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With the rise of left-wing terrorism, as epitomized by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, congressional Republicans are doubling down on their efforts to combat violence perpetuated by Antifa and its affiliates. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, spoke with The Daily Signal about the efforts being undertaken by the White House and Republicans in Congress to hold Antifa accountable for its crimes. “Antifa has wreaked havoc on our nation for years through their violent and militant anarchy, especially in radical leftist cities like Portland, Oregon. I applaud President Trump for designating them a domestic terrorist organization,” the Texas congressman said. But there is more Republicans in Congress can do to support Trump’s decree, he added: “Congress should eagerly back his efforts to protect our national security from these destructive internal threats.” In January, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced a House resolution that would codify the president’s designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization into law. The proposed legislation details multiple instances of unlawful activity by Antifa and its affiliates, including the doxing of at least 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees in 2018, and the attempted firebombing of an ICE detention facility in 2019 by a self-identified Antifa member. Greene’s House resolution was cosponsored by Republican Reps. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Mary Miller of Illinois, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Wesley Hunt of Texas. Hunt, a combat veteran of the Iraq War having flown dozens of missions as an Apache helicopter pilot, described to The Daily Signal what he hoped the bill would accomplish. “Labeling Antifa a terrorist organization and bringing the full force of the federal government down on their networks lets us do more than talk. It lets us choke off funding, freeze assets, and give Treasury and law enforcement the legal tools to sanction and prosecute those who bankroll and enable political violence,” the Texas congressman explained. Hunt went on to note the effects left-wing violence has had on American society. “Make no mistake: This isn’t an abstract debate. During the riots and violent protests of recent years, Antifa-linked actors have been involved in attacks on federal buildings and caused widespread chaos in our cities, and law enforcement, Congress, and the Trump administration have all recognized the threat and moved to counter it,” Hunt said. “They’re not just a collection of words on a protest sign. They’ve behaved like a coordinated, dangerous network in too many places,” he continued, adding: It’s time to stop arguing about labels and start using every lawful tool to dismantle the funding, the logistics, and the command-and-control that make these attacks possible. “We should be clear-eyed and relentless: Crush this left-wing arm of terror, prosecute the criminals, seize the money, and restore safety in America. There’s no place in this country for political violence,” Hunt concluded. Some members of the Senate have also spoken out about the need to do more to end the normalization of violence in the name of left-wing causes. “I will always defend political speech, but I will never defend political violence. When organizations like Antifa attack police, hurl Molotov cocktails, and engage in violent sabotage, they go beyond speech and engage in political violence. They must be met with the full force of the law,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told The Daily Signal. “It is time to take concrete action to stop their reign of left-wing terror, not just in our nation but across the world. I’m urging the administration to take immediate action and designate the foreign Antifa networks as foreign terrorist organizations, so we can paralyze the international support of an organization designated by the Trump administration as domestic terrorists,” the Missouri senator added. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, noted to The Daily Signal the time frame over which left-wing violence has been allowed to grow. “For years, Antifa has engaged in violence, vandalism, intimidation, and attacks on law enforcement, journalists, and private citizens alike, for the explicit purpose of advancing a radical, left-wing political agenda. President Trump is right to designate them a terrorist organization and ensure they do not endanger any more Americans,” the Utah Republican stated. Julio Rosas, the national correspondent for The Blaze, has extensively covered Antifa and was recently at a White House event highlighting the scourge of Antifa and left-wing violence. Rosas is optimistic that Congress has already created the laws necessary for effective law enforcement. “Congress doesn’t need to do more. Basic laws regarding organized criminal groups need to be enforced,” Rosas told The Daily Signal. “Antifa, as loose as it is with its structure, is still a group that organizes violent attacks on law enforcement and journalists. Other criminal organizations such as theft rings are prosecuted in such a way, and Antifa is no different in that regard,” Rosas said. The post Hill Republicans Enlist in Trump’s War on Antifa Violence appeared first on The Daily Signal.

