political violence 
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6/15/2022
Far Right Extremism, Paramilitarization, and Misogyny – Statement of Alexandra Stern to the January 6 Committee
by Alexandra Minna Stern
The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/15/2022
"Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics
The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/2/2022
Another Tragic Eruption of "Great Replacement" Violence
by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
"While the specific targets and methods of spreading this theory may be new, White native-born Americans worrying about being replaced is not. And history demonstrates that the theory has been repeatedly used to legitimize discrimination and deadly violence."
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SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
5/18/2022
African American Policy Forum Statement on Buffalo Massacre
"Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."
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SOURCE: NBC News
5/18/202
Buffalo Shooting Centuries in Making, Say Historians of Slavery and Reconstruction
Manisha Sinha and Bernard Powers link the mass killing to longstanding repression of Black political power, and the justification of violence for that purpose.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/16/2022
White Power, White Violence, and the Open-Source Manual for Terrorism
by Kathleen Belew
The Buffalo shooter's manifesto doesn't need to be coherent or reality-based; its function will be to give instruction to future white supremacist terrorists within growing networks.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/18/2022
"Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy
by Adam Serwer
Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.
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5/18/2022
Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth
by HNN Staff
This conspiratorial claim of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrant voters has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/15/2022
Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting
"The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."
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SOURCE: NPR
5/16/2022
Kathleen Belew: Buffalo Massacre Likely Driven by "Great Replacement" Myth
"A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine known as 'replacement theory.' It's just a new name for an old set of racial hatreds, Kathleen Belew told NPR."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/15/2022
Buffalo Mass Shooting Demands We Think About American Racism
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The gunman's manifesto shows the dangerous convergence on the right of anti-Black racism and a belief in white persecution. It also shows why the right is working so hard to fight teaching about racism in history classes.
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SOURCE: Governing
3/13/2022
A Brief History of Violence in the Capitol
Historian Joanne Freeman explains that the threat of violence has been a useful tool for minority factions in the government to thwart opposition, both in the pre-Civil War era and today.
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SOURCE: Dame
3/14/2022
How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism
Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman.
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SOURCE: Reuters
2/15/2022
Death Threats and Intimidation on the Rise Against Local School Boards
As national conservative groups have mobilized voters and resources around the idea that schools are under seige by radical leftist indoctrination, some school board members have experienced death threats and other serious harassment.
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SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
1/5/2021
The Dangerous “Patriotism” of the January 6 Insurrection
by Ben Railton
The participants in the attack on the Capitol a year ago reflected a "mythic patriotism" founded on the belief in an authentic, white, Christian nation under attack by enemies dangerous enough to justify any measures in opposition.
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SOURCE: YouTube
1/5/2022
Kathleen Belew: Is Trump Laying Groundwork for a 2024 Coup?
Historian Kathleen Belew joins Hari Sreenivasan and Bill Moyers to discuss a new documentary, "Preserving Democracy."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/6/2022
Militias Were Hiding in Plain Sight Before 1/6. They're Still a Threat
by Kathleen Belew
The January 6 attack on the Capitol and the election results was not a one-off coup attempt; it was a recruitment event for the militant far right which increasingly threatens democracy.
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1/6/2021
A Year Later: Our Tattered and Fragile Democracy
by James D. Zirin
American political institutions face a crisis: can they defend themselves against a growing movement that will deploy violence to achieve its goals, or will January 6 become the new normal?
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SOURCE: Boston Review
12/17/2021
America as a Tactical Gun Culture
by Chad Kautzer
"Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/10/2021
Worst Isn't Over for Political Violence in Rhetoric or Action
by Joanne Freeman
"Here’s the problem, and it’s foreboding: If a line is crossed, and the occasion passes unacknowledged, was there really a line?"
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