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Announcer: We got breaking news. The State Department uncovers Antifa ties to Hamas and the IRGC. Keeping you informed and engaged. Now, more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.

Logan Sekulow: Welcome to Sekulow. It's August 26. Will Hanes is in studio. A little bit later, we are going to have back to school week. We got a lot of more stuff to cover and we have some breaking news I want to get to. The breaking news is, I mean, it really came out just in the last hour, hour and a half. Secretary Rubio posted a statement saying this:

Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West. Today, the United States sanctioned several transnational far-left terrorist networks, including what they call AI, a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States across the world. There will be no refuge for violent extremism, extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities. We'll use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life from terrorist corrosion. That again is from Secretary Rubio.

At the same time, if you look a little deeper of how this is all connected, it gets a little scarier even if you will with who was using this technology. As you have connections now from not only Antifa in Portland, but a push to Hamas and to the IRGC. So again, tech that has really started to influence our world, and we got to be very careful.

Guest (Male): That's right. So this AI collective, as it's called, not to be confused with artificial intelligence, is an Italian-based group that provides sophisticated tools to left-wing terrorist organizations. Specifically, they give encrypted chats, email, web hosting, secure video conferencing, streaming, anonymity shields as well as other tech products.

Who are the people that use them? The IRGC, Hamas, those type of anarchist groups in, you know, Eastern and Western Europe, like the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria that have sabotaged pipelines, as well as groups here in the United States, like the Antifa cell in Portland, Oregon.

Logan Sekulow: What if the Frog Brigade is part of that?

Guest (Male): Oh, maybe. I don't know.

Guest (Male) 2: I don't know if they have encrypted text messaging.

Logan Sekulow: I don't know. I like to think about them.

Guest (Male): But we also have groups like

Logan Sekulow: They're just on a lily pad.

Guest (Male): Jane's Revenge, the group that went and fire-bombed a lot of pregnancy resource centers in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Logan Sekulow: We heard that name.

Guest (Male): So, it's not just transnational terrorist organizations over in the Middle East or in Europe. It's also organizations that are using these tools right here at home.

Logan Sekulow: I want you to understand. You may say, well, maybe I use the same texting service as a, you know, terrorist. How do I know what I'm using, what I'm not using? This is from the State Department's memo. They said these tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent acts, all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of law.

So again, this isn't saying, hey, we just happen to download the same app. These are apps that are used or programs that are used specifically to shield terrorist activity. I have a feeling you're not on that, I would hope, at least, you are not accidentally on that app. Phone lines are open for you. I want to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. What do you think about this when you hear this, 1-800-684-3110?

We also have a pretty big update coming out of some pro-Israel Democrats. You're going to find that to be a little bit interesting as maybe some of the the more leftists are a little angry that some of these Democrats are getting put into leadership, including some of our friends. And then it is back to school week, as I said. There'll be a special video presentation a little bit later because during back to school week, of course, the ACLJ is the Back to School Week is part of our impact match. All donations made are doubled today. So do that right now at ACLJ.org. I want you to do that. But hey, as I said, phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110. And I'd love to hear from you.

Of course, we are in the state of Tennessee. The state of Tennessee is mourning the passing of Dolly Parton. We'll talk a little bit about that coming up as well. Really just a cultural icon who affected all of our lives. And look, we probably wouldn't be living here as well as we are here in Nashville, Tennessee, without her. So we'll be talking about that. But of course, we're hitting the main topics today. Give me a call. 1-800-684-3110.

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Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Sekulow. Again, we are talking about this really breaking news item that I think we need to be paying more attention to than maybe the mainstream media is giving coverage right now, which is Secretary Rubio making a statement this morning, talking about a far-left terrorism group that again connected to Antifa of Portland, but also connects things like the IRGC and Hamas together, using the same technology and platforms that are specifically made to disseminate information, to message between each other, uh, terroristic threats. Threats that are again, untraceable or are no ways are all encrypted. And look, there there's some positives to having some sort of encrypted messaging system, of course, a lot of people use encrypted messaging. Nothing wrong with that. But this isn't apps. These are messaging services, applications that are created specifically to, uh, really foster terrorism.

