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Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt · Oct 28, 2025

Today, I’m leading a Senate Judiciary hearing on one of the most dangerous forces in American life today: Violent…

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A Senate Judiciary hearing addresses what the speaker characterizes as a crisis of violent left-wing extremism in America, citing various incidents of political violence and arguing that radical ideology from universities and media outlets has motivated organized terrorism. The hearing features witnesses from The Daily Wire, former DHS leadership, and counterterrorism experts to discuss the threat and potential responses.

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    Today, I’m leading a Senate Judiciary hearing on one of the most dangerous forces in American life today: Violent left-wing extremism. Over the past few years, this threat has spiraled into an all-out crisis. 🧵

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    For the past 15 months, political violence has been a constant fact of American life. We've seen arsons and bombings, armed ambushes and assaults, sniper attacks and mass shootings, riots and violent mobs. We have seen assassinations. We have seen murder. We have seen death.

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    Leftists tried to assassinate President Trump. Leftists murdered Charlie Kirk. Leftists have assaulted ICE agents, firebombed facilities, assassinated CEOs, and carried out armed ambushes against cops. That isn’t random, spontaneous violence. It’s organized political terror.

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    The people behind this violence aren’t common street criminals. They’re determined, violent, ideologically-driven radicals. They are driven by the ideology that has been embraced and promoted for years by elite universities, major media outlets, and even elected politicians.

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    The mobs that torch cities, the radicals who ambush ICE agents, the activists who terrorize innocent people—all of them are driven by the same fanatical ideology. It's an ideology that is rabidly anti-American, anti-Western, anti-civilization itself.

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    This worldview condemns America as fundamentally evil. It sees "violence" everywhere—in our laws, our borders, and our speech. And because these things are violent, it justifies using violence against them as a righteous act.

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    Now, extremists have taken these ideas to their logical conclusion. The result is a radical movement that cannot win at the ballot box, so it has turned to violence and terrorism instead. For the past year and a half, we have seen this movement in action, time and time again.

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    Today's hearing will expose this movement—its violence, its ideology, and the network that has allowed both to flourish. To testify, we've invited: • The Daily Wire's @michaeljknowles • Former Acting DHS Secretary @ChadFWolf • Counterterrorism expert @ShidelerK

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    We face a choice: Confront and defeat this terror now, or watch it destroy our way of life forever. We'll be discussing the way forward today at 2:30 PM (ET). Don't miss it.