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Amplifying and Resourcing Anarchist Resistance to Attacks on Anti-Fascist Movements Agency Opens its 2026 Application Period for the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant Program Dear Friends, With the year nearing its end and the holiday season approaching, the second Trump administration continues to ramp up repression and shred the social safety net (such as it is). Over the past few months, ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, and other federal agencies have continued to target immigrants for detention and deportation, universities and other institutions have continued to cave to Trump’s demands for ideological conformity, and the neediest households have watched as their Medicaid subsidies hang in the balance. Antifa—which is not a structured organization but a political culture—is in the crosshairs along with a broad swath of left organizations. Meanwhile, given the opportunity to stand up to the far-right political machine, congressional Democrats—the alleged opposition party—have instead stood down. Repeatedly. But this is only one side of the picture. Washington’s neofascist agenda is prompting a renaissance of grassroots direct action: spontaneous, non-hierarchical, and community based. Activists are bird-dogging ICE agents, blockading them when they harass and raid immigrant worker gatherings. Rallies and demos in support of Palestine and Palestinian immigrants are returning, following months in which repression on college campuses appeared to have dampened the movement. Whereas the early months of Trump 2.0 seemed to provoke mainly tame, sign-waving gatherings in safe locations and the converted seemed content to preach to each other, the urgency of defiance at last seems to be taking hold. Much more remains to be done, but the past several months have revealed, again, that anarchist organizing has far more power to inspire resistance and create openings for effective action than does organizing sanctioned by the State. Communications and media work is an essential part of struggle and social change. We’re happy to announce the opening of the 2025-2026 application period for the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grants. The program, which Agency sponsors together with the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS), supports independent media projects reflecting the core tenets of anarchism that Jen’s life and work exemplified: autonomy, mutual aid, voluntary association, and direct action. The application period closes on March 2, 2026. Information on how to apply is available here. We also co-sponsor the Horizons Grant with IAS. More on that here. Underneath the repression and lies, a politics rooted in autonomy, solidarity, and resistance is strong and growing. The following recent articles and commentaries on our website underscore the challenges we face and the importance of anarchist organizing. The Agency Collective, December 2025 Latest from the Agency Newswire Everything Trump Says About Antifa is Wrong We set the record straight about what Antifa is and isn’t, in the wake of Donald Trump’s announced plan to designate it as a “major terrorist organization,” his defaming it as a “sick, dangerous, radical left disaster,” and his call for investigations into its alleged funders. Read more>> Drop Site News, “Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy” In Trump’s war on Antifa, he moves to designate an ideology as a “domestic terrorist organization,” despite no statutory framework for such designations. Trump’s theatrics have already had real world consequences, however, as he broadly targets the left, including but not limited to “anarchist extremists.” Read more>> The Interept, “‘Antifa’ Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity” Last month, activists arrested in connection with a July 4 noise demonstration in support of immigrants held at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, were charged with material support for terrorists. This is the first time “Antifa” has been used as a pretext for federal terrorism charges. Read more>> The Washington Post, “ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa” The Washington Post reported that ICE is bolstering surveillance capabilities, “signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements.” While undocumented immigrants are the primary targets, the Post noted that “some of the technology may also be used to target what the administration regards as anti-ICE extremist groups”—e.g., Antifa. Read more>> Shaping Anarchist Narratives: Why it’s Important to Engage the Mainstream Media Understandably, anarchists have long questioned the value of talking to the corporate-controlled, mainstream media since they so often mischaracterize and misrepresent anarchists and anarchist ideas. So why talk to them? Read more>> Peter Gelderloos: Weaving Paths from Colonial Apocalypse to Ecological Revolution Anarchist activist Peter Gelderloos explains why attempts at the recent COP30 conference in Brazil to claim that economic growth is being decoupled from carbon emissions are just carbon accounting, shuffling the numbers to hide the true costs of capitalism. And how real climate activism is happening in Indigenous communities. Learn more>> Launch Agency Newswire Support the James Murphy Hoopes Clerkship Fund to Fight Political Repression of Anarchists and Activist Communities Our friend and an early collective member of Agency, Murphy Hoopes died in early 2025. The Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) has set up the James Murphy Hoopes Clerkship Fund in his honor to ensure that the kind of accessible, principled legal representation Murphy believed in and worked for continues to be available to activist communities for years to come. Administered by CLDC, this program will provide one-of-a-kind opportunities for emerging lawyers who share Murphy’s dedication to civil liberties and social justice. This is especially needed as state repression against anarchists and other activists continues to increase. Support the fund and the crucial work of the CLDC here: https://givebutter.com/CLDCMurphyClerkship. What is the State? An animated video presented by Agency & AK Press This video serves as an introduction to what the State is, how it functions, and how society can move beyond it. Learn more>> Copyright (C) 2025 Agency. All rights reserved.