amnesty international has a warning for the world, at the u.s. supreme court does in fact overturn roe v. wade. i mean that theme, it saturday night, let s get started. one week ago, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in buffalo new york, killing ten black people in what the justice department is now investigating as a hate crime. an active racially motivated violent extremism. but what happened in that supermarket is part of a much larger and dangerous trend in united states. according to the anti-defamation league, according to the last decade, there have been 443 murders by people or groups identified as political extremists. left wing extremists were responsible for 4% of those murders, islamic extremists accounted for 20%. but the group responsible for the largest percentage, by far, right wing extremism, who carried out 75% of the murders. so think about this for a moment. while political violence is an american problem, one we all have to reckon with, there is no
and my conversation with the secretary of amnesty international has a warning for the world, as the u.s. supreme court does in fact overturn roe v. wade. i m aymon , it s saturday night, let s get started. one week ago, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in buffalo new york, killing ten black people in what the justice department is now investigating as a hate crime. and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. but what happened in that supermarket is part of a much larger and dangerous trend in united states. according to the anti-defamation league, over the last decade, there have been 443 murders by people or groups identified as political extremists. left wing extremists were responsible for 4% of those murders, islamic extremists accounted for 20%. but the group responsible for the largest percentage, by far, right wing extremists, who carried out 75% of the murders connected to political extremism. so think about this for a moment. while political violence is
reflective democracy. i don t want to get ahead of myself here, but if you win the election in november, i think a big question is, would you joined the squad, so to speak? tell us a little bit about whether you would align with them politically, would you support, for example, nancy pelosi continuing to lead house democrats after the midterms? this is the question that i get the most. it would be an honor for me to stand alongside, particularly these progressive women of color, who have been really working and lifting up voices and perspectives that we ve not seen before. as a legislator, i think that i already align with them in so many ways. i am excited to join them. i am excited to join everybody who is working on per half of poor working class people, working to build progressive power in this country. that is michael, that is who to support leadership, i think our goal in november is to win. we have an uphill battle there.
progressive candidates across the u.s. warned and are poised to win their democratic primaries, this by a flood of super pac cash that actually tried to draw another voices. in fact, there was more outside spending in this week s democratic house primaries than all of the 2020 democratic primaries combined. the lion share of that spending was used to boost modern establishment back democrats or to bash progressives. that was not good enough to stop pennsylvanian john fetterman, with his bid for the democratic nomination see. that is summer lee, late yesterday, the associated press called her win in the top congressional district.
history. yeah, it s a very dangerous and troubling trend that we see on the rise here. and i m concerned that it is not one being addressed adequately by our political leaders. katherine stewart, rich benjamin, thank you for starting us off this hour with this important conversation. still ahead, she took on the democratic establishment and seems to have won. progressive pennsylvania house candidates summer leigh joins me live next. oh, like how i customized this scarf? wow, first time? check out this backpack i made for marco. oh yeah? well, check out this tux. oh, nice. that ll go perfect with these. dude. those are so fire. [whines] only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.