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[### How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ...

_NPR_

https://www.npr.org › 2021/10/22 › facebook-groups-j...](https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048543513/facebook-groups-jan-6-insurrection)

Oct 22, 2021 — But that only sent Stop the Steal loyalists to other groups on Facebook filled with misinformation and claims the election was stolen. It was a ...

[### How Facebook played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2021/10/22 › jan-6-...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/22/jan-6-capitol-riot-facebook/)

Oct 22, 2021 — On Jan. 6, Facebook staffers expressed their horror in internal messages as they watched thousands of Trump supporters shouting “stop the steal” ...

[### How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ...

NPR

https://www.npr.org › 2021/10/25 › how-stop-the-steal-...](https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048918715/how-stop-the-steal-movement-outwitted-facebook-ahead-of-the-jan-6-riot)

Oct 25, 2021 — Leaked documents from inside Facebook show the social network was caught flat-footed by the "Stop the Steal" movement, which culminated in the Jan. 6 siege on ...

[### January 6 insurrection and Facebook: Internal docs paint a ...

CNN

https://www.cnn.com › 2021/10/22 › business › januar...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/business/january-6-insurrection-facebook-papers)

Oct 24, 2021 — The analysis does note, however, that once Facebook saw the results of Stop the Steal on January 6th and took action, it was able to deploy ...

[### Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection ...

ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org › article › facebook-hosted-...](https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hosted-surge-of-misinformation-and-insurrection-threats-in-months-leading-up-to-jan-6-attack-records-show)

Jan 4, 2022 — On Nov. 5, Facebook banned “Stop the Steal,” a hugely viral group created on Election Day itself that quickly attracted over 300,000 members ...

[### Inside Facebook's struggle to contain insurrectionists' posts

Politico

https://www.politico.com › news › 2021/10/25 › facebo...](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/facebook-jan-6-election-claims-516997)

Oct 25, 2021 — It also had a hard time curtailing groups from the far-right Stop the Steal movement — which alleged the election had been stolen from Trump — ...

[### The untold story of how the January 6 riots were planned ...

Fast Company

https://www.fastcompany.com › Tech](https://www.fastcompany.com/90980346/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-january-6-broken-code)

Nov 13, 2023 — The Stop the Steal Facebook group was born out of a mid-Election Day chat between a mother-daughter duo named Amy and Kylie Kremer, conservative ...

[### Facebook whistleblower documents offer new revelations ...

ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

https://abcnews.go.com › Technology › story](https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-whistleblower-documents-offer-revelations-jan-response/story?id=80694096)

Oct 24, 2021 — Facebook removed the first large "Stop The Steal" group, but copycats and similar groups by other names remained on the platform through the Jan ...

[### Facebook bans all 'stop the steal' content

NBC News

https://www.nbcnews.com › tech › tech-news › faceboo...](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-bans-all-stop-steal-content-n1253809)

Jan 11, 2021 — "We are now removing content containing the phrase 'stop the steal' under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram," they said.

[### Facebook 'Supercharged' Stop the Steal Campaign Ahead ...

Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com › Tech › Politics](https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-supercharged-stop-the-steal-capitol-insurrection-congress-mike-doyle-2021-3)

Mar 25, 2021 — A US Representative slammed Facebook for "supercharging" false claims of voting fraud and stolen elections that turned into real-world ...

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*real* Florida family walking through floodwaters as they return home after Hurricane Helene. AP

There has been no shortage of gut-wrenching photographs from communities in the southeast devastated by Hurricane Helene, which caused extreme flooding and killed at least 215 people — pictures of houses destroyed, families trapped on rooftops, wreckage from mudslides and roads washed out by torrential rains. But rather than focus on the actual victims or damage, many right-wing influencers and politicians have extended their sympathies to a nonexistent girl and her puppy (who is also not real).

The AI-generated image they’re sharing depicts a crying girl in a boat, seemingly alone except for the little dog she’s clutching. She wears a lifejacket and appears to be adrift on floodwaters caused by a major storm. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah posted the picture on X on Thursday, writing “Caption this photo,” apparently inviting his followers to vent their outrage at the Biden-Harris administration for allowing American children to suffer such misery on their watch. After users pointed out that he’d fallen for AI slop, he deleted the picture. (The image originated on the Trump web forum Patriots.win, where several users immediately recognized it as the product of an AI model.)

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Others, however, have left the misleading picture up on their social media accounts — and some are defending it as an accurate representation of Helene’s effects even though it’s fake. Far-right conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump associate Laura Loomer called the image “sad,” quote-tweeting a post from Buzz Patterson, columnist for the conservative blog RedState, who wrote of the picture: “Our government has failed us again.” Neither have taken their posts down as of press time. Amy Kremer, RNC National Committeewoman for the Georgia GOP and co-founder of Women for Trump, tweeted on Thursday that the image had been “seared into my mind.”

Informed that she was not looking at an authentic photo, Kremer doubled down. “Y’all, I don’t know where this photo came from and honestly, it doesn’t matter,” she replied. “There are people going through much worse than what is shown in this pic. So I’m leaving it because it is emblematic of the trauma and pain people are living through right now.”

A large anonymous blue-check account on X that routinely attacks Democrats did remove the picture but similarly argued: “Even though that image was AI, it spoke a truth about the disregard Harris and Biden have for ordinary Americans, as evidenced by their criminal non-response to Helene.” Another X user posted a since-deleted screenshot of a more succinct response from an apparent family member advised that the image was bogus. “Who cares,” they answered.

The little girl and her puppy — there are AI-generated variants of the more viral image floating around as well — have been widely presented by MAGA world as evidence of a failed disaster response in the aftermath of Helene. Similar fake images depict girls or women clutching Bibles as floods rage around them. Trump himself is pushing lies about the U.S. government not being able to fund relief efforts, adding an overtone of racism with the groundless claim that the White House “stole” money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and “spent it all on illegal migrants.” (The irony being that in 2019, the Trump administration itself redirected millions in disaster funds, during hurricane season, to pay for detention centers at the border.)

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January 6 supporters champion Georgia State Election Board rule changes

The same crowd of right-wing pundits who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results are now meddling with Georgia’s certification procedures to potentially deny Democrats a win in 2024

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Payton Armstrong

Published 09/05/24 mma

Several right-wing media figures tied to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election have supported changes to Georgia’s election certification process that could be used to question or deny the state’s vote totals this November.

These figures include Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin; Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, an election denialist group; mother-daughter “Stop the Steal” activists Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer (the former is also a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots); and former Trump adviser and attorney Cleta Mitchell, founder of the Election Integrity Network.

Notably, Mitchell is also a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute, which — along with Tea Party Patriots — is one of the more than 100 organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, a sprawling effort to provide a second Trump administration with policy and staffing proposals. Project 2025 is also run through with election deniers.

Several of the outside groups pushing the changes appear to hold at least some real power in Georgia as well. In May, Fulton County election board member Julie Adams — who is reportedly affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots and the Election Integrity Network — refused to certify the primary election results. ProPublica further reported that a former board member brought one of the new rule changes forward at the “behest” of Adams, a “regional leader” in the Election Integrity Network who joined the Fulton County election board in February.

Adams isn’t the only new, hard-right election official. In May, the Georgia House speaker appointed Janelle King, a right-wing media personality, to the State Election Board, where she has supported the August rule changes. King has a history of spreading election denial conspiracy theories; in March 2021, she wrote on Facebook that “Republicans produce real proof of voter irregularities and fraud in some cases; stuff like, voting twice, voting from another state, stuff like that to name a few.”

The Georgia State Election Board’s hard-right turn

In early August, the Georgia State Election Board made changes to its certification process that would “require county election officials to make a ‘reasonable inquiry’ before certifying election results to the state,” as reported by The Associated Press. Voting rights advocates worry that the vagueness of the new rule will provide a pretext to delay or deny potential Democratic wins in November.

Later that month, the board made an additional change providing county election officials with the authority to access “all election-related documentation” and resolve any discrepancies prior to certification — another potential avenue to sow doubt and confusion about vote totals. State Democrats have since brought a lawsuit challenging the board’s new rules.

At a rally in Atlanta on August 3, Trump praised the Republican members of the State Election Board by name, including King, calling them “three pitbulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory.” Trump’s comments appear to signal that the board’s changes could be a crucial part of his strategy to undermine confidence in the vote totals if the Republican nominee loses the state in November.

Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots

Martin is a significant figure in the election denial movement. Her organization, Tea Party Patriots, sponsored a Trump rally in D.C. ahead of the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021, and Martin herself was outside the Capitol that day. According to Talking Points Memo, Martin “helped connect the political, legal, and activist elements of the push to keep Trump in power” and even communicated with Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff and an instrumental figure in the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Meadows faces charges in Arizona and Georgia for his role in Trump's scheme, and he is also a senior partner at the Conservative Partnership Institute.

On August 10, Martin appeared on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's War Room podcast to celebrate the Georgia State Election Board’s rule changes.

“They are clarifying what certification means, which is very important, especially if you are on an election board and you have questions and don’t quite know that — don’t think what you’re certifying is actually the final vote,” Martin said. “They need to get it right before certification.”

Video

CitationFrom the August 10, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

Martin returned to War Room on August 27 to further praise the state board’s new policies and baselessly sow doubt about recent election results.

“These are not strange, draconian, hard things to enact,” Martin said. “Why doesn’t the left want these common sense changes to happen? That’s the real question.”

She later added: “We need to have elections we can have faith and trust in, and that’s what these board members are trying to accomplish.”

Video

CitationFrom the August 27, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

Martin also hosts a podcast, The Jenny Beth Show, where she recently interviewed Salleigh Grubbs, the head of the Cobb County Republican Party. Grubbs gained some notoriety in right-wing media circles in 2020 after “following a truck she suspected of being used in a plot to shred evidence,” according to ProPublica. She later attended Trump’s January 6 event, and would continue to spread conspiracy theories about “irregularities in the election,” as reported in The Washington Post.

During the September 4 interview, Martin and Grubbs discussed the new Georgia rules. State and county election officials “are there to be a check and balance,” Martin said.

“That’s right,” Grubbs responded.

Martin added, “This is just another place to make sure that you’ve got another set of eyes and that you’re checking that everything really is what the report says it is.”

Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote

Martin was joined on War Room’s August 27 episode by Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote and another prominent election denialist. Engelbrecht and her business partner, Gregg Phillips, served as primary sources for 2000 Mules, a discredited conspiracy theory film from Dinesh D’Souza that falsely claimed there had been mass voter fraud in the 2020 election. In addition to participating in the film, True the Vote challenged Georgia’s 2020 election results, claiming it had obtained evidence of a mass ballot stuffing operation. When a judge later asked for the evidence, the group admitted it had none.

Like Martin, Engelbrecht praised the Georgia State Election Board, and she was even more explicit in her baseless accusations that Democrats were attempting to rig the election system.

“The Democrats are going to fight tooth and nail to make sure that the fraud we’ve seen coming out of Georgia over these last few years, that that remains institutionalized,” Engelbrecht said. “I applaud the State Election Board, and even more than that I applaud the people of Georgia who have fought tirelessly to try to bring elections back to some semblance of common sense in their state, and they’re doing a great job.”

“The Democrat Party is opposed for all of the obvious reasons, but I’ll state the obvious, and that is that they intend to manipulate and exploit the weaknesses wherever they can,” she added.

### Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network

Prior to founding the Election Integrity Network, Mitchell served as a campaign adviser to then-President Trump while he was attempting to overturn the 2020 election. She participated in a call during which Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes, enough to throw the election to him. A grand jury later recommended indicting Mitchell for her role in Trump’s efforts to stay in power, though prosecutors in Fulton County declined to charge her.

Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network has issued at least two formal press releases in favor of the Georgia election changes.

On August 13, EIN issued a statement urging the passage of new rules that would “demand accurate counts before certifying elections.” Following adoption of the new policy, EIN said the State Election Board had “stood up to left-wing pressure groups and voted to ensure vote-tallies reconcile before certification.”

Mitchell has been a vocal supporter of the Georgia election board meddling. On August 3, she celebrated Trump’s speech singling out the three State Election Board members who later voted in favor of the new rules.

CitationFrom Cleta Mitchell's account on X/Twitter, accessed August 30, 2024

Since then, Mitchell has written at least five other posts in favor of the changes or criticizing opponents of the moves — including praising Trump-aligned board member Janelle King.

“GA State Election Board Member Janelle King is smart, tough, and conservative,” Mitchell wrote. “She stands for the rule of law and election integrity - leftists hate that. We are with you Janelle!”

Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer

Longtime tea party activist Amy Kremer helped organize the January 6, 2021, rally where Trump instructed the crowd to “fight like hell” and march to the U.S. Capitol. Her daughter, Kylie Jane, created a “Stop the Steal” Facebook group following the 2020 election that ballooned to 350,000 members over the course of a day. The duo previously founded the pro-Trump group Women for America First in 2019.

Following Joe Biden’s inauguration, Amy Kremer pushed for an “audit” of the Georgia vote totals, similar to a sham audit Trump allies pursued in Arizona. More recently, she successfully ran for a seat on the Republican National Committee in a campaign that was supported by Steve Bannon.

Both Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer have repeatedly supported the Georgia State Election Board rule changes. On August 19, Amy Kremer accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Attorney General Chris Carr, and Gov. Brian Kemp — all Republicans — of “standing in the way &/or running interference to stop the GA State Election Board from securing GA’s elections & investigating election fraud.”

CitationFrom Amy Kremer's account on X/Twitter, accessed September 3, 2024

Amy Kremer has repeatedly cast doubt on Georgia’s election systems throughout August, and responded to the Democrats’ lawsuit challenging the changes by asking Carr, “What are you going to do about this?”

Kylie Jane Kremer has similarly criticized Kemp, Raffensperger, and Carr, writing on August 3 that they’re “like the three amigos who steal elections.” On August 26, she praised Trump-aligned State Election Board member Janelle King. One day later, she urged her followers to show the board “the support they deserve as they stand strong for Georgians against attacks from Governor Kemp, SOS Brad Raffensperger, AG Chris Carr and Democrats!”

Raffensperger, who famously declined Trump’s request to “find” enough votes to overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020, has now spoken out against the State Election Board rule changes. As of late August, Kemp hadn’t publicly commented on the changes, though his office referred an ethics complaint against the pro-Trump board members to the attorney general’s office. Carr released an official opinion stating that the State Election Board can’t force him to reopen an investigation into the vote totals in Fulton County in 2020, as requested by Trump’s allies on the board.

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on Saturday, May 18, Georgia Republicans Amy Kremer and Ginger Howard (the incumbent) competed for a seat on the Republican National Committee (RNC).

Kremer pulled off an upset victory, and according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), she did so "in part by highlighting her role securing the permit for the pro-Donald Trump rally on January 6, 2021, that preceded the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol — and accusing Howard of not fighting harder to overturn Trump's 2020 victory."

Two days before Kremer's victory, Patrick Krason of Federal Election Commission Compliance Services wrote a letter expressing his concerns about her.

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Krason, according to AJC reporters Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer, "warned that Kremer had been fined several times by the Federal Election Commission for not submitting reports" and "accused her super PAC of not paying several vendors, including his firm."

Krason wrote, "I would hope that the GA Republican Party leadership will consider the questions of liability and optics having someone like Amy Kremer representing the Party at the RNC…. With regard to Ms. Kremer, while her experience could make her an effective representative, questions about her outstanding Federal Elections Commission fines for fundraising and organizational irregularities made the committee wary of endorsing her."

President Joe Biden was campaigning in Atlanta on May 18, and he brought up the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building during one of his speeches. Biden warned that the "threat Trump poses is greater in a second term than it was in the first term."

Once a deep red state, Georgia has evolved into a major swing state. Democrats hold both of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats, and Biden carried the Peach State in 2020. But Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both conservative Republicans, were decisively reelected in the 2022 midterms.

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*Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's full article at this link (subscription required).

Bannon promotes January 6 organizer Amy Kremer’s run for Georgia Republican National Committeewoman

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ginni j6 depo:

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18 Hoffman to Kylie Kremer.

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And he mentions in the first line, "Hi, ladies. Ginni Thomas and Stephanie

 Coleman gave me your number and suggested I reach out." And he goes on to mention

that:{ he's one of the official Trump Presidential electors in Arizona. And it looks like he's

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 asking to speak at the events on January 6th.

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24 :{Do you recall having a conversation with Jake Hoffman?

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1 committee, I didn't know that this happened. I didn't remember that I was connecting

him to Kylie Kremerabout his desire to be a speaker.

3 Q Okay.

:{4 And can you tell us a little bit about what role, if any, you had in relation to the

5 rally on the 6th at the ElIipse?

