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How Political Violence Threatens U.S. Elections

Racism, political violence and protecting the polls.
Members of the Proud Boys cheer on stage as they and other right-wing demonstrators rally, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Trump's exchange with Joe Biden Tuesday night left the extremist group Proud Boys celebrating what some of its members saw as tacit approval. (John Locher/AP)

The Department of Homeland Security says white nationalism is a major domestic terrorism threat. Is that, coupled with distrust in the electoral system, a recipe for political violence in November?

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, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served in the Department of Justice as the

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