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FBI Stance on Domestic Terrorist Organizations

The FBI's stance on designating domestic groups as terrorist organizations, specifically regarding antifa and anarchist ideologies.

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Jan 13, 2026
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Which specific far‑right groups have the FBI or DHS publicly identified as domestic extremists since 2016?

Since 2016, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have consistently identified and tracked far‑right violent extremist threats — especially white‑supremacist and anti‑government/militia move...

Jan 9, 2026

What is the FBI's official stance on Antifa as a domestic terror organization?

The FBI’s formal posture is that it does not label domestic groups as “domestic terrorist organizations”; instead the bureau investigates violence and criminal activity regardless of ideology, and has...