Overview
- An internal Justice Department memo directs the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Forces to deliver within 30 days a list of groups "engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism" along with strategies to disrupt them.
- Federal agencies were told to send Antifa-related intelligence to the FBI within 14 days and to examine incidents from the past five years that could involve domestic terrorism.
- Within 60 days, the FBI must issue an intelligence bulletin on Antifa detailing organizational structure and funding, with JTTFs adopting tactics modeled on violent and organized crime cases.
- The memo instructs prosecutors to pursue potential tax offenses by extremist groups, prioritizes federal grants for state and local anti–domestic terrorism programs, and calls for upgraded public tip lines for submitting media.
- Civil liberties advocates warn the plan blurs lines around a decentralized movement and expands surveillance of left-wing groups, as the initiative implements President Trump’s earlier directive labeling Antifa a domestic terror threat.