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  1. A #MAGA County’s Top #Election Official Wants to Hire #ElectionDenial Superstar Tina Peters

    Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related #conspiracy theories.

    wired.com/story/a-maga-countys

  2. A #MAGA County’s Top #Election Official Wants to Hire #ElectionDenial Superstar Tina Peters

    Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related #conspiracy theories.

    wired.com/story/a-maga-countys

  3. A #MAGA County’s Top #Election Official Wants to Hire #ElectionDenial Superstar Tina Peters

    Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related #conspiracy theories.

    wired.com/story/a-maga-countys

  4. A County’s Top Official Wants to Hire Superstar Tina Peters

    Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related theories.

    wired.com/story/a-maga-countys

  5. A #MAGA County’s Top #Election Official Wants to Hire #ElectionDenial Superstar Tina Peters

    Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related #conspiracy theories.

    wired.com/story/a-maga-countys

  6. Mike Lindell just got crushed in Minnesota's GOP governor primary, losing to Lisa Demuth by more than 45,000 votes even with Trump's endorsement. Now he's refusing to concede, citing vague "irregularities" he can't explain, the same playbook he's used since 2020.

    Full breakdown on The Democracy Advocate:
    https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/mike-lindell-refuses-to-concede/

    🗳️ #MikeLindell #Minnesota #ElectionDenial #MNGov #Trump
  7. Mike Lindell Refuses to Concede After Losing Minnesota Governor Primary

    Mike Lindell refuses to concede after losing Minnesota's GOP governor primary, citing vague voting irregularities despite trailing by 45,000 votes.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/elect

  8. CNN Panel Reacts with Laughter to MAGA Pundit's Remarks on 2020 Election Denial

    📰 Original title: 'That's what's cringe?' Laughter erupts as MAGA pundit reveals her real target

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/cnn-panel-reac

    #politics #electiondenial #cnnpanel

  9. CNN Panel Reacts with Laughter to MAGA Pundit's Remarks on 2020 Election Denial

    📰 Original title: 'That's what's cringe?' Laughter erupts as MAGA pundit reveals her real target

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/cnn-panel-reac

    #politics #electiondenial #cnnpanel

  10. CNN Panel Reacts with Laughter to MAGA Pundit's Remarks on 2020 Election Denial

    📰 Original title: 'That's what's cringe?' Laughter erupts as MAGA pundit reveals her real target

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/cnn-panel-reac

    #politics #electiondenial #cnnpanel

  11. CNN Panel Reacts with Laughter to MAGA Pundit's Remarks on 2020 Election Denial

    📰 Original title: 'That's what's cringe?' Laughter erupts as MAGA pundit reveals her real target

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/cnn-panel-reac

    #politics #electiondenial #cnnpanel

  12. This is who we are now, right?
    [WSJ-gifted article]: Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears By Samantha Pearson,July 25, 2026

    Move comes amid concerns Trump delegation could help cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election

    wsj.com/world/americas/brazil-

  13. This is who we are now, right?
    [WSJ-gifted article]: Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears By Samantha Pearson,July 25, 2026

    Move comes amid concerns Trump delegation could help cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election

    wsj.com/world/americas/brazil-

    #brazil #electiondenial

  14. This is who we are now, right?
    [WSJ-gifted article]: Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears By Samantha Pearson,July 25, 2026

    Move comes amid concerns Trump delegation could help cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election

    wsj.com/world/americas/brazil-

    #brazil #electiondenial

  15. This is who we are now, right?
    [WSJ-gifted article]: Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears By Samantha Pearson,July 25, 2026

    Move comes amid concerns Trump delegation could help cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election

    wsj.com/world/americas/brazil-

    #brazil #electiondenial

  16. This is who we are now, right?
    [WSJ-gifted article]: Brazil Denies Visas to U.S. Officials Over Election-Interference Fears By Samantha Pearson,July 25, 2026

    Move comes amid concerns Trump delegation could help cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election

    wsj.com/world/americas/brazil-

    #brazil #electiondenial

  17. The Republican voting rights reform: The modern day poll tax

    – "Everyone has a passport"—Err, actually no. Half of the Americans don't. 1 in 10 hasn't a birth certificate
    – "Everyone is similarly impacted, so it's okay"—Nope, women and working class people are more impacted

    youtube.com/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    piped.video/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GUHm6Mf

