Noelle Cook
@noellecook.com
Author of THE CONSPIRACISTS: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, THE CONSPIRACISTS (2024) noellecook.com
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Noelle Cook
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· Jul 11
The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of it: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, and belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story🧵
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Have you heard of Leaving MAGA? It’s a community for people questioning their political and conspiratorial beliefs and finding their way beyond the movement. There are many stories beyond the one that has dominated the headlines. Read them here:
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
They Left MAGA - Leaving MAGA
They Left MAGA Steve Vilchez Illinois Read His Story Erica Roach New York Read Her Story Justin Yu California Read His Story Deanna Raper North Carolina Read Her Story Courtney Rosenberg Michigan Read...
leavingmaga.org
September 7, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Have you heard of Leaving MAGA? It’s a community for people questioning their political and conspiratorial beliefs and finding their way beyond the movement. There are many stories beyond the one that has dominated the headlines. Read them here:
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
Have you heard of Leaving MAGA? It’s a community for people questioning their political and conspiratorial beliefs and finding their way beyond the movement. There are many stories beyond the one that has dominated the headlines. Read them here:
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
They Left MAGA - Leaving MAGA
They Left MAGA Steve Vilchez Illinois Read His Story Erica Roach New York Read Her Story Justin Yu California Read His Story Deanna Raper North Carolina Read Her Story Courtney Rosenberg Michigan Read...
leavingmaga.org
September 7, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Have you heard of Leaving MAGA? It’s a community for people questioning their political and conspiratorial beliefs and finding their way beyond the movement. There are many stories beyond the one that has dominated the headlines. Read them here:
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...
I love watching the hummingbirds rinse off in the rain. This male Costa’s was thoroughly enjoying himself. 🪶
September 7, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I love watching the hummingbirds rinse off in the rain. This male Costa’s was thoroughly enjoying himself. 🪶
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I was an original member of Indivisible Baltimore County way back when. Tactics like No Kings matter because they build community. And when people feel like they belong, they act.
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
September 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I was an original member of Indivisible Baltimore County way back when. Tactics like No Kings matter because they build community. And when people feel like they belong, they act.
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This is social movement 101 and as far as I can tell Indivisible and similar have passed with straight As
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
September 4, 2026 at 3:08 AM
This is social movement 101 and as far as I can tell Indivisible and similar have passed with straight As
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It's the kind of thing that's essential for movement building.
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
September 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM
It's the kind of thing that's essential for movement building.
I was an original member of Indivisible Baltimore County way back when. Tactics like No Kings matter because they build community. And when people feel like they belong, they act.
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
September 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I was an original member of Indivisible Baltimore County way back when. Tactics like No Kings matter because they build community. And when people feel like they belong, they act.
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@awkword.bsky.social, @voffund.bsky.social, & 50501 are urging you to register & make a plan to #vote in the midterms. #VotingIsPunk #voffund #awkword #50501movement
August 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
@awkword.bsky.social, @voffund.bsky.social, & 50501 are urging you to register & make a plan to #vote in the midterms. #VotingIsPunk #voffund #awkword #50501movement
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What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
www.wired.com
September 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.
Social Security benefits will be cut for tens of millions of retirees in late 2032, unless Congress takes action first.
Social Security insolvency: What it means, when it’s coming and why it’s a problem
But depending on how Congress acts, future payouts of Social Security benefits may be smaller.
nbcnews.to
August 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.
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Congratuations to Rich Logis, who is getting more recognition for building a MAGA exit ramp that provides community for those starting to question their support for Trump. Go Rich!
September 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Congratuations to Rich Logis, who is getting more recognition for building a MAGA exit ramp that provides community for those starting to question their support for Trump. Go Rich!
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A second Guardian piece on Leaving MAGA, this one focused on the people doing the hard work of finding their way out.
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Four Maga defectors on what led them to walk away: ‘I’d been addicted to fear and rage’
Ex-Maga supporters unpack their role in bolstering Trump’s platform and share what brought them to the Leaving Maga non-profit support network
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
A second Guardian piece on Leaving MAGA, this one focused on the people doing the hard work of finding their way out.
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A second Guardian piece on Leaving MAGA, this one focused on the people doing the hard work of finding their way out.
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Four Maga defectors on what led them to walk away: ‘I’d been addicted to fear and rage’
Ex-Maga supporters unpack their role in bolstering Trump’s platform and share what brought them to the Leaving Maga non-profit support network
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
A second Guardian piece on Leaving MAGA, this one focused on the people doing the hard work of finding their way out.
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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In advance of the midterms and two weeks before my book LIVE LAUGH LOVE releases, the NYT asked me to write about how popular Christian women’s culture informs the way women vote. And then they created these incredible illustrations.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
Opinion | The Political Power of Christian Kitsch
Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:29 AM
In advance of the midterms and two weeks before my book LIVE LAUGH LOVE releases, the NYT asked me to write about how popular Christian women’s culture informs the way women vote. And then they created these incredible illustrations.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
A wonderful piece on @leavingmaga.org and the community it’s building for people finding their way out.
Congratulations to Rich and everyone who has made that community possible. This is important work.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to Rich and everyone who has made that community possible. This is important work.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Life after Maga: the group offering an ‘exit ramp’ for rightwingers questioning Trumpism
The non-profit Leaving Maga is built on the premise that abandoning the Trump-built movement is like fighting a disease or breaking an addiction
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:23 AM
A wonderful piece on @leavingmaga.org and the community it’s building for people finding their way out.
Congratulations to Rich and everyone who has made that community possible. This is important work.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Congratulations to Rich and everyone who has made that community possible. This is important work.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...
August 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...
Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.
Social Security benefits will be cut for tens of millions of retirees in late 2032, unless Congress takes action first.
Social Security insolvency: What it means, when it’s coming and why it’s a problem
But depending on how Congress acts, future payouts of Social Security benefits may be smaller.
nbcnews.to
August 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.
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Natalie Harp's letters have the same manic joylessness and obsessive fixation that I found in QAnon social media. The messianic fawning over Trump, the neglecting of basic bodily needs, the self-flagellating belief that they'll never be good enough. They're all signs of a deeply unwell person.
August 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Natalie Harp's letters have the same manic joylessness and obsessive fixation that I found in QAnon social media. The messianic fawning over Trump, the neglecting of basic bodily needs, the self-flagellating belief that they'll never be good enough. They're all signs of a deeply unwell person.
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Both a good documentary and an excellent read. Neither really treads on the other and neither feels like homework for the other. An excellent, detailed, human, multimedia investigation.
It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...
August 29, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Both a good documentary and an excellent read. Neither really treads on the other and neither feels like homework for the other. An excellent, detailed, human, multimedia investigation.
It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...
August 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...
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Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions.
State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.
www.propublica.org
August 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions.
State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
August 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
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Rest in peace, Tim Curry. You showed a generation how to belong without fitting in.
August 26, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Rest in peace, Tim Curry. You showed a generation how to belong without fitting in.
Rest in peace, Tim Curry. You showed a generation how to belong without fitting in.
August 26, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Rest in peace, Tim Curry. You showed a generation how to belong without fitting in.
Have you ever seen a pelican stretch its gular pouch? 🪶
August 23, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Have you ever seen a pelican stretch its gular pouch? 🪶