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Morning Brief 2025-04-02

April 02, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Stephen Moore
TOPIC: What we should expect from President Trump's newest round of reciprocal tariffs.

Micah 2:12

Micah 2:12

Liberation Day?...

Here is a look at what tariffs are expected to hit Wednesday, on Trump's 'Liberation Day'
The White House said the president would reveal even broader tariffs than he has already indicated during an event on Wednesday afternoon in the Rose Garden.

White House: Tariffs to take effect immediately upon the announcement
Leavitt suggested that Trump remains open to negotiations, saying, “Certainly, the president is always up to take a phone call, always up for a good negotiation, but he is very much focused on fixing the wrongs of the past and ensuring that American workers get a fair shake.”

WaPo: Trump aides draft tariff plans as some experts warn of economic damage
The president’s team is exploring using trillions of dollars in new import revenue for a tax dividend or refund, people familiar with the matter said.

Europe warns Trump: We have ‘a strong plan’ for retaliation against tariffs
“Europe has not started this confrontation,” Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, said in a speech. “We do not necessarily want to retaliate but, if it is necessary, we have a strong plan to retaliate, and we will use it.”

China Says It Is Aiming to Coordinate Tariff Response with Japan, South Korea
China is seeking to coordinate its response to U.S. tariffs with Japan and South Korea, Chinese state media said Monday, as the world’s second-largest economy looks to bolster regional economic collaboration.

Israel nixes all US import tariffs, day before Trump set to levy duties on trade allies
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday signed a directive to scrap all remaining tariffs on imports from the U.S. with immediate effect.

Canada answers US tariffs with billboard ads in swing states
No word if Canadians are also going to have someone sit on a flagpole in protest.

CNBC: Trump’s tariff gambit will raise the stakes for an economy already looking fragile
As Trump prepares sweeping reciprocal tariffs to punish foreign trade barriers, economists warn the move could trigger inflation, stall growth, and rattle markets — though supporters say it’s the bold reset America needs to reclaim manufacturing and end global freeloading.

BBC: Trump poised to reshape global economy and how world does business
Every time Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the U.S., there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down, or rowed back.

‘Nowhere to absorb it’: From consumer small business to big food CEOs, Trump tariff costs will hit wallets
As "Liberation Day" tariffs take effect, small-business owners warn of collapsing margins and abandoned growth plans, while food giants say there’s no slack left to absorb the costs — putting supply chains, prices, and product diversity at serious risk.

Doocy Asks Karoline Leavitt What Will Happen If Admin Is ‘Wrong’ About Tariffs
“They’re not going to be wrong, they are going to work,” Leavitt said. “And the president has a brilliant team of advisers who have been studying these issues for decades, and we are focused on restoring the golden age of America and making America a manufacturing superpower.”

Trump / DOGE...

Trump suggests Elon Musk may leave DOGE
“I think he’s amazing, but I also think he’s got a big company to run, and so at some point he’s going to be going back,” Trump said.

Lawsuit tracker: New resistance battling Trump's second term through onslaught of lawsuits taking aim at EOs
Dozens of activist and legal groups, elected officials, local jurisdictions and individuals have launched more than 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration since Jan. 20.

Obama-appointed judge blocks Trump admin from ending protected status for Venezuelans
"The Secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries. Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism."

Trump Admin Gives DC Health Bureaucrats A Choice: Move To Alaska Or Resign
As part of a sweeping reorganization, 10,000 HHS employees were laid off and senior officials were told to relocate to Indian Health Service offices in places like Alaska or face termination.

Trump’s Labor Department claws back $4.3 billion in misused COVID unemployment funds
The DOL uncovered $1.4 billion in untouched pandemic-era cash and is recovering another $2.9 billion, blasting states for abusing the program and vowing to keep rooting out waste.

Kid Rock Dishes On Trump’s Meeting With Bill Maher: ‘Everybody’s Mind Was Kind Of Blown’
"Everyone was so surprised. It was so pleasant."

Video: Kid Rock plays FDR’s historic White House piano gifted by Steinway in 1938
The rocker performed on President Roosevelt’s gold-leaf Steinway grand piano during a White House visit.

News...

