As the White House prepares to host a major summit examining the threat of violent extremism next week, the Southern Poverty Law Center today released a study of domestic terrorism that found the vast majority of this violence over the last five years has come “lone wolves”or “leaderless resistance”groups composed of no more than two people.
As the White House prepares to host a major summit examining the threat of violent extremism next week, a Southern Poverty Law Center study of domestic terrorism released today finds that the vast majority of this violence is coming from “lone wolves” or “leaderless resistance” groups composed of no more than two people.
A timeline describes the development of the conflict between the radical right and the federal government over public lands.
We’ve just received word that the Justice Department is reviving its domestic terrorism working group – a direct response to our concerns about the rise in far-right violence.
When neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Cross stormed on to the grounds of two Jewish institutions in Kansas and allegedly shot three strangers to death in April, it was only the latest reminder that the United States faces its own homegrown terrorists.
On the 19th anniversary of the
Based on a “manifesto” the suspect was carrying, the fatal shooting of a TSA officer at Los Angeles International Airport last Friday appears to be another in a long series of domestic terrorism incidents linked to far-right extremism. Read a compendium of such plots and attacks since Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
