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Some of MAGA podcaster Candace Owens' conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's death involve Erika Kirk (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Candace Owens can't be stopped

Sophia Tesfaye
Pictures provided by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files (Martin BUREAU / AFP via Getty Images)

Epstein files are conspiracy-pilling us

Andi Zeisler
The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile device (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

TikTok fuels Springfield rumors

Amanda Becker - The 19th
A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files on July 23, 2025 in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

Epstein held a mirror up to MAGA in 2025

Amanda Marcotte
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Megyn Kelly speaks during a TPUSA "American Comeback Tour" stop on Sept. 24, 2025. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

It's Megyn Kelly vs. everybody

Sophia Tesfaye
Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 on Dec. 3. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times))

Erika Kirk can't escape Candace Owens

Amanda Marcotte
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MAGA's bizarre Epstein diversion fails

Sophia Tesfaye
Proud Boys members Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl at the Capitol on Feb. 21, 2025. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

Amanda Marcotte
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Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens speak at the University of Colorado, Boulder on Oct. 3, 2018. (Paul Aiken/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)

Inside MAGA's fight over Kirk's legacy

Sophia Tesfaye
Charlie Kirk appears at Utah Valley University Sept. 10, 2025, minutes before a gunman opened fire. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

After Kirk's murder, dark days lie ahead

Jason Kyle Howard
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Why Trump won't dump RFK Jr.

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump attends the men's singles final during the U.S. Open on Sept. 7, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is hit by birthday card boomerang

Heather Digby Parton
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. is strangling public health

Heather Digby Parton
US conservative author Candace Owens speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Candace Owens can't quit trans lying

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump at the White House (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Epstein gives MAGA a post-Trump future

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (Getty/Nicholas Kamm/New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

The GOP votes for the Epstein cover-up

Amanda Marcotte
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Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

MAGA reels from Trump's Epstein betrayal

Heather Digby Parton
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

Amanda Marcotte
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as US Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2025. (REBECCA DROKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

EPA: Chemtrail questions are legitimate

Alex Galbraith
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Cruz rejects weather conspiracy theory

Cheyenne McNeill
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: Biden is a clone

Alex Galbraith
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How Tulsi became Trump's biggest weapon

Amanda Marcotte
A protester holds a sign reading "Democracy Not Trumpocracy" during a rally in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2025. (HOSSEIN FATEMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

How conspiracy theory gave us Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

MAGA in chaos after Epstein victim dies

Amanda Marcotte
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