Tag Archives: QAnon

Daniel Dale writes for CNN: A leading Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, continues to put lies about the 2020 presidential election at the center of her campaign — this week calling it “disqualifying” and “sickening” for a rival candidate not to say that the election was stolen, though it wasn’t stolen. Lake’s strong performance in the Republican …

Mediaite reports: “This’ll be a beauty here,” said moderator Ted Simons — as he prepared to ask the question he knew would set off a round of crazy among the four Republican candidates for Arizona governor. Simons asked Kari Lake — the Donald Trump-backed candidate who is currently the frontrunner in the race — about the 2020 election. “You’ve called …

First, an op-ed from Arizona’s largest newspaper: Just hours before the only televised debate among the Republican candidates for Arizona governor, a reporter for the state’s largest news operation has been cancelled as a moderator. It seems Kari Lake is afraid to take questions from The Arizona Republic’s Stacey Barchenger. She doesn’t work for OAN or RSBN or even FOX …

The Colorado Sun reports: Republican Pam Anderson handily defeated two other candidates, including indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, in Tuesday’s secretary of state primary in a major rebuke of Peters’ 2020 election denialism. The Associated Press called the race on Anderson’s behalf at about 8 p.m. At that time, Anderson had received 45% of the vote, to Peters’ 25%. …

Mediaite reports: “This is the quote, ‘Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake who has attacked drag queens as dangerous to children attended the shows of drag queen Richard Stephens for 20 years and once hired him to perform at her home,’ Do you care to address that?” asked Fox host Brett Baier. “I do care. I actually do care to …

Phoenix’s ABC News affiliate reports: Richard Stevens is widely known as drag queen Barbra Seville, a Valley entertainer for the last two decades. Now he’s known internationally. Last weekend, Stevens called out Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake for hypocrisy. The story went viral. Lake, a former TV news anchor in Phoenix, has joined her fellow Republicans in targeting drag …

The Pennsylvania Capital-Star reports: A national group dedicated to electing Democratic governors is pressuring Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor to turn over any video footage he may have recorded while in Washington, D.C. on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Democratic Governors Association, citing a photo recently unearthed of Mastriano in Washington on Jan. …

The Daily Beast reports: The anonymous message board user known as “Q,” whose cryptic announcements spawned the fascist pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, has returned to posting after a nearly two-year hiatus. On Friday night, someone with access to Q’s login credentials posted on 8kun, the anarchic internet community where Q last posted in December 2020. “Shall we play a game …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) clashed during a House Rules committee hearing on Friday. While questioning Greene, Raskin asked her if she thinks it’s constitutional for states to ban private militias, to which she replied that since the federal government “isn’t protecting our border,” they shouldn’t be banned. “I think we’re in …

The Washington Post reports: Of all the fantastical false claims of fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election, “Italygate” was one of the most extreme. And Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was at the heart of bringing it to Donald Trump’s attention. This particular allegation of fraud centered around what one former Justice Department official described Thursday as an …

CNN reports: Newly elected Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores spread conspiracies on social media that the January 6 riot at the US Capitol was caused by members of the far-left group Antifa and repeatedly used a hashtag of the QAnon conspiracy theory in tweets that have since been removed. In one deleted tweet from January 7, 2021, Flores retweeted a claim …

The Arizona Republic reports: Count Kari Lake among the outraged over the latest controversy to fire up the far right. Drag queens, that would be.  It is, Lake assures us, positively indecent that children have attended drag performances.  “They kicked God out of schools and welcomed the Drag Queens,” she said on Friday, on Instagram and Twitter. While we’re at …

NPR reports: Former Mike Pence aide Diego Morales upset incumbent Holli Sullivan Saturday to earn the GOP nomination for secretary of state. Morales, whose family immigrated to Indiana from Guatemala, has previously pushed the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. He’s criticized Indiana’s election security, arguing the state needs to do more to prevent non-citizens …

The Independent reports: Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has reportedly said that she’ll agree to an interview with the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 riot. Ms Thomas reportedly told the Daily Caller that she was “looking forward” to sitting before the panel. “I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to …

The Associated Press reports: Nevada Republican Jim Marchant insisted there hadn’t been a legitimate election in his state in more than a decade. All of Nevada’s election winners since 2006, he said on a recent podcast, were “installed by the deep-state cabal.” But when Marchant won the Republican nomination for Nevada secretary of state this week, he immediately celebrated the …

The Washington Post reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three …

Mediaite reports: Tesla billionaire Elon Musk said he voted for Republican Mayra Flores for Congress in Tuesday night’s special election for Texas’ 34th Congressional District. Flores sparked controversy for including QAnon-related hashtags in her social media posts. Musk appeared unbothered by Flores’s past social media posts and tweeted his support for her and the GOP takeover of the House in …

The Guardian reports: A south Texas congressional district will be represented by a Republican for the first time following a special election Tuesday. The election of Mayra Flores, who bested her Democrat competitor in a 51%-43% vote, comes as Republicans continue to make inroads among Latino voters in south Texas. Flores, reportedly the first Latina Republican to serve Texas in …

NPR reports: Jim Marchant, a former Nevada state lawmaker who has made Donald Trump’s baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election a cornerstone of his own campaign, is the Republican nominee to oversee voting in the swing state, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Marchant becomes the latest election-denying GOP candidate to take a step closer …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Ron Watkins, the man purported to be an architect of the QAnon conspiracy theory, filed an ethics complaint against Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers for a post she made about him on social media. Watkins’ complaint stems from a February post by Rogers on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app favored by conservatives, in which she asked …