6 A I'm glad you asked. I had no role in organizing, coordinating, speaking.

just went as an ordinary citizen that day.}:

Q Okay.

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Q And did you have any role in organizing any events or rallies on January 5th,

11 the day before...

1 Stephanie Coleman. I'm just wondering about your prior connection to Kylie Kremer.

2 A I:{ knewAmy Kremer from back in 2011 or 2012, but -- and Kylie, no, I

3 didn't -- I don't know how I had her number. I do have a lot of numbers of people.}:

I understand.

But she's not a close friend. I don't remember how I would've even

 connected them. But I clearly did.

7 Q Yeah. Okay. And no specific communication with either Kremer about

the events on the 5th or 6th?

A Right.

Q Okay. Thanks.

BYMR.-:

Q And it sounds like -- did you know Jake Hoffman before this event?

A Yes. He's a friend.

Q:{ Okay. And did you, during the November/December of 2020 timeframe

 have discussions with him about his role as an elector at all in the State of Arizona?

16 A No. I forgot that he was an elector. He's a State delegate. He's

17 oftentimes a speaker for us at Groundswell. And, no, he's just a great guy.}:

18 Q Okay.

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amy kremer bus tour ends DC dec 12

https://twitter.com/**capitolhunters**/status/1489008554455416834

impromptu fuentes sp gets him into inner circle?  am 1st flags

...dec 12 DC rally is a bigger success even than Nov 14. Everyone is there. Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio jets in on a private plane and gets a White House tour.Michael Flynn makes a grand entrance flanked by representatives from many groups who’ll make a mark on Jan 6. 31/

...there’s more violence too - 4 stabbed in DC, one shot in WA. In CA Alan Hostetter calls for executing lawmakers. Meanwhile election lawsuits keep failing. The gambit of fraudulent electors fails too, at least for now. On Dec. 14 the electoral college votes for Biden. 32/

byrne, ed martin CNP 1ap...josh macias v4t

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKoIP7SVkAQbqU0?format=jpg&name=small

crazy WH mtg be wild twt

is a late night for many: the MillionMAGAMarch account promotes Jan 6 after 3 AM, and Dan Scavino, Trump’s comms guy, Tweets a warlike video.In the morning: Cindy Chafian requests a permit date change to Jan 6.The next day, the website http://WildProtest.com is created. 37/

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Feb 2

Influencers start passing around a Serbian video about overthrowing Milosevic: “Police and military aligned with the people after few hours [sic] of fist-fight…when they see that sea of people..” Within hours it’s quoted by AZ GOP chair Kelli Ward. 38/

... next week(Dec. 21-27) sees a stealth power grab by Cindy Chafian & Ali Alexander.Cindy changes the WFAF rally permit to her name. Ali’s group snaps up space close to the Capitol, using a fake organization. Fliers appear for “Operation Occupy the Capitol”. 39/

capitolhunters

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Feb 2

Militias book their travel, with others picking up their costs. QAnon’s Ron Watkins calls for “overwhelming numbers”, says he’s aiming for “max ppl for my budget”. Trump signs 41 pardons, incl. fixers Paul Manafort & Roger Stone and Blackwater contractors convicted of murder. 40/

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on  Dec. 28, the Kremers of WFAF realize they’ve been double-crossed, and an epic power struggle begins:email from Dec. 28-29 alone takes up 166 pages of the NPS FOIA. When the dust settles, the Kremers have the Ellipse, with Manafort’s support, & Chafian is bumped to Jan 5. 41/

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Feb 2

Organizers have to scramble too after Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio is arrested - here's Funes, Couch, & Hughes strategizing. Ex-Marine Charles Donohoe thought he should command instead: “I need to be put in charge of whatever new thing is created…” 45/

On Jan 4 AM in DC, Hughes & Couch met up with other rightwing figures. Couch then got a call from Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs about the arrest of Enrique Tarrio, meant to have had ‘war powers’ on Jan 6. By evening, Couch & Hughes were in a hotel room working on damage control 37/

 the night of the 4th, MO Senator Josh Hawley again pushes the Antifa theme, falsely claiming "Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC & threatened my wife and newborn daughter.." Charlie Kirk amplifies. But it's really a small polite protest - watch 46/

the 5th, Trump has a meeting with staff, asks how to "convince Congress" to "do the right thing tomorrow". He also issues a memo directing the State Department to assess whether “Antifa” should be classified as a terrorist organization, claiming horrific violence. 47/

moms for am

first rallies start (new IL Congresswoman Mary Miller: Hitler had some good points!) NPS makes last heroic efforts (same-day permit for tomorrow, sure!) Trump may still think Congress can hand him power, but logistics for an attack are proceeding. 48/

By the 5th evening, Cindy’s rally is in full swing; Ali Alexander shouts “Victory or Death!” Josh Hawley hammers his theme again: “If the Antifa scumbags can terrorize my family, they can do it to any family in America”. Posobiec warns of DC danger. 50/

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capitolhunters

@capitolhunters

#SeditionHunters - events in DC required planning. Cindy Chafian organized the fiery Jan 5 rally where Ali Alexander led the crowd in “Victory or Death!” On Jan 6 she marched up the WestCapitol steps with bullhorn & entourage and cheered during the assault on Officer Fanone. 1/

poso, influencers  many blondes https://twitter.com/i/status/1489023152898203649 straka chris cox; jnx, roger ali in orange beanie

Listen to the VIPs and influencers at Cindy Chafian’s rally, chatting about what is to come. Alex Jones says “God will fulfill his destiny and will reward the righteous”. They expected to be rewarded the next day. (Video from “Carterrocks”) 51/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3S_jSYf_k

And then the 6th: Joe Biggs, ex-Army, ex-InfoWars, leads over 200 plainclothes Proud Boys to initiate the attack.Total militia members may be 1000 or more. 52/

seth a

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-new-revelations-indicate

extensive  on Ginni

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But her role went deeper, and beyond C.N.P. Action. Dustin Stockton, an organizer who worked with Women for America First, which held the permit for the Ellipse rally, said he was told that Ginni Thomas played a peacemaking role between feuding factions of rally organizers “so that there wouldn’t be any division around January 6.”

“The way it was presented to me was that Ginni was uniting these different factions around a singular mission on January 6,” said Stockton, who previously worked for Bannon. “That Ginni was involved made sense — she’s pretty neutral, and she doesn’t have a lot of enemies in the movement.”

...

In fact, observes the Times, by December 2020 “a number of longtime friends and associates of the Thomases were involved in efforts to overturn the election results or helping plan the January 6 rallies”—a group that went well beyond Eastman, Bannon, and Mitchell. From Turning Point USA (on whose advisory board Ginni Thomas had served) sending buses of insurrectionists into Washington on January 6, to the heavy involvement of the Tea Party Patriots, a far-right group with which Mrs. Thomas “had long ties” that was “headed by Jenny Beth Martin, a fellow Council for National Policy activist [with Thomas]”, Ginni’s political allies seemed to be in all the positions of authority and influence in the days and weeks before the January 6 attack—consistent with the job she’d set for herself starting in early 2019 in the Oval Office, namely ensuring that it was largely people of her selection in Trump’s political orbit.

Caroline Wren, the top aide of top Trump adviser (and then-secret Donald Trump Jr. fiancée) Kimberly Guilfoyle, told Dustin Stockton that Jenny Beth Martin’s group and Women for America First—the latter the insurrectionist outfit behind the January 6 event that incited the attack on the Capitol—were only able to work together because Ginni Thomas, who’d served as an “early Tea Party activist” with Women for America First leader Amy Kremer, had worked diligently to make that cooperation possible.

Without Ginni Thomas, the Times indicates, the “years[-long]…bitter legal dispute” between Kremer and Martin would have made their cooperation impossible—and thus the January 6 White House Ellipse event that launched an insurrection a non-starter.

ideol entr but many fails at pol op? cAND?

proto TP express russo (jenny beth?)

From the Our Country Deserves Better website: [2]

Former staff:

Contact information

Our Country Deserves Better PAC

8795 Folsom Blvd, Suite 103

Sacramento, CA 95826

1/21 grio  insurr 2.7$m from campaign maggie mulvaney 138K niece of mick;  megan powers, caroline wren, ron holden,

https://www.justice-integrity.org/1814-trump-insurrection-evidence-hill-death-total-impeachment-anger-grow

Bloomberg, :{**Organizers of Trump Rally Had Been on Campaign’s Payroll**:(style="box-sizing:inherit"):}:, Bill Allison, Jan. 22, 2021. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign paid more than $2.7 million over two years to individuals and firms that organized the Jan. 6 rally that led to rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The payments, which span Trump’s re-election campaign, show an ongoing financial relationship between the rally’s organizers and Trump’s political operation. They were all made through Nov. 23, the most recent date covered by Federal Election Commission filings, which is before the rally was publicly announced.

Eight paid Trump campaign officials were named on the permit issued on by the National Park Service for the rally, including Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff who resigned his position as special envoy to Northern Ireland after the riot. Maggie Mulvaney was paid $138,000 by the campaign through Nov. 23.

After the rally, in which the president encouraged them to march on the Capitol, Trump supporters stormed the building, disrupting the count of Electoral College votes in an event that ultimately killed five people. Lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over what is normally a ceremonial event, were forced to flee.

[President Joe Biden was blamed for firing the White House chief usher on his first day on the job, but his predecessor actually did the deed -- apparently to spite the incoming first family.

Donald and Melania Trump sent White House ushers home early on Inauguration Day in one of their last acts in a tense presidential transition, a well-placed official not associated with the Biden team told the National Journal.

"The Trumps sent the butlers home when they left so there would be no one to help the Bidens when they arrived," the official said. "So petty."

Other knowledgable sources confirmed to the Journal that chief usher Timothy Harleth, a former executive of Trump Hotels hired by Melania Trump, was summarily fired by the outgoing president and first lady -- and not by the Bidens, as was widely reported afterward.

Harleth was already gone by the time Joe and Jill Biden arrived at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, leaving no one in place to open the doors for their inaugural entry and leading to an awkward pause.

"It's a big protocol breach for the president to ever stand in front of a closed door at the White House," said a veteran White House social expert. "That may be why there was nobody to open the doors to the Bidens. You couldn't expect the Biden staff to know to do that. Doors are opened and closed by ushers. There are rules about all these things and everyone has their job."

The rest of the usher staff was back on the job Thursday, but Harleth -- considered to be a Trump loyalist -- was not expected to be retained by the Bidens for long.]

A Trump campaign adviser said the campaign had no role in organizing, operating or paying for the rally. No campaign staff worked on it, said the adviser, who asked not to be named. He added that any employees or contractors who worked on the event did not do so at the campaign’s direction.

Megan Powers, listed as one of two operations managers on the permit, was paid $290,000 by the Trump campaign from February 2019 through the most recent filing period. She served as director of operations for Trump’s campaign.

Caroline Wren, a top GOP fundraiserwho was listed on the permit as an adviser to the rally and Ronald Holden, the backstage manager, were also paid by the campaign.

The biggest recipient of campaign funds according to the report, was Event Strategies Inc., which was paid more than $1.7 million by Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee. The firm’s owners, Justin Caporale and Tim Unes, served as rally production manager and stage manager, respectively.

Women for America First, the nonprofit organization that requested the permit on Nov. 24, originally for an event to be held on Jan. 23, had a financial relationship with America First Policies, the pro-Trump nonprofit formed to advance his agenda shortly after he took office, according to the report. America First Policies made a $25,000 grant to Women for America First in 2019, its most recent tax return shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Kremer

amy Kremer (born 1970 or 1971)[1] is an American political activist known for her roles in the Tea Party movement and as a supporter of Donald Trump. She became involved in the Tea Party movement in 2009 and campaigned as part of the Tea Party Express until 2014. 

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During the 2016 presidential election she was a co-founder of two political action committees supporting Trump's campaign,and following Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election she supported attempts to overturn the election result. In 2017 she unsuccessfully ran for theU.S. House of Representatives in a special election in **Georgia's 6th** congressional district as a Republican.

In January 2021, Kremer's organization Women for America First hosted a Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., that culminated in the U.S. Capitol attack by Trump's supporters. She and ten others affiliated with the group were subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in September 2021.

Early life and career[

Kremer attended Auburn University.[2] She worked for Delta Air Lines as a flight attendant, but gave up her job to focus on raising her daughter.[1] She became politically active in the Tea Party movement through Twitterand was involved in organising the first Tea Party protests in 2009.[3] She wrote a blog which she used to publish the false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.[4] She later described herself as having been "just a mom who was sick and fed up with what was going on in Washington."[5] She was a founding member of Tea Party Patriots (TPP), but defected to Tea Party Express (TPE) in October 2009.[6]Following her departure TPP filed a lawsuit against Kremer alleging she had tried to prevent others from accessing the group's collective resources.[7] After 2009 Kremer's daughter Kylie Jane Kremer became increasingly involved in her mother's political activism.[4]

Tea Party Express (2009–2014)[

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Kremer campaigning forTed Cruz in the 2012 U.S. Senate election in Texas

Soon after joining Tea Party Express, Kremer urged the organization to support Scott Brown's campaign for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.[1] During the 2010 midterm elections Kremer campaigned for candidates including Joe Miller, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Alaska.[3] She also endorsed Tom Tancredo, the American Constitution Party candidate for governor of Colorado.[8] In October 2010, The Daily Telegraph named her the "most influential" person in the Tea Party movement.[6]

In a 2011 appearance on The Colbert Report, Kremer said the U.S. federal government raised "enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 [billion] or $400 billion left over." PolitiFact.com rated this statement "Half True", noting that Kremer's calculations ignored defense and homeland security spending and mandatory programs.[9] In June 2011 Kremer said TPE would support Mitt Romney if he became the Republican nominee in the 2012 presidential election.[10] 

A co-founder of Tea Party Patriots rejected Kremer's remarks, saying "a pledge of allegiance to the Republican Party, or any other party, violates what the Tea Party movement is all about and is completely out of touch with grassroots Americans".[11] In the 2012 elections TPE endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in Indiana; in September 2011 Kremer described Mourdock as a "true conservative."[12]

During a September 2012 appearance on CNN's Starting Point, host Soledad O'Brien and others criticised Kremer for wondering whether President Barack Obama "loves America."[13] In 2013 Kremer said that U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, a member of the Republican Party, voted "more with Democrats than with conservatives."PolitiFact.com rated this claim as "False", citing an analysis by The Washington Post that found Chambliss voted with fellow Republicans 91 percent of the time in 2011 and 2012.[14] Kremer spent much of the summer 2013 congressional recess on a national tour intended to convince Republicans to support defunding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[15]

Kremer resigned from Tea Party Express in April 2014. She described the split as amicable and attributed her departure to a desire to focus on Matt Bevin's campaign for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, instead of **Curt Clawson**'s campaign in Florida's 19th congressional district.[16]

2016 presidential election[

As of February 2016, Kremer was the chair ofTrumPAC, a super PAC supporting Donald Trump's campaign in the 2016 presidential election.[17] TrumPAC later changed its name to Great America PAC [RUSSO] .[18] Great America PAC was founded by Kremer and William Doddridge, the CEO of The Jewelry Exchange.[19] Kremer resigned from Great America PAC in May 2016, shortly after Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, due to decisions which she claimed had been made without her input.[20]

In June 2016 Kremer, along with Kathryn Serkes and Ann Stone, founded Women Vote Trump, a new super PAC that aimed to raise at least $30 million to support Trump's campaign.[21] Stone said the group would organize volunteers and advertise across the United States.[22] At an event the following month Kremer said "People assume that just because [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton is a woman that I'm going to support her. That's an insult to my intelligence. I have the ability to think on my own."[23]Kremer made appearances on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC to promote the PAC.[24]

In August 2016 Kremer claimed on CNN that Clinton was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease found in people who have suffered repeated blows to the head.[25] Federal Election Commission records showed that Women Vote Trump, which changed its name to Women Vote Smart in order to comply with regulations that prohibit the use of candidates' names, had only raised $26,813, had spent $20,000, and was nearly $20,000 in debtas of March 2017. Kremer said the group "had commitments from people and then people didn't come through," but that it was "definitely out there being active with the grassroots and engaging people."[24]

2017 congressional campaign[

Georgia's 6th congressional district

In 2017, Kremer ran as a Republican in the special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district, which was vacant following Representative Tom Price's confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.[26] In an April 2017 interview, Kremer said "the biggest issue facing the Sixth District" was its "stagnant economy", which she suggested be fixed by cutting "government regulations that stifle job growth", cutting "government waste", creating "a pro-growth environment", and lowering individual and corporate taxes.[2] She said her priorities in Congress would be employment and the economy, national security, repealing and replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and taking care of veterans.[27] Kremer said she should be elected because she had "carried the values of the 6th District" with her as she "worked tirelessly to preserve freedom and liberty through electing conservatives like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and many others".[28] The radio and television host Sean Hannity and the Tea Party activist Katrina Pierson endorsed Kremer's campaign.[29]

