The violence that besieged the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 did not emerge in a vacuum. It was the result of more and more disaffected individuals falling into the funnel of right-wing extremism. This workshop explores the mainstreaming of extremist racist anti-government ideologies, the current threat they pose, and the evolving scholarship on how to prevent radicalization from tipping over into violence. What if the January 6th insurgents had individuals, credible to them, talk them off the ledge of violence? The idea of the contagion effect of violence is applicable to racial bullying, hate crimes, and domestic extremism. An innovative, federally-funded project to put these ideas into practice, called Cure-PDX, will be reviewed and participants will learn how to put the credible messenger approach to work in their communities. https://www.nwpedc.org/schedule