Leaders of the effort to recall California Gov. Newsom early on allied with radical and extreme groups to help collect signatures, a Times investigation found.
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Those groups included those promoting distrust of government, science and medicine; peddlers of QAnon doomsday conspiracies, “patriots” readying for battle and one group allied with the far-right extremist group, the Proud Boys.
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Not all proponents of the Newsom recall are part of this fringe.
With the violent insurgency at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, recall organizers are grappling with the consequences of their alliances. latimes.com/politics/story…
With the violent insurgency at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, recall organizers are grappling with the consequences of their alliances. latimes.com/politics/story…
Organizers now insist the extremists don’t represent the values of the recall movement but continue to associate with them, amidst a national debate about how far is too far when it comes to winning in politics. 
Behind the momentum that leaders would now look past, the Times found:
•Activists from the anti-vaccine movement
•Republican operatives who used their platforms to spread lies about COVID-19 and the election
•A Three Percenter member, an anti-government extremist movement
•Activists from the anti-vaccine movement
•Republican operatives who used their platforms to spread lies about COVID-19 and the election
•A Three Percenter member, an anti-government extremist movement
Reminder: the FDA has said both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe.
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