Election denier Joe Oltmann is collaborating with figures from a QAnon Rumble channel

Joe Oltmann, a major player in the election denial movement, has been collaborating with hosts of a Rumble-based QAnon channel called Badlands Media. Oltmann and his co-host have repeatedly hosted figures from Badlands on their show, Conservative Daily Podcast, and have praised the Rumble channel and its hosts. 

At least one of the QAnon hosts also said during an appearance that he would be doing work for Oltmann, and the podcast has launched a spinoff show hosted by some of those QAnon hosts.

Oltmann, a podcaster based in Colorado, has been extensively involved with the election denial movement. That includes instigating a false claim that a specific Dominion Voting Systems employee, Eric Coomer, was involved with the supposed election fraud. In response, Coomer has sued Oltmann for defamation. Oltmann is also the founder of the election denial organization FEC United.

Badlands Media, the Rumble channel whose hosts Oltmann is collaborating with, was founded in October by QAnon influencers Jon Herold and Kate Buckley (known online as “Patel Patriot” and “Kate Awakening,” respectively). It features multiple QAnon influencers as hosts and largely dedicates its programming to covering QAnon and related conspiracy theories. The channel is particularly connected to the QAnon influencer collective known as We The Media, with multiple Badlands Media hosts currently or previously involved with the collective.

Between March and the time of publication, Oltmann and his co-host, known as “Apollo,” have hosted at least nine individual Badlands Media hosts on Conservative Daily a total of nearly two dozen times. Alongside Herold and Buckley, that list includes Brad Getz, Zak Paine (who participated in the January 6 insurrection), Brian Lupo (known online as “CannCon”), and other QAnon figures known by their pseudonyms, “Absolute1776,” “Woke Societies,” “Johnny Q,” and “Alpha Warrior.” Befitting of Badlands’ origins, all of those hosts are QAnon supporters. 

Since March, Oltmann and Apollo (who has said he’s followed QAnon “really closely”) have praised Badlands (including extensively criticizing reporting on the channel) and its hosts and given the opportunity for the QAnon hosts to discuss the conspiracy theory on the show. 

Sometimes, Oltmann and Apollo have participated in that discussion.

For instance, on March 22, election denier David Clements suggested that QAnon supporters were guilty of “passivity,” before QAnon influencer Absolute1776 urged others “not to be passive” and to get involved in elections, to which Oltmann said that “there are a lot of Anons … that are not … sitting on the sidelines.”