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07/29/2026

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Fox Business guests ridicule the network’s fantasy of 4-5% economic growth this year: “Dream on”

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Beneath the spectacle, the right-wing influencer has created a heap of human wreckage.

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Whatever else may be said about him, one fact cannot be denied: Nicholas J. Fuentes, the 27-year-old racialist influencer, is on the run of his life.

That’s a remarkable shift from 2017, when Fuentes was a little-known university freshman who hosted alittle-watched political talk show. Over time, he developed a fanatical, cultlike following known as the “Groypers.” His digital following soon crossed over into the real world: first, with his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally; then, with his long-running feud with conservative activist Charlie Kirk; and finally, with his role in “Stop the Steal,” which culminated outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Fuentes has cultivated a reputation as the most provocative and controversial figure on the Right. He has done this by embracing taboos, praising Hitler, and opposing interracial marriage. In turn, he has ridden a wave of spectacle and outrage to new heights, with an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, and garnering frequent coverage in outlets such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.

Attempting to undercut his growing influence, the media and Fuentes’s right-leaning critics both tend to focus on Fuentes’s record of offensive remarks. Take Fuentes’s appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During the two-hour interview, Morgan played a litany of clips from Fuentes’s talk show, highlighting bigoted comments he’s made over the years.

But this line of attack merely plays into Fuentes’s hands. As one of us has previously noted, Fuentes is best understood as an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called “hyperreality.” Under conditions of hyperreality, symbols of past phenomena lose their meaning and circulate as hollowed-out images through the digital landscape, where they drive discourse and spark emotional reactions.

This is the framework through which Fuentes, with his professed admiration for Hitler and Stalin, and his embrace of anti-Semitism, should be understood. Above all, he is engaged in a performative demand for attention, cynically harnessing transgression to drive clicks, sow chaos, and gain notoriety.

By contrast, this City Journal investigation—which draws on livestreams, a review of public records, and interviews with key associates—focuses not on Fuentes’s words but on his actions. (Fuentes did not return a detailed request for comment for this article.) It looks beneath the spectacle of outrage and the self-mythology he has curated and reveals a shocking heap of human wreckage that has accumulated within Fuentes’s political universe: betrayal, pedophilia, suicide, murder.

Welcome to the freak world of Nicholas J. Fuentes.

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes was born in Chicago in 1998. He grew up in the suburb of La Grange Park. In high school, he served as student council president. After graduation, he briefly attended Boston University before dropping out. Fuentes then moved back to the Chicago area, where, every weeknight, he livestreams his talk show, America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes.

With a greenscreen backdrop, Fuentes sits behind a wooden desk, typically in a suit and tie, pontificating on political and cultural events. Frequently, he launches into expletive- and slur-laced rants. Fuentes presents himself as a dissident truthteller in a world of lies; the ringmaster of a revitalized Right; and a spokesman for young, patriotic men sold out by the elites.

The reality behind the scenes, however, is quite different from this public-facing mythology. The world that has surrounded Fuentes over the past decade is one of paranoia, intrigue, drama, and betrayals. Several of his associates have broken from his movement over the years, spilling dirt on his operation in the process, with allegations and counter-allegations following in the wake of their apostasy. At the same time, Fuentes has developed a fanatical, cultlike following, with many Groypers—at his insistence—swearing a public oath to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes.”

One of these young men is Dalton Clodfelter, a 25-year-old Fuentes follower who spoke to City Journal. Clodfelter says he first encountered Fuentes through viral video clips and eventually connected with him through an online group chat. There, he says, the two “hit it off.” At the time, Clodfelter was young, religious, and serving in the U.S. Army.

“I was pretty naïve at the time,” he recalled. “I wanted to be a commentator. I started out on radio when I was 16. I wanted to be a guy that talked and [Fuentes] was more than happy to help me along.”

In the years that followed, Clodfelter pursued a career as an online commentator, attempting to follow in Fuentes’s footsteps. Clodfelter posted openly extreme, racist, and anti-Semitic rants; he often used racial slurs. As a result, Clodfelter claims, mainstream platforms banned his accounts. Seeking an alternative, he moved over to cozy.tv, which Fuentes created to host his own show after being banned from other platforms.

“I was making really great money streaming,” Clodfelter said. “[Then] all of a sudden, like, these income sources are being taken away. . . . Now, I’ve got to figure out a new way to generate this income and supplement these things, and that really did suck on top of all the social media banning. The good thing was, Nick offered me a platform.”

Clodfelter’s association with Fuentes and his own language—including a pledge to “rape, kill, and die”—pushed him further and further from the real world. As he got deeper into the Groyper cult, Clodfelter underwent a period of dramatic disintegration: he was kicked out of the military and saw income streams dried up, and his first marriage ended in divorce, he claims; his online comments grew more extreme, erratic, and disturbed.

The end result was predictable. In a livestream, Clodfelter admitted he’d become unemployable. “I’m really untouchable,” he said. “I can’t go work for a congressman, that’s not going to happen. I can’t go get a job even at, like, a McDonald’s . . . . You look me up—look my name up . . . see what you find, and let me know if you’d hire me.”

Yet Clodfelter is unrepentant about his association with Fuentes and harbors no “resentment” for the personal cost he’s paid.

“I appreciate Nick and everything he’s done and what he’s built and everything he did for me,” he says. Fuentes might have led him down the path to personal ruin, but he was the one who took the final steps. “I decided to say the N-word. I decided to say I love Hitler . . . . And now I’m here.”

In the grand scheme of things, Clodfelter might have gotten off easy. Other Groypers have ended up in prison.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Fuentes was in Washington, D.C., where he joined crowds contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Near the Capitol, Fuentes urged the crowd onward.

“Keep moving towards the Capitol!” heshouted into a bullhorn. “It appears we are taking the Capitol back from the police right now! Keep marching and don’t relent. Never relent! Break down the barriers and disregard the police!”

Numerous Groypers entered the Capitol that day. One rioter even carried an “America First” flag into the building. But after urging his followers toward the Capitol, Fuentes himself did not go inside. He was investigated but has not been arrested or charged in association with the day’s events.

This fact has raised eyebrows within far-right circles, particularly given the video evidence of him encouraging others to disobey the police. A former FBI agent, who spoke to City Journal on the condition of anonymity, said agents were instructed to “take down every person who was at January 6.” Fuentes, through his attorney, denied having been knowingly interviewed by federal law enforcement.

While Fuentes may have escaped the long arm of the law, other Groypers present that day weren’t so lucky. In the months that followed, at least seven were charged and sentenced for entering the Capitol on January 6. In the aftermath of their arrests, Fuentes disavowed the arrested Groypers, calling them “losers” and saying he did not “wish to be associated with” them. They may have pledged to “rape, kill, and die,” but in the Groyper movement, loyalty appears only to run in one direction.

One question has dogged Fuentes for years: How does he make his money and finance his political operation? During his livestreams, fans must pay a minimum of $20 to pose questions during his Q+A sessions. He has solicited donations and hawks America First merchandise and subscriptions to his $100-a-month private Telegram channel.

Fuentes’s largest known donor to date was a French computer programmer and cryptocurrency millionaire named Laurent Bachelier. In December 2020, as right-wing factions were organizing the “Stop the Steal” protest in Washington, D.C., Bachelier transferred roughly $522,000 in Bitcoin to a network of white nationalist and neo-Nazi activists. The largest recipient, by far, was Fuentes, who received roughly $250,000. Hours after initiating the Bitcoin transfers, Bachelier committed suicide at the age of 35.

Within three months, Bachelier’s donation to Fuentes had effectively doubled in value due to a significant spike in the price of Bitcoin.

After January 6, Fuentes’s finances appear to have been briefly imperiled. The Gray Zone, an investigative outlet edited by hard-left journalist Max Blumenthal, published a purported letter that the Department of Justice sent Fuentes, stating that the DOJ had frozen accounts belonging to Fuentes on January 23, 2021. By the summer of 2021, however, the purported letter claimed DOJ had withdrawn its request to freeze the account.

In spite of this, Fuentes allegedly continued to claim publicly that his funds remained frozen. That narrative unraveled when Jaden McNeil, a former close associate and the treasurer of Fuentes’s nonprofit, said on a livestream that Fuentes had regained access to the funds, a claim corroborated by the Gray Zone’s purported records.

