70. Claudia Tenney, “New York Leads America off a Renewable-Energy Cliff,” Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-leads-america-off-an-energy-cliff-natural-gas-fossil-fuels-pipelines-shale-11652296744.
71. “What Is U.S. Electricity Generation by Energy Source?” US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, February 2022, https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3.
72. Charles Lane, “A Scientist’s Inconvenient Truth about Decarbonizing Our Economy,” Washington Post, May 25, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/inconvenient-truths-about-decarbonizing-economy/.
Chapter 10: BLM’s Toxic Agenda of Fear
1. “Harris on BLM Riots: ‘Beware, They’re Not Gonna Stop,’” YouTube, June 2020, https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/07/kamala-harris-called-riots-a-movement-last-summer-said-they-should-not-stop-n1310640.
2. Thomas Barrabi, “Flashback: Kamala Harris Said Nationwide Protests Are ‘Not Going to Stop,’” Fox News, September 24, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-kamala-harris-nationwide-protests-not-going-to-stop.
3. Mia Cathell, “Antifa Terrorize Portland Residents, Business Owners on Election Night: ‘Whoever They Vote For, We Are Ungovernable,’” Post Millennial, November 4, 2020, https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-terrorize-portland-residents-business-owners-on-election-night-whoever-they-vote-for-we-are-ungovernable.
4. Jeffrey C. Kummer and Nicholas Boge-Burroughs, “Last 2 Officers Involved in George Floyd’s Death Are Sentenced to Prison,” New York Times, July 27, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/george-floyd-j-alexander-kueng.html.
5. Jay Senter and Shaila Dewan, “Killer of George Floyd Sentenced to 21 Years for Violating Civil Rights,” New York Times, July 7, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-sentence.html.
6. Rachel Treisman, “Minneapolis Reaches $27 Million Settlement with Family of George Floyd,” NPR, March 12, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976525200/minneapolis-reaches-27-million-settlement-with-family-of-george-floyd.
7. Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui, and Jugal Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html.
8. Zamira Rahim and Rob Picheta, “Thousands around the World Protest George Floyd’s Death in Global Display of Solidarity,” CNN, June 1, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/world/george-floyd-global-protests-intl/index.html.
9. Emma Colton, “Rahm Emanuel Reprises ‘Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste’ Catchphrase amid Coronavirus Pandemic,” Washington Examiner, March 24, 2020, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rahm-emanuel-reprises-never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste-catchphrase-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.
10. Paul Sacca, “Black Lives Matter Founder Admits Org’s Creators Are ‘Trained Marxists,’ BLM’s Goal Is to ‘Get Trump Out,’” The Blaze, June 20, 2020, https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-lives-matter-founder-marxist-trump.
11. Buchanan, Bui, and Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.”
12. Jason Rantz, “Violent Antifa Turn to New Tactic, Embrace Violent Insurgency,” Newsweek, May 3, 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/violent-antifa-turn-new-tactic-embrace-violent-insurgency-opinion-1587975.
13. “Mike Gonzalez,” Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/staff/mike-gonzalez.
14. Mike Gonzalez, “Congress Should Investigate the Black Lives Matter Riots,” Heritage Foundation, January 3, 2023, https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/congress-should-investigate-the-black-lives-matter-riots.
15. Ibid.
16. Gillian Flaccus, “Portland’s Grim Reality: 100 Days of Protests, Many Violent,” Associated Press, September 4, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-race-and-ethnicity-id-state-wire-or-state-wire-b57315d97dd2146c4a89b4636faa7b70.
17. Stephanie Pagones, “Protests, Riots That Gripped America in 2020,” Fox News, December 29, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/us/protests-riots-nationwide-america-2020.
18. Jennifer A. Kingson, “Costliest U.S. Civil Disorders,” Axios, September 16, 2020, https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage.
19. Brad Polumbo, “George Floyd Riots Caused Record-Setting $2 Billion in Damage, New Report Says. Here’s Why the True Cost Is Even Higher,” Foundation for Economic Education, September 16, 2020, https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/.
20. Joy Pullmann, “Study: Up to 95 Percent of 2020 U.S. Riots Are Linked to Black Lives Matter,” Federalist, September 16, 2020, https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/.
21. Ibid.
22. Andy Ngo, “Why Portland Police Stand By Passively When Leftists Riot,” Newsweek, February 29, 2020, https://www.newsweek.com/why-portland-police-stand-passively-when-leftists-riot-1489799.
23. Katie Kull, “Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Retired St. Louis Police Capt. David Dorn,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 5, 2022, https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-retired-st-louis-police-capt-david-dorn/article_86456436-9538-5da9-9785-a01ef6fd3278.html.
24. Ann Dorn, “My Husband Capt. David Dorn Was Murdered in 2020 Riots. His Killer Had Help Dividing America,” Fox News, August 23, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/husband-dorn-murdered-riots-killer-help-dividing-america.
25. Representatives Steve Scalise and Randy Feenstra, “This Is What Democrats’ Soft-on-Crime Insanity Does to American Families,” Fox News, February 25, 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/this-is-what-democrats-soft-crime-insanity-does-american-families.
26. Emma Colton, “BLM Silent When Confronted with Data Showing Massive 2020 Spike in Black Murder Victims,” Fox News, April 19, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-lives-matter-silent-2020-black-murder-spike-experts-blm-defund-contributed.
27. Tom Cotton, “The BLM Effect,” National Review, July 29, 2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-blm-effect/.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. See https://blacklivesmatter.com/.
31. Black Lives Matter website, “Herstory,” https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/.
32. Daniel Greenfield, “Black Livers Matter Leaders Support Violent Riots and Looting, Biden Won’t Condemn Them,” Israel National News, October 3, 2020, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/288292.
33. Jerusalem Demas, “The Effects of Black Lives Matter Protests,” Vox, April 9, 2021, https://www.vox.com/22360290/black-lives-matter-protest-crime-ferguson-effects-murder.
34. “Alicia Garza,” Influence Watch, 2023, https://www.influencewatch.org/person/alicia-garza/.
35. Mike Gonzalez, “To Destroy America,” City Journal, September 1, 2020, https://www.city-journal.org/marxist-revolutionaries-black-lives-matter.
36. “Weather Underground Bombings,” Federal Bureau of Investigation, https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/weather-underground-bombings.