Overview

• Democratic lawmakers continued using the term to describe the president and his allies, with Reps. Maxwell Frost and Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Chris Murphy defending blunt warnings as necessary.
• Republican strategists said the rhetoric is incendiary and politically self-defeating, as the NRCC and a super PAC aligned with Speaker Mike Johnson move to target Democrats who use the label.
• Authorities said a gunman opened fire from a rooftop at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday, killing one detainee, critically wounding two others, and then taking his own life.
• On Sunday, police fatally shot a suspect who crashed into and attacked a Latter-day Saints church in Michigan, where at least four people were killed and eight wounded as officials searched the ruins.
• A Reuters/Ipsos poll found roughly two-thirds of Americans believe harsh political speech encourages violence, and ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.