FBI Gagged Agents In 2020 To Prevent Voters From Ever Learning The Truth About Hunter’s Laptop
A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Federal employees caught secretly defying Trump’s DEI and climate crackdown
Project Veritas exposes how NASA and State Department staff are quietly rebranding banned DEI and climate programs to dodge President Trump’s executive orders and keep their agendas alive under new names.

PBS Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm Amid GOP Threats To Scrap Budget
PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, amid Republican threats to scrap federal funding for the public news outlet.

AG Pam Bondi Seeks Death Penalty for UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder Suspect Luigi Mangione
"Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America," Bondi said in a statement.

Demolition Crews Finish Off Black Lives Matter Plaza
Construction workers on Monday completed the removal of Black Lives Matter Plaza from Washington, D.C.’s 16th Street in front of the White House following weeks of demolition, photos and videos show.

Chicago woman in wheelchair fears for safety after teen mob swarms her neighborhood
Michele Lee was trapped outside her home during a violent "teen takeover" near Navy Pier, saying she no longer feels safe to go outside after dark.

Father arrested after leaving children in McDonald's while interview for a job
This restaurant location notably has a play place inside for children to enjoy while dining in. After Louis allegedly left his kids at the McDonald’s, a customer noticed that the three children, ages 1, 6, and 10, were all alone without supervision.

Babylon Bee: Actual Nazi Struggling To Stand Out Now That Everyone Is A Nazi
"You'd think I'd be happy with all Nazi symbolism everywhere, but I'm not," said Polhaus. "I used to be special, you know? Superior. Now I'm just like everyone else."

Politics...

Leftist Judge Projected To Win Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
High turnout in the Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Dane County fueled Crawford’s victory. While the leftist justice won, Wisconsin voters did overwhelmingly vote to add a voter ID requirement to the state constitution in a win for Republicans.

Republicans defeat Democrats in two special elections in Florida to retain slim margin in US House
While both victories were in the double digits, the margins in the overwhelmingly red districts were smaller than expected.

8 Republicans back Rep. Luna to defeat opposition to proxy voting; Speaker Johnson blames them for failure to support Trump agenda
"We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table."

House Republicans push back on activist judges with bills to rein in rogue injunctions
California Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the No Rogue Rulings Act to restrict U.S. district judges' ability to issue broad injunctions. The bill passed the House Rules Committee on Tuesday in a 9-4 vote along party lines.

Cory Booker’s sad stunt epitomizes Democrats’ empty agenda
Sen. Booker’s pointless imitation filibuster epitomizes Democrats’ pathetic incoherence in the wake of last November’s defeats.

Guns for me, not for thee: Staffer arrested for gun inside Capitol works for gun-law advocate Booker
Senator Booker has been the leading Democratic advocate for increased gun control, including mandatory federal licenses for gun purchases.

WaPo: Cory Booker set a historic example for other Democrats to follow
It was a symbolic but powerful act of protest.

Flashback WaPo: Ted Cruz’s phony Obamacare filibuster was really about ... Ted Cruz
His time on the Senate floor was an exercise in self-promotion.

Immigration...

Illegal alien faces new charges related to 'gruesome' murder of Georgia mom — including necrophilia
An illegal alien paroled into the United States by the Biden administration is accused of raping and murdering a Georgia mom.

Pro-Hamas student self-deports after Trump lawsuit doesn't go his way
"I have lost faith that ... the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs."

WAR News...

‘We don’t have the leverage’: US options limited as adversaries expand their nuclear arsenals
China, Russia, and North Korea are building up their nuclear arsenals at a frightening pace to intimidate Washington. At the same time, America has little diplomatic leverage to strike new, traditional arms control deals to limit that nuclear expansion.

Trump White House Confronts China Over Taiwan Military Provocations
President Trump "is emphasizing the importance of maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait."

China’s New Barges Could Make a Tough Task Easier: Invading Taiwan
The barges, which link up to form a bridge, could give China a way to land large numbers of vehicles and troops on Taiwan, solving a major logistical problem.

World...

World Health Organization reports adverse effects following US withdrawal
According to an internal WHO memo seen by Reuters, the organization — facing an income gap of $600 million in 2026 when the withdrawal takes effect — is looking to slash its budget for 2026-27 by 21%, from $5.3 billion to $4.2 billion.

