Daryl Johnson is one of the foremost experts on domestic extremist groups in the US. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute.
Beginning his career as a civilian in the US Army, Johnson has held a number of government positions, most recently as senior analyst at the Department of Homeland Security. He is currently the founder of DT Analytics, a private consulting firm for law enforcement. He is also regularly cited, featured, or quoted in media covering domestic extremist groups in the US, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, National Public Radio, MSNBC, CNN, and NBC Nightly News, among many others. He is the author of “Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America’s Extremist Heart”
(Prometheus Books, 2019) and “Right-Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorism Threat Is Being Ignored” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
Johnson is also a freelance writer for various media and civil rights organizations. In 2012, he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism.
The U.S. electrical transmission grid is an attractive target for domestic violent extremists, but authorities can examine the threats posed by different groups and plan for future attempts to strike electric grid infrastructure.
The threat of ideologically motivated violence casts a shadow on the upcoming midterm elections and beyond, but security measures and efforts to calm tensions and fiery rhetoric can help decrease the threat over time.
Ample evidence shows that people adhering to far-right extremist ideologies have worked for the U.S. government and obtained security clearances and have abused their access to information and resources. In this report. Alejandro Beutel and Daryl Johnson examine this evidence and make recommendations for the U.S. government to prevent infiltration by extremists who could endanger the country.
The U.S. far-right milieu is not monolithic. It can be divided into at least five sections: racist extremism, namely white nationalism/supremacy; anti-government extremism; nativist extremism; anti-abortion extremism; and male supremacy.
