https://freerepublic.com/tag/wideawakeaction/ en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:16:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4376732/posts Why White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen’s reported link to a group known as “The Wide Awakes” receiving such little scrutiny from the media? The name is associated with an arts-and-music-adjacent activist collective that describes itself as a creative, pro-democracy movement inspired by the original Civil War-era Wide Awakes. That’s what the media wants you to believe. But that cultural collective is not the only relevant use of the term: a mainstream progressive group’s own materials repeatedly reference “Wide Awakes” as a direct-action protest tactic. Including specifically targeting the tactic towards Hilton hotels, where the WHCD took place,... Substack https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4376732/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:16:52 GMT