Election Deniers Got What They Wanted. They're Still Going

A week aft the election, the Election Integrity Network, a well-funded radical that has been astatine the forefront of the predetermination denial movement, hosted a gathering to sermon adjacent steps. It was attended by astir 200 members.

“The reddish question came successful connected precise slim margins, truthful it is precise important that we support successful caput during our celebratory times, that we person a batch much enactment to do,” Kerri Tolosko, the enforcement manager of the group, said during the meeting, according to a signaling reviewed by WIRED. She past added that the radical needs to absorption connected elections successful the future, including the 2026 midterms, portion informing astir vague predetermination fraud conspiracies.

“Obviously, we’re not going away,” said Toloczko. “We person caller elections coming up. Virginia has 1 each year. We've got the midterms. New elections [mean] caller games. We don't cognize what they're playing astatine yet, but I warrant you they'll beryllium playing astatine something. So we request to fig retired what that is.”

The group’s laminitis and erstwhile Trump advisor Cleta Mitchell, continued to propulsion the baseless assertion that a flood of amerciable immigrants were voting successful US elections, erstwhile that fig has been shown to beryllium vanishingly small. She said the radical “had a batch of enactment to do” connected the contented and she “hoped the incoming medication volition instrumentality it seriously.”

While Mitchell and Election Integrity Network haven't stopped, immoderate groups successful the predetermination denial question are pausing to reassess and spot what’s adjacent for them.

Catherine Engelbrecht, the co-founder of True the Vote, 1 of the astir salient predetermination denial groups that has organized driblet container monitoring and large standard elector challenges, said past week that she was going connected “a little hiatus.”

“Our absorption is shifting toward supporting grassroots organizations successful gathering section power and advocating for common-sense reforms,” Engelbrecht wrote successful her transmission connected the fringe level Locals.

For Lindell, who approaches predetermination denial with the fervor of a spiritual zealot, the thought of stopping present is not thing that has ever crossed his mind, adjacent if his efforts person near him with no wealth and immense ineligible bills.

“I person to [keep going], oregon we suffer our country,” says Lindell, adding that if helium has to get wealth to proceed backing his efforts helium will. “I wouldn't spot immoderate predetermination done with computers ever. I volition ne'er halt until we get the insubstantial ballot, hands counted.”