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Some Perspective on Our Political Division
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3. United States. Census Bureau. “About the Topic of Race.” 20 Dec 2024
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6. United States. Department of Justice. “Over 300 People Facing Federal Charges for Crimes Committed During Nationwide Demonstrations.” 24 Sept 2020
The Election Fraud Lie
1. “In Four Years, President Trump Made 30,573 False or Misleading Claims.” Washington Post. 21 Jan 2021
2. Josh Dawsey. “Trump Campaign Paid Researchers to Prove 2020 Fraud but Kept Findings Secret.” Washington Post. 11 Feb 2023
3. Josh Dawsey. “Trump-Commissioned Report Undercut His Claims of Dead and Double Voters.” Washington Post. 17 Mar 2023
4. “Categories of Election Fraud.” Heritage Foundation. 13 Dec 2024
5. “Explore the Data.” Heritage Foundation. 13 Dec 2024
6. Taylor Goldenstein. “Ken Paxton’s Beefed-Up 2020 Voter Fraud Unit Closed 16 Minor Cases, All in Harris County.” Houston Chronicle. 22 Dec 2020
7. Christina A. Cassidy. “Far Too Little Vote Fraud to Tip Election to Trump, AP Finds.” Associated Press. 14 Dec 2021
8. “Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.’s Objections to Dr. Jill Stein’s Recount Petition.” In re. Petition for Recount for the Office of President of the United States of America.” State of Michigan, Board of State Canvassers.
9. “Application to Dismiss by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania All Pennsylvania Electors of President-Elect Donald J. Trump and Vice-President Elect Michael Pence, President-Elect Trump, Vice-President Elect Pence, and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.” In re. to Matter of the 2016 Presidential Election. In the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
10. Marina Villeneuve. “Report: Trump Commission Did Not Find Widespread Voter Fraud.” Associated Press. 3 Aug 2018
11. David Daley. “Kobach and Trump’s Spectacular Voter-Fraud Failure.” Excerpted from “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.” Rolling Stone. 27 Apr 2020
12. Alexa Ura. “Someone Did Not Do Their Due Diligence: How an Attempt to Review Texas’ Voter Rolls Turned into a Debacle.” Texas Tribune. 1 Feb 2019
13. Gary Fineout. “2012 Election: Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens.” 11 May 2012
14. “Florida Says No Evidence of Fraud in 2018 Mail Vote Fraud Probe.” Tampa Bay Times. 21 May 2020
15. James Pindell. “N.H. Says Once and For All That No One Was Bused into Vote.” Boston Globe. 1 June 2018
16. Editorial Board. “Trump’s Dangerous Vote-Fraud Claims in N.H.” Boston Globe. 1 Sept 2019
17. “Kansas Official Kris Kobach Claims Law Halted Up to 18K Noncitizen Votes.” Associated Press. 6 Mar 2018