When you start seeing the connections between these groups, it does become much, much more alarming because it's not just talking about a service being used in Iran, a service that's being used in Gaza through Hamas. No, we're seeing it now in the United States, in Portland. Okay, where these things are happening. There's a lot of people manipulated. There's a lot of people who get used. And this is how it happens. A lot of people get radicalized even when they don't realize it's happening because they're using platforms that are unsafe.

Guest (Male): Well, and once again, as you brought up, these are the entire point of these tools are to to communicate with other people that have bad intentions. And that's why this entire designation for this group is that they are specially designated global terrorist organization. Therefore, they will be sanctioned, you cannot work with them, etc.

But when you look at this, it really is an extension of what Secretary Rubio has been doing for a while. Remember, there was that ministerial back in July where he talked with with leaders from other countries about the rise of far-left political violence. We've talked about on this broadcast many times how much the the left-wing of the party, of the Democrat Party has converged in many ways with the Palestinian cause, which is also related very heavily to left-wing terror or Islamic terror in the Middle East.

They they've become using similar tactics with similar motives and similar goals. And when you hear who's using this same group, this AI collective for these encrypted tools, it it does have organizations like the International Revolutionary Front, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, National Liberation Army, New People's Army, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. So all the Islamic terror groups that we know are currently causing trouble in the Middle East. And then you come back home, who else is using this tool?

Rose City Antifa in Oregon. You're talking about the anarchist cell that tried to overrun the the law enforcement training center in Atlanta. Remember, that was just a few years ago. They were using these tools to communicate, to disseminate doxing lists, to illegally obtain private information. All of these tools are used by now this anarchist cell, as well as Jane's Revenge, who did this fire-bombing campaign against crisis pregnancy centers or pregnancy resource centers across the United States after the overturning of Roe.

They used the tools to publish communiqués to their individuals, to claim responsibility for violent criminal acts and not be able to be traced back to the individual, to incite copycat attacks. All of these things are facilitated by the tools of this tech company. We talk a lot about, you know, Big Tech and social media. There's headlines about Big Tech today. But you also have to think about the more insidious side of tech. Not not the companies that that you interface with every day, the people that are using advanced technology in a way to try and further these terroristic political goals.

What we're seeing is that the left-wing of the American political spectrum is more and more converging with Islamic radical terrorism. They're so few steps in between them of what their causes are and their tactics and the tools they're using, that it is a scary thing when you think about also how little the government would do under the Biden administration to try and stop these things. They said, no, these aren't you saw in the break video, you saw James Carville say, Antifa doesn't exist. You saw left-wing politicians in and in in Joe Biden say, you know, Antifa is an idea, it's not a group. No, they are groups of people.

It may be not a centralized group. They may not have one boss. There's not the CEO of Antifa. But that's what makes it more dangerous when you decentralize it, when it's all have their marching orders and they're able to communicate through programs like this, the same way that terrorist groups in the Middle East do, that needs to be addressed. And that's exactly what Secretary Rubio is doing here.

Logan Sekulow: Yeah, that's right. I want to hear from you. Phone lines are open. 1-800-684-3110. Because listen to this. This is part of it as well. Remember that we're talking about how they communicate also where they take claim and responsibility. So you had something like Jane's Revenge, which again, if you don't remember Jane's Revenge, this was people taking taking action after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Dobbs decision that happened at the Supreme Court of the United States. As all that was happening, you saw pregnancy resource centers, you saw threats made to the Supreme Court justices who made this decision. You saw those pregnancy resources fire-bombed, graffiti, destroyed. This is where they would publish their official claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts. And of course, they would incite and push for copycat attacks, which makes you question where all of this comes from to begin with.

