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This reddit post on "re-open" movement points to domain links - but reopen facebook groups mentioned are more interesting to me - set up by Dorr brothers who run far-right gun websites (they consider the NRA too soft) and their father's career focused on defunding public schools
These facebook groups were set up by Chris Dorr And Ben Dorr

Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine with 60,000 members was set-up by Chris Dorr
facebook.com/groups/5257027…

Reopen Minnesota with 20,000 members was set up by Ben Dorr
facebook.com/groups/2996185…
This Aug 2019 story by @andrewjtobias describes how Chris Dorr and brothers Ben and Arron founded gun rights groups in several states, that go after fellow republicans

How one Ohio gun-rights group aims to upend the public debate by scaring Republicans

cleveland.com/open/2019/08/h…
The @AndrewJTobias story notes the Dorrs are linked to a company Midwest Freedom Enterprises
cleveland.com/open/2019/08/h…

A youtube video shows the Dorr brothers describing how Midwest Freedom Enterprises provides direct mail services to support their causes
This article on Chris Dorr notes that "Chris' father, Paul Dorr, is renowned in the Midwest as the 'bond buster'"
cincinnati.com/story/news/pol…

This article describes Paul Dorr's 25 years of work to defeat school bond votes in Midwest towns
apmreports.org/story/2019/08/…
I posted this thread because some people are speculating that the Re-open movement is a Russian scheme - the story is likely more complex. The Dorr family has decades of US far-right activism (which often aligns with values pushed by Russia and others)
Some more info in this thread on websites affiliated with Midwest Freedom Enterprises run by the Dorr brothers
Adding on an item noted by @SlickRockWeb - in addition to the Pennsylvania and Minnesota Facebook groups set up by Chris and Ben Dorr - the 'Wisconsinites Against Excessive Quarantine' Facebook group, which was not set up by a Dorr, has identical language
facebook.com/groups/2272862…
There are links from the Dorrs to Rand Paul's father Ron Paul

Paul Dorr was the Iowa field director for Ron Paul's presidential campaign
apmreports.org/story/2019/08/…

The Dorr son's Midwest Freedom Enterprises were paid approx $5k to support Ron Paul in2012
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
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