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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.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, figures (Wayne Allyn Root, Peter Ticktin) calling for "martial law" are not new. It's part of online calls from a network of election deniers since last year. Ticktin was involved with a proposed 2025 Trump national emergency EO. Root has said his push is basically rooted in that proposed EO.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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."

Left: QAnon figure MJTruth: "Fox News says they won’t cover President Trump’s events anymore, but they sure will cover Kamala Harris..

Fox News can kick rocks"

Right: QAnon figure Burning Bright: "In 2016, it was common knowledge among the newly-formed MAGA faithful that FOX was not our friend.

They doubled down with their role in the Fake Election of 2020.

Now, FOX is leading the charge AGAINST Trump's banning of CNN.

They're NOT secret white hats, and never have been."

Left: Qanon figure The SCIF: "CNN, MSNOW, and Politico spent over a DECADE lying about and belittling President Trump.

They totally deserve what they've gotten.

Fox News saw it all happen.

But now, instead of standing up for Trump and spreading the truth, Fox News is standing by CNN, et Al.

They are all the same."

Right: QAnon figure Pepe Deluxe: "Perfect timing!

Just when the unAmerican Fox News comes out of the closet with CNN"

Roger Stone: "FOX shows their true colors. Not fair and balanced.-Globalist Deep Staters"

Gregg Phillips post on left: "they should all go to jail for voter suppression…

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Fox News joins rival networks in suspending pooled coverage after White House turns away CNN"

Gregg Phillips post on right: "@FoxNews

Putting your thumb on the scale of a federal election during voting is wrong and irresponsible.

In fact, dropping the White House proves your bias.

FCC should pull your license.

You’ve always been cowards. Now the world understands you are really communists sympathizers.

#RedFox @realDonaldTrump"

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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-...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It appears that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) sent a fundraising email via an email distribution domain from the conservative social media platform Parler. ("Free Speech Daily" sends emails through "parlermailer[dot]com.")

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On a podcast on a Proud Boys-affiliated channel yesterday, white nationalist organization Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau said the organization has "been active in quiet networking with & in supporting candidates," from "small city commissioner positions all the way up to congressional runs."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week, election denier podcaster Joe Oltmann, during an interview on his show with Wayne Allyn Root — a prominent advocate of Trump declaring a national security emergency for elections — suggested that Trump "is gonna need to make a Julius Caesar moment" over declaring a national emergency.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On a stream earlier this month, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio seemed to suggest that January 6 "was the most patriotic act in the United States history besides the American Revolution."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

QAnon figure Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as "intheMatrixxx") received credentials to attend the 2026 midterm Republican National Convention. While there, he was photographed with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Newt Gingrich, Ben Shapiro, & James O'Keefe.

Photo of QAnon figure Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as "intheMatrixxx") with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) at the 2026 midterm Republican National Convention.

Photo of QAnon figure Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as "intheMatrixxx") with Newt Gingrich at the 2026 midterm Republican National Convention.

Photo of QAnon figure Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as "intheMatrixxx") with Ben Shapiro at the 2026 midterm Republican National Convention.

Photo of QAnon figure Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as "intheMatrixxx") with James O'Keefe at the 2026 midterm Republican National Convention.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kim Coulter — a podcast host on a Proud Boys-affiliated channel & the niece of Ann Coulter — announced on her podcast this week that she & her husband "recently became members of" the whites-only settlement Return to the Land.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bush seems to suggest 9/11 trutherism is still mainly online , but it has spread offline from the internet over the past two decades. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) headlined a 9/11 truther conference last year, & a former congressman, Curt Weldon, is now an outspoken 9/11 truther. bsky.app/profile/alka...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Trump in 2023 amplified a video from a QAnon-promoting account that baselessly claimed that Dick Cheney was involved with planning 9/11 (9/11 trutherism is near universal in the QAnon community).

