The man who owned the Metro card that law enforcement believed was linked to a person of interest in the January 6 pipe bomb case spoke with The Daily Wire on Tuesday, saying it was not his neighbor who used the transit card but in fact a friend of his.
The man, an Air Force veteran who requested anonymity to avoid his name being linked to a serious crime, lived next door to a Capitol Police officer named in a story by The Blaze on Saturday. <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/former-capitol-police-officer-a-forensic-match-for-jan-6-pipe-bomber-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The report</a> said computerized &#8220;gait analysis&#8221; suggested that the person who planted pipe bombs at the Democratic and Republican National Committees on January 5 moved with the same mannerisms as a particular female Capitol Police officer who later shot nonlethal rounds at protesters.
The theory gained secondary support from the fact that she lived next to someone who had already separately landed on law enforcement’s radar in the case – something that seemed like a mathematically improbable coincidence.
The Daily Wire confirmed that law enforcement suspected a particular Falls Church, Virginia man&#8217;s Metro card of being linked to the case, and also that the Capitol Police officer was in fact his neighbor, literally sharing a wall with him.
We went to the address and interviewed the man, who said it was his understanding that the neighboring unit was in fact occupied by two Capitol Police officers — the female officer told him her romantic partner was on the force, too.
But he does not believe his Metro card was used by the police officer on January 5: He told The Daily Wire it was used by a childhood friend who traveled from the south to attend Trump&#8217;s rally, and stayed with him to save money. The Air Force vet let him borrow his card and picked him up from the Metro station in Virginia after the rally, he said. Both men are Trump supporters, he said.
About a week later in 2021, he got a call from law enforcement — he believes it was Metro transit police – asking who used the card. Former FBI employee Kyle Seraphin told The Daily Wire two years ago that he was assigned to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-tied-january-6-pipe-bomber-to-metro-card-of-ex-gov-official-but-blocked-interview-of-him-former-agent-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> stake out</a> the address because the FBI believed a person of interest in the bomb case swiped through the subway gates using a card owned by the man.
The Air Force veteran, a tall black man, immediately gave the police the name of his friend, who is a white man about 5 foot 10 or 5 foot 11, he told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Other than that call from the Transit Police, that&#8217;s all I ever heard about it,&#8221; he said.
The Air Force vet said he went to school with the man decades ago but had not remained in touch until reconnecting over social media. The vet is 66 years old, making the friend about the same age. He said the friend spent large portions of each year in foreign countries spreading Christianity. He would &#8220;probably be the last person on God&#8217;s green earth that would be involved in doing anything like that,&#8221; the vet said.
After receiving the call from the police, the flummoxed vet called his friend to tell him what had happened. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Do you have a secret life that I don&#8217;t know about?&#8217; and he said no,&#8221; he said.
By that time, law enforcement had already made contact with his friend as well. &#8220;When I told him about it, he told me he did have a conversation with those folks,&#8221; he said. The police seemingly ruled him out as a suspect.
The Air Force vet declined to name the southern evangelical to The Daily Wire, but said he had provided the name to police, and would fully cooperate with any law enforcement or court inquiry.
He said the friend came back to town for Donald Trump&#8217;s second inauguration, where he annoyed the vet by insisting on wearing a Trump hat in deep-blue areas, causing drama. &#8220;I felt like, oh my God. How did I get myself involved in this?&#8221; he said.
After that, the veteran blocked his old friend on his phone, he said.
The development does not rule out that the police officer identified by The Blaze could be the pipe bomber; however, the theory would now rest solely on the &#8220;gait analysis,&#8221; or that some other factor is at play.
The female police officer has since moved, and no one answered the door at her new house when The Daily Wire knocked on Tuesday. The Air Force veteran said a Blaze reporter had come to his door a few days ago, but he had declined to speak with him because he was caught off guard by the unexpected visitor.
A January 2025 congressional report on the January 6 pipe bomb investigation, compiled by staff for Reps. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), describe a lead on someone who seemed to be photographing locations where bombs were later placed:
<blockquote>According to the FBI, after taking pictures of the dumpster, [Person of Interest 2] walked around the Capitol Complex, met with two [unidentified subjects], returned to the same alleyway behind the RNC, then entered the Capitol South Metro Station, and rode the metro to Falls Church, Virginia. Notably, agents assigned to the case team determined that POI2 used an Uber account and Metro SmartTrip card registered to a separate individual (‘POI3’) who lived in Falls Church, Virginia. According to internal emails obtained by the Subcommittee, the FBI’s case team considered POI2’s movements to be ‘highly suspicious’ and considered POI2 as a “possible accomplice” to the pipe bomber.
In the weeks following January 6, the FBI directed significant resources towards investigating POI2 and POI3. For example, the FBI placed both POI2 and POI3 under “FISUR” or “physical surveillance” by the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s (“WFO”) Special Operations Group (“SOG”). The FBI also obtained grand jury subpoenas for the cell phone data associated with POI2’s and POI3’s phone numbers and issued preservation requests for their [redacted] and accounts. With help from US [Capitol Police], the FBI also tracked the movements of the two “[unidentified subjects]” POI2 met while walking around the Capitol Complex on January 5. On January 19, 2021, FBI agents interviewed POI2 and ultimately eliminated that individual as a person of interest. According to a summary of the interview obtained by the Subcommittee, the FBI learned that POI2 traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend First Amendment activities on Capitol Hill on January 5 and that throughout the day, POI2 photographed “objects bearing numerals” including doors, dumpsters, and other objects and intended to use these photographs in a book he was writing. The FBI’s review of POI2’s cell phone and photographs appear to corroborate his story; however, the interview summary does not elaborate further on how the case team verified POI2’s story. Following the interview with POI2, the FBI ruled out both POI2 and POI3 as possible persons of interest.”</blockquote>
The FBI claims it has been unable to identify who set pipe bombs at party headquarters, despite using elaborate and high-tech measures to identify hundreds of January 6 protesters for minor crimes like trespassing. There are significant questions about those bombs and the reaction to them, including by police and Kamala Harris, who was at the DNC while the pipe bomb was there, but never mentioned that fact.
Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The FBI Said There Were ‘Pipe Bombs’ On January 6. Evidence Points To A Coverup, Congressman Says</a>
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RNC/DNC pipe bomb suspect

There’s A New Development To The Blaze’s Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Story

