Image: A far-right militia member and a police officer in Stone Mountain, Georgia, August 2020. Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters.

Spencer Ackerman: FBI Sits on Report Detailing White-Supremacist Terror Threat.

Air Force Times: 2 Air Force staff sergeants charged with stealing ammunition.

Hanna Rigault Arkhis & Jessica White: Female veterans and right-wing extremism: becoming ‘one of the boys’.

Bryan Bender: The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn’t know how bad it’s gotten. The rise of extremism in the ranks is seen as a “crisis issue” but the military’s efforts to weed out radicals are “haphazard” at best.

Dan Berger: When white supremacists strike, police don’t always strike back: The long history of law enforcement’s complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

Bob Brigham: Cop quits after white supremacist views were exposed.

Lynn Burnett: Reflections on Kenosha: On the Friendliness Between Police and Right-Wing Militias.

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• The Military, Police, and the Rise of Terrorism in the United States.
• Assessing the Pentagon’s Progress on Countering Extremism in the Military.
• Statement before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: “Violent Domestic Extremist Groups and the Recruitment of Veterans.”

Combating Terrorism Center: The Insider Threat: Far-Right Extremism in the German Military and Police.

Cloee Cooper: How a Right-Wing Network Mobilized Sheriffs’ Departments.

Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, & Jennifer Steinhauer: Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks: The nation’s military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.

Joseph Cox: Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases. The analysis comes as Congress wants to know how much white supremacy has penetrated the military.

Jason Dearen: He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK.

Deconstructed (podcast.) Are Trump and the Anti-Lockdown Militias Itching for Violence? Armed protesters have shown up at state capitols to protest the ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns. Where will this end?

Department of Defense:

• Department of Defense Releases Report on Countering Extremist Activities and Outlines Next Steps.
• Evaluation of Department of Defense Efforts to Address Ideological Extremism Within the Armed Forces.

Department of Homeland Security: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.

Department of Justice: Group With Ties to Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Including two Former Marines Facing Additional Charge of Targeting Energy Facilities.

Documenting Hate: Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military: A Marine took part in the violent assaults in Charlottesville last summer and later bragged about it online with other members of Atomwaffen, an extremist group preparing for a race war.

FBI: White supremacist infiltration of law enforcement.

Niko Georgiades: Ex-Marine Linked to Minneapolis Mass Shooting Shared War Gore and Murder Fantasies After Trial.

Mike German:

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement.
• The FBI warned for years that police are cozy with the far right. Is no one listening? I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously – or actively sympathize.

Mike Giglio: A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans.

Seamus Hughes & Adam Rawnsley: Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say: While tasked with protecting the nation, Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” according to federal prosecutors.

George Joseph and Micah Loewinger: Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches Investigation.

Daniel Koehler: From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization.

Sam Levin: White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says: A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states.

Ben Makuch: Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis? While many vets are being outed as far-right extremists, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis: the United States Marine Corps.

Christopher Mathias:

• White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police: New data shows that far-right vigilantes, often with support from cops, have threatened protesters nearly 500 times since police killed George Floyd.
• Military Investigating 4 More Servicemen For Ties To White Nationalist Group: That’s 11 members of Identity Evropa who are under investigation by the U.S. armed forces.

Ann McAdams: Some residents concerned about sheriff’s large acquisition of military surplus equipment.

Military.com: Veterans Make Up Most of Proud Boys Members Indicted on Sedition for Jan. 6 Violence.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss:

• When the Far Right Penetrates Law Enforcement: America Can Learn From Germany’s Response.
• Extremism in the military is a serious national security threat. The GOP needs to act like it.

New York Times “Visual Investigations”: “I am on your side”: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020.

Tess Owen: Every Single House Republican Voted Against Investigating Neo-Nazis in the Military.

Brad Reed. Tampa cop’s stepson exposed as member of neo-Nazi group Patriot Front.

Alice Speri: Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement: A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.

SPLC:

• Former Marine Collaborates With Violent White Nationalist.
• New York Fired Racist Prison Guard for Identity Evropa Membership.

Jennifer Steinhauer: Veterans Fortify the Ranks of Militias Aligned With Trump’s Views.

Peter Wade: ‘Dozens’ of Oregon Cops Have Paid Dues to the Oath Keepers Militia Group: Law enforcement officers across the country are being exposed as having belonged to the far-right, anti-government group thanks to a trove of leaked data.

Carla F. Wallace: Ku Klux Klan members in the sheriff’s department show ‘who is inside the system.’

The Washington Post: 3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection.

Jason Wilson: Oath Breaker: How a Serving National Guardsman Helped The Base Plan a White Power Army.