[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2936 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2936
To designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, to counter
domestic terrorism and organized political violence, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 29, 2025
Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, to counter
domestic terrorism and organized political violence, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Stop ANTIFA Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that
explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States
Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law
in the United States.
(2) It uses illegal means to organize and execute a
campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish
these goals.
(3) This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct
enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law
enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement
officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against
political figures and activists.
(4) Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young people
in the United States to engage in this violence and suppression
of political activity, then employs elaborate means and
mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal
its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate
law enforcement, and recruit additional members.
(5) Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of
Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities
for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing
political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.
(6) This organized effort designed to achieve policy
objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
(7) 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 Associate
Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts
against the life of President Donald Trump took place during
the 2024 Presidential election cycle in less than 3 months.
(8) Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than
1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officers since January 21, 2025, compared
to the same period last year. On September 24, 2025, a shooting
targeting a facility of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement in Dallas resulted in multiple casualties. Separate
anti-police and ``criminal justice'' riots have left many
people dead and injured and inflicted over $2,000,000,000 in
property damage nationwide.
(9) 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.
(10) 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 agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement 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.
(11) 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 principles of the United States
(such as support for law enforcement and border control) as
``fascist'' to justify and 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 liberties of the people of the United States.
(12) Common threads animating this violent conduct
include--
(A) anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-
Christianity;
(B) support for the overthrow of the United States
Government;
(C) extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
(D) hostility towards those who hold traditional
American views on family, religion, and morality.
(13) As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (90
Fed. Reg. 46317; relating to 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.
(14) 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. 3. DESIGNATION OF ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
(a) In General.--Because of the pattern of political violence by
Antifa designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the
rule of law, Antifa is designated as a domestic terrorist organization.
(b) Implementation.--All relevant departments and agencies of the
executive branch of the United States Government shall use all
applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and
all illegal operations, especially those involving terrorist actions,
conducted by Antifa or a person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or
for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa
provided material support, including necessary investigatory and
prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.
SEC. 4. INVESTIGATING DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
(a) In General.--The National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its
local offices (collectively referred to in this section as the
``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) Investigations of Actions of Political Violence, Terrorism, or
to Deprive Persons of Rights.--The JTTFs shall investigate potential
Federal crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing persons
for the purpose of--
(1) political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against
rights; or
(2) the violent deprivation of the rights of any citizen of
the United States.
(c) Investigations of Supporters of Domestic Terrorist
Organizations.--The JTTFs shall also investigate--
(1) 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); and
(2) non-governmental organizations and citizens of the
United States residing abroad or with close ties to foreign
governments, agents, citizens, foundations, or influence
networks engaged in violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act of 1938 (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) Consultation and Coordination.--The JTTFs shall consult and
coordinate with executive departments and agencies as needed to
determine whether such departments and agencies can apply existing
authorities or exercise authorities of the departments and agencies, as
appropriate, to support the investigations of the JTTFs and relevant
prosecutions of political violence.
(e) Operational Assistance and Coordination.--The JTTFs may, to the
extent permitted by law, request operational assistance from and
coordinate with law enforcement partners when investigating domestic
terrorism.
(f) Updates.--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) Prosecution of Federal Offenses.--The Attorney General shall
direct the Department of Justice to prosecute all offenses under
Federal law, to the maximum extent permissible by law, related to the
investigations described in subsections (a) through (c).
(h) Guidance.--The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance
that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically
motivated terrorist acts such as 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) Identifying and Disrupting Financial Networks.--The Secretary
of the Treasury, 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) Stopping Financing of Political Violence and Domestic
Terrorism.--The Commissioner of Internal Revenue 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) Investigations of Individuals Engaged in Political Violence.--
(1) In general.--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.
(2) Prioritization.--Investigations should prioritize
crimes such as--
(A) assaulting Federal officers or employees or
otherwise engaging in conduct proscribed by section 111
of title 18, United States Code;
(B) conspiracy against rights under section 241 of
title 18, United States Code;
(C) conspiracy to commit an offense under section
371 of title 18, United States Code;
(D) solicitation to commit a crime of violence
under section 373 of title 18, United States Code;
(E) money laundering under section 1956 of title
18, United States Code;
(F) funding of terrorist acts or otherwise
facilitating terrorism under section 2339, 2339A,
2339B, 2339C, or 2339D of title 18, United States Code;
(G) arson offenses under section 844 of title 18,
United States Code;
(H) violations of chapter 96 of title 18, United
States Code (commonly known as ``the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act''); and
(I) major fraud against the United States under
section 1031 of title 18, United States Code
(l) Strategies to Disrupt and Dismantle Political Violence and
Domestic Terrorism Networks.--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. 5. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DESIGNATION.
In the course of and as a result of the investigations directed by
section 4, the Attorney General may recommend that any group or entity
whose members are engaged in activities meeting the definition of
``domestic terrorism'' under section 2331 of title 18, United States
Code, 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. 6. 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. 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
This Act --
(1) shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect--
(A) the authority granted by law to an executive
department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(B) the functions of the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals;
(2) shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations; and
(3) 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.
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