Patriot Act

And even politically, we're really used to it.

You know, like the Patriot Act.

You know, if you're against it, you're not a patriot, right? Take away all your rights, you know.

And what you were just saying is that's a really elevated view to understand that it's not just – actually, it's not just the way the brain flows and the information.

Otherwise, no.

Personally, I just think ever since the Patriot Act, we've just been increasingly, oh, let her rip.

increasingly just trending

it was him locking yeah I

Like, I understand why people are going for it.

I just don't agree with it.

No, and it's the same with the Patriot Act, man.

Yeah, 100%.

All of them were assigned to this case, including 11 undercovers.

Now, they used highly invasive surveillance techniques, including the deployment of Reaper drones, Patriot Act tools usually restricted to money laundering and terrorism investigations.

Joke's unwired because, again, we are talking about Minnesota money laundering.

We are talking about left wing terror.

Now, Tom, yes, is Alex Soros on the run? Probably not, because he is so high up in the chain, he's not directly giving money to any of these Antifa organizations.

I mean, George Soros' son, Alex, is like the top of the pyramid, okay? He has so many layers removed from these people that are being investigated, and then the money that actually flows into these organizations, which, again, also comes through a series of pass-throughs, which are not directly going to come from the Soros organization to somebody with Antifa in their name.

So documents concerning financial records requested through the Treasury Department's 314A Suspicious Activity Reporting Program created by the Patriot Act to enable speedy tracking of finances for terrorism and money laundering investigations which make a mistake.

That's what this is.

the scope of which is still being uncovered.

The report describes DHS investigators using undercover techniques, the deployment of Reaper drones and Patriot Act tools that would normally be used against people suspected of things like money laundering or terrorism.

And this reporting arrives against the backdrop of 35 lawmakers demanding answers to ISIS backdoor access to flock cameras through local police departments.

All of this just days before an election in which ICE overreach, the power of tech oligarchs and corruption are all major voter priorities.

And I say at least because not all discovery has come out yet.

They tracked these activists to several other cities, including Seattle, Chicago, and Michigan as well, on a speaking tour after the surge had ended.

And they also, you know, made extensive use of Patriot Act tools for money laundering to obtain, sorry, Patriot Act tools for financial information that are normally put into play when either money laundering or terrorism charges are concerned.

So they got a tremendous amount of information about organizations like DAM, Direct Action Minnesota, which organized the rapid response networks, and also the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union.

I mean, in the age of data protection, that wouldn't work now, but...

Yeah, I was about to say, you know, when we were talking about him getting mail and all that kind of stuff, like the Patriot Act, you know, all that's gone now.

You know, he would be classed as a terrorist now, I think.

So none of that, none of those kind of conveniences would be available to him.

And so I needed to learn the craft.

I was a political scientist, and I did my master's degree on the USA Patriot Act, which if you're in the United States, you probably remember that from 2001.

I was brought by – I can't remember the publisher right now.

They're like, we like it.

We want to publish this.

We need, I think, 40,000 more words.

What are we supposed to be? We basically double, right? I'm like – Great, but who's going to read it? People who already know exactly about the USA Patriot Act, presidential power cycles.

And I just spiraled into depression.

Good.

On March 31st, 2026, investigators invoked a Patriot Act era Treasury Department information sharing mechanism to seek financial intelligence concerning 29 subjects, bringing counterterrorism related investigative tools into the federal crackdown.

Federal investigators deployed advanced digital forensic techniques, combining IP addresses, website activity, payment records, vehicle registrations, commercial databases, and public records to identify suspected operatives and reconstruct potential coordination within anti-ICE networks.

Federal prosecutors brought conspiracy charges against 15 Minnesota residents accused of coordinating efforts to obstruct immigration operations, unlawfully identify and stalk federal officers, and assault law enforcement personnel, transforming the investigation into a major criminal prosecution.