There are two atheist Twitter accounts representing Kansas City (“Kansas City Atheists“) and St. Louis (“St. Louis Atheists“) in Missouri that do not appear to represent atheist groups, but rather serve as “resistance” fronts specifically to challenge Trump. There were other similar affiliated Twitter atheist accounts that were also based in Missouri that have since been deleted since I began investigating these groups.

After briefing through these two Twitter accounts a number of times, I noticed all they did was re-tweet anti-Trump content from random users, and did not share content about their groups. They also had unusually high numbers of followers, ranging in over 10,000 for each account. Both groups mention “resist” in the descriptions, and most of their followers use the hashtag #resist on their profiles as well as an image of a blue wave, associated with the term “blue wave” that means vote Democrat.

I sent a message on Twitter inquiring if the Kansas City atheists Twitter account was affiliated with an actual group, and received a response that said the account is not affiliated with a group, but that there are multiple people managing the account. The person mentioned to follow the St. Louis atheists account, to which I replied that I had unfollowed that account due to excessive anti-Trump content(it was actually filling up my feed to the point that it was difficult to see content from other accounts I was following). The Kansas City Atheists user responded that their account is not much different from the St. Louis account, said, “You may as well just get off Twitter,” and then subsequently blocked my account.

One of the Twitter accounts that had been deleted (called “River City atheists”) mentioned on their profile to search on Google for their meet up group. So it seems these accounts are affiliated to a degree with atheist groups that meet in person?

There is one group that does appear to be official, known as Kansas City Atheist Coalition. This group is an official 501(c)3 non-profit, and has a more realistic Twitter following of over 500. It does not re-tweet anti-Trump content en masse like the other Missouri accounts.

I messaged Kansas City Atheist Coalition inquiring about the strange Twitter accounts based in Kansas City and St. Louis, but have not received a reply. It would be ideal for them to reply and straighten out what exactly is going on with these Twitter accounts, because it makes Missouri atheists appear to just be “resistance” fanatics.

The reason why Atheists We Are takes interest in this observation is because we have observed groups in the past parade around the term “atheist” while only promoting left leaning politics in their groups and social media platforms. As a result these groups are not effectively representing the atheist community, but rather a political ideology.

Lauren Ell is President and Founder of Atheists We Are. She has launched various organizations geared towards the atheist community, politics and Scandinavia, such as Republican Atheists, Atheists United for Israel, Nordic Republicans and Americans Sweden. Connect with Ell on Facebook and Twitter.