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For a year, White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka promoted the national strategy he was drafting, saying he was pouring his “life’s work” into a “massive” blueprint that would overhaul the U.S. approach to combating terrorist threats.

The finished product, released May 6 after months of delays, is a 16-page, typo-sprinkleddocument that ranks threats based on politics rather than intelligence assessments, according to several current and former counterterrorism officials and threat analysts.

Islamist militant groups, the perennial top concern, now come second to Latin American drug cartels. The violent far right, which the FBI has repeatedly called the leading domestic threat, doesn’t merit a mention. Meanwhile, militant leftists, a small subset of extremist violence in the United States, are portrayed as a threat on par with global terrorist networks such as al-Qaida.

“A new type of domestic terrorism has emerged,” the document says, “driven by violent extremists who have adopted ideologies antithetical to freedom and the American way of life.”

Gorka’s strategy — the subject of a recent ProPublica report — lavishes praise on President Donald Trump’s national security agenda but offers few details about plans to tackle the administration’s top priorities: Latin American “narcoterrorists,” Islamist militant groups, and violent leftist antifascists and anarchists.

Gorka, who coordinates White House counterterrorism policy at the National Security Council, has called the document a “return to common sense” after a 2021 strategy by President Joe Biden centered on mostly far-right domestic threats. The new strategy mentions Biden seven times.

“What it tells me is that this administration is not paying attention to the data, to what our allies are seeing globally, or to where the biggest threats of violence come from or how they might be prevented,” said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.

Republican leaders often portrayed Biden’s focus on the violent far right as the Democrats cracking down on conservative organizing. That idea fueled Trump’s blanket pardon of more than 1,500 defendants, including those who attacked police, in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Gorka did not reply to a request for comment. The White House, asked about criticisms of the plan, referred to a number of Gorka’s public statements touting it. Olivia Wales, a White House spokesperson, added in an email, “President Trump is crushing terrorist threats to the United States and will never let cartels, Jihadists, or the governments who support them plot against our citizens with impunity.”

Here are five notable aspects of the plan, compiled from interviews with counterterrorism personnel and researchers’ published critiques:

It’s about Trump, not terrorism.

The counterterrorism strategy begins with a signed foreword by Trump, who sets the tone by claiming credit for ending “four years of weakness, failure, surrender, and humiliation under the last administration.”

Analysts say the rest of the strategy often reads like a valentine rather than a sober national security communique. Under Trump’s leadership, it states, “America is again the world’s most powerful nation, with the largest economy in history, the most advanced technologies, and the bravest and most skilled warfighters the world has ever seen.”

The strategy’s top threat categories align with the president’s pet issues, including the villainizing of Democrats and leftist dissent. The language also echoes debunked right-wing conspiracy theories the president has shared about a stolen election, a purported genocide of Christians and existential threats to Western civilization by what the strategy calls “alien cultures.” One section refers to Christians as “the most persecuted people on Earth.”

“This was once a serious document written by serious people” across Democratic and Republican presidencies, veteran terrorism analyst and former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem lamented on X. “Now it reads like a partisan screed.”

Data counter the priorities.

Analysts say the most obvious hole is the omission of violent far-right movements. Federal authorities have said for years that neo-Nazi and anti-government militia groups pose the most active and lethal domestic threats, though recently authorities have noted increases in leftist and mixed-motive attacks.

For example, on Sept. 10, the same day conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an outdoor event in Utah, a 16-year-old gunman who was steeped in online forums for white supremacy and mass-shooter fandom opened fire at a Colorado high school, critically wounding two students before killing himself.

The strategy is concerned only with the kind of violent extremism the White House ascribes to Kirk’s alleged shooter, who is labeled a violent left-wing “radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.” Terrorism analysts say the attack motives do not appear so clear-cut; the suspect, who has yet to go to trial, reportedly comes from a Republican family but had shifted politically and had expressed opposition to the “hatred” he said Kirk spread.

Just last week, a lawsuit related to a deadly shooting last year at Florida State University revealed that the gunman had used ChatGPT to explore “his interests in Hitler, Nazis, fascism” and other far-right topics.

In a social media post, Jacob Ware, a terrorism researcher who has written extensively about the militant right, called the case a “friendly reminder that the #Trump administration’s new United States Counterterrorism Strategy does not mention far-right violent extremism.”

Policies undermine strategy.

Several of the White House’s stated counterterrorism objectives conflict with the president’s own actions, analysts say.

For one, the pledge of stepped-up efforts to thwart plots doesn’t factor in the diminished capacity of federal agencies since Trump slashed the national security workforce last year and diverted counterterrorism resources to his mass deportation campaign.

Terrorism analyst Colin Clarke, executive director of the security-focused Soufan Center and a Gorka critic, summarized the document as “highly partisan & mostly incoherent.”

It touts the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military operation as the important capture of a “narco-terrorist outlaw.” But weeks before the Maduro raid, Trump had granted a pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving 45 years for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Another U.S. goal is to aggressively counter anti-American propaganda by Islamist extremist groups, which the administration says have been driven from strongholds in the Middle East and are “exploiting the ungoverned spaces” across Africa. Places where “a resurgent terror threat is the reality,” according to the strategy, include West Africa, the Sahel region, Sudan and Somalia.

Yet efforts to counter anti-American messaging are undermined by increased U.S. airstrikes with civilian casualties, particularly in Somalia and Yemen, and the cutoff of humanitarian programs across the continent, conflict monitors say. U.S. aid has been a lifeline for communities whose desperation can be exploited by militant recruiters.

The strategy calls for a “light military footprint” in Africa, with the expectation that African leaders will take on a greater share of counterterrorism work. But Trump’s halting of foreign aid hobbled regional counterterrorism programs. Conflict monitors, now watching with alarm as Islamist militants capture territory and stage attacks in Mali, urge the administration to pay closer attention to the restive Sahel region and other hot spots.

“Terrorists are on the verge of recreating a new caliphate sanctuary that could serve as an incubator for attacks against the US homeland and interests abroad,” Alex Plitsas, a security analyst and former Obama-era Pentagon official, wrote this month after visiting U.S. Africa Command.

“The result is a warning for Washington: when the United States and its partners step back, jihadist groups and adversarial powers fill the space,” Plitsas wrote.

The strategy also disparages “failed ‘forever war’ policies” at a time Trump’s base is wrestling with his decision to launch the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.

In a call with reporters after his plan was released, Gorka got defensive when asked how the Iran operation was not a “forever war” that could endanger Americans. He called critics “testicularly challenged.”

Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, drew a distinction: “Unlike the ‘forever wars’ of the past with vague objectives and ever-expanding timelines, President Trump is leading the most transparent administration in history, and he kept Americans apprised of the scope and defined objectives for Operation Epic Fury.”

Successes are exaggerated.

Trump’s preface opens by celebrating counterterrorism achievements that analysts describe as inflated or lacking in nuance.

One example is the claim that, within 43 days of Trump’s return to office, the U.S. had apprehended “the terrorist mastermind” of the deadly Abbey Gate attack in Kabul. In 2021, a suicide bomber detonated in a crowd of civilians outside an airport gate during the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, killing more than 150 Afghans and 13 American service members.

In March, the Justice Department hailed the arrest of Afghan national Mohammad Sharifullah, an Islamist militant it said had “orchestrated” the attack. Gorka has publicly recounted the dramatic scene of waiting on the tarmac in the cold at 3 a.m., alongside several Cabinet members, to welcome the plane carrying the handcuffed “man who was responsible for the murder, the massacre.”

Last month, just before Gorka’s strategy was released, a federal jury dealt a blow to the “mastermind” narrative by returning a mixed verdict. Sharifullah was convicted of aiding the terrorist group known as Islamic State Khorasan, but the jury deadlocked on whether there was sufficient evidence to hold him responsible for the Abbey Gate deaths. The difference shapes how much time Sharifullah could spend behind bars — the more serious charge was eligible for a life sentence.

A Justice Department news release about the conviction (but not the deadlock) was scrubbed of references to Sharifullah as an orchestrator and did not use the “mastermind” language that appeared days later in the White House strategy.

Analysts also expressed skepticism about the blueprint’s claim that “hundreds of Jihadist terrorists in multiple countries” had been killed in recent U.S. counterterrorism operations. The administration releases virtually no details about the identities of those targeted or the circumstances of their deaths. Humanitarian groups say they fear the operations could be causing uncounted civilian casualties.

Opponents are targeted.

Rights watchdogs say the strategy hints at ways Trump administration officials will attempt to build terrorism cases against U.S. leftist and Muslim activists through nebulous or nonexistent ties to transnational militant movements.

A link to a foreign entity formally designated as a terrorist group opens the door for government surveillance and potential charges related to providing aid — “material support” in legal jargon — to a foreign terrorist organization.

Analysts say that’s why the Trump administration has pursued designations targeting leftist militant groups in Europe under the label of antifa, as well as some branches of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood is a century-old Islamist group that renounced violence in the 1970s, though spinoffs such as Hamas remain active and on the U.S. blacklist. Republicans have long tried to portray U.S.-based Muslim advocacy groups as a foothold for the Brotherhood.