Where are the origins of even the threats to pro-life Americans? Is it coming from Portland, Oregon, or is it really being infiltrated from a much, much more sophisticated and darker side of the internet? And like I said, I want to hear from you. Do you feel like this is ringing true to you at all at 1-800-684-3110? In the next segment also, we're going to play you a special video presentation because when we're talking about protecting your brains, we're talking about protecting your phones, what everything that's working. We also have to protect our kids. And you know your kids often have devices. They're they're communicating, whether they're on Roblox or whether they're on, you know, any kind of live streaming or YouTube. You know, they're on these platforms. And look, I understand there's use for a lot of these platforms. My kids utilize some of them, some they do not.

We have a we're pretty strict in our household of what we allow and what we don't allow. That being said, I know plenty of their friends who have have good parents who are meaning well. And I know, you know, once you have open access to the internet, things get very, very ahead of you. And let's just be honest. Once you turn 40, your kids who are now in their teens, they know a lot more on how to operate and how to work all of these systems way more than you do. So as much as you want to be a protective parent, sometimes your kids, they can outsmart you. Let's just be honest and and truthful with it. But it's back to school week. And of course, that back to school is also talking about not just your kids in school, but I think it's also talking about students' rights. And when I mean students, I also just mean kids. Kids' rights, and of course, the rights of parents and the rights even of teachers.

You know, schools are a place where kids go, they learn, they they engage with their friends, but it's not where they are also pressured, hopefully, to abandon their faith. We know this does happen. We know it happens post high school. We know it happens in in the college system, but even in high school and middle school, we know this happens. Officials cross the line all the time. The ACLJ, we fight back. Our team is ready for you. And I want you to join with us today. It is back to school week. These are not easy fights for a family to take on alone. And thankfully, that is why we are there. And that's why your support matters because we're never going to send a bill to a parent or to a teacher or any of our clients, ever. It's not how the ACLJ works because people like you support. And during these special months, donations are matched. This will be the last one until we head towards the end of the year, towards Christmas time. So right now, this will be one of your last chances for a long time to have your donation doubled today.

These fights sadly can drag on for years, but some of them can be taken care of now because of settled law the ACLJ has had for 40 years. We can quickly fight back. Sometimes it's a letter, sometimes it's a phone call and it's over. But then there are times in certain cities, and you can imagine which ones, and then sometimes in places you'd never expect, like in Texas, where we have to take things to court. And you want us to be there for you as well. So I encourage you to go to ACLJ.org. This is where your support makes a big difference during these months. Right now, ACLJ supporters are ready to match your gift, double the impact of what you give today, dollar for dollar. You're going to hear me talk about it quite a bit for the rest of the week because it wraps up here at the end of the month. It's very important. In the next segment, we're actually going to show you some of the work the ACLJ has done directly supporting a parent and a student when they needed it the most.

And if you've never seen this story, you're not going to believe it. And you may remember it just from a couple of years ago. It's a pretty wild one. So buckle up. If you got small ones listening, little kids, you may want to, you know, be a little careful here in the next segment because this is a student who was forced to do something they were not not willing to do. And their parent was horribly offended with what was going on. Phone lines are open, as I said, at 1-800-684-3110. We also are going to talk about maybe in the next segment as well, this pushback from pro-Israel Democrats who are now going to be taking a pretty lead spot if you have the situation, which a lot of people are predicting, whether you want to predict believe it or not, we'll find out what happens. If the midterms, if things do not go for the way for the Republicans and you have Democrats in leadership, what is that going to look like for Israel? I think a lot of us are very concerned about that.

Well, thankfully, there are some common sense Democrats when it comes to Israel. Some of them are our friends. Some of them are unexpected voices. We'll talk about them when we get back as well. As I said, phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. Support the work of the ACLJ today. Do it at ACLJ.org or scan that QR code you see on the screen. We'll be right back with more on Sekulow. Don't go anywhere.

