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Ron Watkins speaking with the media at a “Save America” rally at Country Thunder Arizona in Florence, Arizona, Jan. 15, 2022. An increasing number of candidates around the country have expressed support for former President Donald Trump and continue to seek out his endorsement. And some of those …
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is part of an ongoing collaborative reporting effort between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes the documentary film “Plot to Overturn the …
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QAnon follower Jake “The Q Shaman” Angeli attends a “Stop the Steal” rally on December 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Ron Watkins, a central figure in the QAnon conspiracy movement currently running for Congress in Arizona as a Republican, …
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Part one of “The United States of QAnon,” an occasional series examining the QAnon movement’s influence in American politics. Dozens of politicians running for state or federal office are aligning themselves with the right-wing, conspiracy-rich, sometimes-violent movement known as QAnon. They’re …
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DENVER —Local and national leaders of a right-wing movement that seeks to violently overturn the results of the 2020 election rallied outside the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday, rehashing an array of baseless conspiracy theories and telling a crowd of hundreds of supporters that they’re fighting a …
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Republican senators questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court nomination hearing didn’t explicitly mention QAnon or its putative oracle, Q. They didn’t mention the child sex trafficking ring run by a global cabal of Democratic politicians; financial, media and Hollywood elites; …
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That debunked theory held that Satan-worshiping Democrats were trafficking children out of the basement of a Washington restaurant, and in 2017 a believer armed with an assault riffle stormed in and fired his weapon. Judge Jackson, as a district court judge, sentenced him to four years in prison, …
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In less than two weeks, a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian biolabs has gone from a fringe QAnon Twitter account to becoming a major rallying cry for both Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and the U.S. far-right. Now, the White House says it may be used by Putin as cover for a bioweapons …
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Related: “Mr. Regan’s history of foolish, egregious and offensive comments, including his most recent one are simply beyond the pale,” said Weiser. “We are better than this as a party and I absolutely expect better than this of our candidates.” The condemnation preceded new revelations about Regan, …
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“Open your eyes,” the online post began, claiming, “Many in our govt worship Satan.” That warning, published on a freewheeling online message board in October 2017, was the beginning of the movement now known as QAnon. Paul Furber was its first apostle. The outlandish claim made perfect sense to …
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