Report: Right-Wing Militia Groups 'Pose A Serious Threat' To Voters
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Source: huff post
10/23/2020 05:07 pm ET
Researchers found that swing states are particularly vulnerable to militia activity around the 2020 election.
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Over the past several months, private militias “have become more assertive,” the two organizations found in a report published Thursday, titled “Standing By: Right-Wing Militia Groups & The US Election.” The report cites kidnapping plots targeting elected officials and interventions in protests throughout the country. Parts of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Oregon are at the highest risk of increased militia activity around the election, it says, while parts of North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, California and New Mexico are at a moderate risk. The report identifies the Three Percenters, Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois as groups that pose a “high” or “very high” potential for violence.
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When militia members were arrested earlier this month for plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, the president seemed to delight in their animus toward her, encouraging a “lock her up” chant at a campaign rally in the state days later. His son Donald Trump Jr. has asked “every able-bodied man, woman to join the Army for Trump’s election security operation,” an effort to recruit poll watchers who believe Democrats are trying to steal the election.
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Militia activity is expected to be higher in competitive spaces like swing states, the report found, where armed groups may work to repress votes for Trump’s opponents. Armed groups appear to be particularly active in areas where there have been protests against the lockdowns aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus — an effort militias perceive as an assault on their freedom — and places that have seen Black Lives Matter protests — which militias view as “leftist coup” activities.
Locations where militia members have friendly relationships with members of law enforcement are likely to see higher levels of militia activity, the report found. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, law enforcement officers were recorded on video handing water to a group of militia members and telling them, “We appreciate you guys, we really do,” shortly before 17-year-old vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot two people in late August. .......................................
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that there's been so much violence from are from the democratic side while Republicans have been much more civil and calm in the stating their views and issues. 
Everybody knows that-- google it. I'm not going to do your research for you!
I'm 68 and watched it all the time as a kid (still do on reruns) and I knew the bullets were silver, but never knew why. Nor did I know he owned a silver mine. Wow!
If a group of dudes wearing camo and carrying,,,showed up here, around the
courthouses the law would be on them like right now..,
.. and it's
as red as it gets around here... 
did not have that problem at all (Williamson County - a red county that i'm hoping will turn purple at least, with the influx of newcomers from blue states). Hubby made sure he was w/ our kiddo & i, and nearly a 2-hour wait in line first day of voting but neither such presence of heckers nor goonies with guns were spotted near our voting place. The usual trump-pence & GOP candidates signs were there but everyone was civil and everyone wore masks. The voting was quick & orderly.
Bottom line in some places like GA & OH there may be some bad behavior by these crazies but i doubt it will deter people from voting. People are sick & tired of the endless abuse by this Con & the GOP. Nov 3rd we get to finally turn off that faucet of insanity & let freedom ring.