The document also calls for the rapid “neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.” Researchers called the terms ill-defined and said they aren’t used in international counterterrorism work.

Miller-Idriss’ overarching concern about the Trump counterterrorism doctrine: “How damaging could it be? Both in the things it’s ignoring and the things that it’s emphasizing.”

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Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Gorka Fumes Against the Left in New Counterterrorism Strategy

Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent left-wing extremists,” “extreme transgender ideologies,” and “violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent left-wing extremists,” “extreme transgender ideologies,” and “violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

As with much that comes out of the Trump administration, the messenger needs to be taken into account with the message. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Gorka replied to a question about what impact the Iran war might have on terrorist threats by calling critics of the war “testicularly challenged,” describing it as a “low-T approach to threats to the United States.”

Low-T refers to low testosterone, and is a term used by extremely online manosphere influencers. Much of the new national counterterrorism strategy reads in a similar vein.

“We have assets outside the realms of hard security in the informational space that were allowed to atrophy in recent years or were used for partisan political purposes,” the strategy reads. “These were previously de-weaponized and must now be reinvigorated to demoralize and delegitimize terror threat groups and their enablers.”

The strategy names three groups as the main terrorist threats to the United States: drug cartels and gangs, “Legacy Islamic Terrorists,” and left-wing radicals, including “anarchists and anti-fascists.”

It’s the latest example of the Trump administration sweeping relatively anodyne left-wing political views into a broader definition of domestic terrorism. In National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the White House told federal law enforcement to prioritize those with views including “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” in investigating domestic terrorism cases. That has been operationalized, TPM exclusively reported, via material support for terrorism cases brought against leftists accused of criminal wrongdoing in prosecutions nationwide.

The new counterterrorism strategy released Wednesday echoed NSPM-7’s terminology and broad folding of disfavored political views into potential threats.

“In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist,” the strategy reads. “We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent.”

The document ignores right-wing extremists, who, studies show, have stacked up more casualties in domestic terrorist attacks over the past several decades. Studies focusing on more recent timeframes suggest that may be changing.

Instead, the document argues that the Biden Administration used counterterrorism authorities to systematically target conservatives. There’s no evidence of that happening; rather, the Trump administration has done more than any other American administration in modern history to make political views with which it disagrees the basis for targeting by law enforcement.

In Gorka’s world, the result is that “as real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.”

The strategy comes after ProPublica ran a story last month focusing on how Gorka, the counterterrorism czar, repeatedly claimed for the better part of a year that he was “on the cusp” of releasing a blueprint for going after terrorism. None had been released. On Monday, ProPublica reported that Gorka accused the reporter of publishing a “putrid piece of hackery.” The strategy was released on Wednesday.

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Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures in the Trump administration, a gate crasher in the buttoned-up world of national security.

In a field where quiet professionalism is revered, Gorka is loud and mercurial. With a booming, British-accented voice, he describes U.S. operations turning suspected terrorists into “red mist” and stacking bodies “like cordwood.” He wears a lanyard inscribed with “WWFY & WWKY,” referencing a line from President Donald Trump: “We will find you and we will kill you.”

It is a testament to the frenzy of Trump’s first year back in office that even the colorful Gorka had faded into the background as the nation reeled from a mass deportation campaign and sweeping cuts to federal agencies. That changed this February with the launch of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which heightened the risk of retaliatory attacks on American citizens and interests around the world. Overnight, there was renewed interest in who leads White House counterterrorism efforts.

My editors and I decided it was time to break out the Gorka files. For six months, I had monitored Gorka’s public remarks for clues about the status of his long-promised national counterterrorism strategy and updates on deadly U.S. strikes in Africa and the Middle East. It had started as old-fashioned beat reporting; I cover counterterrorism, and he’s the senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.

The trove of details I collected from months of Gorka’s public statements, along with interviews with more than two dozen current and former security officials, were woven into a ProPublica investigation published in April. It’s an in-depth look at Gorka and his role in the hollowed-out national security apparatus after a year of leadership turmoil and personnel loss as Trump shifted resources toward his immigration agenda.

ProPublica reached out to Gorka for comment in multiple ways. He never responded, instead lashing out at me via posts on X before the story published. He told his 1.8 million followers that I was anti-American and accused me of writing a “putrid piece of hackery.”

There went my hopes for a good-faith exchange. After discussion with my editors, ProPublica decided to note the insults in the story. It was another revealing layer to the combustible leader Trump had installed in a sensitive national security role. A former senior official noted the eruption was “Gorka being Gorka.”

Increasingly, journalists are pushing back against attacks on our credibility by “showing the work,” guiding readers through the reporting process to dispel myths and foster transparency. In that spirit, I wanted to take this opportunity to show how basic beat reporting — fact-checking the assertions of a powerful figure — led to a broader story about the state of the U.S. counterterrorism mission at a critical moment.

I’ve covered the post-9/11 counterterrorism apparatus for more than two decades, so Gorka was a familiar presence, an academic known mainly for a well-documented hostility toward Islam, which he has portrayed as inherently violent. Gorka has dismissed criticism of this portrayal as “absurd,” saying his focus is “the war inside Islam” between radicals and Western-aligned Muslim leaders. He also served as an adviser under the first Trump administration but was ousted after just seven months amid White House infighting.

At the time, dozens of lawmakers had demanded his resignation, and investigative outlets detailed links — which Gorka denies — to the Hungarian far right. After the bruising exit, Gorka waited patiently as the Republican Party swung harder right in the Biden era and eventually returned Trump to office.

Gorka was appointed White House counterterrorism czar — he called it his dream job — in a new era without the “adults in the room,” as some officials referred to the more moderate advisers around Trump in the first term. Privately, national security personnel expressed alarm that intelligence about threats was in the hands of an official who reportedly struggled to get security clearance in the first Trump administration.

To me, Gorka was a weather vane for the administration’s national security thinking: Would his “war on terror” mindset clash with the more isolationist “America First” camp that wanted no more forever wars? How would a vast security apparatus built for the Islamist militant threat reorient toward a new focus on far-left “antifa” militants and Latin American drug cartels newly designated as terrorist organizations?

I was especially interested in the status of a national counterterrorism strategy Gorka had been promising since taking office; such documents typically lay out an administration’s approach to fighting the most urgent threats. Though Gorka had described his plan as “imminent” and “on the cusp” of release, months ticked by without any sign of it.

To glean clues about the strategy, I made it my mission to watch every news appearance, read every interview and listen to every podcast featuring Gorka since December 2024, the month before he entered the White House. It took some digging — he rails against the mainstream news media and prefers to appear (largely unchallenged) on niche pro-Trump news outlets and at conservative think tanks.

I developed a nightly ritual. After dinner with my family, I’d hole up to listen to Gorka, hunting for the scraps of news buried in his over-the-top vocabulary and graphic storytelling. Alongside my note categories for “Trump Anecdotes” and “Militant Death Tolls” was one for “Big Words.” For example, the president calls Joe Biden “sleepy”; Gorka prefers “somnambulant.”

Weeks into the reporting, in February 2026, I realized Gorka’s speech had burrowed into my brain when I watched a silly video and thought, in his voice, “Preposterous!” It was time for a break.

I reread my notes from hours of listening sessions. I interviewed counterterrorism analysts and national security watchdog groups about Gorka and his remit. Veteran national security personnel added context and analysis. Just as my editors and I were discussing how to turn the findings into a story, the Iran war began and the spotlight on Gorka grew brighter.

Much of the material on air strikes and the dismantling of guardrails was first incorporated into astory I reported about the Pentagon moving away from more robust civilian protections, a reversal highlighted by a deadly U.S. attack on a girls’ school in Iran. Other reporting ended up in the story about Gorka’s phoenixlike return to the White House and what it says about the Trump counterterrorism doctrine.

Gorka didn’t respond to requests for comment beyond the hostile posts on X. When I asked the White House for comment, spokesperson Anna Kelly praised Gorka’s “incredible job” but sidestepped questions about his approach. “Anyone attempting to smear him and the President’s national security team is only revealing that they haven’t been paying attention for the past year,” Kelly wrote, “as anyone with eyes can see that our homeland is more secure than ever.”

As of writing, exactly two months into the Iran war, Gorka’s counterterrorism strategy has yet to appear.

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March unfolded like a stress test for U.S. counterterrorism authorities.

The month opened with a gunman in an Iranian-flag shirt killing three people at a bar in Texas. Then, an attack with homemade explosives outside the mayor’s mansion in New York City. Next came a deadly shooting March 12 on a Virginia college campus and, the same afternoon, a car-ramming at a Michigan synagogue. Days later, agents arrested a man charged with threatening a mass shooting at an Ohio mosque.

To current and former national security officials, these were omens, signs of the dangers they predicted last year when President Donald Trump began redirecting counterterrorism resources toward his mass deportation campaign.

