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“There’s a common denominator in many of these cases,” US Attorney for Arizona Gary Restaino said Monday, “election denialists announcing an intent to violently punish” people who they believe “have wronged them, often with a threat of arrests leading to executions for treason.”
Rebecca Noble/Getty ImagesAn Ohio man who in 2022 threatened to kill Katie Hobbs, now Arizona’s governor but then its secretary of state, was sentenced on Monday to two and a half years behind bars, a hefty sentence that comes amid a federal crackdown on election-related threats.Joshua Russell, 46, of Bucyrus, Ohio, acknowledged leaving three voicemails with Hobbs’ office accusing her of fraud at the height of election season. “America’s coming for you, and you will pay with your life, you commu