In March 2017 Kremer offered supporters who donated to her campaign the opportunity to win an AR-15 style rifle.[30][31] Kremer explained: "We are very pro-2nd Amendment not only in Georgia but in the south."[31] In an email to supporters, Kremer criticized a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that affirmed Maryland's ban on military-style "assault weapons" (see Gun laws in Maryland) and called on supporters to "show these progressive judges that we will not surrender the rights granted by God and preserved in the U.S. Constitution".[30]

Greg Bluestein of **The Atlanta Journal-Constitution** observed in March 2017 that Kremer's campaign had "struggled to gain traction" against better-known and better-funded Republican candidates.[32] In March 2017 Kremer's entire campaign staff resigned after she allegedly only raised around $2,500 and was unable to pay her campaign manager and at least six other staff members.[32] One member of staff who resigned had been staying at Kremer's house and contacted police after Kremer allegedly changed the locks and prevented him from retrieving his belongings.[32] The staff members who resigned were subsequently hired by the campaign of Bob Gray, another Republican candidate in the special election.[33]

In the primary election on April 18, 2017, Kremer received 351 votes, or 0.18 percent of the total vote tally, and did not advance to the runoff election.[34]

Women for Trump, Women for America First and Women Vote Smart[

In June 2018, Kremer, who by then was a co-founder of Women for Trump, was interviewed on CNN, where she insisted that family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border were occurring at the same level for both the Obama administration and the Trump administration. She claimed that Jeh Johnson, the Obama administration's United States Secretary of Homeland Security, said that "they were separating families". However, CNN played the actual quote from Johnson, who had said: "There's no policy or practice, at least on my watch, to separate women, parents from their children", although he was sure there still were "individual cases for reasons of health or safety" of such happenings. Kremer's on-the-spot reaction was to insist that her quote of Johnson "happened", although later she tweeted that she had "conflated 2 different articles with quotes from 2 different Obama" administration officials.[35][36]

In 2019 Kremer and her daughter Kylie founded Women for America First, which organized a protest against the impeachment of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. in October 2019.[37] In April 2020 Women for America First organized several protests against stay-at-home orders implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[38]

Kremer became treasurer of Women Vote Smart in February 2019. As of October 2021, Women Vote Smart had failed to submit six required reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) since February 2019, resulting in the organization owing $20,000 to the FEC.[39] As of February 2022, Kremer and Women Vote Smart owed at least $49,000 in past-due fines to the FEC.[40]

2020 presidential election[

During the counting of votes following the 2020 United States presidential election, Women for America First founded a Facebook group titled "Stop the Steal", in which Kremer was a moderator. Facebook removed the group on November 5, and described it as "organized around the delegitimization of the election process".[41] Later that month, Kremer and Women for America First organized a protest in Washington, D.C., in support of Trump and his refusal to concede after losing the election.[42] In her speech at the event, Kremer criticized Facebook, Eventbrite and Mailchimp for removing listings for events she had organized.[43] 

Kremer spoke at events on a two-week bus tour sponsored, in part, by My Pillow to support Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election and encourage attendance at a rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6 which preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol. This tour ended December 14, 2020.[44]

Women for America First then organized a new bus tour to encourage the attendance at a rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6 which preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol. As part of this bus tour, Kremer visited the Tactical Response marksman training center in Nashville, Tennessee, owned by James Yeager, where she and others taped an episode of Yeager's YouTube show "Tactical Response".[45]

On January 6, 2021, Women for America First hosted an event in Washington, D.C. referred to as "March to Save America." The executive director of Women for Trump, Kylie Jane Kremer, was listed as the person in charge on the rally's permit.[46] The organization's Facebook page called on supporters to be part of a "caravan" to Washington for the event.[46]Kremer gave a speech at the event, in which she denounced Facebook's removal of the "Stop the Steal" group, alleged electoral fraud had occurred, and encouraged Republican members of Congress to vote to challenge the election result.[47] As Women for America First noted in a post-event press release, the event was followed by the storming of the United States Capitol.[48]Following the riot, Women for America First issued a statement by Kremer which condemned the violence, saying it had been instigated by a "handful of bad actors".[4]

Kremer said in July 2021 that she would "gladly" testify before a commission on the events of January 6.[4] In September 2021, Kremer and ten others affiliated with Women for America First were subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[49] The subpoenas stated the Select Committee would seek to examine the organization's relationship with the Trump administration in planning the events of January 6.[49] The subpoena required Kremer to submit documents to the Select Committee by October 13, 2021, and sit for a deposition by November 3.[50] As of October 21, 2021, Kremer was co-operating with the Select Committee's investigation.[51]

2022 elections[

Following Mo Brooks' loss to Katie Britt in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Alabama in June 2022, Kremer said Trump's endorsement of Britt indicated he was "disconnected from the [Republican] base".[52]

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The Operative

This story contains disturbing language.

How an obscure empty-nester who found purpose in sharing her political passions on Twitter became a leader in the Republican Party’s seismic realignment – and then a key architect of the big lie.

By Casey Tolan

Amy Kremer might not be a household name like some of the other Trump allies who pushed election lies. But using the playbook of the Tea Party, she helped channel his supporters’ fervor into a massive movement to overturn his defeat.

Republicans for years have been afraid of their own shadow. They tuck tail and run anytime they see their shadow.

If nothing else what Republicans should have learned is how to go on offense and win and fight back, punch back, from Donald Trump.

Washington, DC / January 6, 2021

Kremer, a former flight attendant living in the Atlanta suburbs, watched with a heavy heart in January 2009 as Congress confirmed the Electoral College vote for America’s first Black president.

Posting on her personal Blogspot blog, “Southern Belle Politics,” Kremer said she couldn’t understand why none of the representatives had stood up to object to Barack Obama, a candidate who she believed wasn’t “eligible to be President of this great country.”

“I am totally disillusioned after sitting and watching Congress certify the Electoral College vote on (C-SPAN) without one objection,” she wrote. “I had hope that this would all come to light and someone would have the balls to object to certifying the vote.”

Barack Obama, of the state of Illinois, has received, for President of the United States, 365 votes.

(Clapping)

Washington, DC / January 8, 2009 C-SPAN

Twelve years after watching that 2009 vote, Kremer would become one of the most influential figures in pushing members of Congress to object to another Democratic presidential victor, Joe Biden — and in pushing the conspiracy theories that helped spark the Capitol riot that day.

(Gavel bangs) We’ll stand in recess until the call of the chair.

Protesters are in the building.

Thank you.

Rioters interrupt the Senate debate over the electoral vote on January 6, 2021.

Kremer, one of the top organizers of the Tea Party movement, perhaps lacks the notoriety of the other, flashier conservative figures who stoked the fires of the campaign to overturn Biden’s election, like Donald Trump consiglieres Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.

But behind the scenes, Amy and her daughter, Kylie, have been two of the most effective amplifiers of the lie that Biden lost to Trump. Without the Kremers, “Stop the Steal” may have only gained a fraction of the post-election popularity that it did.

The day after the election, Kylie Kremer started a “Stop the Steal” Facebook group that became one of the fastest-growing groups in the social media platform’s history before the company shut it down. Amy Kremer organized a cross-country bus tour to fire up Trump supporters. And their organization held the government permit for the DC rally that preceded the Capitol riot, which listed them as the points of contact for the event.

Amy Kremer’s history in politics is emblematic of the right’s shift under Trump from a focus on fiscal issues during the Tea Party years to more venomous culture war battles today — and how politically advantageous it can be to spread extreme views.

John Scott-Railton, a researcher at the University of Toronto who’s studied the Capitol riot, says Amy Kremer successfully “used the same blueprint” of the Tea Party to sway large numbers of Americans to doubt the election results.

It was potent, ideological rhetoric, and it achieved its perverse purpose on January 6.

It didn't stop the certification of the election, but it did create a grievance that continues to exist.

And that's what scares me so much about this movement today. It's not over. Many people still believe that the election was stolen. Many

people still believe that our current government is illegitimate.

Kremer, who did not respond to interview requests from CNN, has herself described Trump’s movement and the Stop the Steal campaign as an evolution of the Tea Party.

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I’m asked all the time, “What happened to the Tea Party movement?” Well, here we are. We are just bigger and better than ever before!

(Crowd cheers)

I truly believe in my heart that we would not have President Donald J. Trump were it not for the work that we’ve done over the past 10

years.

Washington, DC / December 12, 2020 From Right Side Broadcasting Network

Kremer has condemned the violence of the riot that followed the January 6 rally, saying in a statement that “our organization played absolutely no role in the unfortunate events that transpired,” and it’s unclear whether she was anywhere near the Capitol when the riot took place.

But she has continued to perpetuate the “big lie” that Trump’s loss was a fraud, and that Biden’s victory was illegitimate. Here’s what she tweeted days after Biden’s inauguration:

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January 26, 2021

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For those that haven’t figured it out yet… Trump won in a landslide.

FROM ‘TIRED AND FED UP’ TO TEA PARTY LEADER

Like many of the right-wing activists who attended the rally or Capitol riot, Kremer’s entry into the conservative political universe came through social media.

After a career as a Delta Air Lines flight attendant that had taken her around the world — she was in the air on September 11, 2001, she later wrote on her blog — Kremer found herself an empty-nester in late 2008 when her daughter Kylie was at college. "I had this empty space in my life," Kremer told The Wall Street Journal in a 2010 interview.

She started to fill it with politics. “I got on Facebook in an effort to keep up with what was going on,” she recalled in an interview with C-SPAN, “and I decided to get engaged and do something about it.”

I was concerned about the direction of our country, and I had a daughter that went away to college, my only child. And so I got on

Facebook in an effort to keep up with what was going on in her life.

And through Facebook, I became acquainted with Twitter. And then through Twitter, I came together with some other conservatives.

You know, I was just tired and fed up— tired of yelling and screaming at my TV and radio — and I decided to get engaged and do something

about it.

September 23, 2010 C-SPAN

Kremer started writing two Blogspot blogs from her home in the northern Atlanta suburbs — “Southern Belle Charm,” where she posted cookie recipes and decorating tips, and “Southern Belle Politics,” where she weighed in on the political fights of the day.

In one October 2008 post, recently unearthed by Mother Jones magazine, Kremer pushed the racist birther conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn’t born in the US — the same issue Trump would later use to enter the political arena — writing, “I truly do not think Barack Obama is eligible to be President of this great country. If he is eligible and really doesn't have anything to hide, then why not just produce the vault copy of his birth certificate and put the issue to rest?”

She bemoaned the fact that no member of Congress objected to the certification of Obama’s electoral college vote count.

“All of our Senators and Representatives are more concerned with their own agendas and political careers than they are with doing the job of representing the constituents that sent them to Washington in the first place!” Kremer wrote in January 2009. “The whole thing just makes my stomach churn.”

Kremer found a much broader platform for her political beliefs on Twitter,where she sent dozens of messages a day and chatted with other conservatives during the early days of the Obama presidency. A day after listening to a televised rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli calling for a new Tea Party, Kremer dialed into a February 2009 conference call with about two dozen conservative activists who had met on Twitter. On the call, the group planned some of the first Tea Party rallies around the country.

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The Tea Party thing seems 2 be taken off! Thanks Mr. Santelli! We need 2 plan for one in SE...Savannah, Charleston, FL? Anyone? #tcot #sgp

As the movement snowballed, Kremer partnered with two other activists, Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler, to form Tea Party Patriots, a nonprofit to connect conservative activists around the country.

The group’s early days were marked by scandal and division. Within months, Kremer had decamped from that group to join Tea Party Express, a rival organization where she organized rallies and embarked on several bus tours around the country. She ended up in ugly legal battles with her Tea Party Patriots co-founders over the group’s intellectual property and allegations of defamation.

Kremer’s electoral record at the height of the Tea Party was mixed. Her group helped build the conservative energy that flipped the US House in 2010 and US Senate in 2014, stymying Obama’s legislative agenda.

November 1, 2010

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I feel sure tomorrow that a tsunami is going to hit Washington, DC. These people, these

jokers, in Washington continue to ignore us.

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At the same time, Kremer personally campaigned for several far-right GOP candidates who went on to lose general elections, such as Delaware Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. And a large majority of the Tea Party Express’ fundraising went to operational expenses — including nearly $311,000 in payments to Kremer between late 2009 and mid-2014 — instead of directly supporting candidates.

In total, Kremer and her consulting company have been paid at least$380,000 in salary, fees and travel expenses by federal political campaigns and PACs since 2009, according to Federal Election Commission records.

But conservative activists who have worked with Kremer say that she’s motivated by passion about her beliefs. Sal Russo, who served alongside Kremer as an organizer of the Tea Party Express, described her as a hard worker and influential voice.

She didn’t pretend to be a political expert or anything close — just a mom and a very effective spokesperson for us. She is tireless.

Sal Russo

TRUMP YEARS

When Trump announced his presidential run in 2015, he tapped into the same anti-establishment energy that Kremer had marshalled in the Tea Party, said CNN political commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones.

Trump saw early on that the Tea Party was his kind of rebellion. It was his kind of movement. It was anti-establishment. It played around

with some of the same anti-Obama themes. And he could ride that horse forward.

Trump’s appearance on the political stage could have been an awkward transition for Kremer. While she had stressed budget discipline and small government while pushing the Tea Party — repeatedly urging politicians to “focus on fiscal issues only” — that rhetoric clashed with Trump’s populist messaging.

But Kremer was an early Trump supporter. She touted his political potential in May 2015, before he had entered the race and when he was seen as a joke by most political activists in the Republican Party.

May 28, 2015

@AmyKremer

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Looks like @realDonaldTrump is getting into the horse race! Do not underestimate him. He doesn't like to fail!

Kremer got involved in fundraising to support Trump, creating two Super PACs that backed his campaign. In February 2016, she launched TrumPAC with Bill Doddridge, and in May, she started Women Vote Trump, alongsideAnn Stone, a political consultant and Roger Stone’s ex-wife. Both groups had to rename themselves after the Federal Election Commission informed them they weren’t allowed to use Trump’s name.

After Trump’s victory, Kremer decided to jump into electoral politics herself for the first time. In February 2017, she declared her candidacy for a special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district, vacated by Trump’s first health and human services secretary, Tom Price.

March 29, 2017

YouTube

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As I’ve traveled across the country, I’ve encouraged others to go out there and run. How

can I go out and encourage others to do something if I’m not doing it myself?

Kremer described herself as the strongest supporter of Trump in a crowded field, and attracted national attention with endorsements from conservative figures like Sean Hannity. One of her fundraising gimmicks included offering donors the chance to win an AR-15.

But her fundraising failed to gain traction, and her staff resigned a month into her campaign, saying they weren’t being paid. Kremer got into a messy dispute with one campaign staffer who called the police when she changed the locks after letting him stay at her house. She ended up winning just 351 votes, coming in 13th place in the special election.

Kremer’s disappointing election result seemed to suggest that her brand of combative, grassroots politics is at its strongest not when Republicans are holding onto the levers of political power, but when the conservative movement is on the ropes — as it would be again in the wake of Trump’s electoral defeat.

HOW KREMER HELPED TURN STOP THE STEAL INTO A MOVEMENT

A decade after Kremer successfully tapped into right-wing anger to help reshape the Republican Party, she and her allies did it again in November 2020,using a similar playbook to convince the GOP base that Biden had stolen the vote.

Kylie Kremer created the “Stop the Steal” Facebook group the day after Election Day, marshaling Trump supporters around a phrase that had been earlier used by Trump advisor Roger Stone. Within a day, Facebook shut it down, citing its “delegitimization of the election process” and noting that the company had seen “worrying calls for violence from some members.” But first, the group helped inject the narrative of a stolen election into America’s political bloodstream — amassing more than 360,000 users in less than 24 hours, according to a screenshot Kremer posted on Twitter. That made it among the fastest-growing groups in the platform’s history, The New York Times reported.

November 5, 2020

Twitter

Facebook

Amy Kremer

@AmyKremer

Women for America First

The group became a clearinghouse for false allegations and rumors of voter fraud before it was shuttered. But the Kremers used that censorship to rally support, arguing that big tech elites were trying to silence them.

Kremer’s work to delegitimize the election swiftly migrated from social media to the real world. Along with a motley crew of far-right figures, she organized two cross-country “March for Trump” bus tours under the banner of Women for America First, the nonprofit she led with her daughter, Kylie.

