Tag Archives: QAnon

The Insider reports: The Value In Electing Women Political Action Committee has supported every GOP woman serving in the US House and Senate, with the “intentional exception” of the two Republican freshmen, according to Julie Conway, VIEW PAC’s executive director and a longtime fundraiser and political consultant. Conway said the PAC would not endorse them in 2022, either. “While we …

From the retail industry site Footwear News: Sears and Kmart took down a listing for a T-shirt reading “Ashli Babbitt American Patriot” in response to online backlash. Babbitt has been cast as a right-wing martyr in the months since she was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to enter the building with a crowd of …

Politico reports: A Pennsylvania ally of former President Donald Trump announced that he would try to initiate a review of the 2020 election in the key battleground state, mirroring a controversial effort in Arizona to examine the results months after President Joe Biden was sworn in. State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican who has repeatedly echoed Trump’s false claims about …

Spectrum News reports: A physical education teacher at Viera High School faces an internal investigation by the Brevard County School District after he was charged Tuesday as one of the latest suspects in the deadly January attack on the U.S. Capitol. Kenneth J. Reda, 54, of Melbourne was arrested Tuesday on a criminal complaint from the District of Columbia alleging …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday used a Nazi-era comparison in opposing the Biden administration’s push to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, calling the individuals leading those efforts “medical brown shirts.” Members of the paramilitary organization that helped Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power were known as “brownshirts.” Greene’s …

“There are two nations created for God’s glory – Israel and the United States of America. We stand strongly with Israel. We will not back down until we have everything God has promised us. “We are an army for everything that Jesus has purchased for us and our children, and our children’s children. “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day …

The Baltimore Sun reports: Conservative Maryland Del. Dan Cox says he is running for governor in 2022, the first right-wing, pro-Trump candidate in the race. Cox, 46, has emerged as a favorite of the wing of the Republican Party that continues to support former President Donald Trump. Cox also helped organize buses to bring people to Washington, D.C., on Jan. …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas GOP Chairman Allen West announced Sunday he is running for governor, challenging fellow Republican Greg Abbott. The announcement was made during at appearance by West at Sojourn Church in Carrollton, where the former Florida congressman played a video launching his campaign. West’s campaign launch comes about a month after he announced his resignation as state …

Prominent QAnon nutbag Liz Crokin writes: I’ve gotten some comments from people — including people who claim they’ve followed me for years — telling me it’s “ridiculous” or “not important” for me to cover the Britney Spears situation as it’s not relevant, important or it’s simply a distraction from other events going on right now. Britney Spears is a trafficking …

Mother Jones reports: “Welcome to GETTR and start a new journey!” So reads an introductory message on the home page of Gettr, a right-wing social media app recently launched by a team led by Jason Miller, an ex-spokesperson of former president Donald Trump. That “new journey,” thanks to spam comments left en masse below the message, involves encountering things like …

The Associated Press reports: Sen. Doug Mastriano, a rising force in Pennsylvania’s ultra-conservative circles who has talked of his desire to bring an Arizona-style audit to Pennsylvania, led a private briefing Wednesday for Republican senators on his plan. Mastriano also solicited legal advice from a Philadelphia-based law firm about the Senate Republican caucus using private money to finance consultants and …

Phoenix’s CBS News affiliate reports: Women who worked at the Arizona Election Audit endured sexual harassment for weeks, even after submitting written accounts of what was taking place. That is according to a former employee who spoke to Arizona’s Family Investigates. Arizona’s Family agreed to conceal the employee’s identity because she says she was a victim of the sexual harassment …

From the pro-Trump site The Spectator: Who shot Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was killed by police during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol building? The American people were told that it was a Capitol Police officer who fired the fatal shot. But Cockburn has stumbled across some information that points to a different explanation. …

Forbes reports: Former President Donald Trump on Thursday joined a chorus of right-wing voices calling for the identity of the law enforcement officer who shot and killed Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt as she attempted to breach the House chamber on January 6, which the Justice Department determined was an act of “self-defense.” “Who shot Ashli Babbitt?” Trump said in a …

Mediaite has the transcript: When y’all going to get the memo that I didn’t get it wrong? Trump ain’t never went nowhere, he ain’t back, he’s always been around. He is the legitimate president of the United States of America. I don’t care if you stand up and clap or not. I’m telling you, Donald Trump is the legitimate president …

The Daily Beast reports: The head of Arizona Republicans’ controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential ballots was revealed Saturday as the anonymous star of a new movie claiming the election was stolen, raising questions about how credible any upcoming report from the supposed audit could be. The revelation of Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan’s involvement in the conspiracy theory movie The …

The Intercept reports: Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who once oversaw military intelligence in Afghanistan and led a sprawling intelligence agency in Washington, would go on to become a central hero in QAnon’s conspiratorial narrative. But his move to trademark the term “digital soldiers” — ensuring that only he and others who obtain his express permission can profit from …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wellington, Oh. on Saturday, and used her time on stage to attack Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a “little communist” and “not an American.” After polling the crowd to make sure they agreed that Trump was “still their president” and falsely claiming that “Democrats stole …

The Guardian reports: Thousands of anti-lockdown and anti-vax demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday. It was billed the “Freedom March” by protesters who assembled at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park from midday, some holding banners backing Donald Trump’s run for president in 2024, or supporting the far right conspiracy movement QAnon. Many of those present estimated it was the …

The Associated Press reports: The widow of John McAfee, the British-American tycoon who died in a Spanish prison this week while awaiting extradition to the United States, on Friday demanded a “thorough investigation” of his death, saying her husband did not appear suicidal when they last spoke. Authorities in Spain are conducting an autopsy on McAfee’s body but have said …