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A prominent group of conservative Christians are denouncing President Donald Trump's top military official, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for ordering that convicted terrorist and mass murder Nidal Malik Hasan — who committed the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that led to 13 deaths and 32 injuries — be executed publicly by firing squad. It is the first public execution in modern American history.
"The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a 'culture of death,'" reported journalist Jack Jenkins of the religious news outlet RNS on Friday.
In an excerpt from his report, Jenkins wrote that "Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the 'need for justice' regarding Hasan’s crime, 'at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state’s most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being.'"
Evangelical Christian organizations are not alone in slamming Trump and Hegseth for choosing to publicly execute Hasan. On the social media platform X, prominent commentators from all sides of the political spectrum expressed disgust with the decision.
Billy Binion, reporter for the libertarian magazine Reason Magazine, posted, “This is sick. You can support justice for Nidal Hasan’s victims without making his execution a source of entertainment. This administration so often governs for the online mob. It’s depraved.”
Glenn Greenwald, formerly of The Intercept and ideologically heterodox, argued, “There are a very small number of countries that still carry out public executions. Those are the countries we are constantly told are uniquely primitive, barbaric, sick and evil. It’s revealing that Pete Hegseth wants the US to join that group but also entirely unsurprising.”
Wajahat Ali of the liberal Substack The Left Hook stated, “Public lynchings will be next.”
Trump and Hegseth are also under fire for terminating the employment of dozens of top staff at the Pentagon, amounting to more than 900 years of combined experience, and replacing them with partisan loyalists.
"Since January 2025," Michael N. Schmitt, a law professor at New York University, wrote for Just Security in June, "the Defense Department has removed, replaced, or forced the early retirement of a remarkable concentration of operationally experienced senior officers. Among them are the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Army, and the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, who concurrently serves as director of the National Security Agency. Most recently, Gen. Christopher Donahue, one of the most decorated and combat-experienced officers of his generation, has been forced out as commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and, in his NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) role, as commander of Allied Land Command. Public explanations have been sparse and, to the extent they have been offered, largely general."
Schmitt added, "The question regarding these departures is not whether the president and secretary of defense have broad lawful authority to reshape the senior officer corps. They unequivocally do. Nor is it a question of whether personnel decisions of this kind are ever warranted. Sometimes, they certainly are. Instead, at its core, a central question is their impact on the combat effectiveness, indeed the lethality, of our armed forces."
Even Gen. Christopher LaNeve, Hegseth’s senior military aide, indirectly admitted the mass firings could become a problem.
“Every shortcut in training and lapse in discipline will be paid for in blood,” LaNeve wrote.
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Christa Pike, the woman who survived two execution attempts in Tennessee earlier this week, remains hospitalized in critical condition, where presumably medical staff is at work trying to keep her alive.
If she wakes from the coma she had entered, Tennessee officials want to start anew to inject lethal drugs into her seemingly too-small veins to kill her and carry out the state death warrant. Pike also is being treated for “significant injuries to both arms” sustained when two lethal injections of pentobarbital failed to kill her. If she dies, there will be no need to try again.
As we know by now, Tennessee tried to put Pike to death Wednesday night by lethal injection for a murder she committed when she was 18. She would have been the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.
There is just a simple, if total disconnect in the actions. When the state missed – twice – with its lethal injections, at what point did Tennessee become subject of inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment,” as barred by the Constitution? If we don’t know how to carry out an effective lethal injection on a 32-year Death Row inmate, would a few days make a difference to figure out how to do the job right.
Is anyone bothered by the idea that millions protest in the street to protect the unborn, but no one in official circles even thinks there is a question about keeping Pike artificially alive so that we can kill her all over again?
Legal, Medical and Moral Issues
Sure, there are legal issues here. Pike’s lawyers have told the state to preserve all its records on the botched execution attempts. As the details emerge – Pike was known to have small veins that might not handle the injection, the state had no emergency oxygen nearby if the execution attempt went south, that Pike apparently lay in the death chamber whimpering – the story just gets worse.
The execution process lasted more than two hours, allowing her lawyers time to file emergency legal papers to stay the process to no avail. Even then, “attorneys for the State of Tennessee argued that (the Department of Corrections) had no obligation to render life-saving care to Ms. Pike,” argued the lawyers.
Doctors were telling news reporters – not the state or the courts – that Pike’s condition was such that the pentobarbital was flowing into her arm instead of straight into her veins, making for an unusually painful, if ineffective, process.
