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Later in October, the far-right blog The Gateway Pundit published an article by Lucian Wintrich claiming an "antifa leader" had pledged to "behead white parents" on November 4. [4] [31] The article was shared on Facebook more than 40,000 times. [31] Wintrich subsequently distanced himself from the article. [4]
"Count Every Vote" rally in Washington, DC, November 4, 2020. Demonstrations were held in several cities, including Dallas, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh, to demand the counting of every vote. [155] [156] [157] In Chicago, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters gathered to express their anger toward Trump's demand for vote counting to stop.
On November 9, 2016, a Facebook event titled "Trump is Not My President" was created and received over 40,000 interactions. [322] The page was an example of social media activism transferring into real world protest, as a march in Union Square, New York, was created.
Antifa – short for "anti-fascist" – is a political protest group without central leadership. Its members engage in counter-demonstrations at far-right wing events and protests, according to ...
In July 2020, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who had stated in a press release [136] on June 4 that "anarchists like Antifa" are "exploiting this situation to pursue violent, extremist agendas", [137] testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency "considers antifa more of an ideology than an organization" [138] which was later ...
Several incidents of political violence occurred before, during, and after the 2024 United States presidential election.The years surrounding the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections have seen political violence as the United States during this time had continuing polarization caused by corrupted elections and the rise of extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Antifa.
InfoWars and other far-right conspiracy theory websites claimed the RCP and Refuse Fascism were organizing a military overthrow of the government on November 4, 2017. [72] Several nationwide anti-Trump protest marches were organized for that day, numbering in the thousands. [73] [74]
The killing is also referenced on the Anti-Defamation League's page on antifa, as the only "suspected antifa-related murder" to date; [68] and the New America Foundation's tally of killings during terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, as the first recorded fatality in a far-left attack, while far right attacks have been regularly recorded ...