Devin Burghart, executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, was quoted in AlterNet;
“Ammon Bundy, with People’s Rights Network, was the first to grasp on to COVID-19 denial as a mobilizing vehicle. The first to galvanize militants to oppose COVID-19 restrictions and to meld together anti-vaxxers, paramilitaries, (the) Proud Boys and others into a larger movement to protest and protect these kinds of efforts.”
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