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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hunch since genz z rep must ~ greta:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">eat the babies for climate change</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fb vid:&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Double Standard Of The Left!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Right, Charlie Kirk! If A Conservative Acted The Way AOC Acted, The Media Would Have Been All Over Them! #BigGovSucks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tpusa-promotes-john-guandolos-call-for-right-wing-activists-to-bully-and-harass-political-opponents/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tpusa-promotes-john-guandolos-call-for-right-wing-activists-to-bully-and-harass-political-opponents/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>a new film produced by the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA spotlights radical right-wing conspiracy theorist John Guandolo urging sheriffs to take the law into their own hands and resist federal authority.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Guandolo is a former FBI agent who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_cf725ef5-b8f9-514d-8313-9366bbb0dfd4.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">resigned</a>&nbsp;in 200</b>9 “before the bureau’s Office of Professional Responsibility could question him about his sexual liaisons” with a star witness in a government corruption case as well as “with women FBI agents,” according to a report from The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Following his resignation, Guandolo became a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-says-members-of-congress-should-be-swinging-from-a-rope/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">radical</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-wants-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-leaders-rounded-up-and-executed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">right-wing</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-cia-nominee-john-brennan-converted-to-islam/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theorist</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/09/12/disgraced-ex-fbi-agent-john-guandolo-visit-iowa-and-nebraska-week" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">anti-Islam activist</a>&nbsp;who now runs an organization called Understanding The Threat through which he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.understandingthethreat.com/training/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">trains</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/09/12/disgraced-ex-fbi-agent-john-guandolo-visit-iowa-and-nebraska-week" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">law enforcement agencies</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/03/01/disgraced-ex-fbi-agent-john-guandolo-train-louisiana-law-enforcement-next-week" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">around the country</a>&nbsp;to identify seemingly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/anti-islam-activist-john-guandolo-has-a-foolproof-method-for-detecting-terrorists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">anyone</a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-discovered-another-jihadi-working-in-plain-sight/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">dark skin and a beard</a>&nbsp;as an Islamic terrorist.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Guandolo is so radical that in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, he praised insurrectionists for&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-praises-maga-activists-for-showing-restraint-by-not-executing-lawmakers-during-capitol-insurrection/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">showing restraint</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;by not publicly executing lawmakers, most of whom he&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/john-guandolo-says-members-of-congress-should-be-swinging-from-a-rope/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;are “traitors” who should be “swinging from a rope.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But in “The Enemy Within: FBI Whistleblower,” Turning Point USA&nbsp;<a href="https://rumble.com/v1lil91-fbi-whistleblower-the-enemy-within.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">portrays</a>&nbsp;Guandolo as a brave “FBI whistleblower”</b>&nbsp;dedicated to exposing the “undiscussed network of jihadists and communists that have worked together to undermine America at its root for decades.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>During the documentary, Guandolo discussed his efforts to train local right-wing activists take over their towns,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/throw-your-mayor-in-jail-john-guandolo-is-training-right-wing-citizens-how-to-take-over-their-towns/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">throw their mayors</a>&nbsp;in jail, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whatever-it-takes-john-guandolo-trains-right-wing-activists-to-ruin-the-lives-of-anyone-opposing-their-agenda/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">ruin the lives</a>&nbsp;of anyone who dares to oppose them</b>. As part of this effort, Guandolo said that sheriffs and average citizens must work together to physically prevent the FBI or federal government from operating in their towns and to drive uncooperative companies out of business.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Just recently in Texas, FBI raids a guy’s house, saying he was somehow involved in Jan. 6 and all this nonsense. The local sheriff does nothing,” Guandolo&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/UVGWAjhUrKs" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">griped</a>. “And in response to citizens asking the sheriff, ‘Why didn’t you intervene?’ He’s like, ‘Well, it’s out of my hands. It’s a federal matter.’ The answer is it’s your frickin’ county, it’s your jurisdiction, it’s your responsibility! The fact that you’re unprofessional—and the fact that you’re too scared or cowardly to do your duty—that’s the problem. Citizens have to hold their local officials culpable.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Let’s look at what that looks like in reality,” Guandolo continued. “When the FBI shows up at a citizen’s home, whether they’re given a head’s up or [not]—now, if they’re given a head’s up, the sheriff immediately calls local FBI and says, ‘No, you’re not doing that.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Before you do anything in my county, I want to see it. And if you show up without notifying me, I’m going to put 20 deputies in front of this guy’s house, and you’re not going in. And we will physically block you because it’s wrong. And we’ll call citizens that we work with in the community, and we’ll have 100 or 200 of them out there because what you’re doing is wrong, and I’m not going to tolerate it. And by the way, I’m the law in this county, not you.'”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“What you’re doing is unjust, and so we’re not going to allow it in our county,” Guandolo added, “You can do that with the banks that are doing financing of these groups. ‘Hey, you want to finance communist China through [Black Lives Matter]? Then your bank will shut down in our county. We’re shutting this branch down, so if you want to operate, then you need to shut this off. You’ve got two hours.’ And there are a lot of ways to do it, a lot of ways to make people unwelcome. And if that makes people listening or viewing what we’re doing right here uncomfortable, then all I would ask is, that’s fine that you’re uncomfortable, get out of the way because there’s a war on, and we don’t need you in the middle if you’re not sure what’s actually going on." [vid]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>guandolo echoes talking points put forth by extremists like Richard Mack, t</b>he founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/02/racine-county-christopher-schmaling-active-constitutional-sheriff-movement-donald-trump-oath-keeper/10184573002/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">teaches</a>&nbsp;that “the power of the sheriff even supersedes the powers of the president” and urges local law enforcement to resist federal authority. This false idea that the sheriff holds supreme authority has increased in popularity among right-wing activists who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/right-wing-us-sheriffs-vow-probe-2020-voter-fraud-claims-2022-07-20/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">would like to see</a>&nbsp;sheriffs conduct more audits of the 2020 presidential election and be more involved in future elections.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>This film—and Turning Point USA’s heroic portrayal of the extremist Guandolo—is noteworthy for another reason: It shows just how far to the right the youth organization has become.</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">often tpusa bkgd in pix of rw wackos eg mma 922</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CHARLIE KIRK (TURNING POINT USA FOUNDER): I was told by everybody&nbsp;— it's not the President Trump&nbsp;— but it is going to make you guys, wait till you see this, alright? In fact, this man is more hated by the media than Donald Trump, and that says something. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">OK? Which is, so, if you're going to talk about <b>the great reset, then you have to have someone who's the most banned man in America, Alex Jones joins us</b>.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ALEX JONES: I’m extremely honored to literally be here with the leader of the pack Charlie Kirk and the great Turning Point USA. I mean your buzz has been giant for six years and I’m telling you, everywhere, there’s victory. Everywhere people are awakening.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> Everywhere young people are being energized, and others, it’s Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, what you’re doing. So I’m very honored to be here and I salute you in the f<b>ight for western civilization and the future of our world and the battle to defeat the great reset.</b></span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w/ trump pol is just kneejerk reverse BO; w/ bannon it is assign evil motive for all actions</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-says-biden-administrations-initiative-cure-cancer-covert-operation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-says-biden-administrations-initiative-cure-cancer-covert-operation</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTE AS W CONSPIR THE LACK OF EVIDENCE IS PROOF</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHICOM PTY MODEL WEF admin state pol central bank&nbsp; plus state owned ind converge for totalitarian power; all godless, so want to live forever;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">tpusa in person</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>STEVE BANNON: This is the biggest inflection point in human history. In the lived experience of half of this room, or maybe more, we're going to get to a point where you're going to have human 2.0. Right?</b>&nbsp;They're telling you that. They're funding that. This is not science fiction, this is fact.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>They talk about they’re going to save kids, and they’re going to do this -- that’s all crap. They want to be immortal. Right?&nbsp;</b>And they also say there's too many people, the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;carrying capacity of this planet</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">– there's too many people, right? So we gotta figure out how we're going to do here.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You know, they're all over Tucker and the Great Replacement theory and about the thing. Hey, the Great Replacement theory is homo sapiens. That's what they're trying to replace.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>They’re going to have their deal and devil catch the hindmost</b>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;And people say well hold it I haven't heard about that. Of course you haven't heard about it. They don't want to talk about it. They're just going to do it. And they're going to call it the<b>&nbsp;Cancer Moonshot.</b>&nbsp;This is what we have to stop.&nbsp;</span></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-british-colonialism-was-most-benign-global-empire-ever">https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-british-colonialism-was-most-benign-global-empire-ever</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>CHARLIE KIRK (HOST):<b> This beautiful Independence Hall was desecrated.[with red wht and blue; ja6 literal shit on walls? ketchup WH]</b> So Joe Biden walks center stage, with Jill Biden, and the moment that Joe Biden walks on stage the entire imagery turns red, with red lights going upwards. And two Marines come out and flank him. And these red lights are there all throughout the speech, and then Joe Biden walks all the way out to center stage and the<b> imagery looked like something out of the 1930s.</b></div><div>
</div><div>And I don't say this lightly, and I can't stand when everyone compares everything to Nazi Germany. I think that is overdone, I think that it is just kind of a lazy and sloppy throwaway line. In fact, we have a rule here on The Charlie Kirk Show which is not to compare everything to Hitler.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>But I'll be very honest. It was very Hitlerian. There is no other explanation of this. The red lights coming up. And so then Joe Biden comes center stage,<b> clumsily to the podium</b>, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">flanked by two Marines. No mistake for that, by the way. That was completely and totally designed, as if "I run the military, listen to what I'm saying. We're going to use the full force of the federal government against you. We are going to crush our enemies."</span></div><div>
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</div><div>The best way I can articulate this, and I do not use these words lightly. I do not say this jokingly. I do not say this happily.<b> It was a domestic call for the suppression of political opponents. It was almost like a declaration of war against half the country.&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>THE LATEST</div><div>On MSNBC's American Voices, Angelo Carusone explains how right-wing media “started using the language of QAnon” following Biden's speech</div><div>09/04/22 8:24 PM EDT</div><div>On MSNBC's The Cross Connection, Angelo Carusone explains how mainstream cable networks are embracing a “shift towards authoritarianism”</div><div>09/03/22 11:48 AM EDT</div><div>Fox News host Greg Gutfeld: “I am pro-disinformation”</div><div>09/02/22 6:00 PM EDT</div><div>Greg Gutfeld says Biden’s speech warning of extremism is an attempt “to goad you into an emotional state for violence”</div><div>09/02/22 5:36 PM EDT</div><div>Fox News knew it was pushing lies about Dominion</div><div>09/02/22 5:35 PM EDT</div><div>IN THIS ARTICLE</div><div>Charlie Kirk</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Charlie Kirk walks through “10 stages of genocide” to show Democrats are targeting MAGA Republicans</b></div><div>09/02/22&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); line-height: 1.38;">CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Eric from Alaska says "Hey Charlie, loved your show on ranked choice voting, I sent it to all my friends. Attached is the ten stages of genocide. What are your thoughts on how that might pertain to what we're living through?"&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">So to actually answer the question, what was addressed here, of Eric, what he sent, was the 10 stages of genocide.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">The first step is classification. People are divided into us and them. Would that be happening right now?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Sounds like [Biden] is otherizing MAGA.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">How about number 2, symbolization. People are forced to identify themselves.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The third is discrimination. People begin to face systemic discrimination, such as being kicked off of your banking because you're a MAGA supporter. Happening.<b> </b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>Not being able to get access to loans, or go into school, because you're white. Happening. </b>Active discrimination is happening all across the country in the third stage of genocide.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Fourth, dehumanization. People equated with animals, vermin, or diseases. Hate to say it, but it happens a lot.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>Democrat commentators comparing us to deplorables. Calling us semi-fascists,</b> calling half the country semi-fascists or smelly Wal-Mart people certainly sounds like dehumanizating.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">How about step five, organization. In the 10 stages of genocide. The government creates special groups -- police or military -- to enforce the policies. <b>Like the Department of Homeland Security disinformation board.&nbsp;</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Number 6, polarization. The government broadcasts propaganda to turn the populous against the group. Would that be happening right now? Is the government putting forward propaganda to try and turn the population against the group? I know what you’re saying -- that happens every night, that happens every single night.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">How about number seven, official preparation, in the 10 stages of genocide. Preparation. <b>Official action to remove or relocate people begins.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The base of the Democrat Party wants MAGA Republicans imprisoned. I think some of them fantasize about torturing, harming them. [vs thestorm and gitmo barges/]</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>Look, this is gonna get written up on Media Matters. I don't care.</b> It's a long weekend.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> The speech was nothing short of <b>demonic</b>. It just was. The spiritual energy around the entire speech was dark, and was from -- from an <b>unclean place.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">----</p></div><div>Right-wing media have a meltdown over “demagogic” and “satanic” background during Biden’s prime-time address</div><div>09/02/22&nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charlie Kirk says the FBI intentionally placed Time Magazine cover that says “knock knock” in DOJ filing photo to show the deep state is after Trump</span></div><div>08/31/22&nbsp;</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mar-lago-search/charlie-kirk-says-fbi-intentionally-placed-time-magazine-cover-says-knock-knock-doj">https://www.mediamatters.org/mar-lago-search/charlie-kirk-says-fbi-intentionally-placed-time-magazine-cover-says-knock-knock-doj</a></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-and-eric-metaxas-call-for-retaliatory-raids-on-liberal-groups/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-and-eric-metaxas-call-for-retaliatory-raids-on-liberal-groups/</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rww 8 22</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>right-wing commentator and youth organizer Charlie Kirk appeared&nbsp;<a href="https://rumble.com/v1fnc5t-charlie-kirk-weighs-in-on-the-fbi-raid-and-his-new-book-the-college-scam.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday</a>&nbsp;on “The Eric Metaxas Show,” where he called on Republican state attorneys general to launch raids on hundreds of liberal organizations without legal justification in retaliation for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">FBI’s search</a>&nbsp;of former President Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kirk, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-teams-up-with-dominionists-and-christian-nationalists-to-wage-spiritual-war/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Christian nationalist</a>&nbsp;founder of Turning Point USA, declared that GOP attorneys general don’t even need to bother providing a legal pretext or worry about actually arresting people because the raids are simply political payback to show Democrats that “there’s a price” for daring to investigate Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Raids must be met with raids,” Kirk&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/BFGCkVdgLN8" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">declared</a>. “State attorney generals that are Republican have to authorize raids against Soros groups, BLM, Planned Parenthood, the alphabet mafia, groomers, the chemical castration of children now! Here’s why—a hundred facilities should be raided by next week</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Find them. You try to tell me there’s not 100 criminal organizations that are aiding and abetting people across the southern border?<b>&nbsp;La Raza; we know them, they publicized it</b>. I’m not saying you have to arrest them. Just raid them. Find out what you find.&nbsp;<b>Why? That will all of a sudden make [liberal groups] and their internal chatters—’Guys, you were so stupid. You raided Trump, now they’re coming after us.’ Good! Now you know there’s a price to this.”</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Metaxas, a Trump sycophant and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1440382437415022592" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">adamant</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1438147450024431620" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">election</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michele-bachmanns-election-integrity-conference-features-notorious-source-of-conspiracy-theories-the-gateway-pundit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theorist</a>, loved the idea</b>, declaring that “true leadership” means doing radical things like carrying raids without any legal pretext, adding that such leaders will be judged favorably by history and by God.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“True leadership means doing things that some people will say, ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ A leader makes that calculation and says, ‘I think I need to do this now, and history will judge me, God will judge me,'” Metaxas said. “Do what is needed, and let God judge you, and let history judge you. We need those kinds of leaders now.&nbsp;<b>Because we are in a war, we need a wartime consigliere.</b>”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Metaxas and Kirk then asserted that their Christian faith requires that such action be taken.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Both of us are Christians, and we take our orders from Jesus,” Metaxas continued. “God gave us this nation. He gave us liberty, and he gave us the obligation to keep the Republic. We have an obligation. … If you don’t understand that there is a time to fight, there is a time to take dramatic action, and it is not only not a violation of our Christian faith; on the contrary, it is a manifestation of our faith.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>“It’s a matter of justice, which is God’s idea,” Kirk replied. “Our entire system is inspired by the Bible. It is based on God’s will and providence breathing into our life.</b>&nbsp;And if we’re just going to kind of sit idly by and do nothing; this is what drives me nuts, though, Eric, is that only a pampered, comfortable, self-righteous, arrogant, weak, theologically questionable Christian generation could believe such a thing.<b> Our grandfathers and our ancestors were Christian, and they knew if they had to fight evil, they did.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Metaxas, who emceed a “prayer rally” on the National Mall at which Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-calls-for-bloody-war-if-trump-doesnt-invoke-insurrection-act/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">threatened</a>&nbsp;bloody civil war if Trump did not use his role as commander in chief to hang onto power after losing the 2020 election, warned that anyone who opposes such measures will be judged by God.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If you are not angry about this, if you don’t want to do something about this, you’re part of the problem, folks,” Metaxas declared. “You are in bed with evil if you are not outraged at these things happening in the United States of America</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. If you just want business as usual to continue, you lack courage, and God will judge you, and history will judge you for this</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. There were many good Germans [in Nazi Germany] who did exactly this</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. They looked the other way when God would have said, ‘Please now look at what is happening. Please do a small thing now.’ They said, ‘I’m going to look the other way.’ You will regret it for the rest of your life if you don’t do something right now."[vid</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">as right-wing media and Republican politicians paint the raid as a deep state attack on the former president, threats against federal agents and the Justice Department have proliferated on pro-Trump social media, with&nbsp;<b>one man taking his threat offline and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/12/shiffer-trump-truth-social-fan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">attacking on an FBI office</a>&nbsp;in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/conservative-media-outlets-are-embracing-alex-jones-more-ever" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/conservative-media-outlets-are-embracing-alex-jones-more-ever</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 8 22</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Conservative pundits are increasingly embracing far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, even as his financial losses mount and his professional future remains uncertain following a high-profile lawsuit. Right-wing outlets have not only&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/angelo-carusone-right-wing-media-has-basically-fully-embraced-lot-what-alex-jones-has-been" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">adopted</a>&nbsp;many of the fringe host’s conspiratorial affects and theories, but several have also provided Jones with a platform to spread his extremist brand of paranoid quackery.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The decision to give Jones an opportunity to find new audiences — or to tap into his own — is especially fraught right now, given that he was just found liable for defamation and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/jury-alex-jones-defamation-case-begin-deliberations-punitive-damages-2022-08-05/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">forced</a>&nbsp;to pay more than $45 million in damages to parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Jones now faces another defamation suit in Connecticut, also related to comments he made about Sandy Hook, which the talk show host and vitamin&nbsp;<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supplement</a>&nbsp;salesman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/what-infowars-alex-jones-has-said-about-sandy-hook-massacre" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">referred</a>&nbsp;to as “a giant hoax.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Jones has long been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/08/alex-jones-republicans-tucker-carlson/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">legitimized</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/empire-strikes-back-right-wing-media-defend-alex-jones-after-infowars-banned-several" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">defended</a>&nbsp;by the right, conservative media’s increasingly open celebration of him appears to signal a new phase of their relationship with the serial fabulist. Conservatives are bringing him in from the fringe under the guise of free speech and fighting back against the supposed Big Tech censorship, using his deplatforming in 2018 and subsequent court-ordered payments in the Sandy Hook trial to transform him into a First Amendment martyr. And following the FBI’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/conservatives-use-trumps-mar-lago-search-scare-audiences-falling-line-behind-their" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">search</a>&nbsp;of former President Donald Trump’s residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, several right-wing hosts interviewed Jones as though he were a Casandra-like figure whose long history of alarmist warnings of government tyranny had finally come to pass.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Fox News’ top star Tucker Carlson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-shitting-himself-scared-that-his-alex-jones-texts-may-leak" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly</a>&nbsp;regularly texts with Jones and has praised him in various venues repeatedly.</b>&nbsp;In July, Carlson once again&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-gives-full-endorsement-white-supremacist-great-replacement-conspiracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a>&nbsp;his audience that the antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy theory was real, but mainstream outlets wouldn’t acknowledge it for fear of being categorized alongside Alex Jones. Earlier this year,&nbsp;<b>Carlson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/tucker-carlson-admits-deep-admiration-alex-jones-hes-lot-more-talented-i-am" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;Jones is “a lot more talented than I am” and generally&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-praises-alex-jones-and-his-conspiracies-about-george-soros" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">endorsed</a>&nbsp;his conspiracy theories about liberal philanthropist George Soros. Carlson has been a&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140308060941/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOXzH2eWj2Q" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">guest</a>&nbsp;on Infowars and wrote a blurb for Jones’ new book.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Steve Bannon, the host of the&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">War Room</span></b>&nbsp;podcast and a former Trump chief strategist, appeared on an episode of Jones’ Infowars following the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago. He heaped accolades on Jones, recognizing Infowars as “one of the major news sources out there for the MAGA movement.” Along with Jones, Bannon proceeded to lay out wild, completely speculative conspiracy theories.</span>&nbsp;[vid]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump,” Bannon said,</b>&nbsp;providing no evidence to support the claim.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bannon then suggested that the FBI may have “planted stuff” — that is, incriminating evidence — during the search.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Exactly. How do we know a hundred agents in there with their long history of planting things, didn't plant something classified,” Jones echoed.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“You're absolutely right,” Bannon responded. (That theory has since been adopted by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/jesse-watters-claims-fbi-using-doctored-evidence-and-it-planting-evidence-frame" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News hosts</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1557379459874955266" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Republican Sen. Rand Paul</a>.)</b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One day earlier, Bannon hosted Jones on his own&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">War Room</em>&nbsp;podcast to praise the serial liar as the leading edge of conservative thought, using a string of military metaphors to make his point.</b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If you think of military, you've always been like force recon. Or you've been like LRP, long-range patrol,” Bannon&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-throws-support-behind-alex-jones-theyre-trying-break-you-man-and-theyre" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>. “You've been out ahead of, cutting, you know, cutting through, bushwhacking through and laying out the tracks and the trails for where the narrative, then the big narrative engine comes in back of it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bannon also positioned Jones as a warrior and martyr that left-wing activists and tech companies are trying to silence. “They're trying to break you as a man and they're trying to break your incredible organization,” Bannon added.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b style="">Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also interviewed Jones the day after the Mar-a-Lago search</b>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3992193" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">introducing</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;him as “the most canceled man in America” and framing the interview as a defense of the principle of free speech.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Kirk then proceeded to give Jones a platform to obfuscate and justify his long, well-documented history of Sandy Hook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/what-infowars-alex-jones-has-said-about-sandy-hook-massacre" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">denial</a>. Kirk then asked Jones to give his listeners advice on how to “keep on going — how do I push on through if people try to cancel me.”</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kirk later characterized Jones as a brave truth-teller, freeing his listeners from the blinders that had been placed on them. “How do you break people out of the comfort of the lies they live in?” Kirk asked Jones. “Because that’s what you do for a living.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jones eventually responded with an unhinged rant about who makes the best resistance fighters against what he believes is a demonic globalist cabal.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Because men haven’t been alpha males and stood up for Western civilization and the empowerment of the future and a pro-human future, we’ve allowed sick, degenerate alpha males to come in and threaten the women, and children, and men to get in line with them,” Jones explained.</span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Alex Jones, he’s not crazy, he’s just early. He’s ahead of the curve,” Kirk said to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3992195" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">close</a>&nbsp;out the segment.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The previous day, Kirk had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3992199" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praised</a>&nbsp;Jones as someone who was “not wrong a lot of the time,” even as he acknowledged that “he is not right a lot of the time.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Elijah Schaffer, a reporter at The Blaze and host of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Slightly Offens*ve</em>, also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3992237" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interviewed</a>&nbsp;Jones in August after the conclusion of his Sandy Hook defamation trial. Like Kirk and Bannon, Schaffer framed the discussion as a defense of free speech against those who are trying to “silence the truth.”</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oans-shameful-final-days-national-television" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Failing</a>&nbsp;Fox News competitor One America News Network interviewed Jones’ colleague Owen Shroyer, currently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-07-22/internet-troll-baked-alaska-pleads-guilty-in-capitol-riot" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">facing charges</a>&nbsp;in the January 6 riot, following the conclusion of the Sandy Hook trial.</b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“​​We are increasingly seeing, you know, here at one American News, we haven't been banned quite as hard as you guys, but we got taken off FiOS with Verizon,” host Addison Smith said. “We got taken off Comcast TV, you know, you name it. And that's because for very similar reasons, we have a commitment to reporting the truth as we see it and reporting the facts as we see it.”