Profs & Pints DC: Preventing Election Violence
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Preventing Election Violence,” on the recent history of election-related terrorism and the potential for violence before, during, and after the midterms, with Jacob Ware, adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and scholar of domestic and international terrorism.
The United States has been plagued by election violence over the past several years, with recent incidents including the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the attempted 2024 assassination of Donald Trump during an open-air campaign rally.
But the historical record indicates that such election violence is not an aberration. American elections have been undermined by terrorism and political violence since the nation’s founding. We should therefore not be surprised if violence again mars the upcoming 2026 midterms.
Join terrorism expert Jacob Ware, coauthor of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, for an in-depth look at past and potential election-related violence.
He’ll examine the violence of election cycles in the Trump era, including assassination attempts during candidate campaigning, voter intimidation on Election Day, and attempts to forcefully affect vote-counting in the days and weeks after the vote itself.
He’ll cover the spectrum of domestic and homegrown terrorist actors, including longstanding Salafi-jihadist adversaries as well as far-right extremists and far-left extremists, and draw on various data sources to assess which actors will pose the gravest threat of violence around the 2026 midterms.
His talk will conclude with a set of practical recommendations that both government and citizens can follow to try to ensure peace during the election and any eventual transfer of power. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Trump supporters violently storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 to try to stop the certification of 2020 election results. (Photo by Tyler Merbler / Creative Commons.)
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