Presidential Document2025-19141
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
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September 30, 2025
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September 25, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 47225-47228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19141]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 187 / Tuesday, September 30, 2025 /
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National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 of
September 25, 2025
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized
Political Violence
Memorandum for the Secretary of State[,] the Secretary
of the Treasury[,] the Attorney General[, and] the
Secretary of Homeland Security
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political
Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of
political violence in the United States have
dramatically increased in recent years. Even in the
aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie
Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged
shooter's ideology embraced and cheered this evil
murder while actively encouraging more political
violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination
of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022
assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts
against my own life in less than 3 months took place
during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in
Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000
percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21,
2025, compared to the same period last year. Just
yesterday, a shooting targeting an ICE facility in
Dallas resulted in multiple casualties. Separate anti-
police and ``criminal justice'' riots have left many
people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion
in property damage nationwide.
This political violence is not a series of isolated
incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it
is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns
of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and
violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit
political activity, change or direct policy outcomes,
and prevent the functioning of a democratic society. A
new law enforcement strategy that investigates all
participants in these criminal and terroristic
conspiracies--including the organized structures,
networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and
predicate actions behind them--is required.
These campaigns often begin by isolating and
dehumanizing specific targets to justify murder or
other violent action against them. They do so through a
variety of fora, including anonymous chat forums, in-
person meetings, social media, and even educational
institutions. These campaigns then escalate to
organized doxing, where the private or identifying
information of their targets (such as home addresses,
phone numbers, or other personal information) is
exposed to the public with the explicit intent of
encouraging others to harass, intimidate, or violently
assault them. As in the case of several ICE agents in
Los Angeles being doxed, the goal of these campaigns
can be to obstruct the operations of the Federal
Government as well as aid and abet criminal activity
the Federal Government is lawfully pursuing. These
campaigns are coordinated and perpetrated by actors who
have developed a comprehensive strategy to achieve
specific policy goals through radicalization and
violent intimidation.
There are common recurrent motivations and indicia
uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic
activities under the umbrella of self-described ``anti-
fascism.'' These movements portray foundational
American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement
and border control) as ``fascist'' to justify and
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encourage acts of violent revolution. This ``anti-
fascist'' lie has become the organizing rallying cry
used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault
against democratic institutions, constitutional rights,
and fundamental American liberties. Common threads
animating this violent conduct include anti-
Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
support for the overthrow of the United States
Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender;
and hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on family, religion, and morality. As
described in the Order of September 22, 2025
(Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist
Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate
this extremism have created a movement that embraces
and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes,
including justifying additional assassinations. For
example, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin engraved the
bullets used in the murder with so-called ``anti-
fascist'' rhetoric.
The United States requires a national strategy to
investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and
organizations that foment political violence so that
law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies
before they result in violent political acts. Through
this comprehensive strategy, law enforcement will
disband and uproot networks, entities, and
organizations that promote organized violence, violent
intimidation, conspiracies against rights, and other
efforts to disrupt the functioning of a democratic
society.
Sec. 2. Investigating Domestic Terrorist Organizations.
(a) The National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its
local offices (collectively, ``JTTFs'') shall
coordinate and supervise a comprehensive national
strategy to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt
entities and individuals engaged in acts of political
violence and intimidation designed to suppress lawful
political activity or obstruct the rule of law. This
strategy shall include the investigatory and
prosecutorial measures set forth in this section.
(b) The JTTFs shall investigate potential Federal
crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing
persons for the purpose of:
(i) political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights; or
(ii) the violent deprivation of any citizen's rights.
(c) The JTTFs shall also investigate:
(i) institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of
organizations, that are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet
the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct described in
subsections (a) and (b) of this section; and
(ii) non-governmental organizations and American citizens residing abroad
or with close ties to foreign governments, agents, citizens, foundations,
or influence networks engaged in violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) or money laundering by funding,
creating, or supporting entities that engage in activities that support or
encourage domestic terrorism.
(d) The JTTFs shall consult and coordinate with
executive departments and agencies (agencies) as needed
to determine whether such agencies can apply existing
authorities or exercise their own authorities, as
appropriate, to support the JTTFs' investigations and
relevant prosecutions of political violence.
(e) The JTTFs may, to the extent permitted by law,
request operational assistance from and coordinate with
law enforcement partners when investigating domestic
terrorism.
(f) The National Joint Terrorism Task Force shall
provide regular progress updates to the President
through the Assistant to the President and Homeland
Security Advisor.
(g) The Attorney General shall direct the
Department of Justice to prosecute all Federal crimes,
to the maximum extent permissible by law, related to
the investigations described in subsections (a) through
(c) of this section.
(h) The Attorney General shall issue specific
guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities
include politically motivated terrorist acts such as
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organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting,
trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of
violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also
include an identification of any behaviors, fact
patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia
common to organizations and entities that coordinate
these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and
prevent potential violent activity.
(i) The Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary), in
coordination with the Attorney General, shall make
available all resources, to the maximum extent
permitted by law, to identify and disrupt financial
networks that fund domestic terrorism and political
violence. The Secretary, acting through the Terrorism
and Financial Intelligence Office of the Department of
the Treasury, shall deploy investigative tools, examine
financial flows, and coordinate with partner agencies
to trace illicit funding streams. The Secretary shall
provide guidance for financial institutions to file
Suspicious Activity Reports and investigate indicia of
illicit funding streams to ensure such activity is
rooted out at the source and referred for law
enforcement action, as appropriate.
(j) The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service (Commissioner) shall take action to ensure that
no tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly
financing political violence or domestic terrorism. In
addition, where applicable, the Commissioner shall
ensure that the Internal Revenue Service refers such
organizations, and the employees and officers of such
organizations, to the Department of Justice for
investigation and possible prosecution.
(k) All Federal law enforcement agencies with
investigative authority shall question and interrogate,
within all lawful authorities, individuals engaged in
political violence or lawlessness regarding the entity
or individual organizing such actions and any related
financial sponsorship of those actions prior to
adjudication or initiation of a plea agreement.
Investigations should prioritize crimes such as the
following: assaulting Federal officers or employees or
otherwise engaging in conduct proscribed by 18 U.S.C.
111; conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. 241;
conspiracy to commit offense under 18 U.S.C. 371;
solicitation to commit a crime of violence under 18
U.S.C. 373; money laundering under 18 U.S.C. 1956;
funding of terrorist acts or otherwise facilitating
terrorism under 18 U.S.C. 2339, 2339A, 2339B, 2339C,
and 2339D; arson offenses under 18 U.S.C. 844;
violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.); and major
fraud against the United States under 18 U.S.C. 1031.
(l) All Federal law enforcement agencies with
investigative authority shall adopt strategies similar
to those used to address violent crime and organized
crime to disrupt and dismantle entire networks of
criminal activity.
Sec. 3. Department of Justice Designation. In the
course of and as a result of the investigations
directed by section 2 of this memorandum, the Attorney
General may recommend that any group or entity whose
members are engaged in activities meeting the
definition of ``domestic terrorism'' in 18 U.S.C.
2331(5) merits designation as a ``domestic terrorist
organization.'' The Attorney General shall submit a
list of any such groups or entities to the President
through the Assistant to the President and Homeland
Security Advisor.
Sec. 4. Domestic Terrorism as a National Priority Area.
The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall designate domestic terrorism a national
priority area and develop appropriate grant programs to
allocate funding for law enforcement partners to
detect, prevent, and protect against threats arising
from this area.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
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(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent
with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
(d) The Secretary of Homeland Security is
authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in
the Federal Register.
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 25, 2025
[FR Doc. 2025-19141
Filed 9-29-25; 11:15 am]
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