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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Jo is right. There are celebrations of getting 9 people elected to council in Concerned Ratepayer Canterbury, local VFF groups and Pseudo-law adjacent Challenging Councils.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

ACT candidates answered the same way in the VFF Council Watch survey. Not open ended questions though. Very much seemed like someone else filled them out for them

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Whether against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Ghahraman, Ardern, other MPs, Wiles, Bloomfield, & others involved in pandemic response, transgender activists, drag queens, judges, lawyers or academics - effects of doxxing are inherently harmful, & often leads to kinetic violence or vandalism.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨 Auckland VFF coordinators running for council Three COs are running for council in Auckland, two are on a larger ticket. Pete Marshall is the only person standing under Concerned Ratepayers Herne Bay. Yes, another CR group. Pete is an admin on VFF Telegram channel, Hear our Voices /1

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📣 VFF and NZ First in Whanganui and Rangitīkei Local Elections (with a side of Napier) As shown earlier, Baydal Furness, ahem, Rachel Woodhead is the local coordinator in Whanganui and president of Whanganui Residents and Ratepayers Association. No surprises, she's is a member of NZ First. /1

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 VFF & Selwyn local elections This is a big election, with eight councillors not standing for re-election, so it is up for grabs At the centre of these elections is Elizabeth Mundt. She was door-stopped in 2022 over her VFF connection. She ran Upskilling for Local Government. /1

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

📣 VFF and Local Election Wellington VFF's Regional CO is Dean Harris. Dean lives in the WCC area but is running for Mayor in Kapiti. Why? His answer in Upskilling for Local Democracy (U4LG) was "politics." Better Wellington was already in full swing, starting their campaign in 2024. /1

Dean Harris promoting Better Wellington in July 2024 on Concerned Ratepayers Wellington Region's Telegram page.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hamilton City local council elections are in full swing. Here is a handy assessment on the candidates that I prepared earlier: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/... #nzpol #Hamilton #elections

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Local government elections: Hamilton edition

My voting papers have finally arrived, which means I can now vote in our local council elections.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In 2023, Jim Grenon supported anti-co-governance campaigner Julian Batchelor's lawsuits against TVNZ. He registered as a third-party promoter for the election on the same day as Julian. And here he is at Avi Yemini's event in Auckland.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

OK, Let's start again here. 📣 VFF Involvement in Local Body Elections Thread 2 Upskilling for Local Government was a six-part webinar series that was recorded to distribute to those who couldn't attend. Here we'll look at Thames-Coromandel and Taupo VFF and U4LG attendees. /1

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨 Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... /1

A photo of Voices for Freedom coordinators at their VFF Connects event in 2022. The background has an illuminated VFF sign. Three people are wearing VFF t-shirts and many are wearing a lanyard. There are eight people circled in red.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Anyone surprised that Winston Peters has done this has not been paying attention

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Something has been missed in the Palestine recognition talk in New Zealand. We know Seymour has been holding back recognition, but Peters has as well. To win the last election, he courted the conspiracy theorist vote, sucking the life out of other small parties. One of which was New Conservatives.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The fluoride bill is a big blow to the "freedom" movement NZ First supporters. Fluoride Free's Mary O'Brien is a NZ FIrst member, and they used that bill in their local body election questionnaire. It shows that these bills only to make supporters feel they are doing something when they aren't.

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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Covid inquiry reboot is inspiring all sorts of revisionism on LinkedIn, including this little gem from Covid Plan B stalwart Ananish Chaudhuri “By October 2020, we knew that the vaccines did not prevent transmission”. This is not true, but how did he even come up with this? Thread. 1/N

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This local election has unmistakably been shaped by a small group of activists that were involved with Refreshing Local Democracy in 2022, especially in Wellington. And this guy is now working as a press sec for Winston Peters.

