The White House has released the first ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. A related White House Fact Sheet is also available. Informed by a comprehensive assessment of the domestic terror threat that President Biden requested on his first full day in office, this Strategy is predicated on the idea that the...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) recently issued the Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism. This report warns that: greatest terrorism threat to the Homeland we face today is posed by lone...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published their most recent National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin. This updated bulletin builds on a previous bulletin released in January 2021 and summarizes the types of current terrorist threats that are being monitored and for which our nation is most at risk. Some...
The Program on Extremism at George Washington University has released Racially/Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (RMVE) Attack Planning and United States Federal Response, 2014-2019. Based upon work by the Department of Homeland Security, this report focuses on the growth of domestic terrorism and violent extremism over the five year period of...
On January 6, 2021, a pro-Trump rally turned into a violent mob of protesters with the intent of disturbing the United States’ electoral process to formalize Joe Biden as the next president. The four years leading up to this day were a culmination of conspiracy theories, propaganda, and misinformation enabled...
The Soufan Center has released Quantifying the Q Conspiracy: ‘A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding the Threat Posed by QAnon,’ a special report demonstrating QAnon’s potential to threaten national security and encourage domestic violence. At the core of this organization is the belief that “the ‘Deep State,’ led by a cabal...
How have digital media platforms contributed to anti-government rhetoric? Digital Citizens Alliance and Coalition for a Safer Web teamed up to answer this question in their report, “The Domestic Extremist Next Door.” The report analyzes some of the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok) and...
The Program on Extremism along with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point have just released ‘This is War’: Examining Military Experience Among the Capitol Hill Siege Participants. This study “uses federal court documents to examine the prevalence, demographics, and characteristics of individuals with military experience who were charged for...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice released an unclassified joint threat assessment on the elevated threat of domestic violent extremists (DVE) this year. The report, Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021, states that a number of contributing factors...
In a report released by The Program on Extremism at George Washington University, a team of researchers aimed to analyze the more than 250 individuals who were charged in actively participating in the January 6th storming of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. They gathered information from court records and...
