June 2024 – What NIJ Research Tells us About Domestic Terrorism

Leaving this here, in case it’s needed. In case it circles down the memory hole. (File availability pending successful troubleshooting of display issues.)

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.1 In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives. A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions

A majority of GOP nominees deny or question the 2020 election results

I feel like this is kind of important. It may be difficult to roll back any actions they take once elected.

Via WaPo:

A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 291 in all — have denied or questionedthe outcome of the last presidential election, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Candidates who have challenged or refused to accept Joe Biden’s victory — 51 percent of the 569 analyzed by The Washington Post — are running in every region of the country and in nearly every state. Republican voters in two states nominated election deniers in all federal and statewide races The Post examined.



Marketplace of Emotional Appeals

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What the Founding Fathers imagined as a robust “Marketplace of Ideas” has instead been implemented as a ”Marketplace of Emotional Appeals.” To our detriment, I think.