That is what the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros-foundation backing, wants policymakers to do. The instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.
Two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for newcomers. Its proposed applications include planning where refugees and asylum seekers could settle.
The complete published community list appears at the end of this article, organized by state. Check whether your county is on it.
The agenda reaches straight into the question of who gets to shape your town: which places should receive newcomers, which private actors should help sponsor them, and how arrivals could be encouraged to stay.
The Soros money behind the immigration program
Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering September 1, 2024, through February 27, 2026. That period includes the release of both proposals.
George Soros founded Open Society. The same Niskanen disclosure lists another $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation of New York and $100,000 from Migration Policy Institute for immigration work, with grant terms also spanning the publications.
Its model screens unemployment, job openings, rental vacancies, affordability and age. Older residents and available apartments become indicators that a community could accommodate more migration.
“aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply”
Its model screens unemployment, job openings, rental vacancies, affordability and age. Older residents and available apartments become indicators that a community could accommodate more migration.
The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following:
“an influx of asylum seekers at the border”
Niskanen also contemplates applications to a future refugee-admissions system. It acknowledges that local receptivity and migrants’ own choices matter.
Yet an economic score cannot answer the political question underneath it: who authorized someone else’s vision for the community?
An employer’s job offer—and a refugee’s destination
The separate immigration blueprint proposes state visa programs tailored to local labor needs, direct sponsorship by local governments and private entities, and:
“incentivizing new arrivals to stay in specific states and regions.”
That would give regional economic interests more influence over where immigration takes place. The document also supports stronger employment verification and immigration enforcement; its local-sponsorship proposal sits alongside those measures.
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The majority of Democrats support the Democratic Socialists of America, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found.
The latest survey shows that among Democrats, 59% consider themselves DSA supporters, compared to just 30% who do not. Out of total voters polled just 26% consider themselves supportive of the DSA, compared to 66% who do not consider themselves backers of the socialist group.
If a candidate for elected office identifies as a DSA supporter, 17% of respondents say it makes them more likely to back that candidate, the survey states. By comparison, 43% of voters say it makes them less likely to vote for that candidate while 35% of respondents say it makes no difference.
The DSA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Our candidates are going up against corporate backed opponents, and they’re going to need your help to get over the finish line this November 🫵
Several Democratic socialist candidates have notched primary wins in recent months. Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York, Melat Kiros in Colorado and Donavan McKinney in Michigan all defeated incumbent Democratic lawmakers while Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania and Claire Valdez in New York won their open seat races.
DSA supporters generally have high levels of education but tend to fall within lower- to middle-income brackets, the DSA North Star’s most recent survey shows.
“Our candidates are going up against corporate backed opponents, and they’re going to need your help to get over the finish line this November,” the DSA said in a Oct. 3, 2025 X post.
🚨🚨The DSA Communists have now published their insane agenda to take over Congress and America.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) June 27, 2026
In June, the DSA released a new platform, dubbed “Workers Deserve More,” which in part proposes to “draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.” The socialist group’s platform has drawn intense public criticism from congressional Republicans.
“The DSA Communists have now published their insane agenda to take over Congress and America,” House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in a June 27 X post. “We will not let it happen! WE ARE READY FOR THIS FIGHT!!”
The Quinnipiac University survey was conducted from Sept. 3-6 throughout the contiguous U.S. The poll surveyed 970 self-identified registered voters with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points, including the design effect.
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The US military shot down approximately 100 drones suspected of being operated by drug cartels along the southern border during August alone, according to a senior War Department official.
The disclosure provides a rare look at the scale of the growing drone threat along the US-Mexico border. American forces are using a range of counter-drone systems, including advanced laser technology, to prevent cartel-linked aircraft from entering US airspace or threatening border personnel.
Task Force–Southern Border carried out the interceptions using specialized equipment supplied and integrated by other military units. Each operation was coordinated with Mexican military and border authorities to avoid accidental clashes between forces operating on opposite sides of the border.
The Pentagon says it is not relying on a single system but on several counter-drone technologies working together. The military has increasingly expanded its role at the border as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign against drug cartels and illegal trafficking.
EXCLUSIVE — The U.S. military provided rare insight into its operations at the southern border Thursday, revealing that it took down “approximately 100” suspected cartel drones in August alone, a senior War Department official confirmed to Fox News.
The disclosure marks the first time the Pentagon has revealed how frequently counter-drone technology, including sophisticated laser systems, is being used at the southern border to stop suspected cartel drones from entering the U.S.
According to a senior War Department official, Task Force–Southern Border carried out the drone takedowns using specialized counter-drone equipment provided and integrated by other military units.
Each operation was planned and closely coordinated with the Mexican military and border authorities to prevent interference or unintended conflicts between forces operating on either side of the border, the official said.
The operations are part of a broader effort to rapidly deploy defenses against drones, combining multiple technologies with trained personnel and updated military authorities. The official emphasized that the military is not relying on a single “silver bullet” system to counter the threat.
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Cuba’s communist regime and drug cartels continue to be in a state of alert after President Donald Trump’s administration made it clear that the fight against communist regimes in the Western Hemisphere continues.
As U.S. troops train in Panama’s jungle terrain, which resembles that of Cuba, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that all options, including military intervention, are on the table regarding Cuba.
“Countries like Cuba are on notice. We’re not going to allow that kind of malign influence in our hemisphere,” Hegseth stated.
While the nature of Cuban-American tensions remains unclear, this week the Dominican Republic gave Cuban diplomats a seven-day deadline to leave the country, signaling stronger American alliances in the region.
Florida state Rep. Juan Carlos Porras, who represents a majority-Cuban American district, told the Daily Signal that he sees this as a step from an American ally in standing up for the Western Hemisphere.
“This administration has been clear that all options are on the table, and the Castro regime should count its last days,” Porras added.
America’s allies in the region are beginning to expel the presence of Cuba’s regime as well, which has been warmly embraced by American policy experts and lawmakers alike.
“I applaud the Dominican government for standing for freedom and liberty in the hemisphere,” Porras continued. “The United States and our allies all want to see a free Cuba.”
