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The main thing to know about QAnon is that it's a wide-ranging conspiracy theory with no basis in reality. If you have noticed a sudden increase in social media posts with the #SaveTheChildren or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. You can track QAnon’s arc, like most things in America, through its relationship with ...

Q hasn’t posted anything since 2022. But a staggering number of Americans still buy into QAnon, the conspiracy movement steeped in claims that Satan-worshipping pedophiles run the US government. Today ...

Despite Q's long silence, QAnon beliefs have never been more prevalent—and as Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, excitement among the faithful is at an all-time high. QAnon—the ...

QAnon. Ever heard of it? If you're like most Americans, the answer to that question is "no." In fact, fully three quarters (76%) of Americans said they had never heard of the broad-scale, ...

As the 2020 election approached, President Donald Trump had two problematic groups of supporters that he didn’t want to alienate. One was the Proud Boys, an extremist group that had already earned a ...

If you watched any of President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday night, you likely caught a glimpse of people holding up signs with "Q" or "QAnon" printed on them. Those ...

Secret Service agents covering former president Donald Trump on July 13 following gunfire at his rally in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Analysis by Philip Bump The attempt on Donald ...

I once met a former Scientologist at a backyard barbecue who explained to me how L. Ron Hubbard, the mediocre science fiction author who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, got his ...

Nicole Shanahan, the former running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appeared to promote a conspiracy theory about government-led child abuse Thursday during an event ...