Two of Donald Trump’s most prominent allies in his fight to overturn the 2020 election are leading a coordinated, multi-state effort to probe local election officials in battlegrounds such as Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Texas ahead of the November election. Read more»

Arizona Republican Secretary of State nominee Mark Finchem held a fundraiser in California on Sunday that was hosted by a conspiracy theorist who believes 9/11 was orchestrated by the U.S. government and attended by a prominent QAnon influencer. Read more»

The Department of Justice on Wednesday fully released its 2019 memo that advised then-Attorney General William Barr about next steps after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Read more»

Four Republican members of Arizona’s state legislature attended a QAnon convention in Las Vegas over the weekend that included speakers from the fringe of the conspiracy world as well as antisemitic imagery. Read more»

Since Kari Lake left Fox 10 as a news anchor in March, she’s become a phenomenon: shooting into the lead in the Arizona gubernatorial primary and surging to the front of the field with a populist conservative message and 27 years’ worth of name ID from her career in television. Read more»

Ten months after the 2020 presidential election, Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are following Arizona in pushing investigations rooted in the false claim that the election was stolen. Read more»

The five pro-Trump organizations that have paid a combined almost $5.7 million to fund the Arizona Senate’s 'audit' are hardly household names, though several have been at the forefront of former President Donald Trump’s false narrative that fraud marred the 2020 election. Read more»

The leader of the Arizona Senate’s election review released a list of financial contributors, showing the 'audit' has been funded by organizations that have aggressively promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — and in some cases sought to overturn results. Read more» 2

The official Twitter account of Arizona's 'audit' and a semi-official account dubbed the “Audit War Room” were permanently suspended Tuesday - as were multiple other accounts related to election reviews in other states - for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam. Read more»

At a question-and-answer session following the premiere of a conspiracy theory film that had unprecedented access to the people conducting the Arizona Senate’s review of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results, the film’s participants said their baseless allegations of election fraud warranted “drastic” action. Read more»

The CEO of a Florida-based firm chosen to conduct the review of Maricopa County’s election results appeared in a conspiracy theorist film riddled with falsehoods about the 2020 election and directed by a man whose previous work claimed aliens were behind 9/11. Read more»

The audit team that Senate President Karen Fann selected to examine the 2020 general election in Maricopa County will be led by a company owned by an advocate of the “Stop the Steal” movement who repeatedly alleged on social media that the election was rigged against former President Donald Trump. Read more»

Two Republican legislators used their social media accounts to promote the radical QAnon conspiracy movement over the Independence Day weekend. Read more» 1

In the hours after the public release of the redacted report from Robert Mueller, President Trump took to Twitter with a message that reads, in part, "NO OBSTRUCTION!" That's not at all that the report says, though. Read more»

Bringing the first indictment directly related to Russian election meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three organizations with illegally plotting to sow political discord and sway the election for then-candidate Donald Trump. Read more»