18. Jane C. Timm and Adam Edelman. “Illegal Voting? Not Much in Kobach’s Home State.” NBC News. 19 July 2017
19. Justin Levitt. “The Truth About Voter Fraud.” Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. 2007
20. Lorraine C. Minnite, Ph.D. “The Politics of Voter Fraud.” Columbia University.
21. Lorraine C. Minnite, Ph.D. “The Misleading Myth of Voter Fraud in American Elections.” Rutgers University-Camden. January 2014
22. John Danforth, Benjamin Ginsberg, Thomas B. Griffith, David Hoppe, Michael Luttig, Michael W. McConnell, Theodore B. Olson and Gordon H. Smith. “Lost, Not Stolen.” July 2022
23. Nicole Perlroth. “Election Security Experts Contradict Trump’s Voting Claims.” New York Times. 16 Nov 2020
24. United States. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. “Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees.” 12 Nov 2020
25. Ali Swenson and Amanda Seitz. “AP Fact Check: Trump Tweets a Tall Tale of ‘Deleted” Votes.” Associated Press. 12 Nov 2020
26. Michael M. Grynbaum and Jonah Bromwich. “Fox News Faces Second Defamation Suit Over Election Coverage.” New York Times. 26 Mar 2021
27. Colleen Long. “Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani Over Election Claims.” Associated Press. 25 Jan 2021
28. “Dominion Files Defamation Suit Against Rudy Giuliana.” Dominion Voting. 25 Jan 2021
29. “Dominion Sues Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell for Defamation.” Associated Press. 8 Jan 2021
30. Alexa Corse. “Pro-Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Seeks to Dismiss Defamation Suit Over Election Claims.” Wall Street Journal. 22 Mar 2021
31. Steve Karnowski and David Bauder. “Dominion Voting Systems Sues ‘My Pillow Guy’ for $1.3 Billion.” Associated Press. 22 Feb 2021
32. Alison Durkee. “Smartmatic Settles With Newsmax: Here’s Where It and Dominion’s Other Lawsuits Stand.” Forbes. 26 Sept 2024
33. 60 Minutes. CBS. 29 Nov 2020
34. Matthew Brown. “Trump Campaign Lawyer Stirs Outrage by Saying Ex-Cyber Chief Should Be ‘Taken Out at Dawn and Shot.” USA Today. 1 Dec 2020
35. Kevin Johnson. “Ex-Election Security Chief Christopher Krebs Sues Trump Campaign, Lawyer for Defamation.” USA Today. 8 Dec 2020
36. Michael Balsamo. “Barr: No Evidence of Fraud That’d Change Election Outcome.” Associated Press. 1 Dec 2020
37. Michael Balsamo. “Disputing Trump, Barr Says No Widespread Election Fraud.” Associated Press. 1 Dec 2020
38. Karoun Demirjian and Matt Zapotosky. “New Emails Detail Trump’s Efforts to Have Justice Department Take Up His False Election-Fraud Claims.” Washington Post. 15 June 2021
39. United States. Department of Justice. “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.” Majority Staff Report. October 2021
40. Josh Gerstein. “Another Law Firm Bails Out on Trump Campaign.” Politico. 13 Nov 2020
41. Alison Burkee. “Trump Campaign Lawyers Quit Pennsylvania Lawsuit – Again.” Forbes. 16 Nov 2020
42. Bradford Betz. “Chris Christi Rips Trump’s Legal Team As ‘National Embarrassment.” Fox News. 22 Nov 2020
43. Elise Viebeck, Emma Brown, and Rosalind Helderman. “Judges Turn Back Claims by Trump and His Allies in Six States as the President’s Legal Effort Founders.” Washington Post. 4 Dec 2020
44. Rosalind Helderman and Elise Viebeck. “‘The Last Wall’: How Dozens of Judges Across the Political Spectrum Rejected Trump’s Efforts to Overturn the Election.” Washington Post. 12 Dec 2020
45. Ian MacDougall. “The Trump Campaign Can’t Find a Judge Who Will Ignore Facts – But It’s Trying.” ProPublica. 13 Nov 2020