</b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shroyer responded by praising Alex Jones’ “almost prophetic-like foresight of geopolitical developments and political developments.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two continued their mutual admiration the following night, when Shroyer invited Smith on his show to discuss the Mar-a-Lago search.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A host at Newsmax, an OAN rival,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/newsmaxs-greg-kelly-defends-alex-jones-america-and-you-can-say-what-you-want" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">defended</a>&nbsp;Jones’ defamatory comments on the grounds that “this is America and you can say what you want.”</span></b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And it’s not just backwater, fledgling right-wing networks and podcasts that endorse Jones. His reach extends to the highest echelons of right-wing media.&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Reactionary podcast megastar Joe Rogan has long been a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/05/alex-jones-sandy-hook-trump-rogan/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supporter</a>&nbsp;of Jones, and the two appeared together on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IRyjNDVv3s" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stream</a>&nbsp;of the bafflingly popular&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Timcast IRL</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Hard-right politicians like Rep.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-returned-alex-jones-broadcast-deny-calling-violence-against" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-GA), and, of course,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/politics/alex-jones-jan-6-trump.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Trump</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, are also long-time champions of him as well</span>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Still, there seems to have been a notable difference in the reaction to Jones over the last several weeks. When he was roundly deplatformed in 2018, many conservatives came to his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/empire-strikes-back-right-wing-media-defend-alex-jones-after-infowars-banned-several" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">defense</a>&nbsp;on free speech grounds while&nbsp;<b>at least nominally distancing themselves&nbsp;</b>from his content and arguments. 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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was tempting to dismiss the show unfolding inside the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, as an unintended comedy. One night in June, a few hundred people gathered for the première of “The Deep Rig,” a film financed by the multimillionaire founder of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, who is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. Styled as a documentary, the movie asserts that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by supporters of Joe Biden, including by Antifa members who chatted about their sinister plot on a conference call. The evening’s program featured live appearances by Byrne and a local QAnon conspiracist, BabyQ, who claimed to be receiving messages from his future self. They were joined by the film’s director, who had previously made an exposé contending that the real perpetrators of 9/11 were space aliens.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the event, for all its absurdities, had a dark surprise:&nbsp;<b>“The Deep Rig” repeatedly quotes Doug Logan, the C.E.O. of Cyber Ninjas</b>, a Florida-based company that consults with clients on software security. In a voice-over, Logan warns, “If we don’t fix our election integrity now, we may no longer have a democracy.” He also suggests, without evidence, that&nbsp;<b>members of the “deep state,” such as C.I.A. agents, have intentionally spread disinformation about the election.&nbsp;</b>Although it wasn’t the first time that Logan had promoted what has come to be known as the Big Lie about the 2020 election—he had tweeted unsubstantiated claims that Trump had been victimized by voter fraud—the film offered stark confirmation of Logan’s entanglement in fringe conspiracies. Nevertheless, the president of the Arizona State Senate, Karen Fann, has put Logan’s company in charge of a “forensic audit”—an ongoing review of the state’s 2020 Presidential vote. It’s an unprecedented undertaking, with potentially explosive consequences for American democracy.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Approximately 2.1 million Presidential votes were cast in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and accounts for most of the state’s population. In recent years, younger voters and people of color have turned the county’s electorate increasingly Democratic—a shift that helped Biden win the traditionally conservative state, by 10,457 votes. Since the election, the county has become a focus of ire for Trump and his supporters.&nbsp;<b>By March, when Logan’s company was hired, the county had already undergone four election audits, all of which upheld the outcome. Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican and a former Trump ally, had certified Biden’s victory. But Trump’s core supporters were not assuaged</b>.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As soon as the Fox News Decision Desk called the state for Biden, at 11:20 p.m. on November 3rd, Trump demanded that the network “reverse this!” When Fox held firm, he declared, “This is a major fraud.” By the time of the “Deep Rig” première, the standoff had dragged on for more than half a year. The Cyber Ninjas audit was supposed to conclude in May, but at the company’s request Fann has repeatedly extended it</span>. On July 28th, the auditors completed a hand recount, but they are still demanding access to the computer routers used by Maricopa County and also want to scrutinize images of mail-in-ballot envelopes. The U.S. Department of Justice has warned that “private actors who have neither experience nor expertise in handling” ballots could face prosecution for failing to follow federal audit rules. T<b>rump, meanwhile, has fixated on Arizona’s audit, describing it as a step toward his “reinstatement.” On July 24th, he appeared in Phoenix for a “Rally to Protect Our Elections,</b>” and said, “I am not the one trying to undermine American democracy—I’m the one trying to save American democracy.” Predicting that the audit would vindicate him, he rambled angrily for nearly two hours about having been cheated, calling the election “a scam—the greatest crime in history.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June, I stood in the bleachers at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, where the audit was taking place, and witnessed people examining carton after carton of paper ballots cast by Arizonans last fall. Some inspectors used microscopes to investigate surreal allegations: that some ballots had been filled out by machines or were Asian counterfeits with<b>&nbsp;telltale bamboo fibres.</b>&nbsp;Other inspectors looked for creases in mail-in ballots, to determine whether they had been legitimately sent in envelopes or—as Trump has alleged—dumped in bulk.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As the audit has unfolded, various violations of professional norms have been observed, including inspectors caught with pens whose ink matched what was used on ballots</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;One auditor turned out to have been an unsuccessful Republican candidate during the election.</span>&nbsp;As I watched the proceedings, black-vested paid supervisors monitored the process, but their role was cloaked in secrecy. The audit is almost&nbsp;<b>entirely privately funded</b>, and a county judge in Arizona recently ordered the State Senate to disclose who is paying for it. Last week, Cyber Ninjas acknowledged having received $5.7 million in private donations, most of it from nonprofit groups led by Trump allies who live outside Arizona, including Byrne.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I was joined in the bleachers by Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state and a Republican, whom the State Senate had designated its liaison to the audit. He acknowledged that, if the auditors end up claiming to have found large discrepancies, “that will of course be very inflammatory.” Indeed, a recent incendiary claim by the auditors—that the vote had tallied about seventy thousand more mail-in ballots than had been postmarked—prompted one Republican state senator to propose a recall of Arizona’s electoral votes for Biden. (In fact, the auditors misunderstood what they were counting.) Nevertheless, Bennett defended the audit process: “It’s important to prove to both sides that the election was done accurately and fairly. If we lurch from one election to another with almost half the electorate thinking the election was a fraud, it’s going to rip our country apart.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many experts on democratic governance, however, believe that efforts to upend long-settled election practices are what truly threaten to rip the country apart. Chad Campbell, a Democrat who was the minority leader in the Arizona House of Representatives until 2014, when he left to become a consultant in Phoenix, has been shocked by the state’s anti-democratic turn. For several years, he sat next to&nbsp;<b>Karen Fann&nbsp;</b>when she was a member of the House, and in his view she’s gone from being a traditional Republican lawmaker to being a member of “Trump’s cult of personality.” He said, “I don’t know if she believes it or not, or which would be worse.” Arizona, he added, is in the midst of a “nonviolent overthrow in some ways—it’s subtle, and not in people’s face because it’s not happening with weapons. But it’s still a complete overthrow of democracy. They’re trying to disenfranchise everyone who is not older white guys.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Arizona is hardly the only place where attacks on the electoral process are under way: a well-funded national movement has been exploiting Trump’s claims of fraud in order to promote alterations to the way that ballots are cast and counted in forty-nine states, eighteen of which have passed new voting laws in the past six months.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican-dominated legislatures have also stripped secretaries of state and other independent election officials of their power. The chair of Arizona’s Republican Party, Kelli Ward, has referred to the state’s audit as a “domino,” and has expressed hope that it will inspire similar challenges elsewhere.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ralph Neas has been involved in voting-rights battles since the nineteen-eighties, when, as a Republican, he served as the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.</b>&nbsp;He has overseen a study of the Arizona audit for the nonpartisan Century Foundation, and he told me that, though the&nbsp;<b>audit is a “farce,</b>” it may nonetheless have “extraordinary consequences.” He said, “The Maricopa County audit exposes exactly what the Big Lie is all about. If they come up with an analysis that discredits the 2020 election results in Arizona, it will be replicated in other states, furthering more chaos. That will enable new legislation. Millions of Americans could be disenfranchised, helping Donald Trump to be elected again in 2024. That’s the bottom line. Maricopa County is the prism through which to view everything.&nbsp;<b>It’s not so much about 2020—it’s about 2022 and 2024. This is a coördinated national effort to distort not just what happened in 2020 but to regain the House of Representatives and the Presidency.”</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the country’s foremost election-law experts, told me, “I’m scared shitless.”</b>&nbsp;Referring to the array of new laws passed by Republican state legislatures since the 2020 election, he said, “It’s not just about voter suppression. What I’m really worried about is election subversion. Election officials are being put in place who will mess with the count.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona’s secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, whose office has authority over the administration of elections, told me that the conspiracy-driven audit “looks so comical you have to laugh at it sometimes.” But Hobbs, a Democrat, who is running for governor, warned, “It’s dangerou</span>s. It’s feeding the kind of misinformation that led to the January 6th insurrection.”&nbsp;<b>QAnon followers have been celebrating the audit as the beginning of a “Great Awakening” that will eject Biden from the White House</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She noted, “I’ve gotten death threats. I’ve had armed protestors outside my house. Every day, there is a total barrage of social media to our office. We’ve had to route our phones to voice mail so that no one has to listen to it. It can be really traumatizing. I feel beaten up.” She added, “But I’m not going to cave to their tactics—because&nbsp;<b>I think they’re laying the groundwork to steal the 2024 elections.”</b></span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Although the Arizona audit may appear to be the product of local extremists, it has been fed by sophisticated, well-funded national organizations whose boards of directors include some of the country’s wealthiest and highest-profile conservatives. Dark-money organizations, sustained by undisclosed donors, have relentlessly promoted the myth that American elections are rife with fraud, and, according to leaked records of their internal deliberations, they have drafted, supported, and in some cases taken credit for state laws that make it harder to vote.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has tracked the flow of dark money in American politics, told me that a “flotilla of front groups” once focussed on advancing such conservative causes as capturing the courts and opposing abortion have now “more or less shifted to work on the voter-suppression thing.</b>”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;These groups have cast their campaigns as high-minded attempts to maintain “election integrity,” but Whitehouse believes that they are in fact tampering with the guardrails of democracy.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One of the movement’s leaders is the Heritage Foundation, the prominent conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. It has been working with the American Legislative Exchange Council (alec)</b>—a&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">corporate-funde</span>d nonprofit that generates model laws for state legislators—on ways to impose new voting restrictions.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Among those deep in the fight is Leonard Leo, a chairman of the Federalist Society</b>, the legal organization known for its decades-long campaign to fill the courts with conservative judges.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In February, 2020, the Judicial Education Project, a group tied to Leo, quietly rebranded itself as the Honest Elections Project, which subsequently filed briefs at the Supreme Court, and in numerous states, opposing mail-in ballots and other reforms that have made it easier for people to vote.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another newcomer to the cause is the Election Integrity Project California. And a group called FreedomWorks</b>, which once concentrated on opposing government regulation, is now demanding expanded government regulation of voters, with a project called the National Election Protection Initiative.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">These disparate nonprofits have one thing in common: they have all received funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Based in Milwaukee</span>, the private, tax-exempt organization has become an extraordinary force in persuading mainstream Republicans to support radical challenges to election rules—a tactic once relegated to the far right. With an endowment of some eight hundred and fifty million dollars, the foundation funds a network of groups that have been stoking fear about election fraud, in some cases for years. Public records show that, since 2012, the foundation has spent some eighteen million dollars supporting eleven conservative groups involved in election issues.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It might seem improbable that a low-profile family foundation in Wisconsin has assumed a central role in current struggles over American democracy. But the modern conservative movement has depended on leveraging the fortunes of wealthy reactionaries. In 1903, Lynde Bradley, a high-school dropout in Milwaukee, founded what would become the Allen-Bradley company. He was soon joined by his brother Harry, and they got rich by&nbsp;<b>selling electronic instruments such as rheostats. Harry, a John Birch Society&nbsp;</b>founding member, started a small family foundation that initially devoted much of its giving to needy employees and to civic causes in Milwaukee. In 1985, after the brothers’ death, their heirs sold the company to the defense contractor Rockwell International, for $1.65 billion, generating an enormous windfall for the foundation.&nbsp;<b>The Bradley Foundation remains small in comparison with such liberal behemoths as the Ford Foundation, but it has become singularly preoccupied with wielding national political influence.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has funded conservative projects ranging from school-choice initiatives to the controversial scholarship of Charles Murray, the co-author of the 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” which argues that Blacks are less likely than whites to join the “cognitive elite.” And, at least a<b>s far back as 2012, it has funded groups challenging voting rights in the name of fighting fraud.</b></span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since the 2020 election, this movement has evolved into a broader and more aggressive assault on democracy. According to some surveys, a third of Americans now believe that Biden was illegitimately elected, and nearly half of Trump supporters agree that Republican legislators should overturn the results in some states that Biden won</b>. Jonathan Rauch, of the Brookings Institution, recently told The Economist, “<b>We need to regard what’s happening now as epistemic warfare by some Americans on other Americans.</b>” Pillars of the conservative establishment, faced with a changing U.S. voter population that threatens their agenda, are exploiting Trump’s contempt for norms to devise ways to hold on to power. Senator Whitehouse said of the campaign, “It’s a massive covert operation run by a small group of billionaire élites. These are powerful interests with practically unlimited resources who have moved on to manipulating that most precious of American gifts—the vote.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>An animating force behind the Bradley Foundation’s war on “election fraud” is Cleta Mitchell</b>,&nbsp;</span>a fiercely partisan Republican election lawyer, who joined the organization’s board of directors in 2012. Until recently, she was virtually unknown to most Americans. But, on January 3rd, the Washington Post exposed the contents of a private phone call, recorded the previous day, during which Trump threatened election officials in Georgia with a “criminal offense” unless they could “find” 11,780 more votes for him—just enough to alter the results.&nbsp;<b>Also on the call was Mitchell,&nbsp;</b>who challenged the officials to provide records proving that dead people hadn’t cast votes. The call was widely criticized as a rogue effort to overturn the election, and Foley & Lardner, the Milwaukee-based law firm where Mitchell was a partner, announced that it was “concerned” about her role, and then parted ways with her. Trump’s call prompted the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, to begin a criminal investigation.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In a series of e-mails and phone calls with me, Mitchell adamantly defended her work with the Trump campaign, and said that in Georgia, where she has centered her efforts, “I don’t think we can say with certainty who won.</b>” She told me that there were countless election “irregularities,” such as voters using post-office boxes as their residences, in violation of state law. “I believe there were more illegal votes cast than the margin of victory,” she said. “The only remedy is a new election.” Georgia’s secretary of state rejected her claims, but Mitchell insists that the decision lacked a rigorous evaluation of the evidence. With her support, diehard conspiracy theorists are still litigating the matter in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta. Because they keep demanding that election officials prove a negative—that corruption didn’t happen—their requests to keep interrogating the results can be repeated almost indefinitely. Despite three independent counts of Georgia’s vote, including a hand recount, all of which confirmed Biden’s victory, Mitchell argues that “Trump never got his day in court,” adding, “There are a lot of miscarriages of justice I’ve seen and experienced in my life, and this was one of them.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mitchell, who is seventy, has warm friendships with people in both parties, and she often appears grandmotherly, in pastel knit suits and reading glasses. But, like Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate,” to whom she bears a striking resemblance, she should not be underestimated.</b>&nbsp;She began her political career in Oklahoma, as an outspoken Democrat and a champion of the Equal Rights Amendment. She was elected to the state legislature in her twenties, but then lost a bid for lieutenant governor, in 1986. She told me that she subsequently underwent a&nbsp;<b>political conversion:</b>&nbsp;when her stepson squandered the college tuition that she was paying, she turned against the idea of welfare in favor of personal responsibility, and began reading conservative critiques of liberalism. When I first interviewed her for this magazine, in 1996, she told me that “o<b>verreaching government regulation is one of the great scandals of our times.”</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On behalf of Republican candidates and groups, she began to fight limits on campaign spending</b>. She also represented numerous right-wing nonprofits, including the National Rifle Association, whose board she joined in the early two-thousands. A former N.R.A. official recently told the Guardian that Mitchell was the “fringe of the fringe,” and a Republican voting-rights lawyer said that “she tells clients what they want to hear, regardless of the law or reality.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In our conversations, Mitchell mocked what she called the mainstream media’s “narrative” of a “vast right-wing conspiracy to suppress the vote of Black people,” and insisted that the fraud problem was significant</b>. “I actually think your readers need to hear from people like me—believe it or not, there are tens of millions of us,” she wrote. “We are not crazy. At least not to us. We are intelligent and educated people who are very concerned about the future of America. And we are among the vast majority of Americans who support election-integrity measures.” Echoing what has become the right’s standard talking point, she declared that her agenda for elections is “to make it harder to cheat.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mitchell told me that the Democrats used the pandemic as a “great pretext” to “be able to cheat”: they caused “administrative chaos” by changing rules about early and absentee voting, and they didn’t adequately police fraud. She denied that race had motivated her actions in Georgia. Yet, in an e-mail to me, she said that Democrats are “using black voters as a prop to accomplish their political objectives.</span>”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Few experts have found Mitchell’s evidence convincing. On November 12, 2020, the Trump Administration’s own election authorities declared the Presidential vote to be “the most secure in American history.” It is true that in many American elections there are small numbers of questionable ballots. An Associated Press investigation found that, in 2020, a hundred and eighty-two of the 3.4 million ballots cast in Arizona were problematic. Four of the ballots have led to criminal charges. But the consensus among nonpartisan experts is that the amount of fraud, particularly in major races, is negligible. As Phil Keisling, a former secretary of state in Oregon, who pioneered universal voting by mail, has said, “Voters don’t cast fraudulent ballots for the same reason counterfeiters don’t manufacture pennies—it doesn’t pay.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What explains, then, the hardening conviction among Republicans that the 2020 race was stolen? Michael Podhorzer, a senior adviser to the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which invested deeply in expanding Democratic turnout in 2020, suggests that the two parties now have irreconcilable beliefs about whose votes are legitimate. “What blue-state people don’t understand about why the Big Lie works,” he said, is that it&nbsp;<b>doesn’t actually require proof of fraud. “What animates it is the belief that Biden won because votes were cast by some people in this country who others think are not ‘real’ Americans.</b>”</span>&nbsp;<b>This anti-democratic belief has been bolstered by a constellation of established institutions on the right: “white evangelical churches, legislators, media companies, nonprofits, and even now paramilitary groups.</b>” Podhorzer noted, “<b>Trump won white America by eight points. He won non-urban areas by over twenty points. He is the democratically elected President of white America. It’s almost like he represents a nation within a nation</b>.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Alarmism about election fraud in America extends at least as far back as Reconstruction, when white Southerners disenfranchised newly empowered Black voters and politicians by accusing them of corruption.</b>&nbsp;After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, some white conservatives were frank about their hostility to democracy. Forty years ago, Paul Weyrich, who helped establish the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups, admitted, “I don’t want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Like many conservatives of her generation, Cleta Mitchell was galvanized by the disputed 2000 election, in which George W. Bush and Al Gore battled for weeks over the outcome in Florida. She repeatedly spoke out on behalf of Bush, who won the state by only five hundred and thirty-seven votes. A dispute over recounts ended up at the Supreme Court</span>.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Few people noticed at the time, but in that case, Bush v. Gore, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, hinted at a radical reading of the Constitution that, two decades later, undergirds many of the court challenges on behalf of Trump</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. In a concurring opinion, the Justices argued that state legislatures have the plenary power to run elections and can even pass laws giving themselves the right to appoint electors. Today, the so-called Independent Legislature Doctrine has informed Trump and the right’s attempts to use Republican-dominated state legislatures to overrule the popular will. Nathaniel Persily, an election-law expert at Stanford, told me, “It’s giving intellectual respectability to an otherwise insane, anti-democratic argument.”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Barack Obama’s election in 2008 made plain that the voting-rights wars were fuelled, in no small part, by racial animus. Bigoted conspiracists, including Trump, spent years trying to undermine the result by falsely claiming that Obama wasn’t born in America. Birtherism</b>, which attempted to undercut a landmark election in which the turnout rate among Black voters nearly matched that of whites, was a&nbsp;<b>progenitor of the Big Lie.</b>&nbsp;As Penda Hair, a founder of the Advancement Project, a progressive voting-rights advocacy group, told me, conservatives were looking at Obama’s victory “and saying, ‘We’ve got to clamp things down’—they’d always tried to suppress the Black vote, but it was then that they came up with new schemes.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mitchell was at the forefront of the right’s offensive</b>. In 2010, she accused the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Democrat Harry Reid, who was running for reëlection in Nevada, of planning “to steal this election if he can’t win it outright.” Her evidence was that Democrats in the<b>&nbsp;state had provided “clearly illegal” free food at voter-turnout events—a negligible infraction, given that Reid won by more than forty thousand votes.</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A year later, Mitchell successfully defended Trump, who had been exploring a Presidential bid, against charges that he had taken illegal campaign contributions</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;She had been recommended to Trump by Chris Ruddy, the founder of the conservative media company Newsmax,<b>&nbsp;</b></span><b>which was also a Mitchell client.</b>&nbsp;Later, Ruddy introduced the future President to Mitchell over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. (She told me that she found Trump “gracious,” and noted that, since the 2020 election, she has talked with him “pretty often.”)</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act,&nbsp;</b>eliminating the Justice Department’s power to screen proposed changes to election procedures in states with discriminatory histories, one of which was Arizona. Terry Goddard, a former Arizona attorney general and a Democrat, told me that “the state has a history of voter suppression, especially against Native Americans.” Before Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, in 1971, he lived in Arizona, where he was accused of administering literacy tests to voters of color. In the mid-two-thousands, Goddard recalled, Republican leaders erected many barriers aimed at deterring Latino voters, some of which the courts struck down. But the 2013 Supreme Court ruling initiated a new era of election manipulation.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Around this time, Mitchell became a director at the Bradley Foundation.&nbsp;</span>Among the board members were&nbsp;<b>George F. Will,</b>&nbsp;the syndicated columnist, and&nbsp;<b>Robert George, a Princeton political philosopher known for his defense of traditional Catholic values.&nbsp;</b>By 2017, Will, who has been a critic of Trump, had stepped down from the Bradley board. But George has continued to serve as a director, even as the foundation has heavily funded groups promulgating the falsehood that election fraud is widespread in America, particularly in minority communities, and sowing doubt about the legitimacy of Biden’s win.&nbsp;<b>The foundation, meanwhile, has given nearly three million dollars to programs that George established at Princeton.&nbsp;</b>He has written in praise of Pence’s refusal to decertify Biden’s election, and has lamented that so many Americans believe, “wrongly,” that “the election was ‘stolen.’ ” But he declined to discuss with me why, then, he serves on the Bradley Foundation’s board.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The board includes Art Pope,</b>&nbsp;the libertarian discount-store magnate, who serves on the board of governors at the University of North Carolina.? Pope, who has also acknowledged the legitimacy of Biden’s victory, declined to discuss his role at the foundation. Another board member is&nbsp;<b>Paul Clement, a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis,&nbsp;</b>who is one of the country’s most distinguished Supreme Court litigators. He could not be reached for comment.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitchell argues that the right spends “a pittance” on election issues compared with the left. “Have you looked at the Democracy Alliance?” she asked me. The Alliance, whose membership is secret, distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money to many left-leaning causes. But, when it comes to influencing elections, the contrast with the Bradley Foundation is clear. Whereas the Alliance’s efforts have centered on increasing voter participation, the Bradley Foundation has focussed on disqualifying ostensibly illegitimate voters.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Like most private nonprofits, the Bradley Foundation doesn’t disclose much about its inner workings</b>. But in 2016 hackers posted online some of the group’s confidential documents, which showed that, once Mitchell became a director, she began urging the foundation to support nonprofit organizations&nbsp;<b>policing election fraud.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mitchell has professional ties to several of the groups that received money, although she says that she has abstained from voting on grants to any of those organizations.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One recipient of Bradley money is True the Vote, a Texas-based group&nbsp;</b>that, among other things, trains people to monitor polling sites.&nbsp;<b>Mitchell has served as its legal counsel</b>, and hacked documents show that she advocated to the I.R.S. that the group deserved tax-exempt status as a charity. To earn such a designation, a group must file federal tax forms promising not to engage in electoral politics. In a letter of support, she asserted that “fraudulent voting occurs in the United States,” citing a 2010 case in which the F.B.I. arrested nine Floridians for election violations. But, as with many voter-fraud allegations, the details of the case were less than advertised. The accusation involved a school-board election in a rural Black community in which a campaign had collected dozens of absentee ballots, in violation of the law. The charges were eventually dismissed. The judge found “no intent to cast a false or fraudulent ballot.” True the Vote, which was granted tax-exempt status, has since been the subject of numerous complaints from voters, who have accused it of intimidation and racism.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Last year, a Reuters report characterized Mitchell as one of four lawyers leading the conservative war on “election fraud,” and described True the Vote as one of the movement’s hubs</b>. The story linked the group and three other conservative nonprofits to at least sixty-one election lawsuits since 2012. Reuters noted that, during the same period, the four groups, along with two others devoted to election-integrity issues, have received more than three and a half million dollars from the Bradley Foundation.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s a surprisingly short leap from making accusations of voter fraud to calling for the nullification of a supposedly tainted election. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a group funded by the Bradley Foundation, is leading the way</b>. Based in Indiana, it has become a prolific source of litigation; in the past year alone, it has brought nine election-law cases in eight states. It has amassed some of the most visible lawyers obsessed with election fraud, including Mitchell, who is its chair and sits on its board.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One of the group’s directors is John Eastman, a former law professor at Chapman University, in California</b>. On January 4, 2021, he visited the White House, where he spoke with Trump about ways to void the election. In a nod to the Independent Legislature Doctrine, Eastman and Trump tried to persuade Vice-President Mike Pence to halt the certification of the Electoral College vote, instead throwing the election to the state legislatures. Pence was not persuaded.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two days later, Eastman spoke at Trump’s “Save America” rally in Washington, hours before the crowds ransacked the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s win.