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helping organize crowdsourced information about the 1/6 Capitol attack. also: @capitolhunters@mastodon.social @capitolhunters.bsky.social
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Apr 25 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
As Israel's Netanyahu hysterically calls US campuses "horrific..German[y] in the 1930s", remember who took him to power: the divisive US operative Arthur Finkelstein, who also gave us autocrat Viktor Orban, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and indirectly, Donald Trump. 1/ Image From 1970, Finkelstein changed politics in the US and around the world with virulently negative campaigns that pushed fear & division ("rejectionist voting"), microtargeted messaging, 3rd party spoilers, and a complete disregard for truth and values. 2/
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Apr 24 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight the Ukraine aid bill finally passed. That vote lets us ask: does being "anti-Ukraine" correlate with "pro-insurrection"? Answer: it sure does, especially in the Senate. The 18 Senators who voted no tonight (or didn't vote) all lie in the top 22 of Senate Jan 6 scores. 1/
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Image None of the 8 Senators most culpable in supporting Trump's attempt to seize power Jan 6 voted for Ukraine aid. That's Cruz (TX), Tuberville (AL), Hawley (MO), Marshall (KS), Johnson (WI), Blackburn (TN), Lee (UT), and Paul (KY). 2/
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Apr 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The newly-released transcript of Walt Nauta's 2022 FBI interview is interesting for what it says about the investigation: FBI talked to him just four days after he started moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago. A week later, Nauta helped load boxes into an SUV to be taken to Bedminster. 1/
Image Trump was subpoenaed for documents "bearing classified markings" on May 11, 2022. Evan Corcoran warned him Mar-a-Lago might be searched; box-moving started May 22 and went to June 2. By June 19 Trump seemed to prep a defense that he'd declassified them. 2/
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Mar 29 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
The week that was, the world we're in: terrorists attacked Moscow and Russia's friends blamed Ukraine. Elon Musk and friends tried to squash free speech. JFK Jr. picked Musk's ex-lover as VP. The religious right (note the Ted Cruz-Josh Hawley axis) tried to ban mifepristone. 1/ Image Note how the mifepristone case went through a 3-judge chain: first Matthew Kacsmaryk, sworn in by James Ho, whose wife got payments from ADF, which brought the suit. Then to Ho, sworn in by Clarence Thomas, whose wife got payments from Harland Crow, who hosted the ceremony. 2/
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Mar 21 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Several former military officers filed a brief in Trump's immunity case today. One is Keith Kellogg; that name matters! Kellogg was with Trump all morning on Jan 6. Kellogg, part of Trump's inner circle since 2016, was also on the call that led to Trump's 1st impeachment. 1/ Here's Keith Kellogg in the Oval Office with Trump on Jan. 6 morning. He was there when Trump called Mike Pence, threatened him, called him a 'pussy'. Any filing by Kellogg is intended to help Trump. 2/
Mar 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Why do politicians endorse Trump in lockstep? Because today's GOP controls its members via threats and kompromat. Consider Rep. Matt Rosendale: elected 2022, announced for Senate, withdrew after 6 days, now is leaving politics entirely: "death threats" and "defamatory rumors". 1/
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Image The Hill mentions whispers about "impregnating a staff member", others suggest his interests swing another way. It doesn't matter which; this is how the GOP rolls. People with secrets are useful - and easily disposed of if they do not comply. 2/
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Feb 16 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
As Mike Johnson cuts off aid to Ukraine, we need to see why he’s obeying Trump. People with secrets comply - and Johnson is almost certainly a child abuser. From 2019-2023 he told 3 different stories about his “adopted son”, all lies. This 🧵 reviews them - and Matt Gaetz. 1/