    #uspol #politics #Project2025 #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #ElectionDenial

  18. The Republican voting rights reform: The modern day poll tax

    – "Everyone has a passport"—Err, actually no. Half of the Americans don't. 1 in 10 hasn't a birth certificate
    – "Everyone is similarly impacted, so it's okay"—Nope, women and working class people are more impacted

    youtube.com/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    piped.video/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GUHm6Mf

    #uspol #politics #Project2025 #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #ElectionDenial

  19. The Republican voting rights reform: The modern day poll tax

    – "Everyone has a passport"—Err, actually no. Half of the Americans don't. 1 in 10 hasn't a birth certificate
    – "Everyone is similarly impacted, so it's okay"—Nope, women and working class people are more impacted

    youtube.com/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    piped.video/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GUHm6Mf

    #uspol #politics #Project2025 #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #ElectionDenial

  20. The Republican voting rights reform: The modern day poll tax

    – "Everyone has a passport"—Err, actually no. Half of the Americans don't. 1 in 10 hasn't a birth certificate
    – "Everyone is similarly impacted, so it's okay"—Nope, women and working class people are more impacted

    youtube.com/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    piped.video/watch?v=GUHm6MfnPvw

    inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GUHm6Mf

    #uspol #politics #Project2025 #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdminstration #SCOTUS #ElectionInterference #ElectionDenial

  21. @jaredlholt.bsky.social

    As I read the headline and article, I kept wanting to know how much Tina Peters has cost the state of Colorado.

    A web search revealed articles from years ago describing it as $1.3-million and rising.

    #ElectionDenial

  22. @jaredlholt.bsky.social

    As I read the headline and article, I kept wanting to know how much Tina Peters has cost the state of Colorado.

    A web search revealed articles from years ago describing it as $1.3-million and rising.

    #ElectionDenial

  23. @jaredlholt.bsky.social

    As I read the headline and article, I kept wanting to know how much Tina Peters has cost the state of Colorado.

    A web search revealed articles from years ago describing it as $1.3-million and rising.

    #ElectionDenial

  24. @jaredlholt.bsky.social

    As I read the headline and article, I kept wanting to know how much Tina Peters has cost the state of Colorado.

    A web search revealed articles from years ago describing it as $1.3-million and rising.

    #ElectionDenial

  25. @jaredlholt.bsky.social

    As I read the headline and article, I kept wanting to know how much Tina Peters has cost the state of Colorado.

    A web search revealed articles from years ago describing it as $1.3-million and rising.

    #ElectionDenial

  26. Voting machines are a brisk and effective means of tabulating votes, unlike error-prone humans counting paper ballots. Now comes the next—and only—logical and moral step to ensuring the freest and safest elections while keeping our votes secret and conspiracist bunk at bay: make them open-source.

    technologyreview.com/2024/03/0

    #electionDenial #electionIntegrity #elections #electionSafety #electionSecurity #electionTransparency #eVoting #openSource #publicScrutiny #votingRights #VotingWorks

  27. Voting machines are a brisk and effective means of tabulating votes, unlike error-prone humans counting paper ballots. Now comes the next—and only—logical and moral step to ensuring the freest and safest elections while keeping our votes secret and conspiracist bunk at bay: make them open-source.

    technologyreview.com/2024/03/0

    #electionDenial #electionIntegrity #elections #electionSafety #electionSecurity #electionTransparency #eVoting #openSource #publicScrutiny #votingRights #VotingWorks

  28. Voting machines are a brisk and effective means of tabulating votes, unlike error-prone humans counting paper ballots. Now comes the next—and only—logical and moral step to ensuring the freest and safest elections while keeping our votes secret and conspiracist bunk at bay: make them open-source.

    technologyreview.com/2024/03/0

    #electionDenial #electionIntegrity #elections #electionSafety #electionSecurity #electionTransparency #eVoting #openSource #publicScrutiny #votingRights #VotingWorks