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Terrorism

The Department of Justice launched a &#8220;full investigation&#8221; into the leftist demonstrations that took place outside of a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday.
Bondi said that Antifa was behind &#8220;violent riots&#8221; at UC Berkeley on Monday after leftist agitators showed up at the venue hours before the TPUSA event began on campus, harassing conservative attendees as they lined up for the event. The investigation is being led by the FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which focuses on international and domestic terrorism.
&#8220;Antifa is an existential threat to our nation. The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence,&#8221; Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1988339354754769099">wrote</a> in a post on X. &#8220;Under President Trump’s leadership, and pursuant to his Executive Order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, the Department of Justice and our law-enforcement partners are dismantling violent networks that seek to intimidate Americans and suppress their free expression and First Amendment rights.&#8221;
Two people were arrested after a fistfight broke out between one of the agitators and a man wearing a red Turning Point USA t-shirt. One person was charged with battery, but it&#8217;s unclear if the person who was charged was one of the two men who were seen fighting.
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At least two people detained after violence breaks out at a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TurningPointUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TurningPointUSA</a> event at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ucberkeley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ucberkeley</a> Our crews say tensions are growing as the number of protesters grow <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ktvu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ktvu</a> <a href="https://t.co/r8YuYvcqgr">pic.twitter.com/r8YuYvcqgr</a>
— Claudine Wong (@ClaudineKTVU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClaudineKTVU/status/1988059428340592641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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UC Berkeley currently looks like a war zone.
An ANTIFA member just lit off a flare resulting in TPUSA event attendees being rushed inside.
A car then comes and starts backfiring visibly scaring multiple attendees who feared they were hearing gunshots. <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TPUSA</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Savsays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Savsays</a> <a href="https://t.co/u3mG8rJDSx">pic.twitter.com/u3mG8rJDSx</a>
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1988063048825970850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Two more people were arrested for attempting to get past a barrier police had set up to separate protesters from attendees. Some of the agitators lit flares and shouted at the conservative attendees as they waited to enter the building, and when they left after the TPUSA event ended.
The event, which was the last stop on the &#8220;This is the Turning Point” tour, went on as planned, capping off a tour that was started by TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10 at Utah Valley University, when he was assassinated while speaking to college students.
The DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights division is also probing the leftist demonstrations at UC Berkeley, according to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
&#8220;We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case. The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA,&#8221; Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/1988272046741111268">wrote</a> on X.
UC Berkeley, which has long been one of the most liberal universities in the United States, was at the center of violent demonstrations when leftist groups protested right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech in 2017. Dhillon brought some of the legal challenges against the university that same year over the free speech case.
&#8220;In America, we do not allow citizens to be attacked by violent thugs and shrug and turn our backs,&#8221; Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/1988293108686352875">added</a>. &#8220;Been there, done that, not on our watch.&#8221;
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/">designated</a> Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in September, calling it &#8220;a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.&#8221;

Turning Point USA Tour Event Held At University Of California, Berkeley

FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force Investigating ‘Violent Riots’ That Erupted Outside Of TPUSA Event

FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Investigating 'Violent Riots' That Erupted Outside Of TPUSA Event

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At least 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in two separate suicide bombings in Pakistan on Monday and Tuesday, and eight people were killed in a car explosion in India.
The latest bombing targeted a district court building in Islamabad, killing 12 people and wounding 27 more on Tuesday, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/explosion-injures-eight-outside-court-pakistans-capital-police-say-2025-11-11/">reported</a>. Authorities said that the attacker attempted to enter the court building but was unsuccessful and then targeted a police car. All of those killed in the attack were civilians, while four police officers were also wounded, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/11/pakistan-capital-islamabad-suicide-bombing/">The Washington Post</a>.
The bombing in Islamabad came just hours after a suicide bomber targeted a military school in Pakistan&#8217;s northwest territory. Three people were killed in that bombing, and militants stormed the school, where at least three of them remain holed up.
While no terror group has claimed responsibility for either of the attacks, the Pakistani government suspects that terrorists backed by India and the Taliban in Afghanistan carried out the deadly bombings. Pakistani officials believe that the Pakistani Taliban, which the government suspects of being supported by India and Afghanistan, planned the bombing in Islamabad.
“The attack on Pakistani citizens by Indian proxy terrorist groups is condemnable,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The attack in Islamabad came just hours after a car exploded in India&#8217;s capital, New Delhi, killing eight people and wounding 20 more. Indian officials said they were still trying to determine whether the blast was from an issue with the vehicle or was a targeted attack, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/india/car-explosion-in-indias-capital-kills-eight-d7301ad7?mod=article_inline">reported</a>. Authorities are investigating the car explosion under an anti-terrorism law, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that the explosion in New Delhi was an attack on his country.
“The conspirators behind this will not be spared,” Modi said. “All those responsible will be brought to justice.”
The bombings in Pakistan and India threaten to reignite tensions between the two countries, months after they exchanged missile attacks and bombings and engaged in border skirmishes. In April, India launched airstrikes at targets in Pakistan, saying that it was hitting Pakistan-backed terrorist militia infrastructure after terrorists killed 26 people in Indian territory. The Pakistani government, however, accused India of killing civilians in the strikes and targeting mosques. Pakistan responded with its own mortar attack on India.
The Trump administration quickly got involved in ceasefire negotiations between the two countries in May, and India and Pakistan agreed to stop fighting after weeks of retaliatory attacks. The fighting between India and Pakistan was especially concerning for the Trump administration, as the two countries are also considerable nuclear powers.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDCecGK7m8">said</a> that his trade policies helped end the conflict between the two countries and prevent a &#8220;potential nuclear disaster.&#8221;
&#8220;I called them up and I said, &#8216;You go to war and we&#8217;re not doing a trade deal.&#8217; &#8230; And 24 hours later, they called me [and said], &#8216;We have decided not to do it.&#8217; We stopped the war. We stopped the potential nuclear disaster because of trade,&#8221; the president said last month.

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More Than 20 Killed In Bombings In India And Pakistan, Fragile Ceasefire Threatened

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Two privileged young men from Montclair, New Jersey, one the child of a United Nations diplomat and one the child of a professor at Queens College, now stand at the center of a hate-fueled terror plot that shattered the illusion of safety in suburban New Jersey.
Nineteen-year-old Milo Sedarat, whose father, Roger, is a poet and professor at Queens College, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/accused-nj-jihadi-yuppie-teen-spewed-vile-antisemitic-hate-wanted-to-murder-moms-jewish-friends-feds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed himself</a> “the biggest antisemite in America.” His home — a million-dollar Victorian on a tree-lined street — became the backdrop for his vicious selfies: clad in black, sword and knife in hand, dreaming of killing Jews. Court filings allege that Sedarat glorified genocide in online messages, while saying, “Line up like 500 Jews and execute them in front of their wives and family. Then take all their wives [as] slaves. Imma have like 10 yahood (Jewish) slave girls inshallah.”
Prosecutors say he even told his mother her Jewish friends “deserve to die” before she confiscated his swords.
The second suspect, Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, also 19, is the son of a United Nations diplomat focused on women’s entrepreneurship. He, too, reveled in violence, boasting about wanting to stage a Boston Marathon–style bombing that would make him infamous enough for a Wikipedia page. Jimenez-Guzel allegedly offered to lead beheadings for propaganda videos, declaring, “I’ll do it, bro.”
According to federal agents, he was arrested at Newark Airport en route to Turkey, trying to join ISIS forces in Syria.
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⚡<a href="https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nypost</a> covered the two young men from a wealthy NYC suburb who planned to join ISIS and commit terror attacks on American soil.
Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sedarat plotted violent, antisemitic attacks and accumulated an arsenal of weapons and ammo. The two were arrested… <a href="https://t.co/DqDmCWgv8I">https://t.co/DqDmCWgv8I</a> <a href="https://t.co/kWdkOAshuj">pic.twitter.com/kWdkOAshuj</a>
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Investigators say their online chats tied them to a wider ISIS-linked network; five others have been detained across New Jersey, Michigan, and Washington in connection with plans to massacre Jews and LGBT clubgoers. Rabbi Yaacov Leaf of Chabad of Montclair voiced the community’s disbelief: “It’s so shocking to see how such a radical ideology can be living in your backyard. It’s frightening to realize this type of hate has seeped into our suburban liberal community … It’s a diverse community where we are open to every type of human being and every type of belief system. To see that hate has found its way into the community is very frightening.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba echoed the alarm, saying that radicalization now spares no zip code. “We can never believe this can’t touch us,” she warned. “We run down every lead, no matter where it starts.”

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Rich New Jersey Teen Plotted ISIS-Inspired Terror While Living Large

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The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took decisive action on Thursday against individuals channeling tens of millions of dollars from Iran to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group that dominates Lebanon and threatens Israel.
The sanctions, issued under Executive Order 13224, targeted Hezbollah operatives such as Ossama Jaber, Ja’far Muhammad Qasir, and Samer Kasbar — key players in the terrorist organization’s sprawling financial network. Using Lebanon’s cash-based economy and unscreened exchange houses, they laundered more than a billion dollars since January 2025, funding terror operations, weapons smuggling, and Hezbollah’s entrenched control over Lebanese politics.
The Trump administration framed these sanctions as part of a clear policy: choking off Hezbollah’s financial oxygen to isolate Iran and protect American allies. Treasury Under Secretary John Hurley declared that Lebanon could only achieve freedom and stability by severing its ties to Tehran’s terror machine, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0308">saying,</a> “Lebanon has an opportunity to be free, prosperous, and secure—but that can only happen if Hezbollah is fully disarmed and cut off from Iran’s funding and control. We will work with our Lebanese partners to create a resilient economy that puts the interests of all Lebanese citizens front and center.” This action followed a consistent Trump doctrine — one that identifies Hezbollah as an Iranian tentacle and treats its dismantlement as central to peace in the region.
This focus on direct enforcement and partnership contrasts starkly with the Biden-Harris administration’s record of strategic leaks and policy hesitation that undermined Israel’s sovereignty and security. During Biden’s tenure, Washington repeatedly betrayed Jerusalem’s trust by divulging sensitive Israeli operations to the press. In September 2024, as Israel prepared a limited ground invasion of Lebanon to neutralize Hezbollah along its northern border, Biden officials <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-said-to-inform-us-of-plans-for-imminent-limited-ground-op-in-lebanon/">leaked the plans</a> to The Washington Post, handing Hezbollah critical information and prompting public backlash. That act mirrored earlier episodes — such as exposing Israeli strikes on Iranian interests in 2021 and revealing covert cooperation with allies during the Obama-Biden years — each leak serving to cripple Israeli initiatives while shielding Iran from reprisals.
For years, Democratic administrations under Biden and Obama displayed the same pattern: rhetorical support for Israel paired with behind-the-scenes meddling. The Biden team joined United Nations efforts to shield UNRWA employees who aided Hamas, delayed the congressional notification of weapons transfers to Israel, and warned the Israel Defense Forces not to take Rafah, Hamas’s last bastion.
These actions echoed Barack Obama’s tenure, when U.S. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/obamas-leaks-sabotaging-israels-defense-joseph-klein/">leaks</a> sabotaged Israel’s counter-Iran strategy.
By sanctioning Hezbollah’s financiers and tightening the noose on Iran’s proxies, the Trump administration demonstrates that America’s words are backed by action, not whispers to the press. While the Biden-Harris team played politics with leaks that endangered an ally, Trump draws a bright line: the enemies of Israel and the enemies of freedom are one and the same — and both will be confronted without apology.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Trump Admin Cracks Down On Hezbollah’s Money Men

