Extremists

The Insider reports: A California man was arrested on Capitol riot charges earlier this month after the Uber driver who drove him away from the January 6 attack tipped off the FBI, according to new court documents unsealed this week. Jerry Daniel Braun faces three charges related to his role in the insurrection, including entering and remaining in a restricted …

Law & Crime reports: Members of a right-wing militia group sought “protection” for a Texas representative believed to have “critical data” while inside the Capitol building as it was violently breached by supporters of former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6. Included in 109 pages of texts from a group chat on the Signal messaging app were a handful of …

Right Wing Watch reports: Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers on Monday endorsed Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who recently said that she believes her white nationalist views will benefit her in her bid for Congress in Florida’s 11th District. Rogers, a 67-year-old grandmother, has made a name for herself by peddling the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen …

“These people hate the people in my district so much. They look down on them because they voted for me and sent me to Washington to fight for the things that most Americans care about, like secure borders, stopping abortion, protecting our Second Amendment, stopping the out-of-control spending in Washington, stop funding never-ending foreign wars. “Now the progressives, the people …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge cleared the way on Monday for a group of Georgia voters to move forward with legal efforts seeking to disqualify Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election to Congress, citing her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The disqualification effort is based on a constitutional provision adopted …

Politico Europe reports: French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said today that, if she were president, she would engage with Russia after the war in Ukraine to ensure Moscow doesn’t create an alliance with Beijing. She has been a long-standing admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has received party loans from a Russian bank. Le Pen has long …

The Huffington Post reports: Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ordered that Jones and his company Free Speech Systems, LLC, pay a total of $1,078,653 to several people suing Jones for lies he spread about them on his conspiracy platform Infowars. He has 30 days to pay the more than $1 million sum to the different parties, according to the filing. Jones …

Media Matters reports: Numerous Republicans, including Pennsylvania gubernatorial contender Doug Mastriano, are scheduled to speak at a conference hosted by podcast hosts and QAnon conspiracy theorists Allen and Francine Fosdick. The Fosdicks have promoted conspiracy theories alleging Jewish people, led by the Rothchilds, have been manipulating events such as wildfires through “space weather” and lasers; aim to subjugate the human …

Law & Crime reports: According to court filings, the companies—InfoWars, IWHealth, and Prison Planet TV—filed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on Sunday. All three business indicate that they have fewer than 50 debtors and owe between $1 and $10 million in estimated liabilities, according to the filings. Two of the companies, InfoWars and Prison Planet TV, have $50,000 or less …

The Hill reports: Infowars, the far-right website created by Alex Jones, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday as the radio host faces a number of lawsuits. The website filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, according to multiple sources. Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows companies to continue operating while assembling plans for …

Orlando’s ABC News affiliate reports: People came out Saturday to rally against Disney near one of the park’s entrances. Protesters said they are not happy with the company’s so-called political agenda. Channel 9 saw protesters holding signs calling Disney “groomers” and asking them to revoke Disney’s autonomy. The governor signed the controversial bill more than two weeks ago. It bans …

Bloomberg News reports: Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones are getting advice from restructuring advisers and considering options including a potential bankruptcy filing after being hit by lawsuits over Jones’s conspiracy theories, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. A Chapter 11 filing would aim to allow Jones’s businesses, such as Infowars and Free Speech Systems, …

Congress Minutes reports: Put America First, a joint fundraising committee run by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), paid at least $25,000 for legal services since September to the Constitutional Counsel Group. That’s the law firm of John Eastman, a onetime legal adviser to former President Donald Trump. The nature of these payments: It’s unclear what Eastman’s …

From the Str8UpGayPorn blog: While his psychotic love for Donald Trump and all things MAGA was no secret, right-wing gay porn star Sergeant Miles was at least able to keep his role in the January 6th terror attack on the Capitol under wraps. That is, until today. Str8Up can exclusively report that Sergeant Miles (legal name Steven Miles) was arrested …

Deutsche Welle reports: Investigators in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said on Thursday they had arrested four members of a right-wing extremist chat group that was seeking to bring down Germany’s democracy. Those arrested were German nationals linked to the COVID-denier protest scene and the “Reichsbürger” movement, the investigators said. State prosecutors in Koblenz and the State Criminal Police …

From far-right Gab CEO Andrew Torba: There is the problem of Twitter’s community itself. It skews massively left and thus anti-free speech. If you allow free speech on Twitter again, those people are absolutely going to leave because their fragile worldview can’t handle the reality that free speech brings. Another problem Twitter has that we don’t: total dependency on ad …

Newsweek reports: Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said joining the military is like “throwing your life away” due to President Joe Biden’s foreign policies. Speaking to former Fox News host Lou Dobbs’ podcast on April 9, Greene listed other reasons why people should not join the military, including the vaccine mandate and “woke” training. Dobbs said, “Who in his …

Reuters reports: Brazil’s top election authority, the Supreme Electoral Court, told Reuters on Monday it has invited the European Union for the first time to observe its general elections this year, when President Jair Bolsonaro will seek re-election. Bolsonaro has questioned the validity of Brazil’s electronic voting system and made baseless allegations of fraud in the 2018 race, stirring concerns …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHANEL RION (HOST): It’s tempting to feel sorry for old Joe. Don’t. Your sympathy is grounded in your remnant memories of sweet old grandpa. Joe Biden isn’t your sweet old grandpa. Everyone gets old, even perverts. Biden is the groomer-in-chief. He’s open to the language of fellow groomers, but sympathy for groomers only enable them …

From the Justice Department: A Delta Junction, Alaska, man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 32 months in prison and a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty to two counts of threatening to murder Alaska’s two U.S. Senators. According to court documents, Jay Allen Johnson, 65, left 17 threatening voicemails for Alaska’s two U.S. Senators over …