WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson’s car has congressional license plates indicating the Dallas area district she represents.

It was parked at the DFW airport the day conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, when a vandal scratched up the vehicle, spread mud on the windshield and ripped off the wipers, Johnson said.

She’s had someone post a photo of her house on social media, asking ominously what she was having for dinner.

“Members of Congress are in the bullseye of a very partisan time right now in this country,” the Farmers Branch Democrat said. “And the rhetoric of violence is escalating daily. The temperature’s going up and members are being threatened more.”

The U.S. Capitol Police told NPR its agents are on track to work through roughly 14,000 threat assessment cas

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