Earlier this year, NPR correspondent Hannah Alam was covering a gun rally.

It was in Richmond, Virginia.

And this was in January, a few weeks after the attack on the US Capitol.

There was a lot of fresh concern then about right wing extremism and where it might go

next.

So Hannah's there talking to people at the rally and she meets a couple of right wing

militia types.

One of them is a guy named Cody.

He's this big guy with Shaggy Hair, his nickname is Sasquatch.

And he was carrying an AR-15.

We start talking and at some point he mentions conversations he's been having with a cousin

in Hollywood who's a Black Lives Matter anti-fascist activist.

Pause on that.

Deep conversations between a militia guy and an antifa activist.

To Hannah, not a story you hear every day.

And she's covered extremist groups closely for years.

I'm thinking yeah, right.

But of course, I also want to know more.

So we keep in touch and it turns out this antifa cousin does exist.

Cody it turned out I'd been using one of those genealogy websites to find and connect

with distant relatives.

And he just said, Hey, my name is Cody and I think we're related.

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