They had warned of a diminished ability to respond should major global events inflame threats at home and abroad. Now, they say, the war in Iran has locked the Trump administration into a showdown with a sophisticated state sponsor of terrorism at a time when U.S. security agencies have hemorrhaged expertise and leadership is in flux.

The urgency of the moment has trained a spotlight on Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism adviser tasked with drafting a blueprint for fighting homegrown and international threats. Nearly a year ago, Gorka declared a national counterterrorism strategy “imminent.” By July, he was “on the cusp” of unveiling the plan — a phrase he repeated three months later in October. And again in January.

To date, no strategy has appeared, and no explanation for the delay. When it is finally released, current and former counterterrorism personnel say, they expect a document rooted in politics rather than intelligence, with little detail on how to combat threats after a year of deep cuts across national security agencies.

“Strategies are only worth the amount of resources you put into them,” said a former senior official who served in the first Trump administration. “We’re entering very dangerous territory.”

The shifting promises are unsurprising to colleagues familiar with the brash, quick-tempered Gorka, a gate crasher in Washington’s buttoned-up defense establishment. His threats and boasts are laced with grandiose language and delivered in a booming, British-accented voice.

ProPublica interviewed more than two dozen national security specialists across party lines to trace Gorka’s path to one of the most sensitive jobs in government. Nearly all spoke on condition of anonymity because of the Trump administration’s record of retaliation.

His ascent, they said, tells the story of a startling transformation of the U.S. counterterrorism agenda in Trump’s second term. Eye-rolling over Gorka’s bombast has given way to anxiety about the administration’s preparedness to identify and stop major plots.

In the first Trump administration, Gorka lasted just seven months before being forced out by the “adults in the room,” as some staffers referred to the more moderate gatekeepers then around the president. In that brief stint, he reportedly struggled to obtain security clearance and faced an outcry over ties — which he denies — to a far-right group in Hungary.

After the exit, he hosted a right-wing podcast and popped up in ads selling fish-oil pills for pain relief. Then his fortunes changed again with the 2024 election that swept Trump back to power, this time with a more conspiratorially minded wing of the Make America Great Again movement. Gorka’s loyalty paid off with a phoenixlike return to the White House in a role sometimes called “counterterrorism czar.”

“I’ve been waiting 25 years for this job,” he confided on his podcast before taking office.

The first year of Trump’s second term was so frenzied that even the colorful Gorka faded into the background as the administration dismantled federal agencies and created a secretive, sometimes deadly immigration force. Now, however, the counterterrorism director’s role is coming back to light as hostilities roil the Middle East and heighten the risk of attacks in the United States or against American interests or allies overseas.

Days before U.S. military operations began in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen personnel from a counterintelligence unit that monitored threats from Iran, CNN reported — part of a wider purge of some 300 agents specializing in counterterrorism.

Former officials said the sudden loss of that many colleagues is devastating to the sensitive, granular work of preventing attacks.

“I don’t think about it in raw numbers. I think about it in the wealth of expertise and knowledge that has been cut across all levels,” a former senior Justice Department official said. “What you lose is that nuance — with a smaller team, you can only go so deep.”

An FBI spokesperson said the bureau does not comment on personnel numbers but that agents are “working around the clock” and had disrupted four alleged U.S.-based terrorist plots in December alone. “The FBI continuously assesses and realigns our resources to ensure the safety of the American people,” the statement said.

ProPublica sought an interview with Gorka directly and via the White House. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions but assailed the requests in two posts on X, where he has 1.8 million followers. The first was a “no,” along with insults, addressed to several journalists who had asked him to comment on the strategy. In the second post, directed at ProPublica, Gorka accused the reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery.”

“If the criticism is we’re killing too many Jihadis (759) since 20th January 2024, or rescuing more US hostages in 12 months (106) than Biden did in 4 years, I stand by our historic wins for AMERICA First,” Gorka wrote, with an apparent typo. Trump took office in January 2025.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in an email that the restructuring of agencies “has made the entire foreign policy apparatus even more responsive to potential threats” and praised Gorka for “an incredible job” leading interagency talks.

“Anyone attempting to smear him and the President’s national security team is only revealing that they haven’t been paying attention for the past year,” Kelly wrote, “as anyone with eyes can see that our homeland is more secure than ever.”

Inattention “Can Be Deadly”

Gorka has emerged as one of the last men standing after a tumultuous stretch for U.S. counterterrorism leadership.

His original boss, national security adviser Mike Waltz, was booted to the United Nations after the Signalgate scandal, leaving the role to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was already juggling portfolios and is busier now with Iran.

Another blow came when Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned last month in protest of the war in Iran, which he said was pushing the United States “further toward decline and chaos.”

Gorka was livid. He told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations that he called Kent the day of his resignation and left a message calling him an “utter disgrace” for criticizing the president in wartime.

“At the end of my voicemail,” Gorka recounted, “I said, ‘Good riddance to you, Joe.’”

Within days, Gorka was angling for Kent’s old job at the counterterrorism center, the government’s hub for analyzing terrorist threats, The Washington Post reported. Colleagues said they weren’t surprised — the role brings more power — but added that Gorka would likely face a tough Senate confirmation process if nominated.

The leadership disarray compounds the risks of hollowed-out counterterrorism operations, say national security analysts.

At a time when hundreds of personnel typically would’ve been assigned to thwarting attacks amid international conflict, the administration “has gutted this capacity through firings, forced resignations, and slashed budgets,” a panel of national security analysts wrote in the journal Lawfare.

The Justice Department acknowledged inbudget proposal documents that its National Security Division is facing “unprecedented personnel constraints,” struggling to keep up with increasing caseloads and a 40% drop in the number of prosecutors.

At the State Department, former officials said, Iran specialists at the counterterrorism bureau were dispersed to regional offices where counterterrorism is one of many priorities. The entire team focused on threat prevention was eliminated. As a senior official who recently left put it, “They keep saying we can do it all even though they have half an arm now, and no legs.”

Since the Iran war started, officials say, some counterterrorism specialists who had been reassigned to immigration have returned to their old roles, creating a whiplash that can disrupt investigations and analysis.

“If you’ve dropped all the cases and have taken people off the target set for an extended period of time, you can’t just drop back in and pick up where you left off,” said Ben Connable, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who leads the nonprofit Battle Research Group. “The men and women who are back on that portfolio are going to have to play catch-up, and that conveys risk.”

The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t published any national terrorism advisory bulletins, periodic updates to alert the public to the current threat level, since September. It has not released the annual Homeland Threat Assessment since Trump returned to office, according to Colin Clarke, executive director of the security-focused Soufan Center, and fellow terrorism scholar Jacob Ware. A DHS spokesperson said updates on the documents “will be provided following the end of the Democrat DHS shutdown.”

Gorka’s long-awaited strategy, Clarke and Ware said in an op-ed, could help clarify White House thinking on how to handle threats when “defenses are divided, disorganized and under-resourced.”

“This is the moment for the Trump administration to demonstrate that it recognizes the stakes,” the researchers wrote. “In counterterrorism, inattention can be deadly.”

Winding Path to White House

Gorka’s path to the White House began in the cottage industry of self-styled terrorism experts that sprang up after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

He became a regular on a training circuit where speakers received lucrative contracts from international governments and law enforcement agencies to teach about the threat of militant Islamist movements. Many trainers of that era maligned Islamand backed policies that violated the rights of ordinary American Muslims in the name of counterterrorism, according to civil liberties watchdogs.

“For him, counterterrorism is kinetic and it’s against one type of enemy: the jihadist enemy,” said an associate who has known Gorka for two decades.

Born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, he attended college in London and served as a reserve intelligence soldier in the British military. He later spent time in Hungary, dabbling in nationalist politics and earning a doctorate degree.

In 2008, Gorka moved to the United States with his American wife, also a counterterrorism specialist, and eventually became a naturalized citizen — “a legal immigrant,” as he is introduced at events.

As an instructor at think tanks and military institutes, he pushed an image of Muslims as inherently violent, according to current and former colleagues. They say his fixation on Islamist militancy crosses into a more generalized bigotry, a claim Gorka has dismissed as “absurd.” He insists that his focus is “the war inside Islam” between radicals and Western-aligned Muslim leaders. “We want to see our friends win that war,” he has said.

A former senior Justice Department official recalled an FBI agent lobbying hard to get Gorka hired as a counterterrorism trainer several years ago. The official “didn’t feel comfortable clearing him in on my credentials” for an office visit so instead drove over an hour to watch a lecture.

Gorka’s talk was “reductionist” in its portrayals of Islam as locked in a civilizational war with the West, the former official recalled. Immediately after the event, the official advised against hiring Gorka because his teachings potentially violated department principles against bias in training.

“I came back and said to the U.S. attorneys, ‘Let’s be careful here,’” the former official said. “They put a flag.”

