'Deadass serious': FBI goes to Glenn Beck's home after he helped expose Antifa's terror network



President Donald Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in the wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination by a radical assassin who allegedly etched Antifa slogans into his bullet casings.

In the interest of obliging Trump and finally destroying Antifa, the Justice Department and the FBI have evidently appealed to the expertise of some of those Americans who chronicled Antifa terrorists' crimes, analyzed their tactics, and identified their supporters while authorities previously sat on their hands.

'It was surreal.'

Antifa is an anarcho-communist militant group that has long threatened lives and property throughout the Western world.

In a show that debuted on Oct. 8 titled "Unmasking Antifa: The Dark Truth Behind Its Well-Funded Network," Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck took a deep dive, "shattering the myth" that Antifa is leaderless and decentralized.

"We analyzed the Antifa network," Beck said with regard to his show last week. "And we went from the street thugs, to the support groups, eventually to the funding."

Beck added, "To say the FBI was interested in this might be an understatement."

Just days after the show's initial broadcast, Beck received a knock on the door from the FBI.

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"Let's just say the FBI is turning over every single stone," continued Beck. "It is so clear to me that they are exploring all angles of this, and they are talking to anyone and everyone that can give them any kind of information.

"How do I know?" Beck asked. He then immediately began to explain why he is confident that federal authorities are serious about Antifa this time.

Beck indicated that he was informed in a phone call Saturday that FBI Director Kash Patel wanted to send some agents over to speak with him.

"I'm like, 'The direct —? FBI agents?' 'Yes, you said some things that they need to talk to you about,'" continued Beck, recalling the conversation. "'Well, good things or bad things?' 'They'll be over.'"

The Blaze Media co-founder indicated that he, his wife, and his head researcher, Jason Buttrill, spent nearly two hours on Saturday sharing insights into the leftist terror enterprise with a trio of FBI agents in Beck's living room.

"It was surreal," said Beck. "At one point, I talked to them for about 15 minutes just going over the Tides Foundation. And saying, 'If you understand Tides, you'll understand how difficult your job is going to be.' And this is information that I first gave on Fox years ago."

Reflecting on the bureau's newfound interest in stamping out leftist terrorism, Beck noted, "Finally, we have an administration and an FBI director that is willing to go in deep. Not surface. But deep. I could only imagine what we could have avoided if anyone in an administration would have done this in 2011."

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This is not the first time in recent weeks that Beck's reporting has created headaches for leftist extremists and their alleged benefactors.

Beck hosted counterterrorism expert Ryan Mauro on the Sept. 17 episode of the "The Charlie Kirk Show" and discussed the findings of Mauro's Capital Research Center report concerning the funding of U.S.-based groups potentially engaged in terrorism by George Soros' Open Society Foundations.

Days later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office reportedly issued a directive to U.S. attorneys' offices in at least three states and several cities instructing federal prosecutors to prepare probes into Soros' group.

Following his meeting with the FBI agents on Saturday, Beck suggested that Antifa members and their enablers ought to be concerned right now because "the FBI is deadass serious."

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ABC backtracks on Kimmel suspension days after a radical suspect shoots up an affiliate station



Disney temporarily suspended the poorly performing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show from its ABC television network on Sept. 17 after the show's eponymous host suggested that the homosexual leftist arrested for allegedly assassinating Charlie Kirk is a Trump supporter and a member of the MAGA movement — an assertion that has no factual basis.

In the wake of the suspension, ABC and two key owners of the network's affiliate stations — Sinclair and Nexstar, the latter of which was first to say it would pull the show — faced significant backlash from a motley crew of Democrat lawmakers, leftist activists, and Hollywood script-readers.

'They're next.'

Just days into the left's temper tantrum over the programming change, a radical allegedly launched an attack on an ABC affiliate station.

On Friday, someone opened fire on the Tegna-owned KXTV/ABC 10 television station in Sacramento while it was occupied. According to the amended criminal complaint, three apparent bullet holes were discovered in a north window of the station's lobby, and crime scene investigators later recovered a spent projectile from a doorway inside the building.

Tegna said in a statement obtained by KCRA-TV, "We can confirm that shots were fired into our station at KXTV earlier today. While details are still limited, importantly all of our employees are safe and unharmed."

The Sacramento Police Department arrested Anibal Hernandez Santana shortly after the attack and charged him with assault with a firearm, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, and willful discharge of a firearm in a negligent manner. Police cut him loose on bail the following day.

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Detectives with the Sacramento Police Department subsequently searched Santana's vehicle and discovered a handwritten note that allegedly read, "For hiding Epstein & ignoring red flags. Do not support Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondie [sic]. They're next. – C.K. from above," said the complaint.

