Alex Kaplan

NEW from me: A comprehensive list of key election denial activists in the right-wing ecosystem. These activists regularly appear in right-wing media to promote their work & boast of ties to Trump, urging him to get rid of voting machines, ban mail-in ballots, & declare a national emergency.

"Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, who claimed to have been involved in efforts to overturn Lula's 2022 election victory (www.mediamatters.org/ali-alexande...), has called for people to "declare war on the government of Brazil" & to "setup a blockade" in response to Lula's 2026 reelection.

"Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, who claimed to have been involved in efforts to overturn Lula's 2022 election victory (www.mediamatters.org/ali-alexande...), has called for people to "declare war on the government of Brazil" & to "setup a blockade" in response to Lula's 2026 reelection.

Yesterday, the podcast of MAHA Action, a group closely tied to RFK Jr., had on Mikki Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the viral COVID misinformation "Plandemic" video, during which Willis falsely suggested no one died from COVID. MAHA President Tony Lyons in turn lauded "Plandemic" & Willis.

Trump this morning shared a post with mostly fake pro-Trump quotes from Henry Kissinger. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

On Dr. Drew's podcast yesterday, former Fox News figure Eric Bolling criticized fellow former Fox News figure Andrew Napolitano for endorsing Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, calling Napolitano's endorsement "insanity" & accusing him of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

A GOP congressional nominee in Colorado is courting Nick Fuentes's groyper fans, posting a picture of herself as a groyper and arguing that evangelicals are a "Zionist death cult." My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

Yesterday, fellow election deniers Mark Cook & Joe Oltmann really went after each other on Oltmann's podcast, with Oltmann accusing Mark of going "after Tina Peters" (though Cook's supposedly aided Peters) & calling Cook a "liar" & a "little pompous ass," & Cook threatening to "expose[]" Oltmann.

On a podcast this week, Eric Orwoll, the leader of the whites-only community Return to the Land, said that "we've actually had some guys, mostly in house races, actually, like state house races, actually get through in the last primaries. Not like RTTL guys, just guys in the movement."

On a QAnon-affiliated podcast yesterday, Shelby Busch — a 2024 RNC delegate & leader of the election denial organization We the People AZ Alliance — baselessly claimed that 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney "was actually part of the voting machine fraud."

This is not the first time Trump has amplified a fake pro-Trump Denzel Washington quote. He previously did so in 2019 (www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trum...). Trump has also spread a hoax/false claim from this specific "Red Eagle" social media account previously. bsky.app/profile/alka...

YouTube is currently monetizing a video spreading this false claim about James Talarico.

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia appears to have been a follower of QAnon figure Jon Herold (known online as "Patel Patriot"), whose "Devolution" conspiracy theory — which claimed Trump was secretly still in power — was popular within the QAnon community after Biden took office.

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has now sent a fundraising email via an email distribution domain from the conservative social media platform Parler via a group called "Americans for Israel," which says it is "a project of Secure America Now."

The Pentagon posting QAnon messaging on social media comes after the Labor Department & White House's social media also posted specific QAnon phrases/messages, including a fake Q post using a template from a Q post aggregator site. bsky.app/profile/alka... www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspi...

On election denial organization True the Vote's podcast yesterday, Arne List, a California election conspiracy theorist (www.redding.com/story/news/p...), compared the destruction of a county's election-related material under state law to Jews being murdered during the Holocaust.

Last week, Arizona GOP state Representative Rachel Keshel briefly appeared on a QAnon-affiliated podcast alongside her husband, election denier Seth Keshel. During Rachel Keshel's appearance, Seth Keshel asked viewers to donate to her reelection campaign.

New: The Gateway Pundit's Joe Hoft said Jack Smith “should be hung, don't you think?” www.mediamatters.org/gateway-pund...

A few days ago, Georgia State Election Board Vice Chair Janelle King had Georgia election denier Garland Favorito on her podcast, telling him she "love[s] ... that you give us the full picture" & defending him being called a conspiracy theorist, saying, "You should all be conspiracy theorists."

On her show today, LindellTV host Emerald Robinson had on Peter Brimelow, the founder of the white nationalist organization VDARE, where Robinson told Brimelow that he was "the regular OG of cancel culture." She also said that she had previously attended an event at Brimelow's West Virginia castle.

RFK Jr., while speaking at a recent event that aired on the podcast of MAHA Action — an organized closely linked to RFK Jr. — said "people ... will be building monuments" to "people like [Andrew] Wakefield, ... Barbara Loe Fisher, Lyn Redwood, & Mary Holland," all of whom are anti-vax figures.

Here are the election deniers who have spent last year & this year championing online a national emergency declaration. If Trump tries to declare one, these are the figures you'd need to know about who likely played a role in making it happen.

Gregg Phillips, who's been a board member of election denial group True the Vote (& worked in the Trump admin), criticized the national emergency/pausing elections push, noting a president doesn't have "special authority to postpone, cancel, take over, or rewrite the rules for federal elections."

A few days ago, Matt Meck, the "chief of staff" for QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin, said on a podcast that he "was texting Secretary Kennedy over the weekend, last weekend," regarding Kennedy being "a speaker on the authentic health side" for Savin's conference next year.

Yesterday, on his Gateway Pundit podcast, Wayne Allyn Root — who's pushed for a national emergency for elections & says he texts with Trump — told fellow election denier Mark Cook he'd send to Trump Cook's self-proclaimed "stuff that will, I think, make a big difference in having a fair election."

Some in the far right — including True the Vote partner & onetime Trump admin official Gregg Phillips — attacked Fox News for joining outlets in a WH boycott in response to the admin bans of Politico, CNN, & MS NOW, calling Fox "Globalist Deep Staters" who should "go to jail for voter suppression."

On a podcast earlier this month, anti-vax figure Del Bigtree, who was communications director for RFK Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign, said that he "was the one actually that asked [RFK Jr.] to run for president. I did it four years before he decided to do it."

Last week, while on a conspiracy theorist's podcast, Rainer Rothfuß, an Alternative for Germany (AfD) member of Germany's parliament, said there could be "a well-coordinated false flag attack" to cause war with Russia, "just like when 9/11 happened," & "nobody will dare to question the narrative."

During an appearance last week on Real America's Voice, election denier podcaster Joe Oltmann appeared to push a 2020 4chan hoax regarding Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts & the 2020 election. John Eastman & Stewart Rhodes also pushed it in recent years. www.mediamatters.org/4chan/viral-...