Thread by @_MAArgentino

1/ New piece by @Blyth_Crawford and I on our series about QAnon and women, this time we examine the women who ran for office in 2020.

https://twitter.com/GNET_research/status/1387383484029751297

2/ As @AlKapDC extensively covered in his monitoring of QAnon candidates, 38% of QAnon candidates were women. 42% of these made it on the ballot. What this means is that out of the record 94 women who ran for congress 14% espoused some belief in QAnon

3/ These statistics are very important as @Blyth_Crawford and I highlight women are not only underrepresented in politics, but their role in extremists movements is still perceived through a gender biased lens.

4/ Women are playing key influential and leadership roles in various extremist movements. QAnon has a large amount of female influencers and leaders. Research and analysis needs to move beyond poor and antiquated gender analysis of extremism.

5/ Child abuse narratives play an important role in QAnon as it is the central concept that has mobilized adherents to protests, violence and to run for political office.

6/ Not everyone who ran for office was a QAnon adherent, some individuals saw QAnon as a political constituency who they could prey on to achieve their political goals.

7/ However, those who are believers, have plans to run in 2022, emboldened by the success of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.

8/ Part 2 comes out tomorrow as we examine how some women have been able to launch a career off of their belief in QAnon.