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It\u2019s been just over a year since a gunman in Minnesota attacked two Democratic state lawmakers and their families in their homes \u2014 killing state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, while injuring state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. This \u201cnight of terror\u201d stunned the political world: the gunman had a hit list and intended to carry out more assassinations of state elected officials, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

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Only a couple of months later, Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder of the Turning Point USA student political organization, was fatally shot at a campus event. As young and politically engaged Americans watched footage of his murder travel across social media, many worried that civic life would never be the same \u2014 and whether it was even safe for them to participate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was terrifying and it was horrible and I will never forget where I was when I heard the news of Charlie Kirk,\u201d Katie Fire Thunder, a 26-year-old Democratic member of the Montana House of Representatives, told me recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the time of Kirk\u2019s death, the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe member was preparing to enter public service herself \u2014 she\u2019d go on to be appointed in December 2025 to replace a retiring state representative after years of political organizing and activist work \u2014 and was suddenly pondering if it would be worth it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was not the first time she\u2019d had the thought. Growing up, she was well aware that public officials faced violence \u2014 whether at a community event, or a baseball practice, or at their home \u2014 even as she was drawn to the idea of service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cStrangely, I always had a fear when I was little of being assassinated \u2014 I don\u2019t know what it was, but I remember telling my mom, \u2018I think I want to be a judge or an attorney, but I\u2019m too scared that someone would get upset at me and try and come after me and shoot me\u2019,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet the calling to pass policy and engage communities won out. She\u2019s now running for a full term in office \u2014 and wrestling with what the future will hold for her as polarization and political violence seem to be reaching new heights in tandem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNow being an elected official, I\u2019m really like, \u2018Okay, what was little Katie thinking?\u2019 And I\u2019m really trying to process that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In conversations with young politicians and public servants, people in both parties described going through a similar journey. They feel a calling to change the status quo, an imperative to serve their neighbors and help the marginalized, and a drive to replace the aging establishment. But in addition to all the other challenges of politics \u2014 poor pay, demanding work schedules, nonstop fundraising \u2014 they\u2019re increasingly grappling with the risk of violent retribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These fears are already shaping the next era of politics \u2014 changing how leaders behave, how they engage with constituents, and whether they run at all. In ways subtle and loud, the costs will be borne by all of us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Young legislators are balancing two clashing priorities<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Security challenges \u2014 in the shadow of the Hortman and Kirk killings \u2014 dominated discussions at a gathering of Gen Z and millennial state lawmakers last week on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The four-day event was organized by Future Caucus, a bipartisan political organization that supports rising young lawmakers. Speakers and panelists discussed ways elected officials can modernize legislatures, craft policy, and exchange tips on being young and in office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But a recurring question hung over the room: Who even wants to run for public office these days? And what\u2019s preventing a new generation of leadership from sticking with the job once they\u2019re in?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Security was tight this year, just like last year\u2019s Future Summit, which took place just days after Hortman\u2019s killing. Attendees weren\u2019t advertised before the event, guards buzzed around elevators and conference room entrances, and scheduling and programming was not released in advance, including to news media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These preventive measures, combined with panel conversations about the trade-offs of public service, emphasized the struggles these young politicians from both parties are facing: balancing openness, accessibility, and idealism with the reality that the very efforts they make to organize and participate in their communities may put their digital and physical safety and security at risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMost electeds have to use social media in order to be successful and it also opens us up to critical attacks from people whose identities we can\u2019t often verify,\u201d Tiara Mack, a 32-year-old Democratic state senator from Rhode Island, told me. \u201cWe have to be able to reach a broad audience, which also means a broad audience can reach us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since first being elected to the state legislature, she has received countless death threats, bigoted verbal abuse, and a terrifying episode of doxxing a couple of years ago: after a video of herself twerking in support of reproductive rights went viral, her home address and the floor plans of her apartment were posted online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen I had my floor plans leaked and when I had bomb squad dogs come to my home, circle my building to make sure that there were no bombs \u2014 very few people know what that experience is like,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The incident caused her to reconsider whether her political career was worth continuing. Instead of leaving public service, though, she and her colleagues looked together for ways to feel safer and more in control. But these measures often come with sacrifices, including keeping constituents at a distance at a time when young voters frequently want more engagement, more access, and more authenticity from their leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though she uses Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, and Facebook actively, Mack draws a line at indulging in parasocial relationships with followers who she doesn\u2019t know offline. She and her colleagues employ a \u201cpost-and-ghost\u201d policy online now: publishing content online and then deliberately not reading or replying to the comments. She doesn\u2019t advertise event locations in advance, only sending out addresses after RSVPs are submitted. She doesn\u2019t post her location online until after she has left a place, and she tries to keep a polite and politically neutral tone online now.<\/p>\n