  29. Voting machines are a brisk and effective means of tabulating votes, unlike error-prone humans counting paper ballots. Now comes the next—and only—logical and moral step to ensuring the freest and safest elections while keeping our votes secret and conspiracist bunk at bay: make them open-source.

    technologyreview.com/2024/03/0

    #electionDenial #electionIntegrity #elections #electionSafety #electionSecurity #electionTransparency #eVoting #openSource #publicScrutiny #votingRights #VotingWorks

  30. Voting machines are a brisk and effective means of tabulating votes, unlike error-prone humans counting paper ballots. Now comes the next—and only—logical and moral step to ensuring the freest and safest elections while keeping our votes secret and conspiracist bunk at bay: make them open-source.

    technologyreview.com/2024/03/0

    #electionDenial #electionIntegrity #elections #electionSafety #electionSecurity #electionTransparency #eVoting #openSource #publicScrutiny #votingRights #VotingWorks

  31. #ElonMusk 's newest #AI venture SPIRALS out of control as right-wing bias on specific events including the #holocaust, #slavery in the US, #electiondenial and MORE reveal ALARMING consequences of people using the new style of wikipedia and getting DANGEROUS #misinformation youtu.be/Hfrb4jnJYUU?...

    Elon Musk's Tech Disaster UNRA...

  32. #ElonMusk 's newest #AI venture SPIRALS out of control as right-wing bias on specific events including the #holocaust, #slavery in the US, #electiondenial and MORE reveal ALARMING consequences of people using the new style of wikipedia and getting DANGEROUS #misinformation youtu.be/Hfrb4jnJYUU?...

    Elon Musk's Tech Disaster UNRA...

  33. #ElonMusk 's newest #AI venture SPIRALS out of control as right-wing bias on specific events including the #holocaust, #slavery in the US, #electiondenial and MORE reveal ALARMING consequences of people using the new style of wikipedia and getting DANGEROUS #misinformation youtu.be/Hfrb4jnJYUU?...

    Elon Musk's Tech Disaster UNRA...

  34. Trump’s grip on Georgia’s governor race is undeniable, reports The Washington Post. Endorsed by Trump, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones champions election denial, while opponents like Brad Raffensperger and Chris Carr take varied stances. Former GOP Geoff Duncan uses Trump’s demands politically, aiming to unite diverse voters. Insight: election denial deepens GOP divides. Read more: alternet.org/trump-duncan-geor #Trump #GeorgiaElection #GOP #Raffensperger #Duncan #BurtJones #GeorgiaPolitics #2020Election #ElectionDenial

  35. In what must be understood as a propaganda program designed to normalize not only fascist ideology, but also specifically pro-Trump regime and cult of personality messaging, noted liar. conspiracy theorist and failed Senatorial candidate Kari Lake has now announced Voice of America will be carrying the One America News feed.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network

    "Kari Lake, a special adviser to the body that oversees the government-funded VoA, announced on X that One America News (OAN), which was sued by voting machine companies for promoting claims of election fraud, will provide “newsfeed and video service”.

    “Every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both,” Lake said. “OAN is one of the few family-owned American media networks left in the United States. We are grateful for their generosity.”

    The news that OAN, which many see as a pro-Trump propaganda outfit, will provide content for VoA, which has traditionally been a more politically neutral news source, is a move that will spur further fears about Donald Trump’s crackdown on the press.

    OAN, which spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus epidemic, almost exclusively interviews Republican politicians and rightwing voices, including this week the founder of an organization that denies the existence of the climate crisis."

    For those of you blessedly unfamiliar with OAN, calling it a "hard right" news organization is absolutely The Guardian being coy. These folks are malevolent fascists, and they produce content which satisfies a rabidly pro-Trump, white nationalist audience that thinks Fox News isn't nazi enough for their tastes. This is, for all intents and purposes, like turning a state-controlled media news feed over to Bannon-era Breitbart News or Candice Owens. In other words the content OAN creates isn't news, it's propaganda, riddled with lies, nazi conspiracy theories, and cult of personality adulation for Downmarket Mussolini; if you're not seeing the parallels between what the Trump regime is trying to do here, and the adoring state-controlled media that fueled Hitler's cult of personality in Nazi Germany, it's because you're either being dishonest, or you're simply ignorant of interwar history.

