Getting Started: Read this overview by the SPLC.

Books

Jesselyn Cook: The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family.

Mike Rothschild: The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.

Will Sommer: Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America.

Documentaries

Q: Into the Storm.

QAnon – The Cult of Conspiracy.

Reverb: The QAnon Effect.

Vice News collection of videos about QAnon.

2024

Payton Armstrong: Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist’s show.

Jonathan Russell Clark: An intimate view of how QAnon destroys families:In “The Quiet Damage,” Jesselyn Cook surveys the damage that the set of conspiracy theories has done to devotees and the people who care about them.

David Corn & Dan Friedman: RFK Jr. Fundraisers Tied to J6ers, QAnoners, Christian Nationalists, and Far-Right Extremists.

David Gilbert:

• US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence.
• Trump’s Shooting Rattled QAnon Believers. Then They Doubled Down. A month after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, QAnon believers and their families are still stuck in a cycle of despair.

Faith Hill: The Painful Reality of Loving a Conspiracy Theorist:What do you do when a family member falls for QAnon?

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy: Mr. QAnon Shaman goes to the Arizona Capitol.

Christopher Mathias: Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist’s Show.

NCITE: Snapshot of U.S. Federal Cases Against Violent QAnon Adherents.

Tess Owen: The ‘God’s Army’ Convoy Was an Unholy Union of the Far Right: The rallies at the U.S.-Mexico border drew a mix of Christian nationalists, MAGA influencers, Jan. 6 rioters, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and paramilitary groups.

Matt Shuham: QAnon Broke Families Apart. One Journalist Spent Years Documenting The Fallout. Jesselyn Cook’s “The Quiet Damage” offers an intimate portrait of conspiracy theory believers ― and loved ones desperate for answers.

2023

David Gilbert:

• This County Chose an Election Denier, 9/11 Truther, and QAnon Conspiracist to Run Its Elections.
• The QAnon Shaman Is Out of Prison and Selling Yoga Leggings Now.

Evy Kwong & Mack Lamoureux: A QAnon Cult Set Up a Compound in a Small Town. The Locals Are Fighting Back.

Mack Lamoureux:

• Trolls Tricked the QAnon Queen’s Followers Into Volunteering to Kill.
• ‘Go Home’: Locals Drive QAnon Queen Cult Leader Out of Yet Another Town: After being chased out, the so-called QAnon Queen of Canada made her way to set up base in an abandoned school in rural Saskatchewan.
• What Happens When a QAnon Cult Leader Moves Into Town: After being chased off an island in eastern Canada, the so-called “QAnon Queen” hunkered down for winter in rural Nova Scotia with her followers. We tried to visit the property. It did not go well.

NPR:

• QAnon’s toehold in the wellness world.
• A new book explains how QAnon took hold of the GOP — and why it’s not going away.

Sarah D. Wire: At far-right roadshow, Trump is God’s ‘anointed one,’ QAnon is king, and ‘everything you believe is right’.

2022

Isaac Arnsdorf: How a QAnon splinter group became a feature of Trump rallies.

David Gilbert:

• Trump’s Social Media Platform Is Now Showing Ads Targeting QAnon Believers.
• QAnon Is Losing It Over the Queen’s Death.
• Inside the Far Right QAnon Plot to Overthrow the German Government.

Charles Kaiser: The Storm is Upon Us review: indispensable QAnon history.

Amna Nawaz: Trump’s embrace of QAnon raising concerns about future political violence.

PRRI: The Persistence of QAnon in the Post-Trump Era: An Analysis of Who Believes the Conspiracies.

Odette Yousef: Extremism experts worry a QAnon theory is making into the mainstream political right.

Brandy Zadrozny: Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers: Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP prosecutor who recently lost re-election.

Earlier Articles

Adrienne LaFrance: The Prophecies of Q:American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.