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Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times,

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 11 people with allegedly helping foreign nationals, primarily Chinese nationals, to obtain green cards through a marriage fraud scheme, according to an indictment unsealed on Aug. 12.

The people behind the alleged scheme were all naturalized U.S. citizens originally from China and one green card holder, according to Attorney General Todd Blanche. The defendants have been charged with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and immigration fraud, and conspiracy to encourage the unlawful residence of aliens in the United States.

“This is one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in United States history,” Blanche said during a press conference announcing the indictment.

“This scheme was not a quick fly-by-night operation but rather a years-long multimillion-dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people who would not, or legally could not, otherwise become citizens of the United States.”

From at least 2016 to July 2026, the defendants were allegedly involved in a marriage fraud scheme that included approximately 1,000 sham marriages between Chinese nationals and U.S. citizens and the submission of fraudulent applications to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services requesting lawful permanent resident status for the foreign nationals, according to the 21-page indictment.

The DOJ said the defendants allegedly facilitated the marriage fraud scheme and paired foreign nationals seeking immigration status with U.S. citizens recruited by other scheme participants to partake in sham marriages, utilizing service providers—including attorneys, tax preparers, and officiants—to advance these sham marriages and submit fraudulent immigration applications to obtain lawful permanent residency for the foreign nationals.

The defendants allegedly “used word of mouth, social media, and various forms of advertising to market fraudulent immigration services to foreign nationals—primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China—including their ability to arrange sham marriages to facilitate fraudulent applications for lawful permanent resident status in the United States,” the indictment said.

The indictment included photos of sham wedding ceremonies that the defendants submitted to immigration authorities.

“In some cases, these sham wedding ceremonies were held at nearby restaurants, where the foreign nationals and United States citizens changed into traditional Chinese wedding attire, and the facilitator, recruiter, foreign national, and United States citizen invited friends and family to create the appearance of a legitimate wedding,” according to the indictment.

The Justice Department said foreign nationals paid facilitators as much as $100,000 to manage the process and find U.S. citizens, who were then paid up to $30,000 to be part of a sham marriage, with the amount paid in three increments during the Green Card process. Recruiters got a commission of approximately $5,000 for each U.S. citizen they recruited for the scheme.

While the alleged facilitators and recruiters operated primarily in New York, they facilitated sham marriages across the United States and abroad, including in China, Vanuatu, Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Georgia, according to the indictment.

The defendants, based throughout New York, were all arrested on Aug. 12 and include Amy Cheng, Xiao Mei Chan, Christine Lu, Jing Yan Ye, Xiao Yan Chen, Gang Zheng, Anthony Cheng, Michelle Duenas, Angela Duenas, Sigrid Cetino, and Erika Johnson. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 12.

If convicted, the defendants face 10 years in prison.

U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York said in a statement, “The defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly operated a nationwide and international, multimillion-dollar marriage fraud scheme, using participants to abuse United States immigration laws for their own profit.”

He said that the arrests have “dismantled a central component of one of the largest marriage fraud schemes charged in United States history.”

The Department of Justice announcement follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week to ban birth tourism, where foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so that the child can be a U.S. citizen.

Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,

A new report shows that violent crime dropped in many of the United States’ largest cities during the first half of 2026, and there was a more than 17 percent decline in the number of homicides.

A Major Cities Chiefs Association survey, which gathered data from 66 of the largest cities in the United States, was released on Aug. 5.

It showed that levels of multiple categories of violent crime decreased from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2026, compared with the same period in 2025.

The number of homicides dropped by 17.2 percent during the first half of 2026, and the number of robberies fell by 16.6 percent, according to the Aug. 5 report.

Additionally, the number of rapes decreased by 6.2 percent, and the number of aggravated assaults dropped by 5.7 percent.

The combined totals for the four categories in the cities included in the survey represented a decrease of about 8.3 percent, about 14,200 fewer violent crimes.

