🧩 BND Motif Index · M812
Ratf*cking
Dirty tricks to sabotage the other side's campaign, fake candidates, forged letters, planted stories: the Nixon men's word for it.
📜 Plots🗂️ Elections🗂️ Political manipulation
- 11claims filed under it
- 8right shows it came up on
- 5claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Spoiler candidate 🧩 Pick your opponent
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Disinformation campaign
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Abdul El-Sayed confronts questions about Muslim Brotherhood ties 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-20
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Democrats orchestrated a campaign for a fake Dan Sullivan to confuse voters.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-25 “Republicans are masterminding a scheme to use a candidate with the same surname as an incumbent to create election chaos.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Republicans use ghost candidates with the same last name as Democrats to steal elections.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “An entity is impersonating a transgender advocacy group by sending mailers to Texas families to influence voters.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Democrats use schemes to trick voters while claiming to defend democracy.”
🎙️ Ruthless 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-21 “A man who heckled Abdul El-Sayed is the son of a Republican operative whose firm was paid to run an influencer campaign against him.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Senator Josh Hawley, acted as a plant to attempt a failed 'gotcha' moment against Abdul El-Sayed.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-17 “Democrats are deploying a decoy candidate to undermine the real Dan Sullivan in Alaska.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-15 “Trump is using subterfuge to prevent a specific candidate from winning.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-13 “Democrats are attempting to manipulate Alaskans into throwing away their votes by recruiting a deceptive candidate.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-08 “Democrats recruited a decoy candidate to confuse voters and rig the election for Peltola.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
M812 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works