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Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was murdered by right-wing extremists.
She was murdered by a single right-wing extremist.
From 2022 to 2024, all 61 political killings in the U.S. were committed by right-wing extremists, as documented by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Seems an oddly specific time period.
Fuller quote from the article:
The Anti-Defamation League found that from 2022 through 2024, all of the 61 political killings in the United States were committed by right-wing extremists. That changed on the first day of 2025, when a Texas man flying the flag of the Islamic State group killed 14 people by driving his truck through a crowded New Orleans street before being fatally shot by police.
“You’re seeing acts of violence from all different ideologies,” said Jacob Ware, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who researches terrorism. “It feels more random and chaotic and more frequent.”
It does, and it isn't just one side. Radicalizing is happening on the political right, political left, religious and with just a hodge-podge mix of incoherent beliefs.