Trump amplifying a video from Truth Social account @WATCHER222 including Dick Cheney in a "criminal indictment" for the 9/11 attacks.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On Real America's Voice a few days ago, election denier Marly Hornik seemed to claim that she "was on the phone with someone yesterday in the Department of Homeland Security" regarding her baseless claim that Mamdani's election as mayor of New York had election fraud.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On a new online stream, prominent election denier Patrick Byrne claimed that he got a "letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2006 that says" that "the rest of [his] life" he "can't be prosecuted in the United States" in order to "disrupt this corrupt takeover of the US government."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New: Tony Lyons, an ally of RFK Jr. & the president of MAHA Action — an organization closely tied to RFK Jr. — told viewers on the organization's podcast that "anytime you hear the word measles, you should sort of think psyop, you know, think brainwashing." www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In a presentation newly uploaded to YouTube, election denier Douglas Frank — who once spoke at one of Trump's rallies — predicted & hoped that Trump is "gonna declare a state of emergency" for elections, claiming that Trump "has nothing to lose."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On a podcast a couple of days ago, election denier Marly Hornik said that she had just been in Washington, D.C. for meetings that included "some FBI people who worked on" investigating supposed election issues in Fulton County, Georgia.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It appears that has a hoax Obama quote about wanting to overthrow the government has spread around the far right and on social media in recent months.

Post on major QAnon forum: "The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John RATCLIFFE: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA said ‘I WANT THIS DONE,’ ” I WANT TO OVERTHROW the United States GOVERNMENT. 💥 BQQQQQQM 💥"

The post embeds a post from another social media platform pushing the hoax.

QAnon figure Pepe Deluxe: "And this is,

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe:

Barack Hussein Obama said ‘I want this done,’ ” I want to overthrow the United States government."

Facebook post: "And this is,

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe:

Barack Hussein Obama said ‘I want this done,’ ” I want to overthrow the United States government."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New: Wayne Allyn Root said Trump posted “my columns about national security emergency for elections three times in the last two weeks." "Why is he doing that if he doesn't plan to actually sign that declaration?” Root had pushed it to Trump in an interview. www.mediamatters.org/wayne-allyn-...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There appears to be a split among the Proud Boys on Milo Yiannopoulos's deportation. Enrique Tarrio cheered his deportation while a Proud Boys social media account appeared to criticize it.

Proud Boys on social media: "There are 105 million illegal immigrants in this country and they are worried about this harmless homo?"

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New: Roger Stone has endorsed the Trump national security emergency proposal for elections, telling Wayne Allyn Root — who pushed it to Trump during an interview this month — that it was, "brilliant," & a "revolutionary idea," & seems "legally unstoppable." www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last month, a federal judge dismissed the "Disinformation Dozen" members' lawsuit against @counterhate.com, calling it a "shotgun pleading." Now one of them, Christiane Northrup, seemed to baselessly suggest a death threat was why the suit was dismissed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On Friday, Trump posted a link to a Gateway Pundit column from Wayne Allyn Root headlined "WAYNE ROOT: Liberal Media Goes Insane with Rage Over My Idea for 'National Security Emergency for Elections.' My Response: Scream & Attack All You Want. You Can’t Stop It. It’s Foolproof. Here are the Facts."

Trump on Truth Social linking to a Gateway Pundit column from Wayne Allyn Root: "WAYNE ROOT: Liberal Media Goes Insane with Rage Over My Idea for “National Security Emergency for Elections.” My Response: Scream & Attack All You Want. You Can’t Stop It. It’s Foolproof. Here are the Facts:"

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New: On the podcast for MAHA Action — an organization closely tied to RFK Jr. — a guest said that if people instead of vaccination "eat vitamin A foods, take daily cod liver oil, keep your kids well nourished, you will weather measles just fine." www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...

BOB SEARS (GUEST): I know people are concerned about measles and — because there's been a clear comeback over the last couple years. And I like to just maybe make sure everyone understands why there's been a comeback and what you can do about it and why you can be educated about it, but you don't have to live in fear of measles.

So first of all, why the comeback? The main reason why is that the vaccine we use wears off too soon. It might protect kids, some kids from catching measles while they're young, but it wears off by the time you're a teenager, and most adults are walking around without measles immunity. So we can actually never really get rid of measles from our country because it's just it's — you know, it's trying to regain a foothold, and we might be seeing more cases because people don't trust the measles MMR vaccine as much anymore. So that might be why some of these communities are having measles outbreaks.

But the truth is it's not spreading because people are not vaccinating. It's because we can't eliminate this infection from our society. We just don't have a vaccine that gives you lifelong immunity, like catching the disease, that gives you lifelong immunity.

BOB SEARS (GUEST): So do you need to fear measles? My feeling is no. If you look at the fatality rate in healthy kids who are well nourished and who get enough vitamin A in their diet, the fatality rate of measles is about one for every 93,000 children. That's a very low fatality rate. Now when you look at all children in our country, you know, well nourished, undernourished, the fatality rate might be about one in 10,000. That's a number we've known about for a very long time.