Announcer: We've witnessed monumental legal victories from defending the 14th Amendment and protecting our sacred American right to vote, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and standing up for the religious liberty of our kids and seniors. But even with the many historic wins we've achieved, the battle is far from over. The attacks on our constitutionally protected rights persist. Countless unborn babies remain in jeopardy, and across the globe, innocent Christians are being targeted and killed across this country and around the world. This fight isn't just the ACLJ's, it's all of ours. It belongs to every American who wants to preserve the values and beliefs on which this nation was founded. None of the victories we've won would have been possible without the unwavering support of ACLJ members and ACLJ champions. It's been an honor to fight for you all these years. Join us in fighting for freedom. Have your donation doubled at ACLJ.org/freedom.

Announcer: Do you even realize the impact you make? Choosing freedom or oppression? Justice or corruption? Faith or godlessness? Life or death? One factor can make the difference. And what is it? You. As an ACLJ supporter, you have great power. You make a tremendous impact. And this month, you can double that impact. Right now, your most sacred rights as an American, your freedom of speech, your freedom to pray and worship, even our free and fair election process are being threatened. Right now as part of our ACLJ Impact Match, you can double your support. Go to ACLJ.org/impact and have your tax-deductible gift doubled. Dollar for dollar, doubling your impact to defend faith, freedom, and innocent life. Your impact is powerful, but the time is short. Go to ACLJ.org/impact and have your gift doubled today.

Announcer: Welcome back to Sekulow. As I said, phone lines are open for you. 1-800-684-3110. It's Back to School Week, and we are going to tell you a bit about the work of the ACLJ in just a moment here. We put some special video video presentations together. Our team worked on them, just kind of giving you an overview of some of the the scope of the cases that we deal with. And we got another big win we get to announce right after you see this special video. So let's kick things off. Let's go ahead. Here's a special video presentation. It's Back to School Week from our team here at the ACLJ.

Announcer: A 15-year-old girl walks into her theater class. She's handed a script. It's graded, it's mandatory. What she's told to do is memorize it and perform it out loud in front of her entire class. It's a monologue laced with graphic sexual content and profanity. No parental notice, no permission slip, no warning when her mother raised the matter with the school. They did nothing to make it right. She then went to the school district and the school board meetings, attempting to address the issue. She tried to read the monologue herself aloud. But they wouldn't let her. Their reason? It was too obscene for a public meeting.

Guest (Female): This will be horrifying for me to read to you, but that will give you perspective on how she must have felt when her teacher required her to memorize this and to act it out in front of her entire class. "I don't love you. It's not you, it's just, I don't like your."

Announcer: Sorry.

Guest (Female): "...or any in that case."

Announcer: Excuse me. Excuse me. I- I don't. Thank you so much for your. Thank you for your, uh, comment. Forgive me. I we're not using profanity, are you?

Guest (Female): This is pornography that they're going to put in front of...

Announcer: Oh, excuse me. Excuse me.

Guest (Female): Okay. This required my daughter to memorize this and read this pornographic material.

Announcer: This is a public meeting. I ask for decorum.

Guest (Female): If you don't want me to read it to you, what was that like for my 15-year-old daughter to have to memorize pornographic material?

Announcer: Too obscene for adults in a school board room but not too obscene to assign to a 15-year-old for a grade. That's when the ACLJ stepped in. We sued Clark County School District, not just for what was done to this student, but for what was done to her family. A cover-up and a mother's silence for trying to protect her own child.

Guest (Female): We've been in here for for a while. We've survived the motion to dismiss with several of our claims. So that means we now got into discovery. So we're here in Las Vegas doing depositions. We're defending our client this morning from the defense council.

Guest (Male): Imagine the legal bill if you are trying to fight a case out from a 15-year-old, now 18, into another year if it weren't for the work of the ACLJ and our hardworking attorneys like Christie and her team that are out in Las Vegas because we do this at no cost to the family because of the members of the ACLJ.

Guest (Female): If this happens to any other student, they can now pull this case and say, look, these are the facts, this is what happened in this case and the school had to pay. So my my child needs to be protected because this was inappropriate. And we have it on the record as precedent in the courts now that the school had to pay for this kind of action.

