Headlines — 12/14/21

Don Jr. and Fox News stars begged Mark Meadows to have Trump stop the Capitol insurrection, how cryptocurrency revolutionized the white supremacist movement, the Jan. 6 committee will identify Republican lawmakers linked to Jan. 6, and more.

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‘America First’ Candidate Joe Kent Appeals To Extremist Media Outlets For Support

In a Feb. 18, 2021 tweet, Joe Kent announced his candidacy against Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA). Herrera Beutler, who represents Washington’s 3rd District, was one of ten Republican House members who voted to impeach former president Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Harrison Smith: Decrease In America’s White Population Is Evidence Of ‘White Genocide’

The U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed that the white population “decreased by 8.6% since 2010.” On his Infowars show, The American Journal, host Harrison Smith reacted to the news by promoting the racist “white genocide” and “Great Replacement” conspiracy theories.

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‘Fraud Vitiates Everything’: Infowars Host Uses 19th Century Court Case To Falsely Claim 2020 Election Can Be Overturned

Since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on Nov. 7, 2020, the far-right has been in a state of denial. Right-wing ideologues have pushed laughably false conspiracies about voter fraud and endorsed ludicrous theories about how the election might be overturned.

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Infowars Host Rants About Killing ‘Treasonous’ Biden Administration Officials

On the Jul. 14, 2021 episode of his Infowars show The American Journal, host Harrison Smith went on a rant about how Biden administration officials “deserve to die.” Smith also said that former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “should be killed” before cautioning viewers not to commit violent acts.

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Nick Fuentes: Immigrants Are Being ‘Weaponized’ Against America

On July 7, 2021, white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes, who is currently traveling cross-country as part of his “White Boy Summer” tour, visited Infowars’ Austin, TX headquarters. During an appearance that day on The Alex Jones Show, he complained that immigrants from Africa and Latin America had been “weaponized” against America.

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Lauren Witzke Claims Equality Act Will ‘Make Christianity A Crime’

On the July 1, 2021 episode of The Alex Jones Show, racist dingbat Lauren Witzke falsely claimed that the proposed Equality Act would “make Christianity a crime” during a rant about her Wells Fargo account being shut down. Witzke also made a number of other false claims, including that pastors would be forced to perform same-sex weddings.

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Harrison Smith: 1965 Immigration Law Turned America Into ‘Dumping Ground For The Third World’

During the May 24, 2021 episode of his Infowars show The American Journal, host Harrison Smith went on anti-immigrant tirade. This time Smith, who has referred to migrant children as the “unwanted detritus of the Third World,” lashed out at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which did away with the country’s national origin quotas.

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