46. Aaron Blake. “Trump’s Own Lawyers Keep Undermining His Voter Fraud Claims.” Washington Post. 19 Nov 2020
47. Tessa Berenson. “Donald Trump And His Lawyers Are Making Sweeping Allegations of Voter Fraud in Public. In Court, They Say No Such Thing.” Time. 20 Nov 2020
48. Lisa Lerer. “Giuliani in Public: ‘It’s a Fraud.’ Giuliani in Court: ‘This Is Not a Fraud Case.’” New York Times. 18 Nov 2020
49. Jane C. Timm. “Rudy Giuliani Agrees to Stop Accusing Georgia Workers of Election Fraud.” NBC News. 22 May 2024
50. Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz. “Rudy Giuliani Made It ‘Dangerous’ for Georgia Election Workers, Attorney Says in Closing Arguments in Defamation Case.” CNN. 14 Dec 2023
51. Jan Wolfe and Tom Hals. “U.S. Judge Calls Trump Claim Challenging Biden Win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'.” Reuters. 21 Nov 2020
52. Tom Hals. “In Fresh Blow to Trump, U.S. Court Rejects Pennsylvania Election Case.” Reuters. 27 Nov 2020
53. Elise Viebeck. “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Mail Ballots with Prejudice in Another Defeat for Trump.” Washington Post. 28 Nov 2020
54. Jacob Bogage and Shawn Boburg. “Postal Service Finds No Evidence of Mail Ballot Fraud In Pa. Case Cited By Top Republicans.” Washington Post. 17 Mar 2021
55. Ken Ritter. “Nevada Judge Won’t Block Certifying Election, Rejects Revote.” Associated Press. 20 Nov 2020
56. Alan Feuer.” “Federal Judge in Wisconsin Deals Trump Another Court Defeat.” New York Times. 7 Jan 2021
57. Aaron Blake. “Trump Lawyers Suffer Embarrassing Rebukes from Judges Over Voter Fraud Claims.” Washington Post. 11 Nov 2020
58. “Someone’s Going to Get Killed: GA Official Blasts GOP Silence On Election Threats.” NPR. 1 Dec 2020
59. Amy Gardner. “’I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes’: In Extraordinary Hour-Long Call, Trump Pressures Georgia Secretary of State to Recalculate the Vote in his Favor.” Washington Post. 3 Jan 2021
60. Miriam Marini. “Protesters Descend on Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s Home After Dark.” Detroit Free Press. 6 Dec 2020
61. Brett Samuels. “Michigan Lawmakers Say They Will Follow ‘Normal’ Process’ Following Trump Meeting.” The Hill. 20 Nov 2020
62. Senators Edward McBroom, Lana Their, Jeff Irwin and John Bizon. “Report On the November 2020 Election in Michigan.” Michigan State Senate.
63. Amy B. Wang. “Georgia Judge Dismisses Most of Lawsuit That Alleged Fraudulent Absentee Ballots in Fulton County.” Washington Post. 25 June 2021
64. Kristina Torres. “Georgia AG Gets 53 Forms in Fraud Probe of Stacey Abrams’ Voter Registration Group.” 20 Sept 2017
65. Ben Nadler. “Voting Rights Become a Flashpoint in Georgia Governor’s Race.” Associated Press. 9 Oct 2018
66. Shannon Van Sant. “Judge Rules Against Georgia Election Law, Calling It A ‘Severe Burden’ For Voters.” 3 Nov 2018
67. Amy B. Wang. “Georgia Judge Dismisses Most of Lawsuit That Alleged Fraudulent Absentee Ballots in Fulton County.” Washington Post. 25 June 2021
68. Norman Eisen, Joshua Matz, Donald Ayer, Gwen Keyes Fleming, Colby Galliher, Jason Harrow and Raymond P. Tolentino. “Fulton County, Georgia’s Trump Investigation.” Brookings Institute. October 2021
69. Rosalind S. Helderman. “Our Democracy Is Imperiled’: Maricopa County Officials Decry 2020 Recount as a Sham and Call on Arizona Republicans to End the Process.” Washington Post. 17 May 2021
70. “Correcting the Record.” Maricopa County Elections Department. January 2022
The Perfect Boogeyman: Antifa