Miguel Granda, a legislative aide for Florida state Rep. David Borrero, told the Daily Signal that “the wisest path forward for Cuba is greater cooperation with the U.S. and a genuine move toward democratic governance and economic openness.”
“Cuba and the United States would both benefit from choosing dialogue over confrontation,” he continued, warning Cuba that, if not, Hegseth’s remarks that military force is on the table should not be taken lightly.
“America’s military strength speaks for itself, but our preference is to lead with partnership, not pressure,” Granda concluded.
Monroe Doctrine
The Trump administration has made it clear that, unlike previous presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it will not be employing failed diplomatic solutions like the Good Neighbor Policy or the Alliance for Progress to stop the spread of communism in the region.
Many national security policy experts agree with the president’s assessment, reaffirming the importance of the administration’s desire for “peace through strength.”
“The principle of the Monroe Doctrine that foreign powers must keep their malign influence out of the Western Hemisphere is as solid today as it was in the day that it was formulated by Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow for security and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal.
The rise of anti-American left-wing governments in the region in recent decades has not only undermined American interests in the region but also opened the door to foreign adversaries such as China, Russia, and Iran to use the Western Hemisphere as a zone for military and intelligence operations.
“China, Russia, Iran, and the rest have no business here, and their support for the Cuban dictatorship has resulted in hardship for the Cuban people,” Gonzalez continued.
The left-wing governments, like that of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, have also paved the way for drug cartels to thrive in the region, ultimately bringing drugs, illegal aliens, weapons, and other contraband into the United States.
“If governments like those in Mexico and Venezuela are incapable of keeping their own territory under control, or worse, profit from the drug trade, the U.S. has no other choice but to act,” Gonzalez added.
Recent reports from the federal government have also identified the vast networks that left-wing governments in the hemisphere have built with drug cartels and Islamic foreign terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah.
During an address this week, Hegseth said these are now reasons for the administration to reinstate the doctrine, which has not been invoked since it was first invoked by former President James Monroe in 1823.
“We will defend our hemisphere from external threats to national sovereignty, whether from narco-terrorism or foreign malign actors,” Hegseth said during an address this week.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday.
“Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump, ICE is making our nation safer by removing illegal aliens from our communities.”
“When you remove criminal illegal aliens like these from our country, crime rates fall, and the American people are safer,” Mullin added. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that nearly 70% of the illegal aliens ICE arrested have been charged with or convicted of a crime in the United States.
ICE provided the Daily Signal with names and mugshots for five illegal aliens.
1. Rie Hachiyanagi
Rie Hachiyanagi (ICE)
ICE arrested Rie Hachiyanagi, a criminal illegal alien from Japan. ICE claimed that a Framingham, Massachusetts, jury convicted her on three counts of assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon—a fire poker, a rock, and scissors—mayhem, and home invasion.
2. Mohamed Elshenawy
Mohamed Elshenawy (ICE)
ICE arrested Mohamed Elshenawy, a criminal illegal alien from Egypt. ICE claimed that a jury in Red Bluff, California, convicted Elshenawy of attempted murder, terroristic threats, and battery against a police officer.
3. Eder Hernandez-Morales
Eder Hernandez-Morales (ICE)
ICE arrested Eder Hernandez-Morales, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico. ICE said a jury in Los Angeles convicted him of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, willful discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, vandalism, theft, receiving known stolen property, and possession of a controlled substance.
4. Victor A Calles-Flores
Victor A Calles-Flores (ICE)
ICE arrested Victor A Calles-Flores, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador. ICE said a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, convicted him of kidnapping and transporting a stolen vehicle.
5. Sergio Calvio-Ayala
Sergio Calvio-Ayala (ICE)
ICE arrested Sergio Calvio-Ayala, a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica. ICE said a jury in Newark, New Jersey, convicted him of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Democrats across the country are opposing President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, arguably recreating the nullification crisis that helped spark the Civil War—and this neo-Confederate trend just received a major boost from an influential union.
The American Federation of Teachers, a union that bankrolls Democrat candidates and left-leaning causes, approved a resolution opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its annual convention in July, and that radical resolution encourages further opposition to immigration law, pitting state and local authorities against the federal government.
Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz has threatened to deploy his state’s National Guard troops against federal agents. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claimed federal immigration enforcement was an “occupying force.” Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed laws attempting to dictate how federal agents enforce the law in the Old Dominion.
Governors like JB Pritzker of Illinois, or Gavin Newsom of California, or Tina Kotek of Oregon, openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. Many states and cities have directed state and local law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE when it comes to removing illegal aliens.
These arguments echo the doctrine of nullification, the theory that states can refuse to cooperate with—or even actively obstruct—the enforcement of federal law. South Carolina advanced this theory in the Nullification Crisis of 1832, and it formed part of the bedrock for the South’s secession movements leading up to the Civil War. Today’s “sanctuary” movement differs in many respects, but it also aims to frustrate federal enforcement by mobilizing state and local power against national policy.
The AFT’s Institutional Support for Neo-Confederate Opposition
The union adopted a resolution on July 18 stating that it supports “efforts by governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other state and local leaders across the nation to protect residents from ICE.”
The resolution also pledges to call on elected leaders to “use every tool in their toolbox” to: ban ICE from sensitive locations, ban ICE from conducting immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant, prevent local and state law enforcement coordination with ICE, and provide resources and training for “state employees” to “properly defend against and respond to unlawful actions from ICE agents.”
In a particularly brazen suggestion, the resolution calls on officials to “safeguard public school districts against enrollment declines… through state intervention and financial assistance.”
While the union suggests that ICE is breaking the law, immigration enforcement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, so ICE agents do not need to acquire judicial warrants to carry out raids—administrative warrants are sufficient.
The resolution aligns America’s second-largest teachers union with a campaign to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.
Why AFT Matters
Americans can disagree on immigration policy, but many of us wonder why a teachers union is devoting convention time to opposing federal immigration enforcement rather than addressing reading scores, absenteeism, classroom discipline, or teacher recruitment.