Just hours after his release on Saturday, the FBI arrested Santana and slapped him with federal charges..

The apparent critic of the Trump administration faces three counts: possession of a firearm within a school zone, discharge of a firearm within a school zone, and interference with a radio communication station.

If convicted on the federal counts, Santana, presently being held on a federal hold at the Sacramento County Main Jail, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the charge of discharging a firearm within a school zone. He also faces up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine for the charge of interfering with a radio communication station.

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho reportedly indicated that the evidence suggests the shooting was a politically motivated crime but did not say whether prosecutors believe the suspect targeted the ABC affiliate over Kimmel's suspension.

An X account that allegedly belongs to Santana is replete with liberal memes and anti-Trump commentary.

On Sept. 18, the X user Al Hernandez Santana wrote, "Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most?? Please Join in my thoughts and prayers for the physical demise of our fearful leader."

'He's an unrepentant liar, and affiliates have every right to demand accountability.'

A week earlier, the X user wrote, "Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk and his family. May the prudence of his cost-benefit analysis for 2A rights vs. school shootings live on forever."

"The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete. CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to 'fight like hell'. Rules don't apply if election was stolen. FIGHT," the user tweeted in July.

Blaze News has reached out to Disney, Nexstar, and Sinclair for comment regarding whether threats have played a role in recent programming decisions. Blaze News has also reached out to the FBI for comment.

The day of the Sacramento shooting, Sinclair announced that it would "continue to air ABC network programming as scheduled in the late-night time period."

While Sinclair initially planned to run a Charlie Kirk special in Kimmel's time slot on Friday, the company opted instead to run the special on "The National News Desk" YouTube channel.

Despite wavering on the Kirk special, Sinclair announced on Monday evening that it "will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming."

Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," lauded Sinclair for blocking Kimmel's show and noted that "Kimmel has yet to apologize for saying the assassin was MAGA, and he was reportedly going to double down. He's an unrepentant liar, and affiliates have every right to demand accountability."

It's presently unclear whether Nexstar — set to acquire Tegna, which owns the shot-up affiliate ABC station — will similarly keep Kimmel off the air.

Disney, which owns ABC, announced just days after a suspect shot up the affiliate station that it was bringing Kimmel's show back.

"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country," read the statement from Disney.

"It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," the company added. "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

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Vanity Fair smears Charlie Kirk — but race-hustling author just ends up attacking common sense



Ta-Nehisi Coates, the race obsessive who suggested in 2020 that rioting was a "natural reaction" among black Americans, has joined David Corn of Mother Jones and other radicals in smearing Charlie Kirk after his assassination, allegedly by a leftist homosexual.

In his desperation to demonize Kirk, Coates — who penned hagiographies for Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown — provided the public with a reminder both of his own radicalism and the left's intolerance of common sense.

The critical race theorist was apparently prickled when some of his fellow travelers — namely Ezra Klein of the New York Times, Sally Jenkins of the Atlantic, and California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom — dared to say nice things about Charlie Kirk.

Coates evidently decided to compensate for his liberal peers' relatively decent remarks by penning an anti-Kirk polemic for Vanity Fair, thereby contributing further to the genre of conservative demonization that appears to have helped set the stage for the Turning Point USA founder's slaying.

In his Sept. 16 article, Coates, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, argued that Klein, Jenkins, Newsom, and other members of the "political class" were "sanitizing" Kirk's legacy by focusing on his numerous good-spirited campus engagements with people from different walks of life, instead of complaining about the murdered patriot's politics, which Coates claims "amounted to little more than a loathing of those whose mere existence provoked his ire."

Coates, who wrote in one of his books that the firefighters and police who died in the process of saving lives on 9/11 "were not human to me" but rather "menaces of nature," noted:

It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable views — that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. It’s that Kirk reveled in open bigotry. Indeed, claims of Kirk’s "civility" are tough to square with his penchant for demeaning members of the LGBTQ+ community as "freaks" and referring to trans people with the slur "tranny."

Coates was clearly upset by Kirk's use of the term "freaks"; however, in context, it's clear that the TPUSA founder was being charitable, as more damning words may have been more appropriate.

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Kirk stated on a Dec. 9, 2022, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" that the Biden administration was "being run by freaks. That's not an exaggeration; that's not hyperbole. At the highest stakes imaginable, people that have very deep-seated mental problems are running some of the most consequential government programs conceivable."

Kirk specifically referred to Demetre Daskalakis and Samuel Brinton, a pair of individuals who fit the bill.

Daskalakis is the sex-obsessed homosexual "activist physician" who until recently served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and previously served as Joe Biden's monkeypox adviser.

