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He Hunted al-Qaeda. Now He Hunts Neo-Nazis
He Hunted al-Qaeda. Now He Hunts Neo-Nazis
Kristofer Goldsmith, 38, is the founder of Task Force Butler—an elite team of veterans who use their military expertise to take down neo-Nazi terrorists on American soil. (Photos by Saul Martinez for The Free Press)
Army vet Kristofer Goldsmith has taken out scores of extremists without ever firing a bullet. But he carries a shotgun just in case.
By David Josef Volodzko
02.28.24
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He Hunted al-Qaeda. Now He Hunts Neo-Nazis

On a frigid night last February, Iraq combat veteran Kristofer Goldsmith woke to the sound of his dogs barking. He removed a gun from the safe next to his bed and crept downstairs to the kitchen of his home in suburban New York when he noticed movement just outside the glass kitchen door. 

He turned to find a man in all-black tactical gear crouched behin…

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David Josef Volodzko

News editor and senior writer at FIRE, author of The Radicalist, words in New York Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New Republic, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Vice.

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