The American Federation of Teachers has long supported Democrats and leftist causes. Many prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, addressed its annual convention in July.
The union’s political action arm has contributed to a wide swath of Democrat candidates in races across the country, according to public records analyzed by the parental rights group Defending Education. It contributed $500,000 to Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s 2025 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, for example.
The American Federation of Teachers “functions as nothing more than a money-laundering operation for the Democrat Party,” Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow for education policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal. “Year after year, 99% of the contributions from Randi Weingarten’s union go to Democrats. She herself held an at-large position at the DNC for decades.”
“The AFT isn’t a labor organization focused on classrooms,” he added. “It’s an arm of the Democratic Party that uses teachers’ dues to advance partisan priorities, fund activist groups, and push policies that have nothing to do with improving education. This ICE resolution is just the latest example.”
Lora Ries, director of Heritage’s border security and immigration center, noted that “the Left has a long list of ‘sensitive areas’ where they claim ICE shouldn’t operate in or near, which would render ICE unable to do its job—and that is the point.”
The union gives Democrats support for the neo-Confederate opposition to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. So long as influential leftist groups like the American Federation of Teachers encourage this divisive lawlessness, the tension will only get worse.
On July 4, a documentary titled “Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas” was released, drawing attention from supporters and critics alike over its information on Islam.
The film, created by Chris Burgard, argues that there is a coordinated effort to introduce Sharia law into American society, with Texas serving as the primary target. Throughout the documentary, speakers claim that Dallas has become the “Mecca of the West.”
The documentary opens by recounting the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836 before shifting to the new threat Burgard says the state now faces in the threat of Islam.
Burgard interviews several individuals throughout the film, including former U.S. Rep. Allen West, former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert John Guandolo, investigative journalist Lara Logan, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to the documentary, Islamic leaders are working to expand Islam’s influence in Texas. The film includes clips of Islamic scholars and imams discussing their religious beliefs and goals, as well as segments examining terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil. Burgard also argues that Islamic organizations have increasingly used litigation, or “lawfare,” to advance their objectives.
The documentary features an interview with Aziz Budri, Muslim scholar and founder of the Muslim Association of America, discussing his views on Islam and its practice.
Another portion of the film focuses on Nigeria, where Burgard shows how tens of thousands of Christians in the region have been killed by Islamic groups. The documentary includes an interview with a Nigerian journalist who explains how Muslims are systematically executing jihad in the country.
Logan also recounts her experience covering the 2011 protests in Egypt, during which she was beaten and sexually assaulted for almost 40 minutes. Her testimony, along with comments from her husband, is used in the documentary to illustrate the dangers women face in Muslim-majority countries.
Burgard told the Daily Signal he made this film to warn Americans about the growing threat.
“We made this movie to protect Texas and America from Sharia law,” Burgard said. “I made this movie so that we could avoid the violence.”
Burgard also described the strategies Islamic leaders are using to expand their influence in the United States.
“As we say in the movie, when you see all these military-aged men closing down a street and praying, it’s not because they don’t have room in the mosque—they’re claiming that territory,” Burgard said. “Those images are going out to the rest of the Islamic world, and they’re saying, ‘We claim this territory.’”
He added that, in 1991, “the Muslim Brotherhood adopted this mission to take down the United States from the inside.”
“They would destroy America and the North American Western Civilization from the inside,” Burgard said.
The documentary was released as several Islamic development projects have drawn public attention in North Texas. Among other developments, a former Korean church is being converted into a mosque and Islamic academy in Richardson, and plans are underway for a proposed mosque expansion in McKinney.
Earlier this month, the San Antonio Current published a film review by Julianna Plewes describing Burgard as a “far-right filmmaker.”
Plewes wrote that the documentary “weaves in both fact and fiction, often with narrative glue heavy on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”
In an unpublished rebuttal provided to the Daily Signal, Burgard said Plewes never contacted him or the film’s producer, Tim Lowry, for comment before publishing the article.
“That’s lazy journalism at best. … I will let those who watch the film at RememberTheAlamomovie.com decide for themselves,” Burgard wrote.
The documentary is available for purchase for $19.99. Burgard is also hosting screenings across Texas. Information on the film and screenings are posted on the movie’s website.
One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.
There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays? Do you really believe if you said, “I am gay, and I’m proud of it, and I want to announce that in Saudi Arabia,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?
Do you really believe that if you went to Iran and said, “I want to repeal all the sodomy laws,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?
Or if you went, let’s say, to Egypt and you said, “I wanna have a trans, sexual support group,” you wouldn’t be in trouble? Do you really believe that upscale, independent women in Western cities, maybe unmarried, professional, doesn’t that bother them a little bit when they ally themselves with radical Muslims who tell them that, as far as men go, their dream is going to an Islamic heaven and having the sexual use as if they’re almost tools of 72 virgins?
Does that go well with a book editor in Manhattan or the head of an NGO in Denver? I don’t think so.
Another thing that’s quite different is Islam believes in Allah, and that’s it. All other people who are non-believers are doomed to hell, and the duty is to spread worship, loyalty, fealty to the Muslim Allah.
But throughout the history of socialism and Marxism and communism, all of them agree on one thing, that religion is really the opiate of the masses. They feel that class struggle is harmed or negated by people who believe in a God. In the Christian sense, they feel that, blessed are the meek, blessed are the poor.
That Sermon on the Mount doesn’t do anything. It basically says there will be social justice in heaven, but not here. If you’re poor, you go to heaven by being morally better than the rich man. Remember, it’s harder for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man, Jesus says, to go to heaven.
So, the message for believers is that there is social justice in heaven. The message for a socialist, communist, Marxist is it’s right now. There is no heaven. There is no God. We have to get social justice now.
Another thing that’s very different is Marxists believe in the state control of the means of production, and socialists believe that this—there can be private property, but mostly the utilities, the railroads, the steel companies, most all of the muscles of a society are owned also by the state.
But they believe in a commission, a committee, a chairman. They don’t believe that one exercises power through royalty or succession, although most communist and Marxist states, which we see in North Korea and we see in Iran, they’re very similar in some ways. But, in the Arab world, monarchy is pretty much de rigueur, as we see in the Gulf states.
