Image: From “There Are No Lone Wolves.”

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Kathleen Belew: White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans – and not on lone wolves.

Kathleen Belew, David Hogg, & Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: White Supremacists Aren’t “Lone Wolves”: The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist past points the way toward how to fight them.

Kathleen Belew with Rachel Maddow: Why it’s wrong to assume a single gunman is a ‘lone wolf’ shooter.

Jason Burke: The myth of the ‘lone wolf’ terrorist: In recent years, references to such attacks have become inescapable. But this lazy term obscures the real nature of the threat against us.

Alexander Hinton: Violent extremists are not lone wolves – dispelling this myth could help reduce violence.

Talia Lavin: The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican. The right-wing extremists who control the modern GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The shooter is just the latest to act on it.

The New York Times: 

• There Are No Lone Wolves.
• Bias and Human Error Played Parts in F.B.I.’s Jan. 6 Failure, Documents Suggest: The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf”offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional documents show.