The data shared by the Major Cities Chiefs Association showed that homicides dropped by 43.9 percent in Washington; 43.7 percent in Memphis, Tennessee; 64.7 percent in Newark, New Jersey; 63.6 percent in Raleigh, North Carolina; 52.4 percent in Boston; and 60 percent in Arlington, Texas.

The number of homicides also decreased by 60 percent in Baltimore County, Maryland; 58.8 percent in Aurora, Colorado; 50 percent in Miami; and 58.8 percent in Suffolk County, New York.

Laura Cooper, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, told The Epoch Times that the think tank’s latest violent crime survey demonstrated an “encouraging trend.”

“The declines are significant, and I believe reflect the sustained efforts of MCCA member agencies and their partners to address violent crime through targeted enforcement, intelligence-led strategies, and community engagement,” she said.

The Major Cities Chiefs Association noted that the statistics included in the report were based on preliminary data, not on a final report from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System.

The report came after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard last year to multiple cities across the United States, including Washington, in an effort to reduce crime.

The White House credited the drop in violent crime to the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime.

“President Trump promised to make America safe again, and the data proves he has done just that,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told The Epoch Times on Aug. 11.

She said that Trump would “always stand with ... law enforcement officers and deliver safer American neighborhoods.”

A report released by the Council on Criminal Justice in July found that homicides were down 18 percent in 30 reporting cities during the first half of 2026 compared with the same period of 2025.

“Murder and other crime rates are falling across the map, in cities with different political leadership, housing and economic conditions, policing and prosecution strategies, violence reduction models, and levels of federal enforcement activity,” Council on Criminal Justice President Adam Gelb said.

“Local policies and programs surely matter, but the striking consistency of the decline suggests that macro-level forces are exerting enormous influence as well.”

The Council on Criminal Justice reported that homicides were down 31 percent in the first half of 2026 compared with the first half of 2019 after increasing to 39 percent higher in 2022.

The think tank reported that the numbers of aggravated assaults and assaults with firearms also dropped after increasing during the final year of Trump’s first administration and the early years of former President Joe Biden’s administration.

A previous council report indicated that the homicide rate was on pace to drop to four per 100,000 residents.

The think tank said that if the drop was confirmed by the FBI’s final statistics, it would be the largest single-year percentage drop for homicides and would be the lowest homicide rate in at least 126 years.

The White House attributed the drop in violent crime in many of the United States’ largest cities to the “Trump effect.”

“The results are especially striking in Democrat-run cities where the Trump administration has aggressively surged federal resources and National Guard support after years of soft-on-crime failure,” the White House said on Aug. 11.

The White House said federal support for policing and coordination with local agencies have increased and policies aimed at deterring crime have been advanced under Trump’s administration.

It stated that crime has also been reduced as a result of the administration’s border security policies.

However, some crime experts have pushed back on the White House’s comments, noting that the impact of the National Guard deployment to major cities in the United States, particularly Washington, was difficult to gauge.

“Crime statistics are not a good measure—they have been going down since well before the deployment, and there is nothing to indicate the Guard did anything during their presence that was directed toward crime,” Darrel Stephens, a policing expert with 50 years of experience, previously told The Epoch Times.

FactCheck.org also reported in June 2025 that FBI data and other crime statistics showed that crime began to spike in 2020 and then started to drop after 2022, before Trump was elected to his second term in 2024.

Last month, the Center for American Progress released an analysis of the impact that Trump’s National Guard deployments had on crime.

The analysis found that the deployment of guardsmen had “no measurable effect on violent crime trends.”

On Aug. 10, Chandler Hall, associate director for public safety at the Center for American Progress, reiterated the think tank’s analysis that violent crime was already decreasing in major cities before the National Guard deployments.

“Across multiple cities, multiple datasets, and multiple time windows, we find no effect that violent crime actually did change post the National Guard deployment in any of the cities,” he said.

In response to Hall’s comments, Trump said the think tank’s report was “just another Radical Left SCAM” and indicated that he was going to file a lawsuit against the organization.