But Marxism says, “No, we don’t believe in kings. We overthrow them.” That was what the revolutions of 1848 were about. That’s what the French Revolution was about. That’s basically what the Bolsheviks were trying to get rid of an imperial dynastic tsar. So, that’s another antithesis.
Another thing is the Arab world is based on tribalism, that your first loyalty goes to people who look like you, speak a dialect of Arabic like you, and have a local or regional affinity, a proximity to you.
That’s always been the challenge of the modern Arab nation or state. How do you include people from seven, 10, 15, 20 different tribes who have fought each other for centuries and only come together when coerced to, for example, under the Ottoman Empire?
But Marxism is very different. Your first allegiance is not to people who look like you.
It’s to the global proletariat, the oppressed, the Comintern. Socialists believe that they have more in common with people in Europe who are fellow socialists than they do with rich people or, or people who are devoutly religious in their own country.
So tribalism is part of Islam’s foundation. Globalism is central to the socialist or the communist or the Marxist.
However, all of that said, someone’s going to say, “Well, Victor, they’re alike. They have a coalition. Zohran Mamdani is a hardcore Marxist, and he’s a hardcore Islamicist, and so is Ilhan Omar, and so are almost all the people in Dearborn, Michigan, it seems like, and so are these new socialist candidates that are popping up like flowers everywhere in blue cities and urban areas.”
So, what’s the similarities? One, they hate Western civilization. They can’t stand the values of Western civilization, free speech, religious opportunity, market capitalism, etc. They both hate that and Islam has been, has been at war with the West since the seventh century, and it’s fought Westerners not just in the Crusades, but all through the history of the Byzantine Empire, all through the history of Europe and North Africa.
And when [Osama] bin Laden said the great tragedy was that Islam lost its hold in Europe, what he was basically talking about was the Battle of Tours and the stopping of the Islamic movement northward into Europe. They, of course, have, in the Quran and its related apocrypha, there’s a lot of hatred of Jews.
They hate Israel with a passion. So do Marxists, socialists. I’m not sure why they do, given the creation of Israel was based on a kibbutz system, which is socialistic in nature, and many of the original generation who settled in Israel even before World War II came there as dissidents from Eastern Europe and Russia, and they believed in a socialist future.
But that’s all ancient history now. As of now, what draws Muslims to the new left-wing hardcore socialist and communist, and what draws them to include rather antithetical Muslims into their movement, they hate Israel with a passion, and they hate Jews.
There’s another, similarity. They hate capitalism.
They do not believe that a person should have freedom of opportunity to start his own business, to make a profit. In the Islamic world, interest is frowned upon officially. Not that the Gulf states are run … The Gulf states are run on hypercapitalism, but officially they find, euphemisms and mechanisms to get around prohibitions in the Quran for hypercapitalism or laissez-faire capitalism.
And of course, capitalism is the main enemy of Zohran Mamdani and others who feel it’s unfair, it doesn’t share the wealth. They believe in the message not of the Americans, “Give me liberty or give me death,” a revolution to ensure political freedom, but a holistic, totalitarian, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree revolution of fraternity egalitarianism.
In other words, we’re not just going to give people freedom to speak. We don’t want them to have freedom to speak. We want to make them equal on the back end by the use of government coercion.
Both of them hate democracy then. They don’t like the people voting because, in the Arab world or the Muslim world, there will be people who object to the role of women, especially in the modern age, or the role that intolerance for sexual minorities or the intolerance shown Christians.
And so, they will object, and they wouldn’t want to express that objection. That’s taboo. And we know from the history of socialism, they say they believe in free speech, but very quickly socialists try to outlaw it, and when they become communists, they kill for it.
That’s another difference. And both of them justify violence.
They believe the violent method is necessary for the, desired end. And so you see people who are committing … Who are the people that commit violence? Who was the person just this week in New York that stabbed somebody? Who was the person in Europe that tried to run over people at a gay party?
Who are the people protesting ICE? Who are the people on the campus protesting violently? They are either radical Islamicist or they’re radical socialist communist Antifa types, or often they’re mixed together in the same demonstration.
Finally, remember that Hitler himself said he was a national socialist.
Yes, he made deals with crony capitalism, but even though he said he despised Bolshevism, he said after he was looking back in his final days that he admired Joseph Stalin’s communism, and he said that if he had defeated the United States and Russia, he would have executed American leaders, but welcomed Stalin in kind of a genteel captivity.
And by the same token, Hitler said that he preferred Islam to Christianity. He had a great deal of admiration for the Grand Mufti. There was an alliance of radical Islam with national socialists. They both hated capitalism, and they hated the same thing as we’ve just reviewed, and they liked many of the same things.
Hitler was not a hypercapitalist. He was a socialist, a national socialist. And in some ways, even though he said he despised Bolsheviks, they had a lot in common.
So, remember, next time you see this bizarre, weird, surreal alliances or people shouting Allah Akbar or, power to the people, spread the word. They’re not as different as you think.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently gave a Reaganesque speech to a room full of representatives from 67 different countries, urging them to join the United States in our efforts to cease the mounting, worldwide terrorist network that stems from the leftist ideologies of Marxism, socialism, and communism.
The following are three critical points that he made.
1. Too Many Dismiss Leftist Terrorism as a Right-Wing “Conspiracy Theory”
Since 2001, most of the world has rightly recognized the evil of Islamist terrorism; however, they deny the existence of leftist terrorism. Thankfully, the current Trump administration recognizes this horrific reality. In its 2026 counterterrorism strategy, it names the following three major types of terrorism: “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs; legacy Islamist terrorists; and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-Fascists.”
Ignoring — or even justifying — leftist terrorism severely weakens nations’ security and makes millions of people around the world more vulnerable. Rubio said, “Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference.” He was right: Here is just one such example.
Rubio explained that, in the United States, “so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.