Concerns about Gorka’s approach flared again when he joined the first Trump administration through the MAGA strategist Steve Bannon. Gorka, who had worked at Bannon’s right-wing Breitbart outlet, was appointed to the Strategic Initiatives Group, an in-house think tank at the White House.

The appointment prompted 55 House Democrats to demand his firing in a letter calling his association with far-right groups “deeply troubling.” They focused on the Hungarian nationalist group Vitézi Rend, whose medal Gorka wore on a military tunic to Trump’s inaugural events. Gorka has denied belonging to the organization, which had Nazi ties during World War II, and said the medal honors his father’s escape from communism.

Gorka’s qualifications for the job also came under scrutiny. Critics dug out and posted his dissertation, which was pilloried by other academics for a simplistic chart that placed terrorism on a spectrum somewhere between “peacekeeping” and “thermonuclear war.”

He eventually was ousted in August 2017, days after Bannon, in an internal power struggle. In his resignation letter, Gorka blamed his departure on the idea that “forces that do not support the MAGA promise are — for now — ascendant within the White House.”

Reporters spotted him outside loading his belongings into the back of a Mustang convertible with vanity plates “ART WAR.”

Dream Job

Gorka’s comeback symbolizes the hard-right swing of Trump’s second term.

Even some prominent conservatives were shocked by Gorka’s return. Michael Anton, who also served in the last Trump administration, reportedly withdrewfrom consideration for a senior national security role rather than work alongside him.

The jabs don’t seem to faze Gorka, who tells a story of standing outside the White House in January 2025, ready to swipe his badge the moment it was activated after Trump’s swearing-in. He has referred to his role as a dream job.

“I pinch myself every single day,” Gorka.

The counterterrorism director’s responsibilities include coordinating policy for external threats as well as leading efforts to free wrongfully detained Americans around the globe. Gorka can be remarkably candid and mercurial for a senior official with such a sensitive remit, according to hours of his public remarks reviewed by ProPublica.

He has exploded at journalists (“Go to hell!”) and cut off interviews when he didn’t like the questioning (“We’re done!”). He repeats anti-immigrant tropes and boasts that “Judeo-Christian civilization is the ultimate form of human existence.” He has urged Christians and Jews to buy guns to defend themselves “on the front line of the war between civilization and barbarity.”

Gorka’s public remarks also offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of working for a boss he calls “the most consequential American president” of modern times. At one event, he pulled out his phone to let the audience hear his ringtone: Trump delivering his classic “tired of winning” line.

Gorka has said his workday begins with a drive to the White House while listening to his favorite podcast, hosted by pro-Trump military historian Victor Davis Hanson. Upon arrival, he has to turn in his cellphone before spending up to 12 hours a day in “my SCIF,” the acronym for the secure chambers where senior officials discuss classified matters.

On Thursdays, he convenes an interagency discussion of the latest threats. He name drops “Marco,” “Kash” and other friends in senior roles: “They ask me as I bump into them in the West Wing: ‘Have you killed more jihadis today?’”

In his office, Gorka keeps a globe on his desk and a large poster of the Twin Towers on the wall, an ever-present reminder of 9/11. His team’s custom lanyards are printed with “WWFY & WWKY” in honor of a Trump line: “We will find you and we will kill you.”

Cloud of “Red Mist”

On Gorka’s watch, targeted militants don’t simply die.

They are “human filth” who are “obliterated,” he tells audiences, describing bodies stacked “like cordwood” after receiving “eternal justice” from the Trump administration’s “hammers of hell.”

Before the Iran conflict, Gorka was focused on a revival of the “war on terror” in parts of Africa and the Middle East. He claims U.S. strikes have killed more than 750 militants he has described as “leading jihadis” with “American blood on their hands or who were plotting attacks against Americans.”

“If we know where you are, anywhere in the world, we can kill you within 72 hours if the president says so,” he boasted last spring.

In the example Gorka shares most often, he briefed the president on a militant recruiter in Somalia who had been under surveillance for over a year during President Joe Biden’s administration. On the spot, he said, Trump ordered the fighter killed. Around 30 hours later, on Feb. 1, 2025, Gorka says, he watched live from the White House Situation Room as a U.S. strike vaporized the fighter into “a cloud of red mist,” a description he has repeated at least half a dozen times.

He sometimes screens declassified video of the militant being blown to pieces, as several State Department staffers found out when they watched him speak last year. Unsettled, they tried to rush out after the event but were corralled to flank Gorka in a photo op. “I look like a hostage,” one person in the picture said.

The staffers — since pushed out of government by cuts — said they had expected Gorka’s bravado but were horrified by his glee over what they described as a “snuff film.” Many other personnel expressed similar concerns that issues requiring level-headed professionalism were entrusted to someone they regarded as a volatile ideologue openly preaching bloodlust.

“He’s trying to show off” to the president, one longtime counterterrorism official said. “‘I nuked another 100 jihadis — pay attention to me.’”

Gorka’s claims of battlefield victories are often exaggerated or misleading about who was targeted and why, according to security officials and counterterrorism analysts. They say there are fewer than 10 “leading” Islamist militants in the world, and the idea of killing hundreds is absurd. The White House did not address a question about whether the numbers are inflated.

“It’s the word ‘leading’ that gets me,” said Clarke, of the Soufan Center. “I have no doubt they’re killing people, but they’re probably foot soldiers.”

Reports of civilian casualties from U.S. operations also muddy the death tolls, especially in Somalia and Yemen. But the Trump administration has shown little interest in investigating; it gutted a Pentagon office tasked with addressing civilian harm.

Take the “red mist” strike, for example. It targeted Ahmed Maeleninine, an Islamic State group recruiter who was hiding out in a cave complex in Somalia. Gorka said the Biden administration had surveilled Maeleninine for more than a year without striking. That’s true, said one former counterterrorism official with direct knowledge of the intelligence involved, but there was more to the story.

“He left out the part about the women and children,” said the official, who recently left government. “I knew the reason we hadn’t gone after him before was because he had his wife and children around him 24/7. Now, maybe they got lucky and found one time where they got a clear strike.”

U.S. Africa Command, which oversees the military’s Somalia operations, said in announcing the February 2025 strike that “approximately 14 ISIS-Somalia operatives were killed and no civilians were harmed.”

New Urgency

Gorka’s formal title is deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.

The role was upgraded from “special assistant” in recent years, though officials say the powers of the office have weakened since the days of early counterterrorism czars like Richard Clarke, who served under three presidents and revealed that senior leaders had ignored repeated warnings about al-Qaida before the 9/11 attacks.

Christopher Costa, a retired Army intelligence officer who spent a year in the same job under the first Trump administration, described the role as “the convening authority for all things counterterrorism for the president of the United States.”

“It was rolling up your sleeves,” Costa recalled. “It was more than just policy work — it was mitigating current threats.”

Iranian threats against U.S. targets have brought renewed attention to the lack of a Trump counterterrorism doctrine.

Gorka has been tight-lipped about the contents of his strategy. Officials who typically would’ve been involved in interagency discussions say they haven’t been consulted. One person briefed on a working draft summed it up as “Sunnis. Shiites. Cartels.” Others said they expected the addition of far-left antifascist militants, a tiny subset of the extremist threat that receives disproportionate attention from the Trump administration.

Gorka told another colleague he was writing the document himself, without traditional input from partner federal agencies. “There was no ‘U.S. government strategy’ involved,” the colleague said. “It might as well have been a new book he was writing.”

At his recent Council on Foreign Relations appearance, Gorka was asked — again — when the strategy would be released. He glanced at his staff and shifted in his seat.

He confided that he had “put my life’s work into this massive document” but had received feedback in recent days to “Cut it down, Gorka!” He said he would make trims and send the draft back to senior aides in hopes of getting a presidential signoff.

“Keep your fingers crossed,” Gorka told the audience.

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Global Far-Right Activist

Gorka has a long history of ties to far-right groups both in the United States and abroad. Prior to the 2016 election, Gorka had written opinion pieces for the far-right media outlet Breitbart, then led by Bannon who touted it as the publication of the “alt-right,” as the outlet’s national security editor. Following Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, Gorka was first nominated to the position of deputy assistant to the president and strategist for issues related to terrorism and national security as a part of the Strategic Initiatives Group set up by Bannon. After being pushed out of his position in the White House alongside Bannon when Herbert Raymond McMaster joined the administration, he joined the Canadian far-right website The Rebel, often known as the “Breitbart North” known for publishing articles such as “10 Things I Hate About Jews.”

Gorka also has ties to the Heritage Foundation, responsible for organizing the rights-stripping Project 2025 (for more on Project 2025, see the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s (GPAHE) reporting here). After being forced out of his position in the White House, Gorka was employed by Heritage as an independent contractor to give a series of speeches at the foundation, and Heritage President Kevin Roberts, the face of Project 2025, onto his radio show on October 5, 2023. Katharine was also a research fellow for outreach and director for civil society with Heritage from around May 2020 to December 2022. On April 3, 2024, Sebastian Gorka gave a presentation at Heritage alongside his wife Katharine on a book co-published by Katharine and Heritage’s Mike Gonzalez called NextGen Marxism. By this time, Gonzalez and Gorka were referring to the social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s as “cultural Marxism.”