</b>&nbsp;“This is bigger than President Trump!” Eastman declared. “It is the very essence of our republican form of government, and it has to be done!” He thundered that election officials had robbed Trump by illegally casting ballots in the name of non-voters whose records they had extracted, after the polls had closed, from a “secret folder” in electronic voting machines. He told the crowd that the scandal was visible in “the data.” There is no evidence of such malfeasance, however. Eastman, who recently retired, under pressure, from Chapman University, and was stripped of his public duties at another post that he held, at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me he still believes that the election was stolen, and thinks that the audits in Arizona and other states will help prove it. The Bradley Foundation declined to comment on him, or on Mitchell, when asked about its role in funding their activities.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two other Public Interest Legal Foundation lawyers—its president, J. Christian Adams,&nbsp;</b>and another board member, Hans von&nbsp;<b>Spakovsky</b>—served in George W. Bush’s Justice Department, where they began efforts to use the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to protect Black voters, to prosecute purported fraud by Black voters and election officials. Both men have argued strenuously that American elections are rife with serious fraud, and in 2017 they got a rare opportunity to make their case, when Trump appointed them to a Presidential commission on election integrity. Within months, after the commission was unable to find significant evidence of election fraud, it acrimoniously disbanded. Adams and von Spakovsky, who are members of what Roll Call has termed the Voter Fraud Brain Trust, have nevertheless continued their crusade, sustained partly by Bradley funds. Von Spakovsky now heads the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, which has received grants from the Bradley Foundation.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At Heritage, von Spakovsky has overseen a national tracking system monitoring election-fraud cases.</b>&nbsp;But its data on Arizona, the putative center of the storm, is not exactly alarming: of the millions of votes cast in the state from 2016 to 2020, only nine individuals were convicted of fraud. Each instance involved someone casting a duplicate ballot in another state. There were no recorded cases of identity fraud, ballot stuffing, voting by non-citizens, or other nefarious schemes. The numbers confirm that there is some voter fraud, or at least confusion, but not remotely enough to affect election outcomes.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Even Benjamin Ginsberg</b>, a Republican lawyer who for years led the Party’s election-law fights, recently conceded to the Times that “a party that’s increasingly old and white whose base is a diminishing share of the population is conjuring up charges of fraud to erect barriers to voting for people it fears won’t support its candidates.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Voter Fraud Brain Trust lent support to Trump’s lies from the time he took office.</b>&nbsp;In 2016, when he lost the popular vote by nearly three million ballots, he insisted that he had actually won it, spuriously blaming rampant fraud in California. Soon afterward, von Spakovsky gave Trump’s false claim credence by publishing an essay at Heritage arguing that there was no way to disprove the allegation, because “we have an election system that’s based on the honor system.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>More than a year before the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell and her allies sensed political peril for Trump and began reviewing strategies to help keep him in office.</b>&nbsp;According to a leaked video of an address that she gave in May, 2019, to the</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Council for National Policy</span>,&nbsp;</b>a secretive conservative society, she warned that Democrats were successfully registering what she sarcastically referred to as “the disenfranchised.” She continued, “They know that if they target certain communities and they can get them registered and get them to the polls, then those groups . . . will vote ninety per cent, ninety-five per cent for Democrats.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One possible countermove was for conservative state legislators to reëngineer the way the&nbsp;<b>Electoral College</b>&nbsp;has worked for more than a hundred years, in essence by invoking the Independent Legislature Doctrine. The Constitution gives states the authority to choose their Presidential electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” Since the late nineteenth century, states have delegated that authority to the popular vote. But, arguably, the Constitution permits state legislatures to take this authority back. Legislators could argue that an election had been compromised by irregularities or fraud, forcing them to intervene.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In August, 2019, e-mails show, Mitchell co-chaired a high-level working group with Shawnna Bolick, a Republican state representative from Phoenix. Among the topics slated for discussion was the Electoral College.</b>&nbsp;The working group was convened by alec, the corporate-backed nonprofit that transmits conservative policy ideas and legislation to state lawmakers. The Bradley Foundation has long supported alec, and Mitchell has worked closely with it, serving as its outside counsel until recently.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitchell and Bolick declined to answer questions about the working group’s focus, but it appears that Bolick’s participation was productive. After the election, she signed a resolution demanding that Congress block the certification of Biden’s victory and award Arizona’s electors to Trump. Then, early this year, Bolick introduced a bill proposing a radical reading of Article II of the Constitution, along the lines of the<b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Independent Legislature Doctrine</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. It would enable a majority of the Arizona legislature to override the popular vote if it found fault with the outcome, and dictate the state’s Electoral College votes itself—anytime up until Inauguration Day.&nbsp;</span>Bolick has described her bill as just “a good, democratic check and balance,” but her measure was considered so extreme that it died in committee, despite Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature. Yet, simply by putting forth the idea as legislation, she helped lend legitimacy to the audacious scheme that the Trump campaign desperately pursued in the final days before Biden’s Inauguration: to rely on Republican-led state legislatures to overturn Electoral College votes. Ian Bassin, the executive director of Protect Democracy, who served as an associate White House counsel under Obama, told me, “Institutions like the Heritage Foundation and alec are providing the grease to turn these attacks on democracy into law.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bolick has since announced her candidacy for secretary of state in Arizona. Her husband, Clint Bolick, is an Arizona Supreme Court justice and a leader in right-wing legal circles.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Clarence Thomas, one of the three U.S. Supreme Court Justices who signed on to the concurring opinion in Bush v. Gore laying out the Independent Legislature Doctrine, is the godfather of one of Clint Bolick’s sons</span>. If Shawnna Bolick wins her race, she will oversee future elections in the state. And, if the Supreme Court faces another case in which arguments about the Independent Legislature Doctrine come into play, there may now be enough conservative Justices to agree with Thomas that there are circumstances under which legislatures, not voters, could have the final word in American elections.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Months before the 2020 vote, Lisa Nelson, the C.E.O. of alec, also anticipated contesting the election result</b>s. That February, she told a private gathering of the&nbsp;<b>Council for National Policy</b>&nbsp;</span>about a high-level review that her group had undertaken of ways to challenge “the validity” of the Presidential returns. A video of the proceedings was obtained by the investigative group Documented, and first reported by the Washington Spectator. In her speech, Nelson noted that she was&nbsp;<b>working with Mitchell and von Spakovsky.</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although the law bars charitable organizations such as the<b>&nbsp;Council for National Policy&nbsp;</b>from engaging in electoral politics, Nelson unabashedly acknowledged, “Obviously, we all want President Trump to win, and win the national vote.” She went on, “But it’s very clear that, really, what it comes down to is the states, and the state legislators.”</span>&nbsp;One plan, she said, was to urge conservative legislators to voice doubt to their respective secretaries of state, questioning the election’s outcome and asking, “What did happen that night?”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">By August, 2020, when the Council for National Policy&nbsp;</span>held another meeting, the pandemic had hurt Trump’s prospects, and talk within the membership about potential Democratic election fraud had reached a frenzy. At the meeting,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adams, the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s president,<b>&nbsp;echoed Trump’s raging about mail-in ballots, describing them as “the No. 1 left-wing agenda</b>.” He urged conservatives not to be deterred by criticism: “Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor, you’re a racist, and so forth.”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">A younger member of the organization,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;<b style="">Charlie Kirk—a founder of Turning Point USA</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">, which promotes right-wing ideas on school campuses—injected a note of optimism. He suggested that the pandemic, by closing campuses, would likely suppress voting among college students, a left-leaning bloc. “Please keep the campuses closed,” he said, to cheers. “Like, it’s a great thing!</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Five months later,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Turning Point Action, a “social welfare organization” run by Kirk’s group, was one of nearly a dozen groups behind Trump’s “March to Save America,”</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;on January 6th. Shortly before the rally, Kirk tweeted that the groups he leads would send “80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president.” His tweet was deleted after the crowds assaulted the Capitol.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Turning Point, which has received small grants from the Bradley Foundation, is&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">headquartered in Arizona,</span>&nbsp;and it has played a significant role in the radicalization of the state, in part by amplifying fear and anger about voter fraud.</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Turning Point’s chief operating officer,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;Tyler Bowyer, is a member of the Republican National Committee&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">and a former chair of the Maricopa County Republican Party.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Bowyer’s friend&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jake Hoffman runs an Arizona-based digital-marketing company</span><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">, Rally Forge,&nbsp;that has been Turning Point’s highest-compensated contractor.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the summer of 2020, Rally Forge helped Turning Point use social media to&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">spread incendiary misinformation&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">about the coming elections.&nbsp;</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In September, the Washington Post reported that&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Rally Forge, on behalf of Turning Point Action, had paid teen-agers to deceptively post thousands of copycat propaganda messages, much as Russia had done during the 2016 campaign</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.&nbsp;</span>Adult leaders had instructed the teens to tweak the wording of their posts, to evade detection by technology companies. S<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ome messages were posted under the teens’ accounts, but others were sent under assumed personae. Many posts claimed that mail-in ballots would “lead to fraud,” and that Democrats planned to steal the Presidency.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Turning Point Action denied that it ran a troll farm, arguing that the teen-age employees were genuine, but a study by the Internet Observatory at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center documented the scheme,&nbsp;</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">along with other dubious practices by Rally&nbsp;Forge</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.&nbsp;<b>In 2016, the company fabricated a politician—complete with a doctored photograph—to run as an Independent write-in candidate against Andy Biggs</b>,</span>&nbsp;a far-right Republican seeking an open congressional seat in Arizona.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;The ploy, evidently intended to siphon votes from Biggs’s Democratic opponent, didn’t go far, but it was hardly the company’s only scam. The Guardian has shown how Rally Forge also created a phony left-wing front group, America Progress Now, which promoted Green Party candidates online in 2018, apparently to hurt Democrats in several races.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>In October, 2020, Rally Forge was banned from Facebook, and its president, Hoffman, was permanently suspended by Twitter. Undeterred, he ran as a pro-Trump Republican for the Arizona House</b>—and won.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Remarkably, the chamber’s Republican leadership then appointed him the vice-chair of the Committee on Government and Elections.</span>&nbsp;S<b>ince getting elected, Hoffman has challenged the legitimacy of Biden’s victory, called for election audits, and, in coördination with the Heritage Foundation, used his position to propose numerous bills making it more difficult to vote.</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This past spring, at a private gathering outside Tucson, Jessica Anderson, the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;executive director of Heritage Action—the politically active arm of the Heritage Foundation—singled out Hoffman for praise</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>.</b></span><b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As a leaked video of her remarks revealed, she told supporters that, with the help of Hoffman and other state legislators, the nonprofit group was rewriting America’s election laws.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“In some cases,<b>&nbsp;we actually draft them for them, or we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe,</b>” Anderson explained. “We’ve got three bills done in Arizona!” She continued, “We’re moving four more through the state of Arizona right now . . . simple bills, all straight from the Heritage recommendations.” One of the bills, she noted, was “written and carried by Jake Hoffman,” whom she described as “a longtime friend of the Heritage Foundation.”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hoffman’s bills have made the Heritage Foundation’s wish list a reality.&nbsp;</b><b>Voting by mail has long been popular in Arizona,</b>&nbsp;w<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ith as many as ninety per cent of voters doing so in 2020, but one of Hoffman’s bills made it a&nbsp;<b>felony to send a mail-in ballot to residents who hadn’t requested one, unless they were on an official list of early voters. Another bill, which Hoffman supported, will, according to one estimate, push as many as two hundred thousand people off the state’s list of early voters.&nbsp;</b></span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Opponents say that this legislation will disproportionately purge Latinos</b>,</span>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">who constitute twenty-four per cent of the state’s eligible voters.&nbsp;<b>Another bill by Hoffman banned state election officials from accepting outside donations to help pay for any aspect of election administration, including voter registration. (One of the bill’s targets was Mark Zuckerberg</b>, whose foundation helped county election officials in Arizona handle the pandemic.)&nbsp;</span>In February, at a hearing of the&nbsp;<b>Committee on Government and Elections</b>, a witness from the Washington-based C<b>apital Research Center—also funded by the Bradley Foundation—testified in support of Hoffman’s legislation.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Athena Salman, the ranking Democrat, told me she was incensed that Hoffman—“a guy who paid teen-agers to lie”—was put on the election committee. “It’s the fox guarding the henhouse!” she said.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Anderson, of Heritage, declined to respond to questions about the group’s collaborations with Hoffman,</b>&nbsp;instead sending a prepared statement: “After a year when voters’ trust in our elections plummeted, restoring that trust should be the top priority of legislators and governors nationwide. That’s why Heritage Action is deploying our established grassroots network for state advocacy for the first time ever. There is nothing more important than ensuring every American is confident their vote counts—and we will do whatever it takes to get there.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hoffman, who formerly served as a town-council member in Queen Creek, a deeply conservative part of Maricopa County, did not respond to requests for comment</b>. Kristin Clark, a Democrat who mounted a write-in campaign against him&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">after the news of his troll farm broke, called Hoffman an “unintelligent man who wants to be a big guy.” She told me, “The Republicans here have changed. They were conservative, but now they’ve sold out. It’s money that’s changed it. All these giant, corporate groups that are faceless—it’s outside money.” In her view, “Jake Hoffman is but a cog.”</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The spark that ignited the Arizona audit was an amateur video, taken on Election Night, of an unidentified female voter outside a polling place in what Kristin Clark recognized as H<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">offman’s district</span>.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The voter claimed that election workers had tried to sabotage her ballot by deliberately giving her a Sharpie that the electronic scanners couldn’t read. Her claim was false: the scanners could read Sharpie ink, and the ballots had been designed so that the flip side wouldn’t be affected if the ink bled through. Nevertheless, the video went viral.&nbsp;</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Among the first to spread the&nbsp;<b>Sharpiegate conspiracy&nbsp;</b>was another one of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Charlie Kirk’</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">s youth groups, Students for Trump.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The next day, as Trump furiously insisted he had won an election that he ended up losing by roughly seven million votes, protesters staged angry rallies in Maricopa County,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">where ballots were still being counted. Adding an aura of legal credibility to the conspiracy theory, Adams, the Public Interest Legal Foundation president, immediately filed suit against Maricopa County, alleging that a Sharpie-using voter he represented had been disenfranchised.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The case was soon dismissed, but not before Adams tweeted, “just filed to have our client’s right to #vote upheld. Her #Sharpie ballot was cancelled without cure.”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arizona’s attorney general, Mark Brnovich, a Republican, investigated, and his office took only a day to conclude that the Sharpie story was nonsense.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;But, by then, many Trump supporters no longer trusted Arizona’s election results.&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clark, the former Democratic challenger to Hoffman, told me that she watched in horror as “they took B.S. and made it real!”</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A day after the election, the office of Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, reported that, based on a routine, bipartisan hand recount of a sample of ballots, “no discrepancies were found” in Maricopa County. Within days, the mainstream media had called the election for Biden, based on late returns from Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;But&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Cleta Mitchell,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;who had been dispatched by Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to help the Trump campaign in Georgia, told Fox News, “We’re already double-checking and finding dead people having voted.” As Georgia was ratifying its results with a recount, she tweeted that the tally was “fake!!!”</span></b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, on the conservative Web site Townhall,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hoffman demanded “a full audit</span>&nbsp;of the vote count in swing states,” adding that the election was “far from over.</b>”&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He claimed that there had been “countless violations of state election law, statistical anomalies and election irregularities in more than a half dozen states,” and argued that state legislatures should therefore have the final say. By December, he had joined his friend Bowyer and other members of the state’s Republican Party in filing suit against Arizona’s governor, calling for the state to set aside Arizona’s eleven electoral votes and allow the legislature to intervene.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the same time, another version of the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Independent Legislature Doctrine argument was being mounted in Pennsylvania,</span>&nbsp;by the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Honest Elections Project, the group tied to Leonard Leo, of the Federalist Society</span></b>. Local Republicans had challenged a state-court ruling that adjusted voting procedures during the pandemic. The Honest Elections Project filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the Pennsylvania court had usurped the legislature’s authority to oversee elections. The effort didn’t succeed, but Richard Hasen, the election-law professor, regards such arguments as “powder kegs” that threaten American democracy. Leo didn’t respond to requests for comment, but Hasen believes that Leo is trying to preserve “minority rule” in elections in order to advance his agenda. Hasen told me, “Making it harder to vote helps them get more Republican victories, which helps them get more conservative judges and courts.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the case of Arizona, it took only a week for a federal district court to dismiss&nbsp;</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hoffman and Bowyer’s suit</b><b>, citing an absence of “relevant or reliable evidence</b>.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">&nbsp;The court admonished the plaintiffs that “gossip and innuendo” cannot “be the basis for upending Arizona’s 2020 General Election.” Hoffman and the other plaintiffs appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the matter, but it waited to do so until March. In the meantime, election-fraud conspiracy theories in Arizona were growing out of control.</span></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 12th, Biden was declared the winner in Maricopa County. Soon after, a Republican member of the county’s Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates, was picking up takeout food for his family when the board’s chairman—one of four Republicans on the five-person board—called to warn him to be careful going home. Ninety angry people had gathered outside the chairman’s house, and Gates’s place could be next. “<b>We’d all been doxed,” Gates told me. He and his wife are the legal guardians of a teen-ager whose father, a Ugandan, was nearly killed by henchmen for Idi Amin. “It’s chilling to see the parallels,” Gates told me. “You’d never think there were any parallels to a strongman autocracy in Africa.</b>” Gates considers himself a political-science nerd, but, he said, “I had no concept that we were heading where we were heading.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gates, who moved to Arizona as a teen-ager, was a latchkey kid whose idea of entertainment was watching C-span. He is forty-nine and describes himself as a “child of the Reagan Revolution” who started a Republican club in high school. He attended Drake University, in Iowa, partly so that he could witness the state’s Presidential caucuses. Winning a Truman Scholarship opened his way to Harvard Law School, where he joined the<b>&nbsp;Federalist Society,&nbsp;</b>the Harvard Law School Republican Club, and the Journal of Law and Public Policy. At Harvard, membership in all three was called the “conservative trifecta.” Gates can scarcely believe how the Republican Party and the conservative movement have changed in the years since.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over breakfast in June, in Phoenix, he apologized for his eyes welling up with tears as he described his efforts to stand up to his own party’s mob. He said that he and the other county supervisors had been “feeling great” about how well their administration of the election had gone despite the pandemic. But, as the final ballots were counted and Trump fell behind, Maricopa County became the focal point of conspiracy theorists. “Alex Jones and those guys start coming out here, and they’re protesting outside of our election center as the counting is going on,” he said. He could hear people screaming, and what sounded like a drum: “It was Lollapalooza for the alt-right—it was crazy.” He started getting calls and e-mails saying, “You guys need to stop the steal.” Gates told me, “I’d wonder, Is this a real person?” But some angry messages came from people he knew. They said they’d never support him again. “People thought I was failing them,” Gates said. “I have been called a traitor so many times in the last six months.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Gates says that Karen Fann, the Arizona Senate’s president, confided to him that she knew there was “nothing to” the fraud charges.</b>&nbsp;</span>(She didn’t respond to requests for comment.)&nbsp;<b>Nevertheless, she buckled under the political pressure and authorized a subpoena of the county’s ballots, for the “forensic audit.”&nbsp;</b>At one point, county supervisors were told that if they didn’t comply they would face contempt charges and, potentially, could be imprisoned.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">&nbsp;For a time, the official Twitter account for the audit accused the supervisors, without evidence, of “spoliation” of the ballots. “I get a little emotional when I talk about it,” Gates said. “My daughter called me, frantically trying to find out whether or not I was going to be thrown in jail</span>.” Trump supporters set up a guillotine on a grassy plaza outside Arizona’s statehouse, demanding the supervisors’ heads. Inside, Gates recalled, one Republican member after another rose to denounce the county supervisors.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>A representative for the national Republican Party tried to silence Gates when he spoke out to defend the integrity of Arizona’s elect</b>ion. He told me that Hoffman’s ally Tyler Bowyer, of the Republican National Committee, paid him a visit and warned, “You need to stop it.”</span>&nbsp;According to Gates, Bowyer made it clear that “the Republican National Committee supports this audit.” Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Bowyer, denied that the visit was an official attempt at intimidation, calling it instead a “personal courtesy.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gates said that after he received death threats he fled with his family to an Airbnb.</b>&nbsp;At one point, the sheriff sent two deputies to guard Gates’s home overnight. Trump supporters, Gates said, “are basically asking Republican leaders to bow before the altar of the Big Lie—‘You’re willing to do it? O.K., great. You’re not? You’re a rino. You’re a Commie. You are not a Republican.’ It’s been incredibly effective, really, when you think about where we’ve come from January 6th.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part of what had drawn Gates to the Republican Party was the Reagan-era doctrine of confronting totalitarianism. He’d long had a fascination with emerging democracies, particularly the former Soviet republics. He had come up with what he admits was a “kooky” retirement plan—“to go to some place like Uzbekistan and help.” He told me, “I’d always thought that, if I had a tragic end, it would be in some place like Tajikistan.” He shook his head. “If you had told me, ‘You’re going to be doing this in the U.S.,’ I would have told you, ‘You’re crazy.’ ”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the political pressure on election officials in Arizona was exerted directly by Trump and his associates, potentially illegally. Interfering in a federal election can be a crime. As the Arizona Republic has reported, the President and his legal adviser Rudy Giuliani phoned state and local officials, including Fann. The White House switchboard tried to connect Trump with the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, but, even though the chairman was a Republican, he ducked the call, lest the President interfere improperly.&nbsp;<b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Giuliani&nbsp;</span>called Gates’s cell phone</b>&nbsp;when he was shopping at Walgreens on Christmas Eve. Not recognizing the number, Gates didn’t answer. “You can’t make this stuff up,” he told me. Giuliani left a voice mail saying it was a “shame” that two Republicans couldn’t work things out—he’d come up with a “nice way” to “get this thing fixed up.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I never returned the phone call,” Gates said. A week later, when news broke of Trump’s notorious call to officials in Georgia, Gates was more relieved than ever that he hadn’t called Giuliani back. A panel of judges in New York has since suspended Giuliani’s law license, for threatening the public interest by making “demonstrably false and misleading statements” about the Presidential election.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>By New Year’s Eve, when Trump tried and failed to reach the chairman of the Maricopa County board, his Administration was in extraordinary turmoil. Attorney General William Barr had resigned from the Justice Department after declaring that it had detected no significant election fraud.</b>&nbsp;Even so, Trump continued to demand that the department investigate a variety of loony conspiracies, including a plot to erase Trump votes using Italian military satellites. According to a leaked e-mail, a Justice Department attorney disparaged the satellite theory as “pure insanity.” A man supposedly involved in the plot issued a denial to Reuters, and Italian police suggested that the allegation was baseless.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the conspiracy theory, which became known as Italygate, had bubbled up from the same pools of dark money that were funding other election misinformation. Records show that Italygate was spread by a “social welfare organization” called Nations in Action, whose directors included von Spakovsky</b>. When Talking Points Memo contacted von Spakovsky, he said that he had resigned from the board on January 8th. But the money trail remains. Crooks and Liars, a progressive investigative-reporting site, dug up tax filings showing that the group’s<b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">501(c)(3) sibling, the Nations in Action Globally Lifting Up Fund, had received thousands of dollars from the Judicial Crisis Network</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;[fitton cnp]&nbsp;</span></b>—a nonprofit enterprise, closely tied to Leonard Leo, that also funds Turning Point Action.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Justice Department officials were fending off conspiracy theories being spread by tax-exempt charities in Washington, the pressure was even more acute on local officials in Phoenix. Trump tweeted relentlessly about the audit. He “clearly has had a fascination with this issue, because he thinks it’s the key to his reinstatement,” Gates told me. “It’s not about Arizona. We’re literally pawns in this. This is a national effort to delegitimize the election system.” Gates predicted that, if “Arizona can question this, and show that Trump won,” the game will move on to Colorado, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Virginia, all of which have sent Republican delegations to observe Arizona’s audit.&nbsp;<b>Noting that both QAnon followers and his own state’s Republican Party chair had referred to “dominoes” in connection with the audit, Gates said, “We know what that game is, and how it works.”</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It would be tempting for Gates, a lifetime Republican with political ambitions, to blame only Trump for his party’s anti-democratic turn. But he has few such illusions. What’s really going on, he believes, is a reactionary backlash against Obama: “I’ve thought about it a lot. I believe the election of President Obama frightened a lot of Americans.” Gates argues that the fear isn’t entirely about race. He thinks it’s also about cosmopolitanism, secularism, and other contemporary values that make white conservatives uncomfortable. But in the end, he said, “the diversification of America is frightening to a lot of people in my party.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gates believes that his party’s reaction may backfire. Polls show that, although the Arizona audit is wildly popular among Republican voters in the state, it alienates independents, who constitute approximately a third of the state’s electorate—and whose support is necessary for statewide candidates to win.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For now, though, conservative groups seem to be doubling down on their investments in election-fraud alarmism. In the next two years, Heritage Action plans to spend twenty-four million dollars mobilizing supporters and lobbyists who will promote “election integrity,” starting in eight battleground states, including Arizona.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It is coördinating its effort with the Election Transparency Initiative, a joint venture of two anti-abortion groups, the Susan B. Anthony&nbsp;List and the&nbsp;<b>American Principles Project. The Election Transparency Initiative&nbsp;</b>has set a fund-raising goal of five million dollars. Cleta Mitchell, having left her law firm, has joined FreedomWork</span>s, the free-market group, where she plans to lead a ten-million-dollar project on voting issues. She will also head the&nbsp;<b>Election Integrity Network at the Conservative Partnership Institute</b>, another Washington-based nonprofit. As a senior legal fellow there, she told the Washington Examiner, she will “help bring all these strings” of conservative election-law activism together, and she added, “I’ve had my finger in so many different pieces of the election-integrity pie for so long.”</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Back in Arizona, where the auditors are demanding still more time, Gates believes that the Big Lie has become a “grift” used to motivate Republican voters and donors to support conservative candidates and political groups. “The sad thing is that there are probably millions of people—hardworking, good Americans, maybe retired—who have paid their taxes, always followed the law, and they truly believe this, because of what they’ve been fed by their leaders,” he said. “And what’s so dispiriting is that the people who are pushing it from the top? They know better.” ?</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></font></font></div><div><div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2657639567"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A right-wing group in Missouri has <a href="https://libertyallianceusa.com/woke-heat-map/" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">launched</a>

