Far-right extremists in the US have the potential to mount a coordinated, low-intensity campaign of political violence. It wouldn’t be the country’s first experience with domestic terror.
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A leaked database shows at least 10% of the far-right Oath Keepers militia is active police or military – people professionally trained in using weapons and conducting sophisticated operations.
Looming threats of more possible violence signal broader opposition to the Biden administration in what could become a loose campaign of domestic terrorism.
Many people are concerned about far-right extremism. But they may not understand the real threat.
A scholar of militia movements describes the ‘peculiar’ – and erroneous – principles that right-wing militias subscribe to, including believing themselves to be defenders of the Bill of Rights.
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Associate Professor, Baylor University
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Lecturer, University of York
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Associate Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
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Research Fellow, King's College London
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Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Associate Professor in Political Science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
