Tag Archives: QAnon

Talking Points Memo reports: A half dozen sheriffs from across the country addressed a far-right conference focused on bogus claims of voter fraud this week. The event, hosted by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, featured speeches from several Republican state lawmakers as well as fringe election deniers including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, ex-Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. The sheriffs …

The Colorado Sun reports: A judge Thursday ordered indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to be arrested for violating the conditions of her bond by traveling to Las Vegas this week without first notifying the court and prosecutors. Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew David Barrett issued a warrant for Peters’ arrest and for her to be held in jail …

NBC News reports: Kari Lake watched her lead narrow in the polls and big players in Arizona’s Republican establishment coalesce around her top rival weeks before the state’s Aug. 2 primary for governor. So Democrats stepped in. The state party, in an email blast this week, thanked her opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, for past donations she made to Democratic candidates. …

Portland’s CBS affiliate reports: A ninth person with ties to Oregon and Southwest Washington has been arrested and accused in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lilith Saer was arrested on July 7 in Portland. She’s facing charges for entering and remaining in a restricted building with the intent to impede or disrupt an official proceeding and disorderly …

The Daily Beast reports: Hell hath no fury like a pissed off drag queen. In a new ad from American Focus PAC, which is not affiliated with any candidate, a drag queen drags Trump-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake through the mud. Rather than criticizing her for being too far right, the ad does the opposite, accusing Lake of being …

CNN reports: Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, an ally of former President Donald Trump, is expected to meet Friday with the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, according to three sources familiar with the matter. There have been no ground rules or topics defined, according to one of the sources. The meeting will be behind closed doors. Byrne played …

Mediaite reports: Sarah Palin gave an enthusiastic and angry speech at Trump‘s “Save America” Rally in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, during which she suggested that the global covid-19 pandemic was a conspiracy perpetrated against the American people for political reasons. Palin said that the midterms are about “control versus freedom” and added that “they used the plandemic” to try to …

The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Friday that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices, dealing critical defeats to Democrats in the battleground state. The court did not address the question of whether anyone other than the voter can return his or her own ballot by mail. Election officials and others had argued …

CNN reports: Before becoming the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Michigan secretary of state, Kristina Karamo said that abortion is “child sacrifice” and a “satanic practice.” “Abortion is really nothing new. The child sacrifice is a very satanic practice, and that’s precisely what abortion is. And we need to see it as such,” Karamo, a community college professor, said in an …

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 …