Nearly a year and a half ago — on 8/2/20 — I started investigating QAnon. It took me three days to figure out that this was Mike Flynn’s operation and that it was going to be targeting elections.
Since this moment, I have worked my ass off seven days a week to stop it.
A couple of days later I posted this story which correctly identified the brainwashing process and the fact that QAnon was using “alternate reality game” techniques that I had helped invent to harm people.
Then at the end of August 2020, I posted this article which describes the horror I felt going back to Facebook and experiencing a version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Through September 2020 I worked 20 hours a day to find out everything I could and teamed up with friends to both discover the source of the disinformation and to figure out ways to help. This TedX is from October 2020.
Here’s a thread from September 2020 while I was in the thick of figuring it out. At this point it was becoming clear that Jim Watkins was not the center of the QAnon operation. It also became clear that it was using psychological warfare techniques to radicalize Americans.
Here’s a documentary that I helped create with Financial Times that correctly identified a number of people connected to QAnon and discussed the trauma and coercion that creates undue influence. ft.com/video/372cac40…
In October 2020, I got a screen capture of private DM groups that were coordinating QAnon disinformation. Mike Flynn was in these groups and was encouraging a large number of infamous trolls, including Jim and Ron Watkins, to continue their operations.
I have always been honest about who I am. I am an open book. I have been doxxed at least 10 times at this point.
If people don’t like my style or what I have to say, they are welcome to ignore or block me. What they can’t do is say I’m not honest. I am. To a fault.
Despite the fact that “Q” itself was retiring, the rest of the QAnon LARPs (live action role play characters) did not.
An account called “E” was getting ready to replace Q on Twitter. The account was provably receiving information from Ezra Cohen. We got it suspended 7 times.
Throughout my investigation, I have live tweeted hundreds of events like this one. Literally millions of people have seen these threads and learned what was going on without having to spend hours watching disinfo.
Having identified Mike Flynn as the force behind QAnon months before, when Flynn got pardoned, broke his silence and went on a QAnon show it was absolutely clear who was in charge.
This article from 11/10/20 gave a summary of the operators my friends and I had identified and laid out what we were trying to do to help. medium.com/@registrarproj…
This event was extremely important — more important than I understood at the time. This is the “Jericho March” organized by Mike Flynn. A who’s who of disinformation actors, violent white supremacists and the aforementioned Carlo Vigano were there.
In November 2020 I created this chart of the people that I could see were actively contributing to QAnon in real time.
On 12/17/20 five months after I started I wrote this to go with the chart. I have learned so much since then but it’s still accurate. medium.com/@registrarproj…
On 12/21/20 it became clear that 1/6 was about violence.
I caught Ron Watkins paying people to go to DC **over two weeks before the event**
Again, the reason I knew it was going to happen is that I pay very close attention. There is no secret. It’s just doing the WORK.
The white nationalists were setting up caravans two weeks before on obscure social media platforms all of which I waded through. It was entirely clear what the purpose of 1/6 was.
It was planned to be a white supremacist riot from the start.
The most intense pushback I have gotten from both the right and the left, is from stating the clear fact that QAnon and the entire disinformation assault we are enduring is identical to Russian propaganda.
There’s a reason this generates anger. It’s not because I’m crazy. 🇷🇺
On 12/30/20 I wrote this thread about what I thought was going to happen on 1/6. It even surprised me how accurate it was. If anyone ever tells you that it was impossible to know what would happen, please send them this.
“The Storm” is a QAnon term based on a Trump quote from right before Q started. I watched hundreds of QAnon accounts and knew that they saw this event as the culmination.
I also knew QAnon cultists would be backed up by militant white supremacists organized by Mike Flynn.
RSBN is more or less Mike Lindell’s “network.” It is non-stop pillow ads between interviewing Trump’s cult members at his rallies. RSBN not only covered all of it but coordinated with the insurrectionists.
I do not like making predictions like this and I’m very sorry I was right about it. This was a few days after someone blew themselves up in an RV in Nashville which I did not see as a healthy signal.
I’ve done a lot of work along the way but this project — to help inform people about the plan for 1/6 — is what I’m most proud of. I am NOT taking credit for all of it. So many people helped. But I was out in front and took a lot of heat.
If ten Secretaries of State, including the ones who worked for Trump, were concerned about military intervention on 1/6, why wasn’t anyone else? For example, the Pentagon.
The SecDefs were talking straight to the boots on the ground.
