This is the kind of news you love to hear, when government seems to be doing something many Americans say they voted for when returning President Trump to another round in the White House: getting rid of the potential noxious collusion between far-leftist progressive nonprofit organizations and the homegrown terror entities like Antifa they bankroll.
Readers may remember during former Presiden Biden’s administration, when Democrats insisted at length that rampant mob violence, and the riotous ransacking of businesses and burning of federal buildings, during the 2020 Summer of Love were the responsibilty of state and local leaders running blue cities and states. They claimed without proof that they were making progress on maintaining law and order without the help of federal law enforcement.
If Trump 47 has his druthers, that is not going to happen any more,
CBS News reporters Sarah Lynch and Jennifer Jacobs were the first to report on the administration’s new initiative on Wednesday, and if their reporting pans out, it seems like a major turning point in shutting down the ever-flowing piggy bank on the Left that appears to fund the mayhem:
Scoop: FBI and IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism, sources briefed on the matter told @SarahNLynch and me. @CBSNews https://t.co/jzGbvqXWgz
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 18, 2026
The report said that the new multi-pronged effort by the Trump 47 agencies stems from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo in Dec. 2025, based on an executive order by the president, ordering the full weight of the U.S. federal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies to bear down on “groups and individuals” inside the country who take part in Antifa actions “or are deemed ‘extremist'” :
FBI and IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism, sources briefed on the matter told CBS News.
In December, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to prioritize efforts to investigate and prosecute groups and individuals who belong to the anti-fascist antifa movement or are deemed “extremist.”
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The Bondi memo read, in part:
“These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity.”
The report continued:
The FBI was also ordered to develop a list of groups that are engaged in acts that “may constitute domestic terrorism,” as defined by federal law.
Such individuals or groups are, according to the law, involved in “acts dangerous to human life” that occur within the U.S. and may be intended to intimidate or coerce people, influence government policy through intimidation or affect the conduct of the government “by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.”
Here’s how one source drew the picture of how this team will work together:
The new “mission control command center” that is probing nonprofits will be based at the FBI, with agents from IRS Criminal Investigation working on one-year temporary assignments, one of the sources added.
There will also reportedly be coordination with both the deputy AG’s office and state attorneys’ offices with the new anti-terror effort:
…[T]he deputy attorney general’s office has also been involved in creating a task force focused on looking into funding into antifa-linked groups, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
U.S. attorney offices, meanwhile, have also been asked to assign a domestic terrorism coordinator, one of the sources added.
The Justice Department (DOJ) wrote via a spokesperson:
“The Department of Justice is fully committed to preserving the rule of law, protecting law enforcement from coordinated attacks, ensuring everyone has the freedom to speak in the public square, participate freely in the electoral process, and practice their faith without fear of violence or harm, and bringing to justice the full range of criminal actors engaged in criminal conduct matching Congress’s definition of domestic terrorism.”
Likewise, the investigative arm of the I.R.S., known as I.R.S. Criminal Investigations, released a statement through a spokesperson, which read:
“IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is collaborating with federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to investigate individuals and entities that may be funding domestic terrorism or political violence
“This coordinated effort allows agencies to leverage their respective strengths, including IRS-CI’s specialized expertise in financial investigations, to support enforcement actions and safeguard national security.”
Up to now, it’s been rare for these kinds of cases to be brought against Antifa or its members. As the story linked above noted, there is no specific law on the books addressing terror organizations operating on U.S. soil/domestic terrorism:
Although the term is defined in the law, there is no criminal charge on the books for domestic terrorism. Prosecutors typically charge defendants with other crimes and seek terrorism enhancements at sentencing.
But there have been successful prosecutions on this front, as my colleague Rusty Weiss wrote on Mar. 14 about the convictions against nine alleged members of an Antifa cell who attacked the Prairieland ICE facility in TX in 2025:
The assault, which took place on the Fourth of July, involved fireworks deployed as weapons, rampant property destruction, gunfire, and the attempted murder of a police officer.
The jury delivered a mixed but decisive verdict on the charges stemming from the ambush. All nine defendants were convicted on multiple counts, with eight—including Benjamin Song—found guilty of providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiring to use and carry explosives, and using explosives.
Song was additionally found guilty of attempted murder for opening fire on Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross, wounding the officer in the neck.
The group as a whole was held accountable for the coordinated violence. It marks a historic application of terrorism-related statutes to alleged Antifa operatives.
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When face-to-face with Biden during the presidential debate in 2020, Pres.Trump called it out for what it was – and still is – “Antifa and the Left” working together, saying in the strongest possible way that “someone has to do something about” it, instead of passing the buck like Biden and the Democrat Party were willing to do. When you understand the problem, you can then work on a solution to it. It’s long been the case that Democrats cannot do that because their prior behavior condemns them all as hypocrites. I also have a feeling many Americans have not forgotten the image of Pres. Trump standing in front of the historic D.C. church in June 2020, which Antifa hooligans tried to set on fire.
As FBI Dir. Kash Patel promised in his statement after the nine terror cell members were convicted:
Today justice prevailed. Terrorists who target our agents will face the full force of federal law. We will continue dismantling violent extremist networks and the funding pipelines that support them.
Stay tuned!
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