Extremists Links: Increasing Threat of Far Right Violent Rhetoric and 'Swatting' is Terrorizing Schools Across the U.S.

The increasing threat of far right violent rhetoric and calls for civil war, and the epidemic of "swatting" targeting schools around the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings." (Image: Ben Gray / Associated Press)

The latest reporting on extremist groups within the Radical Right.

White Supremacists, Militia Movement, and Extremists

• The Far Right’s Violent Rhetoric Is Escalating, and Includes Talk of “Civil War” [TruthOut]

• After Mar-a-Lago Search, Talk of ‘Civil War’ Is Flaring Online [The New York Times]

• Mainstreaming Extremism: The Legacy of Far-Right Violence from the Past to the Present [Foreign Policy Research Institute]

• Is America Headed for Another Civil War? [The New York Times]

• What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out. [The Washington Post]

• From domestic terrorism to the voting booth [Chicago Reader]

• A Swatting Spree Is Terrorizing Schools Across the US [Wired]

• False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern [NPR]

• ‘Swatting’ — fake reports of violence — disrupts schools and stokes fear [The Washington Post]

• ‘Swatting' Calls Cause Lockdowns at Multiple South Florida Schools [NBC News]