extremism

The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.

After the attack on the Cincinnati FBI field office Thursday, the discussion on online extremist forums has heated up and grown more threatening against law enforcement, experts say. Donell Harvin, former chief of homeland security and intelligence in Washington D.C., joins LX News.

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.

An AP investigation found that despite new Defense Department guidelines on extremism, racism and discrimination remain an ongoing concern in the military.

Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed new rules prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities.

The Department of Homeland Security released an updated National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on Wednesday, warning that social and politically motivated domestic extremism is expected to carry over from 2021 into the new year.

Delivering the keynote address at the national memorial to the victims of Flight 93, who forced down their airplane hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists before it could be used as a weapon against the nation’s capital, Bush warned of “violence that gathers within.”