Lise Latulippe
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Lise Latulippe
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Mostly interested in Politics. Also have a blog on Blogger.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“This is an opportunity for us to turn a corner and get back to what people really care about, which is a government that works for them and isn’t fighting each other all the time,” Frentz said.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Lawmakers, too, see this moment as an opportunity to come together. Minnesota Senate Assistant Majority Leader Nick Frentz (DFL), who called Hortman a friend, likened the situation to a dysfunctional football team or company.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Pape also said that joint statements from Democrats and Republicans condemning violence is an important part of this solution.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“If you have a good prevention program that identifies people who are struggling [and] get some help, those people stay in school, they stay in the workplace,” he said. “They contribute to the tax base they contribute to their schools and their communities.”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Experts also note that at least 9 state legislatures now have a targeted violence and terrorism prevention strategy. Braniff, the executive director of PERIL, said he wants to see more lawmakers invested in those initiatives.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“We have seen all this political violence all across the country, not with just me as an individual, other lawmakers get the same thing,” Lightner said. “And then sometimes our local law enforcement doesn’t necessarily treat it as a threat.”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Another piece that just passed the House would allow lawmakers2scrub certain personal info from the public view2make it harder4bad actors2find them, though she noted there would likely be “trailer” legislation as some critics have voiced concerns around transparency.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In Michigan, for example, state House Judiciary Committee Chair Sarah Lightner (R) has worked on several pieces of legislation, including one recently signed into law that allows the sergeants at arms to offer additional security to lawmakers.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
said Missouri state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), who recounted having to call her children’s school once after learning of a credible threat against them.
Lawmakers have taken measures into their own hands, working on bills aimed at keeping themselves safer.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“It’s really hard to get somebody in the community to step up and run for the role, if when they understand that you’re giving up your reputation and you’re giving up your physical safety, and those things are weirdly both really strong psychological hits,”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The concern over violence has caused challenges for candidate recruitment at the state and local level.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“That’s why Trump has urged all Americans to ‘commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. The values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God,’” she said.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
WH spokeswoman Abigail Jacksonin a statement to The Hill pointed the finger at Democrats, suggesting their own rhetoric encouraged threats and attacks.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
SML Schumer in a floor speech said Trump “has made political violence a feature of his politics.”
Trump later clarified some of his remarks2Brian Kilmeade on FNR saying he wasn’t “threatening them” or “threatening death” while suggesting Dem were “in serious trouble.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Trump has become a focal point in these conversations &has garnered criticism4his own rhetoric. Recently, he accused a group of Dem with national security &military backgrounds of sedition and wrote of them on Truth Social: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
That is due to hyper partisan rhetoric from political leadership that is dehumanizing the other party, basically justifying violence against others, even if that’s not the intent of the polarizing language, that is how it was heard by many constituents,” Braniff said.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“The kind of violence we’re seeing is becoming more political, more partisan.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
William Braniff, who serves as the Executive Director of PERIL at American University, and who was a top expert on political violence prevention at the Department of Homeland Security, said another factor was the country’s charged political rhetoric.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“The tides of national politics are sweeping over them,” said Robert Pape, a political science professor at University of Chicago. “And of course, this includes the tides of political violence.”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
And on Wed, two National Guard members were shot, one fatally, near the WH. The suspect is an Afghan national who was injured and is currently in custody.
Experts say state leaders could face more threats as local politics becomes nationalized.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Political violence has been a topic of concern at the national level for years. Trump last year suffered injuries after a shooting at his rally in Butler, Pa. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) home was set on fire in April.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“There’s lots of mothers, fathers, sons, daughters in the legislature,” said Texas state Rep. Ramón Romero (D), one of the dozens of lawmakers who had to evacuate from their hotel in Illinois. “We’re still people.”
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November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Several months earlier, a gunman assassinated Hortman and her husband, and separately injured another state senator and his wife.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Over the summer, several bomb threats were reported at an Illinois hotel where Texas Dem were staying after they fled their state in protest of a GOP-led redistricting effort.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM