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Jacob Ware

@jacobware.bsky.social
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Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-s…

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I also often return to Pete Simi and @seamushughes.bsky.social's October 2023 @lawfaremedia.org piece on "The Slow Burn Threatening Our Democracy." Violent threats to public officials often drive them out of the political system, causing deeper harm than the violence itself.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As we embark on the next 25 years of counterterrorism, I highly recommended this masterful assessment of the threat environment by Rebecca Ulam Weiner and Meghann Teubner of the NYPD Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau for Police Chief Magazine. www.policechiefmagazine.org/the-threat-t...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Spotted in Dymocks in Sydney. An excellent selection! 🇦🇺
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"By depicting authoritarian politics as merely one pole of a diverging spectrum, it grants legitimacy to actors who reject pluralism and democratic institutions." One of the most creative and convincing academic articles I have read recently. Outstanding work, @pettertornberg.com!
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I agree totally, and made a similar argument in my recent @icct.bsky.social report. The #MAGA far-right is uncomfortable with the #Trump administration on three fronts: foreign policy (chiefly Israel), Epstein, and the centralization of government power. icct.nl/publication/...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My recent Soufan Center report examines the dynamics shaping youth radicalization and offers measures states can consider going forward. But this is rapidly becoming an all-hands-on-deck emergency. Incremental counter-measures will be insufficient. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A perfect encapsulation of our counterterrorism landscape. As @colinpclarke.bsky.social worries about the administration’s focus on “left-wing” terrorism, @seamushughes.bsky.social breaks news of a far-right plot threatening “Death to all liberals and Democrats obsessed with destroying America.”
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yet one cannot tell the story of our founding without referencing these scars. As Ida B. Wells put it, “It becomes a painful duty … to reproduce a record which shows that a large portion of the American people avow anarchy, condone murder and defy the contempt of civilization.”
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Several of the ringleaders went on to successful political careers. As one deep-dive into the attacks writes, “Not in spite of the white Carolinians’ participation in the murder of six black men, but because of it, they won election to political offices.” www.proquest.com/docview/1864...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"In the Trump era, longstanding American anti-government extremist (AGE) actors have tamed their militant activism, often falling in line with federal government policies instead." icct.nl/publication/...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As Neumann concludes, "These developments fundamentally challenge long-standing understandings of terrorism," forcing either a broadening of our concepts or new frameworks to capture such violence. In other words, a fascinating moment in our field. pt.icct.nl/article/new-...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If I may: I think there's overlap between "grey zone" theory and my suggestion in @gwupoe.bsky.social that we may be witnessing a fourth generation of online radicalization. Whatever you call it, the trends are clear: younger extremists, hybrid ideologies, personal grievances, lone actors.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Finally found time to read Peter R. Neumann's brilliant Perspectives on Terrorism research note on the "grey zone" of terrorism: "terrorist-type violence ... driven primarily by psychological vulnerabilities, developmental issues, and deeply held personal grievances." pt.icct.nl/article/new-...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#WearOrange 🧡
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
«Un análisis lúcido y sin concesiones del fanatismo de extrema derecha que lleva tiempo gestándose en Estados Unidos y que ahora ha florecido». edicioneslatormenta.com/producto/dio...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Fue un gran honor unirme a nuestro brillante prologuista @mldemiguel.bsky.social y al incomparable equipo de Ediciones La Tormenta en Madrid para debatir sobre las conclusiones de nuestro libro Dios, armas y sedición. ¡Una ciudad preciosa y un público fantástico! 🇪🇸
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It was such an honor to join our brilliant prologist @mldemiguel.bsky.social and the unparalleled team at Ediciones La Tormenta in Madrid to discuss findings from our book God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America. A beautiful city and a great audience! 🇪🇸
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As a reminder, I recently released a long report on youth radicalization for the Soufan Center. It’s an enormously challenging issue — an era-defining, existential terrorism threat that cannot simply be ignored.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NEW: Delighted to provide a review of Simon Ball's excellent @yalepress.bsky.social book — Death to Order — for @lawfaremedia.org. Compellingly, Ball finds that assassinations have typically served as irritations, not existential threats to democracy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/assa...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Great work by @jason-blazakis.bsky.social in @justsecurity.org, outlining the use of counterterrorism framing to justify war in #Cuba. I would only add that taking a violent approach in Cuba—a country with long histories of both irregular warfare and state support—seems particularly foolish.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In the face of youth radicalization, law enforcement and intelligence agencies must radically reconceptualize their understanding of violent extremist ideology and targeting. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Teenagers have played crucial roles in driving global action on generational challenges like climate change, gun policy, girls’ education, and police brutality; there is no reason they cannot also drive a new generation of youth-enabled prevention. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Youth radicalization is clearly a growing problem. But concerningly, cases also appear to be trending younger. Terrorism arrests involving children between the ages of 8 and 12 are now common. For more, see my latest analysis for The Soufan Center: thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
For The Soufan Center: Among young extremists, an “incel effect” or “school shooter effect” is at play, where sexual frustration often meshes smoothly with ideologies emphasizing white/male victimhood. A dynamic tragically unfolding this week in San Diego. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
NEW: Across ideologies and borders, extremist and terrorist threats are now driven, to an unprecedented extent, by children. In a new report for the Soufan Center, I attempt to make sense of this devastating trend. thesoufancenter.org/research/com...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Mr. Axelrod is spot on. According to @perilresearch.bsky.social, @everytown.org (where I serve as Survivor Fellow), and @splcenter.org, "Approx. 25% of youth have experienced an active shooter lockdown." Gun violence is an epidemic for our children. The survivors in San Diego will never be the same.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In its most recent "Murder and Extremism in the US" report, released in Feb '25, the #ADL found that "The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to ... right-wing extremism." The US government cannot ignore this threat.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
According to #ADL data, during the first #Trump administration, the US suffered over 100 fatalities from far-right terrorism, far more than any other ideology. Makes it all the more shocking that far-right extremism is not even mentioned in the new US Counterterrorism Strategy.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
According to Ukraine's SBU, recruitment appeals included "punishing the guilty" who may have tormented them at school. Particularly interesting given that Russia has previously designated the "Columbine movement" as a terrorist group. ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-i...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Additionally, the CT strategy repeats the 2025 National Security Strategy's odd focus on Europe's "civilizational erasure," writing that "unfettered mass migration" is leading to "willful decline" and immature counterterrorism. It's available here: justthenews.com/sites/defaul...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no mention of far-right terrorism (neither white supremacist nor anti-government) in the Trump administration’s new national counterterrorism strategy. Instead, the domestic focus is on "violent left-wing extremists" and "cartels and gangs."
