Today on Vapid Response Wednesday: weeks after designating “Antifa” a “domestic terror organization,” the White House hosted a panel of MAGA luminaries to update the President on the not-at-all-made-up threat to the nation posed by a thing which demonstrably does not exist. We begin with a short amuse douche, in which Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn is concerned about the extremely real Portland “Antifa hit list”--a thing which definitely exists exactly as described! Matt then explains why the war on “Antifa” is a threat to all of our civil liberties before we take a seat at the Antifa Round Table.

The White House “antifa round table”, Youtube (10/7/25)
The alleged Portland “antifa hit list”
White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise, NPR (10/10/25)
Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records, Los Angeles Times (12/1/25)
“Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” NPSM-7 (9/25/25)
“Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terror Organization,” The White House (9/22/25)
“Extremist File: Jack Posobiec,” Southern Poverty Law Center

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