{"id":49264,"date":"2026-07-19T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49264"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:55:24","slug":"fascism-is-here-rubio-miller-say-more-terrorist-designations-coming-for-far-left-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/fascism-is-here-rubio-miller-say-more-terrorist-designations-coming-for-far-left-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fascism Is Here\u2019: Rubio, Miller Say More Terrorist Designations Coming for \u2018Far-Left\u2019 Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff-stephen-miller-addresses-the-audience-at-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terror.jpg?id=67481376&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=0%2C35%2C0%2C307\" alt=\"'Fascism Is Here': Rubio, Miller Say More Terrorist Designations Coming for 'Far-Left' Groups\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller addresses the audience at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department on July 16, 2026 in Washington, DC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by Finn Gomez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIf you\u2019re not alarmed you\u2019re not paying attention.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/brad-reed\">Brad Reed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 16, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>&nbsp;officials on Thursday hyped up plans to carry out mass political arrests and prosecutions of people whom it deemed far-left terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech given at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/us-state-department\">US State Department<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/stephen-miller\">Stephen Miller<\/a>, President Donald Trump\u2019s deputy chief of staff, described left-wing political violence as a \u201cfatal cancer to civilization,\u201d and boasted of plans to use state power to suppress people whom he called \u201cpolitical terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RECOMMENDED&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-communism\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/us-president-trump-attends-faith-and-freedom-coalition-conference.jpg?id=67049789&amp;width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=204%2C0%2C205%2C0\" alt=\"US President Trump attends Faith and Freedom Coalition' conference\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-communism\">Unhinged Trump Calls US Progressives Communist \u2018Animals\u2019 Who Will \u2018Close Your Churches\u2019 and \u2018Kill Your People\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/prairieland-ice-trial\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/signs-call-for-the-release-of-the-prairieland-detention-center-protesters.png?id=67010381&amp;width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=381%2C0%2C381%2C0\" alt=\"Signs call for the release of the Prairieland Detention Center protesters \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/prairieland-ice-trial\">\u2018New Red Scare\u2019: ICE Protester Gets 30 Years for Leftist Zines Under Trump Antifa Decree<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller said that the administration would be carrying out this operation under the guidance of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-war-on-critics\">NSPM-7<\/a>), a directive signed by Trump in September that demanded a \u201cnational strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller bragged that \u201cfor the first time in American history,\u201d NSPM-7 would direct \u201call of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, de-bank, arrest, prosecute these political terrorists that are operating within our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Santa Monica Goebbels is doing his weird and creepy gyrations while delivering a speech smearing Democrats as violent radicals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PaeDcD55jw\">pic.twitter.com\/PaeDcD55jw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2077752209752682572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller said that the mass arrest of left-wing radicals was necessary to prevent them from carrying out mass arrests of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInevitably, left to its course, it always becomes a gulag,\u201d said Miller. \u201cIt always becomes the mass imprisonment of political enemies, the stripping of their rights and freedoms, inflicting immense pain, humiliation, suffering, in order to establish complete and total control, control through psychological and physical and actual terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/social-media\">social media<\/a>&nbsp;account of independent progressive publication The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a>&nbsp;Holler expressed alarm at Miller\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fascism<\/a>&nbsp;is here,\u201d The Tennessee Holler&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheTNHoller\/status\/2077785068525744350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIf you\u2019re not alarmed you\u2019re not paying attention. \u2018Left-wing political terrorism\u2019 will mean those who oppose the regime\u2014while actual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/right-wing\">right-wing<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/extremism\">extremism<\/a>&nbsp;is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary of State\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, who also spoke of the event, noted last year that his department \u201cdesignated four violent far-left extremist groups as foreign terrorist organizations, and there will be more designations soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Secretary of State Rubio says there will be more terrorist designations of left-wing groups &quot;soon.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RmZjBgQXas\">pic.twitter.com\/RmZjBgQXas<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kenklippenstein\/status\/2077792397044355566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration\u2019s declaration of war against left-wing political violence comes despite decades of research showing that political violence is more commonly carried out by right-wing groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;published last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that, while left-wing political violence has grown since Trump\u2019s first election in 2016, it \u201cremains much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also noted that violence carried out by left-wing individuals or groups was \u201cremarkably less lethal\u201d than violence carried out by right-wing or jihadist individuals or groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/brad-reed\">Brad Reed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad Reed is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/brad-reed\">Full Bio &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller addresses the audience at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department on July 16, 2026 in Washington, DC.&nbsp; (Photo by Finn Gomez\/Getty Images) \u201cIf you\u2019re not alarmed you\u2019re not paying attention.\u201d Brad Reed Jul 16, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/fascism-is-here-rubio-miller-say-more-terrorist-designations-coming-for-far-left-groups\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[2227,2210,2228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49265,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49264\/revisions\/49265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}