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Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time.
Given Iran’s history of malicious operations outside of its soil, the concern about the Iranian threat is unsurprising. Long before this current conflict, Iran has engaged in terrorist attacks, targeted assassinations, cyberattacks, and information operations—and it uses a network of proxies and spies to amplify its reach, including within the United States. Historically, the U.S. has managed to thwart Iranian operations on its soil. Now, this administration may have us unprepared.
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From Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism
An examination of 50 years of domestic extremist attacks and plots against U.S. critical infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent industrial and commercial targets, shows that critical-infrastructure sabotage has appeared across ideologically divergent milieus, with two dominant clusters: environmental and animal-rights extremism (peaking in the late 1990s and early 2000s) and a post-2015 rise in far-right extremist infrastructure plotting, including a subset of cases that explicitly reflect accelerationist intent.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.
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How Hatred of Jews Became a Common Ground for Islamic Terrorists and Left‑Wing Extremists, Fueling Domestic Terrorism
Every major escalation in the Middle East sends shock waves far beyond the region. In the United States, those shock waves arrive not as distant tremors but as catalysts for domestic radicalization and violence, particularly against Jewish communities. The data is unambiguou.
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Try As He Might, Trump Can’t Take Credit for the Nation’s Murder Drop
The Trace has fact-checked the president’s claims about violent crime and immigrants during his State of the Union.
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Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was tried and convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes to allow traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. Trump pardoned him, and then ICE dropped its detainer on him so he could be whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
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Communities Fight ICE Detention Centers, but Have Few Tools to Stop Them
Communities across the country are facing the prospects of ICE building massive detention centers – without any input from local authorities about the communities’ permitting, planning, and zoning processes. The reason: The federal government doesn’t have to follow local zoning rules. Congress has given ICE $45 billion for increased immigration detention. by Congress last summer.
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27 Members of TdA, Anti-Tren Members Charged in New York
An additional 27 members of Venezuelan transnational criminal organizations, Tren de Aragua and its splinter faction, anti-Tren, have been indicted in New York in an ongoing prosecution of groups the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
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How the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Shaped ICE’s Immigration Strategy
The immigration enforcement response to 9/11 set the stage for ICE’s aggressive conduct. Under this way of thinking, if the homeland is under threat, then those who challenge immigration enforcement are “domestic terrorists.” Investigations into ICE officers are muted, for the officers are protecting the homeland against existential danger. Severe tactics to detain immigrants and condemn protesters – and violate U.S. citizens’ constitutional protections — become not only permissible but also advisable.
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As Trump Administration Pushes for More Detentions, Immigrants’ Options for Parole Shrink
Despite immigration detention numbers receding from recent highs and even as conservative judges are opting to release more detainees by rejecting President Donald Trump’s mass detention policy, tools for detainees to seek release from ICE mandatory detention policy or appeal cases are disappearing.
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Social Media’: The Changing Tech of Terror
In the wake of the white noise generated by mainstream social media channels and apps, a new trend of ‘anti-social media’ has emerged in recent years, which seeks to abandon mainstream platforms, reduce screen time, and seek private, intimate, or even ‘analogue’ communication to avoid algorithm-driven polarization, surveillance and loneliness. But some of these so-called anti-social media platforms have also become off-the-wall mediums for disseminating extremist propaganda.
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A Terrorism Label That Comes Before the Facts Can Turn “Domestic Terrorism” into a Useless Designation
Shortly after Alex Pretti was killed by ICE agents, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said he committed an “act of domestic terrorism.” Noem made the same accusation against Good. But a “domestic terrorism” label that comes before the facts does not just risk being wrong in one case. It teaches the public, case by case, to treat the term as propaganda rather than diagnosis. When that happens, the category becomes less useful precisely when the country needs clarity most.
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Gun Sellers Have Made Millions from Trump’s Deployment of Immigration Agents
Firearms companies – faced with plummeting sales to the general public – found a lucrative new opportunity last year: arming President Donald Trump’s immigration operation. Last year, DHS spent a record sum on guns and ammunition, a Trace analysis found.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − Accused of Violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment Rights − Are Testing Whether the Constitution Can Survive
Chief Federal Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota, criticizing ICE for acting as a “law unto itself,” accused the agency of failing to follow 96 court orders from 74 different immigration cases in a single month. “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence,” he said. Legal scholars are especially worried about ongoing ICE violations of the First, Second, Fourth, and 10th amendments.
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”
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Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S. We May Not See It in Time.

From Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

How Hatred of Jews Became a Common Ground for Islamic Terrorists and Left‑Wing Extremists, Fueling Domestic Terrorism

Try As He Might, Trump Can’t Take Credit for the Nation’s Murder Drop

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment

Communities Fight ICE Detention Centers, but Have Few Tools to Stop Them

27 Members of TdA, Anti-Tren Members Charged in New York

How the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Shaped ICE’s Immigration Strategy

As Trump Administration Pushes for More Detentions, Immigrants’ Options for Parole Shrink

Social Media’: The Changing Tech of Terror

A Terrorism Label That Comes Before the Facts Can Turn “Domestic Terrorism” into a Useless Designation

Gun Sellers Have Made Millions from Trump’s Deployment of Immigration Agents

ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − Accused of Violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment Rights − Are Testing Whether the Constitution Can Survive

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building

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