How an Oath Keeper brought QAnon to the masses

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Claire Goforth
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EXCLUSIVE: The man behind QAlerts, a Q drop aggregator that brought the conspiracy theory to the masses, is an app developer in St. Augustine, Fla. He also was a director of the Florida Oath Keepers. My latest for @dailydot

How an Oath Keeper brought QAnon to the masses
QAlerts, a popular QAnon aggregating app, has numerous ties to a Florida Oath Keeper, a member of the group behind the Capitol riot.
dailydot.com
7:29 AM · Sep 16, 2021

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/qalerts-qanon-oathkeepers/

A poster known as Q, called on his tens of thousands of followers on Gab to head to Washington, D.C. to protest the 2020 election.

“When the President of The United States requests your presence, you show up,” it wrote, calling on “patriots” to show up on Jan. 6.

Around the same time, the head of the Oath Keepers, a militia steeped in far-right conspiracy theories, demanded the same of its members.

“It is CRITICAL that all patriots who can be in DC get to DC to stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight,” wrote Stewart Rhodes, who founded the organization, on the Oath Keepers website.

On that fateful day in January, both the QAnon and the militia movement in this country converged in a massive spectacle, breaching the U.S. Capitol as far-right forces across the country merged in an attempt to overthrow the election.

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