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Tina Peters yesterday appeared at & spoke alongside her ally, QAnon figure Juan O. Savin, at an event Savin helped organized dedicated to pushing election denial claims.
Jim Marchant was a leader of QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's coalition in 2022 of election denier candidates. Marchant in 2021 openly discussed working with Savin & Savin's involvement while speaking at a QAnon-affiliated conference.
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1. Polymarket, the prediction market that promotes itself as a "truth machine," is sponsoring posts from far-right influencers on X that push election conspiracy theories.
Another QAnon figure, Ben Moore (known online as "Sun Tzu"), has also announced his resignation from America's Future.
Departing DNI Tulsi Gabbard's supposed new release about biolabs in Ukraine is getting hyped in the QAnon community, with them suggesting it vindicates the Ukrainian biolabs conspiracy theory that they played a major role spreading online in the days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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QAnon figure Liz Crokin has announced that she has resigned from Michael Flynn's organization America's Future. She appears to have had a falling out with people in Flynn's orbit.
Those hyping it include QAnon figure Jacob Creech (known online as "Clandestine"), who was the key figure behind the conspiracy theory going viral online at the time.
Creech has since claimed Gabbard tried to help him regarding seeking supposed legal aid in response to media coverage of him.
The lead moderator of one of the biggest QAnon forums a couple of days ago claimed that they "tried adding a female mod, once," but there was "too much estrogen for team coherence."
John Rich, a singer who Trump has appointed to be "Special Envoy for American Landowners" (www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...), went on a QAnon-affiliated podcast last year & told its host that he's "been a fan for a long time" of the podcast, "listening to it pretty much on the regular."
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The Proud Boys has announced that it has kicked out Jon Mellis — a Proud Boy & January 6 participant who got booted from Spencer Pratt's election night party (www.latimes.com/california/n...) — for "conduct unbecoming." Enrique Tarrio claimed Mellis was doing "public stunts under our name."
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The prediction market promotes itself as a source of objective truth.
For some context, Peter Ticktin, who is involved with the proposed executive order, is Tina Peters' attorney.
Juan O. Savin is also a known associate and advisor to Peters, advising her over the years.
Proud Boy Jon Mellis tried to go "undercover" at the anti-ICE protest today, but looks like he got spotted & tuned up. Source in alt text.
Jim Marchant, who said four years ago that anyone who had won an election in Nevada since 2006 was “installed by the deep-state cabal," will again be the GOP nominee for secretary of state, the AP projects. Marchant will get his rematch against Democrat Cisco Aguilar, who beat him 49-47 in 2022.
Former state lawmaker Jim Marchant has won the Republican nomination for Nevada secretary of state. His primary victory on Monday brings one of the state’s most outspoken promoters of election conspir...
Tina Baz, a board member for Michael Flynn's organization America's Future, claimed to QAnon/Pizzagate figure (& fellow America's Future colleague) Liz Crokin that the QAnon-linked adrenochrome conspiracy theory was real & knew "victims who ... were harvested for adrenochrome."
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QAnon figure Jacob Creech (known online as "Clandestine"), known for popularizing online the false Ukrainian biolabs conspiracy theory, has now claimed Tulsi Gabbard "helped me get in contact with a specific lawyer, that you all would recognize & also now works for the Trump administration."
QAnon figure Jacob Creech (known online as "Clandestine"), known for popularizing online the false Ukrainian biolabs conspiracy theory, claimed that Tulsi Gabbard was "the ONLY person to respond to me" when he was "seeking legal help."
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QAnon figure Liz Crokin has announced that she has resigned from Michael Flynn's organization America's Future. She appears to have had a falling out with people in Flynn's orbit.
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Tina Baz, a board member for Michael Flynn's organization America's Future, claimed to QAnon/Pizzagate figure (& fellow America's Future colleague) Liz Crokin that the QAnon-linked adrenochrome conspiracy theory was real & knew "victims who ... were harvested for adrenochrome."
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Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral COVID misinfo "Plandemic" video, said in a new podcast interview that he's known DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard for "11 years, & we work together all the time," & "we work with her every week." (video in tweet)
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Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral COVID misinformation "Plandemic" video, said in an X Space that "we're making a movie with Tulsi Gabbard about the border." www.mediamatters.org/tulsi-gabbar...
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Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral 2020 COVID misinformation video "Plandemic," has announced that he is now "part of [Tulsi Gabbard's] production team."
