September 3, 2026

Progressive Watch

CBS’s Norah O’Donnell Uses Assassin’s Rhetoric To Target Trump– thefederalist.com

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What, if anything, was left of Norah O’Donnell’s credibility went up in flames on Sunday when the 60 Minutes correspondent repeated an alleged would-be assassin’s baseless accusations against President Donald Trump without hesitation.

Cole Allen, the 31-year-old armed man who allegedly stormed a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where Trump, members of his administration, and thousands of guests were wined and dined, was not shy in his manifesto about hoping to murder the president and his cabinet.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen reportedly wrote.

In her sit-down with Trump just one day after the latest assassination attempt, O’Donnell repeated the line with a straight face.

“What’s your reaction to that?” O’Donnell said, after remarking that the manifesto was a “stunning thing to read.”

Melania Trump Slithers To The Bottom And Tries To Get Jimmy Kimmel Fired– www.politicususa.com

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It didn’t take long for the White House and its MAGA allies to try to use the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner to push all sorts of items on their agenda.

The one that has gotten the most attention is the call for the White House ballroom to be built, even though the project is illegal and has nothing to do with the incident at a private event on private property.

House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) demanded that the DHS be funded in a post on X, even though the Secret Service was funded last year as a part of Trump’s tax cuts for the rich that Comer voted for.

Red State’s School Districts Pushed Stealth Child Transitioning

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The U.S. Department of Education uncovered four school districts in the red state of Kansas that were breaking a federal law requiring parents be informed when children are “transitioned” to an “alternative” gender.

Education Department Finds Four Red-State School Districts Pushed ‘Gender Identity’ on Kids– www.westernjournal.com
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The U.S. Department of Education found that four school districts in Kansas broke federal law by failing to inform parents that their children were undergoing “gender transitions.”

The agency announced on April 17 that the four schools — Kansas City, Kansas Public School District; Olathe Public Schools; Shawnee Mission School District; and Topeka Public Schools — violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

The Department of Education said in a release that the schools “had policies that were likely to prevent schools from notifying parents of their child’s so-called ‘gender transition,’ even if the parent requested their child’s records.”

Trump Slams ‘Disgraceful’ Norah O’Donnell for Reading White House Correspondents’ ASSASSIN’S Manifesto On 60 Minutes– gellerreport.com

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She went hunting for a “gotcha” and walked straight into a wall. Trump flipped the script, torching the kind of loaded media framing that’s lost public trust. Trump fired back, ripping into what many see as a reckless, agenda-driven press—and the moment hit hard, exposing the kind of media incitement and lies against Trump that led to the many assasination. attempts on the Presidents life. It was a moment that laid bare their evil for all to see felt.

O’Donnell: “He also wrote this: ‘I’m no longer willing to permit a ped*phile, rap*st, and traitor…’”

Trump: “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people.”

O’Donnell: “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”

Trump: “Excuse me, excuse me… You read that crap from some sick person…”

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2048543595901436252?s=20

The FBI Thwarts a Potential Terror Plot Directed at a Texas Synagogue – RedState– redstate.com

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On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the joint work of regional offices in Charlotte, NC, and Houston, TX to foil an alleged terror plot by a Lexington, NC woman to incite a mass casualty event at a synagogue in Houston.

A Lexington woman is facing charges after allegedly plotting to murder congregants at a Texas synagogue, according to Davidson County warrants.

On Wednesday, the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, on two counts of felony conspiracy. According to warrants, the charges are for conspiring to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

California Stealth Attempt To Reinstate Affirmative Action In Education Opposed By Equal Protection Project– legalinsurrection.com

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California Proposition 209, passed in 1995, amended the California Constitution to provide, among other things, to prohibit race and sex discrimination in all public employment, education, and contracting:

SEC. 31. (a) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. [emphasis added]

This powerful nondiscrimination provision effectively banned affirmative action in most public spheres. Prop 209 has come under attack many times, including  a 2020 attempt at repeal that was rejected by voters 57%-43%.