Why does the CDC say the fatality rate is one in 500 or one in 1,000? That's what the old CDC used to say to scare people. That's only hospitalized kids. Kids who show up in the ER very sick from measles or if you're hospitalized, the fatality rate could be about one in 1,000 of those cases. But for everybody, the good news is if you have a healthy child and you're getting vitamin A in your diet, the fatality rate is about one in 93,000. So that's what I tell people to do. Eat vitamin A foods, take daily cod liver oil, keep your kids well nourished, you will weather measles just fine.

I think people don't trust the vaccine anymore, Tony. The MMR vaccine, which protects, or "protects" against measles, it's one of the vaccines with the most possible side effects and some of the most severe side effects. People just don't trust it anymore. So parents are now raising their kids without that vaccine. And you know what? Measles might be here to stay. It might become more a part of our society. We can be on the lookout for it. Stay home if you have a fever and a cough and red eyes. And then if you get the rash, stay home, you know? Maybe you don't want to spread it to everyone in your school. Now we're back to COVID days, right?

BOB SEARS (GUEST): But recognize it, stay home if you catch it, but don't fear it and be well nourished so you're ready for it. And most importantly, if you catch measles, take high dose vitamin A. The CDC has always been very clear that high dose vitamin A reduces the risk of your measles infection. It reduces complications. The measles page on my website tells you all of this information, tells you how much vitamin A to take daily as a prevention, how to high dose vitamin A if you catch measles, what that protocol is.

So you know what? Education is important, knowledge, not fear, and, you know, we'll get through this. And if we have to accept measles as a sort of a regular part of a society now moving forward, then we have to be ready for it.

TONY LYONS (MAHA ACTION PRESIDENT): Yeah. Bob, those are great, great points. I mean, you know, with most of these things in in the last, you know, 30, 40 years, we've always been fed just one side of the story. So we're trying to prevent a single measles death. So does that mean we should be willing to have autism rates that go from one in 10,000 to one in 30 or, you know, something like that?

Or should we be able — you know, should we be fighting certain things while ignoring other things, while watching every child in the country have, you know, some kind of allergy now, versus 20, 30 years ago, where you could have a whole school where there was virtually no children who had an allergy to anything or virtually — you know, practically no obesity, no childhood cancers. So all of these kinds of things, they're a part of this story, right?

BOB SEARS (GUEST): Exactly. And I think the old CDC focused way too heavily on disease prevention. If we could prevent an infection no matter what the cost to everyone in society, let's prevent it. Whereas I think wise people today, they look more at long term health, healthy living, healthy outcomes. And if we have to catch some infections along the way, yet live a healthier, longer, happier life while we're doing that, that's what I think is an important or more important aspect of health. And that's what I would love the CDC to focus on is long term well-being, not infection prevention.

TONY LYONS (MAHA ACTION PRESIDENT): Right. Great, great, great points.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yesterday, Tony Lyons — the president of MAHA Action, an organization closely tied to RFK Jr. — on the organization's podcast criticized Dolly Parton for encouraging people to get vaccinated during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some in the far right have attacked Dolly Parton following her death for her role in promoting & funding COVID vaccines.

QAnon figure MJTruth: "I’m surprised… had quite a few people announce they’ve unfollowed me because 'Dolly Parton' was a good one…

All I did was show you that she called you a coward twat for not taking the covid death vaccine.

I guess we should have let that slide? 🤷‍♂️

Nah… sorry. Everyone needs to remember who the players were and the parts they played in the largest democide perpetuated in human history…"

QAnon figure Pepe Deluxe: "Look at why the media are praising Dolly

Sickening

I am convinced her Cancer was caused by the vax

She was fooled as many were I love and care about

My Mom and my beloved President

It's sick how the Communist media spin things"

Far-right figure John Sabal posted an image of a post he wrote with the text: "May be a 'coward' in the eyes of a Lucifarian, sure... But, it's certainly better to be a 'coward' that doesn't get turbo cancer and winds up dead because of demonic mRNA death jabs. Just sayin."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Eric Orwoll, the leader of the whites-only community Return to the Land, has announced that the group is suing the Trump administration (& Arkansas), saying it has opened multiple investigations into the group, including from the Department of Justice & the Department of Housing & Urban Development.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On a podcast yesterday, Tina Peters said she was undecided on whether to accept Shasta County, California Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis' officer of a position regarding elections for the county, saying she has "to pray about it."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On a podcast earlier this week, election denier Patrick Byrne seemed to suggest that Rudy Giuliani following the 2020 election had some kind of conflict of interest believing the Venezuela election fraud conspiracy theory: "Rudy had another client & the client was the CFO of the Venezuelan cartel."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) was the only major Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate to not appear on Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio's podcast. That includes Florida's current lieutenant governor, Jay Collins, who appeared on Tarrio's podcast last month.

