EXCLUSIVE: Anti-ICE Movement Paving Way For ‘Armed Militancy’ Among Leftists, Terrorism Analyst Warns

Radical leftists are increasingly open to “armed militancy” in the U.S. amid protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, a watchdog report warns.

An anarchist manifesto on how to “build an insurgency in the US” and achieve “complete annihilation” of their political enemies has resurfaced on radical blog sites after being published in October, according to a Center for Security Policy report obtained by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. The blog post aligns with other evidence that leftists are pushing toward long-term insurrectionist goals, relishing Minnesota’s confrontations between protesters and federal agents, Shideler found.

“Despite potential ideological reservations in some quarters, while difficult to quantify, an observation of anarchist and anti-fascist social media accounts does seem to suggest that support for armed militancy has increased steadily,” counterterrorism analyst Kyle Shideler wrote in the report. “This support includes a growing cadre of firearms trainers and armed organizations with an explicitly revolutionary leftist orientation. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk and attacks on ICE detention centers and police, media interest in these armed groups has likewise risen.”