1. Ben Collins, Brandy Zadrozny and Emmanuelle Saliba. “White Nationalist Group Posing as Antifa Called for Violence on Twitter.” NBC News. 1 June 2020
2. Jan Wolfe. “U.S. Attorney General Barr Says Antifa ‘Flying Around’ U.S. To Incite Violence.” Reuters. 2 Sept 2020
3. Yael Halon. “AG Barr: US Facing New Form of ‘Urban Guerrilla Warfare’ Driven by Left’s ‘Lust for Power’.” Fox News. 9 Aug 2020
4. Neil MacFarquhar, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman. “Federal Arrests Show No Sign That Antifa Plotted Protests.” New York Times. 11 June 2020
5. Ryan Lucas. “No Sign of Antifa So Far in Justice Department Cases Brought Over Unrest.” NPR. 9 June 2020
6. United States. Department of Justice. “Over 300 People Facing Federal Charges for Crimes Committed During Nationwide Demonstrations.” 24 Sept 2020
7. Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo. “AP Finds Most Arrested in Protests Aren’t Leftist Radicals.” Associated Press. 20 Oct 2020
8. “Demonstrations and Political Violence in America.” ACLED. September 2020
9. Josh Margolin. “Intelligence Bulletin Warning of Protest-Related Violence Makes Little Mention Of ‘Antifa’.” ABC News. 9 June 2020
10. “Boogaloo Militia Extremist Steven Carrillo Gets Life Sentence for Murdering Santa Cruz Co. Sheriff's Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller.” CBS News. 27 Aug 2022
11. “Alleged ‘Boogaloo’ Member Pleads Guilty to Killing Federal Guard During 2020 Protests.” NPR. 11 Feb 2022
12. Krystal Nurse. “Boogaloo Member Stephen Parshall Sentenced for Plot to Blow Up Substation Near BLM Protest.” USA Today. 7 Sept 2023
13. “Man Accused in Las Vegas ‘Boogaloo’ Plot Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Crimes.” NBC News. 3 Nov 2022
14. Rio Yamat. “Man Accused in Las Vegas ‘Boogaloo’ Plot Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Crimes.” Associated Press. 14 Mar 2023
15. “Vegas Man Tied to Extremist Group Gets Life Sentence for Terrorism Plot Targeting 2020 Protests.” Associated Press. 6 Sept 2023
16. Rachel Levy. “Alleged Followers of Boogaloo Movement Face Charges Linked to Protests.” Wall Street Journal. 23 June 2020
17. Aruna Viswanatha and Rachel Levy. “FBI Highlights Lone Actors in Protest Violence.” Wall Street Journal. 26 June 2020
18. Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins. “Trump Loyalists Push Evidence-Free Claims that Antifa Activists Fueled Mob.” NBC News. 6 Jan 2021
19. Ryan J. Reilly. “Jan. 6 Rioters the Far Right Claimed Were Antifa Keep Getting Unmasked as Trump Supporters.” NBC News. 22 Dec 2023
20. Michael M. Grynbaum, Davey Alba and Reid J. Epstein. “How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at The Capitol Riot.” New York Times. 1 Mar 2021
21. Teo Armus. “Rep. Matt Gaetz and Other GOP Politicians Baselessly Suggest Antifa Is to Blame for Pro-Trump Mob Rioting into Capitol.” Washington Post. 7 Jan 2021
22. Davey Alba. “Antifa Falsehood Tops List of Misinformation After Capitol Rampage.” New York Times. 8 Jan 2021
23. Adam Goldman, Katie Benner and Zolan Kanno-Youngs. “How Trump’s Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention from The Far-Right Threat.” New York Times. 30 Jan 2021
24. Aaron Blake. “Wray Delivers a Big Blow to Jan. 6 Baseless Claims About Antifa, But the GOP Keeps Feeding Them.” Washington Post. 2 Mar 2021
25. Davey Alba. “F.B.I. Says There Is No Evidence Antifa Participated in Storming the Capitol.” New York Times. 8 Jan 2021
26. United States. District of Columbia Attorney’s Office. “Three Years Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol.” 5 Jan 2024
