This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportu
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment this aint about politics here. This is something that happens on the political spectrum that involves violence, threatening institutions, and we have got to look at it, and that is what we are doing today. So these threats range from decentralized and leaderless it is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these extremist movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these moveme
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Members of the Illinois National guard joined local Law Enforcement in chicago to assist with street closures. We implemented stringent parameters on their mission and use of force including no interference with peaceful protestors expressing their First Amendment rights. Since that deployment, we have received additional reports of escalating situations and for assistance from communities around the state. We have now called up an additional 250 members of the Illinois National guard to be ready to assist other cities across the state that have faced a surge of destructive action, notably looting over the last 24 hours. Again, our role is to support the response led by local Law Enforcement and municipalities. We are working with local leaders and Law Enforcement to meet their for assistance to the greatest extent possible. An additional 300 Illinois State Police Troopers are also coming online today into tonight to help keep our communities utside chicago safe with a focus on prevent