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Kristofer Goldsmith

(He/Him)
New York
As seen in: Forbes, WIRED Magazine, Substack, The Hill, Military Times, RAND Corporation, Task & Purpose, Popular Resistance, ZNetwork, Two Joes
Covers:  Military, veterans, domestic extremism, policy, politics, anti-fascism
CEO Sparverius @TeamTFButler @VetFightFascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (vva.org/trollreport). Hunting + destroying fascist gangs

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Kristofer Goldsmith’s Biography

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Kristofer Goldsmith is an accomplished public policy advocate, nonprofit leader, and expert on the threats posed by domestic extremist organizations against our democracy. He is the founder and CEO of Task Force Butler Institute, a nonprofit organization that trains veterans in research and operations to counter extremism, teaching the skills and context necessary to keep veterans and their communities safe as they gather intelligence on dangerous individuals and hate groups.

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Resistance Alone Isn't a Vision. What Are We Actually Fighting FOR?!

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By Maura C. Sullivan, Rebecca Bennett, Kristofer Goldsmith
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By: Hell Cats · Produced by Public Square Media in partnership with VALOR Media Network. Brought to you by Meidas Defense. July 31, 2026 This week on Hell Cats, the series reaches its finale, and Maura Sullivan and Rebecca Bennett use it to answer the question that should sit underneath every political fight right now: what are we actually fighting for? As Kris Goldsmith puts it in the open, resistance by itself is not a vision for the country, so this one turns fully toward what comes next.
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Washington Keeps Breaking Its Promises to the People Who Serve: Meidas Defense

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By Maura C. Sullivan, Rebecca Bennett, Kristofer Goldsmith
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By: Hell Cats · Produced by Public Square Media in partnership with VALOR Media Network. Brought to you by Meidas Defense. This week on Hell Cats, the conversation is about service, and what a country owes the people it asks to sacrifice. Kris Goldsmith frames it in the open: the real measure of honoring service isn’t what politicians say at parades, it’s what they do when service actually costs something.
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How Trump, Hegseth, and ICE are failing the most basic test of leadership - and what it costs us

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By Kristofer Goldsmith, Maura C. Sullivan, Rebecca Bennett
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By: Hell Cats · Produced by Valor Media Network in Partnership with Meidas Defense July 17, 2026 This week the conversation turns to leadership — not as a management style, but as the heavier thing it actually is: responsibility for human lives. As Kris Goldsmith puts it in the open, that responsibility gets clearest in a crisis, when decisions made in Washington determine who gets sent into danger, who gets protected, and who gets treated as expendable.
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