'I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school.'

Blaze News previously reported that Daskalakis, an LGBT activist with a track record of pushing drugs to facilitate promiscuous sexual behavior among homosexuals, had a history of denigrating straight Americans, sharing satanic imagery on social media, and showing up in public in bondage gear.

Brinton, a mustachioed nuclear engineer who ran a "Physics of Kink" class and made a habit of dressing in women's clothing, served as deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Energy Department. He pleaded guilty last year to petit larceny for stealing women's luggage.

Brinton's profile on CLAW Corp.'s website reportedly stated that he has "been active in the kink world since 2013, [hosted] monthly kink parties in their dungeon in Washington, DC, and estimate they have spanked over 2,000 cute butts."

In addition to suggesting Kirk was bigoted for calling sexual deviants "freaks," for criticizing racially motivated black-on-white crime, for expressing concern over Haiti's infestation by "demonic voodoo," and for suggesting the southern border was transformed under the previous administration into the "dumping ground of the planet," Coates faulted Kirk for another common-sense assertion, namely:

The American way of life is very simple. I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school while also not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.

Just in case advocacy for homeownership and marriage didn't strike readers as bigoted, Coates — who reportedly likened the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks against Israel to the Nat Turner slave uprising in 1831 — insinuated that Kirk was anti-Semitic, even though days earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fallen patriot was a "lion-hearted friend of Israel" who "fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization."

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After rattling off numerous mainstream American views Kirk espoused, Coates stated, "Kirk subscribed to some of the most disreputable and harmful beliefs that this country has ever known."

Coates, who is the Sterling Brown chair in the English department of the federally funded Howard University, continued his bitter rant, insinuating that Kirk got a taste of his own medicine — writing that "Kirk endorsed hurting people to advance his preferred policy outcomes" — calling Kirk an "unreconstructed white supremacist," and suggesting that his public life was cancerous.

The Vanity Fair piece concludes by hinting that Kirk, a man who worked diligently to improve his country and promote civic engagement among American youth, was like the "men who sought to raise an empire of slavery."

Blaze News has reached out to Vanity Fair for comment.

While Coates appears to have moved on from writing comic books, his hateful article demonstrates that he's not finished writing fiction.

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The left hates traditional family, so why is it condemning the Coldplay cheaters?



On July 16, during a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts, a jumbotron "kiss cam" moment captured Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his top HR representative, Kristin Cabot, in what appears to be a romantic embrace. The footage, which has gone viral on every social media platform, shows Byron ducking out of the camera and Cabot covering her face, fueling affair rumors. The incident led to Byron's resignation after a company investigation, while Cabot was placed on leave.

Interestingly, this moment of probable infidelity has united the entire political spectrum. Everyone seems to agree: Byron and Cabot’s actions are condemnable.

But to disapprove of these actions is predicated on the belief that the bond of marriage is sacred and thus should not be violated. The left, however, has made every effort to undermine the bonds of marriage, making its censure of the alleged cheaters come across as incongruent.

Writer Lauren Washburn in her recent article pointed out this disparity: “The reaction [of the left] is somewhat surprising ... for years, the left has tried to diminish the sanctity of marriage. Legalizing same-sex marriage, embracing transgender ideology, and normalizing hookup culture are a few examples. They’ve tried to rewrite reality to make people believe they will be happy if they ‘follow their heart’ and ‘live their truth,’” she wrote.

Does the left’s denunciation of the Coldplay cheating scandal prove that they do actually believe in the inviolability of marital vows?

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Lauren joined Glenn to discuss this query.

“The entire internet, regardless of political affiliation, they all have the exact same response, which is that cheating is bad and marriage should be protected. It’s wrong that these people were here and betraying their spouses,” Lauren says.

“I thought this was interesting that everybody had this reaction, despite the fact that the left for years has pushed ideologies that try to diminish the sanctity of marriage. Yet whenever rubber hits the road, we see everybody in agreement that marriage is sacred and should be protected,” she explains.

Glenn agrees, “You’re right, everybody universally was horrified by it ... which led me to ask after reading your article: Is that maybe why they have to silence people on their side? Even when they come out and say, ‘Hey, there’s 95 genders, and you must agree or we’ll put you out of business.’ Is that why they do that, because they know the average person does not agree with them?”

“I think so. I think for a long time, they have tried to diminish the facts that are just very true” — facts that “we have an innate response [to],” Lauren says, noting that the “big shift” toward the left’s dismantling of traditional family began with the “legalization of same-sex marriage.”

