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QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on ...

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com › article › technology › qanon...

Nov 2, 2020 — Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported.

(Reuters) - Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts.

Researchers said in August that the archives showed Russian accounts had helped spread QAnon in volume beginning in December 2017, https://reut.rs/2TFWoWc, but that team did not examine the history of specific QAnon promoters. https://bit.ly/2HTReUh

A more granular review by Reuters shows Russian accounts began amplifying the movement as it started, early in the previous month.

From November 2017 on, QAnon was the single most frequent hashtag tweeted by accounts that Twitter has since identified as Russian-backed, a Reuters analysis of the archive shows, with the term used some 17,000 times.

The archives contain more than 4,000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.

The trove shows that some of the Russian accounts tweeted about QAnon's most important popularizer even before the anonymous figure known as Q emerged, then rewarded her with more promotion when she put videos about Q on YouTube. [TRACY BEANZ?]

Asked about support for QAnon, the Russian embassy in Washington said Moscow does not interfere in U.S. politics.

"Malicious activity in the information space contradicts the principles of Russian foreign policy, national interests and our understanding of interstate relations," a spokesman said.

A current Twitter executive said Russian accounts are not driving the present iteration of QAnon, which has expanded to include baseless claims about COVID-19 and other issues.

The original posts associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory appeared in late October 2017, purporting to be from a Trump insider with "Q" security clearance who said Hillary Clinton faced arrest and her allies were running a massive child-sex ring.

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apr 2021

A Republican operative who helped propel QAnon into the mainstream back in 2017 has just been elected to a leadership role in a local Republican party in South Carolina.

Tracy Diaz, also known online as Tracy Beanz, won a landslide victory Saturday in Horry County, a working-class coastal haven, where she was overwhelmingly voted onto the state executive committee.

Diaz’s position isn’t a powerful one, but her victory is notable given the recent trend of QAnon believers winning elected positions in local and state races across the U.S.

“It’s our time,” Diaz said in a voice message posted to followers on Telegram. In another message she said: “We are off to the races. It is possible, you can do it too.” Diaz no longer has a presence on mainstream media channels after she was kicked off for sharing QAnon conspiracies.

Diaz is a longtime Republican operative who worked for former Texas Rep. Ron Paul as well as being part of the Tea Party movement. At the same time, under the moniker Tracy Beanz, she also carved out a niche for herself online discussing conspiracy theories on her YouTube channel, taking about WikiLeaks and the baseless Pizzagate conspiracy.

But it was Diaz’s work in helping QAnon go mainstream that propelled her to a new level of fame online, as an NBC investigation revealed in 2018.

Diaz, according to her own recounting of events, was contacted by two of the moderators of the 4chan board where the anonymous leader of QAnon, known simply as Q, posted messages.

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They contacted her, Diaz says, in order to help get QAnon more attention outside the world of 4chan, as well as to help boost their own followings.

“I do not typically do videos like this,” Diaz said in a video she uploaded to YouTube just six days after Q first posted in 2017. Citing Q’s “very specific and kind of eerie” messages, Diaz told her audience that she would be covering the 4chan posts, “just in case this stuff turns out to be legit because honestly it kind of seems legit.”

Diaz even claimed in one blog post that it was her idea to move QAnon off 4chan and start a Reddit thread dedicated to the conspiracy movement.

Diaz posted dozens of more videos, racking up over 8 million views as QAnon grew to become a massive conspiracy movement, trapping tens of millions of people and irrevocably damaging families across the U.S.

Diaz said she was was just one of “three MAGA candidates” in Horry County who won election on Saturday. Roger Slagle, a businessman, was named the party’s new county chair and Jeremy Halpin was named vice-chair.

All three candidates had been endorsed by Lin Wood, the pro-Trump lawyer who is currently running for chair of the South Carolina Republican Party and who has become one of the most influenctial people in the QAnon conspiracy universe.

