This is a word, a podcast from Slate, and I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

This week, the January 6 hearings expand from focusing on corruption and complicity of government

officials to the all-the-ground extremists in groups like the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys.

And the threat these organizations posed to democracy hasn't stopped.

We're talking about your neighbors, your friends, your family, the guy that's delivering

the mail, other people who don't believe America should be anything other than a

white-dominated male supremacist state.

The ongoing danger of white extremists coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us.

Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, and politics, and everything else I'm your host,

Jason Johnson.

Congressional hearings about the January 6 and direction are uncovering new and frightening

details about how backers of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol with his

explicit support.

And while early hearing centered on how Trump and members of his staff and courage of violence,

this week, they're also revealing more details about the extremist groups that spent months

organizing the attack.

Our next guest has spent years tracking the rise of these groups and how they gained a

foothold in the Republican Party.

Malcolm Nance is a counterterrorism expert and a former intelligence officer.

He's also a best-selling author whose latest book is They Want to Kill Americans, the

militias, terrorists, and deranged ideology of the Trump insurgency.

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