a "woke heat map" documenting instances of "wokeness" in an attempt to

fight back against "critical race theory" and alleged "grooming" in

schools across the state.</font></b></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group, dubbed "Liberty Alliance,"

says it is "committed to fighting back against the Woke agenda that is

permeating all across Missouri."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The first step in fighting back

is uncovering their crazy ideas – from Critical Race Theory to grooming

toddlers with sexually explicit books," the organization states on its

website. "That is why we have officially launched the Woke Heat Map – an

interactive tool designed to expose the insane actions of the radical

Left. This map will alert Missourians of craziness happening in their

own communities."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"‘Liberty Alliance’ has launched a ‘Woke

Interactive Map’ to warn MAGA about instances of woke behavior in a

particular community. The site will alert people if either: 1. CRT, 2.

Woke Extremism, or 3. ‘Action by a Crazy Leftist’ has taken plac</b>e," Ron

Filipkowski <a href="https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1531034501379502090" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">tweeted</a>. </font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the “Genderbread Person” & the latest example of the insanity that’s in Missouri schools," Eric Schmitt <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1514240964755345421" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">tweeted</a>.

"We launched The Students First Initiative to empower parents &

bring transparency back to Missouri schools. This was submitted by a Fox

C-6 parent We’ll keep exposing the extremism."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another Twitter user <a href="mailto:A%20reminder%20that%20on%20college%20campuses,%20anyone%20that%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20fall%20in%20line%20with%20the%20left%20are%20censored%20%20Where%20are%20you%20at%20@SLU_Official?%20These%20actions%20continued%20into%20the%20night%20and%20no%20one%20has%20been%20punished%20for%20vandalizing%20a%20peaceful%20#prolife%20@SLUSFL%20display%20%20#FreeSpeech%20@StudentsforLife">added</a>, "A reminder that on college campuses, anyone that doesn’t fall in line with the left are censored Where are you at <a href="https://twitter.com/SLU_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1458074931502239755%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2657639567publish" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">@SLU_Official</a>? These actions continued into the night and no one has been punished for vandalizing a peaceful <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/prolife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1458074931502239755%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2657639567publish&src=hashtag_click" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">#prolife</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SLUSFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1458074931502239755%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2657639567publish" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">@SLUSFL</a> display <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeSpeech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1458074931502239755%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2657639567publish&src=hashtag_click" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">#FreeSpeech</a> [<a href="https://twitter.com/StudentsforLife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1458074931502239755%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2657639567publish" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Students for Life</a>]"</font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liberty Alliance's map isn't the first of its kind. Over the years,

numerous right-wing groups have created rankings, watchlists, and

cluster maps to keep track of the left's alleged influence in healthcare

and education as well as Corporate America.</font></span></font></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last October, Salon <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/10/30/co-opting-the-message-how-anti-trans-activists-hijacked-a-tool-meant-to-help-trans-people/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">reported</a>

on a custom Google map created by trans activist Erin Reed that

provides those seeking hormone replacement therapy with the names and

locations of nearly 800 informed consent clinics throughout the country.<b>

By February of that year, Reed told Salon, her map was repurposed by

anti-trans activist Alix Aharon as a resource for organizing protests

against doctors </b>who provide gender-affirming care. That new map, called "<a href="https://www.gendermapper.org/name-and-shame-doctors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">The Gender Mapper</a>,"

was quickly taken down over apparent copyright infringement. However, a

new one has since appeared in its place, cataloging roughly 200 clinics

in total.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On its website, The Gender Mapper <a href="https://www.gendermapper.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">accuses</a> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"<b>Big Gender</b></span><b>" of testing "experimental medication" on "confused and vulnerable children."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"GenderMapper

volunteers work in secret, around the world to collate evidence and

document what is occurring," the site adds. "Gendermapper volunteers are

unsung [sic] heros- and data is our truth."</font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing groups have also sought to crack down on left-wing "indoctrination" on college campuses. </font></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notable among them is Turning Point USA, a conservative youth advocacy group, which runs a "<a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">Professor Watchlist</a>"

designed to keep right-wing students abreast of "college professors who

discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist

propaganda in the classroom."</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The project," its website says, "is

comprised of published news stories detailing instances of bias,

propaganda, or speech infringement on college campuses."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The site

allows users to submit tips and search for professors by name or

university. Some professors on the list include activist Angela Davis,

linguist Noam Chomsky, author Ibram X. Kendi, and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">former FBI Director

James Comey</span>. </b>As of 2016, there were roughly 200 academics on the list. </font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In

the private sector, conservative are similarly hounding companies that

engage in "woke" actions, arguing that Corporate America is prioritizing

political correctness over profit.</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alliance Defending Freedom has its "<a href="https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/business-index" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">Viewpoint Diversity Score</a>,"

a 50-company index that "evaluates corporate policies, practices, and

activities to determine whether companies respect their stakeholders'

freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief as a standard

part of doing business."</span> The list specifically breaks down each

company's support of free speech in the market, the workplace, and the

public square, analyzing everything from political giving to DE&I

(Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On the index, companies like Facebook and Meta – which face <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtube-twitter-anti-conservative-claims-baseless-report-finds" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">baseless</a>

accusations of anti-conservative bias – have notably lower scores than

most. </b>None of the firms included on the list score higher than a 35 out

of 100. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The results of our inaugural Business Index reveal that

there is much work to be done. Company scores ranged between 2% and 35%,

with the average overall score an abysmal 12%," <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-flunk-free-speech-viewpoint-diversity-index-twitter-meta-bank-of-america-first-amendment-investing-11653510118?mod=trending_now_opn_2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">wrote</a>

Jeremy Tedesco, senior vice president of corporate engagement for ADF,

in The Wall Street Journal. "The poor showing confirms that there is an

alarming trend among major corporations to favor virtue-signaling even

at the expense of fundamental American freedoms."</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporations

have no legal obligation to promote free speech, a constitutional right

designed to protect Americans from governorship censorship and coercion.