Enrique Tarrio interviewing Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner on Tarrio's podcast.

Enrique Tarrio interviewing Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate and Florida Lieutenant Governor Paul Renner on Tarrio's podcast.

Enrique Tarrio interviewing Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback on Tarrio's podcast.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On a podcast yesterday, Richard Mack — the leader of a far-right constitutional sheriffs organization & who has advised Trump "border czar" Tom Homan — said, "I hope [Trump] does declare an emergency" over elections, & that if Trump doesn't, "we're all gonna wish later that he had."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New: On a podcast yesterday, Tina Peters praised WH counsel David Warrington for "the work that he did to effectuate & work with" Gov. Jared Polis "for my release." Peters also claimed that DHS official Heather Honey “facilitated the meeting” she had with CISA. www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of the election denial group True the Vote, has come out against the national emergency proposal after Wayne Allyn Root pushed it to Trump in an interview, saying there wasn't enough time to implement it & it "should not happen to begin with. States run elections."

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On his podcast yesterday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio claimed that he "was doing personal detail and security for the MEP of Poland just two days ago." "MEP" is an often used acronym for "Member of the European Parliament," though Poland has dozens of MEPs, not just one.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New: Election denier Patrick Byrne slammed Trump for not doing more about supposed election fraud, claiming Trump "is a sellout or weak or feeble or incompetent & isn't able to get done what he should,” & his administration is “trying to rescue the machines.” www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

PATRICK BYRNE (GUEST): And, yeah, you're going to be seeing — we've been holding a lot in because we thought the administration was going to do their job. But now that it's become clear that Trump is a sellout or weak or feeble or incompetent and isn't able to get done what he should — what should've taken him 30 days, we're just going public with it.

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It's because the federal government is all tangled up in its underwear, and we're tired of waiting for them. I think they're corrupt. Well, I think that they're corrupted. I think the Trump administration, maybe they got caught doing something corrupt. Maybe they're being blackmailed themselves.

But you look at the tepid thing Trump did on July 16, which was kicking the ball — you know, it was a first down, but it was very tepid. You know, they came out and said, well, we acknowledge the CIA knew this when we know for a fact that they know this. We know because we gave them the whistleblowers or the Venezuelans. We know what they know, and they're creating a very tepid little weak tea version of it to sell the public.

That's because they're trying to rescue the machines.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wayne Allyn Root is not the only election denier who's pushed this claim about this Supreme Court case. Here's Jerome Corsi — who helped craft the proposed national emergency executive order that reportedly circulated within the Trump administration — invoking it on a podcast just days ago.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Posting Through It listeners heard about this guy and the growing chorus of election deniers calling for Trump to do exactly this -- declare a "national security emergency" to screw with midterm elections -- on yesterday's episode w/ @alkapdc.bsky.social and @ohhkaygo.bsky.social

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New: Tina Peters on LindellTV called on Pete Hegseth & the Department of Defense to "to go in & demand to have these" voting machines "in their custody," claiming they're "hardcore evidence that other nations are coming in & influencing our elections." www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Appreciated Jared & @michaelehayden.bsky.social having Kayla & I on Posting Through It to discuss the variety of election deniers & their proposals to interfere with the 2026 midterms.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Appreciated Jared & @michaelehayden.bsky.social having Kayla & I on Posting Through It to discuss the variety of election deniers & their proposals to interfere with the 2026 midterms.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We're joined by @alkapdc.bsky.social and @ohhkaygo.bsky.social to discuss what election denialists are cooking up for midterm elections this fall. We all know it's going to be a mess. Here's your preview! Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/66vM...

open.spotify.com

130: What to Expect From Election Denialists in 2026 Midterms feat. Alex Kaplan & Kayla Gogarty

Posting Through It · Episode

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of America's most influential election deniers is a QAnon influencer who usually keeps his face hidden on camera & who some QAnon supporters falsely believe is JFK Jr. I know that statement sounds bizarre — likely why he doesn't get much media coverage — but the facts support it.

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