Tag: Conspiracy theory
Oath Keepers in the State House
How a Militia Movement Took Root in the Republican Mainstream by Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica October 21, 2021 North Carolina state representative Mike Clampitt swore an oath to uphold the Constitution after his election in 2016…
Maricopa election probe is complete, but fight may just be starting
The Cyber Ninjas count showed Biden should have received 99 more votes in Maricopa County and Trump should have received 261 fewer; Senator Mark Kelly got an extra 60 votes in the final count over former…
Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire
Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine Sunday, March 7, 2021 Inspiration for a mob of angry white men? Getty Images From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right…
1 in 4 Arizonans still insist Trump won, as second impeachment begins
by Sarah Oven, Cronkite News Thursday, February 11, 2021 s the Senate began debate Tuesday on a historic second impeachment of former President Donald Trump, a recent poll shows that more than half of Arizona Republicans believe…
New ‘Treason Caucus’ campaign targets Cruz, Hawley, and others for role in deadly Capitol Insurrection
“If we don’t take action now, Cruz and his band of conspiracy theorists will still maintain power in an office they dishonored and don’t deserve to hold.” by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Friday, January 29, 2021…
Recruiting techniques for extremists and supremacists
by Wade Rathke January 26, 2021 New Orleans In the wake of the January 6th days of rage at the US Capitol there’s a lot of buzz about the rise of rightwing extremists. The head…
Armed QAnon supporters arrested over alleged plot to attack Philadelphia Convention Center
Local police and the FBI launched an investigation after two men with unlicensed guns who drove from Virginia were arrested near a site of the ongoing vote count in the 2020 election. by Brett Wilkins, staff…
How QAnon uses satanic rhetoric to set up a narrative of ‘good vs. evil’
A QAnon supporter waiting to see Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Rick Loomis/Getty Images by Paul Thomas, Radford University Tuesday, October 20 In front of a TV audience on Oct. 15, President Donald Trump…
Conspiracies cut both ways in reducing the vote
by Wade Rathke September 27, 2020 Pearl River The gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson used to have a patented expression as he wrote about everything from Las Vegas to political conventions. He would write, “…and then…
Trump panned for giving tacit endorsement of FBI-labeled terror threat QAnon, calling conspiracy group ‘people that love our country’
The president’s comments about the group labeled by the FBI as a domestic terrorism threat came on the same day Facebook restricted thousands of QAnon accounts. by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer Thursday, August 20 On the…
Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking
by John Cook, George Mason University; Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge; Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, and Ullrich Ecker, University of Western Australia The conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” recently went viral. Despite being taken…
