Image: From “America Can Have Democracy or Political Violence. Not Both.”

Kelsey Ables: Man who killed BLM protester shared racist content, new documents show.

Hannah Allam: At all levels of public office, threats now come with the job: New research on targeted officials shows that fear and intimidation are eroding democratic participation nationwide.

Associated Press: Man sentenced in extremist killing of federal officer.

Paul Blest: A Democratic Candidate Was Beaten and Knocked Unconscious at His Home: “He knocked me out,” says the candidate, who suspects he was targeted with election-related violence.

Sara Boboltz & Nick Visser: Failed GOP Candidate Arrested In String Of Shootings At New Mexico Democrats’ Homes: Police charged Solomon Peña, a former Republican candidate for the state House of Representatives.

Bill Chappell: Five Democratic politicians’ homes or offices have been shot at in Albuquerque.

CNN: Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: ‘We can’t take democracy for granted any longer’.

Ruby Cramer: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) recounts the night an armed man shouted at her and her husband outside their Seattle home — and how threats of political violence haunt and alter the lives of elected officials.

U.S. Department of Justice: Michigan Man Arrested and Charged For Illegally Possessing Firearms While Making Threats to Kill Government Officials.

Josh Dulaney: Oklahoma sheriff, commissioner, accused of discussing killing a reporter and returning to Black hangings.

David Gilbert: Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge: “Let’s find out if he has children… where they go to school, where they live… EVERYTHING,” one person wrote on a message board where the judge’s address was posted.

Keegan Hamilton: FBI Standoff Suspect Posted ‘Call to Arms’ on Trump’s Truth Social.

Dan Ladden-Hall: Another New Jersey Council Member Shot Dead, Officials Say.

Holmes Lybrand & Hannah Rabinowitz: Proud Boys juror raises concern she’s being followed.

NBC News:

• Letter sent to Bragg follows a wave of threats and highlights the security nightmare of a Trump indictment: Law enforcement may not only have to deal with the practicalities of potential mass gatherings at the courthouse but also with threats against judges and prosecutors.
• Michigan election chief: Trump suggested I be arrested for treason and executed.

Tess Owen.

• American Politicians Are Facing More Gun Threats.
• ‘Get Armed While You Can’: Far-Right Midterm Rhetoric Has Experts Alarmed: Conspiracy theories about election fraud, some being pushed by influential Republicans, have experts worried about the possibility of political violence.
• The Feds Are Worried Election Conspiracies Will Trigger Violence During the Midterms: The FBI and DHS issued a rare joint warning about potential lone wolf attacks inspired by election conspiracies ahead of and after the midterms.
• American Politicians Are Facing More Gun Threats.

U.S. Secret Service Media Relations: New Secret Service Research Examines for the First Time Five Years of Mass Violence Data.

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: Arizona official targeted by election deniers now struggles with PTSD.

Odette Yousef: What Biden’s speech left out about the growing popular support for political violence.

Threats Against Poll Workers

Intelbrief: Serious Concerns Over Political Violence Surrounding U.S. Midterm Elections.

NPR: Death threats and harassment: 2024 election workers already are scared.

Reuters: One in five U.S. election workers may quit amid threats, politics.

Cat Zakrzewski: Election workers brace for a torrent of threats: ‘I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP’.

The Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s Husband

Hannah Allam & Souad Mekhennet: Accused Pelosi attacker’s history shows blurry lines of radicalization.

Hannah Allam, Ashley Parker, & Marianna Sotomayor: Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband follows years of GOP demonizing her.

Vice News: Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate.

The Plot to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer

Associated Press: 2 men convicted in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer.

Kathleen Belew: The plot against Whitmer won’t be the last white supremacist threat: Extremist violence isn’t a one-off problem. And it’s been around for decades.

Kim Bellware: Architect of Mich. governor kidnap plot sentenced to more than 19 years in prison.

Mary B. McCord: The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias: These groups have no constitutional right to exist.

Odette Yousef: Verdicts in Michigan governor kidnapping plot fuels questions on white extremism.