DHS: Extremists Pose 'Significant' Threat to Election Workers
US Govt. ReportDHS: Extremists Pose 'Significant' Threat to Election Workers
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."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 Spin
TheThese Americanreports are unsurprising because America's 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, especiallyincluding whentelling millions of Trump supporters are being told that Democrats are trying to kill their preferred candidatehim. While the Biden administration seekswants to cool things down, the Trump camp continues to incite hatred against Democrats, immigrants, and the government.
The Democrat-controlled DHS, whichcan't isbe thetrusted. sameIt agencyhas 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 theirTrump, 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 moreincreased and more power, effectively turning it into an autocracy;. andIn 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.