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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"

The Fifth Column

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The Trump Era: The Permission Structure for Violence Against Politicians

Scott Haven made 3,950 calls to democratic members of Congress threatening to shoot or hang them. The FBI finally arrested him and he kept like mumbling, "This wasn't me" at his sentencing hearing. He learned that one of the objects of his torments by phone was a Democrat Jerry Nadler who is also a grandfather and a father just like him.

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