Tweets on right-wing violence

Your tweet, like your article does, should say that 80% are far right.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 18, 2024

White supremacists were tied to the overwhelming majority (88%) of extremist-related murders last year, a new ADL analysis finds.https://t.co/gynp0y7eFy
— Axios (@axios) February 20, 2024

In @nytopinion

“If you wonder why so few people in red America seem to stand up directly against the MAGA movement,” asks David French, “are you aware of the price they might pay if they did?” https://t.co/nP9sFja4Sz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 19, 2024

Since 2008, more than 70 percent of extremist-related fatalities in the United States were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements. https://t.co/JWAI8j4MzV
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) February 10, 2024

NEW: There have been at least 33 instances since 2020 when people or institutions singled out by Libs of TikTok later reported bomb threats or violent intimidation.

The threats targeted schools, hospitals, businesses and officials across 16 states. https://t.co/T1evKNMj4D
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 7, 2024

Right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90 percent of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020. Since then, it’s gotten increasingly worse. https://t.co/8khQn2JoRK
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 15, 2023

Most US political violence is by the right wing

Forty-seven percent of Republicans believe that the left is responsible for most political violence, when in reality it runs almost 19-to-1 in the opposite direction. https://t.co/DOpwDnDacO
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) August 31, 2023

A recent study indicates that more Trump supporters think it's O.K. to use violence to restore him to power. That's why @FrankFigliuzzi1 says Trump and other officials who support him need to stop the incendiary rhetoric. https://t.co/mwIG5Z2qzU
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 13, 2023

Of 14 fatal political violence attacks in the US since the Capitol riot in which the perpetrator or suspect had a clear partisan leaning, 13 were right-wing assailants. One was on the left https://t.co/caFH7myilf by @nedmparker1 @byPeterEisler via @specialreports pic.twitter.com/cHSLlQsrN6
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 10, 2023

After rising in the late 60s-mid ‘70s, U.S. political violence became rare by 1980. It climbed again in 2016. Most of the recent deadly outbursts tracked by @Reuters came from the right https://t.co/6HxF56HwcY by @nedmparker1 @byPeterEisler via @specialreports pic.twitter.com/fzdiSHN6by
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2023

There is a direct and alarming connection between Trump’s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats of such violence in America.

Trump has galvanized an army of vigilantes who are casting a fearsome shadow over the 2024 election. https://t.co/k1aR0Blfg3 pic.twitter.com/cXYi1KsONn
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 22, 2024

More on poor coverage of the attack on Paul Pelosi by the Times

Is it just me, or is my former employer the @nytimes working very hard to avoid connecting the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi to right-wing extremism, years of GOP hate-mongering, and the attacker’s full-throated embrace of Trump and his lies? https://t.co/NPHIftEHA2
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) October 30, 2022

How to take the politics out of it so as to protect the right. As though this is not a continuation of J6 domestic terrorism https://t.co/0n4h8upChF
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 29, 2022

If you thought perhaps NYT is saving its front page coverage of the attempted assassination of the speaker and the damage done to her husband for the Sunday edition, I fear that was mistaken. https://t.co/XPUK1Z2jy0 pic.twitter.com/OmwttQ4DfW
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 30, 2022

How numb the media has become.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

What is going on? At the very least we know this was no garden variety burglary. It was targeted against a political leader and it was violent. And what does Boudin’s recall have to do with this attack? Nothing. @nytimes, really, what is going on? https://t.co/2zARQvFTHB
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 29, 2022

Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022

LEFT: The New York Times front page when a left-winter shoots a Republican congressman.

RIGHT: The New York Times front page when a right-winger attempts to assassinate the Democratic speaker of the House and brutally beats her husband with a hammer in their own home. https://t.co/9GOeIQExOh pic.twitter.com/j4Mr0XNxuk
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 29, 2022

Republicans “both sides” attack on Paul Pelosi and the media is helping them

Great point here https://t.co/C8gsCMSB07
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

Most Trump voters expect a civil war

Analysis: Most Trump voters see civil war as likely within a decadehttps://t.co/bvIpdt0L1c
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 29, 2022

Violent right-wing threats after search of Trump property

Exclusive from me:

The judge who signed the Trump search warrant is facing violent threats from far-right extremists, including some targeting his children.

"I see a rope around his neck,” one wrote, under a post listing the judge's home addresshttps://t.co/LohbCCRjcA
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) August 10, 2022

Biography and contact information of a federal magistrate judge has been wiped from a Florida court’s website in the last 24 hours.

The judge has become the target of violent threats following the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) August 10, 2022

The name & address of the judge who issued the #MarALago search warrant leaked out, and now, spurred by #Republican political leaders, right wing groups are calling for execution of the judge, and of many leading #Democrats. https://t.co/MJpxD7qQcr
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 10, 2022

"Authorities monitoring social media posts are spotting a significant increase in death threats aimed towards agents, Wray and Garland. These threats are reported to continue at a steady pace online." https://t.co/N7py25W4QU
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 10, 2022

The right-wing threats of violence against the judge who authorized the Mar-a-Lago search has me thinking about this alarming exchange with @RachelKleinfeld, who says we're "pretty far along" on a "trajectory" towards worsening political violence:https://t.co/nkFilmeHNY pic.twitter.com/aJQGpl62CX
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 10, 2022

More potential for right-wing violence

On Trump's Truth Social: "Make Guillotines Great Again"

Lots of calls for executing January 6th committee members on right-wing social media platforms.

