“Enough is enough,” says Marco Rubio.
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For decades, some far-left organizations have spread their unique brand of violence without much interference by the authorities or coverage by the media.
“No more,” says Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He added that the Trump administration intends to label these groups as foreign terrorist organizations, according to a story by Newsmax.
Rubio added that the United States and its allies encounter a rising transnational threat energized by political extremism.
In a talk to the State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Rubio said the administration is growing its counterterrorism stratagem beyond Islamist extremism to aim at what he described as a rejuvenated slew of violent far-left organizations operating across national borders.
“Last November, the State Department designated four violent far-left extremist groups as foreign terrorist organizations, and there will be more designations soon,” Rubio told attendees.
He mentioned the killing of Charlie Kirk, the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and several assassination attempts against President Donald Trump as evidence of what he called a “distinctive and unique evil.”
Marco Rubio is putting the world on notice.
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The secretary of state tells dozens of foreign governments that violent far-left political terrorism is becoming a growing international threat, even warning that communist ideology envisions a world without God.
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Rubio contended that despite historical evidence, political violence from the far left has been unnoticed for years by the media, academia, and government institutions.
“Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day modern novelty. It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians,” Rubio said. “For most of the modern era, it was in fact the dominant form of political violence.”
According to a State Department fact sheet released at the conference, far-left anti-government extremists accounted for 63% of all recorded anti-government attacks or plots in the U.S. during 2025.
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