political violence
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Dispatches
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
Two threat sentencings in one day: the woman who sent kill texts went home until prison. The teenager who posted one tweet sat in jail 14 months.
On July 21, 2026, both pending threat cases against Nancy Mace ended. Shayla Addison, who sent five kill texts, a bomb-threat email, and two Instagram comments and had a record of nearly identical threats, was never jailed pretrial and got 27 months. Samuel Cain, a Greenville trans teenager who posted a single tweet that agencies reportedly could not tie to any weapon or plan, had already served roughly 14 months without bond and left with house arrest, five years of probation, and a permanent internet ban. Mace posted through all of it.
- September 16, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace says transgender people 'are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it'
On September 16, 2025, in a street interview first reported via Don Lemon's Bluesky, Mace called Tyler Robinson, the man arrested for Kirk's assassination, 'radicalized' by the transgender community, and said trans people should be institutionalized.
- September 12, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace on threats after Kirk shooting: 'The hate pouring in from Democrats is vile, evil, and unhinged'
On September 12, 2025, after Mace's office received threats in response to her claims about Kirk's shooter, she issued a statement attributing all threats to Democrats while framing her own false claims about the shooter's identity as protected speech.
- September 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace after Charlie Kirk shooting: 'Democrats owned what happened today'
On September 11, 2025, Mace told reporters that Democrats bore responsibility for Charlie Kirk's killing, but declined to apply the same logic when asked about a Republican-linked shooting of a Minnesota lawmaker.
- September 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace after Kirk assassination: 'I'm gonna be louder than I've ever been until this shit stops'
Immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination on September 11, 2025, Mace pledged to escalate her rhetoric, framing Democratic speech as having caused the killing.
- September 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace speculates before any arrest that Kirk's shooter 'was a tranny or pro-tranny'
On September 11, 2025, before any suspect was arrested in Charlie Kirk's assassination, Mace told reporters the killer was likely transgender, based on nothing; the man later arrested had a partner who was reportedly transitioning.