08/16/2026
“Federal Deputy Attorney General Brian Lynch participated in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Now he is leading a taskforce dedicated to prosecuting left-wing activism, which the administration calls political violence. The taskforce is using Trump’s National Security Policy Memorandum (NSPM-7) to investigate the funding sources of the president’s opponents.
Lynch is casting a wide net to go after Trump’s perceived enemies. The investigation targets, among others, the AFL-CIO, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the Minneapolis Federation of Educators. A slide that prosecutors showed to a grand jury portrays the unions, along with some nonprofits, left groups, and a bike shop, as part of an antifa conspiracy.
Minnesotans are responding with solidarity.
“This winter, Minnesotans stood together in rejecting the Trump regime’s occupation of Minnesota,” said a statement from a broad coalition of unions and nonprofit organizations, including many who had not been targeted in the investigation so far.”
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest unions, the Communications Workers (CWA) and the ...