Here’s Josh Hawley, who on the morning of 1/6 raised a fist to the assembled nazis and cultists, trying to wiggle out of what he helped plan and execute.
Getting to this day was not guaranteed. If “Antifa” had showed up in DC, or the heroes in the Capitol Police had given up sooner, we may not have made it.
Naively, I thought I could shift my focus to helping the victims. I was wrong. Everything only got worse.
After Russia, psyops — psychological warfare — is the sorest subject among a group of people who really want everyone to believe QAnon and its subsequent metastasizing were just the result of an extremely lucky troll on the 4chan website.
While I was busy exposing disinformation networks, I also wanted to form a volunteer organization to try to help victims of undue influence and their friends and family.
For a while, this was the most inspiring experience of my life. Then, one of my hardest lessons.
In the meantime, I want to say this for the record. NONE of the accusations that have been made against me or my group of volunteers is true. Zero.
You may be shocked to learn people lie on the internet. 🤷♂️
The idea that it was a “scam” or “attacked people” is a LIE and a despicable inversion of what happened. A group of people who did not want us to succeed trolled us, lied about us, wrote hit pieces, infiltrated our discord server and traumatized many vulnerable people.
I’m saying this right here, right now. Stop lying about me, about The Thinkin Project and about my friends. I will not be defamed and abused on Twitter or anywhere else.
We had a gofundme briefly to try to scale up but after getting attacked we returned every single donation.
Here is the work The Thinkin Project was actually doing.
I spoke to 60 Minutes, did an hour interview with Lesley Stahl and provided sources from our group for their story about the victims of QAnon. I was proud of this piece and was instrumental to making it happen.
To give you an idea of how bad the attacks were, two people with blue check marks accused me of wanting to kidnap children when I posted this thread, right after the above tweet about 60 Minutes. An intentional, harmful, defamatory smear aimed at my reputation and my group’s.
In the meantime, through all the drama, I have continued to call out and expose the people responsible, not just for 1/6 but for the entire fascist assault on democracy.
After starting my group just two months before, I stepped down as the front man and became just another member. I was hoping this would redirect some of the attacks away from people who were just there to help organize. Sadly it didn’t.
General Walker told the truth. Half a year later the DOD Inspector General basically called him a liar which is one of the scariest moments of this entire episode.
In the current administration, we have people covering up for the insurrection.
I also found out that the Flynn family had included my tweets in this $75M LOLsuit against CNN. I wasn’t named as a defendant but needless to say this was intentional intimidation to shut me up.
What I described then is happening again but even more intensely. The same exact group, doing the exact same thing but with even more desperation. It’s nothing short of cult behavior. It’s social media psyops targeting the out-group and it should not be legal.
As I have said numerous times this is the guy who was calling the shots on 1/6 and everything that has come out since has proven it. This is him on Alex Jones the day before the insurrection.
One of the biggest uphill battles I’ve had to face is the disinformation being spread to try to fit a narrative that covers for the actual people who conspired to run psyops on American citizens. This documentary is a major source of that.
Every once in a while I find an interview on Infowars that’s worth talking about. Like this one, which was remarkable for the number of confessions between Roger and Alex who have been partners for many years.
It’s important to remember that despite all efforts to the contrary that Russian interference is not a fantasy or something only crazy people talk about.
One of the most breathtaking things about doing this was realizing the breadth, extent and efficacy of Peter Thiel’s project to destroy global liberal democracy — and how open he is about it.
He doesn’t hide it. Nonetheless the US government gives him billions of dollars.
If you’re curious about my background, I’m happy to tell anyone anything. I’ve started five companies, won a Primetime Emmy, have a bunch of patents. Worked at Google/Niantic. Also a proud high school graduate.
This story shook me not just because of the dead children but because of the incredibly callous attitude some people took about this. Rather than believe QAnon was even part of the problem, they blamed the mom and deny brainwashing exists at all.
Something else I do frequently is summarize and contextualize articles and news stories in threads. Like this one of Joel Greenberg’s confessions about Matt Gaetz and Roger Stone which was both important and funny af.
Here’s another article I covered. This wasn’t as funny. GamerGate was a misogynistic cult created on 4/8chan that started as a conspiracy theory and picked female gamers to gangstalk, SWAT and torment.
It turned into the alt-right and eventually QAnon.
Mike Flynn was not very good at covering his tracks. But even without the huge amount of evidence to prove it, all you have to do is ask “Qui bono?” about MIKE.
