IV 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1094 

Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 25, 2020 

Mr. MALINOWSKI (for himself and Mr. RIGGLEMAN) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories 

it promotes. 

Whereas throughout history, conspiracy theories that falsely 

blame secret cabals or marginalized groups for society’s 

ills have fueled prejudice, genocide, and acts of terrorism; 

Whereas QAnon is a movement promoting a collection of unfounded conspiracy theories that have spread widely on 

the internet since 2017; 

Whereas QAnon initially alleged that prominent Americans 

are engaged in a secret plot to control the world, while 

using their power to exploit children, and has expanded 

to embrace virtually every popular conspiracy theory of 

the last several decades, from questioning the Kennedy 

assassination, to believing in alien landings, to denying 

the safety of vaccines; 


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Whereas many QAnon followers express anti-Semitic views, 

and the Anti-Defamation League has said that the movement’s central conspiracy theory includes anti-Semitic 

elements; 

Whereas the FBI has assessed with high confidence that 

‘‘fringe political conspiracy theories’’, including QAnon, 

‘‘very likely motivate some domestic extremists, wholly or 

in part, to engage in criminal or violent activity’’, and 

that these conspiracy theories ‘‘very likely encourage the 

targeting of specific people, places and organizations, 

thereby increasing the likelihood of violence against these 

targets’’; 

Whereas the FBI bases this assessment on ‘‘events in which 

individuals committed crimes, plotted attacks, or successfully carried out deadly violence, and who—either before 

or after their arrests—attributed their actions to their 

conspiratorial beliefs’’; 

Whereas QAnon adherents have been implicated in crimes 

that they claim their QAnon beliefs inspired, including— 

(1) a man arrested in 2018 for plotting to plant a 

bomb in the Illinois Capitol rotunda to make Americans 

aware of the ‘‘Pizzagate’’ conspiracy theory; 

(2) a man arrested in 2018 for using an armored 

car to block traffic on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge; 

(3) a man in Arizona arrested in 2019 for vandalizing a Catholic church; 

(4) a woman in Colorado arrested in 2019 for plotting an armed raid to kidnap her child, who had been 

taken from her custody; 

(5) a man charged with the murder of an organized 

crime boss in New York in 2019; and 


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(6) a woman arrested in New York with a car full 

of knives after posting a video accusing Joe Biden of participating in child sex trafficking and threatening to kill 

him; 

Whereas the FBI further assesses that ‘‘these conspiracy 

theories very likely will emerge, spread and evolve in the 

modern information marketplace . . . fostering anti-government sentiment, racial and religious prejudice, [and] 

increasing political tensions’’; 

Whereas according to the Combatting Terrorism Center at 

the West Point Military Academy, ‘‘QAnon is arguably 

no longer simply a fringe conspiracy theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize to 

violence individuals at an alarming speed’’; 

Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Google have removed or 

blocked QAnon groups and content from their platform 

for violating their policies against misinformation, bullying, hate speech, and harassment; 

Whereas QAnon adherents have been harming legitimate efforts to combat child exploitation and sex trafficking, including by overwhelming anti-trafficking hotlines with 

false reports; and 

Whereas the conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon undermine trust in America’s democratic institutions, encourage rejection of objective reality, and deepen our Nation’s 

political polarization: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy 

3 theories it promotes; 


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1 (2) encourages the Federal Bureau of Inves2 tigation and all Federal law enforcement agencies to 

3 continue to strengthen their focus on preventing vio4 lence, threats, harassment, and other criminal activ5 ity by extremists motivated by fringe political con6 spiracy theories; and 

7 (3) urges all Americans, regardless of our be8 liefs or partisan affiliation, to seek information from 

9 authoritative sources, and to engage in political de10 bate from a common factual foundation. 

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