    Of course no knowledgeable person on the left is going to cry for the demise of Voice of America, and to a significant degree VOA has always been state news in so much as it existed to project a pro-American image into "enemy territory" during the Cold War and the War on Terror. The difference here is that now, VOA isn't merely pro-American or even pro-imperialist propaganda; it's pro-Trump's cult of personality propaganda. Furthermore the exact same global reach that made VOA a problem in the hands of US imperialist governments, now means that OAN, the Cult of Trump, and American fascism will be on display globally for all the world to observe and use a defining prism through which to see American life, news, and politics. Finally, while it may be hard to imagine now, projecting Trump's media suppression policies and actives out a couple of years, it's not hard to see how Voice of America could easily become much more popular domestically as Trump delegitimizes, censors, and revokes the broadcast licenses for news organizations that won't promote his deceptions, regime, or cult. In other words, this is the kind of small move that's easy to ignore, but remains part of a much larger plan to control the American media environment and use that control to prop up the Trump regime and its fascist agenda.

    As a closing aside, I would encourage readers to please take note of the crass dishonesty and manipulative propaganda employed by Lake to justify this two stage transformation at VOA. First, she explained the clearly political and retaliatory decision to cancel VOA's sharing of news feeds from the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse by pointing out that VOA had an almost billion-dollar budget and could produce its own news feeds. Now, she's justifying the installation of a pro-Trump cult fascist propaganda network to provide that very same news feed, under the auspices of saving money for the government and the American taxpayer. This woman is a crass liar, who thinks you're a fucking rube and absolutely none of this has anything to do with government spending on Voice of America.

    #Fascism #Trump #Propaganda #KariLake #ElectionDenial #ConspiracyTheories #Nazism #StateMedia #IdeologicalPolicing #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #Media #Censorship #USPol

  36. In what must be understood as a propaganda program designed to normalize not only fascist ideology, but also specifically pro-Trump regime and cult of personality messaging, noted liar. conspiracy theorist and failed Senatorial candidate Kari Lake has now announced Voice of America will be carrying the One America News feed.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network

    "Kari Lake, a special adviser to the body that oversees the government-funded VoA, announced on X that One America News (OAN), which was sued by voting machine companies for promoting claims of election fraud, will provide “newsfeed and video service”.

    “Every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both,” Lake said. “OAN is one of the few family-owned American media networks left in the United States. We are grateful for their generosity.”

    The news that OAN, which many see as a pro-Trump propaganda outfit, will provide content for VoA, which has traditionally been a more politically neutral news source, is a move that will spur further fears about Donald Trump’s crackdown on the press.

    OAN, which spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus epidemic, almost exclusively interviews Republican politicians and rightwing voices, including this week the founder of an organization that denies the existence of the climate crisis."

    For those of you blessedly unfamiliar with OAN, calling it a "hard right" news organization is absolutely The Guardian being coy. These folks are malevolent fascists, and they produce content which satisfies a rabidly pro-Trump, white nationalist audience that thinks Fox News isn't nazi enough for their tastes. This is, for all intents and purposes, like turning a state-controlled media news feed over to Bannon-era Breitbart News or Candice Owens. In other words the content OAN creates isn't news, it's propaganda, riddled with lies, nazi conspiracy theories, and cult of personality adulation for Downmarket Mussolini; if you're not seeing the parallels between what the Trump regime is trying to do here, and the adoring state-controlled media that fueled Hitler's cult of personality in Nazi Germany, it's because you're either being dishonest, or you're simply ignorant of interwar history.

    Of course no knowledgeable person on the left is going to cry for the demise of Voice of America, and to a significant degree VOA has always been state news in so much as it existed to project a pro-American image into "enemy territory" during the Cold War and the War on Terror. The difference here is that now, VOA isn't merely pro-American or even pro-imperialist propaganda; it's pro-Trump's cult of personality propaganda. Furthermore the exact same global reach that made VOA a problem in the hands of US imperialist governments, now means that OAN, the Cult of Trump, and American fascism will be on display globally for all the world to observe and use a defining prism through which to see American life, news, and politics. Finally, while it may be hard to imagine now, projecting Trump's media suppression policies and actives out a couple of years, it's not hard to see how Voice of America could easily become much more popular domestically as Trump delegitimizes, censors, and revokes the broadcast licenses for news organizations that won't promote his deceptions, regime, or cult. In other words, this is the kind of small move that's easy to ignore, but remains part of a much larger plan to control the American media environment and use that control to prop up the Trump regime and its fascist agenda.