Story: https://t.co/orQ2mx5TEl pic.twitter.com/2zpcG7ex5H
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) June 22, 2022

Between this story, yesterday's testimony, the Greitens ad, and much more, there's no excuse for Republican leaders (starting in the House with @GOPLeader and his colleagues) not to unequivocally denounce violence and threats of violence. https://t.co/MEEPxZSzYr
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 22, 2022

ICYMI — Nevada GOP attorney general nominee said Democrat 'should be hanging from a f*cking crane' https://t.co/7xZo0aC69m
— Aaron D. Ford (@AaronDFordNV) June 20, 2022

“What does it mean that for most elected Republicans, none of what we’re learning” from the extraordinary 1/6 revelations “is remotely disqualifying, either in a party leader or a 2024 presidential nominee?” @ThePlumLineGS asks.
The answer isn’t good. https://t.co/AxLCt42jlI
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) June 17, 2022

Those conservatives may say threats of violence (and actual attacks) is not their intent. But by now they know such actions are an inevitable byproduct, a predictable form of collateral damage for energizing the base w/superheated language. Replacement theory fits this model, too https://t.co/AbUNGexJsw
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 13, 2022

Protesters show up outside SCOTUS homes & suddenly Congress gives them high priced security. A 70 year old black poll worker in Georgia gets death threats from MAGA Trumpers and she's on the run for 2 months and the FBI basically says figure it out. This is why people are angry
— Dr. Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) June 21, 2022

Racist and hate-filled violence has been growing rapidly in this country, and the American people are seeing and feeling that.https://t.co/OSmw1e3ZWT
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) June 12, 2022

DHS warns threats in the US could become even more volatile, fueled by election misinformation and potential violence surrounding an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights https://t.co/OtYtcOV11v
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 7, 2022

"Neumann, who served in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations and grew up in an evangelical Christian household, called the movement 'heretical and idolatry' and an 'apocalyptic vision (that) very often leads to violence.'" https://t.co/TPsNwrOtis
— Robert Costa (@costareports) May 29, 2022

“people committing far-right violence, particularly planned violence rather than spontaneous hate crimes, are more established than typical terrorists/violent criminals. They often hold jobs, are married, have children. These are not isolated ‘lone wolves’ https://t.co/Dnx3xUz31J
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 22, 2022

My family is very familiar with what Shaye Moss & Lady Ruby described when living in fear because of the fmr President of the U.S. It's heartbreaking & completely un-American. We worry for the safety of all who've lived this nightmare firsthand & the ongoing violence yet to come.
— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) June 21, 2022

Right-wing attacks on the National Butterfly Center

This is an incredible story. It’s like Pizzagate.

I went to the National Butterfly Center in South Texas to watch as the nonprofit closed its doors indefinitely amid far-right lies online that the center feared would lead to violence

“It’s just incredibly sad” said a butterfly enthusiast on a last tourhttps://t.co/JnJtEvDaKH
— J. David Goodman (@jdavidgoodman) February 6, 2022

We live in an unbelievably stupid time https://t.co/xyEu3pfH9J
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) February 3, 2022

UPDATE: The National Butterfly Center on the Texas border is closing “for the immediate future” after conspiracy-fueled threats against the center escalated in recent days. https://t.co/vi9KSIEi7e
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 2, 2022

More on the potential for right-wing violence

Letting Rittenhouse go free only increases the chance for future right-wing violence. He’s a hero to them.

"Republicans are complicit in fomenting violent extremism — and they have also become hostage to the extremists in their ranks." @MaxBoot https://t.co/zJUhMiI4mC
— Renew America Movement (@RenewAmerica) November 22, 2021

.@TaraSetmayer on the embrace of violence by some GOP lawmakers: “This cacophony of kookery that is happening in the United States Congress is not only an embarrassment but a frightening example of what happens when there are no consequences for bad behavior.” #SundayShow pic.twitter.com/7lzIJwnV3Z
— The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@TheSundayShow) November 21, 2021

By condoning threats and intimidation in the people’s House, Kevin McCarthy is inviting actual violence — and signing democracy’s death warrant. https://t.co/RyV7QgDWmm
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) November 18, 2021

NEW: House Republicans are more angry at the GOP lawmakers who voted for infrastructure than at Paul Gosar for posting a video depicting violence against Dems.

All the latest on the two big issues roiling the GOP conference right now, w/ ⁦@mkraju⁩: https://t.co/sFb7Sl1Wm1
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) November 16, 2021

Angry, violent, toxic: How extremists are drowning out local California governments https://t.co/33mdgm3En3
— Lara Korte 🦃 (@lara_korte) November 15, 2021

"Are we on the verge of a new era of mass violence? A new civil war even, as some on the far right openly fantasize about?"

My @MehdiHasanShow opening monologue on @MSNBC tonight. I lay out the evidence.
Please do watch, ponder, share, & take seriously:pic.twitter.com/Skjr1tqlgd
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 15, 2021

Lawmakers warned against holding town halls due to violent threats from Trump supporters: report https://t.co/cxtTNdxOmU
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 13, 2021

"It's amazing people want to kill me over paving roads and clean water," said the Republican congressman from Long Island.https://t.co/mDh3BClGGY
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 14, 2021