About a month after Trump returned to the White House, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s (GPAHE) Global Extremist Symbols Database, the largest available with nearly 1,000 such symbols from around the world, disappeared from the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). The library, run by FEMA as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was filled with information critical, according to the website, to government officials at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as the U.S. military. GPAHE’s symbols database, which is free of charge to all, is used by law enforcement at the local, national and international levels and by tech platforms to identify extremist groups, individuals associated with these groups, and symbols used as tattoos, and was only one of many important resources for confronting white supremacy and other forms of far-right extremism and violence that disappeared.