Wood spoke at an event in Myrtle Beach on Friday night where Diaz, Slagle,and Halpin also spoke. Congratulating the trio on his Telegram channel on Saturday night, Wood wrote:

“Despite the efforts of the establishment opponents, today in Horry County, S.C., the We The People slate of officers won resounding victories. Clean sweep.”

As well as being endorsed by Wood, Diaz was also endorsed by disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who, along with Wood, is one of the most listened-to figures in QAnon world.

Flynn’s brother, Joseph Flynn, who is currently suing CNN for portraying him as a QAnon supporter after he appeared in a video typing the QAnon oath, also congratulated Diaz on her victory.

Diaz and the South Carolina Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about her election.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/key-qanon-influencer-hosts-missouri-ag-promote-case-has-limited-governments

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Key QAnon influencer hosts Missouri AG to promote case that has limited government's ability to discuss misinformation with tech platforms

WRITTEN BY ALEX KAPLAN

PUBLISHED 08/04/23

On August 1 and 2, QAnon influencer Tracy “Beanz” Diaz, who was a key figure behind the conspiracy theory’s spread on social media, hosted Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and allowed him to promote thecase Missouri v. Biden, which has resulted in a judge barring President Joe Biden’s administration from interacting with social media platforms regarding possible misinformation.

Diaz was reportedly one of the three key figures who popularized QAnon online and organized a 2018 QAnon rally in Washington, D.C.

On July 4, a federal judge issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden, barring the federal government from contacting platforms and asking to remove misinformation. The judge in the case, which focuses on whether the government is constitutionally allowed to contact social media platforms to request removal of alleged misinformation, repeated right-wing claims that social media platforms have censored conservative voices — which have been repeatedly debunked.An appeals court has currently stayed that injunction.

Diaz hosted Bailey for an August 1 interview on Twitter Spaces — which has become a popular place for previously suspended accounts that owner Elon Musk reinstated, including Diaz, to spread misinformation on the platform. During the interview, Bailey told Diaz that the lawsuit was “the most important First Amendment suit in at least a generation,” and Diaz said she had been “kind of pounding the pavement” regarding the lawsuit.

Beginning of Tracy Diaz’s Twitter Space with Andrew Bailey

AUGUST 1, 2023

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CitationFrom an August 1, 2023, Twitter Space hosted by Tracy Diaz

TRACY DIAZ (HOST): OK, hi everyone. Thanks for joining us today. I’m super excited about this Space.I’ve had several Spaces about this case, and I’m really honored to be joined by Attorney General Andrew Bailey from Missouri to work with us on this. They’ve never done a Space before. I sent the invite for them to speak. They have my phone number. So if you have a problem, attorney general, just shoot me a text real quick and I will work with you to get this up and running. We have a couple questions from folks really eager to hear your perspective on things. And it’s going to be good stuff for sure.

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So thanks for being here today. Super awesome of you to spend the time. Everybody in this Space is very interested in this case.

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ANDREW BAILEY (MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL): Yeah, well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on and the opportunity to chat with you. And this is the most important First Amendment suit in at least a generation.

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But, you know, again, this [is]frightening stuff, and we're not going to let Joe Biden destroy the First Amendment.

DIAZ: Which is awesome. And, you know, I’ve been kind of pounding the pavement on this.

At the end of the Twitter Space, Diaz asked Bailey to say something “hopeful about the outcome” of the lawsuit to her followers.

End of Tracy Diaz’s Twitter Space with Andrew Bailey

AUGUST 1, 2023

Audio

CitationFrom an August 1, 2023, Twitter Space hosted by Tracy Diaz

TRACY DIAZ (HOST): Really gracious of you to give us a half hour of your time today. We're about three minutes out. Is there anything that you would like to say to all the folks here listening and who will listen to this after we’re done about, you know, being hopeful about the outcome of this or keeping faith in the Justice Department, at least for the litigation of this case and what it means?

