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Our team has been hard at work over here keeping an eye on things as they develop with the next threat.

And we've been working on a new collaboration with Reveal, the investigative radio show and podcast.

And we want to share that with all of you.

In this expanded edition of the next threat, we're going to dive into some new developments with you.

US intelligence agencies are continuing to warn of the rising and evolving threat to US national security from racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists worldwide.

But we uncover how the State Department counterterrorism bureau's budget is dropping just as the threat is rising.

And yet they surprise us.

As they announce a major action that takes on some of the very entities we've been reporting on.

I'm going to let Al Letson, the host of Reveal, and Verified's Mark Greenblatt, my colleague, take it from here.

From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al Letson.

The war in Ukraine is now in its sixth month. Experts say it could grind on for a long time, maybe even years.

Russia's military continues its advance in eastern Ukraine this weekend.

Russia's getting help on the battlefield from fighters who belong to a little known group called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM.

RIM posted this video online a few weeks ago, which they claim shows a special weapon being fired at Ukrainian positions.

For the Russian Imperial Movement, fighting in Ukraine isn't about supporting President Vladimir Putin.

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