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A group of 27 Congressional Democrats is probing the Trump administration over its campaign to suppress and persecute people with left-wing beliefs under National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), demanding that officials divulge the breadth of their shadowy suppression campaign.

In a letter led to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the Democrats express alarm at the administration’s recent actions to suppress dissenters, which they say “dramatically escalate the Administration’s deliberate and targeted attempts to silence any person, organization, or institution critical of its policies and abuses of power on a global scale.”

The lawmakers point to recent statements from Trump administration officials labelling leftists a “cancer” and “enemies of civilization” during the State Department’s recent anti-left-wing ministerial conference on the “Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” In his speech at the conference, Rubio vowed to dismantle left-wing networks “brick by brick.”

These statements have compounded recent chilling actions from the White House to criminalize left-wing dissent under NSPM-7, which targets anyone the administration deems to express “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” or even........

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