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Biweekly emerging data trends on demonstrations, actors of concern, and other ongoing trends related to early warning.

Biweekly emerging monitoring trends on key developments and drivers of political violence.

A bi-monthly newsletter to share updates from BDI and our network of trainers and practitioners. Tools for non-violently navigating conflict are essential to a healthy democracy. To increase access to these resources, BDI created the Community Safety and De-Escalation Directory - an interactive platform to connect users with a curated network of community safety, de-escalation, and bystander intervention trainers from all around the country.

Threats and harassment against local officials decreased from September to October. The latest Threats and Harassment Dataset (THD) update adds nearly 80 new events, including 25 for October, bringing the total number of events captured so far in 2025 to over 470. Following the spike in threat and harassment incidents targeting officials in the aftermath of the September shooting of Charlie Kirk, community-specific and personal legal issues reemerged as the primary drivers of incidents in October.

BDI's CivicPulse UTH survey reveals that experiences of local officials around hostility remain widespread and on par with last quarter. Yet, the proportion of local elected officials reporting negative impacts of hostility on their willingness to engage in political and civic behaviors largely increased in Q3 2025. Subgroup analysis revealed that women and Democrats reported (1) higher levels of experienced hostility, (2) increased concern about hostility, and (3) greater negative impacts of hostility compared to their counterparts.

Biweekly emerging data trends on demonstrations, actors of concern, and other ongoing trends related to early warning.

Biweekly emerging monitoring trends on key developments and drivers of political violence.

This memo covers insights from a dozen interviews with local elected officials in November 2025.

Threats and harassment against local officials decreased from October to November. The latest Threats and Harassment Dataset (THD) update adds 60 new threat and harassment events to the dataset, including 18 for November, bringing the total number of events captured so far in 2025 to over 500. Community-specific issues remained a consistent driver of incidents for the month, though to a smaller extent compared to previous months. So far this year, THD has no recorded threats or harassment against election officials and and has seen fewer election-related grievances, compared to the years preceding the 2024 presidential election.

Biweekly emerging monitoring trends on key developments and drivers of political violence.