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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

We don't need to say reported. Here's Dean Harris at the VFF Coordinator conference in 2022, in the back, second from the right. It's right there, in lights 😄

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨

Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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A photo of Voices for Freedom coordinators at their VFF Connects event in 2022. The background has an illuminated VFF sign. Three people are wearing VFF t-shirts and many are wearing a lanyard. There are eight people circled in red.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

Saw that, they're not happy about that. I am.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

Nunns' favourite!

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

Six years of building up Ray before the email scandal have kept supporters loyal. Chung's team went on the offensive hard when that came out. Their audience is primed to see all bad press as an attack and not to believe it, so it was easy to direct the anger at the media and Whanau using DARVO.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my research into the area.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 VFF & Selwyn local elections

This is a big election, with eight councillors not standing for re-election, so it is up for grabs

At the centre of these elections is Elizabeth Mundt. She was door-stopped in 2022 over her VFF connection. She ran Upskilling for Local Government.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 16d

Concerned Ratepayers Canterbury Region was set up by VFF coordinator Leslie McAuley-Bryant, who is in a group with Selwyn Councillor and VFF small group coordinator Elizabeth Mundt. Here are Leslie and Elizabeth at the recent NZ First convention in Palmerston North.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

Jo is right. There are celebrations of getting 9 people elected to council in Concerned Ratepayer Canterbury, local VFF groups and Pseudo-law adjacent Challenging Councils.

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 2d

Waikirikiri Selwyn is now the poster child for what happens when highly organised & well supported disinformation campaigns, coupled with widespread local government disengagement esp. amongst the young, plus a generally conservative population align - our new council is dominated by cookers #nzpol

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 2d

👋 They're the ones who spread the rumour about Mayor Tory Whanau in 2023 but they are much, much more. They are a conspiracy theorist group that helped NZ FIrst gain the cooker vote in 2023, led by tobacco and whaling lobbyist Glenn Inwood.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · May 28

... and the leaders of Better Wellington & Independent Together, that want "party politics out of local government", set up third-party promoter The S.B Group (Glenn Inwood, Paul Heffernan and a VFF local coordinator) to support New Zealand First in the 2023 election.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 5d

ACT candidates answered the same way in the VFF Council Watch survey. Not open ended questions though. Very much seemed like someone else filled them out for them

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 5d

Act Local candidates provided identical responses to some of Newsroom's open-ended survey questions, suggesting they had coordinated or been instructed to reply a certain way.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/p...

Parliamentary parties crowd out other blocs in local elections

Nationwide, Parliamentary parties are entrenching their influence in local elections over that of locally derived groupings.

newsroom.co.nz

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 5d

But both Andrea and Paula knew who they were getting into bed with. Some of the so-called attacks are holding them and the group accountable for their actions.

I don't trust Tom Hunt. He knows what's going on in Wellington. There were better candidates to talk to about this issue.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 13d

In 2023, utterly false rumours spread online about a non-existent sex tape. The first mention online was Resistance Kiwi, AKA Glenn Inwood.

These are the dirty tactics that Better Wellington employs, and Independent Together candidates are okay with it.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 5d

This article is important. But the framing is concerning. Paula and Andrea were on the Better Wellington linked Independent Together ticket. BW have been spreading vile attacks on women councillors, including Tory Whanau for years. Doesn't excuse the abuse towards them.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 13d

Lydia Gliddon is a member of CRCR on Telegram, attending multiple meetings.

Lydia's Facebook is locked. But I have found one comment from 2021: "When does the Jacinda dictatorship stop? How far will she go? We are losing our
freedom and choices by the day ...... will voting be abolished next?"

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 7d

Whether against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Ghahraman, Ardern, other MPs, Wiles, Bloomfield, & others involved in pandemic response, transgender activists, drag queens, judges, lawyers or academics - effects of doxxing are inherently harmful, & often leads to kinetic violence or vandalism.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Hate to say it but there is a cadre of new Gen-X supporters, pushing the party further right. We're stuck with them.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 9d

Correction: This is Murray Chong, not Phil Mauger—a case of mistaken identity. It should have been obvious as this was in New Plymouth.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

VFF coordinator Emma Ryburn-Phengsavath (independent) is standing. In '23, Emma started an unvaccinated breast milk charity. She lays out VFF's plan well: "VFF are the 101 freedom fighter's - put another way, we are deliberately appealing to people just waking up to the tyranny."

More to come.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

He's a NZ First supporting, Ivermectin promoting, anti-vaccine acitivist who has said "The corrupt system is being exposed like never before thanks to the fact that we must walk through this valley. Only an awakened people can fight and defeat this pervading evil inherent within our system"

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Westwards' Kevin Murphy is running for local board and is a VFF coordinator. He is extremely active on Telegram. Like all VFF coordinators, they have been using RCR's anti-climate change action documentary Managed out as a way to attract normies to movement, inviting his Westwards mates.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Craig Lord claims not to be a conspiracy theorist yet in 2022 he said "“I will not run around in circles yelling the sky is falling, just because we are told to by the United Nations” while in a September 1 tweet, he said: “I’ll be fighting against 2030 and WEF [World Economic Forum].”"

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Westwards also have Allan Geddes. He's shared Brian Tamaki's Freedom's and Rights Coaliton, disinfo spreader The Daily Examiner, a video calling Ardern a "globalist puppet", and a meme calling mask wearers sheep.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Jacob Curran's X shares many anti-immigration posts from "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory promoter William McGimsey, anti-trans activist Corina Shields, Elliot Ikilei, Tommy Robinson, and NZ First. He called to deport academic Mohan Dutta and celebrated Benjamin Doyle's resignation.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Leao Tildsley was a New Conservatives candidate in 2020. She was an anti-mandate agitator and stood for DemocracyNZ in 2023. She is a supporter of Graham Phillips, the first person convicted of sabotage in NZ, for his attack on the electrical grid.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

In Auckland, a large group is running under Westwards, led by Cr. Ken Turner. Ken is an RCR favourite, appearing six times. He also signed VFF's CouncilWatch NZ anti-WHO letter, opposing the signing of any pandemic treaties in the future. Ken appeared on NZ First candidate Erika Harvey's podcast

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

In a 22 interview with Liz Gunn, Hibiscus & Bays local board member Leanne Willis likened New Zealand’s Covid-19 response to Nazi Germany: “for a liberal kind of party that she (Jacinda Ardern) was heading, that it was so draconian and just had all of these remnants of the Holocaust.”

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

Darag pushes pseudoscience, scaremongering about climate resilience actions, and pseudo-history that denigrates the place of Maori in New Zealand.

Coast People has three others on their ticket: Gary Brown, Gary George, and Leanne Willis.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12d

VFF Coordinator Darag Rennie is running under Coast People. Like Jackie Wheeler, Darag organised the Julian Batchelor Stop Co-Governance tour in Orewa. He believes we have been lied to "about diet, climate, covid, NZ history, racial and gender theory, overpopulation" to "divide and conquer."

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