The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim spike in political violence.

By Nathan Layne BLAINE, Minnesota (Reuters) -From the pulpit on Sunday, Father Joe Whalen exhorted his parishioners to avoid the kind of extreme partisanship and hate that appeared to be behind the killing of one of the church's own,

A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.

Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.

In an essay in The New York Times on Monday, Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, who has researched political violence for the past 30 years, wrote that "acts of political violence in the United States have been occurring at an alarming rate."

Federal officials say the suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings had notebooks with a list of over 45 state and federal officials to target. Rep. Kelly Morrison, who says she was on the list, joins Chris Jansing to discuss how “traumatic” the shootings have been on her community and why she fears the political violence will have a chilling effect on the country.

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