Spread them around. We launch two new campaigns each month on the most divisive political topics in the US, with the most disinformation. We design our messages to get through to those who are being inundated with lies and hypocrisy, according to the best available science on countering the nonsense. Of course we know that many are impenetrable, but getting to a few percent of them can flip elections, and expand the millions of their children who fall away from the ancestral fears and hatreds every year.
General-purpose messages
- General: Make Lying Wrong Again, Disinformation Circuit Breaker
- Investments, not spending: Disinformation Circuit Breaker
Recent Truth Brigade Campaign Messages
- Filibusters: Rebuilding Democracy: One Fact at a Time
- Voter Suppression: Let the People Vote!
- Critical Race Theory: Unplug the Rage Machine
- Jan 6 Insurrection: Starve the Big Lie
- Healthcare, abortion: If you h
- COVID/Vaccination: Mandating Truth: Vaccinations Mean Freedom
- Filibuster: Rebuilding Democracy: One Fact at a Time
- Climate Change: Disinformation Circuit Breaker
So let’s go through them one by one
First, we can consider how to deal with new (or even very old) disinformation that doesn’t fall under an existing campaign.
No Specific Campaign
Abortion
Abortion is healthcare.
So-called conservatives are not for life!
They are anti-women.
Abortion Politics & Republican Power: Texas empowered vigilantes to go after people helping women who seek abortions, turned the state’s citizens into bounty hunters. Rick Perlstein explains the long history of how the GOP adopted abortion as a key issue.
Economy
Investments, not Spending
These are not spending bills. They are a major set of investments in the future of the country and The People. Shame on any economics, business, or political reporter who bungles the difference.
We had more than enough Voodoo economics with Reagan.
Critical Race Theory
We all want our children and grandchildren to have an education that relies on facts. Certain politicians are spreading misinformation about @criticalracetheory looking to divide the nation prior to the elections. Join me in rejecting the right wing rage machine! #TruthBrigade
Around here, we all recognize dog whistles. CRT was raised by Fox and Trump about 2 months after George Floyd was killed. What is the motive behind the fake outrage? Who should be on school boards? Say No to Trumpism! #OnlyOneSide #TruthBrigade Vote @stephanie4cisd
Elections
An excellent response to an Individual Truth Brigade Truth Sandwich.
So true! The For the People Act is now The Freedom to Vote Act. Support for this bill is crucial for the survival of American democracy. #FreedomToVoteAct
The majority of Americans want to know that their vote counts. But when the minority can manipulate where people vote through redrawing election maps our voices can be silenced. We need #ForThePeopleAct to insure fair maps so that our vote counts. TruthBrigade
Jan 6 Insurrection
"Like all Americans, you deserve a fair process, you deserve answers, and you deserve justice."
TFG on the death of an insurrectionist entering a broken window in the Capitol.
What noble sentiments!
Never mind the facts: We had a fair process, we have answers, we have justice
COVID
@allinwithchris Threatening the lives of School Board members goes beyond what free speech allows. Death threats are domestic terrorism, & have become a favorite tool of the authoritarian far-right. In 2016-17, right wing attacks quadrupled. #TruthBrigade #DemCast #DemVoice1
Filibuster
Climate Change