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America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture.

Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it?

Gabriel meets a January 6 rioter running for office who sees his detention as political imprisonment and goes on the trail of a Californian yogi who stormed the Capitol and then fell even deeper down the rabbit hole.

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Producer: Lucy Proctor\nSound design and mix: James Beard\nEditor: Richard Vadon\nScript consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray\nCommissioning editor: Dan Clarke\nOriginal music: Pete Cunningham

CREDITS:\nAudio from January 6 from A Reporter\u2019s Video from Inside the Capitol Siege, Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker

Audio of Ivan Raiklin from @MattStruck on X

News report of Alan Hostetter\u2019s first protest from Former La Habra police chief sentenced for role in Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol, KCAL News

News report of Alan Hostetter\u2019s first protest from PROTEST - Coronavirus Quarantine/Lockdown Protests - The Next Thing? (San Clemente, CA), Local Story TV

Audio of \u2018fencegate\u2019 from OC Hawk

Audio of protests outside Katrina Foley\u2019s home from @inminivanhell, X

Alan Hostetter outside the Supreme Court from Virginia Women for Trump rally at Supreme Court, NTD / Patria De Marti

Alan Hostetter\u2019s video on \u2018fencegate\u2019 from Bitchute