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US Govt. Report: Extremists Pose Threat to Election Workers

US Govt. Report: Extremists Pose Threat to Election Workers

Above: A booth highlights efforts to sign up voters in Septemeber 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Image copyright: Jeff Swensen/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Facts

  • In its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment released Wednesday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned that domestic extremists will be the "most significant physical threat to government officials, voters, and elections-related personnel and infrastructure."The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment, in which the agency warned that domestic extremists will be the "most significant physical threat to government officials, voters, and elections-related personnel and infrastructure."

  • Regarding threats against "election officials and offices," it said it's monitored a rise in tactics such as "hoax bomb threats, swatting, doxxing, and mailing white powder letters, intended to instill fear and disrupt campaign and election operations."Regarding threats against "election officials and offices," DHS said it has monitored a rise in tactics such as "hoax bomb threats, swatting, doxxing, and mailing white powder letters, intended to instill fear and disrupt campaign and election operations."

  • The report also cites four attacks from Sept. 2023-July 2024, which it said were "driven by various anti-government, racial, or gender-related motivations," as well as two "homegrown" attackers who were partially inspired by the war in Gaza.The report also cites four attacks from September 2023-July 2024, which DHS said were "driven by various anti-government, racial, or gender-related motivations," as well as two "homegrown" attackers who were partially inspired by the war in Gaza.


The Spin

The American far right is creating some of the most incendiary rhetoric the country has ever seen. Reports that election threats are on the rise are unsurprising, especially when millions of Trump supporters are being told that Democrats are trying to kill their preferred candidate. While the Biden administration seeks to cool things down, the Trump camp continues to incite hatred against Democrats, immigrants, and the government.


The Democrat-controlled DHS, which is the same agency that's given over $1B to illegal immigrants over the last two years and left rural American voters with no aid, cannot be trusted. The same government agencies also refused to give proper secret service protection to their political opponents and worked with Big Tech to censor speech. The Biden administration is the biggest election threat, but it's projecting its crimes onto conservatives.


If it seems like every US presidential election is more important than the last, that's because the government has designed it that way. For decades, the executive branch has been given more and more power, effectively turning it into an autocracy; and in order to grow this power, the government exaggerates threats to scare the American voters. Both Democratic and Republican presidents are guilty of creating the unnecessary fear and anxiety felt every four years.




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