“It is why during those George Floyd … riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through … America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror. It is the reason for the now infamous image — and you all recall this — of a news anchor from a very prominent agency — a news anchor standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames; meanwhile the chyron on the bottom read that the protests were ‘mostly peaceful.’ This was something worse than a double standard. Left-wing violence was not just excused; it was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself. That era has to end.”
Thankfully, more countries’ leaders (regardless of whether they agree with the Trump administration on other issues) are realizing the growth of leftist terrorism because, sadly, they are witnessing firsthand the loss of lives due to this evil. Rubio cited specific examples:
“You came here — you are here — because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was burned on over 80% of her body in her own home in Greece, and she died, executed by a firebomb because her daughter dared to stand for office. You are here today because for five days this winter the lights went out in Berlin, the longest blackout in the city since the Second World War, sparked by an attack that left tens of thousands of households without power in the freezing cold and left an 83-year-old woman dead.
“You are here, and you came, because a month after that Berlin blackout, a French 23-year-old succumbed to traumatic brain injuries, beaten to death on the streets of Lyon by a group of far-left militant thugs. You are here because your political leaders are being attacked and stabbed and shot in your streets, because your businesses have been bombed, because your railways have been sabotaged, because your police officers have been beaten and burned. You are here because this is real, and it is getting worse, and it can no longer be denied, and it can no longer be ignored, because it is time to crush this evil forever.”
2. Far-Left Terrorism Is Nothing New: Remember Examples from the Last 60 Years
Secretary Rubio then reminded the world leaders that, collectively, we have suffered the horrors of leftist terrorism over the last six decades: “The simple fact is none of this that I’ve just described is new. Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day, modern novelty. It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians. For most of the modern era, it was, in fact, the dominant form of political violence.”
He listed examples that our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere have experienced: kidnappings, bombings, assassinations, and executions; terror of the Tupamaros, of the Montoneros, of the FARC, of the ELN; “the inhuman savagery of Peru’s Shining Path; the Maoist fanatics who massacred the peasant villages of Peru, hacking pregnant women and newborn infants to death with axes and machetes; you remember the tens of thousands of Marxist guerrillas trained to kill in Castro’s terrorist camps.”
He next named horrific leftist terrorist acts that Europe experienced over the years: “machine gun massacres of Italy’s Red Brigades, which held the five-time prime minister captive for 55 days before subjecting him to a revolutionary, so-called ‘people’s trial’ and executing him in 1978”; “the Red Army Faction’s nearly three-decade campaign of bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations in Germany, murdering dozens and injuring hundreds more”; and “the 17 November organization in Greece, the Marxist extremists that terrorized Athens for more than a quarter century, including, by the way, shooting my country’s CIA station chief dead outside of his home in front of his wife as they were returning home from a Christmas party.”
Finally, he described the leftist terrorist acts that Americans remember: the Weather Underground, which bombed the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Capitol; “the Black Liberation Army, which staged armed robberies and executed police officers at point-blank range; the Symbionese Liberation Army, which shot a public school superintendent to death with cyanide-packed hollow-point bullets. In one 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, the FBI counted some 2,500 bombings on American soil, a rate of nearly five a day. The overwhelming share of that violence came from left-wing extremists. Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist Left.”
3. Today, We Face an Evil Driven by Hatred for Civilization Itself: The Free World Must Fight Them Together
Ultimately, Rubio explained, the world is facing a “new wave” of leftist terrorism. We have not seen this many plots and attacks in decades. Over the past year, Germany has seen a 40% increase leftist violence while Greece has seen an 80% increase.
And in America, we have experienced assaults on immigration officers; “a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, ‘Where is your God now?’; a health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets; multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president; and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.”
Rubio then pushed back on a notion that is often floated around: that communism “sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice”:
“That’s actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God.
“For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization — for them it’s an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines; they attack railroads; they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West because the West is great.”
In addition, leftist terrorists have a complex, international network: “Today’s far-left terrorists can raise money in one country; they can host their communications in a second country; they can receive training in a third country; they can recruit militants in a fourth country, and then together strike a target in a fifth country. And so, we have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them.”
Thankfully, he explained, the Trump administration is building an international partnership to defeat these terrorists, to disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies, and designate violent far-left extremist groups.
“We can — and we must — identify and map this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it. Just as we have done together before, now we must do it together again. Through intelligence and information sharing, through coordinated law enforcement strategy, through financial targeting and disruption, we will dismantle these networks brick by brick. It is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness, and fight — fight for what is ours.
“It is easy to destroy great things; it is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilization are only capable of the former. They are only capable of destroying great things. All they know is destruction. But we have built great things together. We have done it time and again. We know what we must do, and now we must do it.”
Kathy Athearn is a correspondence writer at Family Research Council. She studied Political Science and Religion at Hope College, was a Witherspoon Fellow at FRC, and is passionate about helping Christians contribute a biblical worldview to the public sphere.
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As American support for Marxism rises across the country, House Republican leadership held a roundtable with survivors of communism to warn the American public of the true horrors of the communist and socialist ideologies.
Chair of the House Republican Conference Lisa McClain, R-Mich., questioned the new Democratic Socialists of America agenda while emphasizing that American voters should listen to the testimonies of those displaced because of Marxism before deciding to support the ideology.
“Look at what the Democrats are doing, they are electing democratic socialism,” she said. ”I don’t know what they call them, they put a pretty little name on it, but they’re electing communism.”
“Sadly, too many people born here in the United States don’t know what it’s like in other countries,” she continued. “They don’t know what it’s like. They don’t appreciate, that we’re here in the United States, with the freedoms it delivers, with the opportunities that they have.”
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis added that “nobody can deny that this guy’s [New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani] a communist. I mean, literally, this campaign platform is right out of Karl Marx’s communist playbook.”
During the roundtable, Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who fled the Cuban communist regime as a child, opened his remarks by questioning why Marxists aim to seize one’s property.
“Because one of the first things the communists did was ask you to hand over your guns,” he said. “Why did communists try to control the schools, and then, like, church? Because they tried to control the message.”
Daniel Di Martino, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute who escaped communist Venezuela at a young age, echoed Gonzalez’s remarks, adding that American voters who trust the DSA think they’re voting for socialist systems like that of Norway, but in reality, are voting for the communist disaster that is Venezuela.