27. Ryan J. Reilly. “Jan. 6 Rioters the Far Right Claimed Were Antifa Keep Getting Unmasked as Trump Supporters.” NBC News. 22 Dec 2023
28. United States. District of Columbia Attorney’s Office. “Illinois Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach.” 3 June 2024
29. Jordan Fischer. “Trump Rally ‘Front Row Joe’ Who Sucker Punched Officer on Jan. 6 Gets Nearly 3 Years in Prison.” WUSA9. 22 Sept 2023
30. United States. District of Columbia Attorney’s Office. “Minnesota Man Sentenced to Prison on Felony Charge for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach.” 8 Oct 2024
31. Ryan J. Reilly. “Tennessee Man Admits to Conspiring with Jan. 6 Defendant to Kill FBI Agents.” NBC News. 10 Nov 2023
32. United States. District of Columbia Attorney’s Office. “Tennessee Man Convicted of Assaulting Law Enforcement and Other Charges for Actions During Jan 6. Capitol Breach.” 8 Nov 2024
33. Ryan Reilly. “Jan. 6 Rioter is Convicted of Plotting to Murder FBI Agents Who Investigated Him.” NBC News. 20 Nov 2024
34. Ryan J. Reilly. “Jan. 6 Defendant Who Wanted to Arrest ‘The Traitors’ to ‘Protect the Capitol’ is Sentenced to 4 Years.” NBC News. 26 Sept 2023
35. “Ex-WVa Councilman Gets 45-day Sentence in Capitol Riot Case.” AP. 14 June 2022
36. Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu. “Actions By Proud Boy at Capitol Show ‘Planning, Determination, And Coordination.” Washington Post. 29 Jan 2021
37. Spencer S. Hsu. “N.M. Official Who Warned Of ‘Blood Running Out Of’ U.S. Capitol Jailed Pending Trail in Jan. 6 Riot Case.” Washington Post. 1 Feb 2021
38. Aram Roston. “The Proud Boys are Back: How the Far-Right Group is Rebuilding to Rally behind Trump.” Reuters. 3 June 2024
39. Linley Sanders and Jonathan J. Cooper. “Americans Are Divided Along Party Lines Over Trump’s Actions in Election Cases, AP-NORC Poll Shows.” Associate Press. 16 Aug 2023
40. Daniel A. Cox. “After The Ballots Are Counted: Conspiracies, Political Violence, And American Exceptionalism.” Survey Center on American Life, American Enterprise Institute. 11 Feb 2021
41. Craig Silverman. “A Facial Recognition Company Says That Viral Washington Times ‘Antifa’ Story Is False.” Buzz Feed. 7 Jan 2021
42. Shawn Boburg and Dalton Bennett. “The Troll: A Fake Flag Burning at Gettysburg Was Only His Latest Hoax.” Washington Post. 17 July 2020
43. “Fascism.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 15 Dec 2024
44. Jeremy W. Peters, Michael S. Schmidt and Jim Rutenberg. “Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’.” New York Times. 2 May 2023
45. Eric Tucker and Ben Fox. “FBI Director Says Antifa Is an Ideology, Not an Organization.” Associated Press. 17 Sept 2020
46. Charles Kurzman. “Muslim-American Involvement with Violent Extremism, 2001-2020.” Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, Duke Sanford. 14 Jan 2021
47. “Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S. Increase in 2024.” ADL. 2 Dec 202426. Alex Horton and John Hudson. “Gorka and His Hard-Right Views on Islam Head Back to the White House.” Washington Post. 23 Nov 2024
48. Alexander Smith and Vladimir Banic. “Sebastian Gorka Made Nazi-Linked Vitezi Rend ‘Proud’ by Wearing Its Medal.” NBC News. 8 Apr 2017
49. Seth G. Jones and Catrina Doxsee. “Examining Extremism: Antifa.” Center for Strategic and International Studies. 24 June 2021
50. United States. Department of Homeland Security. “DHS Issues a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin.” 27 Jan 2021
