93 Richard Spencer (@RichardBSpencer), “The notion that ‘frame game’ was engaged in ‘de-radicalization’ is absurd. Though he obviously was trying to channel the AltRight in a certain direction for an outside player,” Twitter, October 6, 2023, 8:04 p.m., Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20231009184131/https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1710491232487854111.
94 Excerpted from a thread that Frame Game (sometimes “framegames”) posted to Twitter and then archived to his Steemit blog. The post appears with the title “Thread 1: A Jewish Perspective on Jewish Influence” and the following description: “Below is a repost of my viral Twitter thread with over 5 million total impressions over the course of a week. With Twitter’s speech bonfire fully underway, this thread is being archived here in eternity’s bosom. It is reproduced with no edits, and was bound by Twitter’s 140 character limit at the time of its writing, in August 2017.” See framegames, “THREAD 1: A Jewish Perspective on Jewish Influence,” steemit, https://web.archive.org/web/20231007003239/https://steemit.com/blog/@framegames/thread-1-a-jewish-perspective-on-jewish-influence-on-the-west.
95 We were sued in May 2023 in Texas as “de facto government agents” by the “New Civil Liberties Alliance” on behalf of activists alleging they were injured by their COVID-19 vaccines. See Dressen v. Flaherty, “Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief,” 3:23-cv-00155 (S.D. Tex. 2023), https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dressen-Complaint-Filed-5.22.23.pdf.
96 Naomi Nix and Cat Zakrzewski, “U.S. Stops Helping Big Tech Spot Foreign Meddling Amid GOP Legal Threats,” Washington Post, November 30, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com /technology/2023/11/30/biden-foreign-disinformation-social-media-election-interference/.
97 Darius Tahir, “The NIH halts a research project. Is it self-censorship?,” CBS News, August 5, 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-halts-research-project-is-it-self-censorship/.
98 Zach Greenberg, “Chilling open records request targets University of Washington faculty, threatens academic freedom,” The FIRE newsdesk, November 15, 2022, https://www.thefire.org /news/chilling-open-records-request-targets-university-washington-faculty-threatens-acade mic-freedom.
99 Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conpiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 9.
CHAPTER 9: THE PATH FORWARD
1 Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), 97.
2 Ibid., 143.
3 Forrest Davis, “Father Coughlin,” The Atlantic, December 1935, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1935/12/father-coughlin/652107.
4 Clyde Haberman, “Today in History: The Father Coughlin Story,” PBS, March 9, 2022, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/2022/03/09/today-in-history-the-father-coughlin-story.
5 Thomas Doherty, “The Deplatforming of Father Coughlin,” Slate, January 21, 2021, https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/father-coughlin-deplatforming-radio-social-media.html.
6 Tianyi Wang, “Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin,” American Economic Review 111, no. 9 (2021): 3064–3092, https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200513.
7 “Father Coughlin Blames Jews for Nazi Violence,” History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/father-coughlin-blames-jews-for-nazi-violence.
8 Davis, “Father Coughlin.”
9 Doherty, “The Deplatforming.”
10 Diane Cypkin, “A Rhetorical Critical Analysis of Father Coughlin’s Radio Broadcast, November 20, 1938, or Call It What You Will… It’s Still Anti-Semitism!,” Journal of Radio Studies 4, no. 1 (1997): 134–150, https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529709391688.
11 “Father Coughlin Blames Jews,” History Unfolded.
12 Bill Kovarik, “That Time Private US Media Companies Stepped in to Silence the Falsehoods and Incitements of a Major Public Figure… in 1938,” The Conversation, January 15, 2021, https://theconversation.com/that-time-private-us-media-companies-stepped-in-to-silence-the-falsehoods-and-incitements-of-a-major-public-figure-in-1938-153157.
13 “Priest Won’t Meet WMCA Conditions,” New York Times, November 27, 1938, 42, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/11/27/99571181.html?pageNumber=42#.
14 Kovarik, “That Time Private US Media Companies.”
15 Doherty, “The Deplatforming.”
16 Otto D. Tolischus, “Germany to Keep Dieckhoff at Home,” New York Times, November 27, 1938, 46, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/11/27/99571225.html.
17 Kovarik, “That Time Private US Media Companies.”
18 “6,000 Here Cheer Coughlin’s Name,” New York Times, December 19, 1938, 6, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/12/16/98873857.html#.