ANDREW BAILEY (MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL): Well, we’re not going to let up. Again, we’re going to continue to fight to preserve the First Amendment right to free speech in America. You know, at the end of the day,I served in the United States Army in the war on terror and took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. I was willing to put my life on the line to do it. Took that fight to the battlefield in the war on terror. That’s an oath I’ll never give up and it’s a fight I’m proud to be leading on behalf of the state of Missouri in the courtrooms across this nation, in the state of Missouri today.

DIAZ: Thank you so much. This has been really awesome. I really appreciate your time. All of us in here are following this daily. And a lot of people are really invested in it because it’s so important. So I appreciate you being here. Really, really awesome.

BAILEY: Well, thanks for having me on. Look forward to giving an update here in the coming days, weeks, and months.

Bailey also appeared on Diaz’s podcast on August 2, when Diaz complained that she had been banned from multiple platforms, and asked for how to “rectify what’s happened.” In response, Bailey expressed concern about “how many listeners do you have that were deprived of the information that you would have gotten to them.”

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CitationFrom the August 2, 2023, edition of Dark to Light

TRACY DIAZ (HOST): But me, I was censored off of Twitter. I’ve been censored off of Facebook. I’ve been debanked. I’ve been all — I can’t use PayPal. I’m censored. What — if this goes the way we think it will and you win, what does the everyday American — how can they rectify what’s happened to them, based on the [UNINTELLIGIBLE]?

ANDREW BAILEY (MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL): Well, first of all, we can all celebrate the fact that we get our First Amendment right to free speech back. I mean, I think that was my tweet on July 4, like happy birthday, America, you get your First Amendment free speech back and we’ll keep fighting to do that. The wall of separation between tech and state is absolutely essential to protect all of our rights.

And, you know, whether there’s class certification or not, it is a nationwide injunction, and we’ll keep pushing forward with that nationwide injunction. It’s the state of Missouri v. Biden, Louisiana is on board and certainly there are private plaintiffs, but all Americans who have been censored on Big Tech social media platforms and any American — it’s not just those speakers who have been censored. That’s the important thing to remember, too. You might have been speaking, but how many listeners do you have that were deprived of the information that you would have gotten to them? It's the hearers of the information. And so it’s an exponential number of individuals whose constitutional rights to say and hear what they choose, absent government censorship, those rights have been violated, and that’s why the nationwide injunction is so important, and we’ll keep fighting to achieve that objective.

DIAZ: This is the most important civil rights case in modern history, hands down. There’s no doubt about it. I was saying it the day you filed the complaint and people are finally starting to catch up with how important this is. Attorney general, thank you so much for joining us today.

BAILEY: Thank you so much for having me on.

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Mary O’Neill, M.B.A.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Mary O’Neill is the Executive Director and finance manager of America’s Future, Inc., guiding the nonprofit organization’s administration, operations, finances, and educational programming to fulfill its mission to preserve American values and ideals, protect the nation’s Constitutional Republic, promote strong American families, revitalize the role of faith in our society, and advance the virtues of free market capitalism.

She has successfully led the implementation of numerous initiatives that have revitalized the legacy organization such as its multimedia educational projects, Passing The Torch Of Freedom video series; America book series including, Exploring America’s Founding Documents and Understanding The Separation of Powers Principles; podcast series, America’s Mondays With Mary, and other America’s Future programs like its popular weekly newsletter, Champions For America member network, scholarship and grant programs, and Amicus brief filings defending the constitutional rights of Americans. In addition, Mary oversees the Little Flower Advisory Board of “Project Defend & Protect Our Children,” established by America’s Future to eradicate the exploitation and trafficking of children – the future of America.

Mary has decades of experience working in leadership positions in the nonprofit and private sectors to help organizations accomplish their goals.