“What concerns me is that because people buy this lie, think they’re voting for what Norway, Sweden, or Denmark does, when they’re actually voting for Venezuela,” Di Martino said.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who also escaped Communist Cuba during his childhood, went on to add that those who describe themselves as “democratic socialist” instead of communist are only pretending to be anything but a communist.
“Democratic socialism is a buzzword for communist,” he said. “I’ve heard this before. If you fall for it, in the end, you will pay for it with one thing. Your freedom.”
“Saying democratic socialism is about guaranteeing, guaranteeing housing, health care, and transit,” Gimenez added, is wrong.
Using his experience watching sympathetic communist rulers, Gimenez then compared modern-day Marxist leaders in the United States to those he witnessed, such as Cuba’s revolutionary communist dictator Fidel Castro.
“Listen to the language you use when the national media isn’t pressing in for a modern answer,” he said. “I’ve heard the leaders reject the communist label before. I have heard leaders promise that the government only wants to help working people before. I’ve heard promises of greater equality, more benefits, better future. “
“These promises sound very familiar, especially to me, OK? Castro’s revolution was actually supported by the human people, not because he was a communist, but because he was there to free the people from a dictatorship. And he made a lot of promises,” Gimenez continued.
“In the early days of the revolution, Castro framed his movement, not as a radical conscious takeover, but as a uniquely Cuban, populous effort, he famously declared,” the congressman continued.
Gimenez then said that communists like Mamdani love to pretend they’re not communists. Again, something he’s heard before.
“In 1959, just months after taking control over the country, Castro went on ‘Meet the Press’ and told Americans and the world that he was not a communist.”
For seven decades, Cuba has funded political terrorists seeking to take down the United States, according to a new report from the State Department.
The State Department released a report Monday saying that Cuba has deeply penetrated the American political institutions, leftist organizations, universities, and even spy networks.
The report highlighted alleged Cuban espionage, saying the regime “perfected a new model for a long war of attrition, organized around espionage, infiltration, sabotage, proxy networks, and a revolutionary infrastructure designed to turn America against itself.”
In March, President Donald Trump said, “Cuba is next,” while discussing the success of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, which captured the country’s dictator, Nicolas Maduro.
When asked by the Daily Signal on a press call how this report affects plans for future military action against Cuba, a senior State Department official said, “The president keeps all his options on the table.”
“His resolve is ironclad that we will not allow this failed state, this rogue state, state sponsor of terror, to continue to threaten the American homeland,” the official said.
“All options are on the table as we continue to both engage in diplomatic negotiations with the Cuban regime and take executive action to degrade their network,” he continued, “and to ultimately bring about what should be a free and prosperous Cuba.”
The Cuban people have been held hostage by the regime, the official said.
“This is a place that was as wealthy as Spain,” he said. “They had all of their things stolen. They had their economy plummeted into ruin. They were forcibly conscripted to go off on these ideological projects or tossed in jail.”
American universities are one of the Cuba’s top targets, “serving as fertile ground for recruiting ideologically sympathetic young Americans who will ascend to positions of influence, power, and access,” the report said.
The official told the Daily Signal the Trump administration is taking a “whole-of-government approach to look at radical leftism and political terrorism in American universities.”
“We have obviously revoked visas and continue to do so for all of these radical left subversives, noncitizens,” he said.
Cuba has a relationship with anti-American forces across the world, like Russia, China, and Iran, the report says.
“The reason that these superpowers like China have any interest in working with and supporting the Cubans, the sort of competitive advantage, the value proposition that the Cubans can go and offer to the Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians is their networks within the United States,” the official said. “First and foremost, it’s their intelligence networks.”
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NOTE: The author of this column was a “Cold War Warrior” who has fought Communism throughout his 23 year military career and he still does to this very day. He fought in the “Tet Offensive” of 1968 as a Field Artillary Second Lieutenant with the 2nd Battalion 501st Airborne Infantry, 101st Airbrone Division in Vietnam.
Here is a chronological list of major military conflicts, campaigns, and battles fought globally to resist, contain, or overthrow communist forces and regimes throughout the 20th century.
The Early Era & Interwar Period (1917–1939)
The Russian Civil War (1917–1922): Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the White Army (a loose coalition of anti-communist forces) fought the Red Army. They were supported by the Allied Intervention, which included troops from the United States, Great Britain, France, and Japan.
The Battle of Warsaw (1920): A decisive battle in the Polish-Soviet War, often referred to as the “Miracle on the Vistula.” Polish forces under Marshal Józef Piłsudski decisively defeated the advancing Soviet Red Army, halting the spread of communism into Western Europe.
The Chinese Civil War – First Phase (1927–1937): The Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces led by Chiang Kai-shek launched campaigns to eliminate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), culminating in the Fifth Encirclement Campaign which forced the communists into the “Long March.”
The Cold War Era (1945–1991)
The Korean War (1950–1953)
United Nations forces, primarily led by the United States and South Korea, fought against invading North Korean and Chinese communist forces.
Battle of Inchon (1950): An amphibious invasion led by General Douglas MacArthur that successfully broke North Korean supply lines and recaptured Seoul.
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (1950): A brutal winter battle where UN forces fought their way out of a massive encirclement by the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army.
The Vietnam War & Indochina Conflicts (1946–1975)
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954): The decisive engagement of the First Indochina War, where French Union forces were defeated by the communist Viet Minh.
Battle of Ia Drang (1965): The first major conventional battle between the United States Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam (North Vietnamese Army).
The Tet Offensive (1968): A massive surprise campaign launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces against South Vietnamese and US positions. While a tactical defeat for the communists, it was a strategic turning point.
The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960): A successful counter-insurgency campaign led by British and Commonwealth forces against the communist Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).
The Greek Civil War (1946–1949): The Greek government army, heavily backed by the UK and later the US under the Truman Doctrine, defeated the communist-led Democratic Army of Greece (DSE).
