This is Democracy – Episode 125: Right-Wing Militias

Jeremi and Zachary speak with Augusta Dell’Omo about right wing extremism and right wing militias in American society.

Zachary sets the scene with his poem titled, "Aron Gridinger and I survived."

Augusta Dell'Omo is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in U.S. foreign policy and race in international relations from the late Cold War to the present. Focusing on political extremism, religion, African politics, and public history, Augusta is a graduate fellow at the Clements Center for National Security and the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). She is an Ernest May Predoctoral Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for 2020–2021. She has published columns for The Washington Post, appeared on news programs like CNN International, and produced two podcasts – 15 Minute History and Right Rising.