Update to AZ County Sheriffs Too Close To Anti-Government Groups Engaged in Voter Intimidation. ABC 15 reports, Report of voter intimidation referred to Department of Justice, Arizona Secretary of State’s office says: An official with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office has confirmed that they have referred a report of voter intimidation to the Department … Read more
Update to Not Just MAGA/QAnon Candidates Threaten Our Elections, But MAGA/QAnon Election Worker Insider Attacks. The Arizona Mirror reports, Fringe groups plan to watch AZ ballot drop boxes (excerpt): Fringe anti-government groups are planning to watch drop boxes and the polls in Arizona, spurred by conspiracy theories. The groups’ sometimes violent rhetoric has advocates worried, … Read more
Jennifer Rubin writes at the Washington Post, Democrats have never had a better defense against the GOP’s anti-crime canard: Judging from the hyperbolic headlines and cable news chyrons, you might think Republicans have never campaigned on crime before. After all, it’s not as though Republicans have found some new, devilishly clever way to attack Democrats. … Read more
NBC News reports, Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to families of 8 Sandy Hook victims: The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack for the suffering he caused them by spreading lies on … Read more
If you are not frightened by what the former Republican Party has become in the grips of Donald Trump, you should be after this bizarre QAnon cult rally in Youngstown, Ohio for J.D. Vance on Saturday. Lauren Sue reports at Daily Kos, ‘This is the week when Trump became Qanon’: Crowd responds with bizarre hand … Read more