CONNECTING THE DOTS
The username on a livestream of the massacre ties him to racist conspiracy theories.
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‘HATE CRIME’
An 18-year-old shooter who was wearing tactical gear and a camera is in custody.
All in the Family
17 hours of recordings from the white supremacist group Patriot Front paint a disturbing picture of the organization’s inner workings.
‘WELCOME TO 2021’
A local complained about an alleged sex criminal going door to door amid a far-right “canvas” of voters. The county didn’t investigate.
FEVER DREAMS
The white nationalist America First movement has become embroiled in a bitter feud after its former treasurer got a girlfriend—a faux pas with the movement’s celibate leader.
‘UNAUTHORIZED DATABASES’
County clerks in the state keep breaking into the voting machines under their supervision to supposedly “prove” their election fraud conspiracy theories.
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
After EchoMail announced it found no fraud during an audit of the 2020 elections in New Mexico’s Otero County, the company’s right-wing allies accused it of “bailing.”
WILD TIMES
Ex-officials in Armstrong (pop. 875) have been slapped with over 100 charges related to stalking local women, electrocuting people as a party trick, and a host of financial crimes.
GRIM
Richard Mack faces charges that he sexually abused a child—but his father, who heads up an anti-government sheriff’s association, says the accusations are bogus.
Med Bed Madness
Fringe believers think the “med bed” cures late-stage cancer and keeps the 35th president alive and young. Now a host of strange businesses are peddling beds to the desperate.