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</font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Viktor Orbán in 2014, Wikimedia Commons</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump endorses strongman Viktor Orbán in Hungarian election: ‘He has my complete support’]</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Kathryn Joyce and<b>&nbsp;Salon J</b>une 24, 2022</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last November in Orlando, dozens of the right's leading intellectuals, writers and think tank staffers gathered for the first meeting of the National Conservatism conference since the COVID pandemic hit, drawing journalists from across the political spectrum seeking to untangle what this high-brow gathering of avowed nationalists was all about. T<b>he emergence of the "NatCon" movement several years earlier had alarmed many liberal, centrist and even mainline conservative observers with its efforts to rehabilitate the concept of nationalism.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But it energized many on the right who were starting to describe themselves as "post-liberal," meaning they were no longer satisfied with the conservative marriage of convenience that had existed since at least the Reagan era and had drawn together the religious right, anti-communists and free-marketeers in a potent but sometimes uneasy coalition. That consensus, they declared loudly, was dead, and a new conservative fusion must arise to take its place.</span></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>After the disruption of the pandemic, the loss of the presidency and the rage of Jan. 6, last fall's NatCon II conference was focused on the goal of building that new coalition along nationalist and post-liberal lines: blending extreme social conservatism with a skeptical approach to some forms of laissez-faire capitalism and a sharp hostility to both global or international authority and what they see as corporate-driven liberal cultural hegemony.</b></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, the movement has formalized its ideas in a new manifesto, "National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles," released last week by the Edmund Burke Foundation.&nbsp;</span>T<b>his ambitious document calls for the creation of a "world of independent nations" as the sole bulwark against "universalist ideologies" that would impose a "homogenizing, locality-destroying imperium over the entire globe."</b>&nbsp;T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he credited authors include some leading lights of the NatCon world: Israeli political theorist and Burke Foundation chair Yoram Hazony, former American Enterprise Institute president Christopher DeMuth, First Things editor R.R. Reno and American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher.</span></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the list of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">signatories</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;is much longer, and also far broader, ranging from right-wing mega-donor</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Peter Thiel to former Trump administration staffers Mark Meadows and Ken Cuccinelli, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, anti-critical race theory activist Christopher Rufo, multiple officials from Hillsdale College&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">— a nerve center of contemporary right-wing politics — and numerous other think tank staffers and writers from across the spectrum of conservative media.</span></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The manifesto hasn't gotten much attention so far — which isn't surprising, considering how much else is happening in the political realm. A column by David von Drehle in the Washington Post declared its contents akin to fascism, and a more substantial fisking in The Bulwark by Cathy Young found it "a document steeped in thinly veiled and sometimes distressingly overt authoritarian ideology." That's not wrong. But it's also worth observing that, in the battle to build a new conservative coalition, much of the NatCon platform has already won.</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Young notes, many of the NatCon's 10 priorities read, at first, like banal restatements of conservative ideology in general: national independence, the rule of law, God and public religion, free enterprise, family and children. But in ways both subtle and unsubtle, those familiar terms don't all mean what you'd think.</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The NatCons hope to divorce nationalism from its association with the Nazis, who they claim were not "nationalist" at all.</b></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first two items, national independence and rejecting globalism and imperialism, follow one of the core, if questionable, goals of the NatCon movement, which is to divorce the concept of nationalism from its most powerful associations, such as the fascist regimes of Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, which National Conservatives see as imperialist. Instead, NatCons want to attach the term to smaller, scrappier scrappy countries that resisted the Nazis or Soviet Communism.</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">While the manifesto holds that "Each nation capable of self-government should chart its own course," in alignment with its own legal, cultural and religious traditions, it warns against their "transferring" authority to any "transnational or supranational bodies" and advocates opposing "imperialism in its various forms</span>."&nbsp;<b>Those forms include modern-day China and Russia, of course, but also "the liberal imperialism of the last generation, which sought to gain power, influence and wealth by dominating other nations and trying to remake them in its own image."</b></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The "liberalism" described here, as in most NatCon contexts, isn't the center-left politics of the Democratic Party, but rather "classical" liberalism, focused on individual rights, free trade and pluralistic cultures, which until recently was embraced by most mainstream conservatives as well. But within the post-liberal and NatCon world, t<b>hat small-l liberalism contained the seeds of conservatism's undoing, leading inevitably to the big-L liberalism of progressive ideology by creating a culture in which it's too hard to raise children along traditionalist lines.</b>&nbsp;In this view, societies that uphold pluralistic tolerance and diversity are inherently unfair by denying the majority the right to live in a culture that supports their values — in essence, allowing the minority to oppress the majority.</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While both Young and von Drehle read the jabs at boomer "imperialism" as allusions to the Iraq War — which is at least partly true — "empire" for NatCons also has a larger meaning. First, they believe that international compacts, accords and governing bodies like the European Union or the UN infringe on national sovereignty, particularly when it comes to social issues.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the movement's conference this March in Brussels, Hazony sought to align the NatCon vision with Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression. Vladimir Putin's disdain for borders and national independence, he suggested, mirrored the attitudes of bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington.</span>&nbsp;<b>The obvious subtext was that Hungary and Poland — two post-liberal, overtly nationalist countries greatly admired within the movement — were facing EU sanctions over a variety of human rights issues, which Hungarian and Polish leaders rejected as an attempt to squash the rights of the nation-state, and sympathetic fellow speakers cast as the workings of a new "evil empire."</b></font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Empire," in the NatCon world, refers to the right's long, losing battle in the cultural sphere, these days largely waged against what American conservatives call "woke corporations."</font></font></font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/kim-guilfoyle/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/kim-guilfoyle/</a></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Inside sources with knowledge of the controversy surrounding Kim Guilfoyle appear to be doing damage control in response to the reports raising questions about her $60,000 payout prior to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A number of unnamed sources, who may likely be allies of Guilfoyle, have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/damage-control-unnamed-sources-step-up-to-claim-guilfoyles-60k-didnt-come-from-retirees-small-trump-donors/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">come forward with details about the origin of the reported $60,000 she allegedly received for her brief appearance at the "Stop the Steal" rally</a>&nbsp;on Jan. 6.</b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Mediaite, the funds are said to have come from "a single wealthy donor.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" The latest claims come just days after Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, sparked a media firestorm when she divulged details about the five-figure payment to CNN's Jake Tapper.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Lofgren, Guilfoyle had received $60,000 for a speech that lasted all of "two and a half minutes” when she did the introduction for former President Donald Trump's appearance at the rally. On Tuesday, June 14,&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;correspondent Maggie Haberman spoke with CNN where she revealed “People in Trumpworld are sharing that clip.”</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“They are aghast that this is the amount of money that she got for a speech to introduce her boyfriend. They couldn’t really get over, I had one former adviser say to me, essentially, these were folks who were raising money in small amounts from retirees, telling them this was going to some legal fight that didn’t really happen</b>,” Haberman said.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hours later, two inside sources spoke with&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Washington Post</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘s Isaac Stanley-Becker and Beth Reinhard. Offering an explanation for the payout,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">they indicated that the fee paid to Guilfoyle had been siphoned through a political action committee known as through Turning Point Action and was paid by one donor.</span></font></font></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.542px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">For her appearance, she was compensated $60,000 by Turning Point Action, a conservative nonprofit led by<strong>&nbsp;Charlie Kirk</strong>, according to two people with knowledge of her compensation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The two people said the sponsoring donor was&nbsp;<strong>Julie Fancelli</strong>, the 72-year-old daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery store chain.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><b>Eight days before the Jan. 6 rally, Fancelli wired $650,000 to several organizations that helped stage and promote the event.</b></span></font></font></font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to the reports about the payment Guilfoyle received, the House Select Committee also revealed Trump raised approximately $250 million for his "official election defense fund” that reportedly does not even exist.</font></font></font></p><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omfg</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/oan-falsely-reports-upwards-25-million-people-have-been-killed-covid-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/oan-falsely-reports-upwards-25-million-people-have-been-killed-covid-19</a></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>pEARSON SHARP (CORRESPONDENT): Our government is trying to kill us. It's not the first time it's happened, and it probably won't be the last.</b>&nbsp;Of course, that's just a conspiracy, though, isn't it? Our government would never do anything to harm us. Just like the CIA didn't spend 20 years secretly conducting hundreds of illegal mind control experiments on American citizens, without their knowledge, under the<b>&nbsp;MK-ULTRA plan</b>.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CIA used colleges, universities, prisons, and got the help of doctors and hospitals and even pharmaceutical companies to carry out these illegal tests on thousands of patients who didn't know they were being experimented on. Sound familiar? It's all real. Look it up. It happened -- a proven case where our government illegally experimented on us. And you think that was the only time?</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We could wonder about what else they're doing, but it's really not much of a mystery. Just look at the experimental vaccines they forced on hundreds of millions of unwitting Americans. The forced vaccination program has been the largest human experiment in the history of the world, and so far the consequences have been appalling.&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Conservative estimates from the VAERS programs show upwards of 2.5 million people have been killed by the vaccines, and that's just here in America.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Another 100 million have suffered injuries ranging from persistent headaches, to paralysis, to amputation of all four limbs. In fact, there are so many injuries that the federal programs set up to help treat patients who suffered from injuries are totally overwhelmed.&nbsp;<b>Even Politico, of all places, admitted programs like the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program doesn't have enough staff to handle the thousands of people flooding through their doors,</b>&nbsp;all of them suffering from injuries after getting the experimental injections. These numbers are way up from previous years.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>…</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">At this point, it's more of a conspiracy to believe the vaccines work than to believe they're causing us harm. But that's just what the government wants you to think, and they're doing their level best to cover up any evidence that exposes how dangerous these injections really are</b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It turns out the CDC has been quietly going through and deleting official records on the U.S. government's VAERS website,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">which is used by health professionals, doctors, and insurance companies to track injuries and deaths from vaccines. According to data analysts, the Center for Disease Control has been erasing reports of deaths or injuries caused by the COVID vaccines and has already deleted about 10,000 reports so far.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn't the first time this has happened, either, with reports that the CDC went through and deleted up to 6,000 deaths from the database last year, but only for reports on the COVID vaccines. It's already been confirmed that both the FDA and Pfizer knew before the vaccines were released that they were dangerous and ineffective, and yet they decided to release them anyway. Now we're seeing the gruesome consequences of that decision.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">No one can guess how many more innocent lives will be lost because of these toxic injections. But as we said in the beginning, this isn't the first time our government has illegally experimented on us.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And although we don't know what their true purpose is, we do know one thing. Our government doesn't care how many of us it has to kill to achieve its goals.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">relATED</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tucker Carlson's blatant lie about the COVID-19 vaccines, debunked</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">05/06/21 10:14 AM EDT</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Emergency room doctor:&nbsp;<b>Hospitalized patients repeat VAERS conspiracy theory that Tucker Carlson has pushed</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">07/29/21 5:12 PM EDT</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">On YouTube, <b>Charlie Kirk speculates that 1.2 million people could've died from the COVID-19 vaccine</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" /></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">07/21/21&nbsp;</font></font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 6 22</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">t the Young Women's Leadership Summit produced by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA political action committee, acquitted Kenosha, Wisconsin double-murder suspect Kyle Rittenhouse was paraded around on stage and promoted as the type of man that women should woo.</span></b></font></font></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I just want to introduce Kyle by saying this," the organization's Chief Creative Officer Benny Johnson began. "We talk a lot about, aw, hey you," he said to Rittenhouse as he joined the Saturday spectacle in Texas. "We talk – I wanted to talk a lot about what kind of man you should want to be attracted to. Hey you," Kirk's lieutenant said again to Rittenhouse.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Or if you're a dog person," he added.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Dogs are the best," Rittenhouse said.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Men – your number one goal is to protect your family and to stand strong in the face of opposition from culture and evil and Kyle Rittenhouse is a man who does that. God bless Kyle Rittenhouse," the host exclaimed, to thunderous applause, before handing his microphone to Rittenhouse</b>.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Thank you guys. Thank you guys for all the support and everything. Thank you guys for the prayers and<b> thank you guys for being strong women," </b>Rittenhouse said.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below via Kaylan_TX:</font></font></font></p><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>s<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">en. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) is being lambasted by fact-checkers yet again for circulating false claims. A new piece published by The Houston Chronicle's Laura Schulte</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-ron-johnson-athletes-covid-vaccine-16815689.php" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">lays out the remarks made by the Republican senator and fact-checkers rebuttal torching his baseless claims.</a></b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">This particular ordeal centers on Johnson's January 26, 2022, appearance on "The Charlie Kirk Show." At the time, Johnson and Kirk discussed COVID vaccines.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We’ve heard story after story. All these athletes dropping dead on the field," he said during a conversation about the possible adverse effects of COVID vaccines. "But we’re supposed to ignore that. Nothing happening here, nothing to see. This is a travesty, this is a scandal."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schulte immediately zeroed in on Johnson's exaggerated claim about athletes "dropping dead on the field."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Is Johnson right?" Schulte asked as she immediately followed with a sharp answer to the question with a resounding, "No."
</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She continued, "Let’s take a closer look."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In wake of Johnson's outlandish remarks, he was asked to provide evidence of his claim. His spokeswoman Vanessa Ambrosini reportedly told The Houston Chronicle that Johnson "has been alarmed by stories he has heard of&nbsp;<b>athletes dying on the field."</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Senator’s point in raising these issues," Ambrosini said via email, "has always been that our federal health agencies should be concerned about reports on adverse reactions related to COVID-19 vaccines and they should fully investigate and make their findings available to the American people."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Schulte did acknowledge the validity of those remarks, she argued the specifics of Johnson's remarks. "The claim was that there are stories about all sorts of athletes dying in the midst of competition, or at least while practicing," she specified.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Johnson has a tendency to cite information from the federal database documenting adverse events, Schulte noted that "the database itself notes the claims are not vetted to establish a cause between them."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick Remington —a former epidemiologist for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and director for the preventive medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison— offered a detailed explanation of what the&nbsp;<b>CDC actually looks for: "causation, not just coincidence"</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The burden is on credible scientists to study whether vaccination could be associated with this outcome, and no credible science exists to say it is," he said. "We continue to do ongoing surveillance, the vaccine surveillance system is in place to study any possible associations that come up. But to date, I am not aware of any studies or any credible research that suggests that vaccines cause death in young athletes."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ambrosini also provided a copy of an article published by&nbsp;<a href="https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">GoodSciencing.com</a>&nbsp;that suggests "hundreds" of young athletes have died as a result of vaccine complications. "We found no proof of a causal relationship in any of the cases between the vaccines and the injuries or deaths," the fact-check refuted Johnson's claim confirming there were 6 deaths.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another fact check also broke the claim down. Schulte noted: "Days before Johnson took to the Charlie Kirk Show, former NBA All-Star John Stockton on Jan. 23 2022 claimed more than 100 professional athletes who were vaccinated have dropped dead "right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PolitiFact National along with a group of doctors, have also pushed back.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"PolitiFact National rated this False</b>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/26/john-stockton/john-stocktons-claim-hundreds-athletes-are-abruptl/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jan. 26, 2022 fact-check.</a>&nbsp;In it, Matthew Martinez, a sports cardiologist with the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and Major League Soccer and who is director of sports cardiology at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey said he was not aware of a single COVID vaccine-related cardiac complication in professional sports."</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The same report went on to address misinformation about the risk of myocarditis; a claim Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also misstated.</b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for Johnson's false claim, The Houston Chronicle rated it as "false" and offered an explanation of why.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There is also the obvious problem with those cases, as they relate to supporting Johnson’s claim, so far as that the two athletes are not, well, dead," Schulte wrote.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In conclusion, she wrote, "Finally, health experts have also said that no research shows the link between sudden death incidents in sports players and vaccines."</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/ron-johnson-s-vaccine-claims-busted-in-brual-fact-check/</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="social-authorname rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/kyle-mantyla" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kyle Mantyla</font></a></font></font></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2656507630" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; margin-bottom: 15px; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 23px; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; overflow: hidden;"><div class="body-description" style=""><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sherri Tenpenny is an influential&nbsp;</span><a href="https://religionnews.com/2021/09/14/the-gospel-of-sherri-tenpenny-covid-19-misinformation-and-christian-nationalism/" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">religious-right</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;anti-vaccine activist who has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/06/09/doctor-sherri-tenpenny-testimony-ohio-lawmakers-vaccines-magnetized-5-g/7616027002/" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">testified</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;before the Ohio state House</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1486756000774467585" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">appeared on</a>&nbsp;Charlie Kirk’s podcast,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and been a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sherri-tenpenny-says-giving-children-covid-19-vaccines-is-a-form-of-very-very-very-very-late-term-abortion/" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">speaker</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span></font></font></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div></div><div><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 1 22</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HEGSETH (HOST): Ultimately, it devolves into, "Well, it's not our failure. We're opposed by a bunch of white nationalists and a bunch of racists. 52 of them who came together and didn't let us change the filibuster that we used 300 times the last year of -- or in the years of the Trump presidency." If you're then again defaulting to racism, you really haven't learned any lessons here.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHARLIE KIRK (GUEST):&nbsp; No, not at all. And it's just disappointing. It's bad for the country. It's a reversion back to tribalism. And that's all they have.<b>&nbsp;And they've made a decision to no longer try to have class warfare. They want racial warfare.</b>&nbsp;And I say everywhere I go across the country, "Don't fall for it. This is so sloppy. 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="strong" href="https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/in-viral-turning-point-usa-video-candace-owens-and-charlie-kirk-falsely-claim-there-is-no-evidence-of-global-warming-and-scientists-dont-know-the-cause/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">In viral Turning Point USA video, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk falsely claim there is no evidence of global warming and scientists don’t know the cause</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="feedpagesclaimcontainer relative" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); padding: 1rem; overflow: hidden;"><div class="feedpagesclaimcontainerillustration col col-3 hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; width: 199.188px; text-align: center; overflow-y: hidden; height: 181.656px; padding-left: 0.5rem; padding-right: 0.5rem; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="feedpagesclaimcontainerillustrationscreenshot" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="feedpagesclaimcontainerillustrationscreenshotimg" src="https://climatefeedback.org/wp-content/uploads/Sources/CharlieKirk_CandaceOwens.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; height: auto; width: 183.188px;" /></font></div></div><div class="feedpagesclaimcontainercontent col col-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; width: 398.375px; padding: 0.1rem;"><div class="fact-check-card-title mb2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLAIM</font></div><div class="feedpages-excerpt feedpagesclaimcontainercontenttext mb1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0.1rem 0.5rem 0.1rem 0.1rem; margin-top: 5px;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no factual data to back up global warming; real scientists don’t know whether CO<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">2</span>, solar sunspots or natural activity cause global warming</font></div><div class="feedpagesclaimcontainercontentoutlet" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.1rem 0.5rem 0.1rem 0.1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fact-check-card-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SOURCE:</span>&nbsp;<span class="fact-check-carddetailstext small" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk , Turning Point USA</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fact-check-card-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Published:&nbsp;</span><span class="fact-check-carddetailstext small" style="box-sizing: border-box;">16 Apr 2021</span></font></p></div></div></div></span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2022/01/charlie-kirk-and-turning-point-usa-are-building-reactionary-cult-young">
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</div><div>MATTHEW SHEFFIELD</div><div>January 3, 2022, 14:18 PST</div><div>
</div><div>Turning Point USA president Charlie Kirk gives a speech at the University of Oregon tour stop of the 2021 Turning Point USA college tour at the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon. October 27, 2021. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr</div><div>
</div><div>Episode Summary</div><div>Polling over the decades has shown that most Republican voters are heavily motivated by white Christian identity politics. But Republican elites— politicians, writers, and many donors— were more interested in cutting spending and giving tax cuts to job creators, or rich people in other words.</div><div>
</div><div>Over the past 60 years or so, GOP politics has been an imbalance where the base of voters wanted an agenda that promoted Christian nationalist ideas like mandatory school prayer, open discrimination against lesbians and gays, and legal obstacles to non-Christians. But Republican leaders focused more on deregulation and tax policy.</div><div>
</div><div>Donald Trump changed all that, however. In addition to giving out tax subsidies to his rich friends, Trump also began implementing Christian nationalism by banning trying to ban Muslim immigration and undermining LGBT rights in America and around the world. He also talked frequently about how his goal was to help Christians have political supremacy and power.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s reorientation of Republican organizing was resistant at first by traditional Republican elites. But one person who jumped on board almost immediately was Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA. The group was originally created in 2012 to spread the market fundamentalism of Republican fat cats to America’s youth. But after Trump took over the Republican party, Kirk completely changed TPUSA toward being a Christian nationalist organization.</div><div>
</div><div>Joining me today to talk about what specifically that means for Kirk and TPUSA, and the GOP embrace of open Christian nationalism is Matthew Boedy. He is a professor of rhetoric at the University of North Georgia, and he’s also written several fantastic articles about Kirk for us at Flux. He’s also the president of the Georgia conference of the American Association of university professors. The unedited video of our live conversation is below, a transcript of the edited audio follows.</div><div>
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</div><div>MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: Thanks for being here today.</div><div>
</div><div>MATTHEW BOEDY: So happy to be here.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: All right. So I’ve found that when I talk to people about Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, who are not familiar with that organization, they kind of see Charlie Kirk has just some Twitter troll who is constantly getting humiliated on social media by making dumb statements.</div><div>
</div><div>GraphicBut the reality is that, whatever you may think of his personality he has all kinds of money. And I’m just going to put up on the screen here for those who are watching and we’ll read it off as well for people who are listening, just some facts about Turning Point USA. So it was founded in 2012, and it has several different organizations, but between the organizations in 2020, they had revenues of $56.6 million.</div><div>
</div><div>They have over 2000 nationwide chapters and those chapters are organized in high schools, colleges and churches across the country. And every year, they host six national conferences where they gather people from all across the country and then also eight separate regional conferences.</div><div>
</div><div>So this is a very large organization that we’re talking about.</div><div>
</div><div>And they do a lot of activities. And in terms of your personal interest in Turning Point, in Charlie, Kirk, I guess it kind of began when you were targeted by one of their projects which they launched very early on which is basically an attempt to intimidate and censor professors. What are they calling it? The Professor Watch List, right?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: They still call it the Professor Watch List and it is an ongoing effort by them. Professor watchlist.org, I think is there a website, but they have dedicated staff to adding people to that. In 2017, I wrote an op-ed for my local Atlanta paper about a bill that was going through our legislature about putting guns on campus. And I thought I’ll just get a couple of readers. And then months later, it was on a Campus Reform writeup. And that’s how Turning Point USA found it. I was one of the original members, if that’s some sort of honorific, the first hundred of that list. And again, I’m a professor in the middle of Georgia, from nowhere school and was thrust into the conversation.</div><div>
</div><div>So everybody asks me, why do you have such an obsession with Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA? And I say, well, they started with me first.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. So tell us what exactly is this Professor Watch List project? What is it?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: They describe it as a list of professors who they’re trying to expose to the general public about— anti-conservative bias, left leaning thoughts— whether in the classroom or some sort of public opinion. Again, I wrote a an op-ed about a bill that would limit gun rights that would stop concealed carry from our campuses. And obviously Charlie Kirk and Turning Point they’re big gun advocates. And so that’s one thing that people are on the list for.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: But what’s the intent behind the program?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Really, to expose and harass and to name individuals. And if you wanna think about for their audience, it might be not to take their class or to take their class and record them. It’s something to target individual people, as opposed to the indoctrination centers as they call it, the university.</div><div>
</div><div>But these are the people who are leading that mythical indoctrination. Yeah. It’s targeted harassment to give a name and a face to the enemy, if you will.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. I think you could argue that this list is really an attempt to cancel professors, basically, because there are real financial repercussions that some people</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Oh, no. Yeah. And I didn’t use that phrase to begin with, but that’s certainly the effect now. I mean, there are certainly ways in which they try to: ‘Hey, write your college and get this person fired. That happens a lot to different people. It hasn’t happened to me, per se, but other colleagues. And so, yeah, it has become a weapon of cancel culture indeed. And they have many, many weapons in that war.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: That culture is just so utterly suffused in hypocrisy because Charlie Kirk also is constantly claiming that conservatives are being canceled and their speech is being suppressed and that they are the victims. When in fact, this organization from its beginning, was dedicated to trying to silence and cancel people.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right. I mean, it is hypocritical, but also an interesting rhetorical move. You say: ‘We are the victims of your thing, and that’s why we’re doing the thing to you that you, say we’re doing.’</div><div>
</div><div>And I mean, the, the original origin story of, of Charlie Kirk was that he had a friend who was taking this AP class and this book was totally against his form of economic theories with downplayed Reagan’s greatness. And then he wrote a Breitbart article about it. And basically tried to expose, ‘here’s what’s happening in our schools. Here’s what you should know. And that type of rhetorical move is Charlie’s Kirk’s bread and butter. ‘Here’s the secret knowledge. Here’s the thing you don’t know that’s happening. Here’s the thing that should upset you.’</div><div>
</div><div>And this is what the professor watchlist is. Here are the individuals on random campuses across the United States who are part of this conspiracy of indoctrination. With the cancel culture, you’re putting a face and a name to what you want people to attack.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And that rhetorical trope, when you look at American reactionary organizations, that has been a constant thing to get other people censored, while claiming that you actually are the ones being censored.</div><div>
</div><div>For instance, William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review, his first book was called “God and Man at Yale.” And it was basically just this big, long litany about how his various professors didn’t believe some fundamentalist biblical belief. ‘So-and-so didn’t believe in the resurrection, or so-and-so said the global flood wasn’t real, or so-and-so said that Abraham didn’t exist. So you need to stop giving them money, alumni of Yale University, because look at what they’re doing with it.’</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: I mean, Charlie Kirk has done that exact thing, has tried to divest alumni giving from certain colleges. But also the idea that somehow there’s things that you can’t say coming from an organization, Turning Point USA who started on having “free speech balls” on campus. You could pick a beach ball and you could write whatever you want. That was one of their events.</div><div>
</div><div>And now to really 180 degree turn from that, which is what he’s done in the last few years, as you mentioned in your intro is breathtaking because it is taking a Titanic of an organization and turning it from defense to offense. And so that is a massive change, both for the organization itself, but also for the network in which it works in. It’s turning its millions to building something instead of just merely attacking the left. And that will have long-term impact beyond whether Trump is the president again.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. So let’s maybe talk a little bit more about the origins of the group. So it started in 2012 and Charlie Kirk is seen as the public face of the organization, but in reality, it wasn’t really his baby, I don’t think you could really say. It was the creation of this other guy named Bill Montgomery.</div><div>
</div><div>Can you talk a little bit about Bill Montgomery, who he was? And actually he died of COVID last year.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. The origin story in the two minute video is on the Turning Point website of Charlie Kirk doing a speech at a youth government day in April of 2012. That’s when he was a senior in high school there in Chicago. And so he has a certain effective speaking style and was into politics and had started a previous organization, which I’ll get into, but really didn’t have a following.</div><div>
</div><div>So this retired businessman, also from that area, Bill Montgomery, who was in the Tea Party politics at the time, happened to be at that youth government day and heard Charlie speak and was so impressed that he went up to him and said: ‘You can’t waste your time doing something else or thinking about college.’</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Montgomery was unaware that Charlie had tried to start one. The original group was called SOS Liberty. He and a friend from a local high school started this Facebook group and it grew and he had the Breitbart article right there in April as well, and at the bottom of that Breitbart article, it says, Charlie Kirk’s the founder of SOS Liberty.</div><div>
</div><div>So what Bill Montgomery did, being a retired businessman, being a Tea Party activist, was really give Charlie Kirk a message and a direction and a network of people.</div><div>
</div><div>As you mentioned, Bill Montgomery died of cOVID. And at the eulogy, obviously Charlie Kirk was a big part of that funeral service of the eulogy. Charlie Kirk gives a long narrative, a history of the two together and it is a fascinating about Charlie Kirk as it is about Bill Montgomery.</div><div>