“Crime is way down since I took Office, and they know it. Liars, at this level, must be held accountable!” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Addressing the president’s lawsuit threat, Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, said on Aug. 11 that the think tank would “not be intimidated.”

“The Center for American Progress stands firmly behind its research and its staff,” Tanden said.

In August 2025, Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington. At the time, he said the nation’s capital was “under siege from violent crime” and that the local government had “lost control of public order and safety.”

Last month, War Secretary Pete Hegseth credited National Guard members serving as part of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force for helping reduce crime, which he said had “dropped in staggering amounts.”

The Pentagon confirmed last month that the mission for which National Guard troops were deployed in Washington would continue until Jan. 20, 2029, or until terminated by the president.

In addition to deploying the National Guard to Washington, Trump deployed the National Guard to Memphis, Los Angeles, and New Orleans in 2025 to address crime and illegal immigration.

Trump also attempted to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, last fall before facing legal challenges.

A district judge blocked Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland in November 2025.

The Supreme Court later ruled in December 2025 that Trump could not deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect federal immigration agents.

Following the rulings, Trump announced the withdrawal of National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland on Dec. 31, 2025.

Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday by two news organizations seeking to shut down a service that sells paid access to the president's posts on his Truth Social platform.

The lawsuit, filed on Aug. 12 in Manhattan federal court by The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, challenges Truth API, launched on Aug. 1, a feed offered by Trump Media & Technology Group, which charges up to $100,000 a month for early access to 10 high-profile Truth Social accounts, including Trump's.

Trump often uses his Truth Social account to post news.

The lawsuit targets Trump in his official capacity as U.S. president, along with Natalie J. Harp in her official capacity as the president's executive assistant.

It also names Daniel Scavino (in his official capacity as White House deputy chief of staff and director of the White House Personnel Office), the Executive Office of the President, and the White House Office.

"Truth API delivers a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths while advancing our strategy to monetize proprietary assets through a high-margin, recurring revenue stream," Trump Media's interim chief executive, Kevin McGurn, said in a July 16 statement.

"As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders."

In an Aug. 10 earnings call, McGurn said the company had signed more than 10 customer agreements for Truth API, primarily with "high-frequency trading firms," at "rates generally in the range of $60,000-$100,000 a month."

In the complaint, the plaintiffs called the Truth API service an "astounding scheme" because the president stands to gain financially when subscribers sign up.

"This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it," the plaintiffs said.

The lawsuit claimed that granting preferential access to Trump's public statements to paid subscribers violates the First Amendment, which it says guarantees Americans equal access to the president's public announcements, as well as the Fifth Amendment, which it says prohibits the government from imposing extortionate or unreasonable conditions on the availability of government benefits.

"There is no legitimate interest, let alone a significant one, in permitting President Trump to profit from selling government information," it said.

"The President stands to gain financially by giving 'market-moving' government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company."

According to the complaint, many of Trump's 9,000 to 11,000 Truth Social posts and reposts during his second White House term were not followed by official White House statements.

A Trump Media & Technology Group spokesman told The Epoch Times by email that information from Trump is "disseminated by countless platforms and news outlets, many of which offer subscription APIs."

He said that one of those channels is Truth Social, "which was founded as an uncancellable haven for free speech after the President was unjustly deplatformed."

"Now, left-wing activists are trying to wrongfully weaponize the courts to censor him again and harm our shareholders," he added.

The president is Trump Media's largest shareholder. His eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is a Trump Media director and oversees the trust.

Other accounts offered through Truth API include those of Vice President JD Vance, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FBI Director Kash Patel, and the White House itself, the complaint said, adding that these are the 10 most popular accounts on Truth Social

"Trump is trying to enrich himself by privatizing government information that he has no right to sell," said Ben Muessig, editor-in-chief of online news outlet The Intercept.

"A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom just a few years ago," said Freedom of the Press Foundation's chief of advocacy Seth Stern.

The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for comment.