Other promoters of the “Stop the Steal” narrative included Stone, former Trump campaign strategist Bannon, and conservative activist Ali Alexander.On his “War Room” podcast, Bannon relentlessly promoted conspiracy theories about election fraud, painting the battle over the results in dramatic terms. Before the bus tour, Alexander had helped recruit his followers for protests outside the vote-counting center in Arizona’s Maricopa County. The attendees included Jacob Chansley, a QAnon supporter clad in a horned fur hat, who would later become famous during the Capitol riot.

Kremer and her fellow organizers crisscrossed the country in a red bus emblazoned with a photo of Trump raising his fist and the logos of the tour sponsors. Those included Bannon’s podcast War Room and MyPillow, a pillow company owned by the pro-Trump businessman and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, who is facing a $1.3 billion lawsuit over the lies he’s spread about the election.

The first tour kicked off near a Trump resort in Doral, Florida, in late November and snaked through the South and Midwest before ending in DC the following month. A second tour started in Las Vegas and crossed the country to DC again, ending with the January 6 rally.

The March for Trump bus, sponsored by Women for America First, MyPillow, War Room and others. From Amy Kremer/Twitter

In an appearance on Bannon’s podcast in November, Kremer said the Stop the Steal movement was “like the Tea Party on steroids.”

I was one of the founding members of the Tea Party movement. This is like Tea Party on steroids, amplified 1,000 times. I have never seen

anything like it. It is really amazing, and I’m excited to be a part of it.

November 11, 2020 From Bannon’s War Room

Kremer herself spoke at many of the rallies, and was joined by guests from sympathetic GOP members of Congress to far-right figures who espoused QAnon or other conspiracy theories.

Some later went to the Capitol at the time of the riot: Pastor Greg Locke declared at one Tennessee stop that “they will be serving frosties in the lake of fire” before he complied with Covid rules to end in-person services at his church.Couy Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump who faces federal charges for entering a restricted area during the insurrection, suggested at one stop that “we’re going to have to declare martial law.”

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During a break between the two bus tours in December, the Kremers visited a Nashville firearms training center run by James Yeager, who had had his gun permit revoked in 2013 after threatening to “start killing people” if the Obama administration passed gun control laws. As The New York Times first reported, the mother-daughter duo recorded a black-and-white, action movie-style video of themselves and several other activists, with Kylie hoisting an assault-style rifle.

December 17, 2020

Facebook

Women for America First

The culmination of the second bus tour, which Kremer and her allies advertised on social media for weeks beforehand, was a rally at the Ellipse near the National Mall on January 6, the day Congress was set to ceremonially rubber-stamp Biden’s electoral college victory.

The National Park Service permit for the event, awarded to Women for America First, listed Kylie as the “person in charge,” and both Kremers as points of contact. The document said that the group would not conduct an “organized march,” but noted that “some participants may leave to attend rallies at the United States Capitol to hear the results of Congressional certification of the Electoral College count."

Kremer spoke at the rally that morning in a grey leopard-print jacket. She urged Republicans to “punch back” like Trump did.

Washington, DC / January 6, 2021

As protesters broke windows at the Capitol a few hours later, Kremer downplayed the violence on Twitter.

January 6, 2021

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While she condemned the violence at the Capitol later that day, saying in a statement that it was “instigated by a handful of bad actors,” Kremer has repeatedly claimed that Trump “won in a landslide.”

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Scott Johnston, who worked with Kremer on the bus tour, said that in the aftermath of January 6, Kremer suddenly seemed to want to keep out of the spotlight.

“There were a lot of people within the organization that wanted to hold a press conference immediately” to “completely distance themselves” from the riot, Johnston told CNN. But “Amy and Kylie did not want to do anything, did not want to say anything, and just wanted to remain silent, trying to keep their names out of it.”

While hundreds of people who raided the Capitol are facing potential prison time and Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for allegedly inciting the riot, none of the Stop the Steal organizers have faced legal consequences. Bannon and Stone have been enjoying life as free men after Trump pardoned both for various federal criminal charges during his last months in office.

And Kremer’s organization is still pushing the narrative that the election was stolen. In April, it hosted a “Save America” summit at the Trump National Doral resort in Southern Florida headlined by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, the far-right Trump ally embroiled in serious allegations of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

Miami / April 9, 2021 C-SPAN

After Obama’s victory in 2008, Kremer was one of the influential figures in turning the midterm elections against him. Whether she and other right-wing activists can pull it off again with Biden is yet to be seen.

But for now, Kremer appears eager to keep fighting over the 2020 election. And her loyalty to Trump — and the lie about his loss — doesn’t appear to have faded at all.

May 17, 2021

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There was no insurrection. The only coup that happened was on November 4th.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5TH

TIMING SPEAKER/PROGRAMING LEAD SPEAKERS EMCEE

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM March to Save America

Katrina Pierson, Dr. Gina Loudon, Chris Cox, TBD,

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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Stop the Steal TBD (15-20) All Alexander

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peaceably Gather Prayer Virgil. TBD (2-3) TBD

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Eighty Percent Coalition Alex Jones, Roger Stone, TBD (8-10) TBD

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Eighty Percent Coalition TBD (10-15) TBD

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6TH

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM N/A

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Ali Alexander. TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD (8-

10) Ali Alexander

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM March to Save America Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani. TBD, TBD (4-5) TBD

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Videos Rule of Law Defense Fund, Turning Point Action N/A

10:55 AM - 11:00 AM Women for America First Amy Kremer Amy Kremer

11:00 AM - 11:08 AM Rule of Law Defense Fund

(b)(6) (b)(7)(C)

Attorney General Ken PaxtonAmy Kremer

11:08 AM - 11:15 AM Congressman XCongressman TBD Amy Kremer

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Senator X Senator TBD Amy Kremer

11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Videos Women for America First, Stop the Steal, TBD N/A

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Hold Music N/A N/A

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM POTUS N/A N/A

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Organizers

Stop The Steal (NRID), Million MAGA March (NRID), Women for America First (NRID), March for Trump

(NRID), Proud Boys (RID), and other pro-Trump groups, along with private citizens, have promoted event

pages for the event.

Stop The Stealis a loosely organized group which emerged on November 7, 2020, with the belief the

election is being stolen from President Trump due to election fraud. The group began organizing

demonstrations nationwide called "Stop The Steal." According to the website,invited speakersand

featured guests for the January 6, 2021 event include Rep. Paul Gosar, Ali Alexander, Roger Stone, Rep-Elect Marjorie Greene,

Rep. Lance Gooden, Rep-Elect Lauren Boebert, State Rep. Vernon Jones, State Rep.

Mark Finchem,State Sen. Doug Mastriano, State Rep. Anthony Kern, and several others.

One

spokesperson from Stop The Steal, Ali Alexander (NRID), has encouraged followers to bring tents, sleeping

bags, food, and water. Alexander claimed,"if DC escalates...so do we. Do not wear a mask. Stand with

others bullied by staff." Twitter removed this tweet as it violated the spread of COVID-19 harmful

information.

The Million MAGA March has been involved in organizing both large protests in November and December.

The website was created early November prior to the first Million MAGA March, which spurred several

social media groups and pages supporting this movement.

Women for America First is a pro-Trump, female led group. The group was the center of organization for

both the November and December protests. The group plans to host a "March for Trump" bus tour from

California to Washington, DC, arriving on the January 6, 2021.

Although March for Trump is listed as a group, several different smaller factions are listed under this

name. The group name is considered more of a movement than an organization.

Proud Boys is a right-wing group founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes as a "pro-Western fraternal

organization." They are of record with USSS for demonstration activity since 2017; no civil disobedience

or arrests have been recorded. For more information on the Proud Boys, please see the Protective

Intelligence Brief Proud Boys Talking Points.

Hotel Harrington, an alleged hangout/hotel for the Proud Boys, made a statement on December 28, 2020,

announcing their closure from January 4-6, 2021, for "safety of visitors and employees." According to

news media, four individuals were stabbed outside the hotel during the protests on December 12, 2020,

when Proud Boys members clashed with counter protesters. Proud Boys' self-proclaimed chairman,

Enrique Tarrio (NRID), made a statement on Parler regarding the closing of Hotel Harrington, claiming the

Proud Boys outgrew the hotel and are planning on protesting during the January 4-6, 2021, time frame

and will be staying at various other locations

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/January-6-Clearinghouse-US-Secret-Service-FOIA-CREW-June-29-2021-2.pdf

https://file411.substack.com/p/subpoena-round-2-house-select-committee

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Subpoena Round Two:

The subpoenas were sent to 11 individuals that the Select Committee’s ongoing investigation. And these 11 individuals have pertinent info collect information;

two/from them and their associated entities on the planning, organization, and funding of those events… meaning the Committee has something (already produced by others) that there was coordination between Trump, the White House, the Oval Office and Hotel War room

“…range of records that include materials dealing with the planning, funding, and participation in the events and bus tours; social media activity of associated entities; and communications with or involvement of Trump Administration officials and lawmakers. The Select Committee issued subpoenas for records from the following individuals and their associated entities, and has instructed the individuals to testify at depositions”

Amy Kremer, founder and Chair of WFAF.

Kylie Kremer, founder and Executive Director of WFAF.

Cynthia Chafian, submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6th rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition.

Caroline Wren, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Advisor.”

Maggie Mulvaney, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Lead.”

Justin Caporale, of Event Strategies, Inc., listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Project Manager.”

Tim Unes, of Event Strategies, Inc., listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Stage Manager.”

Megan Powers, of MPowers Consulting LLC, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance.”

Hannah Salem, of Salem Strategies LLC, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “Operations Manager for Logistics and Communications.”

Lyndon Brentnall, of RMS Protective Services, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “On-Site Supervisor.”

Katrina Pierson, former Trump campaign official, reportedly involved in the organization of the January 5th and 6th rallies and was in direct communication with the former President  about the rallies.

You don’t say those USPS Permits…

Because had you followed this June article —which substantiated the claims of Women for America First and how there was a direct tie - found here and you thought my rhetorical question regarding Mo Brooks and Amy was completely uncalled for. N-O-P-E…

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January 6th Committee

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NEW: The Select Committee has issued a round of subpoenas to 11 individuals tied to the events and rallies leading up to the Jan 6th insurrection, including the Jan 6th rally at the Ellipse that immediately preceded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Select Committee Subpoenas Organizers of Rallies and Events Preceding January 6th Insurrection

Washington—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced that the Select Committee has issued subpoenas for deposition testimony and records to individuals tied to the events and rallies leading up to the January 6th insurrection, including the January 6th rally at the Ellipse that immediately preced…

january6th.house.gov

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Amy Kramer -Woman for America First…

It’s not like some of us have been saying - wait for the Amy Kramer files to drop, found here I am genuinely looking forward to Amy having her well deserved comeuppance. Notwithstanding on February 10th I provided you to links for the United States Park Service permits; Women America First Permit (waves hiya Amy Kramer) link to permit here. The Silent Majority Permit [james epleyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdPZSkLWIMMNHH4JRWAm6YjOhRszQV0d/view]

can be found here -all of which my readers had access to back in late January 2021 - but I will say the permits and the specific subpoenas to the Kramers - that makes me pretty damn happy

I now refer you to page 1, the last sentence in the second paragraph and then read the third paragraph also on page 1 of the letter-subpoena to Amy Kramer

Women for America First (WFAF) organized the January 6th, 2021 rally on the Ellipse, rallies at Freedom Plaza on November 14th and December 12th, 2020,  and two “March for Trump” nationwide bus tours that generated interest and attendance at the Washington rallies, according to documents provided to the Select Committee regarding permits for the January 5th and 6th rallies as well as public information.

Also huge buried lede in the Press Release:

..two “March for Trump” nationwide bus tours…

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ali-alexander-and-stop-the-steal-were-central-to-jan-6-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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"I was the person that came up with the Jan. 6 idea with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks, and then Congressman Andy Biggs,” GOP operative Ali Alexander said in a Dec. 28, 2020, Periscope video. “We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting, so that who we couldn’t lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside.”

The video, which was captured by investigative reporter Jason Paladino before it was deleted, highlights the role played by Alexander, his so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, and far-right members of Congress in the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack launches its first public hearings June 9, and Alexander and “Stop the Steal” are likely to figure prominently in its findings. Alexander sat for eight hours of testimony in front of the committee on Dec. 9, and in April, a lawyer for Alexander said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation—a claim on which Alexander promptly threw cold water.

Right Wing Watch extensively covered Ali Alexander and the so-called Stop the Steal movement ahead of Jan. 6. Here’s what you need to know.

Who is Ali Alexander? What is “Stop the Steal”?

On Nov. 4, 2020, as mail-in ballots began to be counted and shifted the election in favor of Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump falsely declared that the ongoing efforts to count millions of outstanding ballots were an indication of fraud and that he had in fact won.

Hours later, Alexander publicly launched “Stop the Steal,” a campaign to get right-wing activists to discredit mail-in voting, disrupt vote-counting, and ​falsely accuse Democrats of stealing the presidential election. The campaign held its first rally outside Arizona’s state capitol building in Phoenix that evening, featuring Rep. Paul Gosar, who with a bullhorn in hand, addressed the crowd before introducing “Pizzagate” booster Mike Cernovich, who threatened imaginary anti-fascist activists. 

And so began months of “Stop the Steal” rallies featuring far-right members of Congress, QAnon and election conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, and far-right anti-government groups, all under the MAGA banner.

Ali Alexander and Roger Stone (Image Source: Twitter)]

Alexander, née Ali Akbar, has long worked in Republican politics, coming up under the tutelage of “dirty trickster” Roger Stone. He has connections to deep pockets, too: ​a PAC advised byAlexander received a $60,000 donation in 2016 from pro-Trump billionaire Robert Mercer​. These Republican connections have persisted despite his habit of noting when members of the media he criticizes are Jewish and despite associating with far-right figures like Unite the Right white supremacist attendee Matt Colligan and members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys.

Alexander’s “Stop the Steal” campaign wasn’t the first to go by that name. Longtime GOP operative and Trump confidant Roger Stone first popularized the phrase “Stop the Steal” during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, Alexander,  Stone, and far-right commentator Jack Posobiec launched a “Stop the Steal” campaign during a ballot recount for Florida’s Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson. Pro-Trump activists from around the country descended on Florida to protest and spread misinformation, insisting that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election from Scott. It served as a dry run for the 2020 presidential election. Sure enough, in September 2020, Posobiec and Alexander discussed rebooting the campaign. 

What was their role in the lead up to Jan. 6?

Alexander served as the lead organizer for “Stop the Steal.” The campaign targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—battleground states won by Joe Biden and whose cities are home to predominantly Black and brown voters—holding rallies and spreading election disinformation on social media.

He called on figures he knew from his time as a member of the highly secretiveCouncil for National Policy and through his years in Republican politics to join the effort, including activistsAmy and Kylie Kremer, Jack Posobiec, Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. He brought into the fold Trump’s short-lived national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump team attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood—who have since been disciplined for bringing false lawsuits alleging election fraud. Most joined the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement in a public capacity; others promoted the same messaging through their own organizations and organized behind the scenes.

Ali Alexander and other “Stop the Steal” activists at Dec. 15, 2020 press conference (Image from NTD livestream posted on Epoch Times YouTube channel.)]

Alexander welcomed extremists into the campaign’s ranks. Male supremacist Mike Cernovich, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were among the first to answer Alexander’s call. Alongside white nationalist Patrick Casey, Vincent James, and Baked Alaska, Fuentes galvanized crowds of white men to attend “Stop the Steal” rallies across the county, while Jones spread disinformation through his Infowars network, raised funds for the Jan. 6 rally, and brought a caravan of supporters to rallies.

On Nov. 14, “Stop the Steal” came to the nation’s capital. Thousands of Trump loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and members of far-right groups took to the streets. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—all recently elected to Congress—addressed the crowd alongside organizers. Radical conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yelled unintelligibly into a bullhorn. Members of the Proud Boys hate group roamed the streets looking for fights and found them late in the evening.Fuentes’ America First group, ​a youth-focused white-nationalist outfit, commanded the crowd’s attention with chants of “America First.”

A second Dec. 12 rally was deeply steeped in Christian nationalist and violent rhetoric. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law, threatening a “much more bloody war”should he fail to do so.

While rallies brought the whole of the MAGA movement together, Alexander held regular Periscopes to spread disinformation and provide action items to Trump supporters.

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Alexander called on “Stop the Steal” activists to lobby the state legislatures of battleground states won by Joe Biden to ignore the election results andsend Republican electors to the electoral collegeto give Trump enough electoral votes.He called on state Republican legislators to declare the election fraudulent and threatened them with a primary challenger should they not.

