Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg[1] Executive Summary Seventy-two cases of active-duty and veteran military members involved in white supremacists and violent anti-government militias and groups located in open-source reporting from 2017-2022 were compiled and analyzed on 17 key variables. Researchers…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg On September 1st, 2022, Thomas Webster was sentenced to ten years in prison for his violent actions at the U.S. Capitol Hill insurrection on January 6th, 2021. Webster was convicted of a variety of felonies,…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today It is no secret that white supremacist groups are racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic. They are also violently homophobic and transphobic. Indeed, sexual orientation and gender identity is the…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg This article was published in Homeland Security Today The question of the rise of domestic extremism in the United States is one which is regularly commented upon by journalists, political pundits, and scholars of numerous…
Anne Speckhard, Wilson W. Warren, Kate Strezishar, & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today Throughout U.S. history, the Capitol in Washington, D.C., has been the target of violence more times than Americans care to remember; however, the storming…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret As published in Homeland Security Today White supremacist ideologies, whether they are associated with neo-Nazi, Christian Identity, Creativity, or Arastú/Odinist groups, hold hatred of Jews and blaming of Jews for the world’s ills…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret As published in Military Times This piece is excerpted and adapted from a larger research publication, which can be found here. In February of 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that the U.S. military…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret [When I was in the Army National Guard], there were people that knew [I was in the Aryan Nations]. I joined prior to 9/11, but after 9/11 they didn’t care […] I ended…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today “I just needed some kind of outlet for my hate. I felt like I was part of a cause. You know, it gave me something to belong to. Here…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg This article is excerpted in Homeland Security Today. Introduction On May 11, 2021 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas gave testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee pointing out that…