Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded $10 million
in federal grants to 29 organizations focused on countering the threat


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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Awards Grants to Organizations Opposing
Extremism

(New York, N.Y.) – Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
awarded
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$10 million in federal grants to 29 organizations focused on countering the
threat of extremism. The bulk of the awarded funding, which was made possible
through DHS’s newly established Targeted Violence and and Terrorism Prevention
(TVTP) program, will be distributed to grantees that directly support
initiatives seeking to counter white supremacist violence and far-right
extremism. 

 

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) was among the organizations to receive
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TVTP funding from DHS. The $277,755 grant will be used in partnership with
Parallel Networks to rehabilitate incarcerated individuals at the Richard J.
Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County who profess white supremacist
or Islamic extremist ideals or are members of groups that profess these ideals.
To reduce recidivism among these inmates, CEP and Parallel Networks will
together craft specific curriculua for inmates devoted to different strands of
extremism by offering them “alternative narratives to extremist ideology.”

 

Shortly after the grants were announced, officials from DHS discussed the
dangers posed by white supremacists in the United States in separate hearings
before the U.S. Senate. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolfstated
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that white supremacists present “the most persistent and lethal threat when we
talk about domestic violent extremists.” Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli
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those concerns about the “high lethality” of recent incidents of white
supremacist violence, stating, “when white supremacists act as terrorists, more
people per incident are killed.”

 

Since the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) first formed in 1865, white supremacist groups in
the United States have propagated racism, hatred, and violence. Individuals
belonging to these groups have been charged with a range of crimes, including
civil rights violations, racketeering, solicitation to commit crimes of
violence, firearms and explosives violations, and witness tampering.
Nonetheless, white supremacist groups––and their extremist ideologies––persist
in the United States today.

 

Many modern white supremacist groups eschew violent tactics in favor of using
demonstrations and propaganda to sway public opinion and portray their
ideologies as legitimate. However, their racial elitist ideologies have
nonetheless spurred affiliated individuals to become involved in violent
altercations. They often target youth for recruitment through propaganda
campaigns on university campuses and social media platforms. White supremacists
have long utilized Internet forums and websites to connect, organize, and
propagate their extremist messages.

 

To read CEP’s U.S. White Supremacy Groups resource, please click here
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