Mike Flynn’s entire existence has benefitted Putin since 2015.
This chart was a first draft of trying to visualize the numerous influence operations that happen on social media and how they are intentionally set up to be in conflict with each other.
It’s also remarkable that all of this and more can be traced to five white men.
Flynn’s rhetoric has gotten much more severe and brazenly fascist over the last year. He started to cut loose when his “ReAwaken America” events got scheduled.
Flynn’s narcissism is infinite so these are catnip to him.
Of all the crazy things we’ve allowed in our slow slide towards autocracy, permitting brainwashed, violent seditionists to remain in Congress is right up there at the top.
This is a very long in depth thread about how Peter Thiel, Rudy Giuliani and an array of others have been weaponizing law enforcement technology to institutionalize racism.
If you aren’t familiar with the Thiel, the Manhattan Institute or Palantir this is worth your time.
Here he explained his plan to assault American democracy through “Local Action has a National Impact.” This is a euphemism for terrorism, of the sort we have seen at countless school board meetings.
I found this video on Telegram 5 minutes after it happened. This is a Project Veritas op who dramatically announced her career change to being a propagandist on live television.
One thing I did not expect when I started looking at QAnon was that I would need to give myself a condensed course on comparative religion. As it happens, it’s necessary in order to understand the roots of what’s going on.
Throughout last year, the plan to attack elections was obvious. “CyberNinjas” was paid $6M by Mike Flynn and Patrick Byrne to generate fraudit propaganda.
Which led me to wonder whether $422k of went it to pay off Doug Logan’s mortgage.
Mike Flynn and his allies in the right wing press started agitating for violence leading up to the Fourth of July because the fraudits were not giving them what they wanted.
Mike Flynn’s Telegram channel, particularly the comments section, is one of the most terrifying “places” you can imagine. Over 300k cult members who are completely comfortable making death threats and racist comments.
Flynn was doing his best to set the stage for stochastic terrorism. This is not a metaphor. He wants his followers to believe that this “revolution” is necessary and legitimate and that they should “answer the call.”
Jim Watkins is the owner of 8chan which is the website “Q” lived on. His son Ron was the tech guy.
They are both criminals and pedophiles.
Neither of them are capable of being “Q.” They were just willing to provide a platform to launch psyops from — for money.
It never ceases to amaze me that a guy who is overtly dedicated full time to the destruction of American democracy and harm to America citizens is allowed to keep his stars and just keep doing it.
This is more true all the time. Trump is slowly becoming a joke to people in the know and just an historical god with no real power anymore to the cult itself. Flynn is trying to consolidate his power.
The NSO / Pegasus story is very important. As is Mike Flynn’s involvement. Ever wonder how Flynn and his allies get so many irrationally loyal lieutenants?
Ever wonder why certain journalists seem to cover for him?
Once you see what’s being done to America right now through a historic and ideological lens, the step by step descent into fascism is excruciatingly clear.
Umberto Eco laid it all out a quarter century ago.
Following Mike Flynn as closely as I do gives me access to content others miss. For example, this video of Mike Flynn getting a semi-automatic rifle on a church stage and threatening to find someone in Washington DC.
I subscribe to 500 channels of disinformation on Telegram because that’s the limit of the app. As the anti-vaxx “movement” went hyper international last summer I did this huge thread of “protests” which are really just cult-inspired violence.
Understanding fascist ideologies and goals is important in order to reverse engineer propaganda and find the source.
Dugin is a “nazbol” — literally a nazi bolshevik.
People like Poso think he’s right wing. He’s not. He’s a Marxist Leninist like Bannon. A commie, basically 🤷♂️
Mike Flynn fraudulently appropriates Christianity into his crusade to destroy American democracy. There is nothing religious or spiritual about this. This is radicalization into fascism.
Sometimes it’s important to reproduce propaganda in its full state in order to expose it for its true purpose. I always try to make sure it is clearly marked as such. Like this👇
Flynn writes frequently in “The Western Journal” which is a white nationalist website. Each successive article is more openly fascist and dangerous than the last.
The fact that there was a recall election at all in CA was a pure abuse of the system. but once it was in place it was important to see who was who, like this small boy who was larping as a Democrat — on Epoch Times. 🙄
This article pissed me off as you can probably tell.