In May, Tennessee was forced to call off the planned execution of Tony Carruthers, who killed three people in 1994, after the medical team failed to find a vein to insert the pentobarbital used under the new execution protocol
Pike was convicted in 1995 murder case with two other teenagers.
Generally, execution misses have made finding the supply of legally acceptable death injections more difficult, and there are newer procedures in place in some states other than Tennessee to require practice injections.
What’s Happened
Frank Strada, the prisons chief, resigned on Saturday, and Gov. Bill Lee announced an independent investigation into what went wrong. Strada had been in the job since 2023, moving from a top prison job in Arizona, where had overseen three problem-plagued executions.
Nevertheless, Marsha Blackburn, who is favored to replace Lee as governor in November, said the state would seek to kill Pike anew. She said she would follow recommendations for process changes, but not for Pike.
Capital punishment in Tennessee has been criticized since 2022, when Gov. Lee was forced to cancel an execution because the drugs had not been properly tested.
This summer, The Gallup Poll found that a slight majority — 52% of U.S. adults — consider the death penalty morally acceptable, hovering near historic five-decade lows. The Pew Research Center says about two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 32% oppose it, marking an uptick compared to prior recent years.
Support for the death penalty is much higher among Republicans than Democrats, the opposite of, say, abortion law. Younger adults show significantly lower support. Only about 41% of adults aged 18 to 34 favor the death penalty, compared to higher approval among older generations.
Botched executions are not going to help any moral debate here. As a society, we are confused about who should live and who should die, with all the legal – and now medical – complications to make it more difficult to decide what is “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Terry H. Schwadron retired as a senior editor at The New York Times, Deputy Managing Editor at The Los Angeles Times and leadership jobs at The Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin. He was part of a Pulitzer Gold Medal team in Los Angeles, and his team part of several Pulitzers in New York.
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The Gateway Pundit's Joe Hoft: Jack Smith “should be hung, don't you think?”
Hoft: “He's so rotten. It's so bad.”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 10/06/26
As Media Matters previously reported:
Jim Hoft's website, The Gateway Pundit,“is one of the worst purveyors of false information on the internet.” The website — to which Hoft's brother, Joe, is a contributor — reportedly became “a favorite news source” of President Donald Trump after it “pushed false claims of a stolen election“ for years following the presidential election of 2020.
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CHRIS ALEXANDER (CO-HOST): What about Jack Smith, Joe? What about Jack Smith?
JOE HOFT (THE GATEWAY PUNDIT): What a — he should be hung, don't you think? I mean, he's so rotten. It's so bad.
DANIELLE WALKER (CO-HOST): Yeah.
HOFT: He's rotten. He's been doing — you know, he — there was a senator years ago that he took down. Do you remember that? It was under Obama. I think Obama's first year, there was a Republican senator out of Alaska they made a bunch of lies about. He eventually, I think, got either kicked out or resigned, and that gave Obama a 60-40 Senate, or he could push through with whatever he wanted. And Jack Smith was behind that takedown, and the guy died. And then he — they found out, no, he didn't do anything wrong.
ALEXANDER: Yeah.
HOFT: And that was Jack Smith so —
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Anti-Choice Activist Seth Gruber Advocates The Death Penalty For Women Who Get Abortions
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09/28/2026
Radical right-wing anti-choice activist Seth Gruber recently spoke at Calvary Tucson Church, where he argued that women who have abortions should face the death penalty.
Gruber, founder of the White Rose Resistance, has consistently been a leading voice among anti-choice activists demanding prosecution for women who obtain abortions and made the case during his recent conversation with Calvary Tuscon pastor Robert Furrow that potential penalties for doing so should include the death penalty.
Furrow declared that the only way to completely end abortion is to outlaw the practice and to prosecute women who have them but dismissed as "hypothetical" claims that women would be imprisoned as a result.
Gruber, for his part, made no such effort to downplay the ramifications of this position.
"You want to know what the role of the state is according to Paul in Romans?" Gruber said. "They're to be a terror to those who do evil. Do you know that's in Romans 13? What's the role of the state? To be a terror to those who do evil. Basically to be a deterrent."
"Paul says the state does not bear the sword in vain," he continued. "So in other words, here's a firing squad—to apply it to the 21st century, or an electric chair; in Paul's era, it was a sword—and the state is going to kill you if you murder innocent people. So there's this deterrent that floats up in the ether, and a lot of people never have to endure the punishment of that deterrent being applied because just the fact that the deterrent floats there up in the ether stops most people from doing those things."