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Hezbollah

Lebanon

In the weeks before the election, Virginia Democrats told voters that they condemned political violence and that Jay Jones was remorseful about his desire to shoot a Republican.
But hours after they won, their tune changed. Louise Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia state Senate, appeared to suggest that she wasn&#8217;t angry with Jones for making the comments so much as she was angry that Virginians found out thanks to a &#8220;snitch.&#8221;
&#8220;Virginia is for lovers, not snitches,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/lashrecseaird/status/1985925971837403338">posted</a> on social media, alongside an artificial intelligence-generated video showing Jones <a href="https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1985915607540216144">kicking his opponent</a>, Jason Miyares, who was depicted as a dog.
The &#8220;snitch&#8221; comment appeared to be a reference to Carrie Coyner, a Republican delegate who Jones sent his murderous texts to, and who confirmed their authenticity to the National Review for a story that upended the election.
Coyner, the most moderate member of either chamber, was subject to a vicious campaign accusing her of &#8220;betrayal&#8221; by Don Scott, a Democrat who replaced Todd Gilbert – the man Jones wanted to shoot in the head – as House Speaker.
Scott is a convicted crack dealer, while Lucas operates a marijuana shop. The &#8220;snitch&#8221; meme was also reposted by Sen. Lashrecse Aird. All are members of the state&#8217;s Black Caucus, as is Jones. The &#8220;snitches&#8221; meme echoes the phrase &#8220;snitches get stitches,&#8221; a phrase used by inner city thugs to describe their practice of assaulting people who speak to the police.
The characterization implies that many people knew about Jones&#8217;s desire for political violence, but kept their mouths closed until Coyner, as Scott said from the pulpit of a black church and in a campaign ad, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/betrayed-virginias-house-speaker-targets-recipient-of-jay-jones-violent-texts?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘BETRAYED’%3A+Virginia’s+House+Speaker+Targets+Recipient+Of+Jay+Jones’s+Violent+Texts">&#8220;betrayed&#8221;</a> them.
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The idea that Democrats were functioning with a Mafia-like code of omertà would also implicate Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, who, at a debate, blamed the Jones scandal on Republicans who &#8220;held them for years so the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages,” implying she had no way of knowing about his tendencies until the primary had already concluded. But it would stand to reason that Jones would not conceal his hatred of Republicans from his fellow Democrats, yet be open about it with Republicans themselves.
After the National Review&#8217;s October 4 story showing that Jones wanted to put two bullets in the head of the Republican speaker and watch his children die, Democrats refused to disavow Jones, while saying that they opposed his rhetoric. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attempted assassinations of President Donald Trump, being tied to such rhetoric seemed like a political liability. But Jones won with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jay-jones-who-fantasized-about-murdering-republicans-will-be-virginias-next-attorney-general?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Jay+Jones%2C+Who+Fantasized+About+Murdering+Republicans%2C+Will+Be+Virginia’s+Next+Attorney+General">53% of the vote</a>, only 2.5% behind the Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor, suggesting there might be little penalty among Democrat voters after all. The &#8220;snitches&#8221; comment wasn&#8217;t the only way that showed.
On October 30, the campaign bus of Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears caught fire, and Lucas said, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad to hear <a href="https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1983954336162926873">no one was hurt</a>.&#8221; As soon as Virginians cast their votes, her tune changed: She posted a doctored photo of <a href="https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1986088323517927625">herself standing by the bus</a>.
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Lucas also echoed, rather than repudiated, violent political imagery after the election by reposting a comment that Lucas &#8220;planted that foot in [Gov. Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s] ass and ended his career.&#8221;
Lucas also reposted a comment calling her &#8220;ruthless,&#8221; and said she intends to redistrict the state (where Republican candidates received 43%, 45%, and 47% of the vote on Tuesday) has only a <a href="https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1985946539311702233">single Republican</a> in Congress.
That would involve a similarly ruthless move. Democrats enacted a 45-day early voting period, which caused some people to vote before learning about Jones&#8217; support for violence. But for purposes of amending the Constitution to get rid of nonpartisan redistricting – which requires giving voters the chance to punish politicians at the ballot box for trying such a move – they ignored the fact that many had already cast ballots before they initiated the controversial move, counting only Tuesday as the &#8220;election.&#8221;
Outgoing Attorney General Miyares issued an opinion saying that it would be illegal, but Lucas <a href="https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1983333834138759316">said,</a> &#8220;Your opinions are sh&#8211;. They&#8217;re f&#8211;king s&#8211;t.&#8221;
Lucas and Scott will be two of the most important figures in Virginia because, more surprisingly than Democrats&#8217; clean sweep of statewide races, Scott&#8217;s House of Delegates picked up 13 seats, going from a bare majority of 51 to 64, within spitting distance of a veto-proof supermajority. It was only 10 years ago that Republicans held a supermajority.
All of that means that the Democrats in today&#8217;s Virginia legislature are not like the Democrats of old. One who won a downballot race is Elizabeth Guzman, who once said parents should be criminally prosecuted for child abuse if they did not &#8220;affirm&#8221; their children as transgender. Guzman faced off against a fellow incumbent, Republican Ian Lovejoy, in his Prince William district due to redistricting. She defeated him 55%-45%.
In 2020, Guzman, a social worker, introduced a bill that redefined the term “abused or neglected child” to include one whose parent “inflicts, threatens to create or inflict, or allows to be created or inflicted upon such child a physical or mental injury on the basis of the child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.&#8221;
In 2022, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrat-bill-would-criminally-prosecute-parents-who-dont-affirm-their-kids-as-transgender">reintroduced</a> it and clarified that “It could be a felony, it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment.&#8221; At the time, the bill was dead on arrival because Republicans controlled the House.
The situation is now very different.

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With conservatives justifiably in despair over the election of Marxist-Islamist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, it is vitally important to remember that Mamdani has promised to eliminate the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG), which works hand in hand with the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau (CTB).
Last December, Mamdani wrote on X, “As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements + brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment [sic] rights.”
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Today the NYPD deployed the Strategic Response Group (SRG) to harass + arrest striking <a href="https://twitter.com/Teamsters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@teamsters</a>.
As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements + brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment rights.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1869848787201532169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Current New York City Mayor Eric Adams has <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/nyc-jewish-groups-vow-to-hold-zohran-mamdani-accountable/">ripped</a> Mamdani for his suggestion, declaring, “When you start dismantling the pieces of the law enforcement apparatus that is specifically designed to carry out functions — that is extremely dangerous. A lack of knowledge and understanding of these roles really could harm law enforcement. There are no routine jobs in the police department. They can turn violent instantly. So I think it’s the wrong decision to do and we should never endanger public safety in the city. It’s not an experiment, it’s experience.”
The NYPD’s SRG was created in 2015 under the department’s Citywide Operations Bureau. It coordinates with NYPD’s CTB, which was founded in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, in which radical Islamic terrorists killed roughly 3,000 Americans and destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City.
When the NYPD receives credible terrorist threats, the CTB assesses them and leads the response. The SRG is then deployed to provide tactical manpower — heavily armed, mobile teams trained for rapid containment, evacuations, or securing perimeters. The CTB provides the intelligence and threat analysis, while SRG provides tactical and crowd control capacity. SRG officers receive counterterrorism briefings and CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) response training through CTB programs.
“The CT Bureau reviews possible terrorist targets and develops innovative, forward-thinking policies and procedures to guard against attacks, training first responders and specialized units and developing intelligence capabilities for detecting and preventing terrorist attacks,” the CTB’s website <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/counterterrorism.page?utm_source=chatgpt.com">states</a>. “The bureau coordinates with federal, state, and other law enforcement agencies in intelligence gathering and sharing, and plays an integral role in the FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorist Task Force.”
“Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF) is a multi-law enforcement agency that includes NYPD detectives and FBI special agents who investigate terrorism in the New York City metropolitan area and around the world,” the website continues. “Following the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD substantially increased the number of detectives assigned to the JTTF. This partnership with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies provides the NYPD with access to national level classified intelligence and the ability to analyze and share its own intelligence on the federal level.”
If the CTB discovers a terrorist cell, the SRG may prove vital in supplying the forces to target the terrorists.
And Mamdani wants to eliminate the SRG.