</div><div>Basically, the summary of that eulogy is the many times that Charlie Kirk wanted to quit. And Bill Montgomery said: ‘No, let’s do this other thing.’</div><div>
</div><div>So early on, Bill Montgomery would take Charlie Kirk to Tea Party events without any prior notice, not being on the announcements, not being a pro plan speaker. And he would walk over, Montgomery would walk over to the organizers: ‘Hey, I got this, this youth leader here, he’s really energetic. Can you have a few minutes?’ And that went on throughout the summer of 2012. And again that got some notice, again, Tea Party events in Illinois and the Midwest, and they didn’t have any money at that point.</div><div>
</div><div>It was Charlie apparently driving his car around. Bill Montgomery wasn’t a big donor. He wasn’t a multimillionaire. They had a rented garage, I think one, a garage that he happened to own. They were running the organization out of that. And so they kept calling, trying to get to these events, trying to get them on Twitter, trying to get video of them. And of course the big story is that throughout the summer of 2012, it wasn’t going well. It wasn’t building and Charlie wanted to quit.</div><div>
</div><div>And Bill Montgomery trying to encourage him said: ‘Hey, let’s go to the Republican National Convention in, down in Tampa.’ So they drive down there, they have a hotel. Charlie says it was an hour away from Tampa because they didn’t have any money. They wanted to be cheap.</div><div>
</div><div>So they had to drive the hour into Tampa each day. And Charlie didn’t have tickets. Bill Montgomery did his thing. They went into a hotel lobby, talked to somebody who had a badge: ‘Hey, can we have your badge, so we can go in the building?’ And they did. And he meets his first big donor in a stairwell.</div><div>
</div><div>And Charlie said he had memorized all the faces from this website of all the big donors there. And he happened to run into the guy in a stairwell and he pulls out his business card. And the guy was impressed with his pitch, whatever it was for those few seconds. And weeks later gives him $10,000.</div><div>
</div><div>And that was Foster Friess, one of the big donors. From that moment still though, Charlie Kirk gets on Fox News a couple of times. He was on “Fox News Live” from the convention floor with Neil Cavuto. But into the fall of 2012, that $10,000 does help them. But Charlie says in that eulogy by the winter, by December, they were broke again; and they didn’t have any direction, they didn’t have any events, they didn’t have any more ways to get on it.</div><div>
</div><div>So they decided: ‘Hey, let’s go to New York and corner Neil Cavuto again and get on TV again.’ So it was really a series of luck— but also Bill Montgomery constantly encouraging and pushing Charlie Kirk. But also, yes, when you don’t have a platform and you get platformed by Breitbart, Breitbart and Fox News, you’re constantly going to be invited back if you do well on them.</div><div>
</div><div>And he was invited back, I think he appeared on Fox news three or four times that year. It was really, can you make the most of the opportunities that you were given? And, and indeed that is, I guess the origin story of Charlie Kirk. He said it took off after that winter, December 2012. And it did. By 2015, which is obviously three years later, they’re a million dollar organization, which is a fast-moving train, if you know anything about nonprofits.</div><div>
</div><div>Photo</div><div>Far-right Rep. Laurent Boebert (R-Colo.) walks on-stage to fireworks and beatific images at a Turning Point USA event. December 20, 2021. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr</div><div>And so the origin story is based upon Charlie Kirk doing a couple of things: starting a Facebook group, having some prior experience, but yeah, it was really Bill Montgomery giving some structure, or some message, and some direction to a guy who was a senior in high school at the time.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: And needless to say, Bill Montgomery was not exactly a young person at the time. He was in his sixties or seventies—</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Seventies. Yeah, I think it was.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: —and was the creator of a youth group. The other thing about Montgomery though, and Charlie Kirk at that time also in these early years, was that the thing that made them different was— so Republican and far-right groups have a long history of trying to create youth engagement on college campuses. So there were other organizations out there that were lavishly funded and still get all kinds of money. But they operated much more slowly and kind of incompetently basically, I think you could say.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Methodically is the word you’re going for there. Yeah.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Okay. Well, yeah, you can say that. Yeah. And so, but the thing that was also different was that they were trying to, these other organizations were pushing more kind of a traditional conservative message, which was more focused on trying to get people excited about the size of government and trying to get people to think about tax cuts and economic growth.</div><div>
</div><div>And needless to say, those are not really persuasive messages to young people.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right. And Charlie’s joke. In the beginning it was like he also was into those issues. So how does he convince big donors to go with him as opposed to the other organizations that were there? Charlie says he was unaware of those organizations as a suburban Chicago kid. So he was into anti-big government, “big government sucks” is one of the original slogans. Again, the SOS Liberty, their key issue was the debt, the national debt. So here you have a teenage kid wanting money from a mega donor to talk to teenage kids about the national debt, which Charlie admits was a strange sell.</div><div>
</div><div>So the question is, what made Charlie different and what made Turning Point USA different? It certainly was Bill Montgomery and in the end, he gave, but it was also the platforms that I mentioned before, Breitbart and Fox News. But I think it was specifically, as we mentioned before, the thing about Charlie Kirk was not about the issues that he was into. It was himself and where he was at.</div><div>
</div><div>His origin story is I’m a conservative Republican in the heart of Democratic country. I’m a secret person who knows the secret knowledge of what’s really happening in high schools around the nation. I’m the person who can tell you what you don’t know.</div><div>
</div><div>And I think that that is what sold the original donors. And all the way up to today is that he gives you something that the other organizations don’t. And I think that that’s why they’ve been successful. They all do Facebook. They all do Twitter. Turning Point does it well. But he offers something that is different. He being the high school kid that he was, but also the origin story of the group and also his origin story, which we haven’t mentioned. He was rejected from West Point and then made up a story about being rejected by West Point because someone took his spot who happened to be, I think he said a different race and a different persuasion, which may or may allude to sexual orientation.</div><div>
</div><div>So, his origin story, the origin story of—</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Of course, there was no way that he would have ever possibly been to know that. You can’t know that.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right.</div><div>
</div><div>I mean, it would be just his congressman tell him: ‘Oh, someone else got your slot because of this.’ There’s no evidence at all of that story. But he told it many, many a time. And that line got him many invitations to similar groups. He told that same story again and again.</div><div>
</div><div>But the other part of his story that he constantly tells was that his high school was an indoctrination center. So it is his insider knowledge, his chance to be a Republican in a Democratic stronghold to tell that story to groups who were also on the outside. He went to Silicon Valley in 2015 to talk to a conservative group there.</div><div>
</div><div>So he goes to places where there are a few conservatives who also may gravitate toward the idea of victimhood or I’m a small fish in a very large pond.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Well, and I think the other unique factor that he had compared to these other groups was that, they were run by 70 year olds and 80 year olds.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: He had one, but he stood in the background. Yeah.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: So he still had that but Bill Montgomery was smart enough to realize you can more effectively build a youth organization when you actually have young people at the highest echelon.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: And you have someone who can speak with complete sentences and do paragraphs and who was articulate? I mean, there’s many things you could say about Charlie Kirk, but inarticulate is not one of them. He does know how to speak on camera and other places, yeah.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Another differentiating factor was that he understood that American young people were, if you were to speak of the majority of them, they were less interested in traditional religious fundamentalism or just going to church in general.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: They’re dramatically less interested in organized religion and especially just every younger successive year becomes more and more disinterested.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right,</div><div>
</div><div>So the question is, you have somebody who wants to go into that crowd and make that crowd bigger. So why do you give him money? So the question is, has Charlie Kirk changed the needle of conservatives on college campuses, or we’ll say religious fundamentalists.</div><div>
</div><div>Has he has grown the movement, or has he merely given courage or platforms to people who were already in that camp? I think there’s more Option B than A, but at the same time, both get him more money to do many other things.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: So his value proposition was slightly different in that in the beginning, he was offering a more libertarian, even secular message compared to these other groups such as Young America’s Foundation or Leadership Institute that for decades had funded college right-wing newspapers and things like that.</div><div>
</div><div>Actually, I’ll give a little bit of my own personal history is that I actually had the idea for Campus Reform [a website owned by the Leadership Institute] and I gave it to them in 2005. And they did not understand it because they were all 80 years old. And then fast forward a couple of years and they stole my idea and then created it and raised millions of dollars off of it.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: So do you feel bad that they didn’t get it or do you feel good that they didn’t get it? I mean, I guess how much penance are you doing is my question.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Now, I guess I’m glad I didn’t create (laughs). That I didn’t create another brainwashing site. But you know, at the time I was miffed that I had missed out on all that money they were raising off of it. And so yeah, I knew that they were ripe for disruption for a long time. And then when I saw Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery come along, I was like: ‘Oh, these guys are going to be big.’ And I was right.</div><div>
</div><div>So the message that Kirk was originally preaching, it was different. These other groups were much more, well, basically Christian oriented. And tried to talk about that a lot more. And Charlie Kirk explicitly did not do that. And that’s something you talked about in one of your pieces for us at Flux. Can you talk a little bit about his more secular beginnings?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. I mean he tweeted Bible verses for awhile. And was obviously anti-abortion the entire time and talked about God and abortion at that. But other than that, didn’t really do a whole lot. His main issues were the national debt, free speech on campus, guns, which obviously had some religious connotation to it. But specifically, did not, did not want to get into the culture war issues. Did not want to debate abortion, did not want to debate gay marriage, or did not want to provide content about those issues.</div><div>
</div><div>And even when he started going to church as a teenager, he was involved in James MacDonald’s mega church up in Chicago, specifically said: ‘I don’t mix my religion and politics.’ For whatever reason, he didn’t do that. And so, really up until 2019, he didn’t do that. For the first seven years of the organization, didn’t do that. He always threw out the Bible verses or threw out other things, but his books don’t mention a whole lot of religion. He’d never told his conversion story until 20 19. Didn’t talk about how he grew up or what churches he went to as a kid until 2019. I mean, we heard in 2019 that he went to a private Christian school, started by Wayne Grudem, it was a conservative theologian and that’s the first time we’d ever heard that.</div><div>
</div><div>If that is your background and you don’t say it until then, there’s a reason you’re saying at the moment that you do.</div><div>
</div><div>We don’t know much about his parents, but we do know he said he went to church as a elementary school kid. He is described that church both as a Bible believing church, but also Rachel Maddow with an organ. So he both criticized it and said it helped start his journey.</div><div>
</div><div>And so he was secular in the sense that he was involved in a lot of secular issues. He said that was the issue that he wanted to go on, because most people in the nation were secular and they didn’t really follow or believe in, as you mentioned, all the youth didn’t really follow or believe in trying to make Christianity the moral compass of the nation or the moral legislation of the nation.</div><div>
</div><div>But that did change, partly because of Trump, certainly. And of course, Charlie Kirk would fully admit that he wasn’t on the Trump train in the beginning, but he got on it pretty quickly. But around 2019, he started to do this. And he says it’s because of his relationship with this pastor, mega church pastor from California.</div><div>
</div><div>And having written about that in the last few months, trying to track that relationship, and if you just type in Charlie Kirk in the YouTube, you—</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: You are talking about Rob, Rob McCoy.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah, Rob McCoy, the pastor out of California who ran for California state Senate and lost, but then ran for [Thousand Oaks] city council there and won. And to try to track that relationship.</div><div>
</div><div>And you can over the course of April into the summer of 2019, because they show up at the same events. And early on, Charlie Kirk says different things from Rob McCoy. But once they meet, and we don’t know exactly when that was, once they started to talk, Charlie Kirk starts to repeat things that Rob McCoy says. Both in his speech at that same event and subsequent things.</div><div>
</div><div>So there’s a very interesting relationship there. So the question is, is it a 180 that Charlie has done, or was he merely there to begin with and Rob McCoy just pushed him along?</div><div>
</div><div>You could go both ways on that. But I do think that there was a fundamentally secular nature to what Turning Point USA did before, and now it’s completely erased. I mean, it’s a full on Christian nationalist, fundamentalist culture war. He is talking about issues and terminology and rhetoric that people were using in the eighties. He was talking about traditional family and the family is the center of the nation. And he talks about having a lot of kids at a Turning Point USA conference, a couple of weeks ago.</div><div>
</div><div>So it is a, a fundamental shift in him due to Rob McCoy. But it is also perhaps already there, had to overcome the obstacle of don’t do politics and church. And obviously somebody convinced him whether it was Rob McCoy or not, that this was new direction to go, because this is where your base already is.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: You’re going to get new parents, but this is where your group is already at. You might as well up the volume on it.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Well, and I think it’s, it’s related to this sort of transformation of American libertarianism that has happened in conjunction with the emergence of Donald Trump. So libertarianism in the United States had always had two factions. There were people who were Christian nationalist libertarians like Ron Paul, or this guy named Gary North, or some of these other people who want— they call it “minarchist” minimal or anarchist type of government. And that only religious institutions should have power in society from their standpoint. So that’s always been a pretty significant faction in libertarianism, but they had had an uneasy truce with the more secular libertarians, people at Reason magazine, for instance, most of them were never very religious at all.</div><div>
</div><div>Their differences were papered over because they both wanted to slash the government big time. But then Trump, once he came along and started really hitting all the notes of Christian identity politics to a much greater degree than any other Republican had before, that sort of began getting people who had a more Christian identity politics but maybe not fully realized it.</div><div>
</div><div>It also did drive away a lot of secular, moderate libertarians who were just horrified. I’ve heard this from people that they had told me that they had really not paid attention to these more Christian nationalist libertarians. There were just like, well, they’re kind of nutty, but, you know, whatever.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right. Yeah. They’re on the margins. Don’t ever get power.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And so, but then, then they suddenly became aware: ‘These are the people I’ve been enabling and working with, yikes! I’m out of here!’ There has been kind of this exodus of more secular, moderate libertarians and it’s left now the Republican youth group. So like when you look at the percentage of people who identify as Republicans, younger Americans, it’s just declined significantly, such that the only people who really are willing to be a Republican on campus and identify as such are Christian fundamentalists. Charlie Kirk’s hunting where the ducks are.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Well, he is recognizing that and I think that’s what the theme of the Turning Point conference a week or two ago was courage, right? Stand up for what you believe in. And that goes along with Trump taking back the country as well. But it is about moving the needle. Sure, the number of adherents, but it is also giving your base more strength and more activation or courage, as they want to say to, to do things or to say things. And that is one way in which you win the culture war. You’re not going to win the war as in persuading the other side, it isn’t about that right?</div><div>
</div><div>It is about gaining more fight in your own group. And this is why the civil war rhetoric out of Charlie Kirk and other people is tremendously dangerous. And they’re, they’re—</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Well, actually, and—</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: —let’s talk about that, if we could. So Charlie Kirk specifically had somebody say that to him</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Oh, certainly. Yeah. ‘When can we use the guns?’ I wrote about that for Flux. And why he got that question is also important. And then on his podcast/radio show, Charlie Kirk was talking to a guy, I forget where he’s a professor at, but a conservative guy who uses the phrase. I think it’s a Claremont guy, but anyway, he used the phrase “cold civil war,” and that’s what we’re in now.</div><div>
</div><div>And any phrase that includes the word civil war is bad, but you have a constant drumbeat toward what Marjorie Taylor Greene said the other day on Twitter, a “national divorce.” And so Charlie Kirk is dividing people. And he does it on purpose. He wants people to take a stand. He wants people to be courageous. He wants people to shout what they believe. He isn’t quite going toward ‘where the guns are’ yet, and he said, I don’t like that idea when he answered the guy. But at the same time, where else does he think this is going to go? If he’s trying to give some sort of intellectual grounding to his movement, going there is going toward an emotion of fear and division that obviously led to January 6th.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Actually, if you don’t mind, I’m going to actually going to play this little exchange that you wrote about. So this was a person in the audience. Kirk was speaking in the Boise area of Idaho. And he likes to take questions afterward at his events</div><div>
</div><div>(Begin clip)</div><div>
</div><div>Questioner: You ready? You’re brave. You’re brave for what you say, and the fact that you’re saying up there and say, and I appreciate it. I think we all appreciate it actually. Cause there’s not a lot of people (applause) that have the balls to do it. But I want to ask you something a little bit out of the ordinary. So prepare yourself.</div><div>
</div><div>At this point, we’re living under a corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny. When do we get to use the guns? No. And I’m not, that’s not a joke. I’m not saying it like that. I mean, literally where’s the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?</div><div>
</div><div>Charlie Kirk: So no, stop. Hold on. Now. I’m going to denounce that, and I’m going to tell you why. Because you’re playing into all their plans and they’re trying to make you do this. That’s okay, just hear me out.</div><div>
</div><div>It started with the compliments, but at least give me a little bit. They are trying to provoke you and everyone here. They are trying to make you do something that will be violent, that will justify a takeover of your freedoms and liberties. The likes of which we have never seen. We are close to have. Hold on.</div><div>
</div><div>(End clip)</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: And he goes on a little bit from there, but it’s an yet another instance there where you have Kirk engaging in this tactic, which basically seems to be his go-to rhetorical strategy, which is ‘accuse other people of the things that you yourself are doing.’ So in his case, he’s talked, and other right-wing elites, have talked for decades about tyranny and Second Amendment solutions and things like that.</div><div>
</div><div>And they’re the ones that are radicalizing people and getting them primed to commit acts of violence. And we unfortunately saw this just a couple of days ago. It looks like in Colorado, that there is an individual who is allegedly had been perusing a lot of these far right figures on the internet and was a big fan of them and decided to go on a shooting spree.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah, this is where it’s going. I don’t think he doesn’t know that. Charlie Kirk’s a smart guy. I think he knows that. So that’s why he had to say “no” to this person. But at the same time, as you can see, just in that clip, he’s like: ‘We’re close. They’re provoking you, but we keep getting closer to this line.’</div><div>
</div><div>And so the justification of their actions is what they’re looking for. So that is what Charlie Kirk’s been doing in the last several months. It’s finding intellectual justifications for his positions that have switched, or that changed because he’s become a Christian nationalist or again, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comment about “national divorce” and finding the anti-constitutional disgrace in the left. It is about finding a justification.</div><div>
</div><div>And so the guy in the Q and A asking: ‘We have justification we need, why aren’t we doing it?’ And I say that to bring to a video I was just watching today. And it was an interview that Charlie Kirk did before Christmas with (the far-right publication) Human Events. But Charlie Kirk’s into Machiavelli, reading Machiavelli, like what good can we get from Machiavelli? And the quote he keeps bringing up in that interview, it’s about a 45 minute interview, ‘We’re not going to wait around for a philosophical, ideal state. We know what we want. Let’s take it.’</div><div>
</div><div>Those are the words that come out of his mouth, not Machiavelli’s, but also Charlie Kirk. So if you take that with what you just heard in this video, you know why Charlie Kirk is getting that question. ‘You’ve been saying this all along. We know what we want, why don’t we take it?’</div><div>
</div><div>And so I don’t think that Charlie is not aware of that. He’s aware of that, he might have been aware he gets a question like that. And obviously he’s well prepared. But at the same time, how does he stop that from happening, if he wants it to stop happening? The end of Christian nationalism is a Christian nation. Whether by force or by law, or a combination of the two. So if that is what he wants, and he’s saying, he knows what he wants, why isn’t he taking it?</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: And that’s what the guest is saying. Yeah. And it’s a reasonable, it’s a reasonable question to ask at that point—</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Indeed.</div><div>
</div><div>Photo</div><div>Kyle Rittenhouse, the Wisconsin-based former teen who shot and killed two people at a Black Lives Matter protest is welcomed as a hero at the TPUSA “AmericaFest” event at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. December 20, 2021. Photo: Gage Skidmore</div><div>SHEFFIELD: —given what he said. Yeah, and actually you, you shared a, another piece with me before our conversation. This was an interview that Kirk did with this far website far right website. And he talked about how the growth of his organization, and he talked about it as that ‘people are joining our organization because they’re looking for a purpose in life.’</div><div>
</div><div>Let me get his exact phrase here, he’s referring to people who go to his conferences: “There’s something deeper happening here…. and it’s really exciting.” And then referring to his attendees: “They are looking for purpose and meaning. And when they start to see an organization articulate eternal truths, combined with the laws of nature and present day realities, they get really attracted to that.”</div><div>
</div><div>As a rhetorical device, it’s a concerning thing to say, because basically he’s conflating his own personal opinions about religion with eternal truths. And therefore, if you disagree with him, then you disagree with God and you’re God’s enemy, that’s basically what this organization is turning into, right?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Certainly. And it’s not a cold civil war anymore, if you’re going to say something like that. I mean, that summary, if you took it out and took away the label of Turning Point USA, is description of a church. ‘Come here, find purpose and meaning. And “Purpose Driven Life,” famous book written by a pastor. And is also, ironically, also a fairly good description of a university, of a college.</div><div>
</div><div>And so there are many groups out there obviously trying to give purpose and meaning to young people or to college students or to teenagers. And what Turning Point USA is doing now is not merely, let’s say, responding or trying to gain followers. They’re trying to sustain their following with purpose and meaning. I mean, obviously that the phrase “eternal truths” both has a religious connotation and political connotation, but to make what you’re doing in Turning Point USA to be a divine purpose or to be like the meaning of life, is to not just nationalize politics or to make identity politics. That is a religious phrasing.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: It’s a sacralizing statement.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Right. Yeah, exactly. They’re spiritualizing yes. Even so. You’re taking the eternal truths of the Bible and taking these eternal truths of the constitution and saying they’re the same and</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: And then I am the prophet of them.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. And so I think it’s, it’s just, crazy-making. I saw, I tweeted out today that Charlie Kirk’s going to join Michael Flynn at whatever his group is event in Arizona in January. Oh yeah, why not? I mean, that’s exactly where it’s going. And you have these prophets who prophesized things that happened in QAnon. Well, Charlie Kirk is not predicting things that will happen, but he is pointing at things in a direction. And that’s why he got that question: ‘You were pointing at this. Why can’t you just say you’re pointing at this?’ And so it is sacrilegious, it is anti-Christianity obviously.</div><div>
</div><div>But it takes what people hold dear. And many people hold politics dear, but they can separate it. And that’s what he did for quite a while. But what he’s hold dear and making it into politics, which is obviously reflecting or affecting back upon his religion. And this is the fundamental issue we hear in churches, and especially evangelical churches: Don’t let the world affect the church. And it always does. And I don’t know why people don’t see it at these church events that he has. What are they not seeing that there’s a politician doing a platform stump speech in your pulpit? And you’re just blinded to it or you want it. I mean, I think that’s the easiest answer and the most accurate, that’s what they want. They know what they want. Why don’t they take it?</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. As concerning as all this is, and as much money as he’s swimming in, it seems like the reaction among a lot of people on the center-left to the rise of Charlie Kirk and institutionalized, outright Christian supremacism, a lot of people on the political left don’t seem to be particularly concerned about it. I would think.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah, I mean, we’ve had many people criticize the press for not recognizing the threat to democracy and people criticizing the left for not being as good as the right in type of this organizing. They, they, they see it as a political partisan threat, but not a anti-democratic or even anti-truth. What, what level are we now putting this at? Turning Point USA is an “anti-what” group, anti-freedom, anti-America. I mean, if you’re going to do a civil war, then obviously you’re suggesting there should be more than two Americas.</div><div>
</div><div>So if you’re not taking that seriously, and you’re not taking the $56 million that will only get bigger, and if you’re not taking the 10,000 people that showed up in Arizona for their conference seriously, you really need to, I don’t know, either come from outside and turn on the TV or something. It is not just a fascinating thing. It is a thing.</div><div>
</div><div>And the question always for me is, since I’m a college professor and I’m on this list: ‘Do my students in my classroom know who this group is and do they care?’ I think if you, again, you flash a picture of Charlie Kirk, they would say, yes, we know who that guy is. They’re probably not as aware of the group, but they understand what the group is going after. I think we’re all aware of that. And so to put a face to it, they would get that pretty easily. But I think the more that he goes into these churches, the more he’s going to spread and beyond the demographic that he was originally targeting, I mean, this is a— I wouldn’t even call it a political party. It’s a national organization with so many platforms for so many different demographics that I used to think that he would have, he had to give it up because he was getting older and it was a youth group.</div><div>
</div><div>No. He can be in charge of this for a long time.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. I think in a lot of ways, you could see what Turning Point is turning into as kind of the fantasy scenario of the John Birch Society in their heyday in the 1960s and 70s. And he’s doing it. He is doing it. So the Birch Society in the seventies, they organized a lot of these conferences, very similar type of events that brought together politicians and religious leaders.</div><div>
</div><div>And they were making all kinds of money. But eventually after Ronald Reagan got elected, he wasn’t particularly fond of them. So he didn’t really have his people show up at these events. But now that thin dividing line that existed between the institutional Republicans and these reactionary groups is basically gone.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. and you don’t</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Certainly we see that with Donald Trump Jr. and some of these other people who are just in thick with Charlie Kirk.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. And you don’t have the, if I remember my history correctly, it was Buckley who told everybody to ignore the Birchers, put them in their place and to eliminate them from the conservative movement. But you don’t have that now. You don’t have anybody that can do that.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: And he was only targeting their leader. He didn’t do anything with the group itself.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. So, I mean, you don’t have anybody that could do that. I mean, just think about Trump and the vaccine coming in to say: ‘Go get vaccinated. And we built the vaccine.’ And his own group, booing him. I don’t know how you would have anybody that could say: ‘Don’t do Christian nationalism.’ I mean, yeah, there are Christians who say that and they’re Republicans who say that, but they’re, they don’t have much of an audience or an effect.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: On the political left, are there any groups even remotely— so we’ve already talked about, there’s three lavishly funded groups on the right targeting college students. And are there any groups on the political left that do more than just go get people to go vote. Are they doing anything remotely similar to this?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: I mean, Charlie Kirk’s original selling point was he wanted to match the grassroots organization of MoveOn.org. I haven’t heard, I mean, I just watch news everyday. I haven’t heard from MoveOn.org in a while. So if there’s a youth group out there, I’m unaware of it. I mean, I’m not into Democratic politics, so I won’t know the ins and outs, but no, I can’t think of a group that’s out there doing that, what he’s doing.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Which is weird because there’s so many students who would absolutely love to do something like that.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: They’re assuming college students are 85% Democrats, so we don’t have to organize it. Well, that’s exactly why Charlie Kirk exists, that he could go for the 15%, but because you’re not organizing the 85, I can do way more with my 15 than you can do with your 85.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. If he can get, 90% of that 15 to vote and more than half of the 85% don’t vote, then those groups kind of cancel each other out.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. And that’s, that’s the margin thinking that got Trump elected, right? He just needed to push the white voter percentage 5 or 6 points up, go find people who had not voted, who wanted to vote or who need to be energized to vote, and just move that percentage up a bit higher. And you win states after states. And Biden took away from that. So Kirk is taking that percentage back up. He may not be changing it and then moving the needle of the number of conservatives on a college campus, but he has 3,000 in a mega church voting. So he doesn’t need to move the needle that much on a campus or on general college kids, as you pointed out, the numbers are going down anyway. So he is activating the people he has. And that is the Christian nationalist movement, is to find people who already are Christian, who could go toward him.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And that message is also different and better from a marketing standpoint for reactionary economic viewpoints, because this Christian nationalist message actually can have some appeal to Hispanic or black young people who are very devout and politically independent or non-attached.</div><div>
</div><div>But if you tell them: ‘This is what the Christians are doing,’ then a certain percentage of them might go along with it, especially if they didn’t have any sort of connection with a black church and that history of explaining to them about how black people got their rights in the South was through churches working against right-wing forces.</div><div>
</div><div>And it actually is working, Trump increased his percentage, he had the highest percentage of black votes for Republican in decades and increased his Hispanic vote percentage significantly, so these are all trends.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: I think that’s why he’s in Arizona. You asked the question before, why he’d made his headquarters in Arizona, obviously it’s the governor there, Doug Ducey, conservative guy, but it’s a purple state and there is a wide margin there to infiltrate.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Well, and I guess let’s maybe before we wrap up here, let’s also talk about— so as Charlie Kirk is radicalizing his organization significantly and this hatred and anger against the rest of America, to some degree you could argue perhaps that he’s doing this, not just because he wants to but also because he’s facing a real pressure on the far right from this guy named Nic Fuentes who made significant inroads in Turning Point chapters across the country. And has his individuals show up at Charlie Kirk events. Let’s maybe talk about that a little bit.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: It’s hard to tell how much impact Nick is having on Turning Point, because we’d love to keep membership roles or the numbers, but the one issue that Fuentes and the America First movement went after Charlie Kirk about, Charlie Kirk made some flippant comments about green cards and college graduates who are immigrants. And then two, three weeks later he had to apologize and walk that back and become even more far right on immigration. And that was what, 2019?</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And I actually wrote about it. I’ll post the link.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Is there more than one issue that they were pushing him on? They pushed him on gay marriage. He really promoted his gay staff there for a while, and now not so much. And he’s a firm believer in one woman- one man marriage. And so is he doing it as an effect upon him or is he doing it to expand his universe? It’s obviously both. But at the same time, he doesn’t use the phrase “America First” quite yet, I don’t think, but now he’s pushing those issues.</div><div>
</div><div>It is quite interesting to see that the people that he does interviews with. I mean, he does interviews with radical Catholic organizations now that would follow or agree with Nick Fuentes. He does interviews with James Dobson, obviously, an evangelical stalwart there, and does “Flashpoint,” which I saw recently, again a TBN to show. So he is constantly going into that crowd burnishing his credentials that were questioned by Nick Fuentes. And I think that’s the effect of it, is that he constantly had to now answer that. So how do you stop people that are interrupting your meetings with chats and tough questions?</div><div>
</div><div>You just answer their questions before they’re asked, right? You talk about their issues so they don’t have a problem with you. And I think that that’s still the case. And of course the COVID and the pandemic kind of stopped those campus visits and those interruptions. But I do think that they embarrassed Charlie Kirk, and that’s why he had the issue that apology. And he doesn’t want that to happen again.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. That immigration controversy that he had, that was sort of the last vestige of his conventional Republican elite political view, which, traditionally Republican fat cats, they wanted more immigration because they wanted more unskilled workers.</div><div>
</div><div>And that was his standpoint. So I guess it will be interesting to see how things evolve and I hope that at some point there are people on the center-left will be looking at this organization and realizing what they’re doing. They’re fomenting this— if there do end up large numbers of radical Christian terrorist acts, this is where they will be coming out of, one of the organizations I feel like. Or at least this is the climate that these people are trying to create as that guy who showed up at Kirk’s event showed.</div><div>
</div><div>The unfortunate reality is that you have millions of fundamentalist young Christians now, especially young Christian men, who have such retrograde views about women or gay rights that they have trouble getting dates. Women don’t want to date them and they complain about it all the time. And instead of saying: ‘Maybe I’m wrong about women, and I’m wrong about pluralism, and fundamentalism.’ They are becoming even more radical. It’s really scary.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Well, show up to a Turning Point event. I’m sure there are plenty of eligible bachelorettes there who agree with your political views.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: But that’s the thing, like they’re even more radical than, than the women.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: All right. Yeah. Yeah. I think at the all these events now, Charlie Kirk knows there’s going to be these people that are going to try to interrupt that are going to try to get in, that are trying to make a scene. And there was one or two small ones at the most recent one.</div><div>
