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It's fascinating watching the reporting get filled out and expanded, sometimes depending on how much space the article can take up.
I read that one of the shooters was stopped by police about 40 minutes after the shooting at Sen. Lopez's home, and that he was driving a car registered to Pena.   The articles haven't said if that was an important part of the investigation or if it was figured out later.
The TIME article says that the guy was arrested, found with two guns and 800 fentanyl pills, and that his arrest "led police to Pena".
Your average street level drug dealer doesn't have much to give prosecutors to get a plea deal on their narcotics and gun charges.
I wonder how long it took that guy to give up the story.
Republicans used the CPAC to outright tell their fellow Americans: "We Are all Domestic Terrorists".
We should believe them and act accordingly. >

I still can’t believe how blatant that was. They’re embracing the domestic terrorist ideology. >

The militia movement embraced the Tea Party, and the Republican Party then embraced the Tea Party to win in 2016, and here we are. >

Not political shootings, DOMESTIC TERRORISM. >

I'm going to borrow a phrase from the Ukraine war.
We're lucky they're all so stupid. >

But unfortunately that does not stop them from shooting nor does it raise from the dead those they shoot.
It is good that an incompetent enemy is less of a threat than a competitive one, but do not dismiss the real threat they still represent.   Doing that would also qualify as an act of stupidity. >

If the US took these threats seriously, they'd have to round up a good chunk of a political party for terrorism.
Unfortunately, the US is going to continue being reactionary to these things. >

Especially with Large Marge Greene on the Homeland Security Council.
Totally not going to tip off her terry friends. >

England has the tories; we have the terries. >

What a stupid jackass. No wonder he won a Republican primary. >

Your post made me wonder, so I looked it up on Ballotpedia.
It turns out that district is so non-competitive that both the Democratic and Republican primaries were uncontested.  Pena got 100% of the 383 Republican votes cast in the primary. >


Peña left a digital trail that offers a window into his mindset. Yet his posts were not unusual for a right-wing social-media user, blending into an online discourse often punctuated by violent threats.