Hungarian Extremist

Abroad, Gorka, who goes by the name Gorka Sebestyén Lukács, has notable ties to far-right groups in Hungary that came to light in 2017 after he was first brought into the White House. Gorka, who is a British-American dual citizen with Hungarian ancestry, became a public figure in Hungary starting in the 1990s. In 1992, he worked with the Strategic Defense Research Institute of the Zrínyi Miklós Military Academy while undergoing his studies at the university, now known as Corvinus University, and in 1998, he served as an official advisor to Viktor Orbán in his first administration until around 2006.

Gorka alongside the former Vice-President of Jobbik Tamás Molnár, 2006 (Source: Forward)

At this time, Orbán and his party Fidesz were a typical European center-right party unlike their contemporary, authoritarian form; however, Gorka became disenchanted with Orbán after his loss in the 2006 election and left to establish his own party called the Új Demokratikus Koalíció (New Democratic Coalition) in January 2007.

He formed the party with former members of the political party Jobbik in January 2007, that was known for their neo-fascist paramilitary group, the Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard), which intimidated Roma and other minority groups in the country and was banned by Hungarian authorities in July 2009. While Jobbik has moderated to some extent since that time, for more than a decade, Jobbik was known in Hungary for their antisemitism and a tendency to blame Jews for all of the country’s problems. They became somewhat electorally popular in the 2010 elections that followed the 2008 economic crisis, gaining more than 16 percent of the vote.

When it was formed, Gorka and the other founders of the New Democratic Coalition positioned themselves as a “conservative party” that stood against “corruption” and sought to “bring Christianity into the constitution” (the constitution passed after the fall of the U.S.S.R. was secular). Gorka went on record in 2006 defending the use of the red-and-white-striped Árpád flag, a symbol used throughout the history of Hungary, but which is also controversial due to its cooptation by Ferenc Szálasi’s fascist Arrow Cross movement that collaborated with the Nazis. After the Soviet collapse, the Árpád flag has mainly been used by far-right groups such as the Hungarian Guard.

Gorka is on record supporting the formation of the Hungarian Guard in 2007. In a television interview in August 2007, Gorka referred to it as “a big societal need,” as the Hungarian military was “sick, and totally reflects the state of Hungarian society…. This country cannot defend itself.” Subsequent statements from Gorka’s political party demonstrate that they supported the Hungarian Guard even after the Guard’s extremist views had become known.

Gorka wearing the uniform and medal of the Vitézi Rend (Source: Facebook)

After being nominated to his position in the White House, Gorka displayed even more ties to the Hungarian far right when he “proudly” wore the uniform and badge of the Vitézi Rend (Order of Chivalry) at Trump’s Inaugural Ball. The Order of Chivalry are a group known in Hungary for having collaborated with the Nazis and received property confiscated from Jews sent to concentration camps by the government. Banned by the subsequent socialist government in 1945, two Vitézi Rend groups reemerged in the 1990s, with the “Historical Vitézi Rend” faction that Gorka belongs to upholding all of the same racial supremacist principles as the first iteration of the group. It still includes members with deeply antisemitic views.

While it is possible that Gorka inherited the memorabilia from his grandfather like he claims, he has used the initial “v.,” short for Vitezi, in his name in official documents, including his dissertation and in his :{biography at the Gatestone Institute, which signifies membership in the organization. Leaders of the Vitézi Rend claimed that Gorka was a life-long member and said that they were proud of Gorka for wearing the medal.}:

Gorka, who received American citizenship though his American-born wife Katharine, apparently was able to bypass State Department rules that bar members of certain organizations that were “participants in Nazi persecution, genocide, or the commission of any act of torture or extrajudicial killing” from obtaining entry visas to the United States.

Marriage to Far-Right activist Katie Gorka

In 1994, Sebastian Gorka met his future wife Katharine in Romania, who worked at the time for a public policy think tank in New York. The two would eventually marry in Hungary and remain in Europe for more than a decade. After relocating to the United States, both would become active in national security circles and the far-right wing of the Republican Party. Katharine “Katie” Gorka is a republican party activist who heads the Fairfax County Republican Party, and who has held positions in various think tanks, party organizations, and governmental posts.

Katharine, along with Sebastian, is president of the consulting firm Threat Knowledge Group, and was once the president of a now-defunct think tank called the Council on Global Security. Like Sebastian, Katharine has also written in the past for Breitbart. In one column, she defended Republican members of Congress who were denounced by their party for spreading false conspiracy theories about a Clinton aide having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Katharine was a part of Trump’s 2016 transition team, and she served in the first Trump administration as a senior policy advisor in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), starting in 2017, and as press secretary for Customs and Border Protection for two months in 2019.

Like Sebastian, Katharine focused on shifting DHS’s emphasis towards radical Islamist groups at the expense of other forms of extremism. In 2013, she was critical of the Obama administration for seemingly “allowing Islamists to dictate national security policy,” and the administration’s “emphasis on Islam as a religion of peace.” While at DHS, Katherine was involved in the efforts to defund Countering Violent Extremism efforts that focused on white supremacists, so as to reorient the department’s focus back towards Islamist extremists.

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Katharine Gorka was hired at DHS in May 2017 but has remained largely out of public view in her role as Senior Advisor. Gorka is a terrorism researcher who has been described as an “anti-Muslim activist” and has been accused of holding an “Islamo-centric view of terrorism,” despite the fact that most terrorist acts in the United States are committed by white supremacists. During Gorka’s tenure at DHS, she reportedly worked to de-prioritize countering white supremacist violence and reorient the agency’s Countering Violent Extremism program towards a singular focus on Muslim communities, even as white nationalist violence has risen.

The public deserves to know what Gorka is doing at DHS, but the Trump administration is illegally withholding records that could have answers. Weeks before a neo-Nazi killed a woman in Charlottesville, VA, DHS revoked a CVE grant for a group that sought to de-radicalize white nationalist gangs, a decision with which Gorka was reportedly involved. Today, despite recent high-profile instances of white extremist violence—like the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the largest act of anti-Semitic violence in American history—the CVE program is essentially defunct, a fact which some attribute to Gorka’s successful opposition to using CVE to counter violent white extremism.

We’re suing to find out whether Gorka’s extreme and biased views are driving Homeland Security resources away from real threats. Democracy Forward requested records from DHS in November of 2018 under the Freedom of Information Act. The records sought include calendars, call logs and other documents that would reveal Gorka’s day-to-day activities within the Trump administration. DHS is illegally withholding that information, so we’re taking legal action.

We expect a response from the government by April 8, 2019.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Katharine "Katie" Cornell Gorka is an American national security analyst who served as a senior policy adviser in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...

Designation	Name	Email
Chairman	Katie Gorka	chairman@fairfaxgop.org
County First Vice Chair	Rosie Oakley	firstvicechair@fairfaxgop.org
County Vice Chair for Administration	Open	vcadmin@fairfaxgop.org
County Vice Chair for Community Engagement	Srilekha Palle	vcengagement@fairfaxgop.org
County Vice Chair for Operations	Nick Andersen	vcoperations@fairfaxgop.org
County Vice Chair for Finance		vcfinance@fairfaxgop.org
County Vice Chair for Communications		vccommunications@fairfaxgop.org
Virginia Federation of Republican Women Representative		vfrwr@fairfaxgop.org
Young Republican Representative		youngrepublican@fairfaxgop.org
College Republican Representative		collegerepublican@fairfaxgop.org
Representative to the 8th Congressional District Committee	Paul Blumstein
Representative to the 10th Congressional District Committee
Republican members of the Fairfax County Electoral Board	Chris Henzel, Jeff Shapiro
Secretary	Tom Curtin	secretary@fairfaxgop.org
Treasurer	Mike Rumberg	treasurer@fairfaxgop.org
Parliamentarian	Jim Parmelee	Jim Parmelee

Background

Gorka was born in Boston and grew up in different places on the East Coast.^[3] She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in comparative literature, and received a M.Sc. in international political economy from the London School of Economics.^[3][4] She lived in Budapest, Hungary for twelve years after the fall of communism,^[3] and married Sebastian Gorka in Sopron in 1996.^[4] She later founded the now-defunct Council on Global Security think-tank, and the Threat Knowledge Group consulting firm, which provided counter-terrorism training for the U.S. government and military. She was later also a contributor to Breitbart News, and a co-editor of the book Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism with Patrick Sookhdeo.^[1][5]

Views

Prior to her appointment in the Trump administration, Gorka has advocated for an "ideological war" against Islamists, and supported legislation sponsored by Rep. Michele Bachmann to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, which would extend to United States Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).^[1] She has claimed that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the "headquarters" of the enemy of the West,^[1] and that the Obama administration was "supporting Islamist groups abroad" and "allowing Islamists to dictate national security policy."^[6] She has also proposed "shutting down the radical mosques," and suggested that Al Jazeera should not be allowed to broadcast in the United States.^[7] She has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.^[8]

