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Democrats behind assassinations and racial terror

The claim that the Democratic Party was behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and created racial terror systems such as the KKK and Jim Crow

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Jan 7, 2026

The Democratic party started the KKK

The claim that “the Democratic Party started the Ku Klux Klan” is false: historians attribute the Klan’s founding to a small group of former Confederate officers in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865, not to...