Screenshot of the article about Jaap Knegtmans:
SUNDAY STAR TIMES

Globalists, 'clot shots' and the 'evil witch': How a
conspiracy poster landed a job at the heart of government

Andrea Vance

August 17, 2025

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

In April 2023, @paparoa.bsky.social exposed Billy Wilson as a neo-Nazi rap artist named SaXon. x.com/Paparoa3/sta... What wasn't covered at the time was the fact that he was a coordinator for Voice For Freedom. The person who shared Billy's post was VFF Coordinator Dean Harris.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Independent Together Apart. Quit recently, now independent: Lily Brown Andrea Compton Cryptic recent message about changing colours: Dan Milward Quit before launch: Phil McConchie Melissa Moore Mike Petrie Rebecca Shepherd First campaign manager not involved (fired?): Libby Carson

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

THIS! Chung has been working with Better Wellington or parts of since his last campaign. He has always been this way but managed to hide it through a belief of brainlessness or innocence from media. This term has been a trainwreck thanks to him and his cronies; leaks, nasty rumours, stalemates.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Reminder: Better Wellington started in September 2022. The group's spokesperson was Glenn Inwood. They backed Ray Chung, and campaigned for him last election. Chung said in an interview with The Salient that he'd known Better Wellington for 7 years. www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-pos...

Article headline from stuff.co.nz: Smears and unwanted endorsements: Wellington council election getting 'dirtier'

Paragraph from stuff.co.nz article: Better Wellington spokesman Glenn Inwood confirmed candidates were not told of their inclusion. The group had not donated to any candidate and was not linked with VFF, he said.

Andy Foster, running for his second term of mayor, said he was “very pleased” with his Better Wellington endorsement, though there were areas his policies differed from the group’s goals.

Paragraph from the stuff.co.nz article: Some candidates endorsed by the group Better Wellington – which is calling for an end to works on the central library, urging the council to ditch social housing and to re-evaluate cycle lanes and to stop light rail amongst other things – are now distancing themselves from the group

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

And when you find a wonderful candidate, boost them! Tell your friends, neighbours and family. There will be a lot of reporting on the bad, sad, mad candidates like last election. That can scare people into not voting, as they are scared they'll make the wrong choice. Give them a choice.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

... and the leaders of Better Wellington & Independent Together, that want "party politics out of local government", set up third-party promoter The S.B Group (Glenn Inwood, Paul Heffernan and a VFF local coordinator) to support New Zealand First in the 2023 election.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Do you remember "Resistance Kiwi"? In mid-2024, Resistance Kiwi's website (pictured) disappeared. Inflection Point (the anti-trans conference), Better Wellington, and Ray Chung's website appeared in its place. In April 2025, they were moved to a new server and Independent Together was added.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 21/05/2025

Mata @mihiforbes.bsky.social has a new report out on the (extremely) foreign and domestic influences that lie behind the rise of David Seymour’s Act and it’s a must-watch youtu.be/QLOjiiC3P1Y

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Mata Reports | ACT: The Foreign Influences That Have Shaped David Seymour's Political Agenda | RNZ

YouTube video by RNZ

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

There seems to be a push to keep it this way too. Phillip Crump, who is part of the takeover efforts at NZME, wants less reporting on truth in favour of balance. That diminishes the ability to talk about consequences.

When journalists chase “the truth”, the first thing that is sacrificed is ‘balance’. Indeed many journalists now regard ‘balance’ with some scepticism, considering that it can lead to giving undue prominence to information that conflicts with “the truth”. Rather than ‘balance’ this is instead called ‘bothsidism’ which journalists aim to avoid by selectively amplifying viewpoints that support “the truth” while marginalising others. This rejection of ‘balance’ stifles debate and signals a preference for advocacy over fairness. Informed readers can, of course, recognise this tactic and they lose confidence in a newspaper as an impartial source of information as a result.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We’ve traced how a network of online enforcers and political operatives orbiting NZ First is reviving a style of attack politics from the Dirty Politics era www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

thepost.co.nz

Inside the murky evolution of Dirty Politics 2.0

A Sunday Star-Times investigation reveals how keyboard warriors have found a home in NZ First’s orbit, reviving attack-style politics.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This article explicitly calls for submissions from "... people who have been affected by vaccines, people who believe the vaccines were not safe", those who wreaked havoc during the pandemic. We need stories about that havoc. About how their rhetoric harmed our society. Get your submission in!

rnz.co.nz

Last call to share Covid-19 pandemic experience with inquiry

The inquiry focused on vaccines and mandates; the lockdowns; and tools such as testing and tracing. The coalition government had also widened the scope of the inquiry to seek feedback on issues such a...

