Antifa to be tagged as terrorist organization

 Daily Signal:

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Trump announced Wednesday night that he would be designating Antifa a terrorist organization.

Antifa agitators brand their opponents as akin to Nazis, identifying themselves as “anti-fascist.” These agitators reportedly embed themselves in more mainstream protests, break away to engage in violence, and occasionally return to the safety of the crowd later. While the movement is largely disconnected, it sometimes forms organizations like Rose City Antifa in Portland.

Antifa agitators have engaged in violence for years, most notably in the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. The riots that grew out of those protests caused an estimated $2 billion in damage, measured by insurance payouts, and took the lives of 26 Americans, notably including black people like 77-year-old retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a public interest law firm that gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan chapters into bankruptcy and presents itself as America’s premiere “hate” watchdog, has steadfastly refused to put any Antifa organization on its “hate map.” Meanwhile, the SPLC puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on the map, calling them part of the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.”

A terrorist used the map to target the conservative Christian Family Research Council in 2012, and the man who opened fire at a Congressional Baseball Game practice in 2017 had “liked” the SPLC on Facebook. The SPLC condemned these attacks.

This summer, the SPLC added Kirk’s Turning Point USA to the “hate map.” It remains unclear whether this may have inspired Robinson, and the SPLC condemned the assassination, but it has not removed Turning Point from the map.

The SPLC has refused to add Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or vandals targeting churches and pro-life pregnancy centers to the “hate map.”
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The SPLC condemned Trump’s move as “unprecedented and alarming” and minimized Antifa violence as “skirmishes and property crimes,” adding that “the threat of lethal violence pales in comparison to that posed by far-right extremists.”

In 2023, authorities arrested an SPLC lawyer, charging him with domestic terrorism for his alleged role in an Antifa riot involving Molotov cocktails. The lawyer is one of 61 defendants, who are represented by many attorneys. That case remains ongoing, and prosecutors expect a ruling from the judge soon.

Megan Squire, whom Wired profiled as “antifa’s secret weapon against far-right extremists” in 2018, reportedly worked closely with the SPLC, feeding the organization data on white nationalist and other groups. She said she does not consider herself antifa but is “sympathetic to antifa’s goal of silencing racist extremists.” She passed along information “to those who might put it to real-world use. Who might weaponize it.”

Squire joined the SPLC full-time in 2022 before leaving the organization in March 2025, according to her verified LinkedIn profile.
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Calling people you disagree with Nazis is ridiculous.  Simply state your disagreement and provide the reasons.  Turning Point is a conservative organization that is not remotely into killing Jews or other Nazi things.  The only violence involving Turning Point was the murder of its leader.

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Trump Signs Order Naming Antifa a 'Domestic Terrorist' Group