"As a pro-life leader, I say make the death penalty great again," Gruber declared. "The death penalty is a recognition of the sanctity of life, because it's saying what you did was so heinous and evil in murdering an innocent that you've actually rescinded your right to live. We don't do the ceremonial laws in the Old Testament anymore, but the moral law is still there. Live by the sword, die by the sword, tooth for tooth, eye for eye; that kind of stuff still stands."
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In early August, GOP voters in Michigan's 8th Congressional District defied President Donald Trump when they nominated retired General Motors engineer **Thomas Smith over the Trump-backed Amir Hassan [XIAN MAGA] . The nomination drew increased scrutiny of Smith's background, and according to CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, the Flint, Michigan-based business owner has a long history of making extreme statements.
Kaczynski, in a KFile report for CNN, explains, "A Republican congressional nominee in a closely divided Michigan district deleted social media accounts containing thousands of posts that include a yearslong pattern of inflammatory and conspiratorial rhetoric — including amplifying a post that appeared to raise the possibility of the death penalty for political opponents of President Donald Trump … A CNN KFile review of some 13,000 archived posts from Smith's now-deleted accounts uncovered a substantially broader pattern of far-right rhetoric than previously reported, including repeated accusations of treason, attacks on Muslim Americans and Islam, birther-style conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, and posts in which Smith said he had been awakened before dawn with a message from God for conservative radio host Dan Bongino."
In the general election, Smith is up against incumbent Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Michigan). The Cook Political Report moved the race in Michigan's 8th Congressional District from "lean Democratic" to "likely Democratic," and according to Kaczynski, Smith's "digital history" could "loom over" the election in a swing district that Trump won by roughly 3 percent in 2024.
"One of the starkest examples came in February 2025," Kaczynski notes. "The account, JarHeadSalsa, named for the Flint salsa business Smith owns with his son, reposted a message addressed to Trump: 'Do whatever it takes to take our country back from those who sought to have it destroyed.' 'There are traitors within who deserve to be put on trial for treason,' the post added. 'What's the punishment for treason again?' A person convicted of treason can be punished by death or be imprisoned for no less than five years … One racist repost that Smith shared urged the deportation of the 'Somali infestation' of America."
Kaczynski notes that the "February 2025 post … was hardly the only time Smith's account amplified accusations that political figures were traitors."
"In July 2024," the CNN reporter notes, "he reposted a message declaring that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 'is a traitor.' Last November, after several Democratic lawmakers urged service members to refuse illegal orders, Smith's account reposted a message calling Rep. Maggie Goodlander a 'traitor.'
Days later, it amplified another calling for Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to be stripped of his rank and court-martialed for sedition. He also shared numerous reposts accusing former President Barack Obama of treason, including one labeling him a 'Shadow President.'"
Kaczynski continues, "Another declared that 'treason charges are coming,' tagging Obama and adding 'you are f– –,' while asking whether he ordered Trump to be assassinated. Another repost on Truth Social called former Rep. Eric Swalwell treasonous and for him to be jailed."
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James Fishback Says Don Lemon Is 'Lucky That He's Not Getting Executed In The Public Square'
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James Fishback is a far-right Republican candidate for governor in Florida whose campaign has overtly appealed to the white nationalist movement, with Fishback making multiple appearances on programs hosted by virulently antisemitic white nationalists and voicing his admiration for white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" movement.
On Friday, Fishback appeared on the American Family Association's "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" program, hosted by one of President Donald Trump's former attorneys, where he opened the interview by praising the Trump administration for arresting independent journalist Don Lemon for his coverage of a group of anti-ICE protesters who invaded a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.
"It is a good day for law and order in America," Fishback declared. "A man ransacked a church during Sunday service with BLM and antifa thugs. If our Founding Fathers knew that a bunch of thugs, led by Don Lemon, had ransacked a church on Sunday morning while parishioners were praising our awesome God, they would have likely called for his public execution."
"Don Lemon should be lucky that he's not getting executed in the public square for his little stunt, his violence, his aggression," Fishback continued. "It's time that Christians stand up for our rights in this country. We cannot be bullied. We cannot be pushed around, least of all by Don Lemon, and so it's a good day for law and order. I'm proud of what President Trump and the DOJ are doing and let's see that justice is served in this case all the way through."