“He’s had that [money] back from the feds for almost a year,” McNeil said on the livestream, accusing Fuentes of using the story to raise money while, at the same time, purchasing an expensive car. “He’s a total liar.”

Over the years, Fuentes has also sought money from at least one prominent right-wing benefactor, according to sources familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. One former associate claims that in January 2022, Fuentes was scouting real estate in Tampa Bay, where he was considering moving his political operation. During the trip, the associate claims, Fuentes drove four hours to Miami to meet a then-employee of Peter Thiel, the right-wing venture capitalist who has financially backed Republican causes, including the campaigns of President Donald Trump and then-Senate candidate J. D. Vance.

Armed with a presentation, Fuentes pitched Thiel’s employee on providing funding for his show and political operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Thiel, one source claimed, never replied to Fuentes’s request.

Soon after, Fuentes began launching a series of public attacks not only on Thiel, whom he called “the CIA,” but also on Trump and Vance. Fuentes also now bemoans the influence of Thiel funding in right-wing circles, despite having allegedly sought out the very Thiel funding he condemns. Multiple former Fuentes associates who spoke to City Journal claim that the Thiel story is telling, as it reveals Fuentes’s true motivations: not political grievances, but personal ones.

Conversations with multiple former associates paint a picture of Fuentes’s positions as not rooted in principle, but shifting with his perceptions of personal advantage and what he perceives as threats to his ego.

“[There’s an] extraordinary gap between the way he describes himself and presents himself to his followers . . . and his real life,” said former Fuentes ally Milo Yiannopoulos. “He’s somebody who doesn’t believe in anything at all.”

Perhaps the most sordid chapter in the Fuentes story involves his relationship with Ali Alexander, a political activist and key organizer of “Stop the Steal.” In 2023, Alexander was accused of asking teenage boys for sexual photographs.

Amid the fallout from the scandal, Fuentes initially “disavowed” Alexander’s actions, while lashing out at the accusers, saying the teenaged boys were guilty of “flirting” with Alexander. “The real victim in this entire saga is me,” Fuentes said.

He had also previously downplayed the allegations on his show. “If we’re talking about rape and murder and things like that, okay, but we’re talking about flirting?” Fuentes said. “Give me a f***ing break.”

Fuentes has long been aware of Alexander’s alleged proclivities. On a livestream in 2017, Fuentes said there was “abundant evidence” that Alexander “would like to interact in a sexual way with young fashy white boys quite like myself, and like others.” In a video posted by hard-right journalist Dustin Nemos—which purportedly depicts events from November 2020, during the so-called Million MAGA March—a young-looking male, whom Nemos describes as a teenager, recounts to Fuentes a conversation in which the alleged teenager called Alexander a “pedo.” Fuentes responded: “How do people not know about it?”

Despite this history, Fuentes continued to associate with Alexander, appearing alongside him at various political events, including one Fuentes encouraged his supporters to attend. After the scandal broke, Fuentes reportedly pressured one of Alexander’s accusers to recant his allegation in exchange for securing him a job in politics. (Fuentes denied this at the time; he did not return a City Journal request for clarifying comment.) That year, Fuentes also acknowledged on a livestream that, during the Kanye West presidential campaign, he had remained in daily contact with Alexander despite the allegations. In 2024, a Colorado police department confirmed that it was working with “partner agencies” in Texas to investigate Alexander.

Alexander did not return a request for comment.

The Alexander scandal is not an aberration, but part of a broader culture within the Groyper movement. In 2022, Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, a Fuentes fan who had been photographed with him at a political event, was charged with possession of child pornography and making interstate threats on a Turning Point USA event. In the aftermath of the arrest, Fuentes attempted to distance himself, saying Gomez had “nothing to do with me or America First.”

Fuentes’s own comments on sexual topics are equally disturbing. He has stated that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “cool as f***”; has expressed skepticism about age of consent laws; and indicated he wants to marry a 16-year-old girl when he turns 30. For the Groypers, the transgression of political and sexual taboos is part of Fuentes’s appeal. The more furious the denunciations of Fuentes—racist, sexist, pedophile, Nazi—the deeper his audience digs in. “These labels don’t mean anything,” says Clodfelter, the Fuentes follower. “Those words are meaningless to us now . . . . It doesn’t affect us anymore. And Nick proves that.”

From one perspective, we might be tempted to dismiss Fuentes as a hyperreal spectacle. His Groyper movement relates to politics the same way pornography relates to sex: stripped of meaning, flattened into an image, sensationalized for personal gain.

But hyperreality does not mean unreal, and, like pornography, it can often intrude on reality in ugly and unexpected ways. Conservatives who care about the future of the movement should understand that Fuentes is corrosive. Despite his self-mythology as the most right-wing pundit in America, he is, in a real sense, a tool of the Left. Progressive activists have spent the past decade pushing the narrative that conservatives are Nazis and Donald Trump is Hitler. In Fuentes, they have finally found their man.

The spectacle moreover is not only politically corrosive, but personally corrosive to its participants. At heart, the Fuentes phenomenon is not about ideas, or ideology, or power; it is about an angry, broken young man leading other angry, broken young men down a digital trail that ends in ruin.

Fuentes might laugh about his command for his followers to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes,” explaining it away as irony or a morbid joke. But it was only a matter of time before one of his followers, lost in the cult atmosphere of the Groyper movement and unable distinguish reality from hyperreality, would take it seriously.

That is precisely what happened last January, when a black teenager named Solomon Henderson walked into Antioch High School, outside Nashville, with a 9mm pistol and fired 10 rounds into the cafeteria, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring another student, before turning the gun on himself.

The purported manifesto Henderson left behind—a copy of which found online corresponded to contemporary news descriptions—revealed a fascination with mass shooters, including the neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed dozens of children in Norway in 2011; and a pastiche of radical ideologies lifted from internet forums and imageboards. At the logical level, these ideologies, especially when set against Henderson’s racial identity, seem to make little sense. But in the freak world, populated by a rainbow of nihilists, a black teenager, drunk on the hyperreal spectacle, can murder a young girl in a school cafeteria while calling himself an “Involuntary N[*]gger” and a “Groyper Incel.”

In the manifesto, Henderson asked himself, “Is there a particular groups[sic]or people that radicalized you the most?” He weaves one answer into the subsequent list of irony-laden names—once in plain lettering, and later, in all caps: NICK FUENTES.

:{Ryan Thorpe is an investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute.Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor ofCity Journal, and the author ofAmerica’s Cultural Revolution

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01/27/2026

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Behind the Tweet That Became the Rallying Cry for the Insurrection

by Stan AlcornNovember 24, 2021

*This story is a collaboration withMother Jones.

On the evening of Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, the 35-year-old attorney who would jump-start the #StopTheSteal hashtag says he was meeting with Trump campaign officials in Philadelphia.

The city was a Democratic stronghold in a state Donald Trump won to secure the presidency in 2016 and needed to win again to remain in the White House. It was also a city long dogged by Republican accusations of election fraud. Will Chamberlain had driven up from Washington, D.C., to chase these allegations as a last-minute volunteer with the group Lawyers for Trump.

But Chamberlain wasn’t merely a lawyer. Although he had briefly worked at a commercial litigation firm in Los Angeles after passing the bar, he left that job in the spring of 2016, moved to D.C. and spent the Trump years running MAGA Meetups, relaunching a right-wing magazine and generally reinventing himself as a pro-Trump social media figure. When the campaign realized he had roughly 150,000 followers on Twitter, his role changed. “They figured out I’d be more useful doing stuff that wasn’t just legal,” Chamberlain told me.

He would still be on the lookout for “irregularities” – broken machines, verbal abuse of Republican officials, violations of law – but he wouldn’t be collecting affidavits or filing legal briefs. “If anything bad happened,” Chamberlain recalled, “we would put it out on social media.”

The next morning, at 8:19 a.m. on Election Day, he tweeted a video of a confrontation outside a polling place that would succeed beyond his wildest dreams. He wasn’t the first to make use of the #StopTheSteal hashtag, but according to an analysis conducted for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, his tweet was the first to go viral. When it did, it took a little-known slogan of far-right activists and, in a matter of hours, transformed it into a ubiquitous rallying cry of what would become a nationwide movement to overturn the 2020 election.

