Yes, this is what the GOP does, & it’s not just TPUSA. Think it can’t happen to you? Watch HBO’s 15 Minutes of Shame: specifically, the part about what Roger Stone protege Mike Caputo did to Laura Krolcyzk. It’s a #gamergate “swarming” tactic. 1/
This is indeed an example of why I do what I do. But I learned about what the GOP did to @DonSiegelman somewhat late in the game. People kept telling me to watch Atticus v the Architect, but I was busy. When I finally did, I knew I had to speak w/ him & write about it. 1/
“There are 2 stories of the radicalization of the pro-Trump wing of the [GOP].” One is “slower moving & arguably starts during the 1990s…” The other “begins on 9/7/20, when polling [showed] that Trump’s path to reelection faced significant challenges.” 1/ splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
“Far-right influencers such as Jack Posobiec and Ali Alexander used right-tilting social media giant Twitter to start pushing the five-year-old Roger Stone-inspired hashtag #StoptheSteal.” 2/
3/ “The laws restrict the number of available polling places, increase the likelihood that officials purge voter rolls under false pretenses, drastically affect mail-in voting, and shrink election day hours.”
Proud Boys Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Charles Donohoe must face Jan 6 charges 12/29/21 1/ nypost.com/2021/12/29/pro…
2/ “A U.S. judge on Tuesday allowed a criminal case relating to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack to move forward, declining to dismiss charges against four members of the far-right Proud Boys group.”
3/ “The defendants — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Charles Donohoe — have been charged with violating a federal law that makes it a felony to obstruct an official government proceeding, among other charges.”
“In 2004, Senator Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans might use paperless voting machines to steal elections. In July that year, she and Senator Bob Graham, also a Democrat, introduced a paper-trail bill in the Senate.” But the GOP killed it. 1/ jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…
“After Russia attacked America’s election infrastructure to help Trump defeat Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, Senator Ron Wyden (D)…introduced a bill…that wld have required both paper ballots &rigorous manual audits…in 2020. Again, however, the GOP killed the bill.” 2/