Resources


Elections/Democracy

• Report by ADL & Bridging Divides Initiative: Threats and Harassment Against Local Officials (ADL)

• Election Disinformation: Election Misinformation and Disinformation: How to Know What’s True and What’s False (ADL)

• Joint research report between Everytown and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Assembly: Guns, Demonstrations, and Political Violence in America (Everytown)

• Everytown Policy Solutions: Ending Armed Assaults on Democracy (Everytown)

• Report: Protecting Democracy from Armed Intimidation - A Guide for the States (Giffords)

• Webinar: Hate, Guns, & Democracy (Giffords)

• Blog post: Trump Incites White Armed Protestors (Giffords)

• Report: Armed Protesters Inspire Fear, Chill Free Speech (Giffords)

• Election Protection (NCAI)

• State of Black America (2019): Report on Voter Interference and Misinformation (National Urban League)

• State of Black America (2022): Plot to Destroy Democracy (National Urban League)

• Press Release: Federal Court Issues Order Barring Defendants from Confronting, Photographing, Doxing Voters, and Carrying Body Armor Near Drop Boxes

• Blog post: Bans on Guns at the Polls are Plainly Constitutional (Protect Democracy)

• Report: Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, Five Steps to Safer Elections (Protect Democracy supports the Committee's work) (Protect Democracy)

• Law Enforcement Guidance: Threats to Election Officials: Informational Guide for Law Enforcement (States United)

• Legal Analysis: Midterms 2022: The Poll Observer Landscape (States United)

• Fact Sheet (with ICAP): “Constitutional Sheriffs” and Elections (States United)

• Blog post: There is a heightened awareness, but the threat remains the same as we mark one year since the January 6, 2021 attack (Truman Project)

• Blog post: As we mark one year since the insurrection, we must be clear eyed about the dire threats we face (Truman Project)

• Strengthening Local Government Against Bigoted and Anti-Democracy Movements (WSC)

 

Addressing Extremism

• Report | Hate in the Sunshine State: Extremism & Antisemitism in Florida, 2020-2022 (ADL)

• Everytown Research Report: Armed and Dangerous: How the Gun Lobby Enshrines Guns as Tools of the Extreme Right 

• Everytown Research Report: Armed Extremism in Buffalo: Online Gun Communities Provide a Path of Radicalization and Training to a Racist Shooter (Everytown)

• Everytown Research Report: Misogyny, Extremism, and Gun Violence (Everytown)

• Press Release: Giffords Report Uncovers Months of Online Conversations Among Extremist Groups about Armed Insurrection (Giffords)

• Legal Guidance (with ICAP): Countering Bigotry and Extremism in the Ranks: A First Amendment Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies (States United)

• Confronting White Nationalism in Schools (WSC)

• A Community Guide for Opposing Hate (WSC)

• Reader’s Guide: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Cynthia Miller-Idriss (WSC)
   

Violence Prevention

• Strategy to Fight Domestic Extremism: PROTECT Plan (ADL)

• Resource for educators: Lesson Plan on Political Violence (ADL)

• “Democracy Under Fire: The Insurrectionists Are Heavily Armed” [Newsweek Op-Ed from Everytown’s Nick Suplina and Justin Wagner discussing the violence of January 6th, and armed extremism more broadly (Everytown)

• Report: How America’s Gun Laws Fuel Armed Hate (Giffords)

• Blog Post: Lawmakers must be held accountable for violent rhetoric (Giffords)

• Blog Post: The NRA Is Complicit in the Attack on the Capitol (Giffords)

• Blog Post: Lauren Boebert Doesn't Speak for Me (Giffords)

• Press Release: Pray for Uvalde, Texas (LULAC)

• Letter: LULAC Letter to Congressional Leadership on Urgent Gun Violence Prevention Actions Following School Shooting in Uvalde, TX (LULAC)
   

Tools & Resources

• Resources for educators and parents: Discussing Political Violence and Extremism with Young People (ADL)

• Public Safety and Justice Resources (NCAI)

• Toolkit: De-Escalation: A Toolkit for Election Officials (States United)

• Confronting Conspiracy Theories and Organized Bigotry at Home (WSC)

• A Community Guide for Opposing Hate (WSC)

• Law Enforcement Guidance (with ICAP and 21CP Solutions): Managing Vehicular Protests During Election Season (States United)

• Law Enforcement Guidance (with ICAP and 21CP Solutions): The First Amendment and the Government’s Authority to Regulate Poll Observer Conduct (States United)

• Law Enforcement Guidance (with ICAP and 21CP Solutions): Empowering Democracy: What Police Need to Know at the Polls (States United)

• Law Enforcement Guidance (with ICAP and 21CP Solutions): Empowering Democracy: What Police Need to Know About Protecting the Count (States United)
   

Additional Information

• Press Release:
  ADL and National Urban League to Partner on New Hub for Countering Domestic Extremism and Political Violence