Hey y'all, this is Sans Aunt Betty. This week, what a new administration can do about white

nationalism. Alright, let's start the show.

You're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders. So we have a new president,

a new administration, a new owner of the POTUS Twitter account. And you know, it's a little hard

to believe that we're here now. When just two weeks ago, we had an insurrection on the US Capitol.

Because of that siege and the pandemic, President Biden's inauguration was closed off to the public.

You saw the images. It was eerie. The seat of our democracy, it was just plain locked down.

Still, Joe Biden was sworn in without a hitch. And he was serenaded by Lady Gaga and Jala.

But just because something didn't happen that day, it doesn't mean the threat we all saw on display

during the Capitol Interaction goes away forever.

The President is the clear now. Arise the political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism,

that we must confront it and we will defeat.

There has been a recognition of what's been true for a long time is that far right groups,

according to the FBI, are the deadliest and the most active domestic terror threat.

That is Hannah Alam. She covers national security for NPR. And Hannah says these groups,

right now, anyway, since the Capitol siege, they've gone quiet.

You know, they're lying low. If you ask them, they'll say, oh, we have longer term plans and

things. But I mean, also, they are in kind of crisis mode right now. You know, Trump was kind of the

glue that was binding all these disparate groups together. And if he's removed from the picture,

or at least side-lined, or not as powerful as before, absolutely. So we'll see. And we're already

seeing groups kind of fighting within their groups, fighting other groups.

The big question right now is, what happens next for these far right groups? How tough will law

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