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Project 2025 Is Here: August 28th
This week, we look at how criminals are taking advantage of vulnerable communities by impersonating ICE officers, how federal workers are protesting the gutting of their agencies, including FEMA, and the case of Mario Guevara, a legal immigrant and Emmy award-winning journalist detained by ICE for his reporting.
As authoritarian governance takes hold, GPAHE continues to expose the actors behind this movement, document the policy shifts underway, and provide critical tools for resisting the far-right’s dangerous agenda.
Our blog series provides essential updates on how Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint is being enacted. Now you can view all of our Project 2025 blog posts in one convenient place on our website. We encourage you to explore this series to stay informed and engaged.
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New from GPAHE: GPAHE Uncovers Group Claiming to be Behind String of University Swatting Calls
A new GPAHE investigation has identified a swatting group calling itself “Purgatory,” that has claimed responsibility for a string of recent hoax active-shooter calls at American universities, including Villanova and the University of Tennessee. The false reports sparked chaos, panic, and heavily armed police responses, disrupting campus life and terrifying students and families. By tracking the perpetrators in real time, GPAHE found the group using Discord and VoIP services and recorded the calls as they happened. These attacks highlight how swatting has evolved into a dangerous form of “violence-as-a-service” within online extremist networks that thrive on criminality, racism and other forms of extremism, and harm.
Read coverage of our discovery in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Villanova Shooting Hoax Started on Discord, GPAHE says and in WIRED: This is the Group That’s Been Swatting US Universities.
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New from GPAHE: New Report Exposes Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups in Colombia
GPAHE’s new country extremist report reveals the growing presence of far-right extremist groups in Colombia, where neo-Nazi and ultranationalist movements are gaining ground in major cities and linking with international networks. By exploiting Colombia’s history of inequality and political violence, these groups amplify their extremism through racist propaganda, hate crimes, and alliances with paramilitary actors—posing a serious threat to the country’s fragile democracy and marginalized communities. Read the full report here.
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New from GPAHE: Trump Administration Ruthlessly Guts Efforts Against Domestic Extremism
The Trump administration is dismantling U.S. efforts to counter domestic extremism, gutting grants, redirecting law enforcment staff to ICE, and slashing programs targeting far-right extremism that have saved lives. From pulling GPAHE’s global extremist symbols database from federal access, to firing DHS employees, and cutting DOJ funding for prevention programs, the White House is sidelining extremism prevention while stacking federal leadership with conspiracy theorists, leaving the nation’s security infrastructure weakened as far-right violence remains the country’s top terror threat.
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The 19th – Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump’s political power grab
Wendy Via, co-founder of GPAHE, said the president’s actions against the mayors and their jurisdictions are “part of the authoritarian playbook” to try to crush political opposition. She noted that demonizing them creates an “enemy” that can later be used to justify military action and policies that remove rights. “I do not think it is an accident that the mayors he’s gone after have been Black women, because another trait of authoritarianism is demonizing communities that have a history of being marginalized,” Via said.
