Texas GOP and Republican Politicians Promote Trump Campaign Event with QAnon Slogan

The Texas Republican Party, an Iowa State Representative, and county Republican groups in Oklahoma and California all shared a flyer for a September 5, 2020 Trump campaign rally featuring a slogan from the antisemitic QAnon movement. 

The flyer called on Trump supporters across the nation to “Drag the Interstate” by using their vehicles to “gather together and organize into rolling flag parade caravans within their States.” The flyer featured the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA,” which stands for “where we go one, we go all.” 

QAnon is a set of antisemitic conspiracy theories about a powerful “Deep State” comprised of Democratic politicians, Jewish donors, and Hollywood stars who Q believers think run a child sex-trafficking ring. QAnon believes claim that Donald Trump is aware of this cabal, and is secretly working to destroy the “Deep State” and “Save the Children” being trafficked. The conspiracy is, at its core, a modern-day version of blood libel — the Middle Ages-era claim that Jews drank or ritually used the blood of Christian children.

QAnon has moved from the fringes of the internet to the mainstream, openly promoted by multiple Republican figures. Adherence to at least some QAnon beliefs is now widespread within the Republican Party. Republican congressional candidates like Laura Loomer in Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia are backers, as is Jo Rae Perkins in Oregon, and Lauren Boebert in Colorado. See here for a full roundup of QAnon candidates compiled by Media Matters.

The Texas GOP website advertising the event with the flyer.