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December 20, 2019

Report: WA Republican Rep. Matt Shea Participated in Domestic Terrorism
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In Washington state, Republicans are calling on their fellow Republican
state lawmaker Matt Shea to step down, after a new report commissioned
by the Washington state House Republicans found that Shea participated
in domestic terrorism. The report found Shea planned, engaged in and
promoted armed conflicts of political violence against the U.S.
government between 2014 and 2016 as a leader of the anti-government
Patriot Movement. The report also says Representative Matt Shea has
cultivated close ties with armed anti-government militias since being
elected in 2008. Representative Shea is resisting calls to resign,
writing on Facebook Thursday night, "I will not back down. … Stand
strong fellow Patriots."


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