Reuters contributed to this report.

via Miah Blackwell of The Cougar Chronicle, 

Over the last few years, individuals and groups tied to violent and extremist LGBTQ activism have been emerging in the heart of Utah. In May, we exposed how extremist students and clubs at UVU have been responsible for vandalism, violent threats and rhetoric, and even justifying the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some even left the words “bella ciao” on the sidewalk during left-wing protests.

In September 2025, the FBI opened an investigation into Armed Queers of SLC in connection to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Since then, no updates have been released. Today, we are shining a light on a problem Utah's leaders and media are ignoring: the rising trans militia. pic.twitter.com/fTLOHRPeYY

— The Cougar Chronicle (@TheCougChron) August 11, 2026

In June, we documented an LGBTQ gathering in Provo where individuals beat an effigy of a police officer and wrote extremist propaganda in chalk. 

But these appearances of violent LGBTQ activism are minor compared to the actions and rhetoric of a group called Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, which has been at the center of this radical movement for some time. 

Describing itself as a socialist, trans-led collective, Armed Queers of Salt Lake City emerged in 2020 with the purpose of combining armed community defense with their far-left Marxist-Leninist and radical LGBTQ ideologies.

A recruitment card we obtained says the group is working toward:

1. the armed protection of queer and trans communities, 
2. the end of capitalist exploitation, 
3. trans liberation from the gender binary, 
4. housing as a human right, 
5. the abolition of prisons and police, 
6. the dismantling of the nonprofit “industrial complex.” 

In a 2024 interview the group framed its work as defending people it considers endangered from both right-wing vigilantes and the state. At a public event the following year, one member described it plainly as a “queer and trans-led Marxist-Leninist organization.”

This is clearly not a normal activism club; it’s an armed political group that resembles a militia. The card makes it explicit: their goal is “armed and militant protection.” And with ties to a tragic shooting at a “No Kings” rally in June of 2025, as well as reports of an FBI investigation into suspected ties to Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, this group should be setting off alarm bells throughout government and law enforcement agencies.

But as we began to investigate this group, one of the most worrying things we discovered was how silent community, state, and federal leaders have been on the issue of organized and armed LGBTQ extremist groups.

Charlie Kirk's Assassination: A Wave of Attention

In the weeks after the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, the group scrubbed much of its online presence, its Instagram and other social media pages going dark. Some of it has since flickered back. 

On September 16, just days after Kirk’s assassination, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna publicly stated that Armed Queers SLC was under investigation by the FBI as an “extended network related to Charlie’s killer.” The New York Post later confirmed this and added that the probe sought to reveal if Armed Queers and related groups had foreknowledge of the assassination.  

But as of August 11, 2026, no further information about this FBI investigation has been revealed to the public. Indeed, Armed Queers of Salt Lake City has barely been mentioned at all by community, state, or local journalists and leaders. But even if Armed Queers had no connection to Tyler Robinson, their ongoing activities–including firearms training, vigilante security operations, and even activism trips to Cuba–should be cause for public concern.

So we took it upon ourselves to do the job that other Utah journalists and law enforcement agencies are not doing: we are shining a light on the growing trans militia in Utah. 

Our Look Inside a Meeting

On June 14, journalists from The Cougar Chronicle attended and investigated a formal Armed Queers meeting during Salt Lake City’s Pride Month festivities. 

The gathering took place inside the Church and State church building, which is now frequently home to pagan and satanic-themed groups and businesses. Along the wall was a line of tables representing the different organizations. Among those groups were: Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Community Bail Fund, Rise SLC, The Brown Berets De West Valley, Queers for Palestine and an oddly adorned table at the end dedicated to COVID-19. Each table had its own set of pamphlets and flyers to hand out to the guests.

It was a small, intimate gathering of less than fifty people–at least half of them wearing COVID-19 masks–and a panel of speakers representing the different organizations where they talked about events, history, oppression followed by a Q&A at the end. With mic in hand, our correspondent went and mingled with the representatives at each table–specifically the representatives of Armed Queers SLC.

