Kara Q Bell is a school board candidate in an affluent suburb of Austin, Texas. She’s also a staunch anti-masker recently charged with assaulting a department store employee and, her critics say, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. If true, she’s part of a wave of QAnon followers seeking political office nationwide.
Bell denies believing in QAnon, a conspiracy theory that a satanic, cannibalistic cabal of pedophiles controls the planet, to whom former President Donald Trump is a sort of messiah fighting the cabal.
“I am not a ‘QAnon,’ whatever that means, my maiden name starts with Q,” Bell told the Daily Dot via text message, which does appear to be true. “Please stop promoting bullying. It’s tearing our community apart and our children deserve better.”