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This next episode of our Best of ITT series takes us back to 2016, and our conversation with\\xa0 Mike German, fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice\\u2019s Liberty & National Security Program. Maria and Julio talk to Mike about what he learned about the white supremacist movement\\xa0 during his time as an undercover FBI agent, and how the media is missing the real story.

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• Nazgol Ghandnoosh writes about white supremacy\\u2019s hold on legal institutions and how it disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities, in this article for The Sentencing Project.

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• \\u201cConcerns intensified after law enforcement failed to stop multiple incidents of white supremacist violence committed at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a leaked FBI report revealed it had created a new domestic terrorism category called \\u201cBlack Identity Extremists\\u201d that labeled Black activists protesting racist police violence as threats\\u201d writes Michael German in this article for Brennan Center.

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• More than 300 members of the far-right group, The Oath Keepers, are also members of the Department of Homeland Security, according to this article by Nick Schwellenbach that was published in POGO.

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