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Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as “masculine leadership” to the US.
In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called “three strikes” anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.
“If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law,” he wrote. “We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.”
Lonsdale then added that “our society needs balance,” and said that “it’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.”
Lonsdale’s views on public hangings being necessary to restore “masculine leadership” drew swift criticism.
Gil Durán, a journalist who documents the increasingly authoritarian politics of Silicon Valley in his newsletter “The Nerd Reich,” argued in a Saturday post that Lonsdale’s call for public hangings showed that US tech elites are “entering a more dangerous and desperate phase of radicalization.”
“For months, Peter Thiel guru Curtis Yarvin has been squawking about the need for more severe measures to cement Trump’s authoritarian rule,” Durán explained. “Peter Thiel is ranting about the Antichrist in a global tour. And now Lonsdale—a Thiel protégé—is fantasizing about a future in which he will have the power to unleash state violence at mass scale.”
Taulby Edmondson, an adjunct professor of history, religion, and culture at Virginia Tech, wrote in a post on Bluesky that the rhetoric Lonsdale uses to justify the return of public hangings has even darker intonations than calls for state-backed violence.
“A point of nuance here: ‘masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable’ is how lynch mobs are described, not state-sanctioned executions,” he observed.
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll argued that Lonsdale’s remarks were symbolic of a kind of performative masculinity that has infected US culture.
“Immaturity masquerading as strength is the defining personal characteristic of our age,” he wrote.
Tech entrepreneur Anil Dash warned Lonsdale that his call for public hangings could have unintended consequences for members of the Silicon Valley elite.
“Well, Joe, Mark Zuckerberg has sole control over Facebook, which directly enabled the Rohingya genocide,” he wrote. “So let’s have the conversation.”
And Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin noted that Lonsdale has been a major backer of the University of Austin, an unaccredited liberal arts college that has been pitched as an alternative to left-wing university education with the goal of preparing “thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse.”
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the MAGA media response to six Democratic members of Congress reminding their former compatriots in the military and intelligence community of their duty to “refuse illegal orders” reached a fever pitch on Thursday. After President Donald Trump suggested earlier that day that the lawmakers should face the death penalty for sedition, his propagandists chimed in, describing the Democrats as “devious and subversive” and their actions as “border[ing] on treason.”
On Wednesday, Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), as well as Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) released a video in which they urged current members of the military and intelligence community to disobey “illegal orders.” While they did not provide examples, the release came amid debates over the legality of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and domestic troop deployments. The video drew a deranged response from many on the right, who accused the lawmakers of committing “treason” and trying to “trigger a military coup.”
The president himself weighed in Thursday morning with a series of Truth Social posts in which he accused the lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” described them as “traitors to our Country,” and called for them to be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL” for crimes he described as “punishable by DEATH!” The lawmakers in the video and Democratic House leadership both condemned Trump’s posts, while White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Trump did not in fact seek the deaths of the members of Congress.
Trump is currently operating from a position of weakness, with his support in polls in a tailspinand his congressional allies having successfully revolted over the Jeffrey Epstein files. He’s previously responded to such circumstances by seeking to reunify his coalition by pointing them at a common enemy, and that seems to be what has happened this week. To the extent that he’s given his most loyal propagandists someone to attack, it’s working.
Fox News prime-time host Jesse Watters claimed on Thursday night that the “Democrats sent a clear message to everybody in the military and CIA: You're free to commit treason.” He described their actions as “devious and subversive,” said they were “planting coup seeds inside the Pentagon and at Langley,” and accused them of “psychological warfare launched by sitting politicians against the American military in peacetime” and “trying to blow up the chain of command.”
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Watters’ colleague Sean Hannity argued the next hour, “The only question tonight [is] will these six Democratic lawmakers be held accountable in a court of law?” He then commented that he’s “not sure” they committed crimes punishable by death because he’s “not a lawyer,” and asked Fox contributor and former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz to weigh in. Chaffetz assured him that “what they did borders on treason. It really does.” He added that “President Trump was actually exactly right” because “If you do commit treason, guess what? It is punishable by death. That's just the law. He's just reciting the law.”