By mid-December, right-wing activists and lawyers were focused on Jan. 6, the day Congress would certify the electoral votes. More than 100 House members and a dozen Senators committed to voting against certifying the election. Trump and the apparatus around him began to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to use his ceremonial duty to block or delay Biden’s certification. “Stop the Steal” fed into that pressure, with “Stop the Steal” friend Lin Wood going as far as to call for the vice president’s execution.

On Dec. 19, Trump declared it “[s]tatistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election.” [~ his own # guy 1/6 hearing] He encouraged his followers to come to D.C.: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”

Alexander had already planned a Jan. 6 D.C. protest, but he began fighting his one-time fellow activists Kylie and Amy Kremer for control of the big Jan. 6 rally. The Kremers had used the “Stop the Steal” banner for their cross country bus tour and a competing December rally, much to Alexander’s chagrin. ProPublica reported that Katrina Pierson, whom the White House put in charge of the rally planning, “helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5.” That meant Alexander and his cohort were relegated to speaking on the evening of Jan. 5, while the Kremers took the lead on the Jan. 6 event held at the Ellipse.Alexander held that Jan. 5 rally and planned his own separate “wild” Jan. 6 protest on the east side of the Capitolbuilding to follow the main “Save America” rally.

Alexander spent weeks in the lead up to the Capitol insurrection calling for “rebellion,” starting chants of “victory or death,” and using rhetoric of the American Revolution and spiritual warfare to call for action should Congress certify the election of President Joe Biden. He engaged in violent rhetoric, appearing to even advocate for physical attacks against members of Congress who he said stole the election. 

The Jan. 5 rally served as the penultimate event of those calls. Speakers delivered Christian nationalist messages and veiled threats of violenceif Congress failed to reject Biden electors. Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox told rally-goers that the United States was on the brink of a revolution and that he would “take the first bullet.” Right Wing Watch reported at the time: 

Standing in front of a sign declaring “MARTIAL LAW NOW,” so-called Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander led the crowd in chants of “Victory or death!” Alexander told activists, “Our government is only our government if it is legitimate” and declared, “1776 is always an option.” [new boogaloo? less racist?] He said Stop the Steal activists were starting “a rebellion against the Deep State.”

What was Ali Alexander and the campaign’s role on Jan. 6?

On the day of the insurrection, Alexander took to Twitter early in the morning to declare it the “First official day of the rebellion.” Alexander was supposed to hold his “wild” protest by the Capitol, but it would never materialize.

Trump loyalists packed into the Ellipse, eager to stop what they saw as a fraudulent election. Speaking from the stage and wearing a bulletproof vest, Rep. Mo Brooks, whom Alexander had recently called a friend, told attendees that Jan. 6 is “the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. … Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America? Louder! Will you fight for America?”

“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump told the crowd. He urged activists to march to the Capitol to make their voices heard. They did as they were told.

Leaving the rally at the Ellipse after Trump’s speech, where he was a VIP guest with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Alexander followed Jones through the Capitol grounds, past barricades, and up the Capitol steps. At that point—around 2 p.m.—the Capitol had already been breached.

“Democrats and Media ended the Republic and the people responded. Welcome to ‘duhhh’,” he tweeted an hour later.

Alexander emerged on One America News Network’s terrace overlooking the Capitol to record a video, posted on the “Stop the Steal” Twitter account by his associate Michael Coudrey at 4:26 p.m.—well after the violence had begun.

“I don’t disavow this. I do not denounce this,” Alexander said, gesturing to the scene behind him. Trump loyalists were descending on the Capitol and up the Capitol steps. “This is completely peaceful, looks like, so far. And there are a couple of agitators that I obviously don’t endorse,” he claimed despite having seen what took place on the steps not long before. By the end of the video, Alexander was back to encouraging rebellion. “StoptheSteal.us is going to be the home of the rebellion against an illegitimate government.”

Right Wing Watch captured the video, which was later deleted.

Where is Ali Alexander now?

Ali Alexander went into hiding following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.In February, he briefly reappeared and said he had been plotting to restart rallies in March,abolish the media, and build a separate society for Trump supporters. He declared that “civil war” was the only outcome available to those who opposed Biden’s presidency.

But Alexander was kicked off Twitter and most mainstream social media platforms. He lost access to his Venmo, Cashapp, and Paypal. He turned to alternative social media platforms and briefly became a Bitcoin influencer. 

In October 2021, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued three subpoenas to Alexander, the Stop the Steal organization, and Nathan Martin, who worked with Alexander and reserved the Jan. 6 rally space. Alexander accused the government of “gaslighting” and blamed the violence on “agitators dressed in militant outfits.” Jan. 6, he said, was a government “psyop.”

In December 2021, Alexander testified for eight hours in a closed-door hearing andasked the House select committee to suspend reality. In a draft of his opening statement, which was leaked to the New York Times, he denied wrongdoing and passed the buck, placing blame for the violence on Katrina Pierson, Kylie Kremer, and Amy Kremer. 

In a lawsuit seeking to prevent the select committee from obtaining his phone records, Alexander confirmed to congressional investigators that ahead of Jan. 6, he had communicated with several GOP congressmen—Reps. Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, and Andy Biggs—as well as with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and member of Trump’s inner circle.

In April, a lawyer for Alexander said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation. The following day, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show to suggest he wouldn’t cooperate.He went on to call the effort to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a conspiracy to “stop Trump from running in 2024” and “usher in a New World Order.”

A few days later, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show again. He mused that “there is a time for legitimate violence when there is legitimate tyranny.”

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https://www.exposedbycmd.org/**2020/11**/06/operatives-tied-to-council-for-national-policy-organizing-protests-alleging-voter-fraud/

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as ballot counting to determine the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election continues in swing states, right-wing operatives with ties to the influential Christian Right group Council for National Policy (CNP) are organizing daily #StoptheSteal protests. #StoptheSteal, a “coalition/team effort” that The Washington Post reported yesterday was shut down on Facebook, and FreedomWorks are promoting and hosting rallies across the country based on the false claim that Joe Biden’s growing lead is based on election fraud.

Facebook spokesman Andy Stone announced in a statement that its banning of the #StoptheSteal group page with 360,000 members was due to it being “organized around the delegitimization of the election process, and we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group.”

The new #StoptheSteal site was registered on November 4 by viceandvictory.com in Fort Worth, Texas. Vice and Victory is nothing but a landing page for Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts. An examination of the three, leads to one individual: Ali Akbar AKA Ali Alexander.

Akbar, who has a book written on him titled “Vice and Victory,” has taken on the name Ali Alexander to distance himself from his past legal troubles. In 2007, he pled guilty to felony property theft in Fort Worth, and in 2008 he pled guilty to a felony charge of credit card abuse, reported the daily dot.

Alexander’s homepage, which links to his blog for subscribers and offers a “Persuasion Masterclass” for $199, links to StoptheSteal.us, as does his Twitter profile.

Alexander calls himself an “interpreter of energy for this period,” and is Pro-Trump influencer on Twitter with over 140,000 followers. It is unclear who funds Alexander’s activities, but Politico noted in 2018 that Robert Mercer, one of the “blow-it-all-up billionaires” behind the rise of Trump, gave a PAC Alexander advises $60,000.

Alexander, a former member of CNP, announced the StoptheSteal.us site with a video and a tweet, “Proud to be working with these patriots to Save the Election,” and listed 15 Twitter handles.

Proud to be working with these patriots to Save the Election@ScottPresler @alexbruesewitz @Cernovich @EagleEdMartin@KylieJaneKremer @AmyKremer @thecjpearson @JackPosobiec @debostic @MichaelCoudrey @hollandcourtney @stclairashley @BrandonStraka @DrPaulGosar @ReaganBabe pic.twitter.com/9otKQA7tWv

— Ali stopthesteal.us (@ali) November 5, 2020

Many of the individuals listed are organizers of individual states protests. Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for the far-Right One America News Network, and pro-Trump activistScott Preslerare leading a protest at the capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Georgia protests held yesterday at in Atlanta and Savannah were led by Kylie Kremer, executive director of the Women for Trump PAC; right-wing activist CJ Pearson; former congressional staffer Daniel Bostic; and Amy Kremer, chair of Women for America First and co-founder of Women for Trump. Women for Trump’s co-founder Caroline Wetherington is a member of the CNP.

Trumpist Courtney Holland and right-wing social media operative Mike Coudrey are listed as organizers of a protest scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight at the Nevada Clark County Elections Department in Las Vegas.

Right-wing social media influencer Brandon Straka and Amy Kremer led a Detroit, Michigan protest this morning at the TCF Center, where ballots were being counted. Protesters blocked a bridge, and at least one arrest was reported.

Protests at the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday, today, and tomorrow are being led by Alex Bruesewitz, co-founder and CEO of the PR firm X Strategies.

Although not listed in Alexander’s tweet, Turning Point USA‘s founder and president Charlie Kirk is listed as leading an Arizona protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix at 6 p.m. this evening. Kirk is also a CNP member.

Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, listed by Alexander as a partner in the tweet above, is also a member of the CNP.

Early today, Alexander announced protests for every state capital tomorrow at noon.

We want everyone at their state capitols on Saturday at noon. #StopTheSteal @BrandonStraka @ScottPresler@AmyKremer @tracybeanz@alexbruesewitz @stclairashley @EagleEdMartin @JackPosobiec @Cernovich @hollandcourtney @RyanAFournier @thecjpearson

Peaceful Protest

— Ali stopthesteal.us (@ali) November 6, 2020

FreedomWorks, led by president Adam Brandon, who also serves on the advisory council for Turning Point USA and the CNP Action Board of Directors, is also organizing “Protect the Vote” protests in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Oklahoma today. The times of the events do not match the #StoptheSteal events.

FreedomWorks, a group that grew out of a Charles Koch-founded organization and that helped launch the Tea Party in 2009, was also behind many of the protests to reopen the economy amidst the pandemic this year, as the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reported.

A number of CNP members are major donors to FreedomWorks.Lawson Bader, president of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund is a CNP member. DonorsTrust has given $3.4 million (2006-2018) and Donors Capital Fund another $667,000 (2008-2016) to FreedomWorks.

Bradley Foundation president and CEO Richard Graber is a CNP member.Bradley has given FreedomWorks $1.2 million (2007-2017) and disclosed another $100,000 this year to fund FreedomWorks “Save Our Country initiative,” as CMD first reported.

Heather Higgins is a CNP Gold Circle member, and her Randolph Foundation gave FreedomWorks $10,000 in 2017.

The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation gave FreedomWorks $600,000 (2009-2011). Richard DeVos is a former CNP member.

Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) announced this morning that it is “working with FreedomWorks, Turning Points, Heritage, and countless social media influencers” to promote and hold “Protect the Vote” rallies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. TPPA’s honorary chairman Jenny Beth Martin serves on the CNP Executive Committee and a number of those working at the Heritage Foundation are also members.

CNP is deeply tied to the Trump administration. In August, Trump himself spoke to CNP on the last day of the meeting, where he repeatedly thanked the Christian Right group for its leadership.

Trump’s vice president Mike Pence went further in thanking CNP in November 2019, for “standing by him” and for giving him counsel “every single day.” Pence later followed up in March of this year in a letter made public by investigative researcher Brent Allpress, in which he “thanked the Council for National Policy for your support and for consistently amplifying the agenda of President Trump and our Administration.”

Brent Allpress contributed research on #StoptheSteal and Vice and Victory for this report.

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in his letter to the National Archives on behalf of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol on Wednesday, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), signaled that the committee is interested in learning more about a man namedRobert Patrick Lewis.

The letter requests "all documents and communications concerning the 2020 election and relating to Lewis and others as part of a probe into "recruitment, planning, coordination, and other preparations for the rallies leading up to and including January 6th and the violence on January 6th."

A Special Forces veteran and author with combat experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lewis founded a group called 1st Amendment Praetorian in September 2020 that provided security for three Washington DC rallies that helped build momentum over the two-month period building to Jan. 6. Lewis has described 1st Amendment Praetorian in an Oct. 11 Facebook post as a "group of military, law enforcement and intelligence community veterans" who "provide pro bono intelligence and security services to patriotic and religious events."

Beyond 1st Amendment Praetorian's role as "demonstration marshals" for the DC rallies that built momentum for Jan. 6, Lewis was also tapped to provide security for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn during the "Jericho March" from the National Mall to the Supreme Court. A former intelligence director for US forces in Afghanistan who briefly served as national security director under President Trump and was later pardoned after lying about his contact with the Russian ambassador, Flynn emerged in December as a major figure in the campaign to thwart the transfer of power. He endorsed a public call on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and order the military to conduct a new election.

Flynn's name is also on the list of Trump allies whose communications are sought by the January 6th committee.

"Being on the Personal Security Detail today for many of our personal hero and motivation in this fight — @GenFlynn — takes the cake," Lewis tweeted on Dec. 12. "This man & his family have given so much for this Republic andit's an honor to even share the air he breathes as he keeps us driving the 2nd American Revolution forward."

Lewis voiced similarly militaristic rhetoric elsewhere that day in an interview with Epoch Times affiliate New Tang Dynasty. Commenting on conservatives who felt that their ability to voice support for Trump, express religious feelings and watch an election process that was supposedly rigged, Lewis said, "A lot of people are angry. And so, we've been tracking this on the intelligence side for quite a while as a low-level conflict."

The event permit for the Nov. 14 Million MAGA March at Freedom Plaza, which was secured byCindy Chafian on behalf of Women for America First, notes that 25 1st Amendment Praetorian members wearing black T-shirts would act as "demonstration marshals."

The group won the praise of Tracy Diaz, an early QAnon promoter who spoke at the event.

"There aren't any words to explain how absolutely life saving the guys of @1st_praetorian are," Diaz tweeted. "They protected us during the March. These are absolute heroes." Diaz's Twitter account has since been suspended.

1st Amendment Praetorian's performance on Nov. 14 appears to have caught the attention of Flynn, who retweeted Diaz, writing, "Thank you @tracybeanz for all you do & @RobertPLewis for your team of professionals." Flynn went on to make a fundraising appeal on 1st Amendment Praetorian's behalf, taggingconservative media personalities Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.

Lewis returned the compliment to Diaz in a late-night YouTube video filmed from his hotel room, in which he also mentioned providing security for Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander.

"I get to hang out with Tracy Beanz often, which is pretty cool," Lewis said. "We gotAli Alexander — we were tight at the hip with him all day today — and a lot of different conservative influencers."

1st Amendment Praetorian also provided security at the Jan. 5 "Rally to Revival"— likewise listed as 25 "demonstration marshals" wearing black T-shirts in the permit application.The event was organized byCindy Chafian, apart from Women for America First, which is headed by Amy Kremer. Chafian obtained the permit for the Jan. 5 event, but partnered with Alexander and Brian Gibson, a Kentucky pastor. The eight-hour event was divided into three blocs emceed by the three partners.

Chafian, Alexander, Gibson and Diaz are all on the list of Trump allies, alongside Lewis and Flynn, whose communications members of the January 6th committee want to examine in their effort to understand preparations for the rallies that set the stage for the violence at the Capitol. Others include Trump confidant Roger Stone; InfoWars host Alex Jones; Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio; and Tom Van Flein, chief of staff for Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). Two individuals on the list — InfoWars host Owen Schroyer and #WalkAway organizer Brandon Straka — face federal charges related to the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol.

Although Lewis had cultivated a prolific social media presence across multiple platforms, Jan. 5 was his first time stepping into the spotlight as a speaker during the series of rallies that mobilized Trump supporters behind the false claim that the election was stolen.

Chafian mentioned 1st Amendment Praetorian as an "organization [that] is near and dear to my heart" in her introduction of Lewis, also giving shoutouts to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, at the Jan. 5 rally on the eve of the storming of the Capitol.

Lewis told the crowd that he was "willing to get up here and walk into danger if we need it, if we need to be there,to make sure that we don't cede this country, and I have my kids grow up in a communist hellhole.And I need each of you to fight as hard as you can to ensure that that does not happen."

Following his public appearance alongside Chafian, Lewis' public profile receded considerably on Jan. 6. But at 2:18 p.m. that day, the 1st Amendment Praetorian leader tweeted: "Today is the day the true battles begin."

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Whether Lewis was aware of it or not, only five minutes earlier, Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola had used a stolen police riot shield to bash out a window, breaching the Capitol to allow the first wave of rioters to stream into the building. The incident was live-streamed on Twitter and widely shared.

Lewis told the Daily Beast that he was at the Willard Hotel, which is several blocks away from the Capitol, at the time he made the tweet.

