Extremists Links: Threat of 'Chaos and Discord' on Election Day

Supporters of the former president are reportedly planning to encourage 'chaos and discord' if Donald Trump is not reelected, and the Russian funding of a right-wing online media empire.

A man shouts into a bullhorn as Trump supporters gather in front of the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix, Arizona after the 2020 election. (Image: Olivier Touron / Getty Images)

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Far Right Extremists

• Trump and allies plant seeds for ‘chaos and discord’ if he loses, experts warn [The Guardian]

• Is post-election violence inevitable, win or lose? [The Week]

• How to Reduce the Danger of Social Media Facilitating Political Intimidation and Violence [TechPolicy]

• “He’s one of us”: Trump defends political violence against the press, while the press remains silent [Salon]

• Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong [The Conversation]

• The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists [ProPublica]

• The arrest of Telegram's founder has spooked the far right in the U.S. [NPR]

• Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation [Wired]

• Right-Wing Influencers Deny Knowledge of Russian Funding [Rolling Stone]

• Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding [Mother Jones]

• How some of the internet's most popular pro-Trump pundits ended up as paid messengers for Russian propaganda [NBC News]

• How right-wing podcaster from Chicago landed at center of federal probe into Russian meddling [Chicago Sun-Times]

• Meet the right-wing Canadian influencers accused of collaborating with an alleged Russian propaganda scheme [CBC]

• Blaze fires contributor linked to alleged Russian operation [Semafor]

• Timcast co-host says alleged Russian influence campaign could be a “psyop within a psyop” [MMFA]

• Trump admits he lost in 2020, leading white nationalist Nick Fuentes to disavow him [USA Today]

• This West Virginia castle is HQ to an infamous anti-immigrant website that’s influenced mainstream Republicans. Their neighbors are fighting back [Daily Dot]