When we inquired about the origins of Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, one female representative said:

“So, um, we're a socialist organization that's focused on the support and, um, protection of, uh, oppressed communities with a focus on bearing arms and defense … Armed Queers came about by being armed and being queer because queer inherently is political. And so we wanted to keep the queerness into the armed part, where we're not just a gun group, we're also a queer group that focuses on politics and all the other stuff. And so we wanted to kind of figure out a way to combine all that together to really symbolize who we are…So we want to make sure it's political, not just gun … the gun part is about the protection and the liberation of all of us people.”

Exposing Children

Listening to other conversations, we noticed a lot of emphasis on exposing children to “queerness.” One panelist said, “...I have noticed in the last 25 years a lot of children are going down into our community.”

During the panel, the only biologically identifying male–known for doing drag–spoke more about children:

“..there was this like school bus of children walking by, and a good chunk at the top were like, ‘oh my gosh, you're beautiful, can we take a picture?’ Like you just don't think about that when you think of students in Utah. You just think that they are their parents, essentially. But children are so amazing. And they want to see things and see growth in the state. So just go to a lot of queer events. How about that?”

Materials and Literature

At the meeting, Armed Queers handed out various materials and literature including a how-to guide on writing to political prisoners, a request for donations to acquire a firearms instructor and “enroll our comrades” in a public gun range day, and information about the Salt Lake Community Bail Fund. Additionally, they had flyers claiming that the Trump administration is “gearing up for war” by mentioning the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and the ongoing Iran war. They characterized ICE agents as operatives of a fascist regime and handed out books such as The Communist Manifesto.

Weapons Training and Trips to Cuba

An archive of Instagram posts acquired before Armed Queers took down the page reveals some of the group's normal operations before September of 2025. These activities include monthly firearm training sessions, providing citizen defense for LGBTQ pride events, holding educational forums, and even sending members to Cuba to be trained and participate in the May Day Brigade.

When we attended their June 2026 meeting, we learned that these activities are still ongoing and were not entirely ended by the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination. A recent post from founder Ermiya Fanaeian confirms that members affiliated with Armed Queers SLC traveled to Cuba this summer.

Links to Other Violent Groups

In 2023, Armed Queers SLC hosted a workshop with the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club called "Protecting People's Movements: The Rise in Community Defense."
The workshop taught participants about the history of left-wing community defense, the threat of the right-wing, and the importance of organizing armed defense.

The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (EFJBGC) is a left-wing social-justice gun rights group reportedly based in Kansas. One revealing blog post from 2024 details recent issues they've had with leadership, and some reports mention several spin-off groups and affiliated organizations, but their aims, rhetoric, and methods are almost identical to Armed Queers SLC. In July of 2025, several of the individuals who attacked and injured a law enforcement officer in the Prairieland ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, were linked to EFJBGC, as reported in The New York Times.

The Origins of Armed Queers

The group's public origin runs through Ermiya Fanaeian, a male-to-female transgender activist and the son of Iranian immigrants, who first drew local attention as a teenager. In the aftermath of the 2018 Parkland shooting, he helped organize a Utah chapter of March for Our Lives, the student gun-control movement. 

But within a few years, Fanaeian reversed his position on guns. Speaking to Utah’s KUER, he said, “I used to think that guns were a scary thing. Back then, I would have agreed with Joe Biden’s assertion to take everyone’s AR-15s away. And now I own one.”

He later launched a Salt Lake City chapter of the Pink Pistols, a national LGBTQ firearms group, but later broke with it. Pink Pistols tells a pointed version of that split, saying they cut ties because Fanaeian began using its name to advance a broader political program in violation of the group's single, narrow purpose of promoting lawful, responsible gun ownership. Pink Pistols says his chapter remains defunct.

When Fanaeian organized AQSLC, he kept the core Pink Pistols model–armed, organized, and queer–but expanded on it with additional features. Armed Queers distinguishes itself in three vital ways:

• An explicit political mission. Armed Queers’ own membership sign-up form states the group’s goal of establishing a socialist society and achieving "trans liberation from the gender binary and biological essentialism,” which are ideological aims. The group describes itself as aligned with Marxism and trains queer and trans people to arm themselves in opposition to capitalism and oppression. 

