The conservative media stars at the heart of the Ginni Thomas texts

As she urged President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 election results, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas cited a who’s who of conservative media commentators and popular right-wing conspiracy theories.

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The Washington Post and CBS News obtained 29 text messages sent in the aftermath of the election between Meadows and Thomas — a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. As she spurs Meadows to pursue Trump’s baseless claims that the election was “stolen” from him, Thomas repeats quotes and false assertions she presumably heard on cable-news segments, talk radio and social media, some of them featuring conservative stars such as Rush Limbaugh and Dan Bongino…

Here is a short guide to the right-wing personalities Thomas cited in her texts, and the election-fraud theories some of them were promoting.

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