Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups

The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.

“In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups,” the plan says, “our national (counter terrorism) activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

In recent months, as Trump administration officials have ramped up the rhetoric around investigating and prosecuting people who it says are part of groups like Antifa, they have struggled to answer basic questions about the organizations.

During a congressional hearing late last year, Michael Glasheen, operations director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, could not answer questions about Antifa’s group size, location or other details.

“Investigations are active,” Glasheen said after declaring Antifa as the “primary concern” of the FBI. The FBI official said the situation was “very fluid.”

The White House counterterrorism plan says the federal government will “use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa.”

The US has faced several violent attacks from individuals opposing the administration and its allies, including the recent attempted attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the murder of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk and several violent attacks on immigration facilities.

Organized terrorism from left-wing groups, however, is far more rare.

In July, a group of nearly a dozen people set off fireworks and spray-painted vehicles and buildings at a Department of Homeland Security facility in Texas before some from the group opened fire on a police officer and employees at the building.

The case was the first federal terrorism case in the Trump administration’s promised fight against left-wing groups.

ToNoMoCo on May 7th, 2026 at 17:00 UTC »

“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”

― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

TheDarkHelmet1985 on May 7th, 2026 at 16:56 UTC »

That's funny because I classify the entire trump family as a major terror group.

Grandpa_No on May 7th, 2026 at 16:56 UTC »

How Nazi of them.