How the Memo Enables Preemptive Investigations

Discussion of pre-crime elements, stings, and using ideological indicators to initiate federal probes into protesters and NGOs.

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The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/

https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/

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