Prior to America’s Future, Mary was an executive with the Diocese of Providence for over 10 years as Finance Director for two Catholic Churches in Newport, Rhode Island, one of which is the renowned St. Mary’s Church, named to the National Register of Historic Places, and internationally known as the location of the marriage of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

Previously, she worked for the Preservation Society of Newport County, a nationally-recognized nonprofit organized to preserve local historic properties and deliver educational programs on the history of America’s culture and heritage. Earlier in her career, she owned several start-ups and was the founder and owner-operator of one of the nation’s most acclaimed indoor skateboarding parks, Skater Island, where many of the top skateboard pros of today were discovered.

Mary’s volunteer involvement is extensive as an advocate for the protection of children from harmful environments and providing care and counseling to families with loved ones in hospice care. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Phoenix. Throughout her life’s journey, she has used her professional and personal experiences to seek out the best in others and find ways to nurture and guide individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve success.

Board Of Directors

Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.)

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.) dedicated his life in service to the nation with the U.S. Army for more than 33 years. His distinguished military career culminated as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and as the nation’s highest-serving military intelligence officer.

Upon his retirement in 2014, General Flynn continued serving the public in leadership positions with various business, veteran, and civic organizations. In 2017, he was appointed as the country’s 25th National Security Advisor to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

As an expert in Diplomacy, Statecraft, Foreign Policy, Strategy Formulation, Defense, Intelligence, and other areas of national and international security, General Flynn is a prominent commentator and sought-after speaker on military and global affairs.

He is a national bestselling author of The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies. He is also the author of A Letter To America: The Time To Fight For Your Faith And Family Is Now and co-author of The Citizen’s Guide To Fifth Generation Warfare. His numerous articles, essays, and papers have been published worldwide.

General Flynn has earned three master’s degrees and is the recipient of numerous civilian, military, intelligence, and law enforcement awards.

He is married with two sons and has several grandchildren.

Lara Logan

BOARD MEMBER

Lara Logan is an award-winning investigative journalist. She is known internationally for her fearless and candid reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world in her role at “60 Minutes” and for her investigative series “Lara Logan Has No Agenda.” Lara has covered some of the most controversial topics of our time such as media bias, Mexican drug cartels, trafficking, and the dangers of Big Tech.

With decades of honest reporting and speaking up for the truth regardless of the politics, Lara is a powerful voice for freedom and liberty around the world. Her trusted reporting has helped the public understand the political and human conflicts that exist in America and around the globe. Her skilled approach to investigative journalism has earned her a prominent place among the world’s best foreign correspondents. She is the recipient of almost every journalistic and reporting award in the profession including the highly prestigious duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, the Overseas Press Club, the Emmys, and the RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award, to name a few.

Presently, she is planning the launch of her new show and establishing the “Press Club of America” as a home for independent journalism that carries on the principles and standards of the past, while creating a solid foundation for the media moving forward.

Tracy Diaz

BOARD MEMBER

Tracy Diaz is an investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief at UncoverDC.com.

An entrepreneur and successful C-level executive, Tracy also has wide-ranging experience in the political realm. Tracy was instrumental to the grassroots fervor that gripped the nation during the height of the Tea Party and the Ron Paul movement toward freedom and liberty.

Tracy’s political experience starts at the grassroots level and moves all the way up the spectrum to establishment politics. She has dedicated her life to preserving American freedom.

Her business acumen, investigative skills, leadership qualities, and success at corralling social media make her an asset to any organization dedicated to American values. She is happily married and has two teenage children.

Paul S. Hoffecker

BOARD MEMBER

Paul S. Hoffecker is the CEO of HMI (Hyperbaric Medicine International) and the Hyperbaric Medicine Foundation. Both nonprofit organizations promote a standard of medical care, using hyperbaric oxygen therapy for an array of medical and wellness conditions.

Paul’s career spans across decades of experience in healthcare administration, commercial and remodeling construction, senior project management, and business consulting. He is also the Founder and President of Renovating Hope, Inc. which rebuilt hundreds of homes throughout our country for wounded service members and veterans. He works closely with the functional medical advocates in the U.S. military that strive to bend the curve in our nation’s suicide rate.

