Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. It's impossible to look back on the Trump presidency without analyzing an important subsect of Trump's base, Q&ON.

People who believed that Trump was the figurehead of an almost spiritual battle against pedophilic elites serving the deep state.

The movement offered a fascinating insight on the political zeitgeist in America.

But after January 6th, the mass purge of Q&N material from the internet and the shutting

down of A-chan, anonymous poster Q, which spearheaded the Q&N political movement, went largely

silent. But the energy behind the Q&ON political movement, went largely silent.

But the energy behind the Q&N movement continued,

morphing into other beliefs and causing a consequential shift in the Republican Party's base.

As much as this phenomenon was analyzed and over-analyzed by the corporate media,

very few people were following the movement from the beginning in an honest way to truly understand the significance of it,

and where these kinds of taboo subcultures continue to go and impact our culture.

QAnon Anonymous is a podcast that became wildly popular for covering Q&N early on,

and has only continued to grow by expanding its analysis to things

like the world of male influencers, conspiracism, and other subgenres of U.S. politics.

Our very own Mike Prysner was recently featured on their podcast in December to give a fascinating

two-part expose on Tulsi Gabbard. It's one of the only comprehensive things out there

that digs into all the bizarre and disturbing angles,

from Tulsi's membership in an abusive cult,

to taking millions from a Nazi-inspired party in India

to launder their image,

to her many rebranding operations.

I loved seeing an Empire Files crossover with a podcast I appreciate and respect so much,

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