Now that marriage is “no longer a covenant between one man and one woman” but rather “a contractual gender-neutral agreement,” the left can push any irreverent idea it wants, she explains. “We see story after story after story that the left tells of marriages where one person will decide that they want to pursue a gay or a lesbian lifestyle, and they will leave their spouse; they'll leave their children ... all in the name of self-expression, following your heart, living your truth.”

If they applaud these stories, why then was Byron and Cabot’s secret relationship problematic?

A man leaving his wife to pursue a gay lifestyle and Byron and Cabot’s infidelity are “no different,” Lauren says. “They’re both rooted in selfish desires ... yet the left can make excuses and make exceptions for one because it fits their agenda.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Truth bomb: How Pope Leo XIV is exposing the left's greatest fear



Sorry (not sorry), progressives and liberal media: Pope Leo XIV isn't here to rewrite the gospel and edit the Bible to fit your agenda.

When Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, progressives exhaled in cautious hope. Maybe — just maybe — Leo would accelerate the Catholic Church's liberal evolution as the heir to Pope Francis' attitude of inclusion.

They want Christians who are obedient to the progressive, globalist overlords — not Christ.

But that hope is quickly turning to frustration as reality sets in: Pope Leo XIV isn't going to oblige liberals.

Take, for example, Pope Leo XIV's views on the LGBTQ agenda. Just hours after Leo became pope, the Guardian raised alarm (i.e., clutched pearls) after finding video of Leo standing against the progressive spirit of the age while endorsing biblical ethics on sexuality and life.

In that video, Pope Leo XIV condemned abortion, euthanasia, and LGBTQ ideology while observing how the mass media push an anti-Christian agenda.

"Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel – for example abortion, homosexual lifestyle, euthanasia," Leo said, before blasting the media for creating "sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyles choices" in such a way that "when people hear the Christian message, it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel."

But this is how the Guardian reported it: "Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics."

In other words: A Catholic priest saying Christian things is problematic.

To be fair to progressives and the legacy media, I don't think they're personally upset at Pope Leo XIV (yet). After all, no one yet knows how he will lead the Catholic Church.

Instead, they're upset that Christianity still means something and that faithful Christians refuse to capitulate to their agenda.

They want a church that shifts with the spirit of the age. Christians who bow to cultural pressure. A religion that nods along with whatever the editors at the New York Times or MSNBC decide is morally right in 2025. They want the church to extract itself from its ancient roots. They want Christians who are obedient to the progressive, globalist overlords — not Christ.

Unfortunately for progressives, the Church does not exist to be a mirror of the age. It is a countersign pointing all to King Jesus, who sits at the right hand of the Father. It does not exist to affirm but to transform.

Not only are progressives upset because faithful Christians refuse to conform, but they're upset because the truth is a light that illuminates their lies.

Pope Leo XIV, then, is exposing the left's true enemy — God's truth — and their greatest fear: the disinfectant that wipes away their lies.

Take, for example, Pope Leo XIV's comments about gender ideology.

"It seeks to create genders that don’t exist, since God created men and women, and trying to confuse the ideas of nature will only harm families and individuals," he said in 2016. "This campaign, apparently, is going to create a lot of confusion and do a lot of harm. We mustn’t confuse the importance of family and marriage with what others want to create, as if it were a right to do something that isn’t."

In the era of cancel culture and progressive-enforced speech codes, these comments are not just controversial — they amount to dangerous "hate speech."

While Pope Leo XIV has not yet faced the full wrath of the progressive mob, his fidelity to traditional Christian ethics is a clear and present threat to the new religion of woke "inclusivity" in which dissension is branded as bigotry and hate.

The great irony, of course, is that as a faithful Christian leader, Pope Leo XIV is neither a bigot nor hate-filled. He preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is rooted in biblical love — the only love that brings peace to our chaotic world.

But to a world that demands affirmation and acceptance of radically anti-Christian ideals, the love of Jesus Christ — which requires obedience and allegiance to his teachings — looks like hate. In this culture, truth sounds like violence and, as Pope Leo XIV himself said, conviction is rebranded as cruelty.

Perhaps, then, this will be Pope Leo XIV's greatest cultural transgression: He refuses to lie.

He doesn't pretend that men can become women. He doesn't endorse the idea that marriage can be anything but a faithful union between one man and one woman. He rejects abortion and the progressive erosion of the family unit. Under Pope Leo XIV's leadership, the cross will not be replaced with a rainbow flag.

Pope Leo XIV is a shepherd of God's truth, like it or not.

All Christians should be thankful. Because in an age when so many leaders bend to the whims of the culture wars or equivocate truth, Pope Leo XIV will do something truly countercultural: He'll stand on God's word.

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