Prosecution introduced evidence now where Douglass Mackey/Ricky Vaughn called Black people “the most gullible,” as in easy to deceive.

He also said women should be denied the right to vote.

Please consider this in the context of Tucker Carlson hyping him.
A jury will decide if Mackey committed a crime.

But what he said and did speaks loudly about the Trump movement.

His Ricky Vaughn account was wildly popular with Trump’s base, and this man essentially believed that non-white people and women were irrelevant, just dirt.
We also learned more about this “War Room” DM group.

Extremists coordinated to make Wikileaks and Podesta Emails-related hashtags trend, as well as disinfo schemes meant to demoralize young people, women, and people of color.

Really grim and palpably uncomfortable to read.
One non-criminal example of this tactic is when they tried to get #woke trending with #nevervote — to apparently create the sense that non-white people would be doing the “woke” thing by staying home.

Depressing turnout and demoralizing people was the goal.
The only person to come off worse than the extremists in the trial is Jack Dorsey. He let web Nazis run wild on his platform in 2016 and then let them do it again in the lead up to January 6.

And Elon Musk is only making this place dirtier with his shit:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…

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Mar 22
I just saw Microchip take the stand. Going to quote him as best as I can.
Q: Did you think this was a valid way of voting? (Re election disinfo)

Microchip: “Not at all.”
Question asking why he posted so much in 2016:

Microchip: “To destroy the reputation of Hillary Clinton.”
Read 12 tweets
Mar 21
Thread: Between witness testimony in the Ricky Vaughn case, the judge excused the jury to overhear defense objections to Twitter DM material used as evidence.

Most reporters left. @lukeobrien and I remained.

Some of it was fascinating. Some of it was … uh, highly amusing.
The DMs involved Ricky Vaughn/Douglass Mackey and other pro-Trump extremists collaborating to demoralize Clinton supporters and workshop memes together.

Quote from prosecution on issues of repetitiveness:

“For example, the word cuck appears a lot.”
One message apparently took place between Mackey and Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer.

The two extremists discussed some artifact called the “manual for loldongs terrorism.”

The prosecution broke this down:

“Lol means laugh out loud”

“Dong means penis”
Read 9 tweets
Mar 20
Photos I took of Douglass Mackey, aka “Ricky Vaughn” leaving the courthouse 15 minutes ago, alone.

His attorney left earlier, without him.

In court, his attorney said that Mackey will most likely serve as the only witness in his own defense.
Today the feds called in Paul Nehlen, aka “Uncle Paul” — a white supremacist and antisemite.

Mackey reached out to help Nehlen’s political ambitions as “Ricky Vaughn.” Then he started emailing him with an account that exposed his real name.

The two men posted together on Gab.
Nehlen is notorious for associating himself with young, online neo-Nazis and appearing to defend terrorism.

He seemed confident and calm while serving as a witness for the prosecution. He wore jeans and no tie.

I wrote his extremist file in 2019: splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
Read 4 tweets
Mar 13
New: Jury selection is underway in the trial of Douglass “Ricky Vaughn” Mackey — who stands accused of targeting Black voters with a scam to disenfranchise them in 2016.

The case covers new territory for our polarized, algorithm-addled era:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Prosecutors told the judge that while Mackey’s case has received fairly limited media coverage — one particular source has focused on it intensely.

That would be Tucker Carlson, who they called out by name.

The concern is Carlson viewers would struggle to be objective.
The judge asked potential jurors to raise their numbers if they recognized certain names. Then among other names he said:

“Mic-ro-chip.”

“Baked A-las-ka.”

Added: “those are pseudonyms.”

I had to bite my lip not to laugh.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 8
NEW in Part 5: Texts from Alex Jones' phone show Infowars marking up products *900%* and appearing to rig view counts.

You'll almost feel bad for his fans reading this one.

@MeganSquire0 & me again:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Come for Infowars' selling products that scan like dog food ads for humans, stay for Alex Jones begging Paul Joseph Watson for tweets in the most desperate manner I have ever seen.

"This is it"
"Please"
"Please"
"Tweet"

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… ImageImageImage
Everyone should unionize their shops, and especially when faced with corrupt leadership.

Infowars appears to be an extreme example because — what is going on here exactly?

Jones’s employees are caught up in the saga around surveilling his wife?

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… Image
Read 5 tweets
Feb 17
In part 4, an Infowars employee warns Alex Jones about Nick Fuentes.

Specifically, they warn that Fuentes’ associate “Millennial Matt” Colligan confessed to being an FBI informant.

Me & @MeganSquire0 again:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
For those unaware, Matt Colligan aka “Millennial Matt” showed up at Charlottesville as part of a cluster of racist, Pro-Trump influencers, like Baked Alaska.

By 2020, he allegedly confessed to becoming an FBI informant tasked with monitoring Nick Fuentes:
masslive.com/news/boston/20…
Alleged informant Millennial Matt has mostly limited his online presence recently. We learned that he turned up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. That's the same place where cops arrested all the Patriot Front members who tried to disrupt Pride in June 2022.

Assist from @danielwinlander:
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