Mesa County, Colorado · A Three-Part Investigation
She was a 63-year-old political newcomer who ran on reopening DMV offices. She became the first election official in American history convicted of crimes tied to overturning a presidential election. In June 2026 she will be released on parole. This project is an attempt to understand how it happened.
The Series
The full documented story: her election, her radicalization, her crime, her conviction, and her release. Everything that is known and on the record.
Read Part I →The grief, the losses, the identity she built from them — and the worldview that filled the gap. How personal trauma can lay the groundwork for radical belief.
Read Part II →The allies, the patrons, the believers — and the conspiracy they built around her. Operation Sacrificial Lamb, Mike Lindell, and the machinery of election denial.
Read Part III →