Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is calling for a committee in the House of Representatives that will investigate “the money, influence, and power behind the radical Left’s assault on America and the rule of law,” using full subpoena power, after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“Republicans have not yet recognized what time it is in America and the need to” investigate the infrastructure propping up Antifa and other leftist threats, Roy told The Daily Signal in a phone call Monday.
“I don’t know how we hold them accountable yet,” he admitted. “We should try, but the one thing I know we must do is expose it.”
“We need to expose it on the national stage for all to see what they’ve been up to and that it’s purposeful and that every American’s life is more in danger or in jeopardy because of it,” he warned.
Roy said 38 other Republicans support his call for the House to form a select committee on the radical Left’s infrastructure. He sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and to the chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee (Ohio Republican Jim Jordan) and the House Oversight Committee (Kentucky Republican James Comer) on Sept. 11.
Examples of Leftist Violence
The letter notes “a sustained breakdown of law and order, fueled not by chance, but by anti-American ideology.” It cites numerous examples of violent threats, including the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump, the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game practice shooting, crimes committed by illegal aliens, violent riots featuring Antifa, the soft-on-crime approach of prosecutors supported by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros, and more.
The Open Society Foundations, founded by Soros and chaired by his son, Alex, responded to Trump’s recent suggestion that Soros funds violence. The foundations “do not support or fund violent protests,” the group stated. “Allegations to the contrary are false, and the threats against our founder and chair are outrageous.”
Roy’s letter notes that the Southern Poverty Law Center put both Turning Point USA and the conservative Christian nonprofit the Family Research Council on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, only for both organizations to face shootings.
“I think that a permanent select committee makes sense, or something similar,” Roy told The Daily Signal. He insisted that whatever committee emerges must have “full subpoena authority.”
“This is an ongoing long-term and not-soon-to-end coordinated effort by the radical Left to attack our way of life,” he said.
While Roy noted that there is no evidence yet to suggest that Kirk’s alleged murderer was inspired by the SPLC, “SPLC was putting a target, a metaphorical target, on Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, and other organizations, right?”
He suggested that the SPLC, Antifa, soft-on-crime prosecutors, and others are connected in an “obvious coordinated effort.”
Roy cited the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund’s report on The Wren Collective and other nonprofit organizations’ influence on law enforcement.
According to the defense fund, The Wren Collective “exerts undue influence on the criminal justice policies of [progressive] district attorneys—controlling messaging, writing policies on everything from bail to police involved shootings, and even interfering in homicide and police misconduct cases.” The study concludes that “a handful of left-wing social justice organizations, with significant ties to campaign donors, hold immense influence over these prosecutors through The Wren Collective’s consulting service.”
Roy also noted “the coordinated effort at the border.” He cited the Center for Immigration Studies’ report on a United Nations effort calling for more than 200 nonprofit groups to give out $1.6 billion in cash debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and transportation during 2020 to millions of U.S.-bound immigrants.
While he admitted some of those groups may believe in helping “the plight of those who are seeking asylum,” the congressman insisted that many of them “were actively trying to flout or abuse our asylum and parole laws, knowingly moving dangerous individuals in our country, knowing what that meant to little girls getting sold into sex trafficking trade, knowing that Americans were dying and fentanyl was pouring in.”
Designating Antifa
Roy said he spoke with Trump after the president announced he would designate Antifa a terrorist organization—a move Trump made Monday.
“I spoke with the president after the Antifa designation, basically to thank him for his leadership, and that I fully support it and back it, and want to go even further with what we’re doing in the House,” he told The Daily Signal.
“Where the radical Left has gone with this, and not just Antifa and SPLC, but the radicalization in our schools, what Charlie Kirk was fighting against at these campuses, but in particularly those organizations, they are fomenting hatred of our country and our way of life and of law enforcement and of the rule of law in a very dangerous way,” he argued.
Roy said he had a “really good conversation” with FBI Director Kash Patel and called on him to target the Left.
“They need to target Antifa; they need to target and look at the Southern Poverty Law Center; we need to follow the money, and that was what Kash promised to do.”
Roy noted that he introduced legislation to designate Mexican cartels terrorist organizations back in 2020. While Trump wanted to do it, both lawyers and Hill Republicans pushed back, but the president carried out the designation earlier this year, and Roy celebrated the results.
“Antifa, the Southern Poverty Law Center, other organizations are doing the same thing with different tactics, different levels of violence, and we should recognize it and address it,” he insisted.
Neither the SPLC nor the Open Society Foundations nor The Wren Collective responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.
