In case you were wondering… NSPM-7 is active and being used to save us from Antifa and left wing terrorism
https://www.govexec.com/defense/2026/07/trump-directive-reshaped-governments-counterterrorism-approach/414869/?oref=govexec_today_nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GovExec%20Today:%20July%2020%2C%202026&utm_term=newsletter_ge_today
https://theconversation.com/the-trump-administrations-global-campaign-against-radical-left-terrorism-is-built-on-a-national-security-memo-without-congressional-approval-287276
NSPM-7
Are you, or could you be painted as:
Anti-American?
Anti-capitalism?
Anti-Christian?
Supporting the overthrow of the United States Government?
Holding extremist views on migration, race, and gender?
Hostile towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality?
Do you write mean things about the Thump or his administration?
Or even, just a peaceful protestor, petitioning your government for a redress of grievances and the protest becomes violent?
Hold on to your hats… The road could get very rocky.
The Justice Department has built task forces staffed by counterterrorism prosecutors. The FBI has set up its own NSPM-7 mission center to oversee investigations into left-wing movements, including a joint effort with the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups.
The Justice Department has [already] used this machinery to convict activists and send some of them to prison for decades.
On the heels of two people being killed by ICE forces in Texas and Maine and the news that the FBI will no longer investigate ICE shooting incidents, here are some cases of protestors being convicted on charges of domestic terrorism.
In Texas, eight defendants tied to a “North Texas Antifa Cell” were sentenced in June 2026 for a 2025 armed confrontation at the Prairieland immigration detention center. One man received 100 years, and others who never fired a weapon still drew decades in prison under terrorism sentencing guidelines.
And,
In Minnesota, 15 members and associates of a group called Direct Action Minnesota were indicted in June 2026 on conspiracy and assault charges. A 94-page indictment cited behavior such as wearing an “I’m Antifa!” sweatshirt, possessing a bullhorn or including a devil emoji in a Signal message.
Deciding what constitutes terrorism, especially domestic terrorism is a tricky business, thanks to the 1st Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. Back in the 1980’s, Reagan began the War on Terror, framing it as a global menace to be countered by military force and diplomacy. In the 1990’s, after the first attack on the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton shifted the framing to include domestic threats, as well. After the attack on 9/11, the Bush administration combined counterterrorism and national defense in the global war on terror. Obama later tried to scale back the war powers Bush used to launch his wars by asking if the targeted individuals were posing a “continuing imminent threat to US persons” and focusing on tactics and capture rather than ideology. In more recent years, the first Thump administration resorted to travel bans against terror prone countries, while Biden shifted focus to weapons of mass destruction.
Notably, the “domestic terrorist” label itself has rarely produced actual charges. The State Department designated four antifa-aligned groups as foreign terrorist organizations. But antifa is a decentralized movement, not a formal group with a roster.
This designation lacks any real legal weight because U.S. law has no formal domestic terrorist organization category.
Prosecutors have instead leaned on older statutes such as material support for terrorism and conspiracy laws, tools originally built for cases like the ones above, not protest movements.
Definitions of terrorism have typically rested on the acts of individuals and groups. But the NSPM-7 reorients the national security apparatus of the country towards the policing of beliefs by singling out undefined attitudes around nationalism, economic ideas, religious beliefs and more.
Thirty-one members of Congress sent a letter to Trump in October 2025 expressing “serious concerns” about NSPM-7, warning that it poses “serious constitutional, statutory and civil liberties risks, especially if used to target political dissent, protest or ideological speech.”
As the ACLU warns, any definition of terrorism that includes ideological components risks criminalizing people or groups based on belief rather than based on violence or other criminal conduct.
One last note,
That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminating on July 16, 2026, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism drew representatives from more than 65 countries to Washington. The gathering was informally called the “Antifa summit.”
Rubio described antifa-aligned networks as sharing infrastructure across borders and accused Iran and Cuba of helping bankroll the movement, without offering evidence. The White House declared the summit the start of an “unprecedented global offensive” against what it calls “radical left terrorism.”
This offensive is built on the same domestic legal architecture that has now sent American activists to prison for decades.
Stay safe.
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