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To take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives this year, Republicans need to gain at least 17 seats. That’s a remarkably tall order, especially since there are about as many Republican and Democratic toss-up races. It’s also Rep. Tom Emmer’s job. As chair of the National Republican …
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Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic cabal of pedophile elites, including hysterical, unfounded claims about the proliferation of child sex …
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By Rob Kuznia, Collette Richards and Drew Griffin, CNN The apparent inevitable ascent to Congress of a Georgia Republican who has promoted the outlandish conspiracy theories of QAnon could be a bellwether for American politics, in which extreme views creep increasingly into the mainstream, experts …
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To the editor: Thank you for publishing Virginia Heffernan’s column likening QAnon propaganda to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a particularly vicious anti-Semitic forgery that helped form the basis of Nazi propaganda. The QAnon attacks are built upon decades of conservatives declaring …
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“I lay awake at night and worry if my brother’s going to shoot a bunch of protesters,” said Daniel, 36. Daniel, whose name has been changed to protect his family, always had a close relationship with his twin brother, Greg. They had “that twin thing, that twin bond”, Daniel said. The brothers had …
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The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more …
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Two years ago, most Americans knew nothing about QAnon, the ever-growing, diffuse, and violent movement devoted to a loosely connected set of conspiracy theories, most of which tie back to the idea that Donald Trump is leading a holy war against a high-powered cabal of child traffickers, some of …
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In the past few weeks, the cultish conspiracy movement known as QAnon has come under increasing scrutiny over its outlandish myths about everything from COVID-19 vaccines to satanic pedophile rings. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have cracked down on the fast-growing movement, but the effort …
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For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. When Kristen Alden moved to Thousand Oaks, California, two years ago, she joined the local moms’ Facebook group, Moms of Conejo Valley. She figured it’d be a good place to …
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Experts who track extremist ideologies and movements as well as domestic terrorism in the U.S. say QAnon is a unique and unpredictable new strain of extremism in America’s far-right political landscape. The conspiracy theory imagines that President Donald Trump is secretly battling a global network …
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