The staunchest conservative activists and politicians are rallying behind a clear response to Charlie Kirk’s killing: Do everything possible to expose and defeat what they see as the “radical left” — which they blame not only for motivating Kirk’s assassin, but for a litany of America’s ills.

So far, much of the activism has been focused against people who have celebrated Kirk’s killing, demanding and securing their firings. Multiple members of Congress have joined activists in calling to fire professors, teachers, government officials, and more over their comments about Kirk’s killing.

But the activism done in the name of Kirk could soon extend even further into the organizations and companies that conservatives blame for fostering left-wing ideology — and fuel the most politically aggressive tactics meant to cement GOP power.

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller talked plainly about the strategy on the "Charlie Kirk Show" on Monday, as Vice President Vance guest-hosted — saying it was a strategy backed by Kirk in his last message to Miller the day before he was shot.

Miller said Kirk told him: “We need to have an organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country.” The top Trump aide added, “I will write those words onto my heart and I will carry them out.”

He said that while “blind rage” is not productive, “focused anger, righteous anger, directed for a just cause” is important for change, pledging to “uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks.”

What, exactly, are those networks?

Miller talked about “organized doxxing campaigns” and “organized riots,” and “organized cells that carry out and facilitate violence,” pledging to use the full force of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security and more to “destroy” those networks.

“It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name,” Miller said.

Later in the show, Vance got more specific, alluding to removing the tax-free status of progressive grantmaking institutions — specifically naming the Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking network founded by billionaire George Soros, and the Ford Foundation.

Vance said the organizations funded The Nation magazine, referencing an article that had misquoted Kirk.

The article he referenced quoted Kirk as saying “Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot." In the actual quote, Kirk was referring to specific prominent Black women, like Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. "He criticized a specific Supreme Court justice as an individual. He never said anything about black women as a group." A spokesperson for The Nation said it stands by its writer’s critique of Charlie Kirk, but it added a correction to the article following Vance’s critique."

"Did you know that the George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation — the groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie's death — did you know they benefited from generous tax treatment?” Vance said. To have a country united "with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable," Vance argued, leaders have to "work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country now our government."

Bhaskar Sunkara, president of The Nation,

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