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Image Shifting, contradictory stories are a red flag. Johnson's three versions of all contort truth to deny he “took in” an unrelated boy as a single man - they all insert wife Kelly in impossible ways. It looks very bad. (Sources in report.)  2/
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Feb 15 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
As of today FIVE House GOP committee chairs have said they will not run for re-election. The departing Reps are much LESS seditious than the House average. In order, they are:
* Oct 31 - Kay Granger (TX), Appropriations
J6 score 0-1 (certified on J6; only one action since J6)
1/ Granger did not vote on Jan 6. Using the Congressional insurrection metrics scorecard, the only action that gets her a point is signing Ted Cruz's Jan 2024 amicus brief in the 14th Amend. case seeking to remove Trump from the ballot (137 Reps. signed). 2/
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Feb 13 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@emptywheel We need to realize that the Senators voting against Ukraine aid are those tied to Jan 6. The leaders on the Insurrection Metrics are all pushing against arming Ukraine. Here's the scorecard, showing post-Jan 6 votes of all Senators who signed the Jan 17 letter on Ukraine. 1/ Image @emptywheel The core of the Senate resistance to Ukraine aid are those who played a role in Jan 6, plus 4 newcomers (Vance, Schmitt, Budd, Britt), plus Rubio and Cotton. This group includes 3 avatars of Peter Thiel, and Rand Paul, long suspect for Russia ties. 2/
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Jan 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@P_Kallioniemi @U24_gov_ua Don't forget: in 2010, Michael Tracey, then just an intern (later a pro-Putin propagandist) got a full op-ed in The Guardian praising new Senator Rand Paul. Very odd. And Rand was mentored by Peter Thiel, who had supported Ron's presidential run. Many more odd Ron Paul ties...1/ Image @P_Kallioniemi @U24_gov_ua Ron Paul launched other careers. Tracy Beanz organized the 2012 "Ron Paul fest"; by early 2017 Russian bots pushed her on YouTube; in late 2017 she brought QAnon to the world. And note one of her 2012 speakers: former Ron Paul intern Stewart Rhodes. 2/

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Jan 24 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Reporting from New Hampshire: Trump's support in 2024 is smaller than in 2020. His diehard cult hangs on, but he can't pull a big crowd. He can win in only one way: draining Biden's vote by dividing & discouraging the left. Those are the dirty tricks we have to prepare for. 1/ We need to be aware of left-aiming propaganda. Political operators (domestic or foreign) know it works, and they're doing it already. A: Astroturfed fringe candidates or 3rd party challenges. Here's today's version, Dean Philips, pushed by yesterday's Andrew Yang. 2/ Image
Jan 21 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Project 2025, a hard-right blueprint for upending the US govt., has been in the news - the NYT just profiled the once-obscure Kevin Roberts who leads it. But they left out his Jan 6 connection. In Oct. 2020, Roberts worked with John Eastman to game out a contested election. 🧵1/
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Image In 2020, Kevin Roberts was a minor religious-right leader. He'd led a small Catholic college, then a Texas think-tank (TPPF). But as Trump slid in the polls, Roberts was picked to help game out a dark post-election aftermath - and now to lead for 2025. 2/
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Jan 15 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A right-wing party loses a free & fair election, claims election fraud, and refuses to certify the results - first the US, then Brazil, today it's Guatemala. No armed militia but still chaos at the Capitol - pushed by the same people who pushed Jan 6. 1/
Anticorruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo was fairly elected. The losers then blocked the peaceful transfer of power. The NYT shamelessly finds a new low in how to trivialize this attempted coup: "Tempers Flare as Guatemala's Presidential Inauguration is delayed". 2/ Image
Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Now that Trump has flashed a NY Mafia pal (murderer Sammy Gravano of the Gambino family) to threaten Judge Engoron, is it finally time to mention that Trump's NY mob ties also touch his "friendly" Judge Aileen Cannon? Her husband worked for John Rosatti of the Colombo family. 1/ Image Trump palled around with Colombo buddies John Rosatti & John Staluppi in the 1980s - Staluppi went into business with Trump in 1988. Cannon's husband worked for Rosatti later, 2011-14; could be legit. She's not required to recuse - but she should have. 2/
