This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism. See especially this resource on extremism in the military.
2025
January 27. NPR: Hegseth has signaled he may halt efforts to fight extremism in the military.
February 9. Ellen Nakashima & Warren P. Strobel: U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test: Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”
February 22. Greg Jaffe: In Pursuit of a ‘Warrior Ethos,’ Hegseth Targets Military’s Top Lawyers: The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.
February 23. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Preparing Trump’s Military Purge: What MAGA Did Not Want the U.S. Naval Academy to Hear.
March 1. Scott Neuman: Pentagon plans to begin removing trans service members from the military next month.
March 5. Matthew Kassel: Pentagon deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson is a prolific purveyor of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
March 14. The Washington Post: Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans. Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
March 18. Drew F. Lawrence: Navajo Code Talker Videos, Photos, Stories Removed to Comply with Trump Diversity Purge.
March 19. Rhian Lubin: Pentagon defends removing webpage of MLB’s color-barrier breaker Jackie Robinson: ‘DEI is dead at the Defense Department.’
March 20. David Neiwert: Pentagon’s reliance on ‘cultural Marxism’ trope to defend erasure of nonwhite soldiers is a dead giveaway:When a spokesman uses a white-nationalist conspiracy theory to defend erasure of web pages dedicated to the valor of soldiers of color, it’s clear that the problem isn’t DEI.
April 5. David E. Sanger & Nick Corasaniti: Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger: The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.
April 5. David Ignatius: A deeply ominous week for the spy agencies: Injecting politics into professional intelligence gathering won’t keep Americans safe.
2024
July 2. Kate Sullivan: Trump amplifies posts calling for televised military tribunal for Liz Cheney.
October 12. Ruby Cramer: Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” echoing dire warnings of others in national security circles.
November 14. Odette Yousef: Peter Hegseth’s tattoos are raising some eyebrows.
November 14. Democracy Now! Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis.
November 15. NPR: What’s behind defense secretary pick Hegseth’s war on ‘woke’.
November 28. Jason Wilson: Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Earlier Articles
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: When the Right Turns the Military into an Authoritarian Tool: To protect democracy, curb extremism in the armed forces.