51. United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021.” 1 Mar 2021
52. Robert O’Harrow Jr., Andrew Ba Tran and Derek Hawkins.
“The Rise of Domestic Extremism in America.” Washington Post. 12 Apr 2021
53. Luke Barr. “31 Arrested with Shields, Riot Gear Near Pride Parade in Idaho.” ABC News. 12 June 2022
54. United States. Department of Homeland Security “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” 7 Apr 2009
55. Peter Beinart. “Trump Shut Programs to Counter Violent Extremism.” Atlantic. 29 Oct 2018
56. United States. Department Of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation. “White Supremacists Extremism Poses Persistent Threat of Lethal Violence.” 10 May 2017
57. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Counterterrorism Policy Directive and Policy Guide.” 1 Apr 2018
58. Kristine Phillips. “DOJ Inspector General Finds Weaknesses in How the FBI Identifies Homegrown Terrorists.” USAToday. 4 Mar 2020
59. Alexander Mallin. “DOJ Watchdog Faults FBI Investigations Into ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists.” ABC News. 4 Mar 2020
60. Olivia Beavers. “Wray: Racially Motivated Violent Extremism Makes Up Most of FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Cases.” The Hill. 17 September 2020
61. Rachael Levy and Warren P. Strobel. “Extremists Pose a Violent Threat, FBI And DHS Officials Say.” Wall Street Journal. 24 Sept 2020
62. Alastair Reed and Kateira Aryaeinejad. “2020 Trends in Terrorism: From ISIS Fragmentation to Lone-Actor Attacks.” United States Institute of Peace.” 8 Jan 2021
63. Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky. “FBI Report Warned of ‘War’ at Capitol, Contradicting Claims There Was No Indication of Looming Violence.” Washington Post. 12 Jan 2021
64. United States. Senate. “Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of January 6, 2021.” 2023
65. United States. Department of Justice. “A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling of Its Confidential Human Sources and Intelligence Collection Efforts in the Lead Up to the January 6, 2021 Electoral Certification.” December 2024
66. Devlin Barrett. “Senate Panel Finds More Pre-Jan. 6 Intelligence Failures by FBI, DHS.” Washington Post. 27 June 2023
67. Perry Stein, Aaron C. Davis, Spencer S. Hsu and Tom Jackman.
“FBI Did Not Have Undercover Agents at Jan. 6 Riots, Watchdog Says.” Washington Post. 12 Dec 2024
68. “White Supremacy Extremism: The Transnational Rise of the Violent White Supremacist Movement.” The Soufan Center. September 2019
69. “ADL Report: Right-Wing Extremists Killed 38 People In 2019, Far Surpassing All Other Murderous Extremists.” Anti-Defamation League. 26 Feb 2020
70. Katrin Bennhold and Michael Schwirtz. “Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight On ‘Apocalyptically Minded” Global Far Right.” New York Times. 24 Jan 2021
71. United States. Office Of the Director of National Intelligence. “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021.” 1 Mar 2021
72. Drew Harwell, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Razzan Nakhlawi and Craig Timberg. “QAnon Reshaped Trump’s Party and Radicalized Believers. The Capitol Siege May Just Be the Start.” Washington Post. 13 Jan 2021
73. Robert O’Harrow Jr., Andrew Ba Tran and Derek Hawkins. “The Rise of Domestic Extremism in America.” Washington Post. 12 Apr 2021
74. United States. Government Accountability Office. “Domestic Terrorism: Further Actions Needed to Strengthen FBI and DHS Collaboration to Counter Threats.” February 2023
75. United States. Department of Homeland Security. “2025 Homeland Threat Assessment.” 2 Oct 2024
76. United States. National Institute of Justice. Steven Chermak, Matthew DeMichele, Jeff Gruenewald, Michael Jensen, Raven Lewis and Basia E. Lopez. “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism.” 4 Jan 2024
77. United States. Department of Homeland Security. “Summary of Terrorism-Related Threat to the United States.” 24 May 2023
78. Luke Mogelson. “Among the Insurrectionists.” New Yorker. 15 Jan 2021
79. Tom Dreisbach and Meg Anderson. “Nearly 1 in 5 Defendants in Capitol Riot Cases Served in The Military.” NPR. 21 Jan 2021
80. Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu. “Former FBI Official, A Navy Veteran, is ‘Key Figure” in Jan. 6 Riot, Prosecutors Allege.” Washington Post. 11 Feb 2021
81. Will Carless and Michael Corey. “To Protect and Slur.” Reveal. 14 June 2019
82. Emily Hoerner and Rick Tulsky. “Cops Across the U.S. Have Been Exposed Posting Racist and Violent Things on Facebook. Here’s the Proof.” BuzzFeed and Injustice Watch. 1 June 2019.
