In the last 20 years, the US counterterrorism community has seen two opposite trends.

On the one hand, the government has succeeded in preventing another attack on the scale of

9-11, but on the other hand, the threat of home-grown violent extremism has been steadily

on the rise.

While we had prevented another mass attack like 9-11, we couldn't really say that we were

winning the war, and we needed to look at other tools.

Elizabeth Newman worked at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration.

And those other tools she's talking about, she doesn't mean just tools that would help

prevent a violent attack, but she's talking about her tools that would help authorities

stop someone from even wanting to plan a violent attack.

Trying to move further upstream and preventing individuals from radicalizing in the first

place and mobilizing to violence.

So how do you stop radicalization in its tracks?

The Biden administration says it has a plan and a new agency that's tasked with carrying

it out.

But that plan relies on communities playing a much bigger role.

It's an approach Newman came to believe in during her time in government.

It really is much more about how can we help you be healthy, and often that work is best

done by people that is not the government, but rather private practitioners or churches

or other nonprofit groups who can help people that might not be in that safe space.

Consider this.

In the United States, domestic extremism is an evolving threat, one that government counter

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