While the world is rightfully focused on Trump’s administration facilitating the end to the Israel-Gaza war, there is important peace work being done closer to home.
Antifa has been officially classified as a domestic terrorism group. This has nothing to do with free speech or fascism. Antifa groups have caused a lot of death and destruction. While they claim to fight “fascism,” their actions reveal something far darker. They are a movement that seeks revolution through violence. While some have been peaceful, other tactics have included ambushes, arson, doxing, and destruction. Its members have beaten people in the streets with crowbars and bricks, launched assassinations, burned police stations, and vandalized small businesses. They have targeted journalists, police officers, and anyone who dares to disagree.
It is often said that they aren’t really an organization, however millions of dollars have been funneled to them, so who’s cashing the checks?
To what end? According to independent journalist Andy Ngo — who has covered Antifa for years and survived two brutal attacks by its members — their goal is not justice but collapse. “They have networks of influence through messaging, institutional control through media and universities, and they have money,” Ngo said. “Instability is success.”
Antifa’s ideology is rooted in chaos. The group openly embraces the destruction of capitalism and Western society. In practice, that means promoting anarchy, misery, and urban decay — the perfect breeding ground for revolution. They’ve even supported the mass migration and cartel drug networks that destabilize neighborhoods, destroy property values, and weaken the social fabric. Drug abuse, in their view, is not a tragedy but a weapon against capitalism and the system.
We saw the results during the so-called “Summer of Love” in 2020, when cities across America burned. Billions of dollars in damage, countless destroyed businesses, and dozens of lives lost — all waved away by sympathetic media outlets that refused to tell the truth about who was responsible. Many of those same outlets still misrepresent ANTIFA’s violence as “mostly peaceful protests,” or even falsely describe the perpetrators as right-wing extremists, confusing the uninformed.
Even more alarming, ANTIFA’s influence extends into nonprofit and political networks. Well-funded far-left legal groups defend ANTIFA suspects. Mutual aid networks on platforms like Cash App, Venmo, and GoFundMe raise huge sums by marketing their causes as “social justice” or “anti-racism.” In reality, these funds often go to bail out violent offenders or sustain global extremist operations. Taxpayer money has even trickled down indirectly through government grants to groups that provide “training” or “legal support” to ANTIFA-aligned activists.
The Department of Justice faces an enormous challenge because ANTIFA operates as a decentralized network — small, autonomous cells that coordinate through encrypted apps, private chat rooms, and social media. You can’t arrest a “member list” because there isn’t one. You have to prosecute the acts — assaults, arson, racketeering, and terrorism — and follow the money that fuels them.
For years, these violent movements flourished because previous administrations tied the hands of law enforcement. Entire police departments were placed under costly federal “consent decrees” for the actions of a few bad officers. Officers learned to fear prosecution more than the criminals they faced. The result was predictable: stand down, or risk your career.
That era is ending. Under President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and the FBI are taking a direct stand against political violence. The administration has made it clear: America cannot survive if mob rule replaces the rule of law. Police officers who abuse their power will be held accountable, but those who protect the public will be supported — not punished.
The DOJ is working across federal and local jurisdictions to track extremist networks, disrupt funding pipelines, and restore law and order in cities that have been allowed to burn. This is not about suppressing protest or free speech — it’s about stopping organized violence and terrorism masquerading as activism.
Citizens have the right to walk safely in their own neighborhoods, journalists have the right to report without fear, and small business owners have the right to reopen their stores without worrying they’ll be burned down again. Police should have the right to do their jobs against violent thugs. These are not partisan values; they are the foundation of a free society.
America cannot tolerate the normalization of political violence — from any side. The Trump administration’s aggressive pursuit of Antifa’s funding sources and criminal networks represents a long-overdue correction. Freedom cannot survive without order.
The choice before us is simple: Will we remain a nation of laws, or will we surrender to intimidation, destruction, and mob power?
How much will we tolerate? And, will we model the conservatives who have led our nation and the world with prayer and vigils following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or will we model the French Revolution and Marxist ideology, and believe we need to completely destroy our country and start all over? And if that were to happen, would we want the violent criminals and their funding partners to be our new leaders?
