According to new reporting from Fox News Digital, a progressive group in New York is attempting to organize thousands of protesters to overwhelm Rep. Mike Lawler’s town hall, scheduled for Sunday in West Nyack. It's a trend we have seen across the country.

The group in question is called Indivisible Rockland, and in a video obtained by Digital, one of the organizers, Nyack Village Deputy Mayor Pascale Jean-Gilles, is heard calling not only for protests outside the event, but to disrupt the town hall itself.

At one point, after making clear that yelling and booing are protected speech, the elected official actually said, "Now, if people are shouting slurs and hate speech, that’s where I absolutely draw the line."

Well, thanks for that helpful clarification.

Let’s be clear, deliberately interfering with a United States House of Representatives member's official town halls with constituents is a brazen assault on democracy at its most basic level, and an insult to the rest of the community.