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QAnon hasn't gone away – it's alive and kicking in states across the country

  • Written by Sophie Bjork-James, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
imageQAnon demonstrators protest during a rally to reopen California and against stay-at-home directives on May 1, 2020, in San Diego. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images

By this point, almost everyone has heard of QAnon, the conspiracy spawned by an anonymous online poster of enigmatic prophecies. Starting with an initial promise in 2017 that...

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