More law enforcement could be coming to Columbus, and that may even include Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Ohio’s capital is one of several cities in which the General Services Administration, an independent agency that helps manage and support federal agencies and facilities, was seeking office space. Specifically, “as-is, fully-finished and furnished office space in support of administrative operations for law enforcement.” The lease will be on a 10-year/five-firm basis. “THE NOTICE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE SPACE,” posted in September, has certainly prompted chatter, both in Columbus and statewide. The Ohio House speaker affirmed the federal government’s jurisdiction, the governor sees more jobs for Ohioans, while Columbus’ mayor appears to be questioning the need. Opportunity and Fighting Crime Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s office welcomed the GSA notice as a sign of opportunity. “Ohio has many federal workers who work here in Ohio, including numerous federal law enforcement officials. Of course we welcome more employers, including the federal government, locating more jobs here to Ohio,” Dan Tierney, DeWine’s deputy director of media relations, told The Daily Signal. The mayor’s office seemed to have a bit of a different take, however. “Columbus is the safest it’s ever been, with homicides at a more than 20-year low even as the city has grown,” NBC4 quoted Jennifer Fening, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Andrew Ginther, as saying. “The city works consistently with state and federal law enforcement to take dangerous criminals off our streets.” The Daily Signal also reached out to the mayor’s office but did not hear back. Federal Jurisdiction Ohio Speaker Matt Huffman, a Republican who represents Allen County, offered “that there are things that are strictly within the federal purview.” Leasing office space for ICE agents, enforcing immigration, are among those things. Huffman spoke to The Daily Signal on Tuesday after he was awarded the 2025 Taxpayer Torch Award from Americans for Prosperity’s Ohio chapter. The speaker highlighted how “one of the fights [he’s been] fighting for many years is that’s state stuff [versus] the federal government,” which he pointed out has “always been an argument.” As Huffman stressed, though, “immigration is a federal issue” and that “to the extent that local authorities can assist the federal law enforcement, they should be doing that, and if feds need to set up and get office space, of course we want that to happen, we want federal laws to be enforced.” Huffman also spoke to how federal and local law enforcement work together. He gave the FBI as an example when speaking about the presence of the federal government “to enforce immigration laws or some other federal crime statute.” “We don’t look at the FBI and say, ‘You’re not allowed to be in Columbus.’ But the investigations that they do … the federal prosecutors and state prosecutors often work in coordination, give each other information, things like that,” Huffman explained. “The concept that federal and state and local authorities are somehow segregated, that’s never been true,” he continued. “So, if ICE officials are here and somehow they can help with other things where it’s appropriate … it’s really about law enforcement coordinating with each other, and do you know sometimes they do that well and sometimes they don’t do it well. But that’s always been the case.” Why the Speculation on ICE? Various outlets, including NPR and The Columbus Dispatch, referenced the expansion of ICE in their coverage. Last month, The Washington Post reported on ICE’s expansion: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking new office spaces in hundreds of locations across the United States to support plans to hire thousands of lawyers and immigration enforcement officers, according to six federal officials familiar with the matter and records obtained by The Washington Post. The office spaces are being sought on ICE’s behalf by the General Services Administration, the agency responsible for managing federal real estate, according to the officials and the records. In recent weeks, high-level staffers with ICE approached the GSA and said the government needed to secure roughly 300 office sites nationwide as fast as possible, in a bid to house more than 10,000 new employees, the officials and the records show. The piece referenced a “surge in ICE hiring.” In September, ICE began airing recruitment ads during NFL games, inviting people to apply. When asked more about the GSA’s role and what the office space might be used for, GSA spokesperson Marianne Copenhaver offered to The Daily Signal that “GSA is proud to support all of our patriotic federal law enforcement partners and help them meet their workspace requirements.” The Daily Signal also reached out to ICE for comment but did not hear back. The Daily Signal also asked Huffman if the focus on ICE may be why the GSA notice about office space is so newsworthy. “Whatever happens to be in the news is going to prick someone’s conscious,” he offered. “They kind of want to stare around and say, ‘I’m outraged about that.’” The speaker once more brought it back to a matter of jurisdiction, citing the example of the 1770 Boston Massacre, which arose amid tensions between local authorities and British soldiers as to who would handle public order and anti-British protests. Ohio has been in the news for crime and immigration enforcement before. In August, DeWine heeded the call from the Trump administration to send the Ohio National Guard to Washington, D.C., with 150 guardsmen being sent over to the nation’s capital. Stricter immigration enforcement could also be coming to the Buckeye State, as the state Legislature considers several bills on the matter. The post Federal Government Looking to Bring More Law Enforcement to Columbus appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As the government shutdown wears on, Republicans have a problem: They’re running low on the time their stopgap funding bill was supposed to buy for bipartisan budget negotiations. The stopgap funding bill to extend President Joe Biden-era spending levels has failed to pass more than a half dozen times in the Senate due to Democrat opposition. The seven weeks of funding it was supposed to provide has shrunk down to just over five weeks. On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., urged Democrats in the Senate to pass the short-term funding extension passed in the House, but noted that the funding extension’s window is shrinking. “We have big differences [with Democrats] we need to negotiate, and the clean [continuing resolution] that we passed over to the Senate does not resolve those differences. It just gives us some more time to have that negotiation,” Scalise told reporters.  “And by the way, that clock is getting sooner every day,” he said. “November 21 is not extending every day that [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer continues this charade that he’s playing with the lives of millions of American families. That date is going to get closer every day, where we’re not going to have as much time to negotiate our differences.” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (left) and House Speaker Mike Johnson, both R-La. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images) That creates a difficult outlook on Capitol Hill for any future attempt to fund the government. Even if Republicans managed to get Democrats to vote for the continuing resolution, it would set up another fiscal cliff in a few weeks, since the Democrats could once again vote against funding the government in order to back up their demands. In the Senate, leadership is trying to break the impasse by teeing up a Thursday vote on a Department of Defense funding bill. “If the Democrats can see the regular appropriations process running more smoothly, that might encourage them,” the Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman, Rep. Susan Collins, R-Maine, recently said of the attempt to keep the funding process humming amid the shutdown. “If we can show that we can move the appropriations bills, there’s absolutely no justification or rationale for a government shutdown.” Meanwhile, in the House, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., still has not called the chamber back into session. The House has passed three of 12 appropriations bills. “I think appropriators want to get back to work … . I know every House Republican does, but we’ve got to get the lights turned back on, and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have to vote to do that,” Johnson said of resuming work in the House, although the government shutdown doesn’t impede the House Republican leadership’s ability to reconvene the chamber. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Johnson also addressed the idea of a longer-term continuing resolution, which he considers useless, given Democrats’ intransigence so far. “With regard to the timeline of the CR, it would do us no good to pass yet another CR out of the House, because it will meet the same fate. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats want to close the government down. They are gleeful about this,” he said. Another cause for concern is the fact that some Democrats are declaring that cleanly funding President Donald Trump’s administration is somehow immoral.  “Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote Tuesday on the social media platform X of Republicans’ bill to extend Biden-era spending for a few weeks. “People don’t want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.” The Schumer Shutdown, Like All Shutdowns Before It, Will End in Defeat “No matter how righteous you make the argument about a shutdown, it doesn't work. Like, there's never been a party that won a policy concession because they forced a shut down,” said @RepDustyJohnson on last… pic.twitter.com/D2BfJ4TGvs— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) October 11, 2025 If anything pulls Congress out of the quagmire, it could be the apparently increasing political futility of extending the shutdown for Democrats. A new poll from YouGov/The Economist shows that Americans are increasingly blaming Democrats for the shutdown, with 33% now blaming Democrats in Congress—up from 30% last week. A higher percentage, 39%, blame Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown, down from 41% last week. Historically, the party that controls the White House tends to take the blame for shutdowns among the general public. The post As Shutdown Staggers On, Stopgap Funding Window Is Shrinking appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Dover, New Jersey, has joined a growing wave of municipalities embedding artificial intelligence into public spaces, advancing a surveillance system that includes facial recognition and automated video analysis across its government buildings. The town partnered with technology firm Claro to retrofit its existing camera infrastructure with AI tools, avoiding the need for costly new hardware while expanding its monitoring capabilities. The system brings a range of features into play, including facial recognition, visible weapons detection, and real-time behavioral analytics. These tools are now active in locations such as the town hall, police department, fire station, and public library. Town officials say the technology is being used for incident detection, crime prevention, crowd control, traffic monitoring, and illegal dumping enforcement. “As a small municipality, we don’t have the budget for constant law enforcement presence,” said Mayor James Dodd. “Claro gave us the ability to enhance safety with cutting-edge technology that works with what we already have.” The rollout reflects a broader trend where small towns turn to algorithmic systems to fill gaps traditionally addressed by human staff. AI tools, particularly facial recognition, are increasingly being deployed in public settings, sparking ongoing concern about surveillance practices and the erosion of privacy rights. Councilman Sergio Rodriguez, who helped lead the initiative, emphasized that the project came together through collaboration rather than off-the-shelf sales. “Claro wasn’t just selling a product,” he said. “They listened to our needs and delivered solutions that worked for the Town of Dover.” He pointed to the technology’s role in optimizing public safety while helping stretch municipal budgets. “With AI supporting day-to-day operations,” he said, “we can better protect residents and allocate our budget more effectively.” Claro markets its AI platform as adaptable to existing surveillance systems and suitable for both real-time alerts and forensic investigations. While the town frames the move as a practical step toward community protection, the integration of facial recognition and AI analytics into shared civic spaces raises questions about accountability, transparency, and long-term data use. As these systems become more common, so do concerns about what constant algorithmic surveillance means for public life. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Dover, NJ Implements AI Surveillance, Expanding Facial Recognition and Public Monitoring Systems appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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