Looking back, Chamberlain calls the movement that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 “disappointing,” “frustrating,” and “scary,” but he is also quick to disown any personal responsibility.

“We weren’t thinking we were setting the stage for this massive campaign. All we were thinking was, like, this is a catchy hashtag,” he recalls. “I guess I underestimated how crazy certain people could get.”

It’s now clear that the ramifications of what’s become known as the Big Lie didn’t end with the events of Jan. 6. Far from it. A year later, a persistent, overwhelming majority of Republicans continue to believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. That false belief has been used to justify a wave of new voting restrictions, with the Brennan Center for Justice documenting 33 laws in 19 states, many of which experts say disproportionately disenfranchise people of color, college students, elderly voters and disabled voters. At least 10 Republicans who questioned the election results are seeking to oversee future elections in battleground states as candidates for secretary of state. A recent CNN poll found that a majority of Americans believe it is at least somewhat likely that an elected official will overturn an upcoming election to favor their political party. Only 6% say our democracy is not in danger.

This state of affairs wasn’t created by a single tweet. The edifice of #StopTheSteal was constructed on a foundation of false claims of widespread election fraud that predates Trump’s candidacy. But by tracing the convoluted journey of the tweet that started #StopTheSteal, you can see exactly how these long-standing beliefs, the singular rhetoric of Trump, and the evolving online and offline organizing tactics of the far right came together to create an unprecedented misinformation cascade. The dynamics that made this possible haven’t gone away. In fact, in some ways, the prospects for our upcoming elections are even worse.

On Election Day in Philadelphia, Will Chamberlain was paired with another volunteer, a local GOP activist and former state Senate candidate named Gary Feldman. As a Philadelphia resident, Feldman was able to register as an official Republican poll watcher, allowing him to legally enter voting locations to observe the process firsthand – he’d later say he was “the eyes and the ears of the president.” The plan was for the two of them to spend the day driving around Philadelphia, looking for what Chamberlain calls “shenanigans.” Should they see anything that fit that description, Feldman would investigate while Chamberlain would wait outside, taking pictures and videos and broadcasting his findings on Twitter.

Philadelphia has a long history of this kind of semi-official partisan videography. In 2008, when Barack Obama was running against John McCain, a recent college graduate working for the local GOP shot a video of a member of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense standing outside a polling place holding a nightstick. No voter claimed to be intimidated and no criminal charges were filed, but the video was endlessly replayed on Fox News after right-wing operative Mike Roman posted it to his Election Journal website. The idea of reviving this approach at the Philadelphia polls in 2020 came directly from Trump himself.

It happened at the end of the first presidential debate in September, when moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News tried to pin Trump down on a question he’d been publicly evading: “Will you urge your supporters to stay calm during this extended period, not to engage in any civil unrest?” Wallace asked. “And will you pledge tonight that you will not declare victory until the election has been independently certified?”

Instead of encouraging calm and making the pledge, Trump famously replied: “I’m urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that’s what has to happen. I am urging them to do it. As you know, today there was a big problem. In Philadelphia, they went in to watch. They’re called poll watchers, a very safe, very nice thing. They were thrown out. They weren’t allowed to watch. You know why? Because bad things happen in Philadelphia.”

While Trump had been summoning the specter of fraud in Philadelphia since his first campaign, the “big problem” he was referring to happened that morning. It was opening day for a number of satellite election offices the city of Philadelphia had created to help its residents register and turn in ballots as part of a newly expanded mail-in voting program. Someone had walked into one of these offices, camera rolling, seeking to “observe,” and been politely turned away.

Andrew Wellbrock, now deputy attorney general in New Jersey and recently assistant district attorney in Philadelphia and leader of the city’s Election Task Force, says this was clearly the right move. Under Pennsylvania law, poll watching is something that only credentialed observers do, and only on Election Day at polling locations set up to ensure voter privacy. The video showed someone with no relevant credentials showing up at an office neither logistically nor legally set up to accommodate them. “It would be like someone saying they have a poll watcher certificate to come watch me do my work in my office,” Wellbrock says. “It’s just not how the law works.”

The video was tweeted out by Roman, who was Trump’s Election Day operations director. He offered a very different analysis. “TRUMP observers are being blocked entry to all of the satellite voting locations in Philly!! What are they hiding?” he tweeted. Trump and his two adult sons’ retweets went further. “This is Biden’s only hope to cheat you out of an election by preventing a fair and honest election,” tweeted Donald Trump Jr.

The Trump campaign followed up the tweets and debate complaints with a lawsuit, but it was thrown out eight days later. But the courtroom loss did nothing to extinguish the excluded-poll-watcher narrative, as the reaction to Chamberlain’s tweet would soon make spectacularly clear.

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Chamberlain told me that the first tip he and Feldman got on Election Day was that a polling site at a funeral home in South Philadelphia wasn’t admitting Republican poll watchers. Chamberlain and Feldman raced to the scene.

When they arrived, Feldman walked inside, only to be promptly ejected while Chamberlain recorded video on his phone. “I have a citywide watcher’s certificate,” Feldman says in the video, holding up the slip of yellow paper. “Not for this location,” one of the poll workers responds.

As it turned out, Feldman was right, and the poll workers were wrong. “It was all a mistake,” the election judge who denied Feldman’s entry told me when I reached him by phone. (Reached by email, Feldman declined to answer my questions.)

It was the kind of misunderstanding that happens at every election without affecting the outcome and that the Philadelphia district attorney’s Election Task Force typically resolves over the phone. Feldman and Chamberlain needed only to call the Election Task Force’s hotline, and one of the more than 90 lawyers on call could have directed the poll workers to let Feldman in. But, as Chamberlain told me and the Election Task Force confirmed, they didn’t call.

“That’s not what they wanted,” Wellbrock says. “They wanted a show. They wanted that headline.”

Or more to the point: They wanted that tweet.

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The tweet went out at 8:19 a.m.

Two minutes later, its viral journey began, with a retweet from Jack Posobiec.

Posobiec was a correspondent and host at the pro-Trump cable network One America News, but his real power came from Twitter, where he regularly posted hundreds of times a day.

“I would argue that Jack is the worst actor in the history of that website,” says Michael Edison Hayden, an investigative reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center, who wrote a series of articles on how Posobiec built an audience by spreading conspiracy theories, inspiring harassment campaigns and working with White supremacists. Posobiec is “very good at setting the right-wing media agenda,” says Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. “He tends to have a very loyal and dedicated fan base that knows what to do when he tweets something.”

By the 2020 election, Posobiec had amassed a Twitter following of 1.2 million that included right-wing influencers such as Trump himself – a fact that Posobiec leveraged to maximum effect. “Remember, folks, the President watches this space closely,” Posobiec tweeted months before the election. “That’s right Jack,” Trump tweeted in response. “Keep up the good work!”

When Posobiec tweeted Chamberlain’s video, his pro-Trump Twitter network sprang into action, with immediate retweets from a Trump campaign staffer and from Paul Joseph Watson, aka @PrisonPlanet, the British protege of Trump ally and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Kate Starbird, faculty director of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, says in an email that this was a typical beginning for viral election misinformation. “We’ve talked about that kind of effect as a ‘spotlight’ tweet (where a user with a larger following casts a spotlight on a tweet/user with a smaller following and helps it take off).”

If Posobiec’s followers missed his initial tweet, no matter; he would spotlight the poll-watching video three more times in the space of three minutes. After the last of these, at 8:32 a.m., Donald Trump Jr. took notice and tweeted it, twice, to his 6 million followers.

Thanks to these prominent retweets, by 20 minutes after its release, Chamberlain’s video had been viewed nearly 200,000 times; in an hour, it was approaching half a million. In their analysis for the Election Integrity Partnership, researchers at the Center for an Informed Public documented more than 600,000 tweets related to Chamberlain’s video. That doesn’t include posts on other platforms where it was quickly reproduced, such as Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

The engine powering this viral spread was what the Center for an Informed Public calls “repeat spreaders”: a small number of influencers with large follower counts who disseminated not one but many false or misleading narratives about the 2020 election. Their analysis ranked Posobiec, Trump Jr. and Roman among the 21 most prominent, alongside right-wing media figures like @BreitbartNews and Sean Hannity, as well as Twitter-specific influencers like “Cat Turd” and the QAnon account @prayingmedic.