</div><div>And he’s done much better job of security, but at the same time, he knows those people over there, but yet at the same time, he can’t cancel them because he—</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah, he can’t tell them not to come because a lot of his actual fans also agree with them. I really hope that more people on the center left become aware of what’s happening here with America’s youth. There’s just this pool of young people out there who want to be involved with something that the traditional left of center power structure is not interested in talking to them.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: No. And Charlie Kirk has a army of doorknockers and people who will walk the streets for candidates now with Turning Point Action. I can’t name a group that’s similar to that on the other side. And they will go into these swing districts in swing states and they will do a lot of work.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Yeah. And in the case of Turning Point, January 6th, the Capitol attack, Charlie Kirk personally boasted about what did he say? He said sent 40 buses of people to January 6th?</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yeah. They narrowed it down to a single digit number of buses, but they, they brought a lot of people to that rally. They did say that all those people got back on the bus after the rally. So who knows? But yeah, he was a part of that. He wasn’t personally there, but yeah, he was a part of that.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: So, this has been a good conversation. We probably could talk a lot longer.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: Yes, we could, yes.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Because there’s just so much here. So you’re on Twitter at MatthewBoedy. That’s B-O-E-D-Y. And people can check you out there. And you’ve got another article about Charlie Kirk that’s going to be coming out.</div><div>
</div><div>BOEDY: It’s in the last stage of fact, checking for Political Research Associates, PRA. I don’t know when exactly it’ll come up, obviously, probably in the new year, but I’m pegging it as the history of Turning Point USA from founding until today.</div><div>
</div><div>SHEFFIELD: Okay. All right. Well, excellent. We’ll look forward to seeing that and I’ll try to get that into the show notes later when that does come out. So please do send that my way</div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This right-wing media campaign to excuse the Capitol attack is seemingly reflected by views among the rank-and-file GOP:</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;A recent&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/january-6-opinion-poll-2022/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">CBS News/YouGov poll</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;finds that Republican voters have become less disapproving of the events of January 6 than they once were. While the vast majority still say they disapprove, a deeper look finds that this opinion has become spread between those who “strongly disapprove” and a plurality who only&nbsp;</span><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/drupal8mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2022/01/04/cbsnews_20211228_jan6_all-updated-with%20changes.pdf?VersionId=lg1MVUGm1VGk7zsm8P7Uh_9Qq2.X0RSl#page=7" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“somewhat disapprove.”</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Moreover,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/drupal8mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2022/01/04/cbsnews_20211228_jan6_all-updated-with%20changes.pdf?VersionId=lg1MVUGm1VGk7zsm8P7Uh_9Qq2.X0RSl#page=8" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">only 21%</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Republicans will describe the riot as an “insurrection,” while&nbsp;</span><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/drupal8mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2022/01/04/cbsnews_20211228_jan6_all-updated-with%20changes.pdf?VersionId=lg1MVUGm1VGk7zsm8P7Uh_9Qq2.X0RSl#page=9" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">47% describe</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;the people who entered the Capitol as having been motivated by “patriotism,” and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/drupal8mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2022/01/04/cbsnews_20211228_jan6_all-updated-with%20changes.pdf?VersionId=lg1MVUGm1VGk7zsm8P7Uh_9Qq2.X0RSl#page=12" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">56% say</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;they had been “defending freedom.” Moreover, 38% of Republicans say that political violence&nbsp;</span><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/drupal8mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2022/01/04/cbsnews_20211228_jan6_all-updated-with%20changes.pdf?VersionId=lg1MVUGm1VGk7zsm8P7Uh_9Qq2.X0RSl#page=34" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">could be justified</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;over election results.</span></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></font></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, much of the response to January 6 has depended on the source’s view about whether such an event could succeed — or only result in ignominious defeat. Far-right activist and talk show host<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>Charlie Kirk,</b> in the days following January 6,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/charlie-kirk-delete-tweet-buses-capitol/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deleted a tweet</a>&nbsp;in which he had boasted that his organizations were sending “80+ buses full of patriots” to Washington in order to “fight for this president.” A Turning Point Action spokesperson claimed that the organization had sent only&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/technology/no-there-is-not-evidence-that-ginni-thomas-paid-for-buses-to-bring-people-to-the-capitol-siege.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">seven buses</a>, but it also later emerged that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/capitol-insurrectionist-who-assaulted-police-traveled-dc-charlie-kirks-turning-point" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">at least one suspect</a>&nbsp;in the Capitol insurrection had traveled to D.C. on one of Turning Point Action’s buses.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is also worth looking at what Kirk now has to say about political violence. When an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">audience member</a>&nbsp;at one of Kirk’s events asked this past October, “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” Kirk responded that the questioner was “playing into all their plans,” because their opponents were “trying to make you do something that will be violent that will justify a takeover of your freedoms and liberties.”<b>&nbsp;(Others pointed out that Kirk’s supposed objection to violence was based on its high probability of failure&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/GaryLegum/status/1453374685157240838" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">instead of any moral qualms</a>.)</b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has created a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/tucker-carlsons-revisionist-january-6-series-fascist-propaganda" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">propaganda series</a>&nbsp;claiming that the attack was a false flag operation mounted by government elements in order to persecute conservatives, has also for long time&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-launches-dishonest-and-passionate-defense-capitol-insurrectionists" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">cultivated a parallel narrative</a>&nbsp;in which the insurrectionists were just regular citizens who “talked about the Constitution, and something called their rights.”&nbsp;</span>Moreover, Carlson has claimed, they&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-many-ways-jan-6-insurrectionists-were-correct" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“were correct”</a>&nbsp;that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged against Trump — and “if a mass of people show up angry at the Capitol, you should at least pause for a second,” and “maybe we should address their concerns."&nbsp;&nbsp;[vid]<span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CARLSON (HOST): What was January 6? Well, there was destruction of property, which we’re totally opposed to, but what motivated it? Why were all those people there?</font></span></font></p></div></div><div data-align="center" class="l--gutter-pull paragraph paragraph--type--stories-web-video paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -57.8125px; margin-right: -57.8125px;"><div class="erd-list--editorial-embed-transcript field field--name-field-stories-web-video field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media-player media-player--video" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 867.219px;"><figcaption class="media-playercaption block-quote block-quote--minor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, for the most part, a year later, it’s very clear, January 6 was essentially what it appeared to be. Thousands of ordinary American citizens, voters — people who believe in our democracy far more fervently than Liz Cheney ever has — came to Washington because they sincerely believed democracy had been thwarted.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They believed the presidential election was unfair, and they have a right to believe that and by the way, in many ways, they were correct. The presidential election was unfair and you don't have to get into anything about voting machines to believe that.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">…</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OK, if someone broke the law, punish that person. That applies to BLM activists as much as it does to QAnon people. We're for enforcing the law, fairly, equitably. But we also think that as you do that, if a mass of people show up angry at the Capitol, you should at least pause for a second if you believe in democracy and ask, what are they angry about? Maybe we should address their concerns.</font></font></p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And on New Year’s Eve, right-wing site&nbsp;<b>American Greatness&nbsp;</b>— whose contributors have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/fox-news-contributor-lisa-boothe-and-guest-claim-january-6-prosecutions-are" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spread lies about the 2020 election</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-promotes-his-revisionist-january-6-special-interviewing-writer-who" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">attacked Capitol Police officers</a>&nbsp;— upped the ante with a piece titled&nbsp;<a href="https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/31/of-reichstags-and-bastilles/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“Of Reichstags and Bastilles.”</a>&nbsp;Repeating a series of false claims that there was “overwhelming evidence of widespread voter fraud in multiple swing states,” contributor Eric Lendrum declared that “thus, the protesters were justified.”</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The piece also claimed that&nbsp;<b>Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon conspiracy theorist who was killed by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/09/ashli-babbitt-capitol-shooting-trump-qanon/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climb through a broken window</a>&nbsp;leading to the Speaker’s Lobby, was “an actual hero</b>&nbsp;… who was willing to give her life for her country—and ultimately did just that, albeit in a far more tragic way.” (Babbitt had posted online the day before the Capitol attack that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/ashli-babbitt-capitol-trump-qanon-b1784388.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“Nothing will stop us,”</a>&nbsp;further adding: “They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours… dark to light!”)</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lendrum concluded his piece with a declaration that conservatives should “stop trying to qualify their stances on January 6 with an obligatory disavowal,” and instead openly celebrate the actions of that day as “a reaction to a long train of abuses and usurpations perpetrated against the American people by an entrenched elite class that has infected our institutions.”</font></font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only course of action at this point is to be just as firm in our stance as the Left is. If they truly want to address January 6 by making dramatic historical comparisons, then so should we. If their aim is to make January 6 their Reichstag Fire, then we should go forward celebrating the events of that day as our Storming of the Bastille; a day where a symbol of the degeneration of our ruling class into total corruption and tyranny was challenged, and the elites were shown just what happens when millions of freedom-loving citizens finally grow sick and tired of a boot perpetually stomping on their necks.</font></font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another peculiar set of visuals and commentary came Monday night on the far-right One America News....</font></b></font></p></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gt replacement</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>Right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec wants you to hang out with him at Turning Point USA’s “America Fest,</b>” billed as the “biggest event in the conservative movement” in Phoenix, Arizona, Dec 18-21. At least that’s what he</span><a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1468215601139232776?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;says</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;on Twitter, where he offers a promo code for the event and insists it “makes a great Christmas present.” <b>Joining him will be TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and Donald Trump Jr.&nbsp;</b></span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The event brings together right-wing Congress members, Christian nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and even right-wing activist athletes. A flashy promo video shows young conservatives dancing at what looks like a concert—and indeed, the event promises full concerts from a handful of y<b>ounger country music stars, “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood, and Dee Jay Silver.</b></font></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">While the promotion makes the event look more like a party, Turning Point USA is an organization that trains and mobilizes right-wing college students. This summer, that mobilization focused on</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/turning-point-usa-targets-school-boards-over-evil-mask-requirements-and-radical-training-on-bias-and-inequality/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;targeting</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;public school boards for allowing schools to teach about racism in U.S. history and implementing LGBTQ-inclusive policies. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group has raised</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/23/turning-point-rightwing-youth-group-critics-tactics" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;tens of millions of dollars</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, peddled disinformation about President Joe Biden’s win in 2020, and stoked fears about COVID-19 vaccines. The</span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-right-wing-provocateur-gen-z-race-5b57b4178fec39f30f3caad77b93c087" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;Associated Press</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;writes that Kirk, who has called George Floyd a “scumbag,” “exploits the racial divide to reach Gen Z.”</span></span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>Kirk has increasingly partnered with Christian nationalist forces, and the “America Fest” speaker attendee list reflects that. </b>Religious-right activist pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills will be in attendance as will<b> religious-right activist musician Sean Feucht</b>, who has</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sean-feuchts-super-spreader-road-show-returns-to-washington-d-c/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;toured the country</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;protesting pandemic-related restrictions on public gatherings. Feucht launched a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sean-feucht-launches-political-group-to-mobilize-conservative-christian-millennials/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">project&nbsp;</a>to mobilize conservative Christian millennials after his unsuccessful run for U.S. Congress in Northern California.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">The speaker list includes some newer (and younger) Congress members: 26-year-old Madison Cawthorn, who released a fervently</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/madison-cawthorn-releases-a-historically-and-theologically-incoherent-christian-nationalist-election-ad/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;Christian nationalist ad</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;urging Christians to “take our country back” and in another speech called on parents to raise their sons to be</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1450097787908022278" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;“monsters”</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">; Lauren Boebert, whose extremist rhetoric includes</span><a href="https://www.vox.com/22814386/lauren-boebert-islamophobic-comments-omar-house-republicans" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;suggesting</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;Rep. Ilhan Omar is a terrorist; and Matt Gaetz, who is facing a Justice Department investigation into whether he</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/us/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;paid women for sex</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;and, separately,</span><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/matt-gaetz-doj-investigation" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;whether he slept with a minor and transported her across state lines</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">.</span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>Rep. Louie Gohmert and Rep. Andy Biggs, the latter of whom Ali Alexander said helped plan the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, are also scheduled to speak.</b> The attendee list also features athletes and gun aficionados of the right-wing movement: with appearances from Michael Chandler, a Trump-supporting mixed martial arts fighter with the UFC; professional bow hunter Cameron Hanes; and John Lovell, better known as</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJ0U4eazC8" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;Warrior Poet</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, who offers trainings on tactical pistol and rifle use and small unit tactics as well as his vision of a “bold and dangerous masculinity.”</span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The event’s speaker list indicates the right’s vision for the future.&nbsp;</font></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Posobiec, who peddled the far-right Pizzagate conspiracy theory, is a contributor to TPUSA and, judging from his promotion of the event, will likely be a main feature of it.&nbsp;</b></font></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">He recently teamed up with Kirk to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1465813449036812293?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">interview</a></b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>&nbsp;18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse,</b> who shot three and killed two protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest last year. Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges last month and</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-activists-white-supremacists-celebrate-rittenhouse-acquittal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;became a hero</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, first in the eyes of the far-right and then the broader right-wing movement. The interview opened with Kirk expressing personal affinity: “Kyle, from the first moment I saw you in the news and saw video of you <b>defending yourself, I felt we had something in common.”</b></span></font></font></p><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/turning-point-usas-america-fest-aims-to-reach-gen-z-with-christian-nationalists-conspiracy-theorists-and-country/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; 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</div><div>I’d say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles, it is more accurate to say that her career is progressing on schedule. Do you remember why Clanton first became a news story? It’s been a minute, so I’ll cover the deets.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>In December of 2017, the New Yorker reported that Clanton, who at the time worked at the conservative student group Turning Point USA, texted co-workers with this hateful message:</div><div>
</div><div>I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all .?.?. I hate blacks. End of story.</div><div>
</div><div>From ABOVE THE LAW</div><div>Awful, right? And this was far from a one-off incident, as reported by Mediaite:</div><div>
</div><div>Numerous sources who worked with Clanton detailed how she would exchange racist remarks regularly with other TPUSA staffers — including Alana Mastrangelo, who currently works for the group, and Timox Prax, who was allegedly forced out of TPUSA this year over “bigoted” remarks — using Snapchat.</div><div>
</div><div>One such message reviewed by Mediaite features a photo of a man who appears to be Arab and a caption written by Clanton that reads, “Just thinking about ways to do another 9/11.” (The source who provided Mediaite with the image requested it not be published to protect their anonymity.)</div><div>
</div><div>Well, even though Clanton was forced out of the right-wing nonprofit, her career prospects were far from damaged. Shortly after she left Turning Point USA, Ginni Thomas — yes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife — hired Clanton to assist with her media ventures. And Clanton lapped up her connection to the powerful jurist.</div><div>
</div><div>But that wasn’t the end of Clanton’s ambitions. She was admitted to ASSLaw — that’s George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, for the uninitiated — and is scheduled to graduate this spring. And now we know that her post-graduation plans include an incredibly prestigious clerkship with Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor for 2023-24.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 921 in</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="editorial-compacttitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/wake-sham-arizona-audit-charlie-kirk-calls-continued-investigations-and-lays" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><span property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">&nbsp;wake of sham Arizona audit, Charlie Kirk calls for continued investigations and lays groundwork for more voter suppression</font></span></a></font></h3><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><font color="#000000"><span class="dateline-compact__type" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(25, 118, 210); fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--article" aria-labelledby="icon-label--article" /><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><use xlink:href="#article" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></font></font></span><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></font></font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>President Trump targeted billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple Chairman Steve Jobs, in his latest salvo against The Atlantic for reporting that he disparaged slain American soldiers.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,” Trump tweeted. “Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!”</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The president sent the tweet in response to a post by conservative activist Charlie Kirk noting that Laurene Powell Jobs, a co-owner of The Atlantic, has donated more than $600,000 to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump has vehemently denied the Atlantic story, which alleges that he declined to visit a French cemetery for Americans slain during World War I and called them “losers.”</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“If they really exist, if people really exist that would have said that, they’re lowlifes and they’re liars. And I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews&nbsp;</b>after a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Thursday.</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News and The Washington Post have since matched parts of The Atlantic's reporting.</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atlantic editor: Reporting on Trump comments about fallen service...</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News reporter defends confirming Atlantic piece despite Trump...</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Saturday, Trump attacked the article’s author, Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, as a “slimeball.” He separately attacked Jennifer Griffin, the Fox News reporter who backed up parts of the report, saying she “should be fired for this kind of reporting.”</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Biden campaign has also seized on the report, cutting an ad including the alleged remarks.</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former White House national security adviser John Bolton, meanwhile, has claimed he did not hear the alleged remarks, while former White House chief of staff John Kelly has declined to comment.</b></font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 920 dn</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JASON</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STANLEY</span>:</strong>&nbsp;So, there’s no evidence at all that Cory Booker, a senator, an African American senator from New Jersey, is going to be running any such program. He throws his name in.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He mentions women. Why does he mention women? Well, this harkens back to what Langston Hughes called “our native fascisms.” This harkens back to the worst moments in American history, the history of lynching. Ida B. Wells, in&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Southern Horrors</em>, the great Ida B. Wells, the great anti-lynching activist and intellectual and journalist, said, “Look, racism and sexism go together.” They’re treating white women as victims who need to be protected from marauding Black men by a strong leader, by —&nbsp;you know, by white militias, the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KKK</span>.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump is directly harkening back to that horrific time in American history, which is this sort of lynching in the late 19th, early 20th century to mid-20th century. This is something that Du Bois, in&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black Reconstruction</em>, calls fascism, so American fascism. This is the aspect of America that influences Hitler, that influences the Jim Crow laws, the racial subordination.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here, so I have a chapter in my book called “Sexual Anxiety.” You know, in Germany, the idea behind both Nazi Germany —&nbsp;Nazi German ideology and the Ku Klux Klan, often called the first fascist organization, was that Jews,&nbsp;Marxist Jews, were trying to promote a race war to get Black Americans to —&nbsp;to get Blacks and immigrants to overthrow the white Christianity. And the idea, you know, Hitler fomented this, as I document in my book. It’s also the case that you had this propaganda, that overlaps between here and QAnon, that we need to protect our women and children from these predators, pedophile rings.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But this echoes the classic American, supposed and completely fictional Black male rapist fiction, fictional narrative, that underlay lynching. And the random evocation of Cory Booker is a case in point. Ida B. Wells is, sadly, more relevant than ever.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;During the Republican convention, speakers used apocalyptic language to describe the dangers of a Biden presidency. This is Charlie Kirk, the founder of the right-wing student group Turning Point.</font></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font color="#000000"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="font-style: normal; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CHARLIE</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KIRK</span>:</strong><i>&nbsp;</i>We may not have realized it at the time, but Trump is the bodyguard of Western civilization. Trump was elected to protect our families from the vengeful mob that seeks to destroy our way of life, our neighborhoods, schools, churches and values. President Trump was elected to defend the American way of life.</font></font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Charlie Kirk, the founder of the right-wing student group Turning Point. Professor Stanley, respond to this and also people raising their eyebrows and saying, “Oh, come on, Nazi Germany, you’re comparing this to?”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JASON</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STANLEY</span>:</strong>&nbsp;That speech is highly evocative of a speech that Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, gave in 1935 called “Communism with Its Mask Off.” In Goebbels’ speeches, including that speech, which I encourage people to look up, he regularly represents the threat as being a threat to Western civilization. He says the Nazi Party is going to protect social conservatives, Christians from the Armageddon of communism, which seeks to destroy civilization as such. Goebbels says the communists are in cahoots with the international underworld. So, that’s that link between communism and crime and supposed lawless crime.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So you have the same idea here. There’s Trump, on the one hand, protecting Christianity, protecting Western civilization, and anyone opposed to Trump is a lawless mob in cahoots with communists seeking to destroy civilization itself. And this is the friend-enemy distinction that is so antithetical to democracy....</font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon matt r</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>conservative social media networks and right-wing personalities,&nbsp;including Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce,&nbsp;have seized on a misunderstood COVID-19 mortality statistic from the CDC as “evidence” that pandemic public health fears are&nbsp;overblown. The viral spread of the “6%” meme seems to speak&nbsp;to both a larger scientific illiteracy and the rapidity with which the conspiratorial right jumps on misinformation that appears convenient to their political narrative.</b> Salon spoke with scientific experts to understand the origin of this meme, and how it has been misinterpreted.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3-wrg3tTKK5-9tOHPGAHWFVO3DfslkJ0KsDEPQpWmPbKtp6EsoVV2Qs1Q#ExcessDeaths" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a>&nbsp;published earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote that&nbsp;“for 6% of the deaths” reported&nbsp;involving the novel coronavirus,&nbsp;the data indicates that “COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>This means that there were co-morbid conditions — meaning multiple health conditions that compounded the coronavirus’ effects — associated with the COVID-19 death on 94% of the other occasions. The CDC added that, “for deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”</b></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many on Twitter seized upon the “6%” data point to argue that the United States has been overreacting to the pandemic.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“All of this for SIX PERCENT!” tweeted conservative writer and former congressional candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1300414798367252482" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">DeAnna Lorraine</a>. </b>Another former congressional candidate, this one a veteran and self-described “Torah Observant Christian” named&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/votenickmoutos/status/1300310892878462976" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Nick Moutos</a>, tweeted “#Fact Only 6% of reported #COVID19 deaths were “from” the virus. The other 94% were from other comorbidities. Death toll actually near 10K, or roughly .003% of the US population. #SixPercent"</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">fox News contributor and Fox Nation host&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1300175483016019968" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Tammy Bruce</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b>&nbsp;tweeted about the meme,</b> too, making her point through understatement:&nbsp;“6% Six. Percent.”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1300135845555396613" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Charlie Kirk</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, the founder and president of right-wing campus group&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/25/how-a-diaper-protest-led-to-the-implosion-of-a-conservative-student-group/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Turning Point USA</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, echoed Bruce, tweeting simply:&nbsp;“6%.”</span></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A self-described pro-Trump political candidate in Virginia,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonRobergeVA/status/1300224704008073216" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jason Alexander Roberge</a>, tweeted that “I was called a conspiracy theorist in March for calling out the FAKE covid numbers: 6% Six Percent.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps most shockingly, a Twitter account called&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1300415126986731524" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Cain Gang</a>&nbsp;— which describes itself as “formerly run by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Herman Cain</a>, now supervised by his team and family” —&nbsp;tweeted that “it looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.” That tweet was later deleted. Cain&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">died of COVID-19</a>&nbsp;on July 30.</b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These tweets all reflect a profound misunderstanding of what “comorbidity” means,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/658/alfred-sommer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Alfred Sommer</a>, an epidemiologist and dean emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Salon by email.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“People with co-morbidities die at higher rates, as do older people (some without serious co-morbidities but with aging, less responsive immune systems),”&nbsp;he wrote.&nbsp;“None of which makes any difference —<b>&nbsp;if these people had not contracted COVID they would not have died at this time! So they are ALL COVID-caused deaths.”</b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sommer believes the number of deaths attributed to the pandemic has actually been underestimated, as many who were ill — either with COVID-19 or something else — were unable to seek care because of the public health situation.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nobody counts the increase in the number of deaths caused by the pandemic —&nbsp;but not directly by infection: people who had heart attacks and related who couldn’t get care, or were afraid to seek care, because of COVID,” Sommer added. “The rate of these deaths has been running substantially higher this year than in past years.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/drericding?lang=en" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding</a>,&nbsp;senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, called the “6%” meme “a&nbsp;ludicrous misunderstanding and misinformation.” “Basically, [they are]&nbsp;arguing that if you die with COVID and have any risk factors, then it somehow doesn’t count as COVID,” he told Salon. Feigl-Ding compared the situation to that of cancer patients, who frequently have compounding conditions that increase their risk of dying of cancer.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Most cancer patients have many other risk factors, which by their logic means a person didn’t die of cancer if someone has anything else,” he said.</b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/2566/justin-lessler" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Justin Lessler</a>, an associate professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, also told Salon that the six percent figure needs to be viewed in an appropriate context.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The ‘six percent’ figure represents those people with only COVID-19 on their death certificate. This will be very unusual,” Lessler explained by email. “First, COVID-19 causes many of the co-morbidities mentioned, which are respiratory conditions. So, having, for example, respiratory failure on your death certificate in addition to COVID-19 is not really having another cause of death, as your coronavirus infection almost certainly caused the respiratory failure. Second, many of the other co-morbidities, such as heart disease, are common in the US and increase your chances of dying from COVID-19, so may be contributing factors to death but not necessarily the root cause.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He concluded, “The most important thing to remember, is that no matter what the co-morbidities listed are, pretty much all of these people would have lived longer, probably a lot longer, if they had not been infected with the virus.”</b></font></font></p><article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://apha.org/about-apha/executive-board-and-staff/apha-staff/georges-c-benjamin-md" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Georges Benjamin</a>, executive director of the&nbsp;American Public Health Association (APHA) and former secretary of health in Maryland, confirmed to Salon by email that the six percent figure is being characterized “incorrectly.””The 6% figure was the percent that did not have any other diseases listed on the death certificate as a contributing factor for their death. That does not tell us what the risk to the U.S. population is,” Benjamin explained by email.&nbsp;“Approximately 40% of the U.S. population have at least one chronic disease (₁₃₀ million people [out of] 330 million). That means 40% (130 million) of the country is at risk of getting severe disease if they get infected with SARS-CoV2 the virus that causes COVID-19. That is a significant risk to the overall population. COVID-19 was a contributing cause for the death and may have been the precipitating cause of death.”He added, “The way they are interpreting the 6% figure implies that the individual would have died from their underlying disease regardless of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which you cannot say.”</font></font></article></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Charlie Kirk</b><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=ed5afe79ac06b626991e26005fed23ea9000f042b4f7ff19dd2cc94c23710157606940b0329d1bbf677d62ca23f491e9c2a10053f4c72922" title="declared that" style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">declared that</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;he won't wear masks because he doesn't believe in the science.</span></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University of Iowa cool to climate change activists | The Gazettewww.thegazette.com › subject › opinion › staff-columnist › university...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 8, 2019 - International climate change activist Greta Thunberg drew thousands of ... Kirk is the leader of Turning Point USA, which organizes high school ...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump mocks 16-year-old Greta Thunberg a day after she is ...www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/12/12</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 12, 2019 - Charlie Kirk, president of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group, called Thunberg, who began skipping a day of school to draw ...