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When the president announced that we might soon be taking &#8220;sweet&#8221; military action inside Nigeria, as he put it — in addition to cutting off all foreign aid to the country — he raised a lot of very urgent questions that need to be answered. The first question, of course, is what exactly this &#8220;sweet&#8221; military action will look like. Nigeria doesn&#8217;t have much in the way of anti-air technology, nor is its military capable of defeating LSU&#8217;s football team, much less the U.S. Army. So the options are pretty much limitless on this front — especially if you&#8217;re not a fan of the mercy rule or playing remotely fair. We could film the next Top Gun movie over West Africa in the next few weeks if we wanted to. And whatever you think of those movies, no serious person contests the fact that they featured some pretty sweet scenes.
The other important question that&#8217;s raised by Trump&#8217;s remarks is: Why are we sending any foreign aid to Nigeria to begin with? Why is there any foreign aid to suspend? When I asked that question yesterday, I genuinely had no idea what the answer was. I was aware of statistics showing that, since 2021, we&#8217;ve been sending roughly a billion dollars — yes, a billion dollars — every single year to Nigeria. And for the decade before that, we were giving them a half-billion dollars every year. Most of that money is supposedly earmarked for &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; and &#8220;economic&#8221; purposes.
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And yet, if you look at the current state of Nigeria, it&#8217;s not doing so well, despite receiving all of that money from your checking account. It <a href="https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/news/78" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/news/78&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762364623124000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1LjBmIOUR6XmcQuhn_ZinR">turns out</a> that, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations Development Program, &#8220;63% of persons living within Nigeria (133 million people) are multidimensionally poor.&#8221;
Yes, you read that correctly. Sixty-three percent of Nigerians are &#8220;multidimensionally poor.&#8221; This is not, despite what you may think, a situation where Nigerians are so poor that they&#8217;ve entered another dimension. Apparently, according to the United Nations, being &#8220;multidimensionally poor&#8221; means that, in addition to having no money, you also have poor health, poor education, poor living standards, poor sanitation, poor housing, and poor access to electricity. In other words, being &#8220;multidimensionally poor&#8221; means you&#8217;re poor. And apparently, it also means that you&#8217;re entitled to billions of dollars from American taxpayers.
And that&#8217;s not all they&#8217;ve been receiving. Whether they exist in this dimension or not, Nigerians have also been receiving a very different kind of aid from the United States. It&#8217;s not all &#8220;humanitarian aid.&#8221; They&#8217;ve also been receiving very expensive planes.
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In 2017, the first Trump administration <a href="https://qz.com/africa/1064752/boko-haram-nigeria-has-purchased-593-million-worth-of-military-gear-from-the-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://qz.com/africa/1064752/boko-haram-nigeria-has-purchased-593-million-worth-of-military-gear-from-the-us&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762364623124000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RolYFIgQtkWHke0jpQ0RB">sold a dozen</a> A-29 &#8220;Super Tucano&#8221; aircraft to Nigeria for $600 million, on the theory that they&#8217;d be useful in the Nigerian government&#8217;s fight against Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group. These &#8220;Super Tucanos&#8221; are turboprop aircraft that are mainly used for close-air support.
At the time, the Trump administration thought it would be a good idea to equip Nigeria&#8217;s air force with these fighters because Boko Haram (and other militant jihadi groups) had been slaughtering Christians and burning down churches since 2009. And Nigeria&#8217;s government clearly needed more firepower to deal with the insurgency.
To be clear, though, it wasn&#8217;t an idea that originated with the Trump administration. In 2016, a year before the Trump administration completed the sale of the fighters, the Obama administration had indicated that it was going to send these aircraft to Nigeria. But they backed out after Nigeria&#8217;s military bombed a civilian refugee camp by mistake, killing 90 people. Then, a few months later, the Trump administration took over, and they completed the transaction.
In the end, though, Boko Haram wasn&#8217;t defeated. Neither were other major Islamic militant groups in Nigeria. Several years after they obtained the planes from the U.S. military, the mass murder of Christians didn&#8217;t stop in Nigeria. In fact, it intensified. By some estimates — and I stress that these are very rough estimates — well over 24,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria from 2021 to 2025, while around 10,000 Christians were killed from 2017 to 2020. Every year, according to conservative estimates, at least 4,000 Christians are <a href="https://globalchristianrelief.org/resources/countries/nigeria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://globalchristianrelief.org/resources/countries/nigeria/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762364623124000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0GghmYY57ndyaI1J_Hcnr5">killed</a> because of their faith in Nigeria — more than in every other country in the world, combined. Many of these Islamist attacks take place in churches, farms, and villages.
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TERRIFYING: Christians are being hunted like animals in Nigeria.
An Islamist group invaded a Christian village and started shooting everyone in sight.
They are killing Christians on Eid and offering them as human sacrifices.
The media remains silent.
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— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) <a href="https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/1931055519265079382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In response to footage like this, and the massacres of Christians, here&#8217;s the framing you&#8217;ll see in the mainstream press. This is from the AP. See if you can spot the hole in the logic <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-christian-killings-claims-ted-cruz-insecurity-e9d2fb7ae02bd3169194fb60872bb3d4">here</a>:
<blockquote>While Christians are among those targeted, analysts say the majority of victims of armed groups are Muslims in Nigeria’s Muslim-majority north, where most attacks occur&#8230;. Analysts say Nigeria’s complex security dynamics do not meet the legal definition of a genocide.</blockquote>
Then there&#8217;s this analysis from an esteemed professor at NYU in the same piece:
<blockquote>If anything, what we are witnessing is mass killings, which are not targeted against a specific group,” said Olajumoke Ayandele, an assistant professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs who specializes in conflict studies. &#8216;The drumming-up of genocide might worsen the situation because everyone is going to be on alert.&#8217;</blockquote>
In other words, according to the AP and this professor at NYU, Christians aren&#8217;t being targeted for extermination by Muslims, because both Christians and Muslims are being killed in large numbers by extremist groups. That&#8217;s the logic. It&#8217;s not just Christians who are dying. Therefore, Christians aren&#8217;t being massacred. It&#8217;s a bit like saying innocent people aren&#8217;t being targeted by the Joker, because the Joker also kills some of his henchmen when they make him angry.
The problem, of course, is that in both cases that the AP is talking about, the Muslims are the ones who are doing the killing. Christians aren&#8217;t raiding Muslim farms and mosques and massacring everyone. Christians aren&#8217;t lining up Muslims and shooting them in the head because they won&#8217;t convert.
Muslims are committing those atrocities against Christians. And yes, they&#8217;re also killing moderate Muslims. They&#8217;re killing Muslims they disagree with. And on top of that, they&#8217;re also killing Christians, as part of their explicit goal of religious conquest and worldwide jihad. There&#8217;s an ISIS affiliate that&#8217;s active in northeast Nigeria right now, called Islamic State – West Africa Province, or ISWAP, and they&#8217;re currently in the process of murdering and enslaving Christian men, women, and children on their way to establishing a new caliphate. They&#8217;re one of the most powerful ISIS groups anywhere in the world. That&#8217;s the part of the story the AP would rather skip over, as they attempt to &#8220;both sides&#8221; this ongoing slaughter.
But you can&#8217;t skip over that part of the story because it&#8217;s clearly relevant to how the United States should respond. Think about the rise of ISIS in Iraq a decade ago. Obama declared that they weren&#8217;t a big threat. He called ISIS the &#8220;JV team.&#8221; Then, just six months later, ISIS took over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq and said they were going to start a new caliphate. And it wasn&#8217;t until Donald Trump took office and dramatically intensified the Pentagon&#8217;s attacks on ISIS in 2017 that they were finally defeated in both Iraq and Syria.
This is an example of a targeted American military intervention overseas that had a clear, tangible positive result for Americans — by eliminating an organization that was committed to conducting acts of terrorism on our soil — while also saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Christians. And make no mistake about it: Keeping Christians alive, wherever they may be, is clearly in the best interests of the United States. To that end, Donald Trump did not wage an endless war in the Middle East. It was a campaign that every reasonable person in the country thought was appropriate and justified.
What Trump is proposing to do now — as he says we&#8217;re going to carry out a &#8220;sweet&#8221; attack in Nigeria, going in &#8220;guns blazing&#8221; — is to follow the exact same strategy he used to great effect in his first administration. We have precedent showing that ISIS (and other Islamic militant groups) can be shut down, and very quickly. So why are Democrats opposing Trump&#8217;s apparent plan to attack Islamic terrorists in Nigeria?
One reason, of course, is that Democrats aren&#8217;t bothered by the persecution of Christians. They welcome it. After all, they persecute Christians within the borders of this country. Why would they care about Christians who are being slaughtered 5,000 miles away?
But there&#8217;s also something to be said for how Nigeria, in the eyes of Democrats, is a big success story for &#8220;democracy.&#8221; And they&#8217;re willing to cling to this mythology at all costs, no matter how many Christians need to die as a result. Every other month, the Biden administration would put out <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/29/statement-from-president-joe-biden-sending-warm-wishes-on-the-occasion-of-president-tinubus-inauguration-in-nigeria/#:~:text=As%20Africa's%20largest%20democracy%20and,can%20deliver%20for%20their%20needs." target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/29/statement-from-president-joe-biden-sending-warm-wishes-on-the-occasion-of-president-tinubus-inauguration-in-nigeria/%23:~:text%3DAs%2520Africa's%2520largest%2520democracy%2520and,can%2520deliver%2520for%2520their%2520needs.&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762364623124000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ZW0h5TzIG7rcf0Lg_xDad">statements</a> about how Nigeria is &#8220;Africa&#8217;s largest democracy.&#8221; Go to the archived version of the White House website, and you&#8217;ll find about a dozen of them. And Nigeria&#8217;s president at the time, Muhammadu Buhari, returned the favor.
Buhari was one of the first world leaders to <a href="https://x.com/MBuhari/status/1325174546496811009">declare</a> that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election:
<blockquote>Congratulations to US President-Elect Joe Biden on his election at a time of uncertainty and fear in world affairs. His election is a reminder that democracy is the best form of government because it offers the people the opportunity to change their government by peaceful means.</blockquote>
So the messaging is pretty clear, from both sides. &#8220;Democracy,&#8221; as we all remember, was the Democrats&#8217; top buzzword for the past few years. They couldn&#8217;t stop throwing the word around. They said the United States is a democracy. They said Nigeria is a democracy. They said your local dentist&#8217;s office is a democracy. And in every single case, Democrats were using the word &#8220;democracy&#8221; to describe some of the most undemocratic practices imaginable. Of course, in this country, they went on about the importance of &#8220;democracy&#8221; as they attempted to imprison (and murder) the leading presidential candidate, along with everyone who ever worked for him. In Nigeria, they pontificated about democracy even as the state lost its monopoly on the use of force, and as Islamist terrorist groups seized control of large portions of the country.
But Nigeria isn&#8217;t really a democracy. It&#8217;s a failed state where Christians are being hunted en masse. And you have to ask yourself: If the entire corporate media and the Democratic Party are willing to lie to you about what&#8217;s happening in Nigeria, why wouldn&#8217;t they excuse the same type of massacre in this country? It would be one thing if they tried to claim that foreign entanglements are inherently risky, or that we don&#8217;t want to risk the lives of U.S. servicemembers, or that we can solve all of Nigeria&#8217;s problems — all of their &#8220;multidimensional poverty&#8221; — by sending them a little more money.
But they&#8217;re not doing any of that. They&#8217;re telling you that Christians aren&#8217;t actually being gunned down, even though it&#8217;s happening on camera. Whatever Donald Trump chooses to do in Nigeria, Christians in this country — and all over the world — should never forget that. The people who want you dead aren&#8217;t just in Boko Haram, ISWAP, or ISIS. They&#8217;re not 5,000 miles away. They&#8217;re trying to return to power. They&#8217;re running in several major elections today, in fact. If that sounds like an overstatement — ask yourself, how are Christians <a href="https://persecution.org/2024/04/08/six-christians-killed-on-good-friday-in-somalia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://persecution.org/2024/04/08/six-christians-killed-on-good-friday-in-somalia/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762364623124000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2FPHN6xZxnbEdkXEZx05_g">treated</a> in Somalia? It&#8217;s one of the most dangerous countries in the world for Christians. They&#8217;re murdered (and beheaded) for their faith all the time. Last Good Friday, Islamist militants shot six Christians in the shop where they worked, before torching the shop. What do you think happens when major cities in this country become indistinguishable from Somalia?
If they win today&#8217;s elections, with the help of millions of imported foreign voters, in Democrats&#8217; eyes, it&#8217;ll be a major victory for &#8220;democracy.&#8221; What they won&#8217;t tell you is that their ideal version of democracy isn&#8217;t anything Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson had in mind. It&#8217;s Nigeria and Somalia&#8217;s definition of &#8220;democracy.&#8221; And one election in New York or Minneapolis at a time, we&#8217;re on our way to getting just that.

