H.R. 9109

[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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