There is a new stealth attack. Legislation (ACA0-7) has passed the California Assembly and is under consideration by the California Senate that would put forward to voters a ballot initiative that would drastically scale back the protections of Proposition 209, but it’s a stealth attack because the legislation and proposed constitutional changes are subtle but deadly for civil rights.

WHCD Faked? Trump's Numbers Worse Than Any I've Ever Seen– crooksandliars.com

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One can easily see why Trump would want a distraction at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m not saying I know what happened, just it’s the kinda thing someone who looks this horrific politically would want.

Trump’s numbers aren’t just bad. I worked in polling a while, I’ve never seen numbers like some of these. Famed strategist Joe Trippi has been running national campaigns since 1979, and had a one-sentence verdict: “I have not seen anything like this in the entire time I’ve been doing this.” Trump’s approval with independents is 27%—a number not seen since Nixon was resigning.

He’s down to 70% with Republicans. Tucker, MTG, Megyn–they may be FOS, but if they’re headed where the wind’s blowing, many MAGA nuts are taking the same ride. Latino support’s moving away from Trump at a pace veteran strategist Mike Madrid–an expert on this demo–says he’s never seen before. We’re favored in places like Alaska right now.

Colorado DA charges Border Patrol agent with assault over anti-ICE protest—DHS call it ‘a political stunt’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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The incident occurred on October 28 outside the ICE detention facility in Durango, Colorado.

A Colorado district attorney has filed third-degree assault and criminal mischief charges against a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer stemming from an anti-ICE protest outside a federal immigration facility in October of last year. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described the charges as “unlawful,” saying they were filed as a “political stunt.”

Democratic District Attorney Sean P. Murray for the Sixth District of Colorado announced the two-count indictment in a Tuesday press release, identifying the Border Patrol agent as Nicholas Rice. The incident occurred on October 28 outside the ICE detention facility in Durango, Colorado, during which Rice was responding to a hostile anti-ICE protest following the apprehension of a man who was arrested while taking his children to school. The subject was later released by ICE after agents wrongly identified him, an official said.

Video evidence shows the alleged victim, Anne Francesca Stagi, putting a phone up to Rice’s face before he allegedly knocked it out of her hand. Stagi then appears to make physical contact with the officer as he began to walk away, grabbing his shoulder. Rice turned around, grabbed Stagi with other federal agents, and brought her to the ground.

Latest US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific– abcnews.com

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WASHINGTON — The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command.

The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 186 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea.

The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.

After Sunday’s attack, Southern Command posted a video on X showing a boat moving swiftly in the water before a explosion left it in flames. It repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.

The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.

Many Americans Don’t Care About 3rd Assassination Attempt On Trump– www.politicususa.com

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The media elites are traumatized by the events at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and they will not stop talking about it. The problem is that they were never in any real danger, unlike people in the United States who experience real gun violence in cities, towns, schools, churches, restaurants, grocery stores, movie theaters, concerts, dance clubs, neighborhoods, and their own homes every single day all across the country.

It has been less than a day since a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, and even though, according to administration officials, the gunman’s manifesto said that he wanted to kill administration officials, the American people aren’t interested in the story.

If you spend five minutes on any form of social media, you’ll soon learn that the consensus reaction is people claiming the gunman was staged, MAGAs who think a White House ballroom will solve everything, and some version of the sentiment that the American people have already seen this movie twice before, and they are bored.

Jamie Raskin Crushes Dana Bash’s Effort To Blame Democrats For WHCD Attacker– www.politicususa.com

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A Washington D.C. press that makes its living suckling the udder of Donald Trump was going to be completely clueless and traumatized as to why anyone would try to harm the elites in the bubbles of six and seven figure parties for a contrived event that they use to cozy up to power while broadcasting it all on television while Americans can’t afford groceries, healthcare, gasoline, and many are out of a job.

Any person who would take or even consider violent steps probably has some serious mental health issues, because such behavior is never an answer, but instead of taking a look in the mirror and questioning whether they are to blame for platforming, normalizing, and profiting off of Trump’s devisiveness, some in the Washington, D.C. press have deciced that the problem is political rhetoric, and that Democrats are to blame as much as Trump for the culture of divisiion and extemism that currently exists in the country.

