one week after the election Election Integrity NetworkA well-funded group that has been at the forefront of the election denial movement hosted a meeting to discuss next steps. About 200 members participated in it.
“The red wave came by a very narrow margin, so it's very important that while we time our celebrations, we keep in mind that we have a lot more work to do,” said Kerry Toloczko, the group's executive director. The meeting, according to recordings reviewed by WIRED. He then warned about vague election fraud conspiracies, saying the group needed to focus on future elections, including the 2026 midterm elections.
“Obviously, we're not going away,” Toloczko said. “We have new elections coming. There is one every year in Virginia. We've got midterms. new elections [mean] new games. We don't know what they're playing yet, but I guarantee you they're playing something. So we need to find out what that is.”
The group's founder, former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell, continued to push the baseless claim that a flood of illegal immigrants were voting in US elections, while that figure has disappeared. He said the group has “a lot of work to do” on the issue and that he “hopes the incoming administration will take it seriously.”
While Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network aren't stopping, some groups in the election denial movement are pausing to reevaluate and see what's next for them.
Katherine Engelbrecht, The Co-founder of True the Vote, One of the most prominent groups to refuse elections systematic drop box monitoring And mass voter challengessaid last week that she was going on “a brief hiatus.”
“Our focus is shifting toward supporting grassroots organizations in making local impact and advocating for common-sense reforms,” Engelbrecht wrote in his channel on the fringe platform Locals.
For Lindell, who tends to deny the election with the zeal of a religious zealot, the idea of stopping now is not something that has ever occurred to him, even though his efforts have left him No money and huge legal bills,
“I have to [keep going]Or we'll lose our country,'' Lindell says, adding that if he had to borrow money to continue his efforts, he would. “I will never trust any election conducted by a computer. “I will not stop until we get the paper ballots and the hand count.”