A Facebook message sent before January 6 has surfaced in the Arkansas County Clerk race after multiple women who attended high school with Marla Quillen shared screenshots with one of her challengers.
The messages appear to show Quillen encouraging former classmates to join her in Washington, D.C., and move planning details to a private Parler group.
According to the women, Quillen reached out with variations of the same pitch: a compliment about high school, a reference to LibertyMae Activewear, and a warning that the election situation was “spiraling.”
The message included below was provided by one of the women, who said she had not spoken to Quillen in years before receiving it.
The screenshots also show how Quillen’s political organizing overlapped with LibertyMae Activewear, a patriotic apparel business she promotes.
Several of the women later seen with Quillen in Capitol footage had been recruited into her LibertyMae downline. Investigators later described the connection as relevant to how the group formed. Quillen has described it as “women supporting women.”
Quillen dismissed the screenshots as “old and fake news.”
“The president’s pardon exonerated me completely,” Quillen said. “At this point, dragging up a private message from before a girls’ trip years ago is just trying to make a team-building opportunity sound sinister.”
The message reads:
Hey girl! 💕
Omg, I was just going through some old high school pics and there you were — how has it been so long????? Still out there crushing it with that gorgeous fam? Doesn't Mr. Thompson’s history class feels like yesterday. You always had that steady, no-nonsense strength, even back then. I never forgot it.
I know this is so random, but I’ve been building something with LibertyMae Activewear and your name honestly popped into my head. It’s women showing up for each other, for the country, and honestly for this election situation, because it is spiraling.
That’s why I had to slide into your DMs. I thought you’d see what’s really happening.
I’m heading up to DC in January with some of my LibertyMae girls. We’re just going to show up, make our voices heard loud and clear, and remind them we’re not rolling over. It’s going to be peaceful, of course 😉, just Patriots standing strong together.
So when this DC thing came up, I immediately thought of you.
I want you there with me in DC, babe. The real ones from back in the day who still love this country. We show up prepared and ready for whatever comes.
I can’t say too much on here, obviously. You know how they watch everything now. That’s why you gotta check out Parler, girl — it’s like the Facebook we always wished we had, where real Americans can actually speak without Big Tech watching every move. I just sent you an invite to our private LibertyMae group — I’m heading it up.
Once you’re in the group, I’ll give you the full details: where we’re linking up, what to bring, the full plan. Keep it on the down low though, okay? Just between us girls who get it.
Use a handle in there, just in case 🤫😂 I’m @RiverOfTraitorsBlood.
You still got that Battling Beavers fight in you? Drop a 🔥 in the group if you’re in. I’ll make sure you’re linked up before everything starts moving.
Investigators later identified Quillen in footage from inside the Capitol. According to court records, she entered with a group of women wearing LibertyMae Activewear shortly after the doors were breached and remained inside for several minutes. She was later seen in the Rotunda waving a flag bearing the company’s name.
Investigators said they were unable to recover the full contents of the Parler group. Court filings state that the group had been deleted after January 6, and that records later obtained from the platform included account information, timestamps, and usernames, but not the messages themselves.
Quillen later described the group as “mostly about photo spots and keeping the girls together if things got chaotic,” a description investigators said they could not verify.
Quillen later insisted the group had only planned “a girls’ trip and a tour of the Capitol,” a description investigators said was difficult to verify because no tour had been scheduled and the group entered through what court filings described as “an opening not generally used for tours.”
Asked why members of the group were encouraged to use handles instead of their real names, Quillen said the decision had been misunderstood.
“People are acting like it was suspicious,” Quillen said. “It was a girls’ trip. Women use silly little nicknames on trips all the time. Nobody gives their real name at a bachelorette party either, and I don’t see Congress investigating Nashville.”
She also said voters should be more concerned that “a group of women from high school are leaking private girl talk to help my opponent.”