On CNN’s State Of The Union, Dana Bash interviewed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

Raskin explained that he went to the White House Correspondents Dinner because he was supporting the First Amendment:

 I was so happy that President Trump went to that because he had called the press the enemy of the people. There have been so many attacks on reporters there have been lawsuits brought against media entities, and so there’s been this terrible assault on the First Amendment. Freedom of press and speech.

Fox Blames The Media For WHCD Incident– crooksandliars.com

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Trump’s propaganda channel, it’s that they’re going to use incidents like the one this weekend as a cudgel to silence his critics.

Here’s the crew from this Sunday’s Fox & Friends Weekend blaming the media for the apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

JONES: So again, multiple problems. I talked to the president last night on my way home to New York. And again, a lion in his heart — extremely gracious. If I was in this situation, if I was the principal here, I would not have been as kind.

South Africa showed the world progress is possible– www.dailykos.com

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On April 27, 1994, South Africa delivered a landslide victory to activist and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela and his once-outlawed African National Congress, marking the end of the apartheid era.

The election was held over four days, and over 20 million South Africans turned out, including millions who had long been denied their right to participate in an election. They stood in line for hours, all for a chance to vote in the country’s first truly democratic elections.

“This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country,” Mandela said in his victory speech. “I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy. Pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own.”

Lefties FURIOUS When Dana Bash Asked Raskin About Rough Trump Talk– www.newsbusters.org

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CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash came under assault from the left on Sunday for daring to ask Rep. Jamie Raskin if he would think twice about hot rhetoric against President Trump after a third assassination attempt.

“Call To Activism,” with 1.2 million followers on X was furious: “WTF: CNN’s Dana Bash humiliates herself on live TV insinuating to Jamie Raskin that Democrats are to blame for political violence for ‘heated rhetoric’ like saying Trump ‘is terrible for this country.’ Completely delusional and embarrassing.”

Bash started without blaming either side:

BASH: And then there’s the political rhetoric that we have seen just get — just become kind of off the rails and how that has perhaps gone hand in hand with the political violence that we have seen in this fight.

RASKIN: Well, that’s why I was so happy that President Trump went to that, because he had called the press the enemy of the people. There have been so many attacks on reporters. You know, there have been lawsuits brought against media entities. And so there’s been this terrible assault on the First Amendment and freedom of press and speech. So I thought last night would be a wonderful opportunity to try to reclaim the basic values of the country.

Americans with graduate degrees twice as likely to support political violence: survey– www.thecollegefix.com

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‘More education = higher support for political violence‘

Part of an American political perspectives survey from 2025 went viral on Sunday in the wake of the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life.

The survey found that “Americans with the highest level of formal education were also the most supportive of political violence.”

“[Thirty-six] percent of those with a graduate or professional degree agreed at least somewhat with the statement ‘If you are protesting something unjust, it is reasonable to damage property,’ while 40 percent agreed that ‘Violence is often necessary to create social change,’” the survey found.

A post about the survey from last fall went viral Sunday on X — viewed 21 million times — after news that the man who allegedly tried to kill Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a highly educated California man.

The White House Correspondents Dinner Gunman Changes Nothing– www.politicususa.com

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Of all the things that the Trump administration could have asked for in response to a gunman trying to gain entry into the White House Correspondents Dinner, what the Trump administration and their supporters have settled on as a solution to potential mass shootings and assassination attempts is a ballroom.

It’s weird, right?

However, the rallying cry from the Trump administration is “build the ballroom.”

Acting AG Todd Blanche posted on X in response to the lawsuit that is holding up the construction of Trump’s ballroom:

This lawsuit is on behalf of a single person who walks in the vicinity of the White House once a month and expects to dislike the East Wing’s new design. The passing aesthetic gripe of a single person cannot possibly justify delaying the construction of a secure facility for the President to do his job.

The president’s job isn’t to hang out in ballrooms. The president’s job isn’t to build ballrooms. In fact, ballrooms have nothing to do with the presidency.