Announcer: The First Amendment protects students from compelled speech. Clark County School District ignored that and then tried to keep parents in the dark when they got caught. This case has already forced accountability, but the fight for transparency in classrooms across the country isn't over. As millions of kids head back into the classroom this year, the ACLJ is here to defend your constitutional rights as students and parents. If you believe your rights or your child's rights are being violated in school, we want to hear from you. Visit ACLJ.org/help.

Logan Sekulow: Again, go to ACLJ.org/help. If you do feel like this, look, even if you're not sure, you get attached to one of our legal team here very quickly, and they'll be able to go through it with you and decide whether it's worth pursuing. So even if you have a question or a concern of something that's going on in your classroom, your students' classroom, or you are a teacher and you are unsure of even what you're allowed to say or not say, that's a great, great way to connect with the ACLJ. Go to ACLJ.org/help. We're there for you. That's the entire reason that our team is there. That being said, I also want to share, because that was a couple years ago, I want to share with you now even another update to a similar situation where art was being really pushed as homework, to go research, to learn about, and when you were to dive into some of the websites that they sent you to, and again, we have nothing against art. We have nothing against I'm a very I'm an anti-censorship pretty much absolution at this point.

Like I I don't believe in a lot of censorship in art. But when we're talking about pushing stuff to kids, we at least need to have some accountability here. And there was a a assignment made about Keith Haring, the artist who of course was a 90s icon, if you will. Everyone's seen that kind of artwork. But when you went to the website, the website just wasn't filled with stick figure drawings and all of these things. It featured what would be largely considered to be explicit uh full frontal nudity on this website that they were sending children to.

Guest (Male): That's right. And some of the students were as young as 11 years old. And it wasn't as though while they're doing this lesson, the teacher collected select works that that could be appropriate because, you know, art is important, art history is important.

Logan Sekulow: I know my kids did a Keith Haring

Guest (Male): as as did mine. But they weren't told just go search it out. And the teacher even recognized, if you go to ACLJ.org, you can read all about this as well, that told the students, some as young as 11, some of the things on this website aren't appropriate, and be mature. So when you see videos like what we just showed about the content,

Logan Sekulow: It wasn't just ignorance.

Guest (Male): the content that was in Nevada or even here. When we fight for students' rights and for parents' rights, it's not just religious liberty. It's also protecting children. And here we are happy to announce that we have a victory. We had to file a federal lawsuit because even the way that it was handled before we got to here was not great. Like we sent the demand letter, said, hey, protect these children, and that went nowhere. So we are happy to announce that we have a settlement with them, the details of which we'll talk about later, but this just happened this week where we were able to protect those students, protect their innocence. Yes, we want them to have an education. We but we're not talking about even the Renaissance era of of type of art that you're thinking. This was modern art that was highly sexualized.

Logan Sekulow: This was photography. I mean, this wasn't even paintings or something like that. These were these were photos of of subjects and things that again, not appropriate for a child, certainly not appropriate to be assigned to a child to go do their research. And when you have those sort of facts of they're going, well, just be mature about it. You know that behind the scenes, someone at least has said, maybe this is not appropriate. We shouldn't be doing this. And why is that not the first thing you jump to is, okay, you know what, I think we can we can take a dozen pieces of Keith Haring art, we can show it to our kids, we can explain to them, have them do this assignment without sending them in some, you know, rabbit hole that could lead somewhere nefarious. That being said, again, phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. We're headed to break.

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Maybe you're grandparents now and you're like, hey, I don't got to deal with it anymore. Maybe you're you're celebrating. Maybe we're the first thing. Maybe you enjoy us with your coffee. But I know for a lot of us, you're getting up now again at 6:00 in the morning, getting your kids to school. And when you drop your kids off at the school, there's a lot of things that can go through your mind sadly in today's world. But one of them shouldn't be whether your kids' religious liberties are being protected, whether they can talk about Jesus, whether they can say a prayer before their meal. Of all the things kids have to deal with in the modern world today, this should not be one of them. Go to ACLJ.org. Have your gift doubled today.

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