By 5:32 p.m., Lewis had joined a brace of far-right influencers, including Rep. Gosar, in promoting a conspiratorial view that the mayhem at the Capitol was not the work of unnamed bad actors rather than Trump supporters.

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"Getting a lot of reports that the Capitol bum rush was staged & not MAGA," Lewis tweeted. "Fits the color revolution play book to a T. Going to look at the @1st_praetorian intel shed, but seems pretty likely — we've already IDd some people we've been tracking."

Lewis could not be reached for this story.

While distancing himself from the assault on the Capitol, Lewis' rhetoric before and after Jan. 6 has remained consistent, reflecting a view that "patriots" need to be prepared to fight against sinister foreign actors that have supposedly infiltrated the US government and civil society.

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"Americans are standing up," Lewis announced in an Oct. 11, 2020 Facebook post. "We're taking our country back. We've activated the counter-insurgency."

In a Fox News interview a couple weeks later, Lewis specified a logical adversary in his promised domestic "counter-insurgency."

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"Our intelligence shows that no matter who wins the election, they are planning a massive 'Antifa Tet Offensive,' bent on destroying the global order; they are not beholden to any one party," Lewis said. "Their sole purpose is to create havoc, fear and intimidation."

In his Dec. 12 interview with New Tang Dynasty, Lewis vaguely alluded to foreign interference in the 2020 election while warning about potential violence.

"China, Iran, Pakistan — we saw some other outside adversaries that had a part in this — that's my biggest fear is that if they try to do that , if we do come to a point where there's violence in this country, our adversaries will start to come in, and it will be a battleground — the United States," he said. "That's what really worries me the most, because that's when chaos — I was in the Army, I was a Green Beret, so I've been in warzones. I don't want to see that here. I've got a family. I've got kids. I hope we can stop it before it comes to that point. But if we don't, there's a lot of people, they're not gonna go back to sleep, they're not gonna sit down, and they're not gonna allow it to happen."

Lewis' articulated fear in his interview with New Tang Dynasty echoes the central theme of his fiction writing in his 2019 book The Pact II: Battle Hymn of the Republic, described on Amazon.com as following "Rob and the men of ODA 022 from their battles against the invaders (China, Russia, Iran & Hezbollah) in Colorado to joining the resistance to take back the nation."

Meanwhile, Lewis has remained in contact with Flynn.

1st Amendment Praetorian provided security at the QAnon-organized "For God & Country Patriot Roundup" in Dallas on Memorial Day weekend, in which Flynn appeared to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States.

Lewis commemorated the event by tweeting a photo of himself flanked by Flynn and former congressman Allen West holding an "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

1st Amendment Praetorian is actively recruiting military veterans and former law enforcement on its website. The site also includes an "Intel" page that cites "corruption as one of the greatest threats to our Republic," while directing visitors to visit the group's Telegram channel and inviting them to "stay tuned if you want to see the dirty underbelly of the current war for our Republic." But the group's Telegram channel mainly reshares content from QAnon accounts ("TheStormHasArrived17" and "They Praying Medic"), one that promotes Invermectin ("The Library"), and Flynn. A recent Telegram post by "The Library," meanwhile, praisesDiazfor "doing groundbreaking reporting on Covid, Invermectin, vaccines & more."

On his personal Twitter account, many of Lewis' posts address the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Reacting to the Kabul Airport bombing on Thursday, Lewis reflected on the advance evacuation from Bagram Airfield, hinting darkly at betrayal by the US military command.If the decision was the result of malfeasance, Lewis tweeted, "get the engineers working on the gallows immediately."

In another tweet in late June, Lewis invoked the idea that an elite force must be willing to deploy "wrath" and "destruction" to "take back" the republic.

"Do you really want to take back and keep this Republic?" Lewis tweeted. "Truly? Because the answer is relatively simple…. But it will require Sunday school, turn the other cheek American Christians & Patriots to turn into Old Testament, full wrath of God, destruction of their house and salt the earth beneath them Christians.

"And it won't take that many of us," he added. "Just the ones who understand & have the temerity to do what needs to be done."

Jordan Green covers right-wing extremism for Raw Story. A Kentucky native, he now lives in North Carolina, where he spent 16 years writing for alt-weeklies and freelancing for the Washington Post and other publications.

Report typos and corrections to: corrections@rawstory.com.

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after 15 hours on his feet protecting the attendees at a QAnon conference in Dallas, Robert Patrick Lewis was tired.

But then the former Army sergeant, who did two tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, heard disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn speak. Flynn, who himself took the QAnon pledge and has become part celebrity and part spiritual leader to the QAnon faithful, called for a military coup in the U.S., and suddenly he felt invigorated.

So he fired up a YouTube livestream and spoke straight to camera: “We need to talk about a revolution.”

Lewis is a full-fledged QAnon believer and founder of the 1st Amendment Praetorians, named after the elite Roman soldiers who protected the emperor. The group consists offormer military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnelwhose stated mission is to provide pro bono security for “patriotic and religious events across the country.”

The group was founded last September and has since acted as security for more than a dozen events, as well as providing security for Flynn himself. The QAnon conference—called “For God & Country: Patriot Roundup”—was a perfect fit.

The Praetorians are a new paramilitary organization that Lewis says has grown to “hundreds” of members in just nine months, in almost complete secrecy. It is part of a growing network of right-wing extremists groups who are pushing baseless conspiracies about election fraud, and has direct links to violent militias, notably the Oath Keepers. Now Lewis, a QAnon believer, is helping establish a nationwide network of survivalist training camps to prepare patriots for the coming revolution.

In Dallas on Memorial Day weekend, Lewis’ crew of a few dozen Praetorians didn’t have any threats to deal with other than a couple of journalists—including one from VICE News—who were ejected from the event. But the conference helped boost the Praetorians’ profile, and it helped Lewis make some new friends.

During the event, he posted a picture of himself with Flynn and then-Texas GOP chair Allen West, holding aPine Tree flag, a Revolutionary War-era emblem that has been appropriated by the far right.

While Flynn called for a military coup, what Lewis says he wants is not bloodshed but a grassroots revolution.

“I feel that we are going through a revolutionary country right now. It doesn't always have to be a kinetic revolution, it doesn't always mean bloodshed in the streets. Revolution can mean a completely different emerging viewpoint for a way of doing or a way of acting, I think that's what we're at,” Lewis told VICE News from his home near Los Angeles this week.

But Lewis’ so-called peaceful revolution is at odds with his rhetoric on social media posts, in online articles, and in interviews on right-wing news stations. His vision of a new American revolution is also infused with conspiratorial thinking and linked to known violent extremists.

In addition to his QAnon activism, Lewis is a COVID-denier who believes that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. He also believes that critical race theory is bogus, and that the mainstream media is in league with the deep state. He believes that Antifa is the greatest threat to U.S. democracy and firmly believes they were behind the Capitol riot on January 6.  Lewis says he was in D.C. on the day of the Capitol riot, but there’s no evidence he was part of the group that attacked the Capitol.

Most worrying of all is that Lewis and the Praetorians are coordinating resources and information with more violent groups, far-right militias, and extremists. Lewis says he’s been in contact with Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right, anti-government militia who provide personal security to Roger Stone and whose members have been charged with conspiring to storm the Capitol.

His contact with Rhodes has stopped since Jan. 6, which is when Lewis claims “the FBI started to frame the Oath Keepers and they went to ground.” While Rhodes has yet to be charged in relation to the Capitol insurrection, he has been named in documents filed by prosecutors, who have charged several other Oath Keepers with conspiring to attack the Capitol.

Lewis says he is in contact with several groups similar to the Oath Keepers, not to coordinate actions but to "share information amongst each other: ‘What are you seeing? Are you seeing what we're seeing ramping up? What are you guys doing?’ It's not coordinating together; it's more like sharing information.”

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The Praetorians also work with a veritable who’s-who of conspiracy theorists, including renowned anti-vaxxer Sheri Tenpenny, who made headlines last week when she claimed COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic.

And now Lewis is using that network to launch survivalist training for “patriots” across the country, to prepare them for when the revolution finally arrives.

"The people that came to this continent, and were able to form what became the United States of America had to be extremely resilient,” Lewis said. “They came here with what they had, and then everything else to survive had to be created. I feel like we've lost that in our country. My big worry is that if things ever do get really bad, it will be compounded by the fact that people don't know how to take care of themselves.”

Lewis said that as well as working with sheriffs across the country on this project,he is coordinating with Scott Kesterson, a prominent QAnon promoter and podcaster who stole $12,000 from a cancer charity campaign for his dying friend.

Tenpenny and Lee Merritt, an osteopath who is a member of the conspiracy-driven groupAmerica’s Frontline Doctors, are also part of this network, which Lewis said would teach people skills like basic medical training and farming.

Lewis’ conspiracy-infused “revolution” is being echoed by conservative groups across the country, including QAnon and the Republican Party, who are using the lie that last November’s election was fraudulent to rally people to action.

As QAnon conspiracies become subsumed as mainstream talking points by the GOP, right-wing figures have begun to amplify calls for followers to leave their computer screens and get involved by infiltrating school boards, joining local Republican parties, and even running for Congress.

[The FBI’s New QAnon Report Is Scary as Hell

DAVID GILBERT

06.14.21]

“It seems like we are going through a great awakening in this country.” Lewis said, echoing one of QAnon best-known phrases.

After Lewis finished his military service in 2009, he tried his hand at writing, publishing a trilogy of titles called“The Pact,” a fictional account of a joint Chinese-Russian-Hezbollah attack on the U.S.

Over the next decade, he also held a number of corporate roles, including working for UCLA Healthcare, and several marketing roles, including with several veteran-owned companies, according to Lewis’ LinkedIn profile.

During this time he was not in the public eye, but in 2019 he said he felt compelled to do something after seeing Vietnam veterans attacked for holding Trump signs.

Lewis couldn’t provide specifics for the incident, but in June 2020, an 82-year-old veteran was pushed to the ground at a Trump supporters’ rally in Fall River, Massachusetts. He was kicked in the ribs and legs by a man who had ripped the sign from his hands, according to the Herald News, a local newspaper.

Lewis initially planned to attend Trump rallies and provide additional support to the private security inside the events by focusing on protecting the people outside the rallies who camped out for days ahead of Trump’s arrival.

Lewis claimed people were being attacked going to and from their vehicles at these events or while they were waiting in line outside, but there are very few reports of incidents like this, and Lewis didn’t provide specifics.

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But as the pandemic hit, and the rallies were cancelled, Lewis pivoted and launched the Praetorians.

In September, he published his first video talking about the Praetorians, describing them as “a group of military, law enforcement and intelligence veterans who refuse to stand on the sidelines and watch as your countrymen and women are intimidated from expressing their First Amendment rights.”

In the nine months since that video was published, the group has recruited “hundreds” of volunteers to provide security at events, though Lewis would not say what the exact figure is. He also refuses to name any of the individuals who’ve signed up, citing privacy reasons.

While he’s recruited a number of civilians, Lewis says he wants to focus almost exclusively on people from military, law enforcement, and intelligence backgrounds.

“Each of these people have kind of an inculcated foundation of professionalism, and we can depend on them to do the right thing if the pressure ratchets up,” Lewis said. The vetting process is rigorous, according to Lewis, and conducted by a group of private investigators—or “digital ninjas,” as Lewis calls them—who he says thoroughly review people’s backgrounds, including their military records, looking for histories of violence and brushes with law enforcement.

“We don't want people in our group that could possibly cause trouble or be prone to violence or anything like that,” Lewis said.

Lewis says the group is entirely crowdfunded and covers the cost of flights, food, and accommodation for all the volunteers, as well as the purchasing of equipment such as radios, surveillance cameras, and the uniform: black shirts with the white Praetorian logo on them.

The group’s first event, in October 2020, was organized by the Walkaway Campaign, an activist group led by Brandon Straka, a MAGA activist who was once a curtain-raiser at Trump rallies and was arrested for allegedly breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Including that initial event in Washington, Lewis says they provided support for 15 more events before the end of the year, while the Dallas conference was the group’s first of this year.

And at pretty much every event, Lewis had one enemy in mind: antifa, whom he sees as the biggest threat to the U.S.—together with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Lewis has a wild origin story for the anti-facist group. He believes it operated first in Germany before many its way to the U.S. in the last decade, where it has been funded by money from the U.S. government as well as directly from countries like Cuba and China.

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Lewis believes there’s a “cadre” of powerful people directing the movement, such as prominent 1970s feminist activist Susan Rosenberg, while the front lines of antifa are often populated with “useful idiots,” such as students or the children of wealthy families.

Like many conspiracy theorists—and many within the Republican Party—Lewis is fully convinced that the attack on the Capitol was conducted not by pro-Trump groups but by antifa.

“We saw at the Capitol on January 6 where they were trying to push people to do violence,” before citing a video he claims shows antifa activists “being led by Capitol Police magically to a door where the magnetic locks were unlocked at the right time.”

Lewis’ entire worldview appears suffused with conspiratorial thinking and he has long expressed support for the QAnon movement, dating back to at least 2018 when he wrote an article called “What is QAnon, Q, and the Great Awakening are Real?” for the Heroes Media Group.

And despite none of Q’s predictions coming true, Lewis’ outlook has not changed. “I think there's more to it, so people are willing to consider,” he said, calling QAnon “profound” and ”enormous.”

[Over 30 Million Americans Believe in QAnon’s Most Outrageous Conspiracy

DAVID GILBERT

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Piling conspiracy on top of conspiracy, Lewis also believes that FBI agents are infiltrating the QAnon movement to spread extreme conspiracies that were not based on Q drops, as part of a plan to discredit the movement—and this, of course, is all being aided by the mainstreammedia.

Lewis believes QAnon could be a U.S. government-funded operation, but he leaves open the possibility that it’s a disinformation campaign being run by a foreign state—though that, too, has a silver lining.

“If it was a disinformation campaign, it was an abject failure, because you have up to 20% of the population [who have] learned to research on their own and they learned not to believe anything they hear from the media at face value, which is proven very valuable given the large-scale lies we’ve seen from the media.”

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Capitol Riots Controversy

In January 2021, TPP was listed as one of the groups supporting the March to Save America, a rally on January 6 to protest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress. TPP leaders were outspoken after the election, claiming without substantiation that there had been widespread fraud and that the election results should be overturned in favor of then-President Donald Trump. [49] After rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol building following the rally, critics blamed TPP and other sponsors of the peaceful march for subsequent rioting. [50]

TPP officials denied funding the rally and immediately denounced the violence which followed it. Despite its denunciation, left-of-center critics accused the organization of promoting “conspiracy theories of voter fraud and a ‘deep state,’” claiming that those theories inspired “predictable” violence at the Capitol. The left-of-center Washington Postwent so far as to publish a letter to the editor which called on the IRS to “take action” against TPP for “the safety of our nation and its citizens.” [51]

Financial Management Controversies

In 2011, the far-left magazine:{Mother Jones:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:published a three-part expose on TPP’s financial management practices, alleging that the organization refused to publicly disclose its financial information and silenced supporters who asked for such records. [52]

The expose criticized TPP for not filing the required tax Form 990s prior to receiving official tax-exempt status from the IRS, despite the fact that TPP broke no laws in failing to do so. Other right-of-center figures and even some TPP supporters criticized the move, accusing the organization of hypocrisy for demanding financial transparency in government while keeping its own financial information private. [53] TPP also received criticism for the amount of money it spent on consultants and fundraising events, with some supporters claiming to be upset that the money was not instead used for grassroots initiatives. [54]

TPP faced further criticism for its executive compensation, allowing its executive officers to fly in private planes and treat themselves to expensive hotel stays and meals while on work trips. Former TPP supporters criticized the organization for treating its executives “like kings and queens on donated money.” One former TPP supporter who criticized TPP fundraising practices claimed she was threatened by a lawsuit if she spoke publicly about the organization, while others claimed they were forced out when they questioned the group’s finances. [55]

The controversy continued following the launch of the TPP Citizens Fund, which spent nearly $2 million on fundraising, polling, and consultants in the first three months of 2014 and only $56,000 on candidate expenditures. At the same time, the PAC was paying Martin a $15,000 monthly consulting fee, in addition to her $272,000 salary from TPP Action. [56]

People and Funding

Tea Party Patriots was founded by Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler, and Amy Kremer. Martin and Kremer have been called the “founding mothers” of the Tea Party movement for their involvement in founding TPP, though Kremer has since split off from TPP and become a prominent supporter of former President Trump. [57]

Martin worked in politics for most of her life, working as a Republican consultant and for former U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) before founding TPP. Martin founded TPP after struggling under more than $1.4 million in tax debt and becoming frustrated with American fiscal policy following the Wall Street bailouts. [58] [59] In 2010, Time named Martin one of its 100 most influential people in the world for her work with TPP. [60]

Meckler worked with TPP for several years before becoming interim CEO of the conservative social media platform Parler in February 2021. [61] Meckler is also president of Citizens for Self-Governance, another right-of-center organization which advocates against government regulations, and the co-founder of Convention of States Action, an organization which calls for the states to call a convention to amend the Constitution directly in order to limit the size and power of the federal government. [62] [63]

TPP has received funding from prominent right-of-center donors and organizations in the country. The organization has received $103,000 from DonorsTrust, $100,000 from the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, and $150,000 from late billionaire Republican donor Sanford Diller. [64] The TPP Citizens Fund has received over $4.3 million from Republican donor Richard “Dick” Uihlein.[65]

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Jan. 6 rally organizers used anonymous 'burner phones' to communicate with top Trump officials: report

Alex Henderson November 24, 2021

Using a burner phone is much different from using a high-end Apple iPhone or an Android-based smartphone: they're cheap, disposable, designed for temporary use rather than long-term use, and do not require an account. Burner phones also offer anonymity. And according to Rolling Stone's Hunter Walker, they were allegedly used by some Republican activists who helped organize former President Donald Trump's "Save America" rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6.

