If you go by the definition of terrorism used by the government now, this blog and I would be accused of supporting terrorism and I would be labeled a terrorist. Supoort a person’s right to be an atheist, be LGBTQ+, I support gender studies in learning, I am not a racist nor a bigot, and I am open to people living different lifestyles as suits them as long as they are not harming others. Hugs.
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 15: U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) gestures to U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on October 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel (C) provided an update on the Trump administration’s progress in reducing violent crime. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)LESS
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack down on dissent, including agents and analysts with the Internal Revenue Service, documents shared with TPM show.
They’re working at the FBI’s NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center, per records obtained through FOIA by watchdog group American Oversight.
In National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the White House laid out a national strategy for federal law enforcement, directing it to treat beliefs like “anti-Americanism, anti-Capitalism, and anti-Christianity” and “extremism on migration, race, and gender” as indicators of domestic terrorism.
The records obtained by American Oversight include organizational charts for the NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center and a list of thirteen IRS employees — names redacted — who are detailed to work at the center. Emails obtained by American Oversight between IRS employees, including one assigned to the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division and another assigned to Criminal Investigations, also reference a “Violent Anarchist Task Force Working Group Meeting.”
The org charts, dated May 20, show that two attorneys from the DOJ’s Office of the Deputy Attorney General — the nerve center that runs the Justice Department — are a part of the Joint Mission Center.
The records reveal details of the architecture that federal law enforcement has built to implement NSPM-7 and fight “Antifa,” the loose network of anti-fascist activists that the administration has deemed a terrorist threat. The records are heavily redacted.
Against the backdrop of an administration in which the president has wielded law enforcement as a tool to target his political opponents, the disclosures suggest that the government’s financial investigators are starting to play a role in cases brought to serve partisan political ends.
NSPM-7, issued last year as the Trump administration, sought to capitalize on Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a means to justify a wide-ranging crackdown on the left, and the administration’s political opponents. It has, over the last year, turned into an onslaught against freedom of speech. In Minneapolis, federal agents with DHS cited the memo as they deployed undercover agents and aggressive financial investigative maneuvers to surveil unions, churches, and other groups protesting the administration’s occupation of the city, Operation Metro Surge, and its aftermath. In other cases, NSPM-7 has been invoked as the administration charges people for posting threats on social media.
NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center organizational chart, obtained by American Oversight via FOIA
At the DOJ, operationalizing NSPM-7 has meant the creation of Joint Task Force Vanguard. That effort is co-led by Brian W. Lynch, who prosecuted organized crime as an assistant district attorney in Ohio and then nationally as a federal prosecutor. He also marched on the Capitol on January 6, TPM first reported. Vanguard’s other co-director, Jason Kellhofer, is a longtime counterterrorism prosecutor.
The DOJ declined to comment. In the past, it’s strenuously denied that its efforts to implement NSPM-7 infringe on freedom of speech.
The role of the IRS in NSPM-7 hasn’t been fully fleshed out. Using the Trump administration’s definition of terrorism, NSPM-7 directed the IRS commissioner to ensure that no nonprofits “are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism.”
The IRS wields broad powers over civil society. A large proportion of advocacy and research groups are registered as nonprofits, granting the IRS the ability to scrutinize their nonprofit status.
But so far, and in spite of striking fear in the hearts of nonprofits across the country, the IRS has, as far as we know, not yet attempted to revoke a charity’s nonprofit status for political reasons. Some have argued that doing so could provoke an equal response under a future Democratic administration.
The records show that three analysts and ten agents from IRS’s Criminal Investigations have been detailed to the center. An email from December obtained by American Oversight shows a thread between Adrian Gonzalez, Director of Compliance Planning and Classification in the IRS’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities division, corresponding with an employee of Criminal Investigations under the subject line “Violent Anarchist Task Force (VATF) Working Group Meeting.”
Jarod Koopman, the new head of Criminal Investigations at the IRS, reportedly said last month that he planned to focus enforcement on nonprofits as part of a crackdown on terrorism.
The Joint Mission Center is doing much of the work of collecting information relevant to and helping enforce NSPM-7, FBI co-deputy director Chris Raia said in an interview released by the FBI earlier this month. Raia described the center as the bureau’s answer to NSPM-7, and likened it to the way the agency had “worked the Iranian threat.”
“There are pieces of this threat that encompass our criminal division. There are pieces of this threat that encompass the cyber division. There’s pieces that, uh, encompass [counterterrorism], even [counterintelligence], believe it or not,” he said. “We took bodies from all these different divisions. We put them under one roof, so to speak.”
“And then we’ve added, of course, our partners at [Homeland Security Investigations], Department of Treasury, IRS, and we have them all sitting in the same space,” he added.
The existence of the FBI’s NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center was first revealed in a budget request to Congress in March.
Per the organizational charts, the center divides the country up into the Eastern and Western Continental United States. Each half has three “Conus” (Continental United States) subdivisions. One chart is fully redacted apart from a label that reads “embedded intel.” Another chart, titled “Ops,” refers to “Nationwide Partner Support” without additional detail made public.
