Jacob Ware

How Political Violence in America Became Personal Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

Are Americans increasingly more accepting of political violence? In @justsecurity.org, SFS Prof Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware suggest that this trend may be linked to the increasingly personal nature of recent high-profile political assassinations in the U.S.

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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2025) U.S. strikes / Venezuela • Russia-Ukraine War • United Nations • Political violence • Trump executive actions • Emerging technologies • Climate

(1/3) Catch up on our recent analysis:

• U.S. strikes / Venezuela
• Russia-Ukraine War
• United Nations
• Political violence
• Trump executive actions
• Emerging technologies
• Climate

www.justsecurity.org/121522/diges...

Also perfect for the Friday afternoon commute! 😀

"The White House has taken an action that is sweeping in its rhetoric yet almost certainly empty of formal legal effect."

Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...

Modern-Day Lynchings: The Long History of Gamified White Supremacist Terrorism - GNET

This @gnetresearch.bsky.social Insight by Samantha Olson and Jacob Ware examines how white supremacist violence has evolved, leveraging modern technology to perpetuate age-old ideologies.

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TLDR 👇

#extremismstudies #radicalright #counterterrorism #counterextremism #farright

Deeply grateful to @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social for the opportunity and for the sharp edits!

"Assassinations in America: How Political Violence Became Personal" by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware - Just Security: Out Loud

Our recent @justsecurity.org article is also available in audio form on the Just Security: Out Loud podcast. Perfect for the Friday morning commute! @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social @cfr.org www.buzzsprout.com/2509956/epis...

How Political Violence in America Became Personal Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

With @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social in @justsecurity.org:

Recent killers mostly did not strike congregations of their enemies or attempt to kill them en masse. They identified individual people — in the streets or at public events or even in their homes — and executed them.

Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.

A stunning rebuke from AEI's @kschake.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com: #Trump and #Hegseth's speeches were "tantamount to incitement—a genuinely dangerous effort to suborn the military’s oath and condition them for using violence against their fellow Americans." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

How Political Violence in America Became Personal Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

The threat of high-profile assassinations is on the rise in America.

Bruce Hoffman & @jacobware.bsky.social write that while targeted killings are deadly than indiscriminate bombings or mass shootings, they wreak profound psychological damage on society.

www.justsecurity.org/121425/assas...

How Political Violence in America Became Personal Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

2025 is the year of the assassination in America. But we should not be surprised. Over the past several years, political violence has steadily been growing more personal.

My latest with the great @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social in @justsecurity.org. www.justsecurity.org/121425/assas...

Global Affairs Expert Webinar: Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Watch Bruce Hoffman, the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at CFR, and Jacob Ware, research fellow at CFR, colead the conversation on countert...

Always such an honor to join @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social on a virtual stage, this time discussing the domestic terrorism landscape after the Charlie Kirk assassination for @cfreducation.bsky.social. Video available below! 👇🏻 education.cfr.org/events/globa...

How Two Young Men Got Pulled Into Internet Darkness, and How They Got Out Teens and men in their 20s look for belonging in corrosive online spaces but often end up feeling more isolated. “The beliefs themselves instilled loneliness,” one says.

Also: “Boyhood now is a void. The thrilling extremist ideas you find on the internet become your surrogate boyhood adventure,” one former anarchist extremist tells Julie Jargon and @benfritz.bsky.social of the @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...

Young People and The Emerging Terrorism Threat Landscape Prevention efforts must shift toward a model that addresses the systemic drivers and underlying causes of youth vulnerability to violent extremism.

Latest in youth radicalization research: Bettina Rottweiler, Caitlin Clemmow, Austin Doctor and @brennahelm.bsky.social warn in @justsecurity.org that "a more complex and borderless threat environment" means "youth are increasingly exposed to violent extremism." www.justsecurity.org/121085/young...

Ideological Leaderless Resistance in the Digital Age - GNET

“The modern phenomenon of ideological convergence has harnessed the power of a broader swath of the population’s grievances and biases, transcending the importance of any particular brand of hate—and thus inspiring more widespread violence.” @gnetresearch.bsky.social

As kids like the Evergreen High School shooter sink into violent online extremism, what can parents do? “We feel like people don’t even know that this is going on,” said Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. “We need to understand there are these terrible places online.”

“The gun violence, the social media radicalization question — those are issues for political leaders to handle. And, of course, they are refusing to handle them, and school children are paying the price.” www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/e...

As kids like the Evergreen High School shooter sink into violent online extremism, what can parents do? “We feel like people don’t even know that this is going on,” said Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. “We need to understand there are these terrible places online.”

“The gun violence, the social media radicalization question — those are issues for political leaders to handle. And, of course, they are refusing to handle them, and school children are paying the price.” www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/e...

As kids like the Evergreen High School shooter sink into violent online extremism, what can parents do? “We feel like people don’t even know that this is going on,” said Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. “We need to understand there are these terrible places online.”

Excellent reporting by @jessicaseaman.bsky.social in the @denverpost.com on the monumental challenges facing parents in protecting their children from violent extremist recruiters (and predators) online. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/e...

Assassinat de Charlie Kirk : le meurtre comme "trolling" post-idéologique Alors que le gouvernement Trump cible le mouvement « Antifa » et la « gauche radicale » à la suite de l’assassinat de Charlie Kirk, l’acte du tueur, ainsi que la violence d’un nombre croissant de jeun...

« Le gouvernement Trump ne prend pas du tout les efforts de contreterrorisme au sérieux. Après ce meurtre, leur réponse principale a été de désigner Antifa comme organisation terroriste, malgré l'absence de preuve » @mariannelemag.bsky.social www.marianne.net/agora/analys...

Is left-wing terrorism on the rise in the US? And how does this compare to trends in Canada?

Terrific counterargument here from @jessmarindavis.bsky.social, insisting that "2025 might well be a turning point in the data, but it’s too soon to say." newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/is-left-wi...

Totally fair points, Jess! Your article on it was excellent. I'm glad the conversation is still unfolding.

Sanctioning of global white supremacist terrorism group rattles U.S. extremist members The State Department has applied the “specially designated global terrorist” designation to the Terrorgram Collective in a groundbreaking move that for the first time sanctions a transnational white s...

Revisiting @byjordangreen.bsky.social's reporting in @rawstory.com in January that found far-right extremists were "rattled" over the Terrorgram Collective's designation as a terrorist entity. I wonder if they feel the same way after #Antifa's "designation." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Just gonna say the U.S. has had the "war on terrorism" for a long time. There are a lot of vets out there that need help, and they are not getting it.

Marine veteran in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN A 40-year-old Marine veteran who pulled up to a waterfront North Carolina bar by boat fatally shot three people Saturday night, authorities say, shattering the peaceful atmosphere of a community rarel...

A particularly grim footnote to a violent weekend: “The attack is one of two mass shootings allegedly committed by Iraq War veterans over the weekend.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

From an #ICE facility in #Dallas, a perfect portrait of America in our era of endless gun violence and mass murder (photo credit:
DHS).

A mother's fear led to the arrest of a man accused of setting fire to a Jewish center Prosecutors say a man accused of setting fire to a Chabad Jewish Center in southwest Florida has been arrested and faces a federal arson charge

"HOOVER has a hatred towards homosexuals and Jewish people that has become worse over the past few years." (h/t @seamushughes.bsky.social) abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

This graph does a FAR better job than the forest-for-the-trees article & headline of the Atlantic piece of telling the accurate story of Right/Left political violence in America:

What. Jacob. Said.

When the state does right-wing violence, non-state violence by right-wing groups declines

This data is reliable.