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Washington’s Democratic attorney general released a report late last year urging the state to crack down on domestic terrorism and enlisting an analyst at an organization notorious for putting conservative groups on a “hate map” alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, a map that has inspired at least one act of terrorism.
Security officials and scholars across the political spectrum agree that far-right movements vice left have caused most recent domestic political violence.
The idea that far-right extremism poses a threat to the country has been contested by political pundits and some Republican lawmakers, who have attempted to minimize far-right violence.