Thread by @Heritage

1/🚨EXPOSED: @theMRC has uncovered a DHS anti-terrorism program that's been weaponized against conservatives.

80 grants & 39.6 million taxpayer dollars later, here's a look at how @JoeBiden & @SecMayorkas are outsourcing their efforts to conflate conservatives with terrorists🧵

2/ @univofdayton is one of the most radical grant recipients for the program, receiving $352k to fight "domestic violent extremism and hate movements."

Biden's @DHSgov awarded the grant despite their application including this fallacious chart.

Here's how their seminars went...

3/ One of their first seminars featured @DHSgov Agent Joseph Masztalics, who emphasized their whole of society approach means "at DHS, we only support, locals lead."

This suggests those DHS chooses to fund are compatible with their vision of leading on "anti-terrorism."

4/ One of those local leaders is University of Cincinnati researcher @mloadenthal, who presented the pyramid of far-right radicalization in a seminar w/Agent Masztalics.

Here he is at one of the seminars telling the audience a lot of what he's doing and advising is illegal.

5/ He also boasts about how so-called "antifascists" can pressure service providers to "kick people off" if enough leftists decide individuals or organizations like The Heritage Foundation, @BreitbartNews, @prageru, or @TPUSA are radical or white supremacist.

6/ @mloadenthal, again, speaking on behalf of a @DHSgov funded program, celebrated de-platforming those on the right & shutting down their ability to organize or speak publicly, saying, "This is the belief."

But Loadenthal isn't the only one espousing absurdities on your dime...

7/ @univofdayton Professor Paul Becker said anti-lockdown & anti-vaccine mandate protestors were specific examples of people likely to be infiltrated by "those holding extremist beliefs."

But what's a leftist without baseless genocidal comparisons? They didn't disappoint...

8/ In the seminar attended by @DHSgov Agent Masztalics, @RutgersU faculty member Alexander Hinton compares the @realDonaldTrump administration to the Khmer Rouge regime that killed 1.7 million people.

@DHSgov @RutgersU @realDonaldTrump 9/ Another speaker in that same seminar, @NWiddersheim, considers @RonDeSantis an extremist and suggested that he might have envisioned carrying out another Holocaust with his then proposed civilian state force to assist the FL National Guard in responding to emergencies.

@DHSgov @RutgersU @realDonaldTrump @NWiddersheim @RonDeSantis Lacking all self-reflection, there were interestingly no mentions of 2020's "summer of love" where leftists caused at least $2 billion in damage across the U.S., the consequences of which the America's poor and middle class are still facing. heritage.org/crime-and-just…

@DHSgov @RutgersU @realDonaldTrump @NWiddersheim @RonDeSantis There was also no mention about the extremism of a President abusing his power to try and force a nation to take an experimental drug without consent, or the fact that a substantial portion of the country supported punishing those who wouldn't comply. rasmussenreports.com/public_content…

@DHSgov @RutgersU @realDonaldTrump @NWiddersheim @RonDeSantis Whether it's the FBI, DOJ, IRS, or DHS, it seems the Biden admin will weaponize any part of the federal government against its political opponents, including by conflating them with terrorists.

Read more about this major discovery from @theMRC here: foxnews.com/politics/unive…