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
American soft power: “The one thing the Europeans have understood is that we are dealing with a bully. You can give him everything he wants […] but he will keep trying to bully us, and so at a certain point we must stop him.” @yarotrof.bsky.social www.wsj.com/world/allies...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#Trump now promising ethnic cleansing in #Iran.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Pretty stunning reporting by @juliaioffe.bsky.social in @puck.news. The damage to U.S. global counterterrorism leadership will be profound and lasting.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today marks one year since the greatest day in my professional career. Still an immense and surreal honor. "The winner of the fifth Airey Neave Book Prize is God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America by @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social and Jacob Ware (@columbiaup.bsky.social, 2024)."
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"A NJOHSP review of open-source NVE incidents in 2025 revealed that a majority of NVE suspects were between the ages of 18 and 29. These subjects primarily target their victims on mainstream and gaming platforms to discuss ideology or post threats and solicit/share CSAM."
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Ban Guns: Make The Street Safe For A Government Takeover," read a bumper sticker sold by Timothy McVeigh near Waco in 1993. It's a historical counterfactual, but I wonder how McVeigh would have responded to Trump claiming after Alex Pretti's killing that "You can't have guns."
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
For what it's worth, here's how Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh viewed law enforcement before his 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building: "For all intents and purposes, federal agents had become 'soldiers.'" (McVeigh's Apr. 26 Letter to Fox News, 2001)
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An outstanding batch of new nonresident fellows at the Irregular Warfare Initiative — as always! irregularwarfare.org/iwi-fellows/
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A quick question: wouldn’t Greenland becoming American actually make us (much) more vulnerable to Russian missiles? Or are we already openly admitting that the lives and security of “Greenlandic-Americans” matter less? (image credit: @wsj.com)
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
European leaders seem to have finally learned a key lesson from #Trump: “painstaking efforts to appease the US president and protect the transatlantic relationship have failed.” @nathalietocci.bsky.social adds: “it’s high time to straighten our backs and retaliate.” www.ft.com/content/d13b...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
So cool to see Nora Neus's #January6 oral history 24 Hours at the Capitol (@beaconpress.bsky.social, 2025) in the wild. President #Trump may disagree, but I still firmly believe “it’s going to require a national reckoning to find our way out of this situation.” @leannschneiderwebb.com
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Deeply honored to contribute to RSIS NTU's annual threat assessment report for the Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses journal. My article looks at trends in Western far-right terrorism in 2025 and beyond. rsis.edu.sg/ctta-newsart...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If I may humbly propose a stocking stuffer: God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America is available in hardback, paperback, Kindle, audiobook, Japanese, and now Spanish. A book about hate and violence that sadly remains all-too-relevant today. www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sed...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
¡Estamos muy emocionados de anunciar que nuestro libro, Dios, armas y sedición, ya está disponible en español! Incluye un prefacio de @mldemiguel.bsky.social y un nuevo epílogo, y ha sido hábilmente supervisado por el brillante equipo de La Tormenta. edicioneslatormenta.com/producto/dio...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So excited to report that our book — God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America — is now available in Spanish! Now featuring a new preface by @mldemiguel.bsky.social and an epilogue, and very ably shepherded by the brilliant team at La Tormenta. edicioneslatormenta.com/producto/dio...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Dec. 2 marks 10 years since an ISIS-inspired attack in San Bernardino, CA. Candidate Trump responded by calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US.” Today, terrorism remains an excuse for anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy—now, “reverse migration.”
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Once again: far-right violent extremism poses a significant terrorism and assassination threat to mainstream conservatives and the GOP, and their refusal to excommunicate violent extremists in their midst (C'Ville, J6) is not just a policy failure but a threat to their lives.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“What’s most striking [...] is not just the trollish and at times juvenile tone of official government communications. It’s also an explicitly nativist message.” Intrepid, indispensable work by Grayson Logue for the conservative @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. thedispatch.com/article/home...
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Astonishing reporting by @rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social and Dan Howells for ITV News, finding that a leading white supremacist (or "ethnocentrist") had worked as a "warden" at Buckingham Palace. He had traveled to meet American neo-Nazis, seeking tactical guidance. www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
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