• Coalition activism. Fanaeian protested with the Salt Lake City chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, demanding "police and prison abolition.” He also founded a local PSL chapter himself. Aligning and actively working with other far-left movements (as also evidenced by the other booths at the event we attended) is an essential element of Armed Queers.
• Campus ideological programming. In 2023 the group lectured at the University of Utah, hosted by a socialist student organization, promoting "queer resistance" and dismantling "cis-heteropatriarchy" and "land ownership." 

Fanaeian has not been shy about what this organization leads to. In a local television interview, he said that "Sometimes violence, protest, and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change." He invoked the 1969 Stonewall Uprising as his template. 

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought national attention to the group, the US State Department cut ties with Utah Global Diplomacy, a foreign relations NGO who had previously given Ermiya Fanaeian the “7 for 17” award for advancing the United Nations’ 17 goals. They had also named her a Young Diplomat of Utah. Utah Global Diplomacy has since scrubbed Fanaeian’s presence from their website, but receipts remain courtesy of Data Republican on X.

And in an essay that has since been taken down (with only screenshots courtesy of James Lindsay on X remaining), Fanaeian writes extensively about the “trans struggle” in the framework of radical marxism. In an Instagram post detailing a trip to Cuba, he wrote in the caption, “Spending time in Cuba has made me, alongside my comrades, acutely aware of our duty in the belly of the beast.”

The June 2025 Shooting

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not the first time Armed Queers SLC has come under public scrutiny. 

On June 14, 2025, at a Utah “No Kings” rally in downtown Salt Lake City, thousands of people were in the streets. Among the marchers was Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, “Afa” to those who knew him, a Samoan fashion designer who had once competed on Project Runway. 

Armed volunteers, including members of Armed Queers and the 50501 protest network, formed a volunteer armed security force they called “peacekeepers.”

During the protest, one of these peacekeepers, 43-year-old Matthew Scott Alder, believed he saw a man “ducked down as he was loading his rifle” and thought he was about to commit a mass shooting. Raising his own weapon, Alder fired at the man three times. One round struck the man with the rifle, while another struck Ah Loo, who collapsed and later died. Nearly six months afterward, on December 3, 2025, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill charged Alder with manslaughter, a second-degree felony carrying up to fifteen years.

Pictured: Ah Loo

An attorney for Ah Loo's family said the groups providing security that day included both the 50501 protest network and Armed Queers SLC, and that Alder is “believed to be associated” with the latter. The same attorney has alleged that the groups deliberately obscured their leadership and operated under pseudonyms. 

However, both the Attorney General’s charging announcement as well as the media coverage from CBS, NBC, CNN, the Associated Press, and the Salt Lake Tribune, only tie Alder to the event's volunteer safety detail and to the 50501 movement, but not Armed Queers SLC. And when Ah Loo's widow filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, the named defendants were Alder and six leaders of Utah 50501. 

A Warning to Utahns

This trans militia was built and is thriving in Utah. The meeting we attended took place in downtown Salt Lake City, and the founding member is a student at the University of Utah. 

During our investigation of UVU’s extremist Civil Disobedience Club, we unearthed internal discord messages of a transgender individual offering to train others with firearms. This same individual was responsible for other rhetoric where harming conservatives was implicitly justified or made to seem inevitable. This individual is a student at Utah Valley University. 

We also recorded transgender individuals glorifying violence against law enforcement and teaching children to follow suit. This group was at Kiwanis Park in Provo.

And let’s not forget that Tyler Robinson was from Washington, Utah, and was living in St. George at the time of the shooting. 

Violent extremists are in our communities. Armed Queers of SLC is evidence that some are even organizing into militia-like entities. Charlie Kirk’s assassination generated an appropriate amount of concern for these activities, but that concern faded far too quickly. If law enforcement, policymakers, and community leaders fail to address the perpetuation of this radical and violent extremism in Utah, Ah Loo and Charlie Kirk will not be the only victims.