Throughout the 2020 election season, these accounts acted as misinformation tastemakers, taking tweets from more obscure accounts like Chamberlain’s and then broadcasting them to their larger followings. While Posobiec happened to be the first to find Chamberlain’s tweet, it was their collective action that made them potent. One researcher I spoke with compared the swarm of influencers retweeting a new nugget of conspiratorial content to a flock of crows descending on a single french fry.

“You just need to hit one person in this network of right-wing influencers, and then it will spread to all the others,” says Center for an Informed Public graduate researcher Andrew Beers.

As Chamberlain’s video spread, the claims attached to it grew increasingly detached from the mundane reality it depicted. The first of Trump Jr.’s tweets amplified a quote tweet that prefaced it by saying, “Look, we don’t need any pesky poll-watchers interfering with the result that has already been preordained by Democrat officials.” The second: “They’re straight up stealing Philadelphia.” The front page of Breitbart News soon read: “ ‘The Steal Is On’ in Pennsylvania: Poll watchers denied access.”

It’s a pattern Starbird calls “participatory disinformation,” and it would occur again and again all across the country on Election Day and in the days and weeks and months thereafter. Trump voters who’d been primed for months with MAGA-world narratives of hacked voting machines, dead voters and rampant mail fraud, while being urged by the president to “watch very carefully,” ventured out to collect “evidence” that appeared to support their suspicions. Influencers, in turn, found these fragments and repackaged them into more compelling posts, which they then spread to their much larger audiences. If you were glued to far-right media, you saw not just scattered anecdotes, but a ubiquitous, consistent narrative repeated across social media, TV and radio. “(It) starts to take on the character of something that must be true because a lot of people are saying it,” Donovan says. “And that’s really what media manipulators and disinformers bank on. That’s what their strategic advantage is.”

The ultimate manifestation of this shows up at the end of Chamberlain’s tweet in the form of a hashtag.

“Stop the Steal” was not invented by Chamberlain. Its first incarnation was in 2016 when longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone picked up on Trump’s talk of a “rigged election” and founded an organization called Stop the Steal to prevent Ted Cruz from “stealing” the Republican primary. In the general election, Stop the Steal turned its attention to Hillary Clinton, signing up activists to monitor “key precincts” to thwart an alleged Democratic plot to hack voting machines and “flood the polls with illegals.” Posobiec was Stone’s point person in Philadelphia, where, in a haphazard premonition of 2020, he drove around the city with a local GOP staffer while telling his livestream followers that he was documenting “voter fraud.” (A Reveal producer was riding shotgun, so you can hear this play out firsthand.) The stunt had limited reach, and when Trump won the election, it was quickly forgotten.

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The name and strategy were revived in 2018 by associates of Stone, including Posobiec and future Stop the Steal protest ringleader Ali Alexander, to claim election fraud in Broward County, Florida. In September 2020, Alexander said on a livestream, “I’m thinking of bringing ‘Stop the Steal’ out of retirement.” (He also insisted, “Every precinct in the country needs a Republican poll watcher. Every precinct in the country needs a Republican poll watcher.”) That same day, Posobiec sent a tweet (later deleted) that said simply, “#StopTheSteal 2020 is coming …” In a brief phone conversation, Posobiec said of this and other tweets about #StopTheSteal and false election fraud allegations, “I share things for my followers that they might find interesting,” before declining to comment further.

For his part, Chamberlain admits that he had discussed using the hashtag in advance of the 2020 election with other right-wing Twitter users, including Posobiec. But he claims that when he employed #StopTheSteal, he didn’t mean to imply that the election was actually being stolen. “In that context,” he explains, “the ‘steal’ is shenanigans. Basically Election Day shenanigans.”

This is, needless to say, not how it was understood online.

The handful of #StopTheSteal tweets that preceded Chamberlain’s hadn’t gotten any traction, but as soon as his caught fire, people borrowed its hashtag and attached it to a rapidly multiplying mass of conspiracy theories, from dead people voting to ballots invalidated by Sharpies.

“(Chamberlain’s) one original tweet pretty much sets the “#StopTheSteal” hashtag into motion,” Starbird says. “Where it begins with that one incident and then starts to snowball and pick up/incorporate other incidents/narratives as it goes.”

In a brief, punchy, alliterative phrase, it grouped these disparate stories together, implied they were proof of a plot to “steal” the election and called Twitter users to action to “stop the steal.”

At its Election Day peak, tweets tagged #StopTheSteal were posted more than 10,000 times an hour. Riding the wave of the hashtag’s viral success, the next day, Alexander would launch a #StopTheSteal website – StopTheSteal.us – and Women for America First would launch a Stop the Steal Facebook group to organize on-the-ground protests. The last of these protests would take place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal,” Trump told the crowd. And the crowd roared.

While the Stop the Steal movement mutated and metastasized, Chamberlain’s tweet and the narrative attached to it continued to shape right-wing election-related discourse and policy.

As the vote totals in key swing states began to favor Joe Biden, the real-world protests that sprung up in Phoenix, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and elsewhere focused their “Stop the Steal” chants on those doing the counting. The story of wrongfully excluded Republican election observers lived on – only now, it was the tabulation of ballots they claimed to be unable to witness.

Two days after the election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went on Fox News and falsely claimed, “By throwing the observers out, by clouding the vote-counting in a shroud of darkness, they are setting the stage to potentially steal an election.”

“THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS,” Trump tweeted that Saturday, after the Associated Press declared him the loser in Pennsylvania and the nation as a whole. “BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE.”

Even after the votes had been fully counted and certified in Pennsylvania (with Republican poll watchers observing), Republican legislators held a hearing at a Wyndham hotel in Gettysburg that used the stories of poll watchers to hint at more elaborate conspiracies. “The issues are galore,” Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator representing south-central Pennsylvania, said in a lengthy opening statement that compared the election to the Civil War. “You’re going to hear about poll watchers being denied access, where election software vendors refuse to testify before the General Assembly. What do they got to hide?” Among the witnesses called were Republican observers of both Election Day voting and the subsequent counting of votes. One of those witnesses was Gary Feldman.

Feldman’s appearance was brief, and news coverage of the event focused instead on the rambling false claims made by Rudy Giuliani and Trump himself, who participated by phone. But on the conspiratorial fringe, the hearing was treated as a pivotal event, with Trump’s recently indicted ex-adviser Steve Bannon referencing it repeatedly on his podcast, and Mastriano capitalizing on it to elevate his own profile.

Mastriano would gain infamy as an early champion of so-called private “audits” of election results, like the Cyber Ninjas in Arizona, hunting for fake ballots with telltale “bamboo fibers” (and still finding that Biden won the election). On Jan. 6, Mastriano joined the pro-Trump mob on the Capitol grounds and even chartered buses for his constituents.

By April 2021, Mastriano went on to co-sponsor all four Pennsylvania Senate bills on the Brennan Center’s list of restrictive voting bills, as well as the Poll Watcher Empowerment Act, which, among other provisions, seeks to penalize “any election officials who block, impede, or otherwise intimidate a poll watcher while performing his or her official duties on Election Day.” If passed, it would mean that an election judge could be jailed for months for making the same mistake that briefly kept Feldman out of a polling place.

The Pennsylvania bill is one of more than 40 pieces of proposed legislation in 20 statesseeking to give poll watchers more power. The most infamous was the omnibus voting bill in Texas, which was delayed but not defeated when Democratic lawmakers took the dramatic step of fleeing the state.

The Texas bill was signed into law in September, and its poll-watching provisions go further than anything proposed in Pennsylvania. It explicitly grants watchers “free movement” at voting sites, specifying they should be able to get close enough to “see and hear” election workers’ actions. It not only makes it a crime for election workers to obstruct watchers, but it also prohibits them from removing watchers who violate the law, unless they personally witness the violation. Multiple federal lawsuits have challenged these provisions as unconstitutional and discriminatory, saying they will increase voter intimidation and curtail election officials’ ability to keep voters safe and their ballots secret. “That is a recipe for making elections more chaotic and less secure,” says Tommy Buser-Clancy of the ACLU of Texas.

The centering of partisan watchers also underlies even seemingly unrelated voting restrictions. The Texas law rolls back the drive-thru and 24-hour voting that boosted turnout in heavily Democratic Harris County in 2020. Those forms of voting were explicitly attacked as insecure because they couldn’t easily be observed by partisan poll watchers.