The office is run by a section chief, has a unit titled “intel,” and several program analyst positions assigned to it.
The FBI and Treasury didn’t return requests for comment.
Josh Kovensky is an investigative reporter for Talking Points Memo, based in New York. He previously worked for the Kyiv Post in Ukraine, covering politics, business, and corruption there.
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Here is a video by Aron Ra who talks about this and other attacks on freedom in the US.
That is a terrific question. I’m sure had mbs given Hunter Biden $2 billion dollars the QpubliKKKlan cult and fox propaganda channel and oann aka only American nazi network would be doing all they can to find out. But since he’s married to shitstain diaper don the baby raping con’s daughter/girlfriend turns out nobody in that cult cares
Men who rape animals want to be in law enforcement? That tracks.
If you were somehow the ‘victim’ of bestiality, you would not have been charged with it. The issue is allowing FBI agents with a charge of bestiality in their records, which means they would not have been the “victims”.
Elect Republicans, get pedophiles and guys like Kash Patel who are tremendous losers.
Just how hateful a misinformed Christian do you need to be to equate Nazism to LGBTQ+ pride? One aggressively harmed others and ostracized entire groups from society, eventually imprisoning and killing them. LGBTQ+ pride flags, festables, and exisitance don’t harm anyone nor force anyone to live a LGBTQ+ lifestyle or be LGBTQ+. I cannot imagine the bigotry and being that unquestioningly misinformed. It stuns me how these bigots especally those claiming to be Christians following the Jesus Christ of the bible feel free to try to force everyone to live by their church doctrines and feel they have the right to tell others how they must live including who they can love and how they can pratice sex. HugsP
“The offensive aspect of her conduct was not her personal beliefs about homosexuality or what she calls ‘gender ideology,’ but rather her choice to use her social media platform to ostensibly equate support for gender and sexual diversity with Nazism.”
Red Deer Catholic school trustee Monique LaGrange at a meeting on Monday, September 25, 2023. Global News
Alberta’s highest court has struck the decision by a Catholic school division requiring a trustee to publicly apologize for a social media post that compared children waving Pride flags to Nazi Germany.
The social media post, which LaGrange later deleted, featured an image of children holding Pride flags in a classroom underneath an image of children waving swastikas, with the caption “brainwashing is brainwashing.”
The board ruled the post and media interviews LaGrange did in the weeks that followed violated division policies and the province’s education law. It sanctioned LaGrange by demanding an apology, censuring her from parts of her job and requiring she undergo sensitivity training.
LaGrange unsuccessfully challenged the board’s decisions multiple times in court.
A story shared online from the account of Monique LaGrange included an old black and white photo of smiling children leaning out a window waving Nazi flags with the swastikas on them.A more modern photo directly beneath it shows young children in a classroom holding up homemade Pride rainbow flags.The caption reads: “Brainwashing is brainwashing.”. Supplied to Global News
On Wednesday, a panel of three Court of Appeal judges ruled partly in her favour, striking the ruling that she issue an apology.
The court, in a written decision, says the board mandating LaGrange be “deeply sorry” amounts to compelled speech and imposes an impossible disciplinary standard, since she doesn’t believe she was in the wrong.
LaGrange had told the board that the “Holy Spirit” told her to make the social media post. She also told court she would do it again if she had the opportunity, says Wednesday’s court decision.
It notes that another court previously ruled the board couldn’t require an apology from LaGrange be “sincere,” since it amounted to compelled speech. The Appeal Court says it struck the entire apology requirement for the same reason.
It cited a number of past rulings about forced apologies, including one that determined they’re “likely to be regarded primarily as a form of unjust humiliation and not necessarily as a vindication of what is right.”
The court dismissed other aspects of LaGrange’s appeal, including her attempts to have the board’s decisions quashed for being unfair or unreasonable.
It also dismissed an argument by LaGrange’s lawyer that the board didn’t properly take Roman Catholic values into consideration.
The court says whether LaGrange’s post represented those values is irrelevant and subject to “considerable disagreement,” because her actions violated board rules.
“Ms. LaGrange was not sanctioned for her religious beliefs – she was sanctioned for engaging in conduct contrary to the behavioural standards set out in the (board’s) code of conduct,” says the decision.
“The offensive aspect of her conduct was not her personal beliefs about homosexuality or what she calls ‘gender ideology,’ but rather her choice to use her social media platform to ostensibly equate support for gender and sexual diversity with Nazism.”
James Kitchen, LaGrange’s lawyer, said in an email that they’re pleased with the decision striking the apology sanction. ”Especially since this has practical utility for other trustees and councillors encountering compelled apologies from their respective boards and councils,” he said. ”It is good to see that the Court of Appeal at least got that right.”
The school division didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
LaGrange ran for municipal council in Red Deer County last year but was defeated.
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 15: U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) gestures to U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on October 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel (C) provided an update on the Trump administration’s progress in reducing violent crime. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) LESS