Europe...

WaPo: White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights
“The point is, ‘We’ll pay you more than Denmark does.’”

Trump says ban of France’s 'leading candidate' Marine Le Pen is a 'very big deal'
"She was banned from running for five years and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country. That sounds very much like this country."

Entertainment...

Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Top Secret,’ Dies at 65
Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone‘s “The Doors,” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Media...

Ben Shapiro: The Atlantic’s Giant Fake News Screwup
The Atlantic framed an “innocent Maryland father” deported to El Salvador as a victim — ignoring that an immigration judge found him to be MS-13, a danger to the community, and a flight risk.

Left-wing pundit calls all pre-1965 laws ‘presumptively unconstitutional’ on ‘The View’
Elie Mystal claimed the U.S. was “functionally an apartheid country” before the Voting Rights Act and slammed the Trump administration for using the 1952 immigration law to deport a pro-Hamas Columbia protester, calling immigration enforcement “the crime of existing.”

CBS News mocked for absurd claim that 1 in 15 adults witnessed a mass shooting
"Four seconds of critical thinking and math tell me it is not at all possible that 17.3 million adults in the U.S. have witnessed a mass shooting."

Stephen A. Smith smacks down MSNBC smear, says calling out Democrats doesn’t make him MAGA
Seriously — how low does your IQ have to be to think Stephen A. Smith is wearing a red hat?

LGBTQIA2S+...

Youngkin Edits Far-Left Legislator’s Gun Bill, Making It Prohibit Secret Gender Transitions For Kids
Virginia Dems must go on the record Wednesday to say whether schools should hide gender transitions from parents.

Education...

Trump admin pauses $210M in grants to Princeton University over anti-Semitism, campus chaos
"Princeton has perpetuated racist and anti-Semitic policies,” a Trump administration official told Daily Caller White House reporter Reagan Reese.

Brown University investigates student for asking staff what they do all day
After emailing 3,800 administrators to expose bloated bureaucracy and DEI waste, sophomore Alex Shieh is now under investigation for “emotional harm” and “privacy violations.”

Religion...

Glenn Beck: Does the CIA know where the Ark is?
I have to admit it: I dropped the ball. We’ve spent the last week asking if the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination, but the real question we need to be asking is, “Did our intelligence agencies hire psychics to find the Ark of the Covenant?” The answer? Yes!

Jesus’ burial spot yields new biblical clues about his death and resurrection, scientists say
There has been an ongoing debate for many years over where Jesus was crucified and buried — with many experts believing the site to be on the grounds of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Now, new archaeological evidence might confirm their belief to be true.

Technology...

Google hit with lawsuit alleging anti-male bias in top sales division
A former global business leader at Google is suing the company, claiming he and other men were harassed, denied promotions, and replaced by less-qualified women under a female executive, who openly disparaged male employees.

Travel...

FAA air traffic controller charged with assault for alleged fight in Reagan National's control tower
The facility is already under massive scrutiny following January’s deadly midair collision between an American Airlines flight on final approach and an Army helicopter.

Doctor accused of trying to toss his wife off 'must-visit' Hawaiian cliff
Dr. Gerhardt Konig — a 46-year-old anesthesiologist from Maui — was charged with second-degree attempted murder of his wife.

April 2, 2009 - Fascism... Raising taxes on charities... Tea parties... Obama's new tobacco tax... G20 global network... Science: Obama's 'greenhouse'... Fascism is the new socialism... Gitmo... Cap and trade... Recommended books...

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

Bloomberg / Contributor | Getty Images

The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

Hesham Elsherif / Stringer | Getty Images

That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Why the White House restoration sent the left Into panic mode

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Presidents have altered the White House for decades, yet only Donald Trump is treated as a vandal for privately funding the East Wing’s restoration.

Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.

President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’

The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”

First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.

“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.

A restoration, not a renovation

Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.

What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.

The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.

The selective guardians of history

Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”

Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”

The real desecration

The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.

The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.

Julia Beverly / Contributor | Getty Images

Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.

The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump’s secret war in the Caribbean EXPOSED — It’s not about drugs

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

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All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.