Trump administration

:{Gorka was named to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition team by Donald Trump in November 2016. It was noted that she had previously complained extensively that the DHS trained its agents that Islam is a "religion of peace", which she claimed to be false.^[5] In May 2017, Gorka was named an adviser to the DHS's policy office.^[2]

She then ended funding from the Countering Violent Extremism Task Force (CVE) to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize white supremacists, as well as to the Muslim Public Affairs Council.^[9] Watchdog groups requested records during her time as a senior adviser at DHS, with the Democracy Forward group suing to get documents.^[10]}:

It was later revealed in emails that Gorka had wanted, apparently without success, to redirect the focus of the CVE against antifa during her time in the DHS.^[6]

She became press secretary of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in June 2019, but left her position in August in order to spend more time with her family.^[11][12] Gorka did not appear frequently in public during her time at the CBP, leading the Democracy Forward group to sue the DHS to find out "what Gorka is doing" there.^[13]

Later activities

Gorka was elected to the McLean, Virginia Community Center Board in 2023, where she had lived since 2008, after having unsuccessfully tried to become elected the previous year amid controversy over a Drag Queen Story Hour.^[14] She has also been involved with the activist group Moms for Liberty.^[15] She was elected as chair of the Fairfax County Republican Party in 2024.^[16]

Bibliography

Gorka, Katharine C. (2013). Cornell Iron Works: The History of an Enduring Family Business. ISBN 978-0615793498.
Gorka, Katharine Cornell; Gonzalez, Mike (2024). NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It. Encounter. ISBN 978-1641773539.

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SEBASTIAN GORKA (NEWSMAX HOST): Yeah, absolutely stunning. I mean, a more blatant example of politically-motivated censorship is hard to imagine. And this coming as we have all the revelations, thanks to Elon Musk at Twitter, of government-sponsored censorship. Is this something being done in league with the White House, with the DNC? We don't know, but we know the facts of the case, that Newsmax was asking for fair remuneration, which is exactly the same for the top 75 channels on DirecTV, 22 of which, 22 are hardcore left-wing news channels. So, why is it that only Newsmax is treated like this? It's very clear - it's because Newsmax is growing in popularity, it's growing in influence, and they want to shut down a voice that isn't the mainstream lying media, but actually brings the facts to all of our viewers.

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HOGAN GIDLEY (GUEST): Thankfully, you know, I think people are outraged by it and they can take some action to try and fix it.

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Katharine Gorka, now an adviser in the Department of Homeland Security's policy office, has pushed conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the government and media. Sebastian Gorka is a deputy assistant to the president and has described Islam as an inherently violent religion.

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Aug 20, 2019Before joining CBP on June 24, Katharine Gorka was a political appointee in the Homeland Security policy office who stirred controversy for her role in the department's efforts to combat violent ...

atharine Gorka is leaving her post as press secretary for US Customs and Border Protection after only two months on the job.

She confirmed to CNN Tuesday that she is resigning and will leave the agency at the end of the week. The Washington Post first reported Gorka’s departure.

“I have served the administration for almost three years. I’ve decided it’s time to spend more time with my family,” she said, adding that it was “100%” her choice to leave the position.

During her tenure at CBP, the agency was in the spotlight for severe overcrowding at its border facilities, as well as reports oflewd and demeaning social media postings by former and current agents.

Gorka’s departure is the latest in a string of high-profile turnovers at the Department of Homeland Security, which has left the department with an acting secretary since April, as well as all three immigration-focused agencies with acting chiefs.

Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan joined the agency in early Julyafter a short stint at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With Gorka’s departure, both CBP and ICE will also be without a political appointee in their communications offices.

Gorka is married to Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, who was an outspoken and combative defender of the President’s national security agenda, known for his dire warnings of Islamic terrorism while writing for Breitbart.

Before joining CBP on June 24, Katharine Gorka was a political appointee in the Homeland Security policy office who stirred controversy for her role in thedepartment’s efforts to combat violent extremism in the US. Over the past year, outside watchdog groups have requested records during her time as a senior adviser at DHS, with one group suing to get documents.

“We’re suing to find out whether her extreme and biased views are driving Homeland Security resources away from real threats,” said Democracy Forward spokeswoman Charisma Troiano in March.

Gorka joined CBP when former acting Commissioner John Sanders was leading the agency. Sanders had advocated for Gorka to join, but he left the agency himself shortlyafter Gorka arrived.

“Katie has been an active and valued member of CBP’s Public Affairs team and after three years of public service as a member of the DHS transition team, at DHS and CBP, we wish her all the best in her future endeavors,” said acting Assistant Commissioner Michael Friel in a statement Tuesday.

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Katharine Gorka, a political appointee at the Department of Homeland Security who has stirred controversy for her views on terrorism and her role in the department’s efforts to combat violent extremism in the US, is expected to be the new press secretary at Customs and Border Protection.

Acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders told CNN Tuesday that Gorka is expected to take the position and he advocated for her to join the agency.

The move comes as President Donald Trump continues his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants and the increasing number of migrants crossing the southern border and claiming asylum.

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Customs and Border Protection is the agency responsible for policing the US borders and facilitating legal trade and travel. It is also the frontline agency dealing with the surge of migrants at the southern border. If Gorka steps into this new role, she will be taking on the public face of the agency at the center of the President’s attention, which has been struggling with capacity and resource issues.

The Department of Homeland Security has also seen a major turnover in senior staff in the wake of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s forced departure in April. Several CBP officials joined Kevin McAleenan at DHS headquarters when he was named acting Homeland Security secretary.

In response to a request for comment on her new post, Gorka told CNN Tuesday, “I am honored for this opportunity to serve at CBP.”

Gorka is married to Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to Trump, who was an outspoken and combative defender of the President’s national security agenda, known for his dire warnings of Islamic terrorism while writing for Breitbart.

Sebastian Gorka left the White House in August 2017, in the wake of chief White House strategist Steve Bannon’s forced departure.

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Both Gorkas wrote for Breitbart, where Bannon served as an executive before and after his time at the White House.

In a 2014, Breitbart story, Katharine Gorka, under the name Katie Gorka, wrote that “Presidents Bush and Obama both publicly declared Islam to be a religion of peace, which has struck a sour chord for many. “

“To date, American and Western leaders have preemptively shut down any debate within Islam by declaring that Islam is the religion of peace and that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam,” she wrote.

In another 2014 article, she wrote that the Obama administration “narrowly defined the enemy as only the most violent jihadists: first Al Qaeda and now ISIS.”

“This inaccurate assessment of the enemy has its roots in left-wing theories about social movements,” she wrote in part.

Gorka has supporters within the administration and department and was recommended by various people for a DHS policy job. “She was very good at her job and is very intelligent,” said the senior official about her time at DHS.

Gorka, who has been with the Trump administration since its beginning, was under consideration to lead the new DHS terrorism prevention office, but was not offered the position, according to two sources. An administration official said DHS did not want her past controversies to be a distraction from the work of the department.

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While at DHS, she worked in the policy office on what is known as “countering violent extremism” issues, according to the official. Countering violent extremism efforts have historically been associated with preventing individuals from radicalizing and joining or carrying out attacks on behalf of Islamic terror groups, but some activity has been focused on thwarting threats from domestic terror movements, like white nationalist extremists.

In August 2017, the Huffington Post reported that Gorka and other aides worked to eliminate a DHS grant for Life After Hate, which would have been used to expand its outreach and intervention services for former white supremacists and others in the “criminal underground.” Earlier that summer, DHS, under the leadership of then-DHS Secretary John Kelly, cut some organizations out of grant money to counter violent extremism – including nearly a dozen that the Obama administration considered worthy of receiving the funds.

A DHS official also previously told the Huffington Post that the department, and Gorka, “has a productive relationship with (Life After Hate) and has recently met and participated in events with its new leadership.”

A DHS spokesperson told CNN, “Katie has been a valuable member of the DHS team, helping to advance the department’s mission of preventing targeted violence and countering terrorism, regardless of ideology. We look forward to her continued service with the department in her new position at CBP as we work to secure the border and enforce our nation’s immigration laws.”

In March, the legal watchdog group Democracy Forward sued the department for records detailing Gorka’s role as a senior adviser at DHS, after it was unsuccessful with a Freedom of Information Act request.

“The public deserves to know what Katharine Gorka is doing at DHS, but the Trump administration isn’t saying,” said Democracy Forward spokeswoman Charisma Troiano at the time. “We’re suing to find out whether her extreme and biased views are driving Homeland Security resources away from real threats.”

Troiano said that the organization has yet to receive records and the lawsuit is ongoing.

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Earlier this year, American Oversight also requested records from the department for Gorka “to shed light on DHS counterterrorism efforts.”

“Katharine Gorka, an advisor in DHS’s policy office has a long history of working with far-right national security groups, and her writings have been described as anti-Muslim in sentiment,” wrote Executive Director Austin Evers in a letter to DHS in January.

