⁍ The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to condemn the pro-President Donald Trump online conspiracy theory known as ‘QAnon’
But multiple QAnon-friendly lawmakers may soon be taking seats in the House chamber.

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⁍ More than two dozen candidates for Congress in the Nov. 3 elections have endorsed or given credence to QAnon or promoted QAnon content online.

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– More than two dozen candidates for Congress are backing or giving credence to the conspiracy theory that President Trump is secretly fighting a global cabal of child-sex predators, Reuters reports. The so-called “QAnon” theory started in 2017 with anonymous web postings from “Q,” who posits that Trump is secretly fighting a global cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites, and “deep state” allies. The FBI has listed QAnon as a possible domestic terrorism threat. But a recent poll by Morning Consult said 38% of Republicans believe that at least parts of the QAnon conspiracy are true. Trump has refused to renounce QAnon and even praised it as patriotic. He has frequently retweeted QAnon-linked content. Some Republicans, however, have publicly denounced the conspiracy theory. “We simply cannot continue to be a party that accepts conspiracy theories and lives in crazy echo chambers,” says Brendan Buck, who worked for two former House Republican speakers, Paul Ryan and John Boehner. But there will be a place for Marjorie Taylor Greene, the small-business owner who is expected to win a House seat in rural northwest Georgia after her opponent dropped out. Gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, who told a conservative podcast last spring that she hopes “Q is real,” has a good chance of winning her Republican-leaning district of western Colorado. Both women are political neophytes who declare they want to go to Congress to ‘stop socialism.’ After they won Republican primary elections in the summer, both sought to distance themselves from QAnon statements. Boebert wears a pistol on her hip in campaign photos.