After Capitol riots, desperate families turn to groups that 'deprogram' extremists Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Feb. 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Chris Buckley, a war veteran and former Ku Klux Klan member, and Myrieme Churchill met in D.C. for the annual conference of Parents for Peace, a nonprofit that seeks to help others leave extremist ideologies.Photo courtesy of Parents for Peace. Her brother couldn't make it to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but she worried that he would join a new insurrection - that one day "he would be one of the people on TV." The woman in her 30s asked her family to make plans, she said, hoping to keep her brother busy. Then she contacted a nonprofit called Parents for Peace that seeks to pull people back from extremism, hoping to "save" him, after years of dismay at his hatred of Muslims and Mexicans and now alarm at his anger over the presidential election.