‘We’ve Seen Hate Becoming Mainstream’: The Informant Aims to Tie Together the Intel on Extremism

In 2012, when Nick Martin heard the news that a man named J.T. Ready had murdered four people and killed himself in Arizona, he was stunned.

Martin—then a reporter at Talking Points Memo in New York—knew Ready from college; they’d both gone to Mesa Community College. Ready was president of the College Republicans chapter; Martin was taking journalism classes and working nights at a local newspaper.

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