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This is the final piece in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are affecting the election process.
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Editor鈥檚 note: This is the first in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election.
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The extremist Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association placed billboards on Iowa鈥檚 highways after signing a deal with Lamar Advertising. Constitutional Sheriffs leader Richard Mack then pitched a national billboard campaign to collaborators, including Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb. It was one of many times Mack reached out to Lamb for collaboration, according to emails Hatewatch obtained.
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Constitutional Sheriffs leader Richard Mack emailed a video related to an investigation into his son鈥檚 alleged child abuse to Pinal County, Arizona, Sheriff Mark Lamb in 2021 to ask if law enforcement could investigate the child鈥檚 mother. The information came from public records Hatewatch obtained. This is the second known child abuse investigation into Rich Solon Mack, Richard Mack鈥檚 son. Rich Mack faces charges for alleged child abuse in Kentucky.
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The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) is no longer offering continuing education credit for the training courses taught by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA).
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Hard-right 鈥渃onstitutional sheriff鈥� Charles 鈥淐huck鈥� Austin Jenkins of Frederick County, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury this week for breaking federal gun laws.
The Oath Keepers organization claims to be defending the U.S. Constitution and fighting tyranny, but as former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove describes, the group is actually 鈥渟elling the revolution.鈥� The threats to American liberties that Oath Keepers say the federal government is...
Although their website claims not to be affiliated with the sovereign citizen movement, the NLA, and in its former incarnation as the New York Liberty Alliance (NYLA), has propagated antigovernment conspiracy theories and other radical beliefs commonly found among sovereign citizens, such as Agenda...
