"Sealed indictments" is a reference to a much-anticipated future event central to QAnon lore: that the Justice Department is holding hundreds of thousands of sealed indictments against Democratic politicians and other members of the elite, enumerating their... Read more

"Save the children" is a QAnon rallying cry often used as a hashtag on social media. QAnon borrowed this hashtag from a legitimate human-trafficking campaign to spread the baseless claim that pedophiles are kidnapping children off the... Read more

Redemption theory, also referred to as strawman theory, is a set of concepts within the sovereign citizen movement that became popular from 1999 onwards. Created by Roger Elvick, a long-time sovereign citizen guru, based on earlier ideas... Read more

QAnon is a popular right-wing conspiracy theory centered around thousands of cryptic messages posted by a figure called "Q", who claimed to be an anonymous U.S. government official, on the 4chan and 8chan/8kun message boards beginning in... Read more

"Q sent me" or "Q sent us" is a phrase used by QAnon adherents to express their allegiance to Q and their association with the army of digital soldiers.

Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory claiming that tunnels under a Washington, D.C. pizzeria served as headquarters for a child trafficking and pedophilia ring sanctioned by Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures.

Pedogate refers to the broader child trafficking and pedophilia aspects of QAnon conspiracy theories.

The Cabal, in the parlance of the QAnon conspiracy, is the shadowy group of overlords who allegedly control the world. Many believe that Jewish billionaire George Soros is a member or leader of the cabal.

Agenda 21 was a non-binding UN resolution passed in 1992 intended to help governments promote sustainable development. Since it passed, the resolution has been used by anti-government extremists and conspiracy theorists as evidence of a plot to... Read more

Adrenochrome is a real chemical compound produced by the oxidation of adrenaline. It is also a fictionalized drug in works by authors like William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson. QAnon believers claim that the elite, particularly in... Read more