The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 7, 2020 Homeland Security Dept.: White Supremacists Are "Most Persistent and Lethal Threat" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new Department of Homeland Security report finds white supremacists are the "most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland." Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf writes in the report, "I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years." .