Marine reservist under investigation for alleged extremist ties comes from family of Republicans

A Marine reservist from San Diego is under investigation by the military for his alleged ties to the white nationalist Patriot Front group. Details about Cpl. Victor Krvaric’s life appear to match up …

Police training is a wasteland of unregulated 'courses' taught by for-profit extremists

A new Washington Post investigation dives back into the world of for-profit “police training,” and yeesh, it’s not exactly hard to see why some of our nation’s police forces …

Supreme Court proves again why it needs to be reformed, expanded

The Supreme Court announced Monday it’s taking up another big culture war case, bringing affirmative action back in another look at overturning Supreme Court precedent. Of course they are, because …

Seditionists had weapons, ammunition, a drone, and enough supplies to last 30 days

Oath Keeper and alleged seditionist Edward Vallejo goes before a judge in Arizona Thursday for a detention hearing, but before he does, prosecutors laid out in sprawling new detail the extremist …

This week on The Brief: A new day in the Biden era; how disinformation drives extremism

On the first new Brief of the new year, hosts Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld discussed President Joe Biden’s Jan. 6 speech observing the anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Daily …

Kos and Kerry are back with The Brief podcast, talking insurrectionists and the 2022 outlook

Look at me, referring to myself in the third person in the headline. Feels weird, but hey, it’s the truth—we’re back in the new year, ready to cover the unfolding 2022 election and the political …

DOD ordered the military to address extremism—investigation reflects more ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

As the world watched a terrorist mob attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the fallout showed a more sinister reality. Of the thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the …

GOP extremism poses an existential threat to America. Democrats must not let voters forget in 2022

As I sit here reflecting on 2021, I am struck by how capricious and maddening the pandemic continues to be and what that means for Democrats in the midterms.

At the moment, we cannot possibly say …

Facebook hoaxes helped boost insurrection, white nationalism, and COVID. Employees are fed up

A new bundle of reporting is out on what’s being branded as the “Facebook Papers,” a mountain of leaked internal company documents and communications currently being combed over by a …

How warped are Trump-loving, white supremacist Christian nationalists? Enough to idolize the Taliban

In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks—launched by a group of Islamist terrorists (al-Qaida) given safe haven and protection in Afghanistan by the Taliban—most Americans did not harbor positive …