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Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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This piece was originally published on November 29, 2020 and is one of a series of Trump-related articles we're republishing. On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party theft of the November presidential election, chronicled in a convoluted conspiracy theory that one conservative federal judge recently compared to “Frankenstein’s Monster,” as it is “haphazardly stitched together.”

Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party ...

Coronavirus and Conspiracy

Tanzeem Ajmiri

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It was day three of my self-imposed Rona virus (shout out to Black Twitter) quarantine and it was clear that sitting in my underwear scrolling through Facebook was quickly becoming my life. Between the apocalyptic posts ...