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‘Stop the Steal’ Organizer in Hiding After Denying Blame for Riot

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On Sunday night, Twitter banned Ali Alexander’s personal account and an account for “Stop the Steal.”

Two weeks before thousands of Trump rioters breached Congress, “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander said his group wasn’t violent—“yet.”

“One of our organizers in one state said, ‘We’re nice patriots, we don’t throw bricks,’” Alexander told a crowd at a Dec.

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