Having called out the organized plot to overturn the presidential election result months before — #StupidCoup — and then warned people about the insurrection two weeks before it happened, “scant evidence” seemed inaccurate.
We’ve all seen the normalization of Holocaust denial and Nazism. There’s a reason for it. Because the people behind it are projecting their own ideas onto others — like all nazis are trained to do.
Tracy Diaz is an important throughline. She’s Flynn’s employee knows everything going back to 2016. If anyone should flip on Flynn to save herself it’s Tracy Diaz.
When you pay close attention to networks sometimes you notice things. Like the fact that Erik Prince seemingly provided instructions to terrorists on Steve Bannon’s Warroom that were executed within 48 hours.
When SCOTUS allowed abortion rights to be eliminated in TX on a technicality, it was crystal clear… SCOTUS is captured by compromised extremists. The 4 decade project of the Federalist Society to take the Court has succeeded.
It is extremely important to remember that Russian influence is not just on the right, it is perhaps even more perniciously embedded on the left as well.
I stand by this. There are three Justices that are completely illegitimate and should be impeached and removed. And that’s not including Clarence Thomas who should arguably go to prison with his wife Ginni.
I thought it was quite notable that a former President* was speaking at a conference honoring the Moonies doomsday cult. Apparently 1.2M other people did too.
The same weekend that Trump visited the Moonies he recorded a video for this guy, Sean Feucht, who uses hypnotic techniques to generate brainwashing conditions for his dominionist anti-democratic cult.
Here is Josh Hawley at Sean Feucht’s event working hard on his cult leader game. Remember he helped have the building behind him attacked nine months before.
Doomsday or cyclical ideology is at the root of many ideological belief systems. Evangelicals, traditionalists, Duginists, esoteric nazism, dominionists, most authoritarian cults, e.g. Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT).’
I still have not gotten a satisfactory answer about why our second-most intransigent Senator was doing a PAC with one of the most obviously compromised Members of Congress.
At the time I was excited by this. Still would be, except the part where Steve Bannon won’t even go on trial for Contempt of Congress for another six months. After that result, the rest of them just flipped the Committee the bird too.
Here’s dominionist doomsday cult leader Greg Locke at Mike Flynn’s ReAwaken America psyop intentionally using the imagery of mass murder to target the cult’s out-group.
When Scientology is part of your event, your event is designed to harm people. Here is Scientologist Leigh Dundas demonstrating coercive brainwashing techniques.
Literal nazi Nick Fuentes has fully embraced anti-vaxx propaganda and ties it to the fictitious Great Replacement of white people that he and his cult promote.
Anti-vaxx propaganda is the perfect example of Voltaire’s quote.
“If they can make you believe absurdities”
— Your vaccine is a bio-weapon for population control
“They can make you commit atrocities”
— Expose yourself, your family and community to a deadly virus
A few weeks before this I discovered that Mike Flynn used an doomsday cult prayer in a Christian Church. Mike Flynn says he carried it around in his wallet.
And here is where the prayer that Mike Flynn says he carries around in his wallet comes from.
This video has had an impact on Mike Flynn’s ability to operate while pretending to be a Christian. And it has caused quite a fracture in his coalition.
Why is the “origin of Q” important? Why has there been so much disinfo about it?
Because the truth is damning & shows how all of this works. Here are three neo-Nazis who helped Mike Flynn steal the 2016 election running psyops on Americans for months before starting Q.
While these Discord logs provided by federal informant Microchip in 2018 are impossible to completely verify, it’s also hard to imagine going to this much trouble to fake this about yourself. Note, I’ve left the original scrolling intact, but you can pause it at any point to read it.
Everything here makes perfect sense from the perspective of these operatives, as people conducting subversive psychological warfare on America—through multiple forms of active measures.
As just one example, before starting Q, they gloat about how they are running disinformation to “fake Antifa crew accounts” in order to distract from the “Unite the Right bullshit.” As I’ve been saying for years, “Antifa” is largely a made up boogeyman by neo-Nazis to blame the left for their own violence.
Six weeks before Q started, James Brower, a childhood friend of Mike Flynn Jr. in Rhode Island, the liaison from Cambridge Analytica to the Trump campaign, a former employee of Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson, and a paid member of MAGA3X, said:
“This whole Michael Flynn thing has people worried… Flynn has been a favorite among the base.”
