A white nationalist terror attack in El Paso, Texas and a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio focus the country’s attention on the President’s racism and America’s gun violence crisis. Then Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke talks to Jon F. about the terrorist attack on his hometown and what we can do about the threat of white nationalism.

Show Notes

Massacres in El Paso and Dayton

NYT : Back-to-Back Bursts of Gun Violence in El Paso and Dayton Stun Country

NYT : Live Updates – El Paso Shooting: Massacre That Killed 20 Being Investigated as Domestic Terrorism

NYT : Dayton, Ohio, Shooting: Victims Identified; Live Updates

Vox : El Paso Walmart shooting: what we know

Vox : Dayton, Ohio shooting: what we know

WaPo : Officials call El Paso shooting a domestic terrorism case, weigh hate crime charges

Axios : Mass murder in America

Politico : El Paso congresswoman: Target not randomly chosen

Southern Poverty Law Center – White Nationalists Praise El Paso Attack and Mock the Dead

Mother Jones – Mass Shootings in America: The Unavoidable Facts

Daily Beast – Dayton Shooter Murdered Sister in Attack, Officials Say

WaPo : López Obrador says six Mexicans are among the dead in El Paso and plans legal action to protect them in the U.S.

NYT : Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online

WaPo : What’s inside the hate-filled manifesto linked to the alleged El Paso shooter

The Atlantic – When Fear of Deportation Keeps Families From Help After a Shooting

The Atlantic – By Graeme Wood – Ideology Kills. How Do You Police It?

The Intercept – After El Paso, We Can No Longer Ignore Trump’s Role in Inspiring Mass Shootings

WaPo : ‘How do you stop these people?’: Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric looms over El Paso massacre

The Atlantic – The Death Rattle of White Supremacy

WaPo : Even if he isn’t encouraging violent attacks on immigrants, Trump may be uniquely unwilling to curtail them

Politico : Trump rhetoric freshly condemned after mass shootings

WaPo – Op-Ed by Juliette Kavyem – There are no lone wolves

Vox : The media amplifies Trump’s racism. Should it stop?

WaPo : The media’s by-the-numbers coverage of gun massacres must change

WaPo : Trump’s racism and hate are about to face another big test

The Atlantic – How Many Attacks Will It Take Until the White-Supremacist Threat Is Taken Seriously?

Media Matters – In reacting to the El Paso mass shooting, Alex Jones and TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sound a lot alike

HuffPo : CNN’s Jake Tapper Calls Out GOP Leaders For Rejecting Interviews After Shootings

Media Matters – How Fox News pushed propaganda about the El Paso mass shooting

NYT : 8chan Is a Megaphone for Shooters. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creato r

WaPo : Three mass shootings this year began with a hateful screed on 8chan. Its founder calls it a terrorist refuge in plain sight.

WaPo : A weekend of mass murder reflects how American violence goes viral

New Yorker – By Andrew Marantz – The El Paso Shooting and the Virality of Evil

WaPo : FBI faces skepticism over its efforts against domestic terrorism

WaPo : Walmart, site of recent shootings, has a complicated history with gu ns

CNBC : Trump says mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton are a ‘mental illness problem’

AP: Trump tweets, stays out of sight for hours after shootings – BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP)

The Hill – Trump makes surprise wedding appearance at his New Jersey golf club

WaPo : Mulvaney defends Trump in wake of El Paso, Dayton shootings

HuffPo : Trump Aide Mick Mulvaney: ‘No Politician Is To Blame’ For Mass Shootings

Buzzfeed – Here’s How Republicans Are Responding To The Mass Shootings In El Paso And Dayton

The Atlantic – No One Knows Trump’s Next Move

WaPo : Even if he isn’t encouraging violent attacks on immigrants, Trump may be uniquely unwilling to curtail them

NYT : Why a Race-Baiting Trump Is Courting Black Voters

WaPo : Ohio’s Hamilton County may test whether Trump’s divisiveness will help or hurt him in 2020

Politico : Trump prepares a push to woo black voters

Texas Tribune – After El Paso shooting, some Texas Republican leaders decry “white” terror

HuffPo : Senator Ted Cruz: El Paso Shooting Was ‘Act Of Terrorism And White Supremacy’

CBS – Tim Scott, sole black GOP senator, warns against “politicizing” mass shootings

Think Progress – The House’s top Republican blames video games for mass shootings

Vox : The top House Republican is blaming video games for the weekend’s mass shootings

Media Matters – After declining a CNN appearance, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick goes on Fox & Friends to blame El Paso mass shooting on video games

Rolling Stone – Republicans and Fox News: White Nationalist Violence Has Nothing to Do With White Nationalism

Vox : What no politician wants to admit about gun control

Politico Mag – What Both Sides Don’t Get About American Gun Culture

The Atlantic – The American Exception

Vox : After Sandy Hook, we said never again. And then we let 2189 mass shootings happen.

Axios : Pelosi says GOP Senate must end “outrageous obstruction” on gun legislation

USA Today – This is the gun control legislation Mitch McConnell won’t allow senators to vote on

NBC News – Democrats pressure Mitch McConnell to cancel Senate recess for gun control vote

WSJ : Gun Control Is Thrust Into 2020 Campaign, but New Laws Face Hurdles

NPR – House Passes Sweeping Gun Bill

NYT : House Poised to Pass First Gun Control Bills in a Generation

The Hill – Ocasio-Cortez calls out McConnell for ‘sitting on’ gun reform bill since February

CNN : Democrats demand McConnell convene Senate to pass background checks after mass shootings

NYT : McConnell Promised to End Senate Gridlock. Instead, Republicans Are Stuck in Neutral.

EmergencySenateSession.org – We Demand An Emergency Senate Session On Gun Reform

Axios : Mitch McConnell fractures shoulder after falling at Kentucky home

NYT : Some Democratic Candidates Seek to Link Shootings to Trump

Axios : El Paso shooting: 2020 hopefuls back gun control, blame NRA and Trump

The Atlantic – ‘Do Something’: 2020 Democrats Are Stuck After Mass Shootings

Mother Jones – Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Reacting to a Weekend of Mass Shootings. They’re Not Mincing Words.

WaPo : The Trailer: The 2020 Democrats are increasingly willing to blame Trump

Vox : White nationalism, Congress, and Donald Trump are to blame for mass shootings say 2020 Democratic candidates

CNN : More voters think Donald Trump is a racist than thought George Wallace was in 1968

Vox : Democrats have been discussing the same ideas on guns for 25 years. It’s time to change that.

New Yorker – The Mass Shootings in El Paso and Dayton Should Spur Democrats to Propose Big Ideas on Gun Violence