Peter Eisler

5 hours ago ... Within hours of the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, many of his supporters began laying blame on Democrats, ...

13 Feb 2024 ... Serious threats to U.S. federal judges have more than doubled over the past three years, part of a growing wave of politically driven ...

In contrast to the 1970s, much of today’s political violence is aimed at people, not property. And most deadly attacks tracked by Reuters come from the right--such as a Trump fan who shot a neighbor.

Pro-Trump conspiracy theories about vote-flipping supercomputers can be traced back to a computer programmer with a history of telling tall tales.

The sheriff was already under state investigation for alleged involvement in an illegal breach of a vote-counting machine.

A coalition of rightwing “constitutional sheriffs,” who claim legal power in their jurisdictions that exceeds U.S. federal and state authorities, has a new calling.

In Vermont, lawmakers are considering bills to make it easier to prosecute people who threaten election officials. In Maine, proposed legislation would stiffen penalties for such intimidation. In Washington, state senators voted this month to make threatening election workers a felony.

The Gateway Pundit started as a tiny St. Louis opinion blog, but its readership surged to 50 million a month as it repeated Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims and inspired threats against U.S. election workers.

The story had a bombshell headline: “Thousands of fake votes” had been discovered in Madison, Wisconsin, two weeks after Democrat Joe Biden narrowly beat then-President Donald Trump in the state.

Two Georgia election workers targeted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story, alleging it incited months of death threats and harassment against them.