Paul is a staunch defender of the Constitution.

He is married with one adult son and lives in Florida.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/how-the-gops-far-right-candidates-faired/

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on Election Day, Democrats braced for a red wave that could put the GOP’s most extreme candidates into office. But nearly a week later, that wave looks more like a trickle. Americans generally rejected the party’s far-right candidates, though many of these far-right candidates have yet to accept the will of the people.

In Michigan, Republican nominee for secretary of state Kristina Karamo soundly lostto current Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Just days before the election, Karamo launched a lawsuit to try to throw out tens of thousands of votes from Detroit voters who voted by mail-in ballots, claiming that they were fraudulent. When that lawsuit to disenfranchise voters in the majority-Black, majority-Democratic city failed ahead of the election, Karamo turned her attention to Ann Arbor, where the student-heavy population waited hours in line to vote.

In a press release in the wee hours last Wednesday, Karamo accused the Ann Arbor City Clerk of breaking several election laws, claiming that the clerk allowed voters to enter the line after 8 p.m. deadline, and criticized the Ann Arbor police for failing to “investigate election crimes.” In a tweet, she took those accusations a step further, accusing the clerk of “engaging in mass election Crimes. Illegally registering people after 8pm. Registering non-Michigan citizens to vote.”

“We are not election deniers or threats to democracy,” Karamo claimed in her press release. “This is a real threat to our society as it demoralizes citizens to believe that voting is pointless as their legal ballot will be nullified by fraud.”

Karamo issued another press release Thursday in which she doubled down on her accusations of fraud and called for her supporters to “Standby,” promising, “there’s much more to come.”

As we reported ahead of Election Day, Karamo made election denialism a key component of her campaign and was expected to allege fraud should she lose. The Wayne County judge who dismissed her lawsuit targeting Detroit voters said Karamo provided “no evidence” of her allegations.

Other clear losses for the GOP’s extreme candidates were seen in Maryland, where Michael Peroutka, the Confederacy-supporting, Dixie-singing Christian nationalist, soundly lost his bid for attorney general to Democrat Anthony G. Brown. Ahead of Election Day, a top aide to Peroutka had encouraged voters to get in line to vote late in the day—a move denounced by the Maryland Democratic Party as “plotting to create chaos and laying the groundwork to challenge the upcoming election.” It didn’t matter, as Peroutka’s loss was called by the Associated Press as early as 11 p.m. on Election Day.

Peroutka didn’t concede.In a press release, Peroutka claimed that “many odd and suspicious incidents were reported by poll watchers.” He concluded with this: “I plan to investigate these strange occurrences and I do not plan to concede the race.”

Doug Mastriano, the election-denying, Christian nationalism-promoting Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, lost by more than 14 percentage points to Democrat Josh Shapiro. He, too, refused to concede after the Associated Press called the race in favor of Shapiro, saying that he still “had faith.” But by Sunday, that faith was gone, and he finally acknowledged, “there is no right course but to concede,” all while still calling for “election reform.”

Next door, in Ohio, a Trump-endorsed candidate had a win. Trump sycophant J.D. Vance beat out Democrat Tim Ryan for that state’s Senate seat. Vance has spread the racist great replacement theory and urged Trump to rule with an iron fist should he return to the presidency.

Speaking to supporters in Youngstown, Ryan conceded the race, calling it a “privilege … because the way this country operates is that when you lose an election, you concede.” That appeared to be a jab at those Republican candidates who have signaled their refusal to concede and instead baselessly suggested electoral fraud was afoot.

Nowhere was that signal clearer than in Arizona, where GOP nominees alleged that a printer error in Maricopa County was part of Democrats’ efforts to delay GOP wins or even take them away.