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Islamic terror suspects <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-thwart-potential-halloween-weekend-terrorist-attack-kash-patel-says">arrested</a> by the FBI in Michigan last week sought to target bars and nightclubs near Detroit on Halloween night, according to a criminal complaint filed on Saturday.
The 73-page <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/media/1416836/dl?inline">complaint</a>, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, accuses Mohmed Ali, Majed Mahmoud, and a juvenile suspect, along with five co-conspirators, of seeking to carry out a terrorist attack for ISIS, hoping to copy the 2015 Paris terrorist attack that killed more than 130 people. The suspects codenamed the attack day &#8220;pumpkin,&#8221; leading investigators to believe that the planned attack would be carried out on Halloween, when bars and nightclubs would be full of partiers.
The suspects, who are all under 21, allegedly &#8220;sought guidance from the father of a local Islamic extremist ideologue&#8221; on when to conduct their attack. Ali lives in Dearborn, Michigan, which is known for its large Muslim population, and the criminal complaint states that Ali and Mahmoud met multiple times at night at parks in Dearborn. Ali and Mahmoud also shared ISIS-related materials through encrypted messaging and social media apps, according to the criminal complaint.
FBI Director Kash Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1985379689741881404">said</a> on Friday that the potential terrorist attack in Michigan was &#8220;thwarted&#8221; by federal agents. Patel added on Monday that the FBI &#8220;stopped a massacre before it could happen.&#8221;
&#8220;Two Michigan men planned an ISIS-inspired Halloween terror attack near Detroit- stockpiling weapons, scouting targets, and training at gun ranges,&#8221; Patel said. &#8220;This FBI acted fast, followed the evidence, and likely saved countless lives.&#8221;
The suspects allegedly scoped out sites of potential targets for their attack in September. According to the criminal complaint, the suspects drove past numerous bars and clubs in Ferndale, which is just north of Detroit, and is known as a go-to party spot for gay people.
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The FBI also said that the suspects practiced shooting firearms, including AR-15 style rifles, at a gun range in September and October. Federal authorities served search warrants at Ali&#8217;s and Mahmoud&#8217;s homes on October 31, where they recovered &#8220;three AR-15 style rifles, two shotguns, four handguns, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition compatible with the three AR-15 style rifles, optical sights, two GoPro cameras, a flash suppressor, tactical vests, and other related firearms parts and accessories,&#8221; according to the complaint.
One of the co-conspirators, referred to as &#8220;Co-Conspirator 1&#8221; in the complaint, allegedly met with Ali and the juvenile suspect in June and July before he traveled out of the country. When Co-Conspirator 1 returned to the United States, Customs and Border Protection agents looked through his phone and found photos of the co-conspirator wearing tactical gear and holding weapons, the complaint stated. The CBP agents also allegedly found Google searches for ISIS and the Islamic State.
While Co-Conspirator 1 was overseas, he got on a group call with five other people, one of whom was an FBI Confidential Human Source. During the call, which the FBI source recorded, the participants discussed traveling to Syria to join ISIS, according to the complaint. A second co-conspirator then attempted to convince Ali and the juvenile suspect to join them and travel to Syria, but the two suspects allegedly said that they wanted to stay in the United States and do the &#8220;same thing as France,&#8221; which the FBI believes is a reference to the 2015 Paris terrorist attack.

