Dear Clarion Reader,
We appreciate your interest in fighting extremism and would like to invite you to help us stop the next violent extremist attack.
In the world of movies, we see police chasing criminals to stop them on their way to committing crimes.
In the real world, police chasing criminals means that the preventative work of providing security to our communities and to our nation is not working.
Six years ago, Clarion Project created a team of open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysts to help stop violent extremists “before the boom,” meaning long before the criminal is on his way to perpetrate an attack.
Clarion’s OSINT analysts use state-of-the-art technology to identify extremists with the desire, the means, and the opportunity to commit acts of violence. We then put together evidence packages that help law enforcement disrupt attacks before Americans are victimized. This year Clarion delivered 635 evidence packages. Each package includes actionable tips that enable law enforcement to act.
Also this year, Clarion reported over 100 potential school/mass shooters to law enforcement, including a network of potential school shooters who idolize mass killers, such as the Columbine school shooters and the Boston Marathon bombers.
In the course of our work this year, we also discovered an increasing convergence of different extremist ideologies. We found members of Antifa supporting Hezbollah and other radical Islamist groups; we uncovered Boogaloo Bois members adapting jihadi imagery and lingo; and we saw potential school/mass shooters praising ISIS.
Our analysts also identified the burgeoning use of homemade guns called ghost guns that extremists are using to illegally acquire weapons. Our work is helping law enforcement address this growing threat.
In short, 2022 has been a good year for Clarion Project. We are making an outsized and increasing impact, making Americans safer.
However, the extremist threats are constantly changing and adapting, and we need the resources to grow, to hire more analysts and increase the production of evidence packages to help disrupt more threats.
Clarion Project is supported entirely by donations from people like you, and we need your help to save more lives in 2023. | 