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February 23, 2021

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TheDonald.win and Activity Leading Up to January 6

Open Measures collected posts from thedonald.win and related sites and found posts of users organizing the January 6 coup attempt.

Open Measures has been collecting posts from the .win network of websites including the infamous, “TheDonald.win” that both Mother Jones and WaPo claim was involved in organizing the January 6 coup attempt in the United States. Mother Jones writes that TheDonald scrubbed their forum of evidence, but the records remain.

We released a static database of these .win posts to DDoSecrets for hosting. This database has also since been converted into easier to use CSV format by a member of our community.

This database includes 4.5 GB of 1.8 million entries of posts and comments from networks of .win sites, including TheDonald.win, that was critically involved in the January 6 coup attempt and various conspiracy theories. The data was gathered by Open Measures and our community. The sites included are:

However, that data is also available through our API and our interactive tools where it is being continually updated. The data being served by our API is more complete than the static database. As a result, it has over 4.4 million posts. 

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Posts on TheDonald.win from Jan 1-6

We have around 61,000 posts from January 1 to January 6, mostly coming from ‘thedonald.win’ and ‘thegreatawakening.’

On January 2, one user posted:

“Zip ties are great as handcuffs, it’s what the military uses. Lightweight, small, easy to carry.”

Some users admit to being present, such as ‘Daddy_Knows_Best’:

“I didn’t see a single gun all day. If there were guns they were concealed and the owner was wise enough not to use it.”

Other users posted about more mundane organizing tasks, such as arranging for hotels:

“When I got back to the hotel there were a lot of late arrivals checking in and my hotel is fully booked.”

Others such as ‘JKillen’ talked about their DC hotel experience (and cross-state travel) more aggressively:

“FL Pede here in DC. I can hear Patriots downstairs outside my hotel room talking about bashing commies. Trump flags being hung in windows. DC is ours. The fire RISES.”

Others such as ‘Son_Of_Honkler’ (‘honkler’ is an alt-right meme) talked about things like planning parking for the event:

“This is why I’m planning to find street parking / paid parking somewhere between Falls Church and Arlington. Seep in my hire car and walk in early on Jan 6. This way, I’m not forced to rely on unreliable hotel bookings or public transport that Democrats will fuck with.”

However, conversations also got more violent. User ‘AndyCuomoIsAMobster’ posted:

“Once this really kicks off, the MSM and Social Media HQs need to be the first target. Don’t kill the people inside, just burn their buildings to the ground. Destroy the propaganda arm, brings you to the head of the snake.“

‘Sorosis’ replied:

“You lost me at “don’t kill the people inside”.

The conversation escalated, with ‘Thorbert’ writing in ‘thegreatawakening’:

“Enough of this f****t bullshit. Arrest all the mother fuckers parade them through a tribunal and kill them. All of them. Do it quick, Opps my bad, all done, oh well what are you going to do about it? Our own little Tiananmen Square. F****ts don’t like it to bad, so sad.”

User ‘anedgyteen’ wrote:

“I actual want to kill journalists and politicians. I don’t consider them human.”

User ‘AUGUSTO_PINOCHET’ added:

“Journalists are cunts and I would fully support A Reporter Holocaust. Imagine producing nothing of value your whole life besides publishing gossip and lies.”

Coup Organizing Posts on TheDonald.win

From January 1-6, there are 99 posts mentioning the word “coup”, including one from user ‘FustercluckArmy‘ who wrote the following in reference to anyone challenging Trump by acknowledging Biden’s victory:

“ASAP. Asymetrically. Drop the grids. Drop the cell nets. Any outpost or personnel allied with this coup are fair game and we need to go weapons free. FUCK THESE PEOPLE.”

coup posts from donald.win

In our entire collection of .win posts, the are the users who have had posts with the highest number of upvotes. 

The single most upvoted comment in our records was this comment, with 3,234 upvotes:

“Well, shit. We’ve got marching orders, bois.”

This comment was written by ‘MrMcGreenGenes’ on December 19 on ‘thedonald.’ December 19 was the day after the House voted to impeach Donald Trump, and after his comments on Twitter about a ‘wild’ protest in DC. In context, the above spelling of “bois” is generally understood as a reference to the “boogaloo bois”, the militia movement often seen as the armed defense wing of Trump loyalists.

We encourage researchers to use their own curiosity to follow these and other leads on this data.

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