Today’s notice: Jimmy Kimmel recounts his long, strange trip. Trump meets the U.N. Trump does not meet with Democrats. Who’s lobbying against animal welfare bills? And: How liberal nonprofits expect the White House to come after them.
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The other side of the crackdown: Democratic strategists and progressive-leaning nonprofits see two ways Donald Trump’s White House could go after them in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
- Terrorism designation. The vague executive order designating antifa as a domestic terror group could be used to designate nonprofits the same way, potentially cutting off their access to banking and other services.
- Challenging nonprofit status is the more likely move left-leaning groups are expecting to see. Challenging the administration in court would be expensive, and could effectively sideline smaller groups that lack the resources to pay.
The left and center-left are currently bracing for federal action against them, NOTUS’ Alex Roarty and Taylor Giorno report. “What once sounded like theoretical warnings about ‘government weaponization’ has become a reality for organizations across the country,” nonprofit umbrella group Americans Against Government Censorship wrote in a memo last week.
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This week’s designation of the largely undefined “antifa” as a domestic terrorist group is causing some groups to worry that they’ll be targeted because they publicly condemn fascism. “I wouldn’t put it past them to try and contort and twist that into somehow being supportive of terrorism,” Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette of the Project on Government Oversight said.