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Decentralised informal network of anti-fascist groups focusing on the radical struggle against the far right
Claims that protesters are “paid” have repeatedly been deployed in U.S. politics to delegitimize dissent and shift blame for unrest, from allegations around the Dakota Access Pipeline and Charlottesvi...
The central claim across recent pieces is that Antifa in the United States receives , with names such as the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations (George Soros), Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Char...
Cam Higby is a conservative/MAGA-aligned independent journalist and online influencer who says he documents political confrontations and has been physically targeted while doing so; multiple outlets r...
Pam Bondi’s December 4 memo instructs federal prosecutors and law enforcement to prioritize investigations of Antifa and “similar ‘extremist groups,’” and it explicitly directs the FBI to “compile a l...
Donald Trump said at a Trump Tower news conference that “you also had some very fine people on both sides” while defending his earlier “blame on both sides” formulation about the August 2017 Charlotte...
Documented incidents between 2017 and 2024 include a series of clashes, assaults, property destruction, and targeted actions that authorities and journalists have linked to individuals or loosely affi...
The core claim—that —is not supported by the provided materials. The documents reviewed either describe local curfews and later policy reversals in U.S. cities or concern police actions against house ...
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) has funded a wide array of civil-society organizations; independent watchdog reporting in September 2025 alleges tens of millions went to groups critics t...
Antifa traces its lineage to anti-fascist activism in 1920s–1940s Europe but today functions as a . Scholarship and contemporary reporting agree Antifa is a broad anti-fascist tendency with local grou...
Antifa in the United States is portrayed across the provided materials as a , with notable groups like Rose City Antifa in Portland cited as among the oldest and most active . Reporting diverges on wh...
There is no credible, evidence-based estimate of total Antifa membership in the United States as of 2025; major reporting and reference pieces uniformly describe Antifa as a that lacks membership roll...
Since 2015, the most notable right-wing extremist attacks in the United States include the 2015 Charleston church shooting, the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre, and the 2019 El Paso Walmart massa...
Since 2020, reporting shows , sometimes engaging in clashes with far‑right groups and police, and in a smaller number of cases being linked to violent acts and criminal charges; these developments hav...
The claim that “Democrats are a domestic terrorist organization” is false and unsupported by credible evidence. Multiple government reports, legal analyses, and contemporary news coverage show no lega...
The claim that ; multiple statements from the FBI and testimony to Congress found no indication of Antifa involvement and identified far-right groups and supporters of then-President Trump as the prim...
Antifa is best described by contemporary reporting and expert summaries as a . Multiple recent sources — including Congressional statements, Q&A explainers, academic summaries, and investigative repor...
Federal and academic sources and major news outlets show that U.S. authorities have primarily focused counterterrorism designations and formal labels on foreign organizations or on the broad phenomeno...
Reporting in 2024 documents a mix of localized prosecutions and security assessments tied to anti-fascist (Antifa) actors: U.S. courts convicted two anti‑fascist activists of conspiracy to riot relate...
Since 2020, , while analysts and reporting also emphasize Antifa’s decentralized nature and dispute claims that it represents a unified, organized terrorist group . Significant prosecutions and senten...
Antifa is a decentralized, anti-fascist movement with no national leadership, and Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a broader racial-justice movement; , though individuals and local actors have at times ove...