It is unclear if the press secretary role has been finalized or when Gorka will begin at CBP. The agency’s last press secretary left in March to join the communications team at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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last weekend’s Moms for Liberty summit cemented the group as a key player in Republican politics, with the party’s presidential primary front-runners Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis addressing attendees both at the conference and at home via livestream. But it’s what happened in the breakout strategy sessions that were closed to the press that reveals why the group has become so effective — and dangerous.

In session after session, speakers offered a warped view of reality aimed at manipulating parents into believing they’re righteous liberators battling some ambiguous enemy located in public schools. They warned audience members that theteachers unions and other school officials that are “indoctrinating our kids” are on a mission to do everything from grooming their children to securing “world domination.”

I’ve been following Moms for Liberty for over two years, and it’s now the fastest-growing self-described “parental rights” organization in the United States, hiding behind the innocuous descriptor to covertly push a far-right agenda. Its meteoric rise has coincided with an alarming increase in harassment and threats directed at teachers, administrators, and school officials across the country — so much so that theSouthern Poverty Law Center designated Moms for Liberty as an extremist group this year.

What always strikes me about Moms for Liberty is the leadership’s ability to provoke such intense and hateful reactions from members, like threatening gun violence against librarians and bringing a 10-year-old to tears. I was morbidly curious about what exactly they were telling them. Although I pieced together a decent enough picture by viewing recorded meetings, streamed events, documents, and interviews, I felt like I was missing something because I was behind a desk, not on the ground.

Until I attended this year’s summit.

The gathering lasted from Thursday night until Sunday morning, drawing over 700 attendees and a steady group of protesters positioned outside of the hotel. It was divided into two types of events: general sessions and breakout sessions. General sessions included big name speakers — Trump, DeSantis, Nikki Haley — catered meals, and a designated press area.

Both the breakout sessions and the main stage included speakers doubling down on a local Indiana chapter's uncritical use of an Adolf Hitler quote printed on the front of their newsletter. NBC News reported that a speaker at a breakout session told attendees to “never apologize.” At Saturday night's general session, co-founder Tiffany Justice said, “One of our moms in a newsletter quotes Hitler. I stand with that mom.” The crowd cheered.

Manufacturing terror to mobilize parents

We wanted to get a closer look at how Moms for Liberty instructs members behind closed doors, so Madeline Peltz, my colleague who was with me at the summit, and I split up the breakout sessions to cover more ground.

Kim Hermann, a lawyer affiliated with the Southeastern Legal Foundation, spoke in a breakout session which, according to the event description, was about “navigating legal challenges and advocating for your family.” She began by warning parents that they were “fighting a constitutional war.”

She said those running schools (“teacher unions, those that are indoctrinating our kids”) want to “undermine our republic and our way of government” and claimed that schools are intentionally withholding information from kids about their constitutional rights.

Her speech only got more extreme from there: She claimed that thesesame powerful actors are “trying to get rid of our Constitution” — somehow through critical race theory — and that their ultimate goal is to “destroy” America.

In another breakout session,Deb Fillman, a “homeschool consultant,” spent over an hour ranting about a faceless enemy attacking children through the weapon of social-emotional learning.

Fillman said that while she didn’t exactly know who benefits from this alleged child exploitation, she tends to agree that they’re probably “Marxists or globalists.”

But whoever they are, they’re out to “replace parents,” groom your children by creating an inappropriate “trust bond,” gather your child’s data to manipulate them, and ultimately pursue “world domination.”

Conspiracy theories about impending child microchips and Bill Gates were sprinkled in the presentation, too. Fillman suggested that math software owned by Gates’ Microsoft is being nefariously used to “get every data point they possibly can on a kid.” In the same vein of corrupt data collection, she told audience members that she fears that microchips tracking students in schools (allegedly an “experiment” in China) is coming to the United States soon, which means the government would “know everything.”

Education consultants teach how to overwhelm opponents

Amid all of the conspiracy theories and fearmongering, there were select breakout sessions that offered actual strategies to “fight” the evils attendees had learned about.

Education consultant Jordan Adams’ presentation was focused on successfully flipped school boards, and it included detailed instructions about how to get newly elected board majorities to bulldoze through Moms for Liberty policy priorities.

Adams presented audience members with a how-to guide on destabilizing school districts within the first 100 days of taking office, including a worksheet that he encouraged participants to fill out listing a timeline of tangible steps meant to overwhelm the opposition (the image includes my notes for his suggested actions based on the presentation). The reverse side of the handout encouraged attendees to familiarize themselves with and counter common talking points from adversaries.

In order to pass controversial policies without backlash, Adams suggests that school boards bombard the district with an array of demands and changes so that the opposition can’t keep up. “These [school] boards, these majorities, they need to be meeting on multiple fronts, multiple issues,” he said. “They need to keep moving, and the idea is that the other side, the powers that be, they cannot keep up with all of it. Right? Oftentimes there will be one small thing, one thing at a time. And they can rally people around that. They can’t counter everything.”

Some of the first steps include putting school administrators “on notice that they need to cooperate with all of this” and advertising “the values” the new board is implementing when posting job ads for new teachers.

The second month is defined by policies: “Start introducing policies on CRT [critical race theory], eliminating DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] offices, reviewing contracts and initiatives, eliminate student surveys.” He also suggested putting a “moratorium on new technology.”

Nearly every action step Adams discussed was also a consulting service he could both provide and profit from. Adams runs Vermilion Education, an education consulting business specializing in transparency audits, curriculum design, board advising, and teacher training. Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler (who also chairs the Sarasota County school board) suggested hiring Adams to her school system, which was the first to consider it.

Meanwhile, Adams suggested that schools are “raking in cash from the state, from taxpayers” and “funneling it off to their friends.”

His wasn’t the only session to highlight school finances.

The Heritage Foundation runs the show

Learning that there was going to be a “dark money in education” breakout session at the summit made me laugh (the irony!). Learning who the speakers were —Katie Gorka (former research fellow at The Heritage Foundationand wife of far-right political commentator Sebastian Gorka) and Rhyen Staley (a researcher at Koch-connected Parents Defending Education) — made me attend.

The message of the session was “follow the money.” Aside from some absurd conspiracy theories about the Centers for Disease Control trying to install puberty blockers “without the barrier of parental permissions”and Gorka’s claim that there’s dark money behind critical race theory, sex education, drag queen story hour, and transgenderism, the session loosely taught the audience how to determine who is really behind different educational organizations.

To determine influence, the speakers instructed audience members to look at who sponsors conferences and what foundations are giving them money in order to exert control. The examples they used were aboutteachers unions, but they could have also pointed to the summit’s sponsors.

The event, held in Philadelphia, was lavish: Nearly every meal was elaborately catered and served by waiters. The organizers also booked the Museum of the American Revolution and chartered buses to get attendees there, which wasn’t a cheap endeavor.They had money, but whose? Ticket sales and meager membership dues wouldn’t likely cover this kind of costly event.

Applying the same logic I learned in the “dark money” session to Moms for Liberty would suggest that the group’s chapters are shills for organizations like The Heritage Foundation and The Leadership Institute, a decades-old nonprofit that trains young conservative activists and policy leaders to sell right-wing ideals.

Both Heritage and Leadership sponsored the summit at the highest tier possible. Both have regularly partnered with and given resources to Moms for Liberty since the group’s infancy. And co-founder Ziegler is now running the Leadership Institute’s School Board Leaders Program.

And there’s more. Breakout session speaker “Billboard Chris” Elston, a Canadian anti-trans activist, revealed that the Heritage Foundation identified and brought together 40 people, including him, in March 2022 to “fight gender ideology” — indicating that the think tank is helping to organize this coalition.

In the same session, Jay Richards, a senior research fellow at Heritage, claimed that he was the first one to approach Heritage with the idea to “fight gender ideology”and has spearheaded that movement.

Moms for Liberty was awarded Heritage’s Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship in 2022 for embodying “the virtues of the American Founding.” It also came with a nice little $25,000 prize.

Backed by and affiliated with individuals and organizations attempting togut and privatize public schools, Heritage is one of the leading crusaders trying to destabilize public education. So it’s no surprise that it’s using Moms for Liberty members as pawns to further that cause.

Having closely monitored Moms for Liberty longer than just about anyone else, I can say with confidence that the group is only becoming more openly extreme. It’s been headed that way for years, but now the mask is off.

Moms for Liberty is embracing rhetoric that not only appeals to far-right conspiracy theorists, but creates them.

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We’ve noted the regime’s past hostility toward investigating white supremacist terrorism. This week, CREW sued the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to turn over documents “that would explain former-DHS Advisor for Policy Katharine Gorka’s involvement in revoking grants combating white supremacy and white nationalism.” Gorka is the wife of Sebastian Gorka, the fascist former deputy assistant to Trump.

Before joining the government, [Katharine] Gorka was a contributing author of Breitbart, a website favored by white nationalists and white supremacists. While Gorka was a DHS official, DHS focused almost exclusively on combating Islamic extremism while reducing or eliminating funding of programs to combat white supremacy. DHS even reportedly considered renaming the DHS Countering Violent Task Force to “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism.”

This comes in the wake of leaked emails revealing that senior White House advisor Stephen Miller, the regime’s point-person on immigration and refugee policy–sent a bunch of white supremacist claptrap to his sources at Breitbart.

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Mario Torres is in the front line for the defense of civilization.

Torres is the unassuming Columbia University janitor pictured defending Hamilton Hall from invading barbarians last week. The iconic photo of him pinning a protester against the wall became an instant social media meme.

The pro-terrorism protester he pinned is himself a poster boy — for everything reviled in America. He is 40-year-old millionaire anarchist Cody Tarlow, also known as James Carlson or Cody Carlson, a violent trust-funder with a long history of Marxist agitation, whose late parents were megadonor ad executives, and whose trophy stepmother is now dating singer John Mellencamp.

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For the promise of peace, Northwestern University and Rutgers University have promised to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Perhaps the schools, sophisticated and well-lawyered though they are, didn’t know they would violate the Act. Perhaps they’re so lost to an ideology obsessed with race, ethnicity, and oppression that they can’t imagine that the law sees things differently. Or perhaps the schools did know, and they hope that the law will provide them with a way out of agreements that they didn’t have the courage to oppose.

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The protesters disrupting college campuses across the country are the schools’ Marxist chickens coming home to roost.

For decades, U.S. universities, especially selective ones, have favored applicants who struck the right “social justice” notes, and hired faculty that reinforced those views. Then they cemented this zeitgeist with the jargon of identity and the “oppressed-oppressor” paradigm.

What did the universities now being rocked by pro-Palestinian protests expect? That there would not be consequences?

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How much do we know about hashtag#Marxism? Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka, authors of the book, “NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It,” recently sat down with NTD News to unpack it for us.

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He’s lost it.

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This is the THIRD time in less than 24 hours!! Biden just AGAIN told the dubious story about his "Uncle Bosey" and "a lot of cannibals" in New Guinea. He then AGAIN repeated the false "suckers and losers" claim.

Oh yeah, and he claimed D-Day was on a Sunday (it was on a Tuesday).

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This morning's unanimous decision in the Muldrow case (a sex discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act) will make it easier to sue employers over many of their DEI policies: https://lnkd.in/eHYWpYBy

Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Sue Employers Over DEI Policies

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Presidents used to appoint diplomats to defend the interests of the United States and the public against foreign adversaries. That looks now like a gauzy past. Today, you have President Joe Biden’s appointees, who want to demolish the society they purport to represent.

Meet Zakiya Carr Johnson, the State Department's new DEI chief. Her views of the United States, the country she now represents, come straight out of the critical race theory (CRT) playbook: the U.S. is systemically rotten, and thus requires systemic overhaul.

“Because we live and work within systems, and those systems, as I mentioned before, are so deeply rooted in patriarchy, in colonialism, in racism, in otherism, we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes,” she said in a 10-minute video on intersectional feminism she made in 2020 for a consulting firm she founded. “In order to make any change, we’ve literally got to be about dismantling that traditional structure at every juncture.”

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If it looks like a Chinese spy app, functions like a Chinese spy app, and has a Chinese Communist Party card-carrying member on the board of its main domestic subsidiary, then it’s probably a Chinese spy app.

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Unacceptable. This infatuation/madness with gender identity has to stop. Parents have every right to know what is being taught to their children in any school environment, public or private.

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This is nuts - they're attacking moms trying to protect innocent kids now???

A teachers' union has brought a lawsuit against the mother of a 5 year old for asking to have a copy of the class curriculum.

She said they wanted to send a message to other parents: "If you ask questions, we will come after you".

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The Marxists never left, they only rebranded. Only by understanding how we got here, and the seriousness of the current cultural crisis, will Americans know what must be done to defeat today’s enemy. https://lnkd.in/ekNi239y

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Thank you, Mariana.

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Congratulations to Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka on this great release “Nextgen Marxism: What It Is and How To Combat It.” I look forward to reading it.

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My book with Katie Gorka is published today!

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If your school has a Chief Diversity Officer or other positions like it, your school will likely see diminished academic outcomes and a worse campus climate.

Want a simple way to improve schools? Get rid of DEI programs.

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An activist at a recent anti-Israel march performed a valuable service when he revealed what the real goal of the protest was: “Getting rid of America, getting rid of the West. This is what this is for,” he said, motioning toward the crowd of demonstrators. “Yes. Everyone here understands that at some level we need to get rid of America completely.”

My new book with Katharine Gorka, NextGen Marxism, What It Is and How To Combat it, explains the new battle to dismantle America, who's behind it, and why.

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If you're in DC next week, make sure you register for the launch of my new book with Katie Gorka on Wednesday, one day after book is published, or view online. https://lnkd.in/dcu2guQh.

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Extraordinarily disappointing to see from my alma mater. When the Free Beacon reached out to professor Lama Abu-Odeh, who wrote these antisemitic screeds, she told them to “F— off.” And not a word from Dean William M. Treanor, who put Ilya Shapiro through the wringer.

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Georgetown Law Professor Published Anti-Semitic Screeds to School's Scholarly Article Database. When We Asked Questions, She Scrubbed Them.

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DEI, CRT, ESG = Marxism by acronym

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We need to defund DEI. Stop investing your money in places that propagate its poison.

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What's going on at the ACLU?

“America’s special lawyers for speech freedom are the ones chasing whistleblowers, dissident political activists, and journalists for doing speech.”

Read Nellie Bowles full TGIF newsletter here: https://thefp.pub/3wVZ0WQ

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I parachute behind enemy lines--PBS!--and live to fight another day: https://lnkd.in/ejuQf5ev

Then write a companion column:

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2mo • 2 months ago

To all my LinkedIn friends: if you're in Washington DC this Wednesday you should come to this event.

DEI and all the other cultural changes that have swept the country in recent years have met real resistance. The American people do not want to be sent to reeducation camp, see society uprooted, and their national security threatened, and are fighting back. But they need help, from their political leaders, real journalists willing to speak truth to power (not acquiesce to it), activists, and others who will make sure they do not fight alone.

Please join me and a star-studded cast of speakers. Registration is below:

Seizing the Moment to Defeat DEI

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2mo • 2 months ago

The Grapes of Wrath is an iconic 1940 film that brought together giants of their genres: John Ford, the most acclaimed director of his time, John Steinbeck, who wrote the bestselling novel of the same name, and Darryl Zanuck, Hollywood’s preeminent producer. The end product was pure Americana.

It is with the perspective of this film from more than 80 years ago that we should approach this year’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which brings together Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Where these two intensely political, election-year films about Oklahoma families overlap, and where they differ, tells us much about our moment in time. Spoiler alert: though they are both propaganda films for the federal bureaucracy, one left you feeling good about the American people, while the other went out of its way to make you hate the country. (I'll let you guess which is which).

My column this week:

Hollywood goes to bat for the federal bureaucracy

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We've published a booklet, "Race and the Constitution," which aims to provide a conservative view of those two topics and their interplay. Starting with those natural principles identified in the Declaration of Independence, the book traces their threads through American history, highlighting at key historical moments the eternal fight between principle and tribalism.

You can find a pdf of the booklet here, but if you or your organization would like printed copies, we'll happily send them to you.

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2mo • 2 months ago

Conservatives are increasingly forging global ties, sharing cutting-edge practices, ideas, and strategies to conserve local traditions, ageless wisdom, and the nation-state itself against those who seek to condemn the past in order to impose a global order based on cultural erasure. Striking global alliances to defeat a nebulous global governance — and exploring new technologies such as artificial intelligence to save and transmit to future generations the eternal truths of the classics, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment — may sound contradictory. But conferences and meetings across the Atlantic do attest that, yes, it’s supremely important to compare notes with conservatives here in Europe, the United States, and, increasingly, Ibero-America, to safeguard and then pass on what is particular to each.

My column this week:

Conservatives from around the world should learn from each other as they battle the Left

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2mo • 2 months ago

The woke fever that has gripped the country for a decade may be starting to break in some parts of academia and the corporate world, but the Biden administration keeps spreading the disease like it’s 2020. One of its recent rules has given American Indian tribes effective veto power over academic research and the curation of artifacts. This is leading to museums closing halls and exhibits related to Native American history, lest they fall foul of the Interior Department’s new regulations giving final say over scholarships to the leaders of the nation’s some 574 federally recognized tribes. Museums and universities that receive federal funds — practically all — will be affected if they are in possession of Indian cultural items.

My column this week:

Biden administration’s latest woke rule undermines Native American culture and history

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His research didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings, then “all hell broke loose.”

Harvard economist Roland Fryer tells Bari Weiss at the University of Austin about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish it. https://thefp.pub/48b8af6

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Roland Fryer on Racial Bias in Police Shootings

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