Where the “Truckloads of Ballots from New York to Pennsylvania” Conspiracy Really Came From Another favorite MAGA story from twenty twenty goes like this. A brave truck driver says he hauled hundreds of thousands of completed ballots from New York into Pennsylvania. The trailer was full of fraudulent votes and then the trailer itself mysteriously […]
Where the “Sharpies Ruined Trump Votes in Arizona” Conspiracy Really Came From On Election Day in twenty twenty a new story started flying around Arizona. Voters said poll workers were handing out Sharpie markers. The rumor said that if you used a Sharpie to fill out your ballot the ink would bleed through and the
Where the “Thousands of Dead People Voted in 2020” Conspiracy Really Came From One of the loudest claims after the twenty twenty election was simple. Thousands of dead people voted. You saw it in memes. You heard it in hearings. You heard it from Trump himself and from a long list of surrogates who wanted
Where the “Midnight Ballot Dump in Michigan” Conspiracy Really Came From If you hang around MAGA spaces long enough you will hear some version of this story. At three in the morning in Michigan, they say, there was a mysterious ballot dump. Thousands of votes came in out of nowhere, almost all for Joe Biden,
Where the “Suitcases of Ballots in Georgia” Conspiracy Really Came From If you listen to MAGA media, you have heard this story. On election night in Georgia, they say, workers kicked everyone out of the room, pulled hidden suitcases of ballots out from under a table, and secretly counted fake votes for Joe Biden. In
How MAGA Election Fraud Conspiracies All Use the Same Script Once you see the pattern in MAGA election fraud conspiracies, you cannot unsee it. The names change. The states change. The details change. The script stays the same. In this series we already walked through where the Foreign Countries Controlled Dominion and Smartmatic story really
After the twenty twenty election, one of the loudest claims in MAGA media went like this. Foreign countries such as China and Venezuela secretly controlled voting companies like Dominion and Smartmatic and used that control to steal the election from Donald Trump. It sounds dramatic. It names enemies. It explains away a loss. What it
After Donald Trump lost in 2020, a very specific story took off in his circles. The claim was simple. Mike Pence, as vice president, could refuse to count certain states electors on January six and either send the results back to the states or hand the race to Trump. If that were true, any future
The Pattern You Already Know You ask a straightforward question. Something simple. Something about facts. Something that has a real answer. MAGA reacts the same way every time. They get mad immediately. They dodge the question. They call you a name. They post something personal about you online. They declare victory without answering anything. They