Two weeks before Q started, Microchip:
“things are getting even more intense for General Flyunn [sic]… time for another operation”
Mike Flynn never wrote a Q drop, but it was his people running psyops on Americans to benefit him. Mike Flynn admitted to raising $8.5 million from his QAnon “digital soldiers” to pay Sidney Powell for his “legal defense.”
The actual beginning of Q was an accident. Brower quote-posted an Anonymous 4chan account on 10/28/17 that claimed Hillary Clinton was getting arrested: “I went a little wild.” Then he follows it up with a second more elaborate post: “dude check this out I just wanted to see what would happen.” Those are “Q drops” 1 & 2.
For several more days, Brower, Microchip and notorious antisemitic internet terrorist Spicci continued the “Q” LARP.
Then, after Brower publicly quit writing for “Q” five days after starting it, it was taken over by Tracy “Beanz” Diaz — who is one of Mike Flynn’s most dedicated and loyal propagandists to this day.
At each and every step of its evolution, all the way up until today — as Flynn quotes Q drops in every interview — it has been Flynn pulling the strings. This is psychological warfare in action, radicalizing and weaponizing the population to attack their own nation.
Q is a LARP, a “live action role play” character created for Mike Flynn by his people, and operated for years with his guidance as a way to raise money, and radicalize a “white Christian nationalist” cult towards hatred and violence.
Mike Flynn is Q and the worst traitor in American history.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
Here’s some more information on neo-Nazi troll James Brower, who was the first person to write Q drops before quitting a few days later.
Here is Tracy “Beanz” Diaz, who took over the “Q” LARP from James Brower and Microchip admitting to it in 2018. Also, her yelling QAnon phrase “Fight Like a Flynn” on stage with him six years later.
First @NicolleDWallace is a national treasure. On her show:
Miles Taylor talked about Russian psychological operations.✅
Riggleman said Mike Flynn is a dangerous madman.✅
However, it’s not Russians executing the psyops. It’s the madman who went to GRU headquarters in 2013, went to Moscow in 2015, colluded with the Russians to flip the election in 2016, started Q to get himself out of his crimes, ran the Big Lie and J6 through QAnon, and is preparing his white nationalist death cult for Black Swans & mass violence.
Flynn is going on a national tour with multiple insurrectionists, @USArmy psyops veterans, and foreign agents. He’s creating a network to activate for whatever he has planned before, during and after Election Day.
This is his THIRD shot at a controlled demolition of the US Constitution. He must be stopped.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
While we’re here. It should be impossible for anyone who understands Russia, propaganda, or psychological warfare to see this as anything but a subversive Russian psychological operation being conducted in the open by the worst traitor in US history.
Mike Flynn has embraced all aspects of his psychological operations to include encouraging Pizzagate and QAnon believers to see him as their “General” in a holy war in which the US government is the enemy and Russia is our friend.
I’ve been saying this for a long time & Flynn has spent a LOT of energy trying to distract from it. No more. Here he is on QAnon show “5D Gramma,” doing pure Russian QAnon psyops.
5D Gramma does not hide the fact that she’s a QAnon believer but she has been instructed to debrand direct allusions to “Q” in the presence of “the General.”
Regardless, the very beginning of her stream refers to “follow the white rabbit,” “awakening” & many other QAnon symbols.
For 10 minutes while waiting for Flynn, 5D Gramma plays a serious of QAnon psyops videos on her channel.
This clip contains dozens of QAnon & Russian propaganda references including antisemitic “reptilians propaganda,” JFK, 9/11, secret societies, Illuminati & an RT screenshot.
Please come by to discuss the situation we find ourselves in—targets of hybrid warfare by the Russians & US proxies—and some strategies for fighting back against the insurgency.
@5GW_HotTakes @lolo13251797
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For example, this is a clear and present danger. A collection of foreign agents, psychological warfare operators, and J6 insurrectionists traveling around the country with the worst traitor in US history.
One big problem is that psychological warfare is not categorized as warfare for many purposes.
This is a fatal error representing 50-year old thinking.
We’ve been under direct attack for eight years, with a massive death count & a third of the population captured by the enemy.
The global case of cognitive dissonance we’re experiencing is the result of our collective lack of understanding of why things are so fucking weird these days.
Psychological war is war. The people who died of COVID because they followed MAGA/QAnon are dead because of WARFARE.
The people who wore QAnon t-shirts while they tried to murder politicians on J6 were combatants captured through a deliberate, sustained ISIS-like indoctrination program set up & amplified by Russian intelligence & its American proxies.