“Taking that argument to its logical conclusion, you can only have in-person Election Day voting,” says Alex Gulotta, All Voting Is Local Arizona state director. “It’s not about observing voting; it’s about stopping voting.”

There’s a certain historical irony to Republican legislators casting partisan poll watchers as election integrity’s last line of defense.

Two hundred years ago, poll watchers were called “party agents” and were anything but neutral referees. In a time before lists of registered voters, opposing party agents actively debated and horse traded their fellow citizens’ voting rights, according to Cornell University professor Richard Bensel, author of “The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” “Poll watching in the sense that the Republicans mean it today didn’t exist,” Bensel says.

In the modern era, partisan poll watching evolved to serve a different function. Republican “ballot security programs” enlisted poll watchers to show up in the 1960s to enforce state literacy requirements, challenging voters standing in line to read aloud passages from the Constitution and demanding they leave the voting line if they could not. In 1982, the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit alleging that Republicans in the 1981 elections had hired local law enforcement officers to patrol Black and Latino districts in New Jersey and question prospective voters about their qualifications. The lawsuit resulted in a consent decree that enjoined the Republican National Committee from similar activities until the decree expired in 2017. This meant the 2020 presidential election was the first in 40 years in which the Republican National Committee could openly sponsor and promote efforts to monitor the polls.

Many Democrats feared the result would be widespread voter intimidation, particularly after the Trump campaign claimed it would deploy a 50,000-strong Army for Trump led by Roman. When this “army” failed to materialize, voting rights historian J. Morgan Kousser was not surprised. He says the expense and challenging logistics, not to mention the possibility of a backlash, meant the rhetoric was always “puffery,” aimed more at fashioning a narrative than a genuine effort to recruit volunteers to do the boring work of observing the functioning of the country’s hundreds of thousands of voting locations. “For a long time, there has been a feeling in the election law community that these laws (allowing partisan poll watchers) had two purposes,” Kousser says. “One was to intimidate people, particularly Blacks and Latinos, from voting by giving them the idea that it is going to be difficult and may be dangerous to vote. And the other is that it’s simply one of the things that they’re doing to play to their base, to play up the idea that there is a lack of voter integrity.”

The RNC’s election integrity director, Josh Findlay, recently claimed the party would be stepping up its official poll-watching efforts in 2022. Even if this promise proves to be more “puffery,” as long as there are large numbers of Republican voters who believe election fraud is widespread, there will likely be some who will do their own unofficial poll watching. And if nothing else changes, there will also be a network of activists ready to transform their efforts into viral narratives on social media. Only five of the top 20 “repeat spreaders” of 2020 election misinformation identified by the Center for an Informed Public have been kicked off Twitter. The other 16 – including Posobiec, Trump Jr. and Roman – remain active and have millions more followers than they did last November.

In a recent report, the Center for an Informed Public pointed out that researchers and journalists have repeatedly found that a small number of influential “superspreaders” drive the spread of misinformation on social media. They suggested a solution could be for social media platforms to hold influential accounts to a higher standard, instead of doing the opposite. “It’s an incredibly obvious solution that they don’t want to do,” says Andrew Beers, a graduate researcher at Center for an Informed Public, “for I think very obvious political reasons.”

*This story was edited by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Nina Martin and Andrew Donohue.

*Stan Alcorn can be reached at salcorn@revealnews.org. Follow him on Twitter:@stan_alcorn.

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When far-right activist and "Stop The Steal" organizer Ali Alexander saw his career implode in 2023 after admitting to soliciting explicit photos from underage males, he announced that he would be "bowing out of public life."

But that was not entirely true, as what actually happened is that Alexander simply migrated over to the social media platform Telegram, where he has focused his attention on spreading overt antisemitism to his 21,000 followers.

On Saturday, Alexander did a livestream on Telegram to voice his concerns about the emerging narrative on the far right that Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk, allegedly for having voiced criticism of the nation.

During the livestream, Alexander did not dispute the idea that Israel could have murdered Kirk but argued that had not seen any convincing evidence or heard any sound arguments to support the allegation. That said, Alexander wanted to make it very clear that nobody "wants to take down Israel more than me" and so nobody could claim that they were "out flanking [him] on taking out the Jew."

Alexander said there was much to be suspicious about regarding Kirk's assassination, such as the behavior of George Zinn in the immediate aftermath.

"I find it incredibly strange that reportedly a Jewish man, that character Zinn, acted deeply suspicious and it does look like he distracted police while the assassin got away," Alexander said. "Has anyone established any connection between this weird Jewish guy and the shooter, this weird Jewish guy in Mossad, this weird Jewish guy and anything else?"

Alexander said there was another person on the scene who "looks Jewish" and was acting "autistically [and] retardedly" after Kirk was shot.

"He won't post his last name," Alexander claimed. "That's something a lot of Jews do. We call it shape-shifting."

"I don't know anybody who wants to take down Israel more than me in this audience," Alexander declared. "I believe it's theological. I believe this supersedes politics. I believe that the Jews are the synagogue of Satan. I believe that the Jews made up a lot of the Holocaust. I don't know a person who thinks more poorly of Jews as a consensus or culture than me."

"I blame the divorce rates on the Jew," Alexander added. "Most of you probably would not blame the divorce rates on the Jew. I do. So when I see people say, 'I'm out flanking you on taking out the Jew, Ali,' I'm like, no, you're just engaged in mindlessness."

Having spent 45 minutes establishing his antisemitic bona fides, Alexander then revealed what he ultimately wants to see done in response to Kirk's murder.

"My attention is going to be on trying to get [FBI Director] Kash Patel fired, trying to get Donald Trump off his fat ass to avenge his friend, trying to use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up while we excise all of antifa from our country," he said. "I think 500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed if they're convicted for treason or something like that. I think America needs a penal colony. I do not want to coexist with these people."

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* Ali Alexander is pretty sure that he "would’ve made a brilliant constitutional lawyer": "Likely the best."

* Finally, "prophet" Mark Taylor is not happy that Paula White has been tapped to run the White House Faith Office: "THE LORD GOD REBUKES YOU PAULA WHITE CAIN, THE ENTIRE SATANIC SPIRITUAL ADVISORY BOARD and ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS OF BAAL THIS DAY! REPENT! MR PRESIDENT DO NOT LET THESE FALSE PROPHETS LAY HANDS ON YOU SIR! THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT! IT'S A TRANSFER OF DEMONS AND DEMONIC INFLUENCE!"

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* Before former President Donald Trump flip flopped on the issue of reproductive rights, Ali Alexander was preparedto drop his support: “I cannot and will never allow a Republican to promise me one thing on abortion and then switch it up. It’s not worth it longterm. I’d sooner vote for an independent or write someone in who was pro-choice than a Republican who went from pro-life to pro-choice. Because I cannot vote for the extinction of the single most important moral issue facing our country. God has damned Moloch, Ba’al and all their followers.”

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If you’d known what to look for, you could have seen it coming miles and miles away: the demise of movement conservatism in the face of Trumpism. The only thing surprising about the collapse of FreedomWorks, the loud and splashy libertarian astroturf outfit, is that it hadn’t happened sooner.

Leaders of the conservative denomination canceled the discussion of dealing with polarization after online backlash.

This is the story of one man who went from a clean-shaven, if far-right-leaning, candidate for the U.S. Senate to a bushy-bearded white nationalist in just six years. His plunge into vicious antisemitism and racism is similar to others radicalized online, drawn to real-world far-right activism, and pulled down into the white nationalist movement.

A police investigation into Republican operative Ali Alexander is still ongoing, a spokesperson for the Johnstown Police Department in Colorado confirmed to the Daily Dot on Wednesday, and has now extended to Texas.

[Jesse] Watters relies on low-effort mockery and lazy analysis, delivered in a mellow tone, often paired with a mirthless laugh. It is the mean-spirited snort of the frat brother when he spies a man with long hair; the smarmy chuckle of the righteous prick, intent on mocking, rather than forgiving, all those who trespass against him—even and especially if those trespasses are purely imaginary ones.

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Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) have been subpoenaed by Arizona investigators to testify for a grand jury in connection to their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Politico exclusively reports.

