"DEC. 19, 2019
"This Is America
"Eleven years after Obamaās election, and three years into the Trump presidency, the threat of domestic terrorism canāt be ignored."
There are an estimated 148 white-nationalist "hate groups" in this country. Although exact membership is impossible to calculate, their propensity for violence is equally impossible to ignore.
A Year Inside a Growing American Terrorist Movement
"White supremacists were responsible for the deaths of at least 39 people in 2018 alone.
"And the activity has not slowed this year: not in January, as neo-Nazis plastered flyers outside newspaper offices and homes in Washington State and the Carolinas and an army veteran pleaded guilty to killing a black man in New York to 'ignite a racial war';
"in February, as Vermont synagogues and LGBT centers were vandalized and a self-described white-nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant was arrested for plotting a domestic terror attack;
"in March, as WELCOME TO GERMANY and GAS THE JEWS were spray-painted outside Oklahoma City Democratic Party and Chickasaw Nation offices and, on the Upper East Side, classmates handed their schoolās only black ninth-grader a note reading 'nāās donāt have rights';
"in April, as a shooting at a synagogue left one dead and three injured and FBI Director Christopher Wray called white supremacy a 'persistent, pervasive' threat to the country;
"in May, as swastikas fell from the sky ā on flyers dropped by drones outside an Ariana Grande concert ā and were scrawled on public spaces in at least three states;
"in June, as far-right groups rallied in Portland, Oregon, for the first time that summer;
"in July, as a man promoted a white-power manifesto on Instagram before killing three and wounding 17 others at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California;
"in August, as another angry young man ā this one 1,000 miles away in El Paso, Texas ā posted an anti-immigrant manifesto online then committed this yearās most deadly mass shooting, killing 22 and injuring 24 at a Walmart;
"in September, as the Department of Homeland Security added white-supremacist extremism to its list of priority threats, the same month a swastika appeared on its walls; in October, as swastikas also appeared on Cape Cod and invitations to a white-supremacist..."
Too much MAGA?