In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, Vance Boelter (57) of Green Isle, MN attacked two Democratic lawmakers’ homes. At 2 AM, posing as police, he shot State Senator John Hoffman and wife Yvette at their Champlin home (both survived). At 3:35 AM, he killed Speaker Emerita Melissa …
Arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion forced his family to flee as attacker who “hated Shapiro” set fire to their home. Attack demonstrates how gubernatorial mansions and state capitols have become frontline targets in escalating political violence. Part of …
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The FBI launched a specialized task force to investigate over 80 reported incidents of vandalism, arson, and violent attacks targeting Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and facilities across multiple U.S. states. FBI Director Kash Patel characterized these attacks as ‘domestic terrorism’ and …
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On October 15, 2020, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting QAnon and related conspiracy theories that “target individuals”—but the policy came approximately three years after YouTube’s recommendation algorithm began systematically amplifying QAnon from an obscure 4chan …
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James Alex Fields Jr., the white supremacist who murdered Heather Heyer at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, received a federal life sentence on June 28, 2019 for hate crimes, followed by a second life sentence plus 419 years from Virginia state courts on July 15, …
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Three days after a white supremacist murdered Heather Heyer at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, President Trump held a press conference that shocked the nation by equating neo-Nazis with anti-racism protesters and defending Confederate statue defenders as “very fine …
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The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia brought together neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and far-right extremists to protest the removal of a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee. The rally descended into violence, culminating in a deadly terror attack when James Alex …
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