Politico notes as far-right Freedom Caucus chair at the time, Biggs, along "with Gosar were among the most vocal congressional supporters of Trump’s efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in Arizona," and both GOP lawmakers sought "to challenge the state’s presidential electors on Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress met to certify the results of the Electoral College."

The news outlet adds, "Gosar was mounting that challenge at the same moment a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol and halted proceedings."

READ MORE:['We have to worry about physical violence': AZ elections chief preps for threats from MAGA

Although there's no proof Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes will bring criminal charges against the pair, "the subpoenas themselves — in conjunction with a series of other aggressive recent moves — show that Mayes, a Democrat, has cast a far wider net in her probe than previously understood," Politico notes.

"Getting a subpoena to testify in front of a grand jury is kind of rare," American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona Legal Director Jared Keenan said. "And that’s why I think no one has challenged the secrecy law."

Some of the Arizona lawmakers' attempt to overturn the election according to investigators, includes Gosar's ongoing "relationships with activists organizing 'Stop the Steal' protests targeting Congress’ Jan. 6 session."

Regarding Biggs' actions, Politico reports, "text messages obtained by the Jan. 6 committee" show that "Biggs quickly contacted Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after Election Day 2020 to push for state legislatures to overrule the results in multiple states Biden won."

READ MORE:['Resigning as Lake requested': AZ GOP chair quits amid threat of more leaks from Kari Lake

Additionally, "Biggs also told Meadows that Trump should not concede the election and reportedly worked with other Arizona Republicans to advance the fake elector effort."

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although Democrats have been struggling in Florida, they have gained a lot of ground in Arizona, Georgia and Virginia — all of which were once deep red but have evolved into full-fledged swing states. Arizona was once synonymous with the conservatism of Sen. Barry Goldwater and his successor, Sen. John McCain; now, it has a Democratic governor (Katie Hobbs), two non-GOP U.S. senators (Democrat Mark Kelly and ex-Democrat turned independent Kyrsten Sinema), and a Democratic state attorney general — who has been leading a thorough criminal investigation of MAGA efforts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

One of 2020's political bombshells came when now-President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in Arizona. Although Trump falsely claimed that he won the state, meticulous recounts thoroughly debunked that claim.

According to Politico, Democratic Arizona AG Kris Mayes has subpoenaed two far-right MAGA congressmen who were major promoters of the Big Lie: Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar.

READ MORE:[CNN sues for recordings of President Biden’s interview in classified docs probe: report

Politico reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney note that although "there is no indication that" Mayes "is considering bringing criminal charges against either lawmaker," the subpoenas "show that Mayes…. has cast a far wider net in her probe than previously understood."

"Mayes appears to be nearing a decision on whether to ask the grand jury to issue indictments in the case," Swan and Cheney report in an article published on April 4. "If she does, she will become the fourth state or local prosecutor to bring criminal charges over the efforts by Trump and his allies to submit fake electors in states that Joe Biden won."

The Politico journalists add, "In recent weeks, Mayes' office has sent out a wave of grand jury subpoenas. She also has required Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be the state's presidential electors to assert their Fifth Amendment rights in front of the grand jury — an unusual step that has generated criticism from some former prosecutors."

Swan and Cheney note that Arizona "was one of seven states won by Biden where Trump's allies organized slates of so-called alternate electors."

READ MORE:['Wrong!' AOC schools Ted Cruz on RICO laws

"Prosecutors in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada have brought criminal charges against false electors in those states, and special counsel Jack Smith has called the scheme a central element of Trump's bid to subvert the election," according to the Politico reporters. "Subpoenas to members of Congress in criminal investigations are rare, in part because lawmakers enjoy robust constitutional protections from criminal proceedings connected to their official business."

Swan and Cheney add, "But Biggs and Gosar are not the first lawmakers to face scrutiny from criminal investigators probing Trump's efforts to fight the 2020 election results. In 2022, the FBI seized the phone of Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) as part of the Justice Department's election-subversion probe."

Legal journalist Luke Johnson, in response to the subpoenas, notes the connection between them and far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist Ali Alexander Akbar.

On X, formerly Twitter, Johnson posted, "More to the Story: Ali Alexander Akbar BRAGGED that Paul Gosar & Andy Biggs were his partners on the #StopTheSteal rallies that led to the #Jan6 violent riots. They all must be held accountable, they've laughed it off for years."

The Daily Beast notes that in 2022, the January 6 Select Committee "found that both Biggs and Gosar attended a White House meeting with Trump on December 21, 2020, to strategize on ways that then-Vice President Mike Pence could block the certification of the election results."

READ MORE:[Fani Willis fights back against House GOP efforts to derail Trump RICO case

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I ALEXANDER ("STOP THE STEAL" ORGANIZER): But anyway, I was thinking about the GOP and just how fake it is and how I'm ultimately probably going to vote for one person next year and that's it. I'm not going to vote a straight-party ticket. I absolutely refuse to. The party doesn't deserve it. The party's done nothing for us.And, you know, we have to suffer something. We have to suffer some defeat to change the incentives of some of the people that are there. You can only shake out some of those people in defeat. Some of those people who are, "Oh, I'm a chairman and I'm term limited out by the House GOP rules. I'm just not going to go back."

So to shake some of those people off, unfortunately, I don't think I'll be voting Republican at the congressional level for the foreseeable future. And I can really only see myself voting — in fact, I'm thinking about voting in the Democrat primary for RFK Jr. And then in the general election, obviously, there's only two people in America I think I would vote for and neither one of them are Democrat, obviously.

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a  new report in the Washington Post sheds some light on why it has taken so long to investigate former President Donald Trump's incitement of deadly riots at the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

Specifically, the Post reports that top officials at the United States Department of Justice and the FBI "quashed a plan by prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office to directly investigate Trump associates for any links to the riot, deeming it premature."

Although Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray were not the ones who quashed the plan by prosecutors, they did embrace the strategy that critics of the plan recommended by holding the rioters themselves and then slowly moving up the chain if the evidenced justified doing so.

"In the weeks before Jan. 6, Trump supporters boasted publicly that they had submitted fake electors on his behalf, but the Justice Department declined to investigate the matter in February 2021," the newspaper writes. "The department did not actively probe the effort for nearly a year, and the FBI did not open an investigation of the electors scheme until April 2022, about 15 months after the attack."

The Post's sources say that efforts to investigate potential Trump involvement in the riots was planned by J.P. Cooney, the head of the fraud and public corruption section at the U.S. attorney’s office, who wanted to start with Trump ally Roger Stone and "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, whom he believed had planned a violent response to the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election.

However, others in the department viewed Cooney's efforts as "premature," reports the Post, because he could not turn up enough evidence to definitively link Stone to a crime.

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Levin appeared on Fox & Friends March 31, 2023 to denounce the indictment of Donald Trump (and plug his book).

When news broke Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury had voted to indict former President Donald Trump, Trump and his supporters were quick to portray him as an innocent victim and to suggest that his prosecution spelled the end of democracy in America.

The charges follow an investigation into a hush money payment made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. With the indictment under seal, the exact charges have not yet been made public, though some news reports suggest Trump faces about 30 charges and that he is expected to be charged with falsifying business records to cover up the payment.

Trump himself displayed his trademark narcissism Thursday, writing in one of many urgent emails, “We are living through the darkest chapter of American history.”

The always-blustery right-wing pundit Mark Levin ranted on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, “We have crossed the Rubicon. This is atyrannynow.”

Right-wing youth leader Charlie Kirk, who heads Turning Point USA, claimed that the indictment of Trump is a “designed campaign” by the left to provoke right-wing violence “to justify the next phase of their takeover of the country.”

Ali Alexander, a leader of the “Stop the Steal” effort to keep Trump in power after his 2020 loss, wrote on his Telegram account, “TRUMP INDICTMENT refocuses some things. We’re approaching Luciferian-triggered civil war. We must fight Them.May God bless and forgive us where we fall short.”

Far-right broadcaster Pete Santilli—who last week said that if Trump were arrested, the military and law enforcement should round up and execute former President Barack Obama and other members of the “criminal cabal”—reacted to the news by telling his viewers that “these leftist, gun-grabbing Maoists, you will never have a peaceful resolution with. They’re going to come and kill you.:

amid reports that New York law enforcement officials are preparing for possible violence, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted, “I’m going to New York on Tuesday. We MUST protest the unconstitutional WITCH HUNT!”