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Genuinely concerned about Jim Grenon's Herald board takeover bid. Jim not only supported Chantelle Baker in her defamation cases, and Julian Batchelor in his but also is a big fan of Avi Yemini. See him here in the blue, front and centre. He's having a great time watching the convicted wife-beater.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Jennifer Scott was so toxic she was booted from Nurses For Freedom.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

NPANZ, an Australian rightwing nurses union brought to New Zealand by Voices For Freedom Wairarapa Coordinator Deborah Cunliffe, has lost its NZ executive team, including Deborah. The executive team comprised members of the anti-vax group Nurses For Freedom, which Cunliffe started in June 2022.

Stuff article that reads:

July 14 2023:

Aussie-backed anti-mandate union trying to recruit Kiwi nurses

An Australian network of anti-mandate “unions” boasting more than 17,000 members has expanded to Aotearoa, establishing its own nurses’ union.

When Stuff first approached the Nurses Professional Association of New Zealand (NPANZ) it claimed to be a union, but was not registered as one under the Employment Relations Act. However, it has since gained registration as NZ Nurses United Incorporated.

The group is led by Nurses For Freedom founder Deborah Cunliffe, who publicly called for mandates for unvaccinated nurses to end. She was also a member of anti-vax group Voices For Freedom. The other union officers are Sarah Gilbertson and Saskia Rietveld.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

I know, I know, there is so much to be done, BUT... There are conspiracy theorists up and down Aotearoa holding public meetings, creating astroturf groups, and starting candidate programmes for local government. If you are even thinking about running for local council, start organising now.

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

The West Misunderstands Its Own Far Right: The right-wing parties poised to take power aren’t populist. They’re something much worse. foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/28/f...

foreignpolicy.com

The West Misunderstands Its Own Far Right

The right-wing parties poised to take power aren’t populist. They’re something much worse.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Spent many hours today going through the discourse around the announcement of a new Covid-19 inquiry, or a Phase 2 to the current inquiry (depending on how one wants to see it). Studied several thousand comments on YouTube, Facebook, & Twitter to get a sense of how the announcement was received.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

The Sesame Street twitter's #pridemonth tweets provide a clear timeline of the current moral panic being generated out of nothing. I've taken the biggest comment count each year as an indicator: 2019: 200 2020: 400 2021: 500 2022: 600 2023: 6,700 2024: 8,100

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Online influence works in both ways and perhaps the most profound effects on society likely come from elites picking up and embracing the conspiracy theories of influencers and audiences. It’s a circular process. And social media tighten those feedback loops.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 07/06/2024

I wrote mad about whether "the misinformation panic is over." LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/scream... On the Web: www.intelwire.net/weekly-brief Subscribe via email: www.intelwire.net/sign-up

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

This is a heads-up to some of climate change scientists/researchers who follow me here. In a specific political context, this parliament inquiry is now a target of disinfo-founded, highly motivated, template-based responses that may overwhelm other, well-considered, evidence-based public feedback .🚨

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Is the party melting down, or is this a push for them to be more openly ugly? Issues "got worse" when five of their candidates were shown to be involved in conspiratorial groups/engaging in CT ideas. The party revoked some candidacies. That's a good thing, right? This seems to say it wasn't good 🤔

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

The goal is to cover the fees of the lawyer I have hired for a hearing, anything raised over and above what I need will be donated to the Manaaki Collective, who provide funding for home security and other help for people targeted by the far-right. ko-fi.com/byroncclark (2/2)

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Writing about New Zealand's far-right has exposed me to a torrent of abuse and harassment. I am currently going through civil court to obtain a restraining order against one of this country's most notorious white supremacists. (1/2)

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Our media landscape is not a level playing field, and never has been: it has biases regarding what is shown to be happening *at all,* let alone how it frames events. As you can literally see big events unfolding with little mention in the media, ask "how accurate is it most of the time?" #nzpol

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