    As a closing aside, I would encourage readers to please take note of the crass dishonesty and manipulative propaganda employed by Lake to justify this two stage transformation at VOA. First, she explained the clearly political and retaliatory decision to cancel VOA's sharing of news feeds from the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse by pointing out that VOA had an almost billion-dollar budget and could produce its own news feeds. Now, she's justifying the installation of a pro-Trump cult fascist propaganda network to provide that very same news feed, under the auspices of saving money for the government and the American taxpayer. This woman is a crass liar, who thinks you're a fucking rube and absolutely none of this has anything to do with government spending on Voice of America.

    #Fascism #Trump #Propaganda #KariLake #ElectionDenial #ConspiracyTheories #Nazism #StateMedia #IdeologicalPolicing #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #Media #Censorship #USPol

  37. In what must be understood as a propaganda program designed to normalize not only fascist ideology, but also specifically pro-Trump regime and cult of personality messaging, noted liar. conspiracy theorist and failed Senatorial candidate Kari Lake has now announced Voice of America will be carrying the One America News feed.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network

    "Kari Lake, a special adviser to the body that oversees the government-funded VoA, announced on X that One America News (OAN), which was sued by voting machine companies for promoting claims of election fraud, will provide “newsfeed and video service”.

    “Every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both,” Lake said. “OAN is one of the few family-owned American media networks left in the United States. We are grateful for their generosity.”

    The news that OAN, which many see as a pro-Trump propaganda outfit, will provide content for VoA, which has traditionally been a more politically neutral news source, is a move that will spur further fears about Donald Trump’s crackdown on the press.

    OAN, which spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus epidemic, almost exclusively interviews Republican politicians and rightwing voices, including this week the founder of an organization that denies the existence of the climate crisis."

    For those of you blessedly unfamiliar with OAN, calling it a "hard right" news organization is absolutely The Guardian being coy. These folks are malevolent fascists, and they produce content which satisfies a rabidly pro-Trump, white nationalist audience that thinks Fox News isn't nazi enough for their tastes. This is, for all intents and purposes, like turning a state-controlled media news feed over to Bannon-era Breitbart News or Candice Owens. In other words the content OAN creates isn't news, it's propaganda, riddled with lies, nazi conspiracy theories, and cult of personality adulation for Downmarket Mussolini; if you're not seeing the parallels between what the Trump regime is trying to do here, and the adoring state-controlled media that fueled Hitler's cult of personality in Nazi Germany, it's because you're either being dishonest, or you're simply ignorant of interwar history.

    Of course no knowledgeable person on the left is going to cry for the demise of Voice of America, and to a significant degree VOA has always been state news in so much as it existed to project a pro-American image into "enemy territory" during the Cold War and the War on Terror. The difference here is that now, VOA isn't merely pro-American or even pro-imperialist propaganda; it's pro-Trump's cult of personality propaganda. Furthermore the exact same global reach that made VOA a problem in the hands of US imperialist governments, now means that OAN, the Cult of Trump, and American fascism will be on display globally for all the world to observe and use a defining prism through which to see American life, news, and politics. Finally, while it may be hard to imagine now, projecting Trump's media suppression policies and actives out a couple of years, it's not hard to see how Voice of America could easily become much more popular domestically as Trump delegitimizes, censors, and revokes the broadcast licenses for news organizations that won't promote his deceptions, regime, or cult. In other words, this is the kind of small move that's easy to ignore, but remains part of a much larger plan to control the American media environment and use that control to prop up the Trump regime and its fascist agenda.

