By A trans-identifying activist who briefly volunteered for a Democratic congressional campaign in Wisconsin posted videos on social media calling for violence against Republicans and declaring a “trans jihad” against supporters of the MAGA movement.
Teha Delaruelle, a biological male who identifies as a woman, appeared in one video seated in front of a dry-erase board that read “kill your local Republican.”
“We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle said while pointing at the board.
Delaruelle continued, “But I need your help, because we have one month do to this, so let’s do it.”
🚨 WOW: Wisconsin Democrat staffer, Teha Delaruelle is calling on activists to "K*LL YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN."
“We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin”
WTF!? pic.twitter.com/NdFeWaCjMX
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 1, 2026
The remark appeared to refer to the Aug. 11 Democratic primary in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District, where Delaruelle had briefly volunteered for Katrina deVille, a transgender Democratic Socialist challenging Republican Rep. Tony Wied, according to The New York Post.
The videos come amid growing concern that political violence on the left is no longer being treated as a fringe problem, but as something increasingly rationalized, aestheticized or explained away by activists, media figures and Democratic officials.
In April, New Conservative Post covered a Network Contagion Research Institute report, produced with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, warning that online far-left communities had developed what researchers described as an “assassination culture.” The study found alarming levels of support among left-of-center respondents for political violence against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, arguing that violent memes and slogans had helped normalize the idea of assassination as a form of political resistance.
That warning has only become harder to dismiss. After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, coverage of suspect Tyler Robinson’s alleged messages showed how quickly some liberals shifted from condemnation to sympathy. ABC News reporter Matt Gutman described the alleged killer’s text exchanges with his transgender roommate as “very touching,” while a CNN panelist suggested Robinson was a “love-torn child” rather than a politically motivated assassin.
The pattern has also appeared in other cases involving threats or violence against conservatives and Christians. Newly filed court documents in the case of Nicholas Roske, who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, revealed that Roske now identifies as a transgender woman named Sophie Roske. The Justice Department has sought a 30-year sentence in that case.
In Minneapolis, a transgender shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School during morning Mass, killing two children and wounding 17 others. Rather than focus solely on the victims and the anti-Christian nature of the attack, prominent Democrats and liberal commentators used the moment to attack “thoughts and prayers,” turning even the murder of Catholic schoolchildren into another culture-war talking point.
Delaruelle’s videos fit into that broader atmosphere, where violent rhetoric aimed at conservatives is increasingly dismissed as online extremism until it erupts into something more serious.
In another video, Delaruelle said, “Just a reminder, we are doing trans jihad,” over an image showing a transgender flag and an outstretched arm holding a rifle with what appeared to be Arabic script.
Delaruelle continued: “It’s about making the oppressor, the bigots, the animals that make up MAGA, for example, right? So for decades, everyone else, all the marginalized, minorities, we’ve had to be the ones that walk down the streets with anxiety, with fear, but no, no more, no, no, no, no, no, no more, folks,”
“We’re gonna do the reverse. We’re gonna make it so that they will be the ones that have to walk down the streets in fear, anxiety and worry. And we’re not gonna make this like, oh, they gotta do this for like, a week or something, where they get really scared. No, this is their new reality. And it’s never gonna change,” Delaruelle said before holding up two fingers and saying “peace.”
Delaruelle also published a Substack post earlier this month using similar language.
“Society desires nothing less than our total extermination, therefore we must destroy their society. We must answer this call to a [sic] existential struggle, our jihad, our Trans Jihad.”
DeVille’s campaign later removed Delaruelle after concluding Delaruelle was “deeply troubled” and “creating a dangerous situation” for the campaign. Delaruelle was also blocked from deVille’s campaign accounts and pages.
DeVille issued a statement condemning the threats and distancing the campaign from Delaruelle’s remarks.
“I want to be clear that I do not accept or condone violence or threats toward anyone and do not encourage violence, hate, or threats of any kind,”
“The threats she has posed have also made my life more dangerous, and I understand first hand how awful this is, how awful it feels, and how absolutely unacceptable any of this is.”
“I also hope that she is able to get help and find peace, and that no one becomes hurt or endangered from this senseless situation.”
The question now is whether Democratic leaders and liberal media figures will treat Delaruelle’s threats as part of a larger radicalization problem, or whether they will again explain away violent rhetoric until after someone gets hurt.
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