By Jennifer Cohn @jennycohn1 on Twitter 7/26/21 People sometimes ask me why I became an advocate of election security and transparency. One of the main reasons is that, in the wake of reports of Russian interference in 2016, I learned that public officials and others in leadership positions had provided…

The alliance among Stone, Stone’s network, and the Proud Boys was on full display in 2019 and 2020. By Jennifer Cohn, 6/18/22 Even before the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s longtime confidante, Roger Stone, had created a dangerous new template for American politics, combining…

By Jennifer Cohn, 5/5/22 Russia’s attack on America’s election infrastructure in 2016 has been largely forgotten amidst the many other legitimate concerns about that election and later events. Those other concerns and events warrant our attention and include the far right’s coordinated amplification of disinformation through bots and fake news…

For years, Stone & his associates have courted & elevated violent extremists & re-branded them as “patriots.” — By Jennifer Cohn 3/9/22, updated 3/13/22 This is Part 2 of a series that documents with photographic evidence the political activities of Roger Stone and his closest associates, as well as their relationship to the Proud Boys, including former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, his right-hand man Joe Biggs…

The GOP had blocked crucial election-security reform, and the Democrats’ loss of 27 out of 27 tossup races warranted scrutiny — By Jennifer Cohn 2/13/22 Chris Krebs (the former director of CISA) and the Democratic party responded to the clear and present danger of Donald Trump’s unfounded claims about his 2020 loss (which almost every poll predicted) with a misleading claim of their own: the notion that the election was the…

By Jennifer Cohn 2/11/22 Even before the 2016 presidential election, Roger Stone was a dark force, screwing with voters’ perceptions of reality and corrupting politics from behind the scenes. In 1972, at just nineteen years of age, Stone belonged to then “President Richard M. Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President…

A new formula: information warfare + physical intimidation — By Jennifer Cohn, 2/11/22 Roger Stone is a corrupt political advisor who specializes in propping up dictators, liars, and cheats, including former President Donald Trump. Stone is not always taken seriously. As political commentator David Frum once remarked, Roger Stone’s best trick was always his upper-class-twit wardrobe. …

By Jennifer Cohn 1/24/22

It featured a voting machine glitch, a bogus voter purge, narrative warfare, Karl Rove, and a manufactured “riot” orchestrated by Roger Stone. By Jennifer Cohn December 23, 2021 The 2000 presidential election was a “watershed moment” for U.S. elections and “harbinger of things to come,” as Jonathan Simon, a seasoned…