On election night, GOP nominee for governor Kari Lake lashed out at “incompetent” election workers, attacked the “fake media,” and asked her supporters to not let “cheaters and crooks” sow doubt about her supposedly forthcoming win. Throughout the week, Lake continued attacking the media and election officials, with pundits and activists like Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk echoing her claims.

As of Monday afternoon, Lake continues to trail Democrat Katie Hobbs by 1 percentage point, with 93 percent of the vote counted. Ahead of the election, Lake had suggested the only way Hobbs could win would be by stealing the election.

Other election-denying Republican candidates trailing their Democratic opponents joined in alleging fraud. Blake Masters, who has perpetuated a version of the racist replacement theory, found himself behind Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly by nearly 6 percentage points when the AP called the race in favor of Kelly Saturday night.

Masters had spent Election Day suggesting that the printer error in Maricopa County could’ve been malicious. He tweeted on Election Day, “Hard to know if we’re seeing incompetence or something worse. All we know right now is that the Democrats are hoping you will get discouraged and go home.”

Masters declined to concede on Saturday, saying that he wanted “every legal vote” to be counted first.

Abe Hamadeh, an Arizona Republican running for attorney general who has denied the 2020 election results, trails Democrat Kris Mayes by less than a percentage point with 93 percent of the vote counted as of Monday afternoon.

Speaking to supporters on election night, he said that “incompetent” election officials threatened American democracy. He took that message further over the weekend.

“REMEMBER: 72%+ of the votes on Election Day in person were Republican. When you have 30% of the tabulating machines failing, causing people to leave the lines and give up. This is voter suppression targeting a political party,” Hamadeh said in a post on Twitter Saturday.

Hamadeh also shared an Uncover DC story authored by Tracy Beanz, a QAnon conspiracy theorist influencer and self-declared investigative journalist, to try to bolster his allegations. Beanz claimed that an election judge said that the printer error in Maricopa County was no error. “In my opinion, the machines were programmed to do this, and it was all planned,” Beanz quoted the election judge as saying. This story is gaining steam on far-right platforms and outlets, including The Gateway Pundit.

Mark Finchem, the self-declared member of the far-right extremist Oath Keepers, also fell short of expectations in his bid to become secretary of state in Arizona. Finchem was deeply involved in the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, a disinformation campaign aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election and was credited with bringing the campaign to Arizona. He lost to Democrat Adrian Fontes, a former Maricopa County election official, by more than 5 percentage points. Finchem refused to concede.

“It is completely ridiculous that the #FakeNews is calling the elections in Arizona when there are 390k (many election day) ballots outstanding. RIDICULOUS!” Finchem tweeted after the AP called the race Saturday.

On Twitter, Finchem predictably alleged fraud. He shared stories from the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft that claimed it was impossible for Maricopa County to vote Democrat; he accused Democrats of “ballot harvesting” and Fontes of “laundering money” from billionaire philanthropist George Soros; and he peddled a money laundering conspiracy theory that implicated Ukraine.

In Nevada, Jim Marchant, the QAnon-adhering election-denying secretary of state candidate, lost to Democrat Francisco Aguilarin the race to become in charge of that state’s elections by about 3 percentage points. When Marchant, who put together a coalition of likeminded “America First” secretary of state candidates, lost Saturday, it marked a string of losses for his coalition. Only one survived in Indiana. Marchant, who claimed his failed 2020 congressional bid was stymied by fraud, has yet to concede.

Among the upsets for far-right candidates is Joe Kent, who received support from white nationalists and has blamed the attack on the U.S. Capitol on “deep state provocateurs.” Kent lost to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington state in a close race called by the AP Saturday.

In the primaries, Kent had beat out incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 Republicans who had voted for Trump’s second impeachment. But moderate Republicans who were alarmed by Kent’s extremism threw their support behind Gluesenkamp Perez ahead of Election Day. On Saturday, Kent refused to concede and told his supporters to correct their mail-in ballots.

