Tag Archives: QAnon

The Associated Press reports: Republican lawmaker endorsed by former President Donald Trump was defeated Tuesday by a fellow state legislator in a three-way GOP primary for an open state Senate seat representing Milwaukee’s northern suburbs. State Rep. Dan Knodl of Germantown beat Trump-backed state Rep. Janel Brandtjen and Thienesville Village President Van Mobley in the 8th Senate District primary. Brandtjen …

The Denver Post reports: At least six people — including indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and two former Congressional candidates — are vying to become the next chair of the Colorado Republican Party, three months after an Election Day beating sank the party to a historic nadir. Peters’s candidacy comes less than a year after she lost a …

“In my life and my world, all of my friends are regular Americans. Everyone I talk to is sick and tired and fed up with being bullied by the left, abused by the left, and disrespected by the left. Our ideas, our policies and our ways of life have become so far apart that it’s just coming to that point. …

The Washington Post reports: Michigan Republicans, reeling from a midterm election rout that many blamed on the influence of former president Donald Trump, responded Saturday by spurning the former president’s choice for state party chair — and choosing someone even more extreme. Kristina Karamo, who refused to concede her 14-point loss for secretary of state in 2022, beat former attorney …

NBC News reports: Kari Lake, a Donald Trump acolyte who has refused to accept that she lost the governor’s race in Arizona last year, campaigned on the voter fraud claims first popularized by the former president. She filed lawsuits before and after the election advancing the claims, despite having no clear evidence of election fraud. A federal judge has already …

“Train derailment is happening every single day. And now, thousands of people, birds, animals, they’re all sick and we don’t know the consequences of this horrible accident in East Palestine. “But we have people like Ilhan Omar, she wants to crack down on corporate greed when it comes to rails and the privately-owned sections of rails. “We need to make …

The New York Times reports: When Stephen K. Bannon, the White House strategist turned podcaster, was explaining the latest Covid-19 developments in 2021, he passed the microphone to a special guest: Clay Clark, an evangelist and anti-vaccine activist. For nearly 10 minutes, Mr. Clark rattled off one false and misleading statement after another. Covid is “100 percent treatable” with hydroxychloroquine …

Raw Story reports: Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake said it is “probably true” that a “CIA coup” took control of the United States and caused her to lose the 2022 election for governor. During an interview billed as having a “mega-bombshell,” conspiracy theorist Pete Santilli repeatedly pushed Lake to talk about what he believed was a CIA-backed coup d’état. “I …

Newsweek reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake has said she is “entertaining” a run to represent the Grand Canyon State in the Senate. In November 2022, Lake lost her bid to become state governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs by 17,000 votes, though she is refusing to accept defeat and alleges the election was rigged against her. Speaking to Charlie Kirk on …

The Colorado Times reports: Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters took her conspiracy promotion to a new level this week when she implied that law enforcement murdered two family members of her former staff members in order to compel them to testify against her. Appearing on Joe Oltmann’s far-right podcast, Peters falsely stated that the brothers of her former deputy …

Via press release: Today, the Zelenko Freedom Foundation announced that Charlie Kirk will serve as keynote speaker for the inaugural gala – honoring the memory of Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko – on March 11th 2023 at the Trump Doral in Miami, Florida. Regarding the announcement, Ann Vandersteel and Kevin Jenkins, Co-Chairs of the Zelenko Freedom Foundation, issued the following statement: …

“These are members who just got elected by their constituents and we put them into committees and we’re proud to do it. You look at all the questions out there. I think what the American public wants to see is an open dialog in the process. This is a select committee where people can have all the questions they want …

The New York Times reports: In September, former President Donald J. Trump went on Truth Social, his social network, and shared an image of himself wearing a lapel pin in the form of the letter Q, along with a phrase closely associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement: “The storm is coming.” In doing so, Mr. Trump ensured that the …

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Friday preliminarily declined to block members of the group Clean Elections USA from gathering within sight of ballot drop boxes following complaints that armed and masked members intimidated potential voters during the 2022 election. The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and Voto Latino filed a joint lawsuit against Clean Elections USA in October. …

The Associated Press reports: A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, urged his followers to disobey the Russian government’s lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global …

The Arizona Mirror reports: The day that Katie Hobbs was declared the winner of the governor’s race, cash poured into Kari Lake’s campaign, as people from across the country heeded her call to fight back against an election system she said was “BS.” Between the day after the election and the end of the year, Lake received more than 57,000 …

The LGBTQ news site Qburgh Magazine reports: Republican Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano plans to introduce legislation that would ban drag shows on public property or in areas where minors could see, effectively banning Pride events across Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh Pride. In a memo published Tuesday, Mastriano plans to categorize drag shows as “adult-oriented business” which would put restrictions such …

CBS News reports: The conference, known as the ReAwaken America Tour, had no official lineup of speakers for the May event at Trump’s Doral hotel in Miami, but past events have featured speakers who have echoed conspiracy theories that Trump has supported, including Eric Trump, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne, Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, and former …

The Washington Examiner reports: A top Arizona Democrat needled Kari Lake over reports that she is mulling a Senate run in 2024, saying that it will be difficult to do so without conceding defeat in 2022. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is speculated to be eyeing a 2024 Senate run himself, argued she cannot shadow-govern the state and mount a …

Media Matters reports: Right-wing pundit Leon Benjamin, the Republican-backed nominee for a U.S. House special election in Virginia next month, says that he runs a “ministry” devoted to getting people to “escape” from “homosexual and lesbian living.” Benjamin has falsely and dangerously claimed LGBTQ people can be “healed” by changing their identity and compared his ministering to helping adulterers, thieves, …