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Today’s attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego ( three men murdered at a mosque, a suicide note about “racial pride,” hate speech scrawled on the weapon) is the latest entry in a long and growing list. Over the past five years alone:
• San Diego mosque shooting (today, May 2026) — 3 killed, investigated as a hate crime
• Hortman assassination (June 2025) — Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband murdered
• Buffalo (2022) : 10 Black shoppers murdered at a Tops supermarket by a “great replacement” believer
• Club Q, Colorado Springs (2022) : 5 killed at an LGBTQ+ nightclub
• Paul Pelosi (2022) : attacked with a hammer in his home by a QAnon believer
• Power grid attacks (2022–23) : multiple substation sabotage plots, including a white supremacist leader convicted of conspiring to destroy a regional grid
• Allen, TX outlet mall (2023) : 8 killed by a shooter wearing an “RWDS” (Right Wing Death Squad) patch
• Jacksonville Dollar General (2023) : 3 Black people murdered by a gunman with swastikas on his rifle
• Edward Kelley plot (2022) : January 6 defendant charged with plotting to murder 37 FBI agents
• January 6, 2021 : the Capitol itself stormed to overturn an election
The FBI and DHS have called racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism the most lethal domestic terrorism threat in America for years now. So what actually works? Better platform moderation? Deradicalization programs? Stronger hate crime prosecution? Gun access reforms? Pushback against the mainstream figures laundering these ideas?
What do you think actually moves the needle …and what’s just theater?
A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after listening to the relatives of his victims express the pain and rage caused by his racist attack.
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Federal prosecutors have focused on proving that the attack at Club Q — a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people in the mostly conservative city — was premeditated and fueled by bias.
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