With the constant support of right-wing media, election denial groups across the country are training volunteers for the upcoming midterm elections, recruiting poll workers, poll watchers, and lawyers to target election administration positions or setting up voter intimidation operations outside of official channels, asking for volunteers to stand watch around ballot drop boxes. These organizations and volunteers pose a serious risk to the voting process by threatening to replace professional election officials with QAnon conspiracy theorists and extremists. The FBI has issued warnings about threats to election workers in multiple states, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Arizona. The tactics of these extremist organizations — including intimidating voters outside of ballot drop boxes with armed guards and suggesting volunteers call 911 over voter fraud conspiracy theories — raise concerns about the legality of their work, and these efforts must be scrutinized by law enforcement for potentially undermining the democratic process. Additionally, while many of these organizations are local, Republicans are collaborating with many of these extremist groups on a national level. For example, representatives from the Republican National Committee are working alongside local election denial groups to sow doubt in the 2022 midterm results and train election administration volunteers in key swing states. These organizations have found a home across various platforms in the right-wing media, with many being promoted on January 6 coup plotter Steve Bannon’s podcast, War Room: Pandemic. Here are election denial and fraud conspiracy theory groups training volunteers for midterms, and the right-wing media outlets that have promoted them.
Six new subpoenas, honing in this time on a group of lawyers and other allies to former President Donald Trump who frenziedly worked in the runup to Jan. 6 to promote his false claims of fraud [...]
Investigators probing the coup attack on the U.S. Capitol have issued six new subpoenas, honing in this time on a group of lawyers and other allies to former President Donald Trump who frenziedly worked in the runup to Jan. 6 to promote his false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.
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