Although details of the indictment haven’t been made public,Sen. Ted Cruzused his “Verdict” podcast to denounce the indictment as “utter and complete garbage,” describing himself as angry and “heartbroken” over what he called a “devastating” blow to the rule of law. Cruz claimed that the Manhattan investigation was an effort by “radical Democrats” to “steal” the 2024 presidential election.

Cruz said the indictment would boost Trump’s election campaign, a sentiment echoed by other far-right followers of the twice-impeached former president. The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody said the indictment had made Trump a “political martyr.”

On “FlashPoint,” a show that appears on evangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel that was a steady source of misinformation about the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake denounced what she called “false, phony charges.” Trump’s supporters, she said, are “tried and true” and will stay with him “all the way.”

Trump’s religious-right backers also rallied around him, with Franklin Graham calling it a “shameful day for America.”

As noted by religion scholar Diana Butler Bass in her latest newsletter, Trump has been using increasingly messianic and apocalyptic languagein reference to his legal troubles in an effort to maintain religious-right support.Trump followers who believe he is anointed by God and is being persecuted like Jesus by the legions of Satan is “a theo-political wild card we’ve got to pay attention to,”Bass writes. She points to the biblical story of Jesus’ arrest in which one of his disciples attacked one of the soldiers. While Jesus insisted, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword,” Bass warns, “Do not expect the same from Trump.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ali-alexander-jan-6-texts-behind-scenes-capitol-attack-1234665011/

no lnx ‘We Are in Hell’: Texts Reveal the Jan. 6 Spiral of Ali Alexander, Kanye’s Election-Denying Confidant

The 'Stop the Steal' organizer handed over his text messages to the Jan. 6 committee, providing a riveting, real-time glimpse into the chaos of the insurrection

January 25, 2023

[pix Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander returns to a conference room for a deposition meeting on Capitol Hill with the Jan. 6 committee attack on Dec. 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images]

Ali Alexander — the far-right political agitator infamous for organizing the Jan. 6 protests that morphed into a bloody insurgency — has treated his recent Twitter reinstatement as a coming out party. He’s used his @Ali handle to diss political enemies (including trashing Marjorie Taylor Greene) and boast of his online prowess. “No one wants the Ali Alexander smoke,” he tweeted with typical modesty last week. “Can you imagine being stupid enough to come for crazy intelligent highly favored Ali Alexander?”

In his blitz back into the public sphere Alexander has been touting his connection to another modest man: prospective 2024 presidential candidate Kanye West, now known as Ye. Appearing on a recent podcast, Alexander painted himself as one of Ye’s top political confidants, touting the Hitler-loving rapper as “the best thing to happen to American politics since Donald J. Trump. And I mean that. No cap. Not a friend move.” Alexander insisted that Ye is prayerfully considering whether “God has in fact called him to run for office” but that “the answer looks like he’s leaning yes.”

Alexander’s sudden re-emergence in American political life follows two years in the wilderness, as the operative reeled from the fallout of Jan. 6, 2021. Alexander was the leader of the “Stop the Steal” movement, which whipped up the furor of Trump followers around the lie that he had been robbed of reelection.

As an organizer, Alexander worked Trump proxies and longtime Tea Party activists to promote the rally at the Ellipse, where Trump bid the rabid masses to march on the Capitol. To publicize the event, Alexander set up the website WildProtest.com. The storming of the Capitol shouldn’t have been a surprise to Alexander, who had been tweeting incendiary rhetoric in the buildup to the Electoral College certification, including veiled threats about what might happen if objections to the vote count were shut down (“everyone can guess what me and 500,000 others will do to that building”) and revolutionary sentiments like “1776 is always an option.” At a separate D.C. rally at Freedom Plaza on Jan. 5, Alexander led the crowd in a chant of, “Victory or death!”

Alexander has not faced criminal charges. And unlike many Jan 6. players, he didn’t plead the Fifth Amendment to congressional investigators, instead speaking to the Jan. 6 committee for hours. The transcript of that deposition was revealing — indicating thatAlexander gave Rep. Paul Gosar’s staff an early warning about the violence brewing outside the Capitol.

In its final document dump, the Jan. 6 Committee also released text messages from Alexander’s phone from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. These many hundreds of messages offer a unique glimpse into the events leading up to and during the invasion of the Capitol.

Alexander served as a central node in the information flow for the events of Jan. 6. He was texting with congressional staffers, GOP consultants, white supremacists, religious zealots, and Oath Keepers, including Kelly Meggs, since convicted of seditious conspiracy.The texts underscore Alexander’s advance knowledge that Trump would send masses marching on the Capitol.And while Alexander made futile attempts to calm the crowd in the moment, he also advised his collaborators to lie low after the Capitol breach because “the FBI is coming hunting.” Rolling Stone has combed through the messages Alexander provided to the Jan. 6 committee, presenting a chronological selection below, to illuminate how the events unfolded in real time for one of the day’s most important players. (Alexander did not respond to an interview request.)

Outgoing texts sent by Alexander are in italics.

January 5th

Nick Fuentes(white supremacist leader and fellow Ye confidant)

12:00: a.m. Okay thanks, ill text alex tomorrow and see whats up. I get in tomorrow afternoon. You know of any events that’d be more likely to let me speak?

12:00: Alex owns part of the stage at Freedom Plaza

12:01: Right. Would Alex let me speak at freedom plaza…?

12:05: Yes

12:05: But his consultant may throw a fit

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Thomas Van Flein (chief of staff to Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar)}:

5:03: Believe POTUS selected Gosar as one of the 3 house members to speak on our stage prior to the joint session

8:31: Ok.

Group thread titled “ALI SEC DETAIL”

6:22: (Alexander) Hi everyone can you say your names so y’all can save each other… Because my necessary entourage is large, I hired two fellas from Colorado Security who will be with me at all times. We have Patrick (my normal DC body man) and Anthony (cop friend) who will be with us…And we have two OathKeepers (appointed by Gator) with me and my crew. Because we have 20+ OathKeepers for the broader party, I wanted two stationed with me. Patrick, Anthony and the two OathKeepers are staying in the same hotel as me…. God bless

6:24: (Gator) Gator – Kelly Meggs

Liz Willis (reporter, Right Side Broadcasting Network)

7:17: WH is running ellipse. Me and the Kremers and turning point are partners

7:17: Interesting. But awesome. My 3 fav groups. Finally

7:19: Tomorrow: Ellipse then U.S. capitol. Trump is supposed to order us to capitol at the end of his speech but we will see

7:19: Awesome thanks so much. God speed!

Rob Weaver (leader of Jericho March,a religious movement to keep Trump in office)

9:26: Is it true that grassley is going to preside over the senate on the 6th? Not sure of the play??

9:27: Pence cucked. Grassley is better

Jacob Wohl (notorious right-wing troll)

10:23: All Trump people on this flight DEN-DCA

10:28: Looks about half and half hardcore and “boomer grandma”

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Jeff Morelock (Oath Keeper)}:

11:00: Hello. This is Jeff Morelock with Oath Keepers. We will be at the JW Marriott in about 30 mins to check in depending on traffic. Where will you need us to meet you after we check in?

11:01: Lobby sir

12:04 p.m.: We are in room 706. Do we have time to take a quick shower or do you need us somewhere now? We slept in a swamp cabin in North Carolina last night

Thomas Van Flein & Caroline Wren (Trumpworld representative who coordinated Jan. 6 Ellipse protest)

4:17: Thomas will you call Caroline

4:19: With the trump campaign

4:21: (Van Flein) Done

Caroline Wren

:{:{}:

6:03: Do we already have Marsha, Cruz, Hawley, Gohmert, Brooks, and Gosar booked?}:

Joe Flynn (Gen. Mike Flynn’s brother)

6:58: What time is General speaking? Any idea

7:06: POTUS speaks at 11 or 12

7:06: Then we all march to the capitol after he speaks

7:08: Ok

Cassandra Fairbanks (journalist with Gateway Pundit)

:{:{8:58:  I’m getting nervous for you guys tbh}:

8:58: They’re fucking scared and it’s showing. Be careful/safe.}:

8:58: They’re so scared

8:58: We’re on a razors edge

8:58: Thanks

January 6th

Nick Fuentes

1:56 a.m.: Is the VIP entrance the same as the general entrance?