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Michigan Terror Suspects Plotted To Target Bars, Nightclubs During Halloween Celebrations, FBI Says

Michigan Terror Suspects Wanted To Target Bars, Nightclubs During Halloween Celebrations, FBI Says

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The FBI prevented a potentially &#8220;violent terrorist attack&#8221; planned for Halloween weekend and arrested multiple people in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday morning. 
“The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,&#8221; Patel wrote in a post on X. 
Patel did not disclose where exactly the attack was planned to take place or who was allegedly behind it, but he added that more details would be released soon.  
The FBI director thanked the men and women of the FBI and law enforcement everywhere who stand guard 24/7 to “defend the homeland.” 
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This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend. More details to come. Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1984222011158102097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Feds Thwart Potential Halloween Weekend Terrorist Attack, Kash Patel Says

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Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner was a member of a radical Left group whose members have been linked to a slew of attacks, including an assault on an ICE facility that was designated a terrorist attack this month as part of a crackdown on Antifa.
Maine&#8217;s Democrat Senate primary was upended after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> reported that Platner had called himself a &#8220;communist&#8221; in posts on the Reddit forum r/SocialistRA, where he wrote that if people &#8220;expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.&#8221;
The forum name refers to the Socialist Rifle Association, a group whose members have been repeatedly linked to violent political crimes.
On July 4, a group of militants allegedly swarmed law enforcement at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas and “opened fire at the unarmed DHS correctional officers.” One of them, Benjamin Hanil Song, is charged with shooting a police officer in the neck. Song was a member of the Socialist Rifle Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter, a fellow group member told <a href="https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-07-22/shooting-at-alvarado-ice-facility-other-attacks-the-new-normal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KERA</a>.
Last week, the Department of Justice charged two suspects in that attack, Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, with providing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hits-antifa-with-very-first-terrorism-charges-in-anti-ice-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">material support to terrorists</a>, calling their crew an &#8220;Antifa Cell.&#8221; It was the first use of the terrorism statute against domestic extremists since Trump ordered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-ups-the-ante-orders-cabinet-to-label-antifa-a-foreign-terror-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crackdown</a> on far-left political violence. Arnold, like the founders of the Socialist Rifle Association, is transgender and goes by the name Autumn Hill.
Membership in the Socialist Rifle Association isn&#8217;t required for users to post on the Reddit forum. But a New England publication, the <a href="https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/ex-marine-graham-platner-taught-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robinson Report</a>, revealed that Platner explicitly described his membership in the group.
&#8220;Check out the Maine SRA chapter, we&#8217;re quite active,&#8221; he wrote in April 2020. In August 2020, he said &#8220;my local SRA chapter&#8221; does &#8220;lots of range days, firearms education classes, and developing mutual aid networks in our community.&#8221;
Images of the Maine chapter training include a man in a pink tutu shooting a gun, and one who — though the group blurred the faces of its members — has facial hair matching Platner&#8217;s, Robinson reported.
Platner, who would face off against Republican Senator Susan Collins in the general election and has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), said he made the comments after a difficult time period serving in the military.
“When I got back from Afghanistan in 2011, I stayed in the Army for another year. I got out in 2012. Some of the worst comments I made, the things that I’m — I think are least defensible, that I wouldn’t even try to defend, come from that time,” he said.
The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-rifle-association-linked-to-numerous-violent-attacks">chronicled</a> Socialist Rifle Association members charged with crimes of political violence.
In October 2021, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.353608/gov.uscourts.flnd.353608.2.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Alan Baker</a> of Florida was sentenced to 44 months in prison for threats. After the pro-Trump Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, Baker offered “cash rewards for information leading to the verified identification of an and every individual in this video. Don’t worry, I wont ne [sic] going to the cops. We have decided to handle this ourselves.” Baker told prosecutors that he was a <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59305500/81/united-states-v-baker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the Socialist Rifle Association, and said, “I believe that the philosophy of an anarchism leads to socialism. And I believe that the government should provide for everyone’s housing, healthcare, food. I even believe that the government should distribute weapons to people who are loyal citizens.”
On January 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump was sworn in as president, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.185254/gov.uscourts.ord.185254.1.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Matthew Lansky</a> allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership in Salem, Oregon. He returned to the same dealership a month later and shot it up using a semi-automatic rifle with a suppressor, according to court documents. “Lansky is a competitive shooter and a former member of the Socialist Rifle Association. He is skilled and well-practiced in the use of firearms and combat scenarios. The [improvised incendiary devices] used by Lansky were all manufactured by him,” prosecutors <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69768879/22/united-states-v-lansky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
On March 18, 2025, in Las Vegas, Paul Hyon Kim set on fire and shot up five Teslas, leaving a Molotov cocktail inside one, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69803347/1/united-states-v-kim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charging documents</a> said. Tesla had, of course, been treated as a political symbol by the left because of Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump. The court papers said, “Kim has an Instagram page where he follows the Socialist Rifle Association’s page. In a post from October 2018, on the Reno Socialist Rifle Association’s Instagram page, is a picture of a subject that appears to be Paul Kim training with firearms.”
A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialistRA/comments/cf9i4r/wait_is_the_sra_mostly_tankies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of Socialist Rifle Association members found that it was 30% anarchist, 30% Marxist-Leninist or Maoist, 30% Democratic Socialist, and 10% other.
The Socialist Rifle Association was incorporated in Kansas in 2019 by Alexander Tackett, who later began identifying as a woman named Alex Norma Tackett. A website for a queer bookstore he owned <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221207035629/https://sweetreadsict.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Lilith [it/she] &amp; Alex Tackett [she/it] are a trans lesbian couple living in Wichita with their six-year-old son.”
The group&#8217;s co-founder was Faye Ecklar, who explained that “I believe firearms ownership is necessary because as a transgender socialist, half the country wants me dead, and the other half is happy to watch. Plus, the means of production won’t seize themselves.”
Platner has faced a wave of negative publicity since his old Reddit posts resurfaced, much of which centers around the Democrat&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-has-known-about-his-tattoos-nazi-connotations-since-2012">Nazi chest tattoo</a>.

