The FBI says white supremacy is a through line here. Some of these are thwarted by authorities, but some of these attacks have actually happened. In North Carolina, the authorities have not made any arrests that we know of. And then on Christmas Day, there were four power substations taken down in Washington State which left about 14,000 people without power.
Attacks on vulnerable electrical infrastructure are surging. The tactic — embraced by everyone from copper-seeking vandals to chaos-minded white nationalists — exposes a major vulnerability in the US power grid.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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