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk | Media Matters for Americawww.mediamatters.org › charlie-kirk</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk is a pro-Trump troll and founder of the conservative student-oriented Turning Point USA. He has a history of pushing right-wing ... Right-wing media launch unhinged attacks on Greta Thunberg. 09/24/19 1:43 PM EDT. Charlie Kirk ...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media launch unhinged attacks on Greta Thunberg ...www.mediamatters.org › dinesh-dsouza › right-wing-media-launch-u...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 24, 2019 - Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk lamented that “we can't criticize 16-year old ANTIFA climate activist Greta Von Thunburg.” Far-right ...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk on Twitter: "Hey @AOC your green new deal just ...twitter.com › charliekirk11 › status</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 26, 2019 - Founder & President of @TPUSA Chairman of @TrumpStudents Author ... Hey @AOC your green new deal just got ZERO votes in the Senate ...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GOP Darling Charlie Kirk is Worried About Alexandria Ocasio ...www.newsweek.com › ... › Charlie kirk › CPAC › Charlottesville</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 2, 2019 - Charlie Kirk is President Donald Trump's not so secret weapon. ... There are constant accusations of Turning Point USA promoting the ideals of ... You're referencing a draft of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal plan.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing: tp ?| Must include: tp</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a&nbsp; new website called Professor Watchlist is soliciting “tips” to help publicly “expose and document” college professors who “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The conservative group Turning Point USA, led by frequent Fox News guest and former Breitbart.com contributor Charlie Kirk, is behind the site.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor Watchlist, which launched on November 21, encourages visitors to “submit a tip” to report professors who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” (The website originally also solicited reports of professors who “promote anti-American values,” but that language has since been deleted.) The submission form allows visitors to identify professors by name and school, and to submit evidence of perceived bias discovered via “Article/News Report,” “1st Hand Experience,” or simply “Word of Mouth.” It also allows visitors to share optional “Video/Photo Evidence” of alleged transgressions. The site’s “About Us” page notes that it will “only publish profiles on incidents that have already been reported somewhere else,” though it does not provide further information on the quality of previous reporting required or the overall vetting process.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of noon on December 1, the site lists 143 professors by name, including photos of the allegedly biased educators, brief details of reported incidents that have warranted their inclusion on the site, and links to “source(s)” that reported the incidents. Of these 143 entries, right-wing student reporter website Campus Reform, operated by the conservative activist training group the Leadership Institute, served as the singular “source” for 75.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative student blog The College Fix sourced 10 entries, and the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant David Horowitz Freedom Center’s website DiscoverTheNetworks, which often cites white nationalist groups, accounted for another 12. Other sources included Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, FoxNews.com posts, and edited “undercover” videos from conservative activist James O’Keefe’s discredited group Project Veritas. (Even Bill O’Reilly expressed some concern about the legitimacy of these “third-party” reports in a recent interview with Kirk.)</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk’s Professor Watchlist site mimics the M.O. of other “citizen journalist” vigilantes of the far-right, like O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, by promoting “tips” from the public with little accountability for the truth, yet potential real consequences for those caught in the crossfire.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, O’Keefe was invited to attend the final presidential debate courtesy of Kirk and Turning Point USA. Last year, O’Keefe spoke about “gorilla journalism” (sic) at a Turning Point USA event in West Palm Beach, FL, and Professor Watchlist cites his videos as the sole “source” justifying four entries so far.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “alt-right” white nationalist news site Breitbart.com, now predictably defending Kirk’s dangerous watchlist, has previously aligned itself with O’Keefe via exclusive releases and spirited defenses of his “journalism” tactics. Both Kirk and O’Keefe also appear to support Breitbart mouthpiece Milo Yiannopoulos, a racist and sexist media stunt artist who styles himself as a journalist.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 23-year-old Kirk has made guest appearances on Fox Business for several years. Kirk was previously a contributor at Breitbart, and he has written pieces for The Washington Times and FoxNews.com, among other right-wing outlets, beginning when he was in high school. On Twitter, Kirk has pushed Clinton conspiracy theories, repeatedly delighted in the failures of “the media,” and targeted “leftist” professors and “likely” professors for perceived bias for years.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, Kirk was the subject of several puff profiles labeling him a “major player in conservative politics” and a “boy wonder” set to “energize” the Republican Party. His group also hosted multiple “Big Government Sucks” rallies that year, with Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) making appearances. In July of this year, Kirk spoke at the Republican National Convention about Turning Point USA, describing its work to push conservative values on college campuses, which he called “the most treacherous terrain imaginable.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apart from “calling back to McCarthyism and making lists of college professors who have offended their conservative sensibilities,” Kirk’s Turning Point USA is classified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.” The group claims to have a “presence” on 1,000 college and high school campuses nationally. Another of its projects, Hypeline News, is a “young-adult driven social news site” that employs college-age writers and says it’s “taking back the media.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk personally publicly supported Trump for the final months of the election season (although during the primaries he called Trump a “statist” and “demagogue” and was “cheering for a slowdown of the Trump train” in March). In 2011, however, Kirk -- then a high school student -- repeatedly tweeted at Trump, encouraging him to run for president. Last week, Kirk reportedly met with undisclosed members of the Trump transition team at Trump Tower to give “advice on young people and millennials and outreach.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wealthy Scientologist John Mappin lives in a castle, loves President Donald Trump?, and spends his time online boosting byzantine conspiracy theories, including QAnon. He’s a British right-wing political aficionado with ties to ?Trump’s 2016 ?presidential campaign and one of the GOP’s most powerful youth organizations. ?On Sunday, Mappin said he met with a prominent U.S. intelligence official who told him QAnon is real.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A giant “Q” flag waves above Mappin’s King Arthur-themed castle in southwest England, drawing the attention of The Guardian,guk]&nbsp; which reported the flag’s connection to the bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory in January. Online, Mappin frequently posts pro-Q messages to his social media accounts and boosts some of the most popular Q community creators?. Over the weekend, ?he uploaded a video with an odd message.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When I was in Washington, D.C., I did have the opportunity to sit next to somebody who is very, very highly respected within intelligence circles in Washington and he did indeed confirm to me that one should ignore the utterances of Q at one’s peril,” Mappin said. He also posted a similar message in a tweet and has conveyed his desire for world leaders to investigate what he says is a possible connection between 5G wireless networks and the worsening coronavirus pandemic.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not immediately clear when Mappin would have had his Washington meeting or who he may have met with. Right Wing Watch attempted to reach Mappin via Twitter direct message and email but did not receive a response</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">what makes Mappin’s remark distinct from run-of-the-mill online QAnon chatter is Mappin’s reported connections to political power-players in ?the United Kingdom and America.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mappin generated headlines in 2018 when he hosted Turning Point USA figures Charlie Kirk, its founder and president, and Candace Owens, a former communications director who currently leads the “Blexit” campaign, for the debut of Turning Point UK. The event, which Mappin emceed at the Royal Automobile Club in London, was reportedly disastrous. Owens made comments that seemed to defend? Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, which she later clarified and claimed “leftist journalists” ?had mischaracterized.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Give it up for John,” Kirk told the crowd, prompting applause at the end of the event. Britain-based anti-fascist nonprofit Hope Not Hate wrote that Mappin played a major role in organizing Turning Point’s overseas operation and was “earmarked as the contact point for high end donors” to the organization.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right Wing Watch emailed a Turning Point USA spokesperson for clarification on the organization’s relation to Mappin but did not receive a response.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, Mappin announced he had awarded Trump ?the “Honorary Camelot Castle Knighthood” and deemed that while ?Trump ?was at his cliffside castle, he would be addressed as “Sir Donald Trump of Camelot.” Mappin mailed Trump a replica sword styled after Excalibur, the fabled sword of King Arthur. Additionally, Mappin won a six-figure sum betting that Trump would be elected president.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?In 2017, Cornish & Devon Post reported that Trump’s ?son Eric Trump called Mappin before the president’s inauguration to thank Mappin for his support and to invite him to visit the first family in Washington. Mappin seized the opportunity and took a photo with Trump and first lady Melania Trump. The same year, he also took a photo with Trump campaign senior adviser John Pence, who is Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew, at Trump’s Washington hotel. We emailed the Trump campaign for clarification on its ?relationship with Mappin but did not receive a response.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since ?getting cozy with the Trump family, Mappin appears to ?have remain?ed politically active. In 2019, British politician Nigel Farage reportedly asked Turning Point UK backers at a Ritz tea party where Mappin was present for “any help, any support, whether it’s verbal, whether it’s getting your friends involved, whether it’s giving us money, whatever it is, we need all the help we can get.” Several Brexit Party and Turning Point UK officials were reportedly present, but Mappin dismissed the event to BuzzFeed News as “simply a tea party” and described it as “more a meeting of intellectuals rather than a fundraiser.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It also seems that he still maintains a warm relationship with Kirk and Turning Point USA. In a publicly visible Facebook post this month, Mappin congratulated Kirk on scoring an interview with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro and wrote that he considered Kirk “among our closest friends.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hope Note Hate researcher Simon Murdoch told Right Wing Watch that while Mappin has appeared in proximity with prominent political figures in the U.K. and ?the U.S., “in each case it has been brief and without lasting consequence.” Turning Point UK, Murdoch said, managed to earn some press attention at its inception?, but “it has sunk into irrelevancy, having no noticeable impact on university campuses or wider political debate in the U.K. since.” As for Mappin’s QAnon claims, Murdoch expressed strong doubts.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Given Mr. Mappin’s track record promoting conspiracy theories and other bizarre claims, his claim that he met with members of the U.S. intelligence community, let alone a respected member, should be viewed with skepticism, even more so given the apparent theme of the conversation,” Murdoch said. “Moreover, even it if were true, his track record of inconsequential political involvement would suggest such a meeting will likely lead to little.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump and his allies have received support from the Scientology community, which has been the subject of ?massive public scandals in recent years, particularly in Los Angeles. Last year, Scientology whistleblower Leah Remini called out the Trump administration for cozying up to Scientologists, including recording artist Joy Villa, who has appeared close to the Trump White House and presidential campaign. The Church of Scientology also threw its weight behind Trump’s criminal justice reform bill last year?; ex-Scientologists said ?its support of the bill was a recruitment scheme.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At Mappin’s castle, the helipad is always waiting to accommodate Trump, ?whom Mappin has described as “the most intelligent being to have occupied the presidency in 100 years?,” should he accept Mappin’s open invitation. Trump hasn’t landed there—yet.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk, 26, a favorite of President Trump's, is out today with "The MAGA Doctrine," a manifesto for the young "Make America Great Again" crowd.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why it matters: Kirk is founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth activist group on over 2,000 high school and college campuses.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book became an Amazon #1 bestseller after Trump tweeted Sunday night that a Kirk interview on Fox News was "Amazing!!! ... This is a really GREAT book. Support Charlie Kirk!"</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What they're saying: Kirk said his favorite page is Page 8: "Trump has swept aside an astonishing number of conservative taboos, once-dominant institutions, and once-unbreakable rules ..."</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[T]he Republican Party is in some sense no longer a conservative party, no longer the party of Reagan, but instead a Trump-remade populist party."</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/at-cpac-everything-is-socialism-and-the-only-solution-is-more-trump/</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interviewing EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones mused, “This is an anti-socialism conference, but there has to be an alternative,? administrator,? to the people that want socialism.” At this year’s ?CPAC, it seemed the only prescription put forward was voting for four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year, CPAC was explicitly committed to formulating effective ways to combat what American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp dubbed “creeping socialism.” This year?’s conference was similarly committed to sounding the alarm against a socialist resurgence supposedly inching closer to the heart of power in Washington, exemplified in ?Democratic presidential frontrunner ?Sen. Bernie Sanders’ victories in early Democratic primary states. ?Attendee badges bore the tagline “America vs. Socialism,” and numerous main stage panels were devoted to the topic.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sanders has called himself a democratic socialist for years while advocating for increases to the federal minimum wage, the expansion of social welfare programs, and the nationalization of healthcare. The organization Democratic Socialists of America describes its agenda as one that believes “both the economy and society should be run democratically.” The United States already has several ?popular socialist programs, ?including Social Security and Medicare, and public attitudes about socialism have been shifting. ?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Socialism, we believe, gets to the very core of violating the dignity of the individual human being that has God-given rights,” Schlapp said ?Thursday.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On CPAC’s main stage this year, every Democrat was a socialist, and socialism was a threat to the ?very essence of America. To save it, conservatives need? to ensure that Trump is reelected president.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vice President Mike Pence told CPAC attendees that “there are no moderates in this Democratic field” of presidential candidates? that every Democratic candidate running—despite any stated policies—embraces Sanders’ “socialist agenda.” It was important, Pence said, for conservatives to renew Trump’s 2019 State of the Union declaration: “America will never be a socialist country.” Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee abided Pence’s demand, declaring on a panel Thursday that conservatives were “going to help stamp out socialism forever.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a conversation with Schlapp Friday, Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that socialism was a far bigger threat to the American economy than even the coronavirus, which had just sent the stock market into its worst week since 2008.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The virus is not going to sink the American economy. What is or could sink the American economy is the socialism coming from our friends on the other side of the aisle,” Kudlow said.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kudlow was joined in his warning by other Trump administration officials,? including Department of Veterans Affairs Sec. Robert Wilkie, who warned that socialism would leave veterans neglected.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Socialism in America will kill the promise that Abraham Lincoln made … that we would take care for those who have bore the battle and for the widows and the orphans. If socialism ever comes to America, that sacred promise will be destroyed?, and our warriors will go to the back of the lines,” Wilkie told CPAC?, echoing growing civil war rhetoric on the right. ?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk, founder and president of the youth conservative organization Turning Point USA, warned conservatives that communism was spreading across college campuses across ?the United States and that via Sanders, socialism has a real chance to succeed in America.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I want every conservative activist to get your laughs out of the way and your mockery out of the way and get deathly serious,” Kirk said. “Because we should not do what the left did in 2016 and dismiss an outsider populist candidate.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former White House Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka agreed with Kirk. “America needs to wake up. America needs to understand the reality of the threat that this November could come to fruition,” ?he said in his speech Saturday. He went on to attack Sanders’ advocacy for implementing universal healthcare in America.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Didn’t Bernie have a heart attack? Did he go to Venezuela to get treatment? Did he go to Cuba or Canada? Did he go to Canada? Of course he didn’t! He got treated here. Why? Because he wanted to live, that’s why,” Gorka said.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale Bellis, President Emeritus of Liberty HealthShare, vowed to do what he could to never allow America to experience the “ravages of socialism in healthcare.” People who advocate Medicare for All plans don’t actively seek to replicate the Soviet Union, he said, but “however you slice it, the end result is still the same.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bellis said that socialism is “immoral” and “strips human dignity and the value of the individual,” that it “assaults the very foundation of our individual freedom as creators created by God,” and that it is “antithetical” to fundamental human rights.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing news commentator Mark Levin criticized the increasingly popular democratic socialism movement, rhetorically asking, “how do you have democratic socialism when socialists hate democracy? You get one vote, they get in power, then they destroy everything.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Levin stressed the need for conservatives to “crush” Sanders and “his little Marxist army” in 2020. Echoing Pence’s statements, Levin said that of the Democratic field of candidates, there was “not a moderate among them."</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck opened the stage Saturday by claiming that Sanders and his supporters were leading a revolution that “will result in death and misery,” as Media Matters documented.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Another Holodomor. Or another Holocaust. Or whatever we call the next great socialist atrocity,” Beck said. He later added, “They’re armed with pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and guns. They are here for revolution.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joshua Philipp of the reportedly Falun Gong-tied outlet Epoch Times was hosted on stage, where he warned that socialism was designed to destroy peoples’ religion, morals, and culture while on the path to implementing communism.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It is about attacking and destroying your values, your culture, your ideas, and the foundations of your society,” Philipp said.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Harrison of “Pawn Stars” fame took a brief round of questions from the audience and put the threat of socialism simplistically.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s not a bad thing having a lot of money,” Harrison said. “All your leftist friends would love to have a lot of money; they just don’t want anyone else to have it.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Republican U.S. Senate candidate John James, who is running to unseat Democratic Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan, contrasted many speakers at CPAC by cautioning that it would not simply be enough for Republicans to run on the message “socialism sucks.” The 2020 election, James said, is not about “beating Bernie,” and he wanted to be “crystal clear” that the audience should not underestimate the appeal of socialism “for those whom the status quo has failed.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“For us to defeat socialism, for us to save a generation, we can’t just say ‘socialism sucks’ and assume that people will follow us. Stuck Americans don’t want socialism, they just want the pain to stop.” James said. “It’s up to us to offer a remedy that works.”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some conversations about socialism were also less serious. Conservative pundit Jesse Kelly took to the stage for a skit styled after ?”The Daily Show” called “Socialist News Network,” with a CNN-inspired logo, that bore little resemblance to socialist thought in the United States. Kelly parodied praise of figures like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden, both of whom socialists broadly hold critical views of. In the CPAC exhibition hall, a booth played a socialism versus capitalism rap battle video.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,154 replies4,403 retweets18,360 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 1.2K Retweet 4.4K Like 18K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abraham Mahshie</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@AbrahamReporter</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">.@realDonaldTrump welcomed by thousands of young conservatives standing on their seats chanting "USA! USA!" at the @TPUSA Student Action Summit in #WestPalmBeach. "You are the fearless young leaders and warriors who bravely stare down the hatred of the radical left" @pbpost – at Palm Beach County Convention Center</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congratulations @charliekirk11 on hosting the largest gathering of young Conservatives, 5,000 patriots at SAS2019 this week.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Students for 2A</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@nrastudents</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;19h19 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Republicans and President @realDonaldTrump are standing up for #2A because they know that we have a God-given right enshrined in the Constitution that says I can protect my family better than you can." –@SarahHuckabee</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RT if you just love Sarah Sanders! ????#StudentsFor2A #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">119 replies1,330 retweets3,368 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 119 Retweet 1.3K Like 3.4K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALX&nbsp; ????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@alx</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;16h16 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Immigration Panel at @TPUSA’s #SAS2019 with @AnnCoulter @JackPosobiec and @brandondarby</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Immigration Panel at TPUSA's SAS 2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">30 replies244 retweets483 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 30 Retweet 244 Like 483</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Show this thread</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@Justice_Early</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;14h14 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">.@MrAndyNgo pleasure speaking with you at SAS!! #SAS2019 #TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Centermillennials</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@Centermillenni1</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;14h14 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intro to @DonaldJTrumpJr at @TPUSA #sas2019 what an amazing intro.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 replies47 retweets214 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 6 Retweet 47 Like 214</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lucia Scatamacchia</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@luciascata</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;15h15 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Being sassy at #SAS @TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BEAUTIFUL, @charliekirk11! TPUSA's 2019 Student Action Summit Is Packed Full With Attendees Who LOVE The USA! ???????????? #iHeartAmerica</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">26 replies214 retweets703 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 26 Retweet 214 Like 703</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@bennyjohnson</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;18h18 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Siri, who is still the President of the United States of America?”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@realDonaldTrump @TPUSA #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,150 replies7,814 retweets25,262 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 1.2K Retweet 7.8K Like 25K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Armande Mills (RAM)</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@RAMRANTS</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;20h20 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She complimented my outfit. I complemented her strength during her time in the White House.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#SAS2019 – at Palm Beach County Convention Center</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">22 replies73 retweets509 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 22 Retweet 73 Like 509</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALX&nbsp; ????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@alx</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;20h20 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was great to see @DonaldJTrumpJr at #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Great event as always @charliekirk11 @bennyjohnson & the whole @TPUSA Team!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">61 replies220 retweets1,037 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 61 Retweet 220 Like 1.0K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sophia Fisher</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@sophiabfisher</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;19h19 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So surreal. Honored to have been given the “Patriot of the Year Award” from @TPUSA. Thank you TPUSA for all the amazing opportunities. Couldn’t have done anything without my incredible executive board @akrontpusa. Looking forward to next semester! #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;19h19 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leftists Are RACIST! #ThinkForYourself</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">30 replies224 retweets703 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 30 Retweet 224 Like 703</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mari Stein</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@maristein</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;20h20 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks @TPUSA for another AMAZING conference! Thousands of young conservatives all in one place. Till next time, West Palm Beach ???? #BigGovSucks</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 replies53 retweets218 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 2 Retweet 53 Like 218</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;24h24 hours ago</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They Shouldn't Get Any Special Privileges! #BigGovSucks</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">25 replies108 retweets345 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 25 Retweet 108 Like 345</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Josh</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@realjgrimm</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Had a great time as usual with @TPUSA at #SAS2019!&nbsp; Got to see the man himself @realDonaldTrump even! Photo credits go to my gf @JustJenLive ??</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 replies31 retweets158 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 5 Retweet 31 Like 158</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Williams</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@realkatiejow</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are going to change the world, and look cute doing it" @yoalexrapz&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#RT&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#SAS2019&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaitlin</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@KaitlinH39</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Very jealous I couldn't be at #SAS2019 this year, but the energy I'm seeing from everyone is so inspiring! #SocialismSucks #BigGovSucks @TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@bennyjohnson</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The intro for @DonaldJTrumpJr at @TPUSA’s #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Absolutely Fire ??</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">72 replies808 retweets2,433 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 72 Retweet 808 Like 2.4K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;????JD Bowen ????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@jd_bowen</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My Goodness Gracious! The @IngrahamAngle lecture at @TPUSA summit last night was freaking GREAT! I audibly burst out and yelled “WHOO-HOO!” , a couple of times I stood and screamed, “YES!” And several times I let fly a “HELL YEAH!”</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Someone please post that speech! Just terrific!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric Cox ??</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@EricCox24</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@yoalexrapz speech at #SAS2019 was so genuine and fun to listen to! She’s an awesome person to have at @TPUSA ! ????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart News</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@BreitbartNews</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch live as Breitbart News editor-in-chief @AlexMarlow speaks at Turning Point USA (@TPUSA)’s annual Student Action Summit (SAS) in West Palm Beach, Florida, where thousands of students from across the country have arrived to attend the four-day event.</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lost._.king</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@thelost_king15</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The man. The myth. The legend. @benshapiro . ???</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#SAS2019 #thedailywire #theman #facts</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">liv</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@livvvwright</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">only reason i signed back in on Twitter is to flex with this hat #ProjectVeritasSAS #SAS2019 @TPUSA @JamesOKeefeIII</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 replies21 retweets94 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 3 Retweet 21 Like 94</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ira Geiger</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@geigernet</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Great meeting @RudyGiuliani @TPUSA #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 replies33 retweets125 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 4 Retweet 33 Like 125</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mordy</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@mordyman13</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The highlight of my time at @TPUSA #SAS2019 was this talk on leftist violence! Got to meet my favorite Catholic @michaeljknowles! And I had a phenomenal conversation about standing up for personal values with @MrAndyNgo!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am beyond honored! #BestDayEver #FreeSpeech #Violence</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@bennyjohnson</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WOW</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check out this AMAZING Entrance by @SarahHuckabee at @TPUSA’s #SAS2019 this morning!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">/></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1:04</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">150 replies1,169 retweets4,076 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 150 Retweet 1.2K Like 4.1K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 22</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We Are The Community Organizers Of The Right! ???????????? #iHeartAmerica</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 replies82 retweets290 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 9 Retweet 82 Like 290</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@WhiteHouse</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LIVE: President @realDonaldTrump at the Student Action Summit</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">/></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1:20:15</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3,329 replies11,787 retweets36,389 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 3.3K Retweet 12K Like 36K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stormi Rodriguez</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@stormirdgz</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is A LOT of work to host the President, but it is such a worthwhile experience. Seeing my students and thousands of activists from across the country react to the opportunity made every minute of the work worthwhile. #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 replies89 retweets442 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 8 Retweet 89 Like 442</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rey Anthony</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@ReyAnthonyFL</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phenomenal introduction for Congressman @DanCrenshawTX at #SAS2019????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thank you for supporting freedom & democracy for the people of #Cuba???? & #Venezuela????!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Your voice is crucial in our struggle against the horrors of Socialism!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10 replies83 retweets380 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 10 Retweet 83 Like 380</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mistmonster</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@mistmonster</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I just wanted to thank ??@TPUSA?&nbsp; #SAS2019 for the opportunity to see ?@realDonaldTrump? live. I will never forget it. Merry Christmas</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 replies72 retweets365 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 3 Retweet 72 Like 365</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Don't Be Afraid To Speak The Truth & Help Protect The USA! #ThinkForYourself</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 replies95 retweets419 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 5 Retweet 95 Like 419</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@bennyjohnson</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump to the attendees of @TPUSA's #SAS2019:</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"You're the fearless young leaders and warriors who stare down the hatred of the radical left and bravely fight for our liberty, our values, and our God-given freedom."</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">215 replies1,542 retweets5,135 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 215 Retweet 1.5K Like 5.1K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sergio Gor</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@SergioGor</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phenomenal crowd at @TPUSA! Over 3000 in attendance, over half students! @realDonaldTrump is in full force tonight, amazing energy!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">52 replies676 retweets2,350 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 52 Retweet 676 Like 2.4K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benny</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@bennyjohnson</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WOW&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What an entrance by @realdonaldtrump at @TPUSA’s #SAS2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHILLS ????</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">184 replies2,170 retweets5,428 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 184 Retweet 2.2K Like 5.4K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@charliekirk11</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump LIVE at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit 2019!</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">62 replies992 retweets2,213 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 62 Retweet 992 Like 2.2K</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@TPUSA</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's True! ??????????????? #ThinkForYourself</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">15 replies105 retweets387 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 15 Retweet 105 Like 387</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Audra LaRay</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@audralaray</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He has been a political astringent to the expert class.” - @IngrahamAngle about @realDonaldTrump at @TPUSA #sas2019</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 reply15 retweets82 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 1 Retweet 15 Like 82</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Rubin</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Verified account</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@RubinReport</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dec 21</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Good times, @TPUSA...</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13 replies47 retweets284 likes</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reply 13 Retweet 47 Like 284</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Turning Point USA Retweeted</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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