There is a whole

The New York Times Finds Hasan Picker, Glamorous Advocate of Theft and Murder– www.newsbusters.org

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Back in 2020, National “Public” Radio promoted a nasty little book called In Defense of Looting. NPR summarized the “Marxist-informed” author Vicki Osterweil in the wake of the “racial justice” rioting in cities: “She argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society.”

It’s interesting to imagine how they would feel if someone stole all their lame Nina Totenberg tote bags, or some transgressive activist broke in and emptied out the designer fashions in NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s residence. They are striking an anti-capitalist pose, and let’s guess it’s not the same if you commit property crimes against socialists.

SPLC – The Racial Arsonist Fundraised Off The Fire– legalinsurrection.com

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I have been doing numerous interviews about the recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for alleged fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, and lying to banks regarding its funding of certain individuals leading or organizing KKK and Neo-Nazi groups and events. This included the “Unite the Right” tiki torch rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

The gravamen of the Indictment is that SPLC presented itself to donors as fighting these groups when it was in bed with them, and in the course of that fraud committed several crimes.

I’ve been writing about SPLC since 2009, so I’m something of an ‘expert’ on its shenanigans. Among other things, I covered how SPLC had a KKK group (2010) and Neo-Nazi group (2012) on their Hate Map for Rhode Island despite those supposed groups having no real-world presence when I investigated and wrote about it at the time. With the addition of inflating the number of hate groups by treating each “branch” as a separate group and counting branches that appeared to be nothing more than blips on a website somewhere, SPLC arguably was a fundraising scam.

But was it criminal?

 

Viriginia Says Yes to Progressive Gerrymandering

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The Progressives won a major battle in the ongoing gerrymandering wars, this time scoring a narrow victory in Virginia. The ballot measure allows the progressives to change U.S. House Districts to effectively take 4 Republican seats away. The now-passed ballot measure faces legal challenges.

Dems Win In Virginia, Could Lose In Court– thefederalist.com
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Democrats and their well-heeled funders have won their rigged referendum to rig Virginia’s congressional maps, but the political boundary battle isn’t over yet.

Now come the court challenges, and that’s where the redistricting revisionists could lose their big win thanks to their unabashed manipulation of Virginia law.

“It’s illegal actually for a number of reasons,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told me last week, a few days before Tuesday’s election, on The Dan O’Donnell Show in Milwaukee.

Snead asserts that Virginia Democrats, who hold the commonwealth’s political trifecta, have steamrolled the process while abandoning their plastic principles. His election watchdog organization is involved in one of several lawsuits challenging the maps and the referendum that gave Democrats the shaky imprimatur to implement them.

SPLC Accused of Funding Hate

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The FBI has leveled multiple criminal indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC is accused of spending millions in dollars to fund numerous far-right hate groups, including the group behind the now-infamous Charlottsville, VA white supremacist rally.

SPLC Says It’s Under Criminal DOJ Investigation Over Its Use of Paid Informants › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The far-left smear group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Tuesday that it is the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges regarding its past use of paid confidential informants to infiltrate alleged “extremist” organizations.

The SPLC labels dozens of conservative and religious organizations and individuals as “extremist” including Focus on the Family, PragerU, MassResistance, Turning Point USA, Gays Against Groomers, Family Research Council, Tucker Carlson, Moms For Liberty, “radical traditional Catholics,” and Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok).

In October 2014, the group even labeled conservative pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson as an “extremist” due to his opposition to same-sex marriage. In February 2015, following a sustained outcry, the SPLC removed Carson from the list and issued a public apology, stating that the profile did not “meet its standards.”

The SPLC said it believes the Trump administration is preparing legal action against some of its employees and vowed to “vigorously defend” itself, its staff, and its work against the allegations, according to the Associated Press.

“Although we don’t know all the details, the focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups,” CEO Bryan Fair said in a statement.

The DOJ probe follows FBI Director Kash Patel’s decision in October to sever all ties with the SPLC, accusing the group of being a “partisan smear machine” that defames mainstream Americans through its “hate map.”

