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A Presidential Memo Made Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Christianity Terrorism "Indicators." The Grant Money Follows.
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A Presidential Memo Made Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Christianity Terrorism “Indicators.” The Grant Money Follows.
NSPM-7, signed September 25, 2025, names political and religious viewpoints as the “common threads” of domestic terrorism — then wires federal grant money to hunt them at the county level.
A public presidential order named viewpoints as terrorism indicators and directed federal grant programs to pay local police to monitor them — acting on a forecast, not a crime.
What the record establishes: the order's own text, verified verbatim against the Federal Register. What it does not: that any named person has yet been surveilled or listed under the July 2026 FEMA bulletin (none found), that the FEMA and DHS grant documents are independently confirmed (they rest on one reporter who publishes them, graded PROBABLY TRUE), or that the government has no stated rationale (NSPM-7 is framed as a response to real violence, laid out in full). The euphemism doing the work in both the order and the bulletin is “indicator.”
From FEMA's founding to a grant bulletin funding “persons of concern.”
“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.”
Graded FACT because it is the primary text itself, not a critic's paraphrase. This is the load-bearing, alarming fact of the whole page: a public order converts a list of political and religious viewpoints into “common threads” of terroristic conduct. Every downstream claim is measured against whether the response the order builds is aimed at violence or at these viewpoints.
Section 4 doesn't just name viewpoints — it wires the money to hunt them, ordering the AG and DHS Secretary to designate domestic terrorism a “national priority area” and “develop appropriate grant programs to allocate funding for law enforcement partners.”
Quoted verbatim from Section 4 of the primary NSPM-7 text. This is the mechanism that separates an order from a speech: it pushes the memo's viewpoint categories down to county sheriffs and fusion-center analysts through grant dollars, and it is the legal basis the FEMA and DHS grant documents implement. The grade is on the order's text, which is public and undisputed.
What the order's own text establishes, beyond the headline.
- NSPM-7 asserts its own theory of the case: US political violence “does not emerge organically” but is “a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns” — the premise used to justify investigating “networks, entities, and organizations” and their funders, not only individual perpetrators (§1).
- It extends past violent acts to money and structure: the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces are told to investigate organizations' “funders” and “officers and employees,” Treasury to trace “financial networks,” and the IRS to ensure “no tax-exempt entities” finance the conduct and to refer them for prosecution (§§2(c), 2(i), 2(j)).
- It was signed three days after — and cites — the September 22, 2025 executive order designating “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization, tying the viewpoint findings to a named designation.
- None of this is unprecedented in form: it routes a new viewpoint-monitoring mandate through the same DHS grant and fusion-center apparatus that has existed since the 2003 DHS reorganization.
A FEMA information bulletin dated July 9, 2026 reportedly instructs grant applicants to fund monitoring of “online behaviors and digital footprints” and teams “managing persons of concern” on a “trajectory toward domestic terrorism” — the machinery of forecasting, not evidence of a crime.
Reported by Ken Klippenstein, who obtained and published the bulletin; he notes some form of the word “indicator” appears roughly ten times. This is independent single-source reporting that reproduces the underlying document — not corroborated against a second primary. The policy it implements is anchored to NSPM-7 §4 (FACT); the bulletin's specific language is attributed and graded PROBABLY TRUE. It is not upgraded to FACT here.
A companion DHS Homeland Security Grant Program notice reportedly sets a roughly $1 billion menu — 35% of funds for terrorism prevention, 30% for five DHS priorities including fusion centers — with a clause warning that failure to comply “will result in a hold on affected funds.”
Also obtained and reported by Klippenstein. The dollar figure and percentages are attributed to the underlying notice and flagged for verification against the primary document. The coercion clause is the mechanism that matters: for a local department dependent on federal homeland-security dollars, a spending mandate backed by a funding hold is a directive, not a menu. Held at PROBABLY TRUE pending a second primary.
The last time Congress examined the same DHS-funded fusion centers, a 2012 bipartisan Senate report found their intelligence “oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties.”
Quoted from the October 2012 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations staff report. Of the fusion-center reporting reviewed, the subcommittee found a large share was never published, and flagged items included a Muslim group's book recommendations and a motorcycle club's “be polite to police” pamphlet. This is the documented record of what the apparatus does when pointed at protected activity — before any new viewpoint directive.
Whether any specific, named person has yet been surveilled, listed as a “person of concern,” or arrested under the July 9, 2026 FEMA bulletin is unestablished.
No dated, sourced instance of a named individual targeted specifically under the bulletin was found in this research. The bulletin funds capacity; whether and against whom that capacity is used is the open question. Related enforcement against dissent — the Prairieland defendants, the arrested journalists — flows from NSPM-7 and adjacent orders, not from this specific bulletin. Graded PURE SPECULATION on the page precisely so no one mistakes the funded machinery for a documented targeting.
Help us fill it →The order is framed as stopping assassinations. Its text funds monitoring of beliefs.
- NSPM-7 cites real violence: the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the 2024 killing of a healthcare executive, a 2022 attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, two attempts on Trump's life, a Dallas ICE-facility shooting.
- Officials describe the strategy as targeting organized terrorist networks, not opinion.
- The grant programs are presented as voluntary funding opportunities for willing jurisdictions.
- Those events are real — but the order's own list of “common threads” is a list of viewpoints, not violent acts, and it reaches to “funders,” “officers,” and nonprofits.
- The FEMA bulletin funds monitoring of “online behaviors and digital footprints” — speech and association, before any crime.
- The DHS notice reportedly conditions continued funding on meeting the spending mandate: a hold, not a menu (figure flagged for verification).
Why it matters now.
The Surveillance State(s) hub tracks how enforcement power expands when a government relabels dissent as an existential security threat. NSPM-7 is the capstone of that pattern in its current US-federal form: a public order that names viewpoints as terrorism indicators and directs the whole apparatus — FBI task forces, Treasury, the IRS, and DHS grant programs — to act on them. The hub's other cases — the Prairieland defendants sentenced to a combined 562 years, the Rubio-Miller ministerial that convened 65 nations, the arrests of journalists — are downstream enforcement. Section 4 and the FEMA/DHS grants are the funding that translates the order into the daily work of county sheriffs. This deck's job is to hold the line between what is documented — the order's text and the grant machinery it funds — and what is not: any specific person targeted under the July 2026 bulletin.
Help us fill these lines.
- OpenHas any specific person yet been targeted, investigated, or added to a “persons of concern” list under the July 2026 FEMA bulletin's “digital footprints” monitoring guidance?
- OpenHow much of the ~$1 billion DHS domestic-terrorism grant has actually been obligated to local departments, and with what reporting or civil-liberties conditions attached?