83. Pete Hegseth. “American Crusade.” 19 May 2020
Tinfoil Hats to Red Hats: The Conspiracy Theory Trap
1. Shawn Boburg, Dalton Bennett, Neena Satija and Ken Hoffman. “Ex-Cop Hits Truck Thinking It Held 750,000 Fraudulent Ballots, Police Say. It Held Air Conditioning Parts.” Washington Post. 21 Dec 2020
2. Charlie Haldeman. “Former HPD Captain Indicted in 2020 Aggravated Assault Case Over False Voter Fraud Claim.” KHOU11. 14 Dec 2021
3. Briahn Hawkins. “Second Charge Filed Against Former HPD Captain Over 2020 Attack Related to Election Fraud Conspiracy, Says Harris Co. DA.” KHOU11. 21 Apr 2022
4. John Wayne Ferguson. “Conservative Activist Steven Hotze Charged with More Felonies Over Voter Fraud Conspiracy Assault.” Houston Chronicle. 6 Sept 2024
5. “GOP Megadonor Steven Hotze Charged After a Bogus Election Fraud Scheme Led a Former Cop to Threaten a Repairman.” Texas Tribune. 20 Apr 2022
6. “2000 Mules Becomes the Most Successful Political Documentary in a Decade, Seen by 1 Million.” Salam Media Group. Business Wire. 12 May 2022
7. Hannah Knudsen. “Exclusive: Dinesh D’Souza Alleges Latest Film is ‘Smoking Gun’ on How Ballot Harvesting Manipulated the 2020 Election.” Breitbart. 30 Apr 2022
8. Robert Downen. “How the Debunked Conspiracy Film “2000 Mules” Became Texas Republican Orthodoxy.” Texas Tribune. 7 Oct 2022
9. “Dinesh D’Souza Says Sorry for ‘2000 Mules’.” Wall Street Journal. 4 Dec 2024
10. “A Belated Apology for ‘2000 Mules.’” Wall Street Journal. 5 June 2024
11. Patrick Svitek. “Trump’s Unsupported Claim of Voter Fraud Appears to Have Texas Roots.” 28 Nov 2016
12. “True the Vote Response to D’Souza on ‘2000 Mules.’” True the Vote. 2 Dec 2024
13. Amanda Robb. “Anatomy Of a Fake News Scandal.” Rolling Stone. 16 Nov 2017
14. United States. District of Columbia Attorney’s Office. “North Carolina Man Sentenced to Four-Year Prison Term for Armed Assault at Northwest Washington Pizza Restaurant.” 22 June 2017
15. Dave Collins. “Sandy Hook Families Offer to Settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 Billion Legal Debt for a Minimum of $85 Million.” 27 Nov 2023
Online Influence Operations
1. George Washington. Farewell Address. 1796
2. Philip N. Howard, Bharath Ganesh, Dimitra Liotsiou, John Kelly, and Camille François. “The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018.” University of Oxford and Graphika. Computational Propaganda Research Project.
3. Renee DiResta, Dr. Kris Shaffer, Becky Ruppel, David Sullivan, Robert Matney, Ryan Fox, Dr. Jonathan Albright and Ben Johnson. “The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency.”
