The group plans to arrive in the D.C. area on March 5 and organizers said they do not plan to go into the city.
of a national emergency concerning the coronavirus and demanding congressional hearings and investigations into the pandemic.“Where did the coronavirus originate from? How did it get out? Who was behind lockdowns exactly? The vaccine, ya know, the speedy trials, there’s a lot of things that come into play. We just want transparency and some investigation from the congressional level to be taken to find origins of how we’ve gotten to where we are today,” Brase said.
Extremism researchers say that even after pandemic restrictions are loosened and the country emerges from the public health crisis, many people mobilized by the anti-mandate movement will pivot to another cause.“If this was really about mandates, would they be mobilizing at the same time those very mandates are getting lifted?” said Sara Aniano, a Monmouth University graduate student studying the social media rhetoric of far-right conspiracy theories and misinformation.
“There’s a lot of chatter — disrupting the State of the Union, etcetera — but none of that looks like anything at this point but chatter,” Norton said, describing Manger’s assessment.
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