Lance Wallnau & Michele Odom (Wallnau is a Christian Nationalist leader; Odom’s identity is unclear)

3:06: You and your full crew are on lists in various capacities. Enter before 9:30am, will send you VIP instructions

7:10: (Wallnau) Thank you

7:14: (Odom) Always. God chose the right man when he chose you to do this. He KNEW you would NOT quit!!!

Thomas Marchi (Alexander has a business associate of the same name; he did not respond to an interview request)

3:35: 1776, 2021

Eugene Yu (Chief executive of Konnech, an election logistics firm)

3:55: I can’t do hotel booking or anything like that Eugene. I’m organizing with POTUS and 1M people and gave you the contact of my deputy. I can’t read 500 texts or answer them about hotels.

Mike Coudrey (Stop the Steal national coordinator; top deputy to Alexander)

4:07: Chocolate donut filled – forgot what it’s called.

Sausage egg and cheese croissant

Medium latte French vanilla

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Anthony Kern (former Arizona state representative)}:

4:53: How long is the line

4:54: 2 mile line right now.

4:54: Wow

5:14: Thanks Ali! God with you today!

Caroline Wren

4:55: I’m being told that the line is already 2 miles long

4:59: It is!!!!

5:00: Just cut the line until you get to expedited entry

5:00: All your names are on the list

5:00: I’m going to arrive at 7 AM. In mygolf carts.Can I text you then?

“God’s Army” (group chat that includes Jericho March leader Arina Grossu)

5:23: I have two passes for y’all

Thomas Van Flein

5:36: Non speaking members of Congress need to be there by 8:30. We don’t have a shuttle. Iwill make sure they have security escorts walking back to the capitol when it’s time for session

5:37: We want 30 Members minimum

5:38: Ok.

5:48: Can we send an email to the entirehouse freedom caucusif they all need to be at the ellipse. POTUS wants force!

Jeremy Oliver (owner, Onslaught Media Group; with Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano on Jan. 6)

6:07: What time do you recommend I have Senator Mastriano at ellipse?

6:25: Now is good

6:25: Or by 8

Jacob Wohl

7:24: Best place to link up with you for 1 PM?

7:44: Capitol south side in between senate side and scotus

Roger Stone (Alexander’s mentor and longtime GOP dirty trickster)

:{:{10:02: As I expected no speaking spot, no VIP entrance for any of my people –}:

10:09: I can get in the VIP for your people but yeah we got fucked

10:26:  I understand the funder of today’s event is not happy – I never thought it was real.

10:42: Time to sue }:

NOTE: Alexander testified to the Jan 6. Committee that he was directed to leave the Ellipse early with Alex Jones — while Trump was still speaking — to begin leading the overflow crowd towards the Capitol

Mike Coudrey

12:12 p.m.: Can y’all get out earlier

12:21: We did

12:22: Have half of the speakers with me

12:22: We lost most of the oathkeepers by the way

12:22: We have 3 down from 24

12:22: SMH

12:22: We will have Alex’s security secure the stage until we get there you know

Caroline Wren

12:19: Is POTUS walking? Can you give me an update every five minutes

12:29: He is not

12:29: How’s it looking

Mark Finchem (Arizona state representative and Oath Keeper )

12:19: you still have me speaking at the Capitol?

12:20: yes

12:41: I got swept up in the crowd I’m at 15th and Constitution I presume you want me to get as close to the front as I can and I’ll spot you, you do know the cowboy hat already.

12:42: I’m on one of thegolf carts headed your way

Matt Libman (identity not clear)

12:35: Is “it” happening?

Roger Stone

:{:{12:46: Get your ass to the US Capitol}:

12:47: We have a stage & the presidents order }:

Caroline Wren

:{:{12:56: We are D escalating the front side of the capital}::{}:

12:56: We are going to the southside, Senate side

12:56: Ok KEEP THE PEACE

12:58: There is no control in the front side. The police have retreated

12:59: I think you should leave. This will come down on you hard. Nothing good comes from thus. }:

Joel Northrup (reportedly a tech contact affiliated with Stop the Steal)

12:57: Do we have access to the text messaging system

12:57: Tell everyone to leave the front side of the capital. I want them on the southside

12:59: On it

1:03: Tell them not to antagonize the police

Mike Coudrey

12:56: We are about to send over 50,000 people over there

12:56: We are on the front side of the capitaltrying to D escalate

1:00: They broke the barriers the’re going inside

1:02: Alex and I are talking to the police

1:10: It’s over

1:10: The broke through and stormed the Capitol

Thomas Van Flein

1:10: I think you and your staff should maybe leave

1:10: This is hell out here

1:31: Call me

:{:{Thomas Marchi}:

1:15: Storm it! }:

1:20: Storm it!

Tina (identity unknown)

1:44: Do you guys have a statement about MAGA people storming the Capitol

Groupchat titled“STS Patriots”

(Mike Coudrey) 1:33: They stormed the capital, our event is on delay

Where are you guys

(Ashley StClair) 1:39: Theres no way it goes on

(Mike Coudrey) 1:46: We are walking away from the capital

Red flare just went up

I advise you to leave now

(Scott Presler) 1:56: Back to hotel?

(Mike Coudrey) 1:56: Yes

we are going back

:{:{(Brandon Straka) 2:03: Fuck no!! I’m at the Capitol and just joined the breach!!! I just got gassed! Never felt so fucking alive in my life!!!}:

(Brandon Straka) 2:03: We’re hearing that Somebody was shot and killed }:

(Mike Coudrey) 2:03: Hahaha

(CJ Pearson) 2:03: No Way

(Brandon Straka) 2:04: Yes

(Mike Coudrey) 2:08: A moment of history folks

(Ali Alexander) 2:34:  Everyone get out of there. And do not text message each other start a signal group. The FBI is coming hunting

(Ali Alexander) 2:34: Please also have check-in times with each other. And let me know if anyone gets arrested Civil War is

Kimberly Fletcher (founder Moms for America)

1:49: Are we set up at the Capitol?

2:00: Ali this is a madhouse

2:00: Makes us all and President look very bad

2:28: I told them to tear down after I learned of the chaos

:{:{2:36: The Capitol is a mess. Any chance we had of winning is gone. I am literally heartbroken.}:

2:38: POTUS is not ignorant of what his words would do

2:39: He wanted this to happen???

2:40: I dunno but the anger of the people was never gonna go away without a legitimate result – wish it didn’t happen but understand the people and I won’t denounce them }:

Thomas Marchi

3:46: Holly hell they actually did storm into the capital building.

3:46: Crazy

3:46: Stay safe Ali

3:46: Sad what has happened

3:46: pence fucked us

Lucian Wintrich (former White House correspondent, Gateway Pundit)

2:41: I spent a small fortune getting out here … would be nice to know what to do …

3:41: Be inside by 6

3:44: That’s fucked up dude …

3:45: So I basically spent 700 to walk around the capitol in the cold looking for y’all and now you’re telling me to sit in my hotel?

3:47: What the hell? There are hundreds of thousands of people here in DC. I had to manage like 500 people. I can’t control crowds or police or riots

Thrrrs a curfew at 6. I don’t think it’ll be safe.

:{:{3:53: Where are you and the security team?}:

3:53: I’m with Alex Jones

101 constitution Avenue }:

Top of OANN

Joel Northrup

6:58: I denounce the government’s attempt to shut down protests and the petitioning congress. Disavowed! I’II probably have more to say tomorrow. Be safe. Goodnight, patriots. ~Ali Alexander

6:59: Send to Jan6 folks only?

7:01: Everyone

Jacob Wohl

7:09: DC is a Hell hole

8:01: Sure is

:{:{8:02: Why all the MOLE plate carriers? It was so weird to see. We wore low profile Kevlar, not these bizarre camo monstrosities. Saw them everywhere}:

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Jordan Harrison (Alexander described him to the Jan. 6 Committee as “a web vendor that I frequently use for computer-related stuff”)

9:01: Make WildProtest a blank page.

9:53: Doing right now. Just saw

9:59: Done

10:02: Thanks. We are in hell

In this article:

    Ali Alexander,

    Jan. 6,

    Kanye West

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