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May 10, 2021 9:00 a.m. As Virginia approached the peak of its COVID surge last January, Robyn Sweet was sick with the disease and caring for a patient who was dying from it. Then she heard the news: her father had been arrested for invading the Capitol on Jan. 6. “He felt that he was doing what the President asked him to,” Sweet, who works at a long-term care facility in the Virginia Tidewater region, told TPM. Her father, a participant at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, was arrested in the days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Douglas Sweet was charged...

Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, at a rally in Portland in September. Its leaders are among the most prominent targets of the sprawling investigation into the attack on the Capitol.Credit...Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times April 4, 2021Updated 3:29 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat domestic extremism, increasing ...

Published 15 March 2021 As the U.S. Capitol insurrection, the prevalence of the QAnon conspiracy, and widely believed claims of election fraud indicate, potentially tens of millions of Americans are outside the consensus on the most fundamental U.S. democratic values: faith in official election results and the peaceful transfer of power. Daniel Koehler writes that, as a German, he is “frightfully reminded” of the Weimar Republic, which resulted in the end of Germany’s first democracy and the rise of domestic extremism from within. “Modern Germany is built on the legacy of the failure ...

February 18, 2021 Some experts say U.S. mental health community is woefully unprepared to help conspiracy cult followers break free. SHOW TRANSCRIPT It was easy enough to fall for QAnon in 2020 — political leaders from former President Trump on down gave a gloss of credibility. Easy to get into — much harder to get out of. "I didn't want people to think I was stupid." Nineteen-year-old Leila Hay says she was scared of being judged for believing the lies — which start with liberal, Satan-worshipping pedophiles running the world and end with a fantasy that Trump would swoop in to save the...

AP Photo/John Minchillo From deprogramming to reprogramming to “national reconciliation commissions,” the left, along with some who falsely claim to be objective, cannot get enough of the notion that millions of supporters of Donald Trump —if not tens of millions — are a direct threat to society as we know it, national security, and God knows what else. Simply put, these “dangerous” people must be “made right.” So left-leaning Axios (regardless of protestations to the contrary), became the latest to climb aboard the deprogramming train earlier this week. In an “interesting�...