Creating Community with Task Force Butler's Kris Goldsmith

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined Kris Goldsmith, an accomplished public policy advocate, nonprofit leader, and expert on the threats posed by domestic extremist organizations against American democracy. He is the founder and CEO of Task Force Butler Institute, a nonprofit organization that trains veterans in research and operations to counter extremism, teaching the skills and context necessary to keep veterans and their communities safe as they gather intelligence on dangerous individuals and hate groups. Reed and Kris discuss the recent attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, why it's difficult to discuss domestic terrorism, and why building community, locally, and personally, is the most effective way to bring people back together, rebuild relationships, and get America back on the right path. Find Kris at Linktree. Learn more about the Task Force Butler Institute. Find Reed at Linktree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome back to the home front. I'm your host, Reid Galen.
0:34.1	Today, I'm joined by Chris Goldsmith. He's an accomplished public policy advocate,
0:38.8	non-profit leader, and expert on the threats posed by domestic extremist organizations
0:43.1	against American democracy. He is the founder and CEO of Task Force Butler Institute,
0:48.3	a nonprofit organization that trains veterans in research and operations to counter-extremism,
0:53.8	teaching the skills and
0:54.9	context necessary to keep veterans and their communities safe as they gather intelligence on dangerous
1:00.4	individuals and hate groups. Today he is coming to us from the Sunshine State of Florida.
1:05.8	Chris, welcome.
1:07.4	How's it going? Thanks for having me.
1:08.7	All right, Chris, the reason why you and i um i think i connected
1:13.0	with you about this time last year actually after i had seen you uh participate in a documentary
1:20.1	i guess it was a tabletop exercise what they call a tabletop exercise which is sort of like a
1:24.5	i don't want to i don't want to diminish it by calling it a role-playing game, but the idea was- That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. But the idea was that there was,
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