Although NSPM-7 and 2025-NSS may not ring a bell when you read them, both are Donald Trump-ordered documents that, if implemented, will radically change every American\u2019s life \u2013 and not in any good way.<\/p>\n
NSPM-7 is shorthand for Trump\u2019s \u201cNational Security Presidential Memorandum #7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.\u201d It essentially is an attack on free speech.<\/p>\n
It directs federal law enforcement agencies to investigate, arrest and prosecute any progressive organizations or persons on charges of \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d if they show signs of holding virtually any left-of-center political views. Signs of \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d include \u201canti-capitalism,\u201d \u201canti-Christianity,\u201d \u201cextremism on migration, race and gender,\u201d and opposition to \u201ctraditional American views<\/a> on family<\/a>, religion<\/a> and morality<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n That could mean anything, which is the whole point. The FBI could arrest you for holding a protest sign, and it could disrupt such resistance organizations as Indivisible, Common Cause \u2013 too many to name \u2013 simply for espousing views contrary to Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n The memorandum identifies \u201cAntifa\u201d as a \u201cdomestic terrorist organization\u201d (although it isn\u2019t even an organization) and argues that it supports overthrowing the federal government; \u201cextremism in migration, race and gender\u201d; and “hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion and morality”.<\/p>\n Add all that together and it sounds loathsome, and it is loathsome, but there are reasons for hope. A group called Inequality Media Civic Action is pushing Congress hard to stop NSPM-7\u2019s implementation, and Congress may be listening. More than 30 members of Congress wrote a letter expressing concern that NSPM-7 could be ,and certainly would be, used to crack down on dissent.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the Brennan Center for Justice analyzed the memo and found numerous flaws. For starters, it says that the memo “cherry-picked” incidents of violence that were not coordinated campaigns of violence and intimidation. As examples, it named two assassination attempts<\/a> against Trump, attacks against ICE officers during 2025 protests in Los Angeles<\/a> and Portland<\/a>, “anti-police and ‘criminal justice\u2019” riots that “have left many people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion in property damage nationwide”, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n The center also points out that the president has no authority to declare domestic terrorist organizations, and says the orders could target a broad range of disfavored groups because it relates “everyone from labor organizers, socialists, many libertarians, those who criticize Christianity, pro-immigration groups, anti-ICE protestors, and racial justice and transgender activists, to anyone who holds views that the administration considers to be ‘anti-American.'”<\/p>\n
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