Media Research Center Exposes DHS' Funding of Radical Leftwing Groups Which Label Right-Leaning Organizations As Linked to Naziism and Domestic Terrorism

And why would they do that?

To lay a predicate for siccing Merrick Garland's DoJ on any political enemies of The Regime.

They can't just hunt their prey. First they have to bloody them up. Then the wolves are set upon those who smell of blood.

Here's the PDF from the MRC.

Executive Summary

How Biden's DHS is Weaponizing an Anti-Terror Program Against Christians,
Conservatives & The GOP - EXPOSED

Luis Cornelio & Tim Kilcullen

MRC Free Speech America, as part of its new Freedom of Information Act investigations, has learned how the Biden administration is weaponizing a government-funded anti-terrorism grant program in an effort to destroy conservatives, Christians and the Republican Party.

Under the Trump administration, the "Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant
Program" (TVTP) was used to prevent terrorism, but it was revamped under the Biden administration and renamed to provide funding for localities to combat "all forms of terrorism and targeted violence." Instead of focusing on preventing actual violence and terrorism, the program is now being used to target the entire spectrum of the political right and Christians through "media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives" and other so-called training seminars as part of a coordinated effort to make America into a one-party system.

The University of Dayton, one of several grantees, targeted groups including The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Christian Broadcasting Network, Turning Point USA, PragerU, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Republican National Committee.

The Department of Homeland Security awarded a total of 80 grants at the behest of embattled DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who called the program a "high priority" in an internal memo exclusively obtained by MRC Free Speech America. This anti-American program cost taxpayers just under $40 million, with each individual project receiving between $85,000 and $1.19 million.

DHS has resisted producing documents pursuant to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to date, but MRC Free Speech America has acquired scores of documents directly from DHS grant recipients and other related organizations revealing the true and nefarious nature of the Biden administration's objectives. The findings are telling:

* The University of Dayton PREVENTS-OH was among the most radical grantees
within the TVTP "media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives." In Ohio,
DHS awarded the University of Dayton $352,109 to establish the PREVENTS-OH
program, which promised to "draw on the expertise of the University of Dayton faculty" to fight "domestic violence extremism and hate movements." For example, a chart used by DHS and its grantee in a training program equates mainstream groups with militant neo-Nazis, including: The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, PragerU, Turning Point USA, the Christian
Broadcasting Network (CBN), the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF)
and the Republican National Committee, among others.

* The seminar also compared former President Donald Trump to Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a second Holocaust.

* The PREVENTS-OH seminars (including one headlined by a DHS agent) feature
lectures by University of Cincinnati Research Fellow Michael Loadenthal, a
self-proclaimed member of Antifa whose Twitter feed is rife with posts
celebrating acts of left-wing violence (often against police officers). Loadenthal
used PREVENTS-OH to explain in detail how to create dummy accounts on free
speech social media platforms like Telegram, Gab and Rumble in order to
"destabilize" political movements. "A lot of things we're doing are illegal," he
boasted in the lecture. "A lot of it involves breaking the law," he continued.

Under the guise of "combating violent extremism, the US government is FUNDING ANTIFA.

* The Biden DHS is responsible for the new focus of the TVTP program that seeks to silence conservatives, Christians and the Republican Party. Prior iterations of the
TVTP program under former Presidents Obama and Trump focused on actual terrorism.

The grant office was established under the Obama administration in 2011 with a 12 page plan titled "Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States." The program was revamped and renamed the "Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention" under the Trump Administration. While on the campaign trail, Biden had actually pledged to disband it. Mayorkas and Biden appear to have hijacked it for their own political agenda, awarding 80 grants to far-left projects for the purposes of establishing "media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives" among other so-called training seminars to upend conservatives, Christians and the Republican Party.

* The Biden administration spent nearly $40 million in American tax dollars spread across 80 grants to teach "media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives," among other initiatives, in an effort to weaponize TVTP against conservatives, Christians and the Republican Party.

* Eighty grants totaling $39,611,999 have been awarded under Biden and
Mayorkas, with the lowest one being for $85,000, the highest for over $1.1
million and the median being about $442,000. 52 percent of the programs have
gone to public institutions like universities and county government, whereas 48
percent have gone to private organizations, such as LGBTQ+-advocacy group Out
Boulder County and the aforementioned University of Dayton.

It is the left's unending mission to use taxpayer monies to fund its political action groups and its activists and street militias.

Apparently the Deep State itself countermanded Trump's order to stop funding this:

The anti-American TVTP grant program was first proposed by the Obama administration in 2011 after "al-Qa'ida and its affiliates" attempted to "recruit" and "radicalize" Americans, according to a White House announcement on August 2011. The Trump administration put the program on hold before being revived by DHS bureaucrats who circumvented the Trump White House and convinced Congress to fund the infamous program.

Here's what the self-admitted antifa criminal is teaching -- using federal money.

Loadenthal also participated in a separate taxpayer-funded PREVENTS-OH seminar titled "White Nationalism Workshop." At this event, Loadenthal explained how "antifascists" could "pressure financial services" like "GoFundMe, Patreon, PayPal, Venmo" and others or "pressure retailers" like Amazon and "service providers" like "AirBnB" and "Tinder" in order to "kick people off."

Once again, we see the Biden Administration using federal money to pay people to do what the federal government is forbidden to do: Censor the speech of The Regime's enemies.

Biden is funding censorship, period.

But this admitted criminal anarchist says that censorship isn't enough.

Loadenthal likewise complained about "right-wing" social media platforms that provide "free speech" and celebrated "de-platform[ing]" so-called fascists (which he used interchangeably with "the right") from Twitter and Facebook. He even gave specific advice on how to create dummy accounts on social media platforms like Gab, Telegram and Rumble in order to "paralyze" movements and "manufacture ... infighting." Loadenthal seemed particularly venomous towards the existence of encrypted messenger service Telegram, calling it "a cesspool of awful."

In his presentation, Loadenthal boasted openly that "a lot of things we're doing are illegal" and "a lot of it involves breaking the law." [Emphasis in original.]

He claimed this was necessary because "hate speech is more than speech. It's materiality. It's organizing. It's mobilization. It's not an exchange of ideas in the marketplace and the best one wins. It's something else. It's the strategic deployment of organizational energy and power."

Censorship efforts are not enough to fight against so-called fascists, Loadenthal outrageously claimed, also calling for a more aggressive approach. "To deny people that, to shut down their websites, to close their meetings, [and] to physically prevent them from assembling in public.

This is the belief," he claimed.

Loadenthal also displayed infographic instructions to teach attendees how to "infiltrate" social media platforms to "identify targets, create dossiers ... surveil, interfere, misdirect [and] disrupt" those the left opposes.

And run false flat psyops, maybe?

At the same radical seminar, University of Dayton Professor Paul Becker displayed images of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine mandate protestors, suggesting they were infiltrated by hate groups.

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