Dems’ Plan To Jail ICE Makes Roman Republic’s End Look Quaint– thefederalist.com

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The left has tried to put Donald Trump in prison for the last decade. So far, they have not succeeded, but it’s not for a lack of trying. They’ve used every dirty trick in the book to try to eliminate their most hated political opponent. It seems like every day we find out new disturbing details about the left’s various plots to discredit and jail the president of the United States.

In Trump 2.0, they’ve become even more desperate, and they no longer limit themselves to hounding the president and his closest associates. Now, anyone who supports the president or carries out orders he issues as the lawful chief executive could find himself a target for left-wing vengeance and reprisal.

And that’s exactly what billionaire Tom Steyer, the current lead Democrat candidate for the governorship of California, the nation’s largest state, plans to do to ICE agents who dutifully carry out our nation’s immigration laws if he wins. Steyer presents his plan in no uncertain moral terms: ICE is evil because it carries out its duty, and its agents must be given no legal quarter in California.

The SPLC Is A Hedge Fund With A Dumb Anti-Racism Newsletter– thefederalist.com

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The SPLC Is A Hedge Fund With A Dumb Anti-Racism Newsletter– thefederalist.com
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Following the federal fraud indictment of the purportedly anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center, the usual voices on the braindead political left have depicted the controversy as a mean right-wing attack on left-wing virtue.

 

The SPLC has due process rights, and the fraud charges have to be proved in court. But before you fall for the sob story about Mean Orange Man attacking the allegedly scrappy anti-racism warriors, take a look at the SPLC’s Form 990. That’s the financial disclosure form that non-profit corporations have to file with the IRS every year. Here’s the latest, which is archived on the ProPublica website. Filed in 2025, it covers the period ending in October of 2024. With about $129 million a year in both revenue and expenses, the SPLC reported total assets of, read this number carefully, $786,768,246.

They’re closing in on an $800 million nest egg. On pg. 11 of the Form 990, you’ll find that they have close to $750 million of that money invested in securities. They own corporate stocks and they’re mad about racism, in that order.

There’s a reason the watchdog organization CharityWatch gives the SPLC an F as a charity: They keep doing aggressive fundraising while they have far more money than they need to pay for their actual work.

SPLC Badgered Biden Administration to Release Convicted Trans Sex Offender › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), currently the subject of a massive federal indictment, pressured the Biden administration to release a sex offender convicted of sexually assaulting a child.

According to The Daily Wire, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request contained a 2021 email from an SPLC attorney, asking that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “release” a detained Phillipine woman who identifies as a man “as soon as possible.”

The Oversight Project reported in August 2025 that the inmate, who held a green card, had served 8 years after having been convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

MAJOR LEAK: New Supreme Court Leaks Further Damages Our Highest Court With Conservative Justices Squarely Targeted– gellerreport.com

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The radical leftists on the Supreme Court are leaking to the treacherous New York Times to undermine and damage the conservative justices. For the cancerous left, nothing is sacred.

Which justice is the traitor? The FBI should conduct the investigation and that justice should be thrown off the bench. Justice Roberts took no action after the Dobbs leak which put the lives of conservative justices in immediate danger. So further leaks were inevitable almost encouraged.

Americans are demanding answers after the The New York Times obtained and published “secret” internal memos from the U.S. Supreme Court — marking the third major leak from the high court in the last four years.

Kerri Urbahn: “Which is really unheard of from the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“I think these leaks TEND to go in one direction and it is to undercut what the conservative wing of the Supreme Court is doing or in the process of doing.”

Seattle activists arrested for violent targeting Jewish fundraiser released without charges | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Those arrested were identified as Alexander Nicholas Dean, Shaun Lynn Chase, and Max Francis Smith, all of whom were booked into King County Jail following the Sunday night riot outside Town Hall.

Three individuals arrested during a violent protest targeting Jews at a fundraiser in downtown Seattle were not charged and have already been released.

According to documents obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI, those arrested were identified as Alexander Nicholas Dean, Shaun Lynn Chase, and Max Francis Smith, all of whom were booked into King County Jail following the Sunday night riot outside Town Hall on 8th Avenue.