Their competitors at Newsmax were similarly enraged. Carl Higbie declared that Trump’s posts show he “is done playing around with garbage,” pointed out that “George Washington did hang traitors many times, including Benedict Arnold's British counterpart,” and claimed that the Democrats “should be court-martialed themselves” because “that type of rhetoric from senators and congressmen is sedition.” Greg Kelly commented that “a lot of people” think the lawmakers committed “treason, or mutiny, or something along those lines,” and accused them of “plotting the seeds, I think, of another coup.” And The Right Squad’s Chris Plante said the Democrats were “inciting civil war.”
And Laura Loomer, whose influence in the Oval Office has triggered the firings of numerous administration officials for insufficient loyalty, wrote: “President Trump just re posted a post on Truth Social calling for seditious Democrat Senators to be hung for calling on members of the military to defy President Trump’s orders as Commander in Chief.”
“Trump is right,” she added. “That’s the type of justice Americans want to see.”
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Brian Sauvé Calls For Rebellious Young Black Men To Be Killed By The State
10/06/2025
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Brian Sauvé and Eric Conn, two far-right Christian nationalist pastors at Refuge Church in Utah, dedicated a recent episode of their "The King's Hall" podcast to discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was brutally killed by a mentally ill Black man while riding a metro train in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this year.
During the program, Sauvé and Conn—who are both aligned with racist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon, having made multiple appearances at his conferences and on his podcast—blamed the murder on "black culture," and called for "rebellious" young Black men to be executed by the state, in accordance with the Bible.
"Let's say that somebody was coming into our church and they're Black," Sauvé said. "Would they be eligible for membership in our church? Yes, of course they would. They'd be eligible for membership in our church. But would they be permitted to participate in, embody, and practice what I would call black culture generally in our church? The answer is absolutely not. Why? Because the things, the characteristics that mark black culture [are] as a generalization in the same way Paul's talking about Cretans on Crete: They are evil, murderous, violent, bestial people; they steal, they kill, they destroy, they look like Satan in how they act, they are sinful to the core, they have besetting sins that are like fatherlessness, sexual immorality, they molest children at a high rate. Any criminal statistic that you could look at almost pretty much without exception, they excel at them, black culture.
"When we make this generalization, one of the purposes of it," Sauvé added, "[is] for policymakers to make the kind of political movements in terms of law and order that would usher in the change over time of that culture. One of them would be something like ... the law of Moses in Deuteronomy 21 concerning a rebellious child."
"I think it's something like five percent of Black males are murderers," Sauvé continued. "If you take that and then you took a law like Deuteronomy 21, which is a just law that got enacted through Moses; the law was that if you had a rebellious son, you have a child who's coming up into their manhood and they're rebellious, they don't listen—he lists some characteristics—and even though they're disciplined, they will not turn, he says the father is to bring them out into the town square, this is a rebellious son, and then they stone him to death. They kill him."
"And an armed robber would certainly be one of those," Conn replied.
"Oh, absolutely, Sauvé agreed. "Armed robber, all the ghetto culture; basically, take ghetto culture, it would describe this to a T. If you did that over three generations, how much violent crime would you have in the third and fourth generation? Much, much less."
"What we've done instead is we've actually, with unjust weights and measures, we have wildly penalized Whites for even virtuous acts in lawfare," Sauvé claimed. "Because liberals have appointed Blacks to positions of power, and they're practicing ethnic and racial in-group preference, like the several Black women who were involved in releasing Decarlos [Brown], the murderer in the city of Charlotte ... His younger brother was a murderer in prison. His father was a violent criminal. Okay, so there's two sons and a father. If they'd cut that line off back the generation or two before, there's no Decarlos to slit the throat."
"In this case, [we have] the double whammy of Black female judges [and] politicians who have appointed these sorts of people," Sauvé said. "If you look at who appointed the judge and the judge that released them, it's two Black women. And what did they do? They said, 'Oh, it's mental health, it's homelessness, it's this, it's that. It's not a criminal tendency of Black males that needs to be cut off through the wielding of the sword by the civil magistrate.'"
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An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.
Kingman Republican Rep. John Gillette wrote on the social media site X that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was calling for the the government to be overthrown and should be hanged.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,” Gillette said in response to a video of Jayapal.
That clip uploaded to X was from a longer video, which was posted online in March, that is part of Jayapal’s “Resistance Lab” series in which she and others discuss protest movements and non-violent actions. The session in question featured a speaker who studied political violence and spoke about non-violence.
The post Gillette responded to claimed that Jayapal was making a call to violence because she said protesters should be “strike ready” and “street ready.” The Arizona Mirror watched the video in its entirety and found no calls to violence or advocating for overthrowing the government; it was focused on “non-violent resistance” to Trump and advising people on how to do that.
