Leaked chats link MAGA 'poll watcher' group to hardcore militias: report

Leaked online chats from a prominent pro-Trump group of "poll watchers" reveal close ties to an infamous armed militia movement, The Guardian on Monday. "Chat records from a public-facing channel for the America First Polling Project (AFPP) were made available to reporters by transparency group (DDOSecrets)," the newspaper reported. "The activist who leaked those materials to DDOSecrets provided the Guardian directly with an archive of the Arizona 2022 Mid-Term Election Watch (A22) chat channel." These newly revealed conversations "offer a window into the way in which the rightwing information environment...