Leftist violence surges — and media still blames the right
For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.
Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.
As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.
They were wrong.
The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.
Willful blindness
On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.
Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”
And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.
Monthly attacks
Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.
One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”
The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.
In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”
In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”
In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.
That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.
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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”
On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.
Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.
This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.
Democrats are radicalizing
This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”
Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.
A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”
As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.
The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.
Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.
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Can using slang words online alert the government to your presence?
Apparently they can, as the Heritage Foundation has just unearthed FBI documents that flag certain terms as “violent extremism.”
Among them are words frequently used on social media, like “Chad,” “looksmaxxing,” “it’s over,” “roastie,” “NEET,” “normie,” “blue pill,” “red pill,” “black pill,” “Stacy,” “based,” and “LARPing.”
They’ve lumped these terms in with others that are decidedly “racist.”
According to BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, the “FBI’s domestic terrorism reference guide on involuntary celibate violent extremism offers a threat overview for incels that aims to identify them by the slang that they use, which they say is some of those slang words.”
Gonzales' guest, Jaco Booyens, says, “It’s so biased, it’s so blatant now.”
She picks out the term “red pill” and reads the FBI’s analysis of it.
“Red pill,” she says, “is also listed as a term associated with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and described as in the context of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism ideology.”
“Taking the ‘red pill’ or becoming ‘red-pilled,’” she continues, “indicates the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs.”
“This is our own government,” Gonzales says.
Booyens believes the government is behind all the division we currently see in our country. “You have to ask yourself, ‘Well, who is really causing the division in our nation?’”
He continues, “It’s them. It is in fact the government. If there is a racial faction in this country, it’s because you’re producing it. It’s because you’re driving the narrative. It’s because you’re branding half of the country, probably more, as racist, extremist, fascist, you know, Jew-haters.”
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FBI suggests that slang words 'red-pilled' and 'based' are linked to violent extremism
A newly exposed section of the FBI domestic terrorism reference guide suggests that the use of the internet slang words "red-pilled" and "based," among others, might be suggestive of a user's proclivity for or involvement in racist, involuntary-celibate, and/or fascistic extremism.
The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project recently obtained an excerpt from the FBI's guide on domestic terrorism that deals with both "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists" and "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremists."
Inside this section are glossaries of terms allegedly used by criminal elements in these supposed groups.
The following are some of the "key terms" incels are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Chad — "Race-specific term used to describe idealized version of a male, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from women. Incels unsuccessfully compete against Chads for attention";
- Looksmaxxing — "The process of self-improvement with the intent to become more attractive";
- Normie; Blue Pill — "Derisive terms used to describe 'normal people'"; and
- Stacy — "Idealized version of a female, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from men."
The following are some of the "key terms" RMVEs are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Based — "RMVEs use the term to refer to someone who has been converted to racist ideology, or as a way of indicating ideological agreement";
- Great Replacement — "First popularized among European nationalists based on a 2005 book of the same title, the term refers to the belief in a conspiracy to replace the white race and Western culture through high non-white birth rates, mass immigration, and other measures";
- Red Pill — "In the context of RMVE ideology, taking the red pill or becoming 'redpilled' indicates the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs"; and
- LARPing — "A term which stands for 'Live Action Role-Playing' originally meant to describe a role-playing game in which participants act out their roles as fictional characters. RMVEs and their associates use the term online to deride individuals accused of not being as extreme, or in possession of skills or other valued characteristics, they claim to have."
\u201cNEW: Docs we obtained show how @FBI equates protected online speech to violence. \n\nAccording to @FBI using the terms \u201cbased\u201d or \u201cred pilled\u201d are signs of "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism"\u201d— Oversight Project (@Oversight Project) 1680552803
Whereas some terms and phrases in the FBI's glossaries, such as "Blood and Soil," have an undeniable historical link to identitarian and nationalist socialist movements, the terms "red pill," "Chad," "LARPing," and "based" are used widely and innocuously online.
According to Know Your Meme, "Chad" is a "universally understood term online," optimally employed when referring to a person with a carefree attitude, "particularly if they're doing something particularly badass."
USA Today noted that "these days, a Chad would be a hyper-masculine and overtly sexual young man."
Caleb Madison indicated in the Atlantic that "Red Pill" is a cultural artifact from "The Matrix," wherein the character Morpheus offers the protagonist, Neo, a choice: "You take the blue pill ... the story ends — you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Employed in everyday speech, to take the red pill or to be passively "red-pilled" is to ultimately realize that one was previously wrong or in the dark about about some consequential fact/reality.
How-To Geek indicated that "based" is similarly far from being a word singularly used by rabid identitarians and closeted fascists: "In Internet slang, a 'based' person or opinion is one that is confident, free-thinking, and not influenced by the opinion of others."
"Based, as a general slang word, originated from the 1980s recreational drug culture. It was used to describe someone who used crack cocaine and is derived from freebasing, a specific method of taking the drug. Someone who was 'Based' or a 'Basehead' was a person addicted to crack," continued the definition.
In addition to associating common internet slang with extremists, the FBI has also raised the alarm about Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
TheBlaze previously reported that in January, the FBI's Richmond field office published a document titled, "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
Despite the Catholic Church spanning the globe, condemning slavery nearly a century before Columbus' discovery of America, and emphatically denouncing racism, the FBI reportedly claimed that it had "increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology."
If it exists, then the FBI's glossary of supposedly extremist Catholic terms and phrases has yet to be publicized.
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