In contrast, Gillette has expressed support for the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, who violently assaulted police officers and broke down doors and windows in order to access the building so they could stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election. In several posts on X, he called the 1,600 or so people who were prosecuted — and since pardoned by Trump — for their actions that day “political prisoners.”
He refused to answer questions when the Mirror reached him by phone on Thursday.
“You guys aren’t known for putting out accurate information,” Gillette said. “The comment is what it is, it is on the post. You can see what it is, there is no hidden meaning. No nothing. You report whatever you want to report. We are done. Stop calling me. Have a good day.”
Gillette then hung up and he did not respond to follow up questions texted to him about the post. A representative for Jayapal said that she is out of the country and currently unable to comment.
What will he need to say before Republican leadership in the House takes action? This is language that leads to violence. I’m tired of him putting us and our families at risk.
– Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez
One of Gillette’s Democratic colleagues in the Arizona House of Representatives said the Kingman Republican’s call for an elected official to be put to death for exercising their First Amendment right was appalling.
“The Congresswoman was clearly talking about nonviolent protest and legal strikes — absolutely nothing violent,” Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez said in a statement to the Mirror. “Representative Gillette misconstrued her words to once again put a target on a political opponent’s back, calling for her to be hanged. What will he need to say before Republican leadership in the House takes action? This is language that leads to violence. I’m tired of him putting us and our families at risk.”
Gillette’s recent comments come after some of his democratic colleagues have voiced concerns over his rhetoric after he castigated them for calling for civility and unity in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In a message to all his fellow lawmakers that included a racial slur, he placed blame for political violence solely on Democrats and the political left, accusing them of stoking hate and violence against Republicans.
“The tone was set by your party; unity is no longer an option,” Gillette wrote to the 59 other members of the state House. “We handed you an olive ranch (sic), and you broke it. Your party invited the radicals to the table and they took over. Now you own them. As the J**s did at Peral (sic) Harbor, Radical Muslims on 911, your party has woken the sleeping giant.”
He has also recently come under fire for Islamophobic comments that led to an ethics complaint that was ultimately dismissed. The Republican chair of the House Ethics Committee said that Gillette had a First Amendment right to say whatever he wanted on social media without consequence.
Jeff Sharlet, a professor at Dartmouth and author of “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” said he was “wary” to call Gillette’s words a direct call to violence, but said the comments were still worrying and part of a larger trend.
“I think it is grotesque what he is saying. I would be afraid that someone would maybe act on it,” Sharlet said, adding that if he were a Democratic politician who had to work with Gillette, he may be nervous. “If he got anywhere near the Congresswoman he is targeting, I’d want security to take notice.”
Discussions around political violence have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with high-profile conservatives laying blame on their political opponents and their rhetoric.
“We are having a punctuated burst — a historically high period of political violence that I would call America’s era of violent populism,” Dr. Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who has studied political violence for 30 years, told the Mirror.
In June, Pape penned an op-ed in The New York Times saying that the country was on the brink of an “extremely violent era” in American politics.
“We are now … in the eye of the storm I was worried about,” Pape said.
Pape runs the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, a nonpartisan research center. In May, Pape’s organization found that 40% of Democrats supported the use of force to remove Trump and 25% of Republicans supported the use of military against anti-Trump protests, double what the numbers were last fall.
That violent rhetoric used by Gillette also could have an unintended consequence on him and his political allies, Pape said.
“It is going to push those supporters (of Jayapal) to becoming more defiant and probably more supportive of political violence against Republicans,” he explained. “Whatever his intentions are, it is increasing the danger to Republicans.”
Sharlet said that, although the intention behind Jayapal’s words was easy to discern, “this is not the time for ambiguous language.” Politicians, he said, should aim to speak to the public in a more truthful and concise manner.
“They need to know the way it boomerangs back in a negative way to their own community,” Pape said, adding that he’d advise them to be more like Kirk’s widow, Erika.
At the memorial service for her husband, she said she forgives the man who killed her husband, adding that “the answer to hate is not hate.”
“Erika Kirk offered an olive branch here, and we need more olive branches here,” Pape said.