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989): Anti-communist Islamic guerrillas, known as the Mujahideen (supported by the US, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and others), fought a protracted war against the Soviet Union and the Marxist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Post-Cold War & Border Conflicts
The Angolan Civil War (1975–2002): A proxy conflict featuring battles like the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, where anti-communist UNITA forces (backed by South Africa) fought the ruling Marxist MPLA government (backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union).
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979): A brief border war fought between two rival communist powers, where China launched a punitive expedition against Vietnam in response to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia.
Communist dictatorships in the 20th century were characterized by brutal repression, mass killings, forced labor camps, and executions of political opponents and civilians seen as threats to the regime. The total death toll is estimated at over 100 million people across communist states like the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, North Korea, and Eastern Europe. These regimes maintained power through secret police, propaganda, violently silencing dissent, and a massive apparatus of repression and terror.
Soviet Union Under Stalin
The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin from the 1920s-1953 saw some of the worst repression and mass killings in history. Key elements included:
The Great Purge (1936-1938): Stalin unleashed a wave of terror, involving show trials, mass arrests, torture, and executions of Communist Party members, government officials, and military officers. Estimates of the death toll range from 700,000 to 1.2 million executed.1
Gulag forced labor camps: Millions of Soviet citizens were sentenced to forced labor in the brutal Gulag camp system. Inmates faced starvation, exposure, exhaustion, and summary executions. Estimates of total deaths in the Gulags range from 1.5 to 1.7 million people.2
Collectivization and terror-famine (1932-1933): The Soviet state’s forced collectivization of agriculture and seizure of crops and food led to a man-made famine killing an estimated 7 to 10 million people, mainly in Ukraine (the Holodomor). Stalin used the famine to crush peasant resistance and nationalism.3
Historian Robert Conquest called Stalin’s Soviet Union “a regime of unrivaled cruelty and total negation of human rights” that “far exceeded even Nazi Germany in the scale and range of its physical terror and torture, executions and mass murders.”4
China Under Mao
Under Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party carried out massive repression and caused the deaths of tens of millions through executions, labor camps, and man-made famines:
Land Reform and Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (1949-1953): Mao launched violent campaigns to seize land and eliminate landlords and perceived enemies of the revolution. An estimated 1 to 4.5 million landlords were executed.5
The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962): Mao’s crash industrialization and collectivization campaign caused economic collapse and the Great Chinese Famine, killing an estimated 15 to 55 million from starvation and overwork.6
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): Mao unleashed the Red Guards to violently purge perceived capitalist and traditional elements, killing up to 20 million and subjecting countless others to public torture, humiliation, and labor camps.7
Mao proclaimed “We have a very good solution called execution. With the death of one, many may live.”8 His rule turned China into a land of paranoia, repression and death on a colossal scale.
Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge
From 1975-1979, the communist Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot carried out one of the worst episodes of mass killing in the 20th century, causing the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people, around 25% of Cambodia’s population.9
Executions and torture: The Khmer Rouge executed hundreds of thousands of perceived enemies, including intellectuals, Buddhists, and ethnic minorities. Prisoners were tortured into giving false confessions at sites like Tuol Sleng prison before being brutally executed.
Forced labor and starvation: Millions were forced into agricultural labor camps and subjected to starvation, overwork and disease. Countless died from the nightmarish conditions.
The Killing Fields: The remains of over 1.3 million victims, many executed, have been uncovered in over 23,000 mass graves known as the Killing Fields across Cambodia.10
Historian Ben Kiernan stated the Khmer Rouge’s rule “ended up killing over one quarter of the country’s population, through execution, starvation, and overwork. It was one of the worst holocausts in modern history.”11
Other Communist Dictatorships
Repression and executions occurred across other communist regimes as well:
North Korea: Has operated a brutal system of repression since the 1940s, with 400,000 believed to have died in labor camps and 25 million estimated to have starved.12
Eastern Europe: Stalinist terror gripped Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with hundreds of thousands killed, imprisoned or sent to labor camps. The Soviet invasions crushed uprisings in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968).
Cuba: Thousands were killed by Fidel Castro’s regime, especially in the early 1960s, and many thousands imprisoned for political dissent.13
Conclusion
The historical record shows that communist dictatorships were responsible for repression, executions and deaths on a massive scale, causing immense human suffering. These regimes ruled through fear, violence and the crushing of individual freedom – the antithesis of their hypocritical promises of liberation and equality. The staggering death toll is a tragic testament to the lethality of totalitarian communism. As Stéphane Courtois stated in The Black Book of Communism, “Communist regimes did not just commit criminal acts…they were criminal enterprises in their very essence, on principle, so to speak, in the name of an ideological project.”14 Communism’s legacy of repression and mass killing must never be forgotten.
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Melanie Phillips nails it here. My only criticism is the use of the term ‘islamist.’ I have pointed out repeatedly that Islamist and Islamism are western constructs, a fabrication, an artificial distinction. Islam is Islam. Nonetheless, she is closer to the truth than anyone else on the subject.
More and more information is surfacing to reveal that the Islamic holy war against the West isn’t just being waged on the battleground of the Middle East.
Even more significantly, it’s also being waged through a trillion-dollar influence campaign to colonise and subvert the Western mind, organised by extremists from the Islamic world.
These have tunnelled into the West through a vast civic infrastructure whose real purpose and sources of funding have been as well concealed, and in their own way are just as deadly, as the subterranean genocide factories in Gaza and Lebanon.
To those with eyes to see, it was obvious from the start that the hate marches springing into existence after October 7, 2023 — even while the Hamas-led atrocities were still going on — weren’t spontaneous protests against Israel.
They were instead a globally co-ordinated campaign to turn gullible Westerners into the unwitting army of Islamic jihad through support for the Palestinian cause.
An important new report by NGO Monitor shows that this post-October 7 protest infrastructure in Britain has used the signature liberal causes of humanitarianism and human rights to launder the Islamic jihad against the West.
The report found that, through a series of concentric circles, just six groups have been involved in more than 80 per cent of the major protests.
In the innermost circle sit the states hostile to the West: Iran, China, Russia and Qatar; terrorist organisations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda; and extremist religious-political movements like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lapping around them are charities, campaign groups, protest movements and advocacy organisations that provide legitimacy for these hostile forces, amplify their propaganda and transmit extremism to society.
