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Trump administration eliminates funding for group countering white nationalism

Author:     Laurel Raymond
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Jun 23, 2017
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Stephan:   As violent White Supremacist groups are becoming more and more prevelant, the Trump administration once again the group that is studying and clinically working with these men. Here is the data.

In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 photo, former skinhead Bryon Widner folds his arms while resting at his home. Politico reported that the DHS has halted funding for Life After Hate, an anti-white extremism program that helps deradicalize far-right extremists, on Friday. Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong

The Trump administration has dropped federal support of an organization dedicated to countering white nationalist and neo-Nazi extremism, a Politico report revealed on Friday.

The organization, Life After Hate, was founded in 2009 and is run by a small staff of men and women who were once part of racist activist and extremist movements, and who now work to de-radicalize others involved in violent extremist groups.

In its final days, the Obama administration awarded the group a $400,000 grant as part of its Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) program. Life After Hate was the only group dedicated to fighting white nationalist extremism to receive a grant […]

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