Posted originally on CTH on September 18, 2025 | Sundance

President Donald Trump has announced via Truth Social, his intent to designate Antifa as a major terrorist organization, operating within the United States.

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It will be interesting to watch how the Dept of Homeland Security, FBI, Dept of Justice and U.S. State Department respond to this intended designation.

For many years we have watched the various assemblies of Revolutionary Communists (RevCom), Occupy Wall Street (OWS), Black Lives Matter (BLM) and personnel related to these organizations, evolve and align into the organization of radical leftists now known as Antifa.

Previously, despite their funding, organized and coordinated activities, the FBI had called them a “movement and ideology” and not an organization.  However, their organizational model should not be hard to unravel.  There is a funding mechanism for these activities which should be easy for government officials to research.

In the 2020 election the domain registry of Antifa.Com had a landing page of JoeBiden.com [background].  Various off-shoots of the leftist cause, anarchists, occupy, blm and pro-Palestinian agitators all align with the ideology of the foot soldiers who take to the streets and create chaos.

Perhaps no other person is more responsible for tracking Antifa’s domestic network of activity than Andy Ngo [Twitter Feed Here].  Ngo has confronted the group, tracked their activity, documented their violence and traced major parts of their organization.

As Andy Ngo said in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting, “Expect a lot of liberal and left-wing media propaganda the next few days about Antifa. They will say the movement doesn’t organize into groups and that those involved are peaceful, racial justice activists simply opposed to fascism. Don’t let them get away with lying.”

Mr Ngo puts the challenges of labeling Antifa as a terrorist group into context here.  It will be difficult for President Trump to assemble a legally binding designation against the reality of constitutional protections surrounding the First Amendment. However, organized criminal activity under existing conspiracy and RICO statutes is entirely possible.

My personal opinion of the situation is less about labels and designations and more about just confronting the violent activity as it percolates.  Arrest the people for their direct behavior, in the moment the behavior takes place.  If they block or impede federal authorities or create civil unrest through violent or unlawful activity, then arrest them immediately.

Again, this is going to come down to how the Dept of Justice and FBI approaches the investigations of individuals and targeting mechanisms of the operation that Antifa uses. WATCH: