The list of beliefs that can put someone on the radar is written in black and white in the budget request. Anti Americanism. Anti capitalism. Anti Christianity. Support for the overthrow of the US government. Extremism on issues of migration, race, and gender. Hostility toward traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Department of Justice and the FBI warn in their budget request for 2027 of a growing threat from domestic terrorism. Perpetrators would act from different ideological motives and are further mobilized by political and social developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Particularly problematic is the use of social media, specialized websites, and encrypted communication services through which followers are recruited, actions are planned, and violence is propagated. A growing challenge are lone actors who radicalize independently, operate inconspicuously, and have access to weapons. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in politically motivated violence and targeted killings in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The authorities point to a broad spectrum of extremist positions - from anti American and anti capitalist to migration, race, and gender related ideologies. Based on a presidential directive, a coordinated national strategy has been built to combine investigations, prosecutions, and the dismantling of such networks. A new interagency center is intended to help identify and combat domestic terrorism at an early stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n These are not beliefs that grow in the dark. This is the political conviction of a significant part of the American population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The center traces its origins to National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, signed in September of last year. According to the budget request, the catalyst was the murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, which it says prompted the directive in the first place. After Kirk's death, FBI Director Kash Patel told Congress that domestic terrorism investigations had increased by 300 percent. He announced that every single user of the Discord servers allegedly used by the accused killer, Tyler Robinson, would be investigated. Leaked screenshots from those servers showed discussions about gaming, not politics. Patel investigated anyway. He later concluded there was no evidence of accomplices or any foreign involvement. By then, however, theories alleging Israeli involvement in Kirk's death had already spread widely across social media. Joe Kent, who served as Trump's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center until his resignation in March, had pushed for those theories to be examined inside the administration and later repeated them publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also our article: Tehran is burning - by day, by night, in the rain - Political earthquake in Washington: resignation of the highest-ranking counterterrorism official in protest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He has lost the war long before he stepped down - Joe Kent, his wife and a sentence that explains everything<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find it here: The Charlie Kirk Dossier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to its own description, the new center integrates intelligence, operational support, and financial analysis to combat these threats. Social media is described in the budget request as a breeding ground for domestic terrorism. Encrypted chats, small websites with targeted audiences, established platforms - all are classified as potential recruitment infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time, the FBI has replaced the Terrorist Screening Center, created after September 11, with a new Threat Screening Center that has expanded its mandate to all national security threats. The domestic terrorism list is growing. This receives little public attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Minneapolis, public resistance to ICE operations pushed the government back. Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino were fired. The government backed down. Renee Good and Alex Pretti, originally labeled as domestic terrorists, were rehabilitated by virtually all official bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The center is still running. The lists are still growing. The budget request contains the largest increase in counterterrorism spending in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a certain way of exercising power that does not need a stage. That sits in budget lines, in agency names, in lists of criteria that no one reads until someone is on one of them. The NSPM 7 Joint Mission Center is that kind of power. Quiet, bureaucratic, with ten federal agencies behind it and a list of beliefs that can make someone a security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone who thinks anti capitalism is on it. Anyone who rejects traditional moral views is on it. Anyone who answers questions about migration or gender differently than the government may be on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not the future. This is the budget request for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigations like these take time, demand enormous effort, and often come with real risks. But without them, no one would ever know what happens behind closed doors. Our reporting depends on the support of people who believe the truth is worth fighting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Continued on July 29, 2026<\/strong> – The FBI Is Keeping Lists Now - Part 2: Charged Over a Password - Trump\u2019s Justice Department Turns Encryption Into a Crime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-78.webp?resize=640%2C800&ssl=1\")
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