- Mathew D. Taylor @ Liberty Magazine: America’s Spiritual Warriors
What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, The New Apostolic Reformation may be the most important movement you’ve never heard of.
- Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: Online Chatter about the Election Contains Warning Signs For Violence
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism has researched 2020 online activity and compared it to what we’re seeing today. Once again, we are seeing the same warning signs of political violence based on election denialism combined with violent language across fringe platforms that we saw in the weeks before the 2020 election and before the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.
- Nikki McCann Ramírez @ Rolling Stone: Trump Fantasizes About Guns Pointed at Liz Cheney’s Face
Arizona's attorney general is now investigating the former president saying Cheney should have nine barrels “trained on her face.”
- Angry White Men: Auron MacIntyre Guest: The Republican Party Is Moving Toward ‘A Soft White Identity Politics’
On the latest episode of his eponymous BlazeTV show, Auron MacIntyre spoke with notorious white supremacist Patrick Casey about Donald Trump and the 2024 presidential election. Casey, who once led the hate group Identity Evropa and now writes articles for Blaze Media, lauded the Republican Party for moving toward “a soft white identity politics” and embracing terms like “anti-white.”
- Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: Tucker Carlson Says Demon Attack Left Him Bleeding In His Bed With ‘Claw Mark’ Scars
Tucker Carlson said that he was “physically mauled” by a demon a year and a half ago that left him bleeding and with still-visible scars on his body from “claw marks” in a clip posted by the “Christianities?” YouTube channel on Thursday.
- Harry Lambert @ The Daily Beast: Listen to Jeffrey Epstein Spill Intel on Donald Trump’s White House
Michael Wolff, the explosive chronicler of Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, has released what he says is a recording of Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, discussing Trump’s then-White House team in detail.
- Matt Shuham and Dave Jamieson @ HuffPost: Trump Ally Nicole Shanahan Appears To Promote Weird QAnon Theory
Nicole Shanahan, the former running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appeared to promote a conspiracy theory about government-led child abuse Thursday during an event featuring GOP nominee Donald Trump. Shanahan, who has endorsed the prospect of what she’s called a Trump-Kennedy “coalition government,” criticized first lady Jill Biden for dressing up as a panda bear for Halloween the previous day.
- Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: Musk Gave $1 Million to the PAC of QAnon Promoter Who Allegedly Photographed Sex in GOP Office
In August, former President Donald Trump called the billionaire Elon Musk “a super genius guy.” That “super genius” and his new America PAC have now taken over much of the Trump campaign’s swing-state ground game in the final weeks before the election. Since creating the PAC in April, Musk has infused it with nearly $120 million to try to get out the vote for Trump. But, as it turns out, winning a presidential election may not be as simple as colonizing Mars or wrecking Twitter—especially for a political neophyte.
- David Covucci @ The Daily Dot: Virginia GOP Senate candidate’s wife ran fiery far-right mommy blog where she told Obama to ‘stay in Africa’
The wife of Republican Virginia Senate candidate Hung Cao ran a fiery conservative mommy blog and accompanying social media channels where she once told former President Barack Obama to “stay in Africa.”