“What the media says is irrelevant, its another narrative designed to stop voters from ballot curing & to force me to concede – not gonna happen,” Kent wrote on Twitter Saturday. “We’re on the streets ballot curing. The fight goes on while the talking heads talk.”

In response to Kent’s loss, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, tweeted, “White supremacy just doesnt win races like it did in 1921.”

Another shock occurred in Colorado’s 3rd District. Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting, QAnon-believing Christian nationalist of Colorado, appeared to be a shoo-in. But by Wednesday morning, she was trailing her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch. On Monday, with 99 percent of the vote counted, Boebert gained the lead but by less than 1,000 votes. The race has yet to be decided and could well head to a recount should either candidate win by less than 0.5 percent.

Election deniers did get a win in Wisconsin. Ron Johnson narrowly retained his Senate seat after a group of right-wing billionaires funded a series of racially charged ads attacking Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. Johnson had supported Trump’s efforts to remain in power after the former president lost the 2020 election.

In other notable news, throughout the country, voters voted to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitutions, and in Kentucky, voters rejected a measure that would have prevented that right from being enshrined in that state’s constitution.

As of Monday, Democrats retain control of the Senate. The House still remains undecided, with 17 races to be called. And though it appears likely Republicans will gain control of the House, it will be a smaller majority than Minority Speaker Kevin McCarthy wanted.

Trump’s candidates fared poorly at the polls; it turns out the biggest Trump sycophants made for candidates of questionable quality, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested in August. Notably, Trump-endorsed candidates in Arizona—where the so-called Stop the Steal campaign of 2020 found solid footing and where right-wing organizations like Turning Point USA poured their resources—underperformed. If Trump Republicans can’t claim that state, what does that say about Americans’ appetite for Trumpian politics?

Of course, far-right candidates are suggesting that fraud has played a part in their poor performance at the polls and are refusing to concede. Such claims of fraud were expected, but unlike 2020, these baseless allegations don’t appear to be catching steam nationwide.

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ywwv/one-of-qanons-earliest-influencers-just-got-elected-to-south-carolina-gop

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One of QAnon’s Earliest Influencers Just Got Elected to South Carolina GOP

Tracy “Beanz” Diaz claimed in one blog post that it was her idea to move QAnon off 4chan and start a Reddit thread dedicated to the conspiracy movement.

David Gilbert

By David Gilbert

April 26, 2021,

A Republican operative who helped propel QAnon into the mainstream back in 2017 has just been elected to a leadership role in a local Republican party in South Carolina.

Tracy Diaz, also known online as Tracy Beanz, won a landslide victory Saturday in Horry County, a working-class coastal haven, where she was overwhelmingly voted onto the state executive committee.

Diaz's position isn’t a powerful one, but her victory is notable given the recent trend of QAnon believers winning elected positions in local and state races across the U.S.

“It’s our time,” Diaz said in a voice message posted to followers on Telegram.In another message she said: “We are off to the races. It is possible, you can do it too.” Diaz no longer has a presence on mainstream media channels after she was kicked off for sharing QAnon conspiracies.

But it was Diaz's work in helping QAnon go mainstream that propelled her to a new level of fame online, as an NBC investigation revealed in 2018.

Diaz, according to her own recounting of events, was contacted by two of the moderators of the 4chan board where the anonymous leader of QAnon, known simply as Q, posted messages.

[News No, Russia and China Didn’t ‘Weaponize’ QAnon. It’s a Homegrown Nightmare.

DAVID GILBERT 04.22.21]

They contacted her, Diaz says, in order to help get QAnon more attention outside the world of 4chan, as well as to help boost their own followings.

“I do not typically do videos like this,” Diaz said in a video she uploaded to YouTube just six days after Q first posted in 2017. Citing Q’s “very specific and kind of eerie” messages, Diaz told her audience that she would be covering the 4chan posts, “just in case this stuff turns out to be legit because honestly it kind of seems legit.”

