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          10 Major Incidents of Left-Wing Violence and Threats in 2025

   Tyler O'Neil | December 28, 2025

   The assassination of Charlie Kirk marks a key incident of leftist
   political violence this year.

   This past year, the Left crossed a Rubicon in normalizing political
   violence.

   The year opened with many on the Left praising a man who allegedly
   murdered a health care CEO, and it ended with Virginia Democrats
   overwhelmingly voting for a man who fantasized about shooting his
   political opponent and wished death on his opponent's children.

   Jay Jones, now Virginia's attorney general-elect, made the most
   bloodcurdling endorsement of political violence I have ever seen from an
   elected official, and he justified it with this sentence: "Only when
   people feel pain personally do they move on policy."

   Jones apologized for the remarks, but he remained in the race, and he even
   shared a stage with none other than former President Barack Obama. I had
   hoped my fellow Virginians would reject this message in November, but
   Jones won the election-setting a horrifying precedent for American
   politics.

   Jones' election victory highlights the negative partisanship in America,
   and it comes at the end of a truly horrifying year of left-wing violence.
   Here are 10 incidents of threats or violence aligning with the Left's
   attacks on Trump and his party.

1. Targeting `Nazi' Pete Hegseth

   On Jan. 28, Capitol Police arrested Riley Jane English, 24, after she 
   told officers she was carrying a folding knife and two Molotov 
   cocktails. English traveled to Washington, D.C., intending to kill 
   War Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom she referred to as a "Nazi," or 
   House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to a police affidavit. She also 
   reportedly mentioned wanting to burn down The Heritage Foundation.

   This attack followed media reports claiming that Hegseth had a tattoo 
   "associated with white supremacist groups," when the tattoo merely 
   features the Jerusalem Cross. It also followed a year of false claims 
   about Project 2025, a policy project The Heritage Foundation led.

2. Tesla Vandalism

   As the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, 
   headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, cut wasteful and ideological spending 
   in the early months of this year, vandals targeted Tesla vehicles, 
   dealerships, and charging stations. Agitators burned vehicles to the 
   ground, and protesters marched with a banner reading, "Burn a Tesla, 
   Save Democracy."

   Some agitators even published a map claiming to plot the location of every
   Tesla owner across the U.S., suggesting users should attack them.

3. New Mexico GOP Vandalized

   In April, the Justice Department charged Jamison Wagner, 40, for two 
   attacks: an arson attack on two Tesla vehicles in February featuring 
   swastikas and the graffiti "Die Elon"; and an arson attack on the New 
   Mexico Republican Party headquarters, featuring the graffiti 
   "ICE=KKK."

   "Hurling firebombs is not political protest," Deputy Attorney General Todd
   Blanche said at the time.

4. National Jewish Museum

   In May, a gunman yelling, "Free Palestine," shot and killed a Jewish
   couple-Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim-outside the National Jewish
   Museum in Washington, D.C. Elias Rodriguez, 31, faces local and federal
   murder charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

   Rodriguez had previously been associated with the Party for Socialism and
   Liberation, though the party said he has not been involved with the group
   since 2017.

5. Boulder Molotov Cocktail Attack

   Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, faces 12 hate crime charges for allegedly 
   using Molotov cocktails on June 1 to attack people who marched in 
   solidarity with the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. 
   He shouted, "Free Palestine!" during the attack, and reportedly 
   described Israel as a "cancer entity." Soliman allegedly wounded 12 
   victims, one of whom died from her injuries the next day.

6. Apparent Revenge for Hortman

   In June, Vance Boelter, 57, allegedly murdered former Minnesota House 
   Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and shot state Sen. John 
   Hoffman and his wife, both of whom survived. Boelter appears to have 
   been motivated by opposition to abortion, and he targeted Democrats. 
   The Center for Strategic and International Studies categorized the 
   attack as right-wing.

   A few days after the assassination, a Democratic Party lobbyist reportedly
   sent text messages to a former friend of an opposing political viewpoint.
   The lobbyist wrote, "Excited to have my gun at the capitol and blow
   somebody's f-ing face off."

   The Minnesota State Patrol reported in October that it has 
   investigated 50 threats against Minnesota state commissioners, 
   lawmakers, and the governor's office, more than double the 19 from 
   last year. These threats targeted Republicans, as well as Democrats.

7. Alvarado ICE Attack

   On July 4, 10-12 people wearing black clothing started shooting 
   fireworks at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, 
   spray painting "Ice pig" and "F- you pigs," on cars and structures, 
   according to prosecutors. When Alvarado police arrived at the scene, 
   one of the agitators allegedly shot one of them in the neck.

   About 18 people face federal and state charges for the attack on the
   Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Four defendants pleaded
   not guilty in December.

   Joshua Jahn, 29, killed two ICE detainees at a Dallas detention center
   before taking his own life in a September shooting.

   In November, the Department of Homeland Security reported that ICE and
   Customs and Border Protection have faced nearly 100 vehicular attacks this
   year, more than double the amount for 2024.

   Attacks on federal law enforcement follow years of leftist demonization,
   comparing ICE to the KKK and the Nazi Gestapo.

8. Annunciation Church Shooting

   On Aug. 27, a man who legally changed his name to affirm a transgender
   identity shot and killed two children and injured thirty others at a
   school mass at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis.

   Other offenders who identified as transgender have also targeted
   Christians for threats and shootings.

9. Kirk Assassination

   On Sept. 10, a man in a relationship with another man who identifies 
   as transgender allegedly murdered Turning Point USA founder Charlie 
   Kirk. The shooting came a few months after the Southern Poverty Law 
   Center, which is notorious for comparing mainstream conservative and 
   Christian groups to the KKK by putting them on a "hate map," added 
   Turning Point USA to that map.

   Many on the Left celebrated Kirk's death.

10. Arson Attempt

   The Kirk assassination sparked more violence. The Hennepin County 
   Attorney's Office in Minnesota filed charges against a man who 
   allegedly made violent threats in retaliation for Kirk's death.

   On Sept. 17, police in El Paso, Texas, arrested 35-year-old Marynka 
   Marquez and charged her with arson against a place of worship, 
   specifically Beth El Bible Church. According to police, Marquez "had 
   gone to the church, placed a large bag against the outside wall of 
   the church, set it on fire, and then fled the scene." The pastor had 
   been leaving the church, so he spotted the fire and put it out.

   On Sept. 18, the day after the attack, Beth El Bible Church held a vigil
   honoring Charlie Kirk.

   Many Kirk memorials also faced vandalism.

Political Violence

   Neither the Left nor the Right has a monopoly on political violence, as
   this list demonstrates. Both conservatives and liberals need to condemn
   these violent attacks.

   That said, the normalization of political violence seems particularly 
   worrying on the Left. A YouGov poll conducted in October found that 
   self-identified Democrats are more likely to have a favorable view of 
   Antifa (+15%) than they did in September 2022 (-5%) or even in March 
   2025 (-7%). The Proud Boys, a right-leaning group that has engaged in 
   street brawls with Antifa, finds no such popularity among 
   self-identified Republicans (-20%), though it is, of course, even 
   less favorable among Democrats (-59%).

   While conservatives must remain vigilant to threats from the Right, the
   Left cannot merely dismiss political violence as a "far-right" or even a
   "both sides" problem.
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