Walker, in an article published by Rolling Stone on November 23, explains, "Some of the organizers who planned the rally that took place on the White House Ellipse on January 6 allegedly used difficult-to-trace burner phones for their most 'high level' communications with former President Trump's team. Kylie Kremer, a top official in the 'March for Trump' group that helped plan the Ellipse rally, directed an aide to pick up three burner phones days before January 6, according to three sources who were involved in the event. One of the sources, a member of the 'March for Trump' team, says Kremer insisted the phones be purchased using cash and described this as being 'of the utmost importance.'"

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Walker writes that according to those three Rolling Stone sources, Kremer "took one of the phones and used it to communicate with top White House and Trump campaign officials" such as the Trump Organization's Eric Trump (a younger brother of Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.), former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and long-time Donald Trump ally Katrina Pierson. One of the Trump supporters given a burner phone was Amy Kremer, Kylie Kremer's mother and another rally organizer.

Walker reports, "According to the three sources, some of the most crucial planning conversations between top rally organizers and Trump's inner circle took place on those burner phones…. Burner phones — cheap, prepaid cells designed for temporary usage — do not require users to have an account. This makes them hard to trace and ideal for those who are seeking anonymity — particularly if they are purchased with cash. The use of burner phones could make it more difficult for congressional investigators to find evidence of coordination between Trump's team and rally planners."

January 6, 2021 was an incredibly dark day in U.S. history. That day, a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in the hope of stopping Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The Capitol riot was preceded by the large "Save America" or "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, D.C. that Kylie and Amy Kremer helped organize. During the March For Trump bus tour, the Kremers promoted the Big Lie: the false, totally debunked claim that Trump was the real winner of the 2020 presidential election but was victimized by widespread voter fraud.

"There was no evidence the Kremers and the other rally organizers encouraged or planned violence in the group text messages reviewed by Rolling Stone," Walker explains. "However, critics have argued Trump and the leaders who encouraged thousands of his supporters to come to Washington as the vote was certified deserve some blame for the violence because of their pre-January 6 rhetoric and the fiery content of the former president's speech at the Ellipse rally."

Walker continues, "The three sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack, say Kylie asked the aide to buy the three 'burner phones' as the group passed through Palm Springs, California about a week before the Ellipse event. Based on the group's website, which has since been deleted, the tour began on December 27, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada before moving on to California."

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As the results of the 2020 presidential election came rolling in, Vice President Mike Pence was notably out of sight ​and had even planned a Florida vacation for this week. But with ​the ratcheting up of Trump’s campaign to contest the outcome of the election, CNN reported that Pence canceled his getaway, remaining inside the Beltway ​to address the Council for National Policy, a highly secretive organization that includes some of the most powerful conservatives in the country.

As Pence stands at the podium before marquee names in conservative politics Friday, pro-Trump, far-right activists are making their way to Washington, D.C., for a rally organized and supported by some of the very right-wing leaders likely sitting in that room.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars network are leading a caravan of Trump supporters to D.C.,Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia has promised to station his armed men outside of the District borders should Trump call on them, and the Proud Boys hate group has encouraged its members to to the nation’s capital, with leader Enrique Tarrio declaring Trump’s “Standby order has been rescinded.” 

They, along with other ​conspiracy theorists, far-right groups and other Trump loyalists, have all promised to go to the Saturday event that goes by three names​: Million MAGA March, March for Trump, and Stop the Steal—to push a false narrative that voter fraud cost Trump the election. The event has been promoted by Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

GOP operative Ali Alexander,who organized the gathering, was clear on the rally’s demands in a ​Nov. 10 Periscopepost. “We’re going down to the Supreme Court,​” he said, “and we’re telling our government that this election and the counting will be transparent, or we’ll get a new election. One or another.”

And they wouldn’t be on their way without​ the leadership and support of current and past Council for National Policy members for the Stop the Steal campaign. ​The CNP, which has been around since the Reagan administration, holds closed-door meetings, tells members not to speak to the press about the council, and has tried to keep membership rolls private, but its members’ names have leaked over the years.

Notable CNP members include Ginni Thomas, the influential wife of Clarence Thomas, and Tony Perkins, a former president of the organization and the current president of the Family Research Council, according to a 2020 membership directory published by Documented. CNP has also welcomed far-right figures like neo-Confederate Christian Reconstructionist Michael Peroutka, a major funder of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s advocacy and political career.

CNP ​also counts among its members Ed Martin of ​Phyllis Schlafly Eagles,Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who has allied himself with dominionists and Christian nationalists in the past year—all of whom have pushed ​Stop the Steal messaging since Alexander launched the campaign and called on them to join it. 

Martin has led sparsely attended D.C. rallies and blasted Phyllis Schlafly Eagles’ email list with Stop the Steal talking points, while Kirk attended a rally in Phoenix and took to conservative media to promote it. Though it does not appear Fitton has used the #StoptheSteal hashtag, he has echoed the campaign’s language, alleged an “electoral coup,” accusedstates of voter fraud, and called for votes to stop being counted in others.

Amy Kremer, who was listed as a member in a 2014 membership directory obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is organizing in the state of Georgia for Stop the Steal events.  Even Ali Alexander, who formerly went by Ali Akbar, is listed twice by both names as a signee on a 2017 letter from CNP to Donald Trump obtained by the Christian Post. David Armiak of the Center for Media and Democracy has also reported on some of these connections.

On Nov. 4, as Americans ​awoke to see Trump’s election night lead overtaken by the counting of mail-in ballots, which came in record numbers for Joe Biden, Alexander was expressed dismay. On Twitter, he suggested that the Republican Party should have adopted his 2018 Stop the Steal operation, which he had launched with ​the help of Trump confidant and since convicted felon Roger Stone​ during the recount of Florida’s 2018 U.S. Senate race. 

​On the day after the 2020 election, Alexander said he had no intention of rebooting it, but about an hour later, he suggested the only way he would restart the operation would be if a few key players were on board—among them, Tom Fitton, Amy Kremer, and Ed Martin. By around 2 p.m. that day,he’d added Charlie Kirk and others to the list.

"he’s decided only to do it under certain conditions and those conditions seem to be CNP support,” ​said Stephanie Lamy, a French information warfare researcher with Danaides who flagged the series of tweets​. “That’s very clear from this tweet by the people he mentions.”

And there’s good reason to ​seek CNP support given its power and its expertise in ​advancing unsubstantiated voter fraud narratives.

Last month, The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow got ​his hands on videos from an Aug. 21 CNP conference held at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City. Fitton, who Alexander called on to be in charge of the legal aspect of the ​Stop the Steal campaign, zeroed in on mail-in voting.“We need to stop those ballots from going out, and I want the lawyers here to tell us what to do,” Fitton said. “But this is a crisis that we’re not prepared for. I mean, our side is not prepared for.”

J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, also attacked mail-in voting at that meeting, telling activists, “Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor, you’re a racist and so forth.” Adams, a known voter suppressor, was also part of Trump administration’s short-lived “Commission on Election Integrity,” which folded after findingno evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Adams’ legal organization has issued two lawsuits since Nov. 4 claimingvoter fraud.

Current CNP Treasurer Kenneth Blackwell has promoted Stop the Steal on Twitterand Facebook and, as Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery reported, baselessly charged Monday that “the Democrat-run Pennsylvania executive government only wants votes counted that support their agenda and their candidates.”

Trump himself has addressed CNP members—as recently as the Aug. 21 meeting and in the beginning of his campaign in 2015. According to The National Review, of the six Republican presidential candidates who addressed CNP in 2015, Trump was the “star attraction.”

Tags: Ali AkbarAli Alexander Amy Kremer Charlie Kirk Donald Trump Ed Martin Ginni Thomas J Christian Adams Ken Blackwell Michael Peroutka Mike Pence Tom Fitton Tony Perkins Disinformation Stop the Steal  Voter Fraud  Council for National Policy

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-operative-ali-alexander-leads-stop-the-steal-campaign/

right-wing political operative Ali Alexander has brought back “Stop the Steal,” a campaign to get right-wing activists to discredit mail-in voting, disrupt vote-counting, and ​falsely accuse Democrats of stealing the presidential election—presumably because legally cast ballots are being counted in states that have yet to declare the winner of the 2020 presidential contest. (Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears to be prevailing among votes cast by mail-in ballots.)

The move comes after President Donald Trump declared a premature victory in the early morning hours Wednesday and accused Democrats of mass voter fraud, a false narrative he’s been pushing for months about mail-in voting. At a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Philadelphia, Trump’s legal team, including conspiracy theorist and Trump sycophant Rudy Giuliani, doubled down on those claims, as have right-wing activists. The race is still too close to call, but as more mail-in ballots have begun to be counted, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has taken the lead. 

In a panicked Periscope broadcast Wednesday evening, Alexander said he was “busy organizing thousands and thousands and thousands of people” to join “voter integrity” rallies in Phoenix, Arizona, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Detroit, Michigan, Madison, Wisconsin, and Atlanta, Georgia, (and perhaps Nevada) to protest. Alexander said the first rally would feature “Pizzagate” booster Mike Cernovichat the capitol in Arizona at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, claiming that they’d have hundreds there and 10,000 attendees there by Friday. Asecond rally took place Wednesday night in Las Vegas. Alexander encouraged viewers to go to a website where they could register with the campaign and explained how he hoped to draw attention to these rallies. 

“We’re matching influencers with operatives, so every influencer will have an operative there also working with local media, capturing all the vehicles going in and out ‘dropping of ballots,’” Alexander said. “We’re gonna capture everything.”

“If you need a plane ticket, I’ll PayPal you money, because people have sent me money,” Alexander said, before clarifying, “We’re flying giant influencers. We’re flying those people who are offering to share their audiences.”

Earlier in the day, Ali had put out a call for right-wing political operatives to lead the campaign in a number of states where Trump and Biden are in tight races or where Biden has won by a slim margin.

He called on Scott Presler and far-right activist Jack Posobiec to join the effort in Pennsylvania;Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk and Cernovich in Arizona;Alex Bruesewitz in Wisconsin; and CJ Pearson and Daniel Bostic, a producer of “The Plot Against the President” in Georgia. He also called on Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, a right-wing legal outfit that doubles as a communications shop, to work the legal network and Amy Kremer of Women for Trump and Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles to work the campaign nationally. He also said that Ed Martin, Amy Kremer and Kyle Jane Kremer would be “running point” for aWashington,D.C.event 1 p.m. Thursday. 

At Wednesday’s rally in Phoenix, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, who has his own ties to far-right nationalists, introduced Cernovich to the assembled crowd waving Trump flags. Taking the megaphone, Cernovich claimed that 200 anti-fascist activists had planned to disrupt his rally, but he said they’d never show up because, “I’ll get sent to prison after kissing their asses—legally and lawfully under self-defense laws.”

Cernovich went on to attack Fox News. “Do you think Fox News is suppressing pro-Trump vote?” He asked the crowd. “Yes!” The crowd shouted back.

Alexander also lashed out at Fox News in his Periscope, saying the conservative, pro-Trump network’s coverage of the presidential election was why he launched the campaign. He asked his viewers to spend 15 to 20 minutes after his Periscope harassing Fox News reporters and producers.

“Fox News is about to call the election for Joe Biden. How does this happen? They called Arizona too early. … I think it’s going for Trump,” he said. “If they call Nevada for Biden, then they will accidentally be forced. You need to tweet the hell out of everyone at Fox News.” 

In September, Alexander took to Periscope to float the idea of revamping “Stop the Steal” for the 2020 presidential election, Jared Holtreported for Right Wing Watch then. At that time, Alexander had said that the 2020 “Stop the Steal” campaign would bypass social media by collecting phone numbers from supporters. 

Theoriginal “Stop the Steal” campaign was led by Alexander in 2018, along with convicted felon and self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who Alexander said came up with the phrase, and his associates, including Posobiec. The campaign featured protests and misinformation against a ballot recount in Florida’s 2018 Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson. In that campaign, pro-Trump activists from around the country descended on Florida to protest and spread misinformation, a seeming reboot of the so-called “Brooks Brothers riot,” which broke out following Florida’s contested presidential election results in 2000. Stone was behind that riot, which shut down recount efforts in Miami-Dade.

For the 2018 “Stop the Steal” campaign, Alexander said that he had recruited QAnon followers as well as people experiencing homelessness to fill spots at the protest. Politico reported in 2016 that Alexander’s PAC had received a large donation from billionaire**Robert Mercer**; Ali claims to not be taking money from him for this campaign.

It appears the 2018 “Stop the Steal” campaign was an attempted dry run for the 2020 presidential election. On Twitter, Alexanderclaimed to have approached Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel about running the campaign and that she had mocked it. On Wednesday, Alexander lashed out at those around Trump andMcDaniel, who he called “the dumbest woman in history.” He said that the RNC, McDaniel, and the Trump campaign were not doing the campaign. [twt  forced errors in messaging and non-legal and non-protest actions coming out of the GOP right now is simply stunning. Trump may ruin his own efforts before they start. Why is no one around him doing this right?]

alexander claimed that his campaign of right-wing and far-right activists just want “a fair, predictive, determinative result” and that “This election is going to be conducted fairly where it produces a legitimate result that both sides can come together on.”

“I’m going to be here in Texas, just providing my friends with support,” Alexander said. “What I want to do is bring this country as much together as we can and have a certain outcome and ride off into the sunset.”

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news broke that Christine Blasey Ford—a 51-year-old professor of psychology at Palo Alto University in Northern California—had accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her at a party back in 1982, many of the responses were fair-minded and even-handed. A long list of people have stressed that while Kavanaugh hasn’t been convicted of anything, they definitely want to hear, in detail, all that Ford has to say—especially in light of the fact that Kavanaugh is up for a lifetime appointment on the highest judicial body in the United States.

But on the far right, some wingnuts have been quick to either demonize Ford or turn her accusation into a Republicans-versus-Democrats argument. Kavanaugh is their guy, the GOP is their party—and Ford’s accusation, they immediately assume, is nothing more than a Democratic conspiracy.

Here are five of the most appalling reactions to Ford’s accusation that have come from the far right.

1. Sen. Mitch McConnell Turns Ford’s Accusation into an Attack on Dianne Feinstein

As Senate majority leader, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell has been a ruthless, vindictive partisan whose top priority is sticking it to Democrats—not the wellbeing of the country. And he made that abundantly clear when, after learning that Ford had accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape, his knee-jerk response was to attack Sen. Dianne Feinstein (the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee) rather than wanting to hear what Ford has to say. McConnell views Ford’s allegation in strictly partisan terms, faulting Feinstein for not coming forward with the information she had on Ford and Kavanaugh sooner. But Ford, at first, had requested anonymity. And McConnell, always a Republican first and an American second, fumed, “Now, now, at the 11th hour, with committee votes on schedule—after Democrats have spent weeks and weeks searching for any possible reason that the nomination should be delayed—now, now, they choose to reveal this allegation.”

2. Donald Trump Jr. Mocks, Belittles Christine Blasey Ford

After Ford decided to reveal her identity, it didn’t take Donald Trump, Jr.—vice president of the Trump Organization—long to begin ridiculing and belittling her. In an Instagram post, the president’s 40-year-old son posted a mock “letter” that was written in crayon and labeled “Judge Kavanaugh’s sexual assault letter found by Dems.” The mock “letter” read, “Hi, Cindy, will you be my girlfriend? Love, Brett,” with boxes for checking either “yes” or “no.” And in a mocking tone, Trump, Jr. said of Kavanaugh, “Oh, boy, the Dems and their usual nonsense games really have him on the ropes now.”

