Jan. 6 select committee’s prime-time hearing Thursday night, which will feature both his testimony …

The Washington Post reports: Last night, Audrey Trujillo became the latest 2020 election denier to win her party’s nomination to oversee a state’s elections. The New Mexico Republican is part of a wave of candidates beholden to conspiracy theories about election hacking and fraud who are seeking to lead elections in more than a dozen states — including in many …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., expressed her outrage on Monday after a Twitter censored a satirist who propagated a right-wing narrative that most pregnant women who took Pfizer’s vaccine in a clinical trial lost their babies as a result of getting the jab. One user pointed out that Dr. Lysol’s was a parody account whose profile picture …

The Associated Press reports: A looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The U.S. was in a “heightened threat environment” already, and these factors may worsen the situation, DHS said in …