matters tracking political clout. he says their research shows the january 6th insurrection didn t kill the q conspiracy. it s emboldened it by broadening the movement. so far the group says for the 2022 races, 19 congressional candidates, 18 of whom are republicans, have shown support for qanon conspiracies. we re at the beginning of this. not the end. a large reason why it has such political power is not just because qanon adherents, they are very energized. they re a good go-to for politics. but they donate. they give money. reporter: qanon s core outlandish tenet is president trump is the chosen one to save america from a shadowy group of politician, media members and hollywood stars who run a worldwide sex trafficking ring so they can drink the children s blood for energy. so the real threat of all of this isn t so much that it is some wacky ideas. it is that it is a call to arms. case in point, listen to arizona state representative mark finchum. there are a lot of peop
traditionally top of the ticket race, right? i d be shocked if many viewers could name a secretary of state pre 2020. that s going to change this year. we ve already seen a lot of candidates get in. we ve seen groups investigating, that this is going to be an historic year. what we ve seen is that early so far there are republican candidates who are talking about who are already in the race about running for secretary of state who haven t accepted the results of the 2020 election and have gone further of that. they actually sought to undermine the legitimacy of joe biden s victory. in georgia it s a big example of the race. raffensperger. he has the presidents endorsement, or rather former president trump s endorsement but there s others as well. yeah, i didn t know a lot about the representative mark finchum who is a state rep in arizona who is going to run and i want to just play this sound first. that maricopa county board of
May 5, 2021
Tennessee teachers will be restricted from discussing systemic racism with their students or lose state funding if legislation approved Wednesday becomes law.
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The Senate voted 25-7 for the ban one day after the House easily passed the bill along partisan lines in Tennessee s GOP-controlled legislature, following several days of fiery debate.
A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Bill Lee did not immediately respond when asked if he would sign the bill into law.
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Tennessee becomes the latest state on the verge of limiting the depth of classroom discussions about inequality and concepts such as white privilege as part of a conservative backlash to America s reckoning over racism.