    As a closing aside, I would encourage readers to please take note of the crass dishonesty and manipulative propaganda employed by Lake to justify this two stage transformation at VOA. First, she explained the clearly political and retaliatory decision to cancel VOA's sharing of news feeds from the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse by pointing out that VOA had an almost billion-dollar budget and could produce its own news feeds. Now, she's justifying the installation of a pro-Trump cult fascist propaganda network to provide that very same news feed, under the auspices of saving money for the government and the American taxpayer. This woman is a crass liar, who thinks you're a fucking rube and absolutely none of this has anything to do with government spending on Voice of America.

    #Fascism #Trump #Propaganda #KariLake #ElectionDenial #ConspiracyTheories #Nazism #StateMedia #IdeologicalPolicing #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #Media #Censorship #USPol

  38. In what must be understood as a propaganda program designed to normalize not only fascist ideology, but also specifically pro-Trump regime and cult of personality messaging, noted liar. conspiracy theorist and failed Senatorial candidate Kari Lake has now announced Voice of America will be carrying the One America News feed.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network

    "Kari Lake, a special adviser to the body that oversees the government-funded VoA, announced on X that One America News (OAN), which was sued by voting machine companies for promoting claims of election fraud, will provide “newsfeed and video service”.

    “Every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both,” Lake said. “OAN is one of the few family-owned American media networks left in the United States. We are grateful for their generosity.”

    The news that OAN, which many see as a pro-Trump propaganda outfit, will provide content for VoA, which has traditionally been a more politically neutral news source, is a move that will spur further fears about Donald Trump’s crackdown on the press.

    OAN, which spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus epidemic, almost exclusively interviews Republican politicians and rightwing voices, including this week the founder of an organization that denies the existence of the climate crisis."

    For those of you blessedly unfamiliar with OAN, calling it a "hard right" news organization is absolutely The Guardian being coy. These folks are malevolent fascists, and they produce content which satisfies a rabidly pro-Trump, white nationalist audience that thinks Fox News isn't nazi enough for their tastes. This is, for all intents and purposes, like turning a state-controlled media news feed over to Bannon-era Breitbart News or Candice Owens. In other words the content OAN creates isn't news, it's propaganda, riddled with lies, nazi conspiracy theories, and cult of personality adulation for Downmarket Mussolini; if you're not seeing the parallels between what the Trump regime is trying to do here, and the adoring state-controlled media that fueled Hitler's cult of personality in Nazi Germany, it's because you're either being dishonest, or you're simply ignorant of interwar history.

    Of course no knowledgeable person on the left is going to cry for the demise of Voice of America, and to a significant degree VOA has always been state news in so much as it existed to project a pro-American image into "enemy territory" during the Cold War and the War on Terror. The difference here is that now, VOA isn't merely pro-American or even pro-imperialist propaganda; it's pro-Trump's cult of personality propaganda. Furthermore the exact same global reach that made VOA a problem in the hands of US imperialist governments, now means that OAN, the Cult of Trump, and American fascism will be on display globally for all the world to observe and use a defining prism through which to see American life, news, and politics. Finally, while it may be hard to imagine now, projecting Trump's media suppression policies and actives out a couple of years, it's not hard to see how Voice of America could easily become much more popular domestically as Trump delegitimizes, censors, and revokes the broadcast licenses for news organizations that won't promote his deceptions, regime, or cult. In other words, this is the kind of small move that's easy to ignore, but remains part of a much larger plan to control the American media environment and use that control to prop up the Trump regime and its fascist agenda.

    As a closing aside, I would encourage readers to please take note of the crass dishonesty and manipulative propaganda employed by Lake to justify this two stage transformation at VOA. First, she explained the clearly political and retaliatory decision to cancel VOA's sharing of news feeds from the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse by pointing out that VOA had an almost billion-dollar budget and could produce its own news feeds. Now, she's justifying the installation of a pro-Trump cult fascist propaganda network to provide that very same news feed, under the auspices of saving money for the government and the American taxpayer. This woman is a crass liar, who thinks you're a fucking rube and absolutely none of this has anything to do with government spending on Voice of America.

    #Fascism #Trump #Propaganda #KariLake #ElectionDenial #ConspiracyTheories #Nazism #StateMedia #IdeologicalPolicing #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #Media #Censorship #USPol