Jared Holt
senior researcher on hate and extremist movements in the U.S.
Jared Holt is a reporter and researcher who studies hate and extremist movements in the United States and their relationships to the internet.
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MS NOW Opinion
MAGA influencers are raging at Trump officials over the ‘Epstein Files’ dud
Trump administration officials who fed conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s death are now feeling the wrath of their own audience.
MS NOW Opinion
Trump is undermining domestic terrorism prevention efforts
The administration cites national security to justify its most aggressive actions, but it’s dismantling programs to combat extremism and domestic terror.
MS NOW Opinion
Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards
The Rubio-led State Department was supposed to represent a “moderate” side of MAGA. Darren Beattie’s appointment makes a mockery of that notion.
MS NOW Opinion
How Rep. Brandon Gill went from clickbait to Congress
The 30-year-old Texas congressman helped promote the big lie documentary “2,000 Mules” and founded a far-right website.
MS NOW Opinion
The Springfield bomb threats are a natural byproduct of MAGA’s moral panic playbook
Republicans have dissolved whatever lines existed between the conservative movement’s intellectual thought-leaders and seedy digital mudslingers.