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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is a co-founder of an educational data mining company that promotes the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a report at Becker News observed Wednesday.

If there is a singular issue for the Biden administration, it is rooting out domestic terrorism purportedly perpetrated by right-wing extremists. Nonetheless, Biden nominated as Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) an unrepentant, honest-to-goodness, fear-inducing, caught-red-handed domestic terrorist.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a tweet on Sunday telling Americans to report their own family members and peers for “suspicious behaviors.”

The “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” is being utilized as a “political weapon” to silence and “bludgeon” political opponents, according to Nicholas Giordano, a professor of political science.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday insisted that the Department of Justice is not targeting U.S. citizens for their political beliefs despite the Biden White House urging Americans to report potentially radicalized friends or family members to the government.

President Joe Biden’s administration announced their plans to create ways for Americans to report radicalized friends and family to the government, in an effort to fight domestic terrorism.

The White House on Tuesday announced an effort to fight “misinformation,” arguing it was responsible for radicalizing domestic terrorists in the United States.

Domestic terrorists may pose the “greatest” threat this year, and likely into 2022, a top FBI official told lawmakers Thursday.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that we could not ignore the so-called predominant domestic threat was the white national threat and “some of the folks are part of the Trump base.”

Rep. Brad Wenstrup recently grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on why — amid a push by Democrats to crack down on “extremism” — the June 14, 2017, shooting of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) that targeted Republicans was never classified as “domestic violent extremism” despite other government agencies doing so.

Nunes said Republicans expect Democrats to further weaponize the intelligence community against “domestic extremists.”

Terry Lee Barham was charged with terrorism after multiple incendiary weapons were found in three separate locations on Sunday.

MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi speculated Wednesday on “Live” that a “hand of the White House ” was “involved” in the delayed response by the National Guard to the deadly Capitol riots on January 6.

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that he believed the Biden administration will properly address the threat of domestic extremists because “now we have adults in the White House.”

The Biden Justice Department is investigating the events of January 6 at a “speed and scale that is unprecedented,” Acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin said.

Judge Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that Antifa’s attacks on the U.S. courthouse in Portland last year may not have been “domestic terrorism,” because unlike the Capitol riot, they took place at night when the court was not “in operation.”

Montana lawmakers are discussing a bill that would mark Antifa as domestic terrorists.

Salon politics staff writer Chauncey DeVega declared that “today’s Republican Party is a political crime syndicate, and Trump is its leader” before asking how to “de-radicalize” Trump supporters.

In a shocking statement, anti-Trump Hollywood star Sophia Bush is advocating for labelling Republicans as terrorists, seconding Rep. Jackie Speier’s (D-CA) recent use of the term “the terrorist right” to describe the GOP.

A recently released video clip from the left-wing MeidasTouch PAC brands Republican Party members as “traitors” unworthy of being called conservatives while describing the GOP as “no different” from the ISIS terror group.

Left-wing columnist Harold Meyerson has published a column at the American Prospect, a prominent liberal publication, in which he suggests that the entire Republican Party belongs on the domestic terrorism watch list because of the presence of members like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

MSNBC national security analyst, former FBI special agent Clint Watts said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that if international terrorists had the similar rhetoric to former President Donald Trump, “we would be talking about a drone strike overseas.”

A U.S. federal court sentenced a Connecticut man to nine years in prison after he admitted to mailing an envelope containing a “white powdery substance” to the White House. He also mailed a letter threatening to kill then President Donald Trump.

DHS released a bulletin from the acting secretary warning of a “heightened threat environment” in the weeks after the inauguration.

Britain’s prison system is facilitating the spread of extremist ideologies by taking a soft approach to convicted terrorists, the government’s independent terrorism watchdog has found.

Democrat mayors and city councils have surrendered their cities to “domestic terrorists,” said Howard Safir, former NYPD commissioner.

Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.

Protesters should demonstrate only in a nonviolent manner over the death of George Floyd, Dr. Bernice King said in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday.

Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released a statement on the violent riots breaking out across the country and declared that the violence “instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) reacted to the recent stabbing attack by an antisemite in New York where a man entered a rabbi’s house and stabbed five people while they were gathered to celebrate Hanukkah. Host

Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced a resolution Thursday that would label Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”

An FBI investigation of criminal conduct across Antifa would reveal its funding sources, said former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who offered his analysis of Antifa’s assault of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said white men who commit crimes are “almost immune” from being labeled as domestic terrorists.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) used a report in his opening remarks on Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the Donald Trump era that highlighted crimes that took place from 2008 to 2016 — when Barack Obama was president.

Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright put the media on blast Thursday for covering the Jussie Smollett saga more than an alleged white nationalist terror plot planned by a Coast Guard lieutenant.

Jewish Americans are flocking to firearms training in the wake of the October 27 attack on Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 people.