Stop ANTIFA Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9109 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9109

 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 2, 2026

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
   Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on
Homeland Security, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period
    to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
                          committee concerned

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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 2026''.

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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