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Excellent. Couple of small excerpts

"An Expert on Right-Wing Extremist Groups Warns ‘The Threat Is Escalating’
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The well-regulated militia was incorporated into National Guard movements in the early 20th century. So there are legal militia in the United States, but they're in National Guard units. All private militia activity is extralegal or in some states, illegal, and does not enjoy that direct genealogy from those early militias forward the way the National Guard units do.
P - Who's supposed to be doing the regulating in the well-regulated militia? The degree of regulation in private militia varies dramatically as you can see even from Kenosha to this case in Michigan. And the degree of organization varies dramatically.
P - And in addition to all 50 states having law on the books prohibiting private involvement or private militias in policing, some of them even have more restrictions on things like parading in public with firearms, because people have found over the course of American history that the amassing of private armies have not been good for democracy.
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But the Proud Boys is a little bit different. I would characterize it more as a far-right strikeforce than a white power group proper, and it does include activists of color, and its platform is self-described “Western chauvinism,” meaning it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-Islam.
P - It's what they would call pro-Western civilization—that white Western Europe and its civilization and its exports have been the contributors of an outside share of the good things in the world. So that does have white supremacy mixed in. But on the ground, it varies a lot, group by group and activist by activist, and the Proud Boys are also interested in some other things, like misogyny. "

And to link a few

To link - Among the developments cited in the bulletin was the May 29 assassination of a federal court
security guard in Oakland. The alleged perpetrator would later be identified as Steven Carrillo
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Much more - Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were the Real Threat at Protests, Not “Antifa”
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