Socialist Rifle Association card and one of its members

Maine Dem Graham Platner Belonged To Socialist Group Linked To ICE Attack, Tesla Bombings

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University of Maryland administrators told its Turning Point USA chapter that it may not be able to host a Daily Wire journalist on Wednesday, unless the chapter pays for extensive additional security.
The event, featuring Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips, is virtually identical to the classes that occur every day on college campuses — except with an affable, center-right journalist at the head of the room instead of a cantankerous leftist professor.
That The Daily Wire has exposed not one, but two University of Maryland presidents for plagiarism — including the president of its flagship College Park campus, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-science-paper-from-aussie-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darryll Pines</a>, whose capitulation to Hamas supporters this publication has also chronicled — suggests that the college’s motives for the security requirement may be less than honorable.
Turning Point isn&#8217;t being charged for security because its members might be unruly. It&#8217;s because the university believes that its own students will commit ideologically motivated violence — and, instead of addressing that, it&#8217;s punishing their prospective victims. The group&#8217;s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on a college campus six weeks ago, ending a career dedicated to facilitating ideological diversity and open debate at universities.
Maryland has taken the wrong lesson from that assassination.
Conservatives make up the majority of the voting public, as evidenced by the most recent national popular vote. If being exposed to center-right ideas is so unusual for college students that it would trigger violent rage, that&#8217;s the issue. Coming across someone like Phillips on campus shouldn&#8217;t be cause for violence. It should be just another Wednesday.
The move continues a pattern of selective commitment to free speech for Pines, who vociferously defended an anti-Israel group&#8217;s right to mark the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, then threatened to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-science-paper-from-aussie-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> call the police</a> on a Jewish woman for complaining about it.
Jewish parents asked Pines, who is Black, to engage in a thought experiment: would he be as supportive if the KKK were burning crosses on campus? The analogy went right over his head, and in a twist of unfathomable irony, Pines banned all events that day because of what he suggested were anti-black threats and the prospect of violence by Jews. Then he paid the school&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, which proudly says it supports &#8220;armed struggle,&#8221; a<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-will-pay-100000-to-anti-israel-group-that-held-campus-rally-on-october-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $100,000 settlement</a> when they filed suit over the cancellation.
His latest move suggests that it was a payoff to his allies, not a recognition of the need to preserve free speech.
Campus police told TPUSA that because of an &#8220;increase in threats related to Turning Point events,&#8221; police would staff the event, while TPUSA would be required to hire a security firm at its own expense to &#8220;conduct metal/weapons detection and bags checks upon entry.&#8221;
Lawyers from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) told the university that if increased security is required, &#8220;the law does not allow public institutions to shift this increased burden to the targeted group.&#8221;
“Doing so gives those most willing to engage in political violence the ability to silence or burden their opponents through the agency of the state. Raising costs on TPUSA in the wake of its leader&#8217;s assassination is a stark reminder of how literally deadly such a perverse incentive can be.&#8221;
In other words, UMD would be carrying water for terrorists.
&#8220;With the precedent UMD has set here, any student or community member could announce plans to disrupt a group&#8217;s campus event, and encourage others to do so, in the hope that UMD would respond by financially burdening the group,&#8221; FIRE wrote.
University of Maryland Associate General Counsel Christopher Lord replied with a denial that the fee was based on viewpoint. He said one of the factors the university uses to determine required security is &#8220;the history of similar events and/or of performer/speakers at other locations,&#8221; and invoked &#8220;the tragic assassination of Mr. Kirk.&#8221;
Lord also acknowledged that earlier this month, on October 7, the university bore the cost for hundreds of thousands of dollars for a &#8220;Boycott Israel fest,&#8221; as well as pro-Israel counter-protesters.
He said the university is more likely to cover costs for outdoor events due to a Fourth Circuit Court ruling deeming outdoor spaces &#8220;limited public forums.&#8221; That suggests that if the university has a commitment to free speech, it&#8217;s to the extent that a court forced it to, and that, ironically, it doesn&#8217;t apply in classrooms themselves. If a group like Turning Point wants to avoid fees, it can hold an event outdoors — like the sort at which Kirk was assassinated.
Making the situation all the more outlandish is that the Daily Wire personality at the center of this controversy, Cabot Phillips, is unaccustomed to being the center of controversy. Phillips is not an opinion commentator like Ben Shapiro or Michael Knowles; he is the genial and cheery personality at the center of news broadcasts like Morning Wire.
As Conor Clayton of the Maryland Turning Point chapter told us, Phillips is “not controversial.”
“It&#8217;s very strange that they would make this determination that there would be massive protests or threats,&#8221; Clayton said. Representatives for the University of Maryland and its parent organization didn&#8217;t respond when we asked if they could identify a single inflammatory statement by Phillips.
Given that Clayton told us that his chapter hosted another indoor event at a campus chapel, a vigil for Kirk, without being charged for security, that suggests that the Daily Wire’s involvement may be the critical wrinkle in this already sorry state of affairs.
Pines is currently under investigation for blatant plagiarism, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-science-paper-from-aussie-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed</a> by The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak. It has been more than a year since Pines admitted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-science-paper-from-aussie-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;recurrent language&#8221;</a> in an academic paper after it was unearthed by what he<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-acknowledges-recurrent-language-submits-to-plagiarism-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> called</a> &#8220;a blogger,&#8221; and he has faced no accountability.
This month, The Daily Wire<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-college-president-heidi-anderson-plagiarized-dissertation?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Another+College+President+Plagiarized+Her+Dissertation.+That%E2%80%99s+Just+The+Tip+Of+The+Iceberg." target="_blank" rel="noopener"> exposed a second president</a> of a Maryland campus, University of Maryland Eastern Shore&#8217;s Heidi Anderson, for massive plagiarism. All of this suggests a significant moral rot under the leadership of Jay Perman, the chancellor of the state&#8217;s public university system.
The security fee in question is minimal, just $150. But as Clayton lays out, that’s not the point.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really not about the monetary amount, it&#8217;s about ensuring that the university commits itself to the First Amendment,” Clayton told us. “This is a prior restraint on our free speech, because if we don&#8217;t pay this fee we can&#8217;t have the event.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s really a slap in the face. Charlie Kirk, literally all he did is talk with people and share a conservative message, and they killed him for it. The university sees that and instead of trying to encourage conservative speech, they&#8217;re doing everything they can to restrict our speech.”

Charlie Kirk and UMD President Darryll Pines

Revenge Of The Plagiarists? University Of Maryland Interferes With Turning Point USA Event

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