A Word: They Want to Kill Americans

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

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This week’s January 6th congressional hearings offered an in-depth look at the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and other violent extremist groups that organized the insurrection. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson discusses the issues with counter terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, who has spent years chronicling the rise of white supremacist and other American political extremist movements. His new book is “They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency.” Guest: Analyst Malcolm Nance Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate, and I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:04.8	This week, the January 6 hearings expand from focusing on corruption and complicity of government
0:09.9	officials to the all of the ground extremists in groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud
0:14.7	Boys.
0:15.7	And the threat these organizations posed to democracy hasn't stopped.
0:20.0	We're talking about your neighbors, your friends, your family, the guy that's delivering
0:24.2	the mail, other people who don't believe America should be anything other than a
0:29.8	white, dominated, male supremacist state.
0:34.0	The ongoing danger of white extremists coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson, stay
0:39.2	with us.
0:42.4	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, and politics, and everything else on your
0:49.6	host, Jason Johnson.
0:51.2	Congressional hearings about the January 6 in-surrection are uncovering new and frightening
0:56.2	details about how backers of former president Donald Trump stormed the Capitol with his
1:01.5	explicit support.
1:04.1	And while early hearing centered on how Trump and members of his staff and courage of violence,
1:08.4	this week, they're also revealing more details about the extremist groups that spent months
1:13.3	organizing the attack.
1:15.0	Our next guest has spent years tracking the rise of these groups and how they gained a
1:19.4	foothold in the Republican Party.
1:21.8	Malcolm Nance is a counterterrorism expert and a former intelligence officer.
1:26.1	He's also a best-selling author whose latest book is They Want to Kill Americans, the
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