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This weekend, Trump applauded his supporters, who hurled racial slurs at children, intimidated voters outside polling stations + in some cases, opened fire on counter-protesters, as police stood by + violently attacked anti-racists demonstrators. A thread. https://itsgoingdown.org/trump-applauds-escalating-far-right-violence/
As Trump's numbers tank, he has embraced the only path left to him to stay in power: stealing the election. With Trump making public his plans, his base this weekend hit the streets + ratcheted up the level of violence. https://www.axios.com/trump-claim-election-victory-ballots-97eb12b9-5e35-402f-9ea3-0ccfb47f613f.html
For months there has been an escalation on the far-Right - with militias and Boogaloo groups plotting to even kidnap and murder Democratic officials. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921655143/militia-members-plotted-to-abduct-michigan-gov-whitmer-fbi-says
Pro-Trump operatives have been caught attempting to intimidate + spread disinformation in an effort to stop African-American voters from casting their votes in key swing-states. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/government/2020/10/27/pair-indicted-alleged-voter-intimidation-calls-cuyahoga-county/3750578001/
A member of the pro-Trump street gang, the Proud Boys, was arrested for threatening to blow up a polling station. https://www.newsweek.com/self-professed-proud-boy-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-blow-north-dakota-voting-location-1543696
Meanwhile, Trump and the GOP have attempted to do everything possible to stop people in certain districts from voting. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html
Trump has also embraced violence by his supporters. Calling those in Texas who attacked a Biden bus and a staffer in a separate car "Patriots" who "did nothing wrong."
The man who drove the truck which attacked the staffer's car is known for posting on social media about killing protesters with his car and fantasying about killing antifascists.
Back in September, the same driver tried to drive through a group of #BlackLivesMatter 
protesters but was not found to be at fault. https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/i-didnt-want-to-hurt-anybody-video-shows-man-with-trump-flag-drive-through-crowd-of-protesters/273-858757ed-4730-48e5-b37a-b0416ee3cc91
protesters but was not found to be at fault. https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/i-didnt-want-to-hurt-anybody-video-shows-man-with-trump-flag-drive-through-crowd-of-protesters/273-858757ed-4730-48e5-b37a-b0416ee3cc91
As the Biden campaign cancelled some of their events in Texas out of fear, in Rome, GA, another event/meeting on Zoom was also shut down out of fear of far-Right militia activity. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/georgia-rally-moved-to-zoom-after-pro-trump-militia-threatened-democratic-event/
In #NYC, police attacked anti-racist and antifascist counter-protesters, while allowing the police to shut down entire bridges. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trump-train-shuts-down-multiple-bridges-in-nyc-but-only-anti-trump-protesters-arrested/
In #Richmond, #Virginia, a gunman, part of the #TrumpTrain, open fire on counter-protesters. https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1323043157597192206?s=20
In #Bakersfield, Trump supporters attacked someone with a #BlackLivesMatter flag. https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/confrontation-between-president-trump-supporters-blm-activist-caught-on-camera/
flag. https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/confrontation-between-president-trump-supporters-blm-activist-caught-on-camera/
In #FortWorth, Trump supporters harassed Black voters outside of a busy polling place - a clear act of voter intimidation. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2020/11/02/democrats-accuse-trump-trains-of-voter-intimidation-
In #Louisville, armed Trump supporters mobilized in a school parking lot while brandishing guns at a few counter-protesters. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/11/01/louisville-protesters-block-trump-train-eastern-high-school/6117282002/
Residents in #MarinCity north of #SanFrancisco clashed with a Trump Caravan, as the group hurled racial slurs at the small working-class Black community. “They were calling children n—,” she said. “They were yelling at kids I know, kids I care about.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Like-local-terrorism-Trump-caravan-roars-15692996.php
Meanwhile, in #Graham #NorthCaolina, police brutally attacked #BlackLivesMatter protesters, including members of the family of #GeorgeFloyd. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/election-graham-north-carolina-protest/2020/11/01/beee5d8c-1c64-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html
protesters, including members of the family of #GeorgeFloyd. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/election-graham-north-carolina-protest/2020/11/01/beee5d8c-1c64-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html
But in #Vancouver, after far-Right protesters opened fire at #BlackLivesMatter protesters following a vigil, police did nothing. https://twitter.com/Muzzakh/status/1322441191489589252?s=20
protesters following a vigil, police did nothing. https://twitter.com/Muzzakh/status/1322441191489589252?s=20
While out in #Austin, police posed for photos with the far-Right street gang, the Proud Boys. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/apd-officers-criticized-on-social-media-for-posing-in-photo-that-appears-to-include-white-supremacists/
Lastly, "TRUMP" and "MAGA" were written on graves at a Jewish cemetery, in an anti-Semitic attack happening in the same town where Trump was organizing a rally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/03/michigan-jewish-cemetery-trump-maga/
As Trump moves to steal the election and contest mail-in ballots in the courts, he'll count on his supporters causing chaos and violence in the streets while the police turn a blind eye to the violence. https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-police-union-fop-endorses-trump-for-president-over-biden-2020-9
Working-class people will need to hit the streets in mass numbers just as we did following Unite the Right in Charlottesville, shutting down the Alt-Right with tens of thousands of people. We did it before, we can do it again.
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