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mayor stands w gov pritzker on military 8 25
September 3, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now when you hear politicians like Brandon Johnson claim that they have solutions, remember videos like this one. They've gone out of their way to make violent crime much, much worse in Chicago. This is a deliberate effort that they've embarked on. Now it's true that in our federal system, states are not required to assist the federal government in carrying out certain policy objectives, but it's also true that states and local government cannot actively interfere with the federal government's decision to enforce the law. That is not states rights. That is treason.
Brandon Johnson is openly encouraging residents of Chicago to engage in treason against the United States. And for that reason, Brandon Johnson should be arrested, charged with treason, convicted, and then given the requisite punishment for a capital offense. Will that ever happen? Probably not. But then again, just a few days ago, Tren de Aragua, you know, they never thought that they'd be intercepted as they sped towards the United States on their drug boats. They certainly didn't imagine they'd get blown up without any warning.
All indications are that we are entering a new phase of federal governance, one where the U.S. military acts to defend the American people, where false narratives from NGOs are ignored, where criminals are actually punished when they violate the law in public. So who knows? Maybe Brandon Johnson shouldn't be so confident. Like Washington, D.C., which has experienced something like a 50% drop in violent crime since the National Guard moved in, Chicago is about to become a much safer place.
The more JB Pritzker lies about crime statistics, the more Brandon Johnson commits treason in public, the more obvious it becomes that this strategy needs to be applied to every major American city. Democrats have no response. They have no counterargument. The safer America becomes, the more they will complain. And in response, every American who's paying attention will recognize their party for what it is. They are the party of chaos, crime, and cartels, and they should be treated accordingly.
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One of President Donald Trump's closest associates is now publicly calling for a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate to be killed over a bill he introduced to rein in "corruption."
In a post to his X account, Trump confidant Roger Stone insisted that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) was compromised by the Chinese Communist Party because of a company he co-founded getting venture capital from a Chinese company. Stone wrote that Kelly should be "charged with treason and if convicted executed, consistent with federal law."
The Daily Beast reported Friday that Stone's remark was in response to Kelly officially submitting a cryptocurrency regulation bill for consideration that would prevent the president, vice president and their families from "issuing, endorsing, or sponsoring crypto assets." Kelly's bill specifically mentioned "memecoins," which is particularly noteworthy as Trump has specifically promoted memecoins named after both himself and First Lady Melania Trump.
READ MORE:'Absolutely alarming': Critics say Trump building 'surveillance weapon' for poor Americans
"Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins — this is corruption in broad daylight," Kelly tweeted.
The Trump family is also profiting from its crypto company, World Liberty Financial. His middle son Eric recently spoke at a conference in the United Arab Emirates, where the government of Dubai announced a $2 billion investment in cryptocurrency exchange Binance using a new "stablecoin" (a cryptocurrency with a price designed to be at or near $1 for a long period of time) from World Liberty. The deal could result in Trump directly raking in hundreds of millions of dollars.
It isn't just Democratic senators who are uneasy about Trump profiting from various cryptocurrency schemes. Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have also gently insisted that it's improper for the president to openly profit from cryptocurrency while in office, with Lummis calling for "regulatory framework" that would address the issue.
Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress about Trump's knowledge of Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, witness tampering and obstruction. Even though he had been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison, Trump pardoned him during his lame-duck period in December of 2020.
READ MORE:'Civil war is coming to the Trump movement': Expert says MAGA could soon tear itself apart
Click here to read the Beast's full report (subscription required).
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- Richard Harris claims that the response to the COVID pandemic was "one of the greatest episodes of corruption and human rights abuses the world has ever seen."
- Rep. Buddy Carter says that the Democrats who clashed with ICE officials are "clowns" and should be stripped of their committee assignments.
- Mark Meckler reports that he was "in Washington D.C. meeting with a bunch of folks last week" and is optimistic that "there is an appetite growing" among Republican legislators to support an Article V Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution.
- Joshua Haymes wants to see some public executions: "The Bible is pro-public execution. America’s founding fathers were pro-public execution. Good common sense is in favor of public execution as a deterrent. So why are you against public execution?"
- During a recent Right Response Ministries podcast attacking Judaism and the Talmud, co-host Wesley Todd declared that "Jews are our enemy."
- Nick Fuentes wants to get "really rich" so he can "just do some straight up illegal stuff" by having his henchmen kidnap a bunch of women who will then be forced to fight to the death for the "prize" of becoming his wife.
- Finally, it's disturbing to see GOP members of Congress who think that it is the role of Congress to blindly turn every one of President Donald Trump's executive orders into law. Perhaps they should read Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
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