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Laura Gibbons

Laura Gibbons is an IREHR research associate.

IREHR in LA Progressive: “Are Trumps Sheriffs Plotting to Confiscate Voting Machines?” – August 20, 2022 IREHR Clips
August 20, 2022

IREHR in LA Progressive: “Are Trumps Sheriffs Plotting to Confiscate Voting Machines?” – August 20, 2022

IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was quoted in the LA Progressive; “Now we have the far right building up an insurrectionary force inside law enforcement. They want to make sure that next time, if they want to stop counting, or if they don’t like the way things are going, they can just…
IREHR in Exposed by Center for Media and Democracy: “Here are Five of ALEC’s Most Far-Right Members” – August 5, 2022 IREHR Clips
August 5, 2022

IREHR in Exposed by Center for Media and Democracy: “Here are Five of ALEC’s Most Far-Right Members” – August 5, 2022

IREHR’s report, Breaching the Mainstream, was used by Center for Media and Democracy to identify the top five most far-right members of ALEC; The authors write, “The Center for Media and Democracy revealed on August 3 that 224 ALEC-affiliated legislators belong to far-right Facebook groups, based on “Breaching the Mainstream,” a report…
IREHR in Exposed by Center for Media and Democracy: “More than 200 ALEC Politicians Participate in Far-Right Facebook Groups” – August 3, 2022 IREHR Clips
August 3, 2022

IREHR in Exposed by Center for Media and Democracy: “More than 200 ALEC Politicians Participate in Far-Right Facebook Groups” – August 3, 2022

IREHR’s report, Breaching the Mainstream was used by Center for Media and Democracy; Author Julia Chumlea writes, “In May the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) released a report titled Breaching the Mainstream that analyzes far-right Facebook groups and includes a database of 875 state legislators who are members.…
IREHR in Dartmouth: “Opinion: Far-right sheriffs planning to seize voting machines in the next election” – July 25, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 25, 2022

IREHR in Dartmouth: “Opinion: Far-right sheriffs planning to seize voting machines in the next election” – July 25, 2022

IREHR’s article “CSPOA to Boost Sheriff’s ‘Election Fraud’ Project at ‘Freedom Fest’” written by Research Director Chuck Tanner was used in an opinion piece for Dartmouth Week; Author David Ehrens writes, “The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) has connected Hodgson's Protect America Now, the Constitutional Sheriffs…
IREHR in the Kansas City Star: “Johnson County sheriff supports extremists with documented ties to white supremacists” – July 21, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 21, 2022

IREHR in the Kansas City Star: “Johnson County sheriff supports extremists with documented ties to white supremacists” – July 21, 2022

IREHR’s Vice President, Leonard Zeskind, was published in the Kansas City Star; Zeskind writes, “It is not just election interference that is at stake in Johnson County. It is the morality of every Johnson County resident — indeed, of every Kansan — that must be considered when they sit quietly…
IREHR in the Daily Kos: “Idaho Republicans’ new far-right party chair wants to keep ‘our guns loaded’ to defeat Democrats” – July 18, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 18, 2022

IREHR in the Daily Kos: “Idaho Republicans’ new far-right party chair wants to keep ‘our guns loaded’ to defeat Democrats” – July 18, 2022

IREHR’s report, Breaching the Mainstream, was cited in the Daily Kos; Author David Neiwert writes, “Moon is one of the leading figures in the Idaho Legislature’s significant bloc of far-right extremists serving in office—according to a May study by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR), the state…
IREHR in the Seattle Times: “Republican activists organizing ‘surveillance’ of ballot drop boxes in WA” – July 18, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 18, 2022

IREHR in the Seattle Times: “Republican activists organizing ‘surveillance’ of ballot drop boxes in WA” – July 18, 2022

IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was cited and quoted in the Seattle Times; Author Jim Brunner writes, “The group behind the “2000 Mules” film, True the Vote, recently announced plans to work with a far-right Constitutional Sheriffs and Police Officers Association to surveil drop boxes across the country, noted Devin…
IREHR in the Daily Kos: “Trumpists team up with far-right ‘consitutional sheriffs’ to promote plan to seize voting machines” – July 14, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 14, 2022

IREHR in the Daily Kos: “Trumpists team up with far-right ‘consitutional sheriffs’ to promote plan to seize voting machines” – July 14, 2022

IREHR’s Research Director, Chuck Tanner, was cited in the Daily Kos; Author David Neiwert writes, “Dubbing the gathering a “Call to Action,” Mack rescheduled the CSPOA’s annual September conference to this week in Las Vegas, as Chuck Tanner at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) reports, primarily…
IREHR in the Kansas City Star: “Johnson County sheriff tells Las Vegas crowd his election fraud investigation continues” – July 13, 2022 IREHR Clips
July 13, 2022

IREHR in the Kansas City Star: “Johnson County sheriff tells Las Vegas crowd his election fraud investigation continues” – July 13, 2022

IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was quoted by the Kansas City Star; “If you’re worried about January 6, now we have the far right building up an insurrectionary force inside law enforcement,” said Devin Burghart “They want to make sure that next time, if they want to stop counting, or…