2024 Election
Domestic Terrorism Threats Grow As Election Draws To a Close
As former president Donald Trump’s rhetoric grows increasingly hostile, so does the threat of terrorism
In early October, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) indicating the growing likelihood of election-related domestic terrorism. As rumors of the former president’s campaign allegedly declaring that it knows Donald Trump will lose, the rhetoric from him and many other Republicans has only grown more hostile.
With that hostility, the chances of domestic terrorist attacks grow as well.
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) compared online rhetoric between 2020 and today. The organization highlights that “the same warning signs of political violence based on election denialism combined with violent language across fringe platforms that we saw in the weeks before the 2020 election and before the January 6, 2021, insurrection” are as prevalent as they were four years ago. A warning that should not be ignored.