3. Matt Drudge, Grabien News Attack Kavanaugh Accuser by Confusing Her With Someone Else

Matt Drudge’s The Drudge Report attempted to smear Ford on Twitter by linking to a hit piece on her that had originally been published by Grabien News. In the article, Grabien tried to paint Ford as a bad professor who had received a lot of negative online reviews from her students. One of the reviews, posted on RateMyProfessor.com on September 25, 2014, said, “Christine Ford is the worst educator I have experienced. Avoid taking her class and avoid any interaction with this person.” But the Christine Ford in that review is Christine A. Ford, a licensed social worker who taught at California State University, Fullerton—not Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford, who is employed by Palo Alto University. In fact, Fullerton is in Orange County south of Los Angeles, and is well over 300 miles from Palo Alto. Grabien has since retracted the inaccurate story that the Drudge Report was so quick to promote.

4. Women for Trump’s Amy Kremer: Democrats Want to ‘Gin Up the Hysteria Machine’

Republicans had no problem with Sen. Feinstein when, in late 2017, she demanded Democratic Sen. Al Franken’s resignation in response to sexual harassment allegations. Franken didn’t get a pass from Feinstein simply because he was a Democrat: Feinstein wanted him to step down, party affiliation be damned—and the Minnesota senator resigned. But the minute Feinstein has legal concerns about a Republican Supreme Court nominee, Republicans view her as a one-woman hit squad.

During a September 17 interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Amy Kremer (co-founder of Women for Trump) had the same knee-jerk reaction to Ford’s accusation as McConnell: she viewed it in strictly partisan terms, insisting that Democrats are trying to “gin up the hysteria machine” with a “dog and pony show.” Kremer also asserted that there should be no public testimony from Ford, only closed-door hearings—which is ludicrous. Considering that Ford is making a very serious accusation and that Kavanaugh, if confirmed, could still be on the Supreme Court 30 years from now, anything the Palo Alto University professor has to say on the matter should be heard publicly.

5. Joe Walsh Attacks Democrats for Waiting to ‘Drop This Dirt’

Even former Rep. Joe Walsh (a Tea Party wingnut) called Donald Trump, Jr. out for mocking Christine Blasey Ford, correctly denouncing him as an “uncaring, narrow-minded idiot” on Twitter. But Walsh, like McConnell and Kremer, has turned Ford’s accusation into an opportunity to play partisan politics, posting on Twitter, “So Dems waited until the very last minute to drop this dirt, and now they want to wait again to hear from her? You don’t think they’re trying to drag this thing out, do you?”

Walsh likes to see himself as a law-and-order man, but when a Republican Supreme Court nominee is accused of attempted rape, it’s all the Democrats’ fault, in Walsh’s mind.

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https://ballotpedia.org/Amy_Kremer

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Amy Kremer was a candidate who ran in the special election to represent the 6th Congressional District of Georgia.[1]

Kremer is a political activist and former chairwoman of Tea Party Express, a national Tea Party organization.[2] In February 2016, Kremer and Jewelry Exchange CEO, William Doddridge, formed the pro-Donald Trump super PAC, Great America PAC (formerly TrumPAC).[3]

Career

Amy Kremer, a Georgia native, attended Auburn University and Kennesaw State University.[4][2] Kremer began her career as a real estate agent in Atlanta, and in 1997 she began working as a flight attendant for Delta Airlines.[4] She remained with Delta until 2005.[4]

In 2009, Kremer became involved in politics, which led her to establish the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots. She served as the party's national event coordinator. Later, in 2009, Kremer traveled with the Tea Party Express, a national Tea Party organization, on their bus tours around the country. Kremer left the Atlanta Tea Party to formally join the Tea Party Express PAC as the PAC's director. Shortly thereafter, she was appointed chairwoman of the Tea Party Express.[2][4] While chairwoman, Kremer played auxiliary roles in several elections, including Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), Allen West (R-Fla.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Sharron Angle (R-Nev.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).[2]

Kremer left the Tea Party Express in 2014 to join the now governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, when he ran for U.S. Senate. Bevin lost to incumbent Mitch McConnell in the Republican primaries.[5][6]

Kremer was the co-founder of a nonprofit organization called the American Grassroots Coalitions.[2]

Elections

2017

See also: Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election, 2017

[hide]U.S. House, Georgia District 6 Special Election Runoff, 2017

Party Candidate Vote % Votes

Republican Green check mark transparent.pngKaren Handel 51.8% 134,799

Democratic Jon Ossoff 48.2% 125,517

Total Votes 260,316

Source: Georgia Secretary of State

Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the June 20, 2017, special election runoff to represent the 6th Congressional District of Georgia.

It was the most expensive U.S. House race in history. The two campaigns, along with outside organizations, spent more than $50 million on the election.[7] Although Handel held the advantage with outside groups spending money on the race, the Democratic effort to flip this congressional seat, which has been held by a Republican since 1979, began early. Ossoff raised $8.3 million in the first quarter of 2017, where recent Democratic candidates raised no more than $45,000 in the general election. In April and May, Ossoff raised an additional $15 million.[8] Handel raised $4 million, relying on national political figures like President Donald Trump in May and Vice President Mike Pence in June to helm fundraisers.[9] Although Handel's fundraising paled in comparison to Ossoff's, she outraised recent Republican candidates by more than $2 million.

Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that his party's investment in the race was part of a larger effort to improve party infrastructure across the country. "We're investing heavily here in the Georgia six race, but I'm traveling across the country. We're building strong parties everywhere. That's what we have to do because that's where we fell short in the past. We allowed our basic infrastructure to, you know, to atrophy and we have to build strong parties," he said.[10] This spending was driven primarily by out-of-state contributions, which Handel and conservative outside organizations highlighted in critical campaign ads.

This special election was one of the first chances since 2016 for the Democratic Party to reduce the Republican House majority. When asked about the importance of the race, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R), who represented the district for two decades, told Ballotpedia, "I do think Republicans have to pay attention, and I think it would be a big mistake to allow this district to go to Ossoff, partly because of the psychology nationally, and partly because once a relatively talented person gets in office, it’s really hard to get rid of them."

The Democratic Party had not held Georgia's 6th District since before Gingrich's first election in 1978. However, Trump's victory margin of 1.5 percent over Hillary Clinton in the district in the 2016 presidential race signified that the district could be competitive. Comparatively, Mitt Romney (R) won the district by a margin of 23.3 percent in 2012, and John McCain (R) defeated Barack Obama (D) by 18 percent in 2008.[11][12] Republicans suggested that Ossoff's failure to win in the district, despite an infusion of cash, was evidence that Democrats would not have electoral success in 2018.

Ossoff was a first-time candidate who previously worked in D.C. as a legislative aide to Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) for five years and as a documentary producer. Ossoff campaigned against Trump's policies and emphasized small business growth, affordable healthcare, preserving Medicare and Medicaid, and national security. He was characterized as more of a centrist than a progressive by New York Magazine, The Washington Post, National Review, and The New York Times.[13] Handel, who served as the Georgia Secretary of State from 2007 to 2010, supported the Trump administration's position on healthcare and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, although she rarely mentioned the president by name while campaigning.[14] She instead focused on promoting conservative principles and economic issues such as improving the tax code for small businesses.

This was the fourth congressional special election of the year and the third won by a Republican.

[hide]U.S. House, Georgia District 6 Special Election, 2017

Party Candidate Vote % Votes

Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJon Ossoff 48.1% 92,673

Republican Green check mark transparent.pngKaren Handel 19.8% 38,071

Republican Bob Gray 10.8% 20,802

Republican Dan Moody 8.8% 17,028

Republican Judson Hill 8.8% 16,870

Republican Kurt Wilson 0.9% 1,820

Republican David Abroms 0.9% 1,639

Democratic Ragin Edwards 0.3% 504

Democratic Ron Slotin 0.3% 491

Republican Bruce LeVell 0.2% 455

Republican Mohammad Ali Bhuiyan 0.2% 415

Republican Keith Grawert 0.2% 415

Republican Amy Kremer 0.2% 351

Republican William Llop 0.2% 326

Democratic Rebecca Quigg 0.2% 304

Democratic Richard Keatley 0.1% 229

Independent Alexander Hernandez 0.1% 121

Independent Andre Pollard 0% 55

Total Votes 192,569

Source: Georgia Secretary of State

Campaign themes

The following issues were listed on Kremer's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

Jobs & The Economy: We need to cut government regulations that stifle job growth. We need to create a pro-growth environment to stimulate the economy.

Support Our Veterans: Support Our Veterans – Our military families pay a heavy price for their service and we need to make sure that we show our appreciation for their sacrifice.

National Security: National Security – To ensure that we can continue to protect our country from new attacks born of the 21st Century, we must allow or military to remain at the forefront of advanced technological research and cybersecurity. Too many candidates think this simply means increased troop numbers and confuse sheer numbers with greater military prowess; that is a false assumption.

2nd Amendment: Protect & Defend the 2nd Amendment – Many liberals will continue to try and erode our 2nd amendment rights through legislation and crafty marketing. I will fight to make sure that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed and I will fight any attempt to take away any constitutional right without due process.

Healthcare: Repeal and Replace Obamacare – ObamaCare is an unmitigated disaster for Georgia and our country. We cannot sit idly by as more small businesses close due to ObamaCare regulations and regular folks watch their premiums and deductibles skyrocket.

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—Amy Kremer's campaign website

Endorsements

Conservative pundit Sean Hannity[16]

Fundraising

Heading into the election, Jon Ossoff (D) led the field in fundraising by a substantial margin, raising over $8.3 million. Over $5.6 million of that sum was from individual donations of less than $200, which means that detailed information about those donors is unavailable as the FEC does not require donations of less than $200 to be itemized. Of the remaining money, nearly 25 percent came from in-state. Roughly 20 percent came from California, 16 percent from New York, 6 percent from Massachusetts, and 3 percent from Illinois. Dan Moody (R) raised over $2 million, 95 percent of which was self-funded. Bob Gray's (R) contributions totaled $717,500, and he loaned his campaign $500,000. Nearly 60 percent of the remaining money he raised came from Georgia. Judson Hill (R) and Karen Handel (R) raised $523,032 and $463,744, respectively. Hill raised roughly 85 percent of his money from inside the state, while Handel received nearly 90 percent of her donations from within Georgia.[17][18][19]

Full data for all candidates who filed with the FEC is displayed below.

Pre-Special FEC Report

Candidate Contributions Expenditures Cash on Hand

Democratic Party Jon Ossoff $8,320,693 $6,183,941 $2,136,751

Republican Party Bob Gray $717,500 $321,028 $396,472

Republican Party Karen Handel $463,744 $279,767 $183,977

Republican Party Judson Hill $523,032 $359,210 $163,822

Republican Party Dan Moody $2,025,263 $1,865,030 $160,232

Republican Party David Abroms $260,902 $155,412 $105,490

Republican Party Mohammad Ali Bhuiyan $32,785 $26,068 $6,716

Republican Party Keith Grawert $51,402 $34,106 $17,296

Republican Party Amy Kremer $19,852 $15,233 $4,618

Republican Party Kurt Wilson $319,068 $199,149 $119,919

Democratic Party Richard Keatley $15,890 $9,349 $6,540

Democratic Party Ron Slotin $78,427 $70,522 $7,905

Grey.png Alexander Hernandez $5,666 $5,944 $41

Grey.png Andre Pollard $5,250 $5,250 $0

Polls

Runoff polling (Handel v. Ossoff)

[hide]Georgia's 6th District special election runoff

Poll Karen Handel Jon Ossoff Undecided Margin of Error Sample Size

WSB-TV / Landmark Communications

June 19, 2017 48.9% 49.0% 2.1% +/-4.4 500

The Trafalgar Group

June 17-18, 2017 50.5% 48.6% 1.0% +/-2.9 1,100

WSB-TV / Landmark Communications

June 15, 2017 48.0% 49.7% 2.3% +/-3.46 800

Fox 5 / Opinion Savvy

June 15, 2017 49.4% 49.7% 1.0% +/-4.2 537

The Trafalgar Group

June 10-13, 2017 47.3% 50.2% 2.3% +/-2.9 1,100

11 Alive / Survey USA

June 7-11, 2017 47% 47% 6% +/-4.5 700

WSB-TV / Landmark Communications

June 6-7, 2017 47.1% 49.6% 3.3% +/-4.78 420

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

June 5-8, 2017 44% 51% 5% +/-4.0 745

WSB-TV / Landmark Communications

May 30-31, 2017 47.6% 49.1% 3.3% +/-4.38 500

Survey USA

May 16-20, 2017 44% 51% 6% +/-4.3 549

Gravis Marketing

May 8-10, 2017 45% 47% 8% +/-3.3 870

WSB-TV / Landmark Communications

May 3-4, 2017 49.1% 46.5% 4.4% +/-3.96 611

GBA Strategies

April 29 - May 1, 2017 48% 50% 2% +/-4.9 400

Note: A "0%" finding means the candidate was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org

Pre-April 18 election polling

Using the last five polls prior to the April 18 special election, Ballotpedia compared polling averages with election results. Of the polls analyzed, all of them underestimated the support for Democrat Jon Ossoff and all but one of them underestimated the support for Republican Karen Handel. Polling averages for Ossoff and Handel were below election results by 6.0 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively.

Candidate Polling average Election results Polling accuracy

Democratic Party Jon Ossoff 42.0% 48.1% -6.0%

Republican Party Karen Handel 16.8% 19.8% -3.0%

Republican Party Bob Gray 12.4% 10.8% +1.6%

Republican Party Judson Hill 8.8% 8.8% +0.0%

Republican Party Dan Moody 9.0% 8.8% +0.2%

[hide]Georgia's 6th District special election (2017)

Poll Jon Ossoff Karen Handel Bob Gray Judson Hill Dan Moody Bruce LeVell Amy Kremer Ron Slotin David Abroms Kurt Wilson Unsure or Other Margin of Error Sample Size

Clout Research/Zpolitics

April 14-15, 2017 41.3% 15.3% 16.6% 9.7% 9.1% 0.8% 0% 0.7% 2.9% 0% 3.6% +/-4.58 453

Fox 5/Opinion Savvy

April 13, 2017 41.5% 21.2% 10.6% 11.3% 9.4% 0% 0% 0.3% 0.6% 0.8% 3.2% +/-4.6 437

WSB-TV

April 12-13, 2017 45.3% 17.4% 8.6% 8% 8.4% 0.5% 0.5% 1.6% 1.5% 1% 7.2% +/-4.2 500

RRH Elections/Decision Desk HQ

April 5-10, 2017 39% 15% 12% 10% 11% 0% 0% 4% 3% 0% 6% +/-5 321

11 Alive/SurveyUSA

March 27-April 2, 2017 43% 15% 14% 5% 7% 1% 1% 0% 2% 1% 7% +/-4.5 503

MoveOn.org/Lake Research Partners

March 26-28, 2017 40% 18% 7% 8% 7% 0% 0% 1% 0% 0% 19% +/-5.2 350

Fox 5/Opinion Savvy

March 22-23, 2017 39.8% 19.9% 10.4% 9.5% 8.0% 0.4% 0.1% 1.3% 1.6% 1.8% 5.8% +/-4.5 462

Clout Research

March 15-16, 2017 40.9% 16.1% 15.6% 9.2% 5.1% 0.6% 0% 2.9% 1.7% 0% 7.9% +/-3.8 625

Trafalgar Group

March 2-3, 2017 18.31% 17.98% 13.42% 7.98% 2.11% 0.45% 3.05% 2.82% 0% 0% 33.9% +/-4.5 450

Clout Research/Zpolitics

February 17-18, 2017 31.7% 24.9% 10.6% 9.2% 2.0% 1.2% 0% 0% 0% 0% 20.4% +/-3.7 694

Note: A "0%" finding means the candidate was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org

2016 presidential election

Great America PAC

See also: Great America PAC

In early February 2016, Jewelry Exchange CEO, William Doddridge, and Amy Kremer founded the pro-Donald Trump hybrid PAC, Great America PAC (formerly TrumPAC). Kremer is acting as the committee's spokeswoman and chairwoman.[3][20][21]

In February 2016, GAP announced that it planned to launch television and radio ads promoting Trump.[22][23] On March 18, 2016, Politico reported that Great America PAC planned a $1 million ad campaign that, while airing nationally, would be "focused in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maryland and Delaware — states that many Republican strategists believe Trump needs to win in order to reach the 1,237-delegate magic number."[24]

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