QAnon cult hopes to win big in Las Vegas

Conspiracy theorists are set to converge on Sin City for a “Great Awakening” weekend facilitated by the US’s largest gaming company.

The For God and Country Patriot Double Down convention in Las Vegas is being organised by the Patriot Voice, a group whose self-described agenda of “fighting for faith, family, freedom and opportunity in America” is linked to QAnon, a conspiracy movement categorised by the FBI as a domestic terrorism threat.

QAnon refers to the coronavirus as a contrived “plandemic”, scoffs at masks and vaccines, and believes that Donald Trump is poised to deliver the US from the grip of a Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic paedophile cabal in a superhero moment that it refers to as the Great Awakening.

Conspiracy theorists are set to converge on Sin City for a “Great Awakening” weekend in Las Vegas

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QAnon’s unsubstantiated assertions that Trump won the

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