Overview

• Paxton said state agents will identify, investigate, and infiltrate radical leftist organizations, describing the effort as building on President Trump’s executive order designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.
• He cited the Sept. 10 killing of Charlie Kirk, the late-September shooting that killed two detainees at a Dallas ICE facility, and a July 4 ambush tied to Antifa-like groups near an ICE site in Alvarado as catalysts.
• In his statement, Paxton linked “transgenderism” and Antifa to what he called “leftist political terrorism” and cast Kirk’s killing as a national turning point.
• The attorney general’s office has not disclosed which groups are being targeted or how the purported undercover operations will be conducted, despite publicly announcing the initiative.
• Experts and researchers quoted in coverage say evidence tying the cited attacks to organized left-wing networks is thin and note that historical data show far-right violence has been more lethal, raising concerns about politicization and civil liberties.