Kyle Spencer is an award-winning journalist and the author of "Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement." Kyle explains how political activists like Charlie Kirk have risen to power in a new era of internet-forward youth outreach by the conservative movement, bringing with them increasingly radical messages.

Follow Kyle Spencer on Twitter: @KyleYSpencer

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Spencer's favorite thing: 'Echo 3' on Apple TV
Jared's favorite thing: 'Kleo' on Netflix

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Max Rizzuto and Alyssa Kann are researchers at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) who Jared used to work with. They join the show to talk about the anti-climactic passing of midterm elections. Is election denialism still as potent as it was in 2020? Were fears overblown? Have threats to democracy receded? They argue no to all of the above, even if things went better than expected. If everyone on this episode sounds tired, it's because they are exhausted from working around the elections.

Follow Max Rizzuto on Twitter: @maxbrizzuto
Follow Alyssa Kann on Twitter: @AlyssaKann

Max's favorite thing: The first Fast and Furious movie posted as a Twitter thread (since struck down for copyright violations)
Alyssa's favorite thing: "The day I fell into a crevasse"

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Adam Kovacevich is the founder and CEO of the tech-funded trade group Chamber of Progress, which encourages lawmakers to take pro-tech positions in their policymaking. He joins the show to offer a hopeful view for the future of Twitter under Elon Musk at a time where many others have forecasted the platform's demise.

Follow Adam Kovacevich on Twitter: @adamkovac
Chamber of Progress website: progresschamber.org/

Adam's favorite thing online: Stephen Patula on YouTube

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Will Sommer is a reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on the Qanon conspiracy theory. He also co-hosts the Fever Dreams podcast. Sommer joins the show to run down a few notable stories from right-wing internet land, including Kanye West's announced plan to buy Parler, an alt-right movie evaporating a million bucks, and more.

Follow Will Sommer on Twitter: @willsommer

Pre-order: 'Trust the Plan: The Rise of Qanon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America'

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Mike Rothschild is the author of a great book on the QAnon conspiracy theory and its cultural significance. He joins the show to discuss former President Donald Trump's promotion of content from the conspiracy theory's followers on Truth Social, what the movement has been up to in the last year or two, and what its believers have planned for midterm elections.

Follow Mike Rothschild on Twitter: @rothschildmd

Read: The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

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Molly White is the software engineer, Wikipedia editor, and independent researcher behind Web3 Is Going Just Great, a project that chronicles the not-so-fabulous drumbeat of disasters related to cryptocurrency and other web3 products. She joins the show to explain "web3" technologies and squash the hype around them. Molly and Jared talk about the political implications of web3 tech, and they also hear a few words from Molly's dog, who barks a few times in the middle of the episode.

Follow Molly White on Twitter: @molly0xFFF
Follow Web3 Is Going Just Great on Twitter: @web3isgreat

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Robert Silverman is a reporter who has published some of the most definitive reporting on pro-Trump social media personality Tim Pool to date. As much as Tim Pool may sell his offerings as better alternatives to mainstream media, Robert Silverman explains how writers at his news blog have relied almost entirely on work done by mainstream news services. Some writers, he found, have even engaged in acts of plagiarism, copying lines from mainstream outlets nearly verbatim.

Follow Robert Silverman: @BobSaietta

The Daily Beast: Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate

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Trapezoid of Discovery is the pseudonym used by an information security engineer who has cataloged and refuted claims from election deniers as they’ve toured around the country, drawing crowds and inspiring conspiracy-minded activism. We discuss what these traveling events have been like, why people should pay attention to what’s happening around them, and how they relate to the broader Republican activist base.

Follow Trapezoid of Discovery: @get_innocuous

The NPR article mentioned in this episode: Election deniers have taken their fraud theories on tour — to nearly every state

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Emmi Conley is an extremism researcher who joins the show to talk about the far-right’s reaction to the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, the revelation that the cringe @BasedMikeLee Twitter account does in fact belong to Sen. Mike Lee, Democrats’ encounters with “Dark Brandon” memes and more.

Follow Emmi: @GamerGirlRights

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Kristen Doerer is the managing editor of Right Wing Watch, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to cataloguing the goings-on of the American far-right. (Jared used to work there, and Kristen was his boss!) Kristen joins the show this week to discuss recent January 6th Committee hearings that broached far-right extremists’ and the online communities’ roles in the Capitol riot. In the first half, Jared and Kristen talk about takeaways from the hearings so far. In the second part, they field the questions listeners sent on Substack and Twitter.

Follow Kristen on Twitter: @k2doe

You’ll get one more newsletter. After that, the show goes offline for a few weeks while Jared treks around the world on his honeymoon. Paid subscribers should read the post about the related billing pause. The show will be back mid-August!

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