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Most shocking to herself \u2014 and particularly the version of herself who first ran for office in the pre-pandemic era \u2014 is her rethinking her stance on carrying a firearm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s now a conversation I\u2019ve had with some of my colleagues, who are grappling with what it would mean for me as someone who sponsored gun safety legislation to pursue a concealed weapons permit,\u201d Mack told me. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a hard conversation, but I think it\u2019s become more necessary and more and more people and women of color that I know personally are having that conversation, including myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the policy front, state lawmakers have discussed new security rules, some relevant campaign finance reforms, and mutual assurances to tone down rhetoric.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking during a Future Summit panel, 35-year-old Minnesota state Rep. Isaac Schultz, a Republican, shared some of the hard lessons learned from last year\u2019s killings. The state capitol used to have an open-door policy \u2014 \u201cwe\u2019re a state that believes in high-contact politics,\u201d he said \u2014 but weapons screenings now happen at the two building entrances. The Minnesota state patrol and local law enforcement now have a dedicated communications system with the sergeants-at-arms of each legislative chamber \u2014 a \u201cmassive change\u201d from before the killings, which revealed the poor channels of communication that existed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe had colleagues on a hit list who didn\u2019t have local law enforcement at their homes for over 24 hours,\u201d Schultz recounted. \u201cThey were in their homes hiding\u2026That\u2019s a trauma that remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Minnesota and 24 other states have now passed laws to allow campaign funds to be used to reimburse or cover the cost of camera and home security systems, most of them after the Minnesota shootings. Future Caucus itself offers a discounted membership to home and digital security services, as well as some in-person security services for special events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cState lawmakers do not have the tools that Congress has in order to keep themselves safe, but it\u2019s just as important,\u201d Mack said. \u201cCameras only do so much to keep individuals safe. They\u2019re oftentimes a way to check after the fact\u2026There still need to be more robust conversations about how we keep our physical statehouses protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But hearing from these lawmakers themselves, it\u2019s hard to shake the sense that these measures are all, to an extent, stopgaps when polarization and radical thinking, including around political violence, are growing more popular, acceptable, and widespread. The reaction to the last year of killings only underscored the threat: Charlie Kirk\u2019s death inspired conspiracy theories on the right and cruel mockery on the left, while a US senator made light of the Minnesota shootings on social media and blithely stoked rumors about the motive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The threat of violence is changing how politics operates<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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According to Future Caucus\u2019s own research, political violence egged on by hyperpartisan rhetoric is now a defining obstacle for both state legislators and those aspiring to hold public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCombined with structural and cultural barriers, they threaten lawmakers\u2019 ability to effectively serve their communities,\u201d Reed Howard, Future Caucus\u2019s chief strategy and public affairs officer, wrote in a 2025 report detailing reasons young legislators end up leaving public service altogether. \u201cEven as many Future Caucus members view public office as temporary service rather than a long-term career, it is essential that they have a fair opportunity to be productive and impactful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They aren\u2019t alone in these experiences. Some four in 10 state legislators, and one in five local officeholders, reported experiencing threats or attacks since 2020, according to a series of surveys completed in 2023 by the Brennan Center for Justice. Significant shares of state legislators reported then that the seriousness and rate of abuse and harassment they have received has increased in the time they\u2019ve been in office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elected officials who reported more physical threats tended to be women and nonwhite, while Republicans tended to be more likely to say the severity of abuse has increased. And since the report, \u201cswatting\u201d \u2014 hoax calls to police departments to trigger a show of force at a home \u2014 have continued to be a constant threat: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were both recent targets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the common thread is that lawmakers themselves are worried that more aggressive forms of rhetoric and politicking will become accepted as the new baseline even as more violent incidents occur. Particularly for younger legislators, who may lack a steady financial base, may be trying to start families, and may be trying to juggle other full-time jobs, these security concerns compound the challenge of public service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEspecially with young people, they are seeing it way more firsthand than any other generation,\u201d Fire Thunder said. \u201cAnd that is having impacts in ways that we may not be seeing yet. It\u2019s a fear tactic of if you are running and you are standing up and being vocal on these issues, we are going to come after you<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fire Thunder\u2019s most recent run-in with a serious potential threat happened not too long ago: a disgruntled citizen showed up at a public comment session her interim legislative committee was hosting, went on a conspiracy-laden rant, and threatened a trans legislator on the committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe did not have security because it was not the actual committee hearing, but in a moment, I realized that this person could have had a weapon, could have had a gun, and just point-blank shot one of us in that room,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As she embarks on her first full-term campaign this year, Fire Thunder told me her campaign is preparing not just to engage and rally her community, but also for inevitable threats to her life. Her campaign manager frequently reminds her, \u201cWhat is our plan? What is our safety plan?\u201d between events. She\u2019s learning to live with that cloud, but she also worries what the country will lose if others decide it\u2019s all too much to justify getting involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe biggest negative impact of it isn\u2019t even on me,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t want other young people seeing the threats and things that I\u2019m getting to discourage them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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