4. James Andrew Lewis. “After the Breach: The Monetization and Illicit Use of Stolen Data,” Statement Before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance. 15 Mar 2018
5. United States. Intelligence Community Assessment. “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections.” 6 Jan 2017
6. Desmond Butler and David Rising. “Trump Adviser: Russian Meddling ‘Incontrovertible’.” Associated Press. 18 Feb 2018
7. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III. “Report On the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.” Volume I of II. March 2019
8. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III. “Report On the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.” Volume II of II. March 2019
9. Jessica Guynn. “Facebook Expands Scope of Russian Influence on Americans for Second Time.” USA Today. 1 Nov 2017
10. “Transcript: Dan Coats Warns the Lights Are ‘Blinking Red’ On Russian Cyberattacks.” NPR. 18 July 2018
11. Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu. “U.S. 2018 Elections ‘Under Attack’ By Russia: U.S. Intelligence Chief.” Reuters. 13 Feb 2018
12. Kevin Johnson. “’The United States is Under Attack’: Intelligence Chief Dan Coats Says Putin Targeting 2018 Elections.” USA Today. 13 Feb 2018
13. United States. Senate. “Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. Volume 4: Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment.”
14. United States. Senate. “Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities.”
15. United States. Department of Justice. Office of Special Counsel John H. Durham. “Report On Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns.” 12 May 2023
16. Eric Bradner and Aaron Pellish. “6 Key Lines from Trump’s Sunday Speech to Conservative Activists in Phoenix.” CNN Politics. 22 Dec 2024
17. “11 Times President Trump Has Called the Russia Probes a ‘Hoax’.” ABC News. 30 Oct 2017
18. “Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME.” TIME. 12 Dec 2024
19. Ellen Nakashima. “Russia’s Election Influence Efforts Show Sophistication, Officials Say.” Washington Post. 7 Sept 2024
20. Jon Swaine, Sarah Blaskey and Chris Dehghanpoor. “Viral Attack on Walz Features Fake Former Student Making False Claim.” Washington Post. 21 Oct 2024
21. Catherine Belton. “American Creating Deepfakes Targeting Harris Works with Russian Intel, Documents Show.” Washington Post. 23 Oct 2024
22. Jonathan Edwards and Kelsey Ables. “Georgia Official Warns of Likely Russian Interference in Presidential Election.” Washington Post. 1 Nov 2024
23. United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” 5 Feb 2024
24. Ellen Nakashima. “Top Senator Calls Salt Typhoon ‘Worst Telecom Hack in our Nation’s History’.” Washington Post. 21 Nov 2024
25. Sarah Krouse, Robert McMillan and Dustin Volz. “China-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. Internet Providers in New ‘Salt Typhoon’ Cyberattack.” Wall Street Journal. 26 Sept 2024
26. Dustin Volz, Aruna Viswanatha and Sarah Krouse. “Chinese Hackers Targeted Phones of Trump, Vance, and Harris Campaign.” Wall Street Journal. 25 Oct 2024
27. Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf and Shane Harris. “FBI Probing Alleged Iran Hack Attempts Targeting Trump, Biden Camps.” Washington Post. 12 Aug 2024
The Total Distortion of Economic Accomplishments
1. “Business Cycle Dating Committee Announcement June 8, 2020.” National Bureau of Economic Research. 8 June 2020
2. United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. “Table 1.1.5. Gross Domestic Product.” 13 Mar 2021
3. United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. “Table 1.1.1. Percent Change from Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product.” 13 Mar 2021
4. Chuck Jones. “Obama’s Last Three Years of Job Growth All Beat Trump’s Best Year.” Forbes. 7 Feb 2020
5. Sergei Klebnikov and Halah Touryalai. “We Looked at How the Stock Market Performed Under Every U.S. President Since Truman – And the Results Will Surprise You.” Forbes. 23 July 2020
6. Phil Rosen. “Trump vs. Biden: Who’s Actually Better for Stock Market Investors?” Inc. 26 July 2024
7. Matt Egan. “Biden is Beating Trump on Stocks. History Shows Markets Do Better Under Democrats.” CNN. 1 Nov 2024
8. Jeanne Whalen. “Trump Promised this Wisconsin Town a Manufacturing Boom. It Never Arrived.” New York Times. 22 Aug 2023