Out of 40 organisations mapped in the report, at least 11 have links to extremist groups or officials who have co-operated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Muslim Brotherhood.
US-based progressive foundations and far-left activist groups, such as the Open Society Foundation, Action Network, Cultures of Resistance and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, are providing significant funding and support, facilitating donations and strengthening the British protests.
Some of these groups have helped inspire violence in the United States. Last month, US prosecutors indicted eight current and former students at the University of Michigan for conspiring to threaten university leaders, law enforcement, businesses and the Jewish Federation.
The indictment stated that one of the internet websites used by the defendants to spread their demands belonged to Palestine Action, the UK group that continues to attract passionate support from otherwise respectable, middle-class Brits despite having been proscribed by the government as a terrorist outfit.
Well-meaning, if ignorant, people continue to support such organisations on the naive assumption that they help the oppressed.
The Islamist programme to subvert the Western mind has relentlessly focused for years on universities and schools. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has just published another vitally important report, Institutional Capture, which documents how anti-West, Islamist Qatar has reshaped American education in a devastating programme of cultural infiltration.
Over the past 16 years, according to the report, Qatar Foundation International (QFI), the US member of the Doha-based Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has conducted a systematic campaign to embed itself within American educational institutions.
Deploying at least $65.3 million across 220 documented initiatives between 2009 and 2025, it has been a “manipulator of thought” in social studies, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, as well as in youth engagement, professional development and social activism initiatives.
Through corporate restructuring and strategic partnerships, it has leveraged the reputation of host organisations to embed the Qatari viewpoint on the Middle East in educational materials served up to students in both universities and K-12 schools.
At national conferences for social studies educators, it has stacked the proceedings with presenters trained by QFI to present Qatari talking points.
The result has been an educational echo chamber that “casts doubt on Israel’s very existence, rejects curriculum that teaches students about the efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Arab states, and normalises and relativizes terrorism”.
This is the template for the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy for civilisational jihad against Western society, turning educational institutions into a weapon of war by shaping, producing and normalising ideological positions that fit the agenda of conquering the West for Islam.
It’s scant wonder, therefore, that the West has fallen victim to a psychotic madness about Israel’s fictitious perfidies — a malevolent narrative of demonisation that is in turn a Trojan horse for suicidal anti-Western loathing and contempt among the elites. Millions of people are being manipulated on a staggering scale.
America is beginning to grapple with this. In March, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released nearly 900 pages of documents detailing two major American university partnerships in Qatar.
As the Jewish Institute for National Security of America observed in its own analysis of these documents last month, they showed that Qatar has “used complex funding contracts with American universities to acquire access to intellectual property, governance deliberation, academic credentialing and institutional reputation, which it has used to help support Islamist movements hostile to the United States and its allies”.
The release of those documents galvanised the introduction last month of legislation to ban federal funding to colleges that operate branch campuses in adversarial countries, or accept research funding for sensitive fields like artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.
That’s a welcome development, but acute concerns still remain. This process of jihadi infiltration has been going on for decades. Successive British governments and US administrations have refused to acknowledge the civilisational threat that it poses.
In large measure, this is because the West can’t understand Islamic religious fanaticism. It assumes that everyone in the world is, like itself, governed by self-interest. So it simply can’t get its collective head around the fact that Islamists are apocalyptic and messianic, and believe they have a divine command to conquer Israel, America and the West for Islam.
US President Donald Trump seems to make the same mistake. True, none of us can know what’s in his mind. Maybe he really does understand the Islamists’ mindset and is playing a long game to reel them in.
But maybe he believes that the Iranian regime and other Islamists are driven by the same self-interest as in his own world, and that therefore he can end all such conflict through his supposedly unmatched “art of the deal”.
Such concerns are exacerbated by the extremely troubling financial links between members of Trump’s circle and Qatar. Rather than treating it as the enemy of the civilisation that it is, Trump has used Qatar as a trusted interlocutor in talks with Hamas, the Taliban and Iran. His apparently unshakeable belief in the universality of venal self-interest presumably explains his disbelief that the Iranian regime won’t accept that its devastating military losses mean it’s lost the war.
It explains his view that Gaza’s Islamist lions would obviously be turned into lambs by the prospect of the Strip’s transformation into a property developer’s Riviera paradise.
And it may explain his support for Turkey’s menacing Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Trump, Erdoğan almost entered the war in support of Iran and against America, but the US president talked him out of it. Now, Trump reportedly intends to reward him for this by selling him F-35 warplanes.
Taking his words at their face value (which may always be a mistake), this suggests that narcissistic fantasies prevent this American president from understanding what being an Islamist means.
So as Trump continues to give us all political whiplash by his on-off-on Iran war, and as the West allows its mouth to be stuffed with Qatari gold, the Islamists fight on — as they’ve done ever since the seventh century — playing the longest civilisational war game in the world.
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Communist factions control the party’s leadership.
Free Press: The DSA—the Democratic Socialists of America—have some genuine policy/position arguments amongst themselves. But the party itself is radical and their Communist wing is winning the arguments and winning the majority internally. Stu Smith: Since the 2025 convention, tensions between reform-minded leaders and those aligned with Communist and Marxist-Leninist perspectives have intensified, with the Communist bloc prevailing on many of the most contentious issues. The divide has been on display throughout 2026 in many contentious NPC votes. One such vote centered on Christopher Winston, better known as BlackRedGuard, a Maoist DSA member of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Liberation Caucus, which published a statement supporting Elias Rodriguez, the alleged assassin of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. After Winston was elected to serve on the DSA’s militant Red Rabbits Security Commission, an NPC member introduced a resolution to remove him from the body, which failed by a vote of 15 to 10. The 10 votes in favor of removing Winston came entirely from members of the reformist caucuses, Groundwork and Socialist Majority, along with one unaffiliated NPC member, Abdullah Farooq.
Note: the NPC is the National Political Committee of the DSA—basically their board. A majority of the NPC identifies with Communist ideology.
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