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The Trump administration has warned that “radically pro-transgender” advocacy groups constitute a major terror threat as the Trump administration works to roll back actions of the Biden administration that it maintains “weaponized” the intelligence community.
Be informed, not misled.
The facts back up the administration's assertion.
The White House released the United States Counterterrorism Strategy for 2026 last week. The document identified three major types of terrorist groups that pose a threat to American society: Narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamic terrorists, and violent left-wing extremists such as anarchists and antifascists.
“In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT [counterterrorism] activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist,” the document states. “We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent.”
The document identifies the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk “by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies” in September 2025 as an example of “the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists.” Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter who took Kirk’s life, was in a relationship with his trans-identified male roommate at the time of the assassination.
Other examples of these types of attacks include the August 2025 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which resulted in two casualties, and the March 2023 mass shooting at Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville, Tennessee, that left six dead. The perpetrator of the Minneapolis shooting was a trans-identified male named Robert Westman, while the Nashville school shooting was carried out by Audrey Hale, a trans-identified female.
The inclusion of “violent left-wing extremists” in the counterterrorism strategy marks the latest example of the Trump administration taking action against violent, far-left activist groups. In September 2025, Trump designated Antifa as a terrorist organization.
“Whether plotting against conservative Catholics attending traditional mass in Virginia, parents standing up for their children at schoolboard meetings, Members of Congress, or President Trump and his associates, this Administration will continue to prohibit the IC from being used politically against innocent Americans,” the document vowed.
One of the incidents listed as an example of the weaponization of the intelligence community involved the distribution of an internal memo in the FBI’s Richmond Field Office in January 2023 under the Biden administration, alleging that “the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
The FBI has rescinded a report classifying "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" as a national security threat based on claims from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center after a former FBI agent voiced concerns about the FBI's reliance on partisan sources.
“Whether plotting against conservative Catholics attending traditional mass in Virginia, parents standing up for their children at schoolboard meetings, Members of Congress, or President Trump and his associates, this Administration will continue to prohibit the IC from being used politically against innocent Americans,” the document vowed.
Back in 2021, a memo cited a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff” as the justification for a federal response.
However, it was the parents who had often been harassed and intimidated.
Loudoun County school board member Beth Barts, for example, was censured for attacking parents and was subsequently recalled. An investigation found that she plotted to go after outspoken parents she disagreed with by encouraging people in a Facebook group to “hack” the parents, which led to her being stripped of her committee duties, The Daily Wire reported.
Trump gets it.
Pastor Robert Jeffress on Saturday said President Donald Trump has a better grasp of what the Bible teaches about government than Pope Leo XIV, specifically on the question of military action against Iran, entering a public dispute that has already seen Trump call the pontiff weak on crime and foreign policy.
Takeway
Jeffress, the senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, made the comments on “Fox News Live,” two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope at the Vatican.
While he called Leo a “good man” and said the pontiff was “sincere in his faith,” Jeffress said the pope was “sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran,” according to a video clip he shared on X.
He noted that God created government for a distinct purpose from the church, citing Romans 13. “The role of government is to protect citizens from evildoers,” he said.
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