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Jan 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Please, everyone: at this point in the Jan 6 investigation, any "leak" by sources in Trump's inner circle will be self-serving PR. ABC's "scoop" today just tells you Dan Scavino is nervous. It even gives him a quote: "I didn't do it" ! We have to realize: people use the press. 1/
Image The entire ABC story is Scavino reputation laundering. We already knew from Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump didn't want to take action on J6. The only new info here is a claim that Scavino is a good guy too, that "Trump's closest aides" wanted to stop him. And we can't trust it. 2/ Image
Jan 6 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
On January 5th, 3 years ago, DC was crowded. Ali Alexander yelled "Victory or Death!" at the Freedom Plaza rally. The pipe bomber walked their route. Trump worked the phones. A mystery: Trump made THREE calls to Josh Hawley - who never picked up, or returned the call. Why? 1/ Image When Trump couldn't reach Hawley, he talked to Ted Cruz instead. These two Senators are deeply tied to Jan 6 and talked of as a pair. But Trump made many more efforts to reach Hawley. On the morning of Jan 6, same thing happens: Trump tries, and fails, to reach Hawley. Why? 2/ Image
Dec 29, 2023 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
Seems like everyone's talking about the 1860s Civil War now. Was Jan 6 an insurrection? Let's check where officials most tied to the Jan 6 came from (state AGs, US Reps and Senators). No surprise: it's mostly the heart of the Confederacy, states that seceded before April 1861. 1/ Image Trump didn't act alone, and the Civil War is not over. That map is based on scorecards that track actions of Congressmen & state AGs before Jan 6. Of the early Confederacy, only S Carolina is missing (& just barely - AG Alan Wilson nearly got SC there). 1/
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Dec 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@emptywheel Who are the "11 Senators" whose staffers were considered to receive the fake-elector ballots? Only 8 Senators voted against certifying a state's electoral votes on J6: Cruz (TX), Tuberville (AL), Hawley (MO), Marshall (KS), Lummis (WY), Kennedy (LA), Hyde-Smith (MS), Scott (FL). Image @emptywheel A possible source of Chesebro's number: 11 Senators signed Ted Cruz's Jan 2 request to delay the electoral count. (Oddly Josh Hawley didn't sign.) Ron Johnson did - and his staffers did try to give ballots to Pence, though on J6 he certified the vote. 2/
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Dec 22, 2023 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
This week a federal judge publicly worried that rogue state AGs might pursue political revenge on former federal officials. So here's a scoring of state AGs for Jan 6-related actions. Officers of RAGA fill the leaderboard - and Texas AG Ken Paxton stands out over all others. 1/ Image The judge in Mark Meadows' GA case worried the law would let state AGs wreak revenge on former federal officials: "This nightmare scenario keeps me up at night" Public Notice says it's Ken Paxton who will go after Biden's cabinet. The scorecard agrees. 2/
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Dec 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
All working on Jan 6: let's keep track of what's known. Yesterday's revelation from the National Park Service about the 'secret' plan for a march to the Capitol actually came out in 2022 in Kylie Kremer's texts. She's talking to Mike Lindell (and is not a reliable narrator). 1/
Image January 6 is a sprawling mess - one group organized the rallies and propaganda, another group plotted legal strategies, then there's militias and normies and folks directing at the Capitol. No one's memory can hold it all. That's why we kept notes. 1/
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Dec 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A long-awaited arrest - FL GOP figure Barby Balmaseda, who spent most of Jan 6 with convicted Proud Boy Gabriel Garcia. Ambitious pol Balmaseda covered her face when she hung out with the Proud Boys, earning the hashtag #PinkGaiterPBG. Here she's with the PB leader group. 1/
Image Balmaseda was identified by the great @ne0ndistraction, who tracked her through multiple Proud Boys rallies. She hangs mostly with Garcia but is seen near multiple major PB figures - she shows how deeply the Proud Boys are embedded in Florida politics. 2/