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The founder of #Russia Insider promoted Stop the Steal, journeyed to the Capitol on Jan 6, and then disappeared to –– leaving the Christmas lights still dangling from his #Lancaster home.

Read @MichaelEHayden's investigation here: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
#Hatewatch started reporting on Russia Insider’s Charles Bausman last year when we linked him to a white nationalist group through an email ID buried in the source code of a network of racist websites:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
We also linked Bausman's site to a hyperpartisan blog focused on #LancasterCounty, PA.

He moved there from #Russia in 2018, produced a flood of far-right propaganda & left after Jan. 6: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
When Bausman moved to #Lancaster in 2018, he allegedly presented himself as an agriculture business.

But @MichaelEHayden spoke to one of the companies listed on his resume, and they said he never worked there.

Read the full investigation: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
If you have tips about Charles Bausman or the newspaper Lancaster Patriot –– which began appearing in mailboxes this year without solicitation –– please contact @MichaelEHayden.

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