Diaz even claimed in one blog post that it was her idea to move QAnon off 4chan and start a Reddit thread dedicated to the conspiracy movement.

All three candidates had been endorsed by Lin Wood, the pro-Trump lawyerwho is currently running for chair of the South Carolina Republican Party and who has become one of the most influenctial people in the QAnon conspiracy universe.

Wood spoke at an event in Myrtle Beach on Friday night where Diaz, Slagle,and Halpin also spoke. Congratulating the trio on his Telegram channel on Saturday night, Wood wrote:

“Despite the efforts of the establishment opponents, today in Horry County, S.C., the We The People slate of officers won resounding victories. Clean sweep.”

As well as being endorsed by Wood, Diaz was also endorsed by disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn,who, along with Wood, is one of the most listened-to figures in QAnon world.

Flynn’s brother, Joseph Flynn, who is currently suing CNN for portraying him as a QAnon supporter after he appeared in a video typing the QAnon oath, also congratulated Diaz on her victory.

Diaz and the South Carolina Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about her election.

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QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show

By Joseph Menn

Nov 2 (Reuters)- Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts.

Researchers said in August that the archives showed Russian accounts had helped spread QAnon in volume beginning in December 2017, reut.rs/2TFWoWc, but that team did not examine the history of specific QAnon promoters. bit.ly/2HTReUh

A more granular review by Reuters shows Russian accounts began amplifying the movement as it started, early in the previous month.

The archives contain more than 4,000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.

The trove shows that some of the Russian accounts tweeted about QAnon’s most important popularizer even before the anonymous figure known as Q emerged, then rewarded her with more promotion when she put videos about Q on YouTube.

Asked about support for QAnon, the Russian embassy in Washington said Moscow does not interfere in U.S. politics.

“Malicious activity in the information space contradicts the principles of Russian foreign policy, national interests and our understanding of interstate relations,” a spokesman said.

A current Twitter executive said Russian accounts are not driving the present iteration of QAnon, which has expanded to include baseless claims about COVID-19 and other issues.

The original posts associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory appeared in late October 2017, purporting to be from a Trump insider with “Q” security clearance who said Hillary Clinton faced arrest and her allies were running a massive child-sex ring.

The fantasy was confined to a small piece of the internet for a few days until conservative video blogger Tracy Diaz, known online as TracyBeanz, began to post regular videos promoting it. She soon began amassing undisclosed donors and now has more than 10 million video views on YouTube.

A few Russian accounts had been retweeting Diaz as far back as April 2017, according to the archives of suspended accounts. After her first Q video on Nov. 3, the number of Russian tweets pushing Diaz’ handle surged to 40 monthly through the following spring, the archives show.

Diaz did not respond to an email seeking comment.

It remains unclear how much the Russians influenced Diaz before she hit it big. But former Twitter security staffers said a handful of accounts that tweeted to Diaz from mid-2017 illustrated the extreme difficulty of detecting covert influence.

Now suspended for undisclosed reasons or abandoned by their operators, these accounts claimed to be American but displayed unusual interest in Russian issues. The visible tweets between them and Diaz were first flagged to Reuters by open-source researcher Chris Scott.

One account called CrusadersPost retweeted obscure Russian officials and appeared to be the first account to use the term “Q Anon” on social media, on Nov. 2, according to people with access to all public tweets.

CrusadersPost had reached out to Diaz in April to wish her a happy birthday and offer to help her with a new project.

“YOU ROCK,” she replied. The account also encouraged Diaz to publicize MegaAnon, which preceded and resembled QAnon.

Another Diaz fan ran an account called SlicksTweetz, which the banned Russian accounts mentioned 871 times. The day of her debut Q video, Diaz publicly thanked SlicksTweetz for sharing it.

A week later, as she worked on new videos, she replied to him: “There are so many connections—that’s a good one I hadn’t seen yet :).” (Reporting by Joseph Menn. Editing by Jonathan Weber and Steve Orlofsky)

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