Withdraw the Subpoenas Against Peace Organizations — Dissent Is Not Terrorism

The House Ways and Means Committee must withdraw its subpoenas against BreakThrough News, The Peoples Forum, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Demanding internal communications, membership lists, and financial records from peace organizations is not a tax inquiry — it's a political intimidation campaign, and you should say so publicly. This is a coordinated crackdown. One day before those subpoenas dropped, the State Department released a 100-page report labeling Cuba the center of global terrorism and naming 43 people and organizations — including sitting mayors, members of Congress, the Amazon Labor Union, Black Lives Matter, and the DSA. Secretary Rubio announced new terrorist designations for left-wing groups, framing all opposition to U.S. policy as "Far-Left Terrorism" to be met with the same response as jihadist attacks. That is not counterterrorism. That is the government criminalizing dissent. More on this coordinated attack is documented here: https://www.workers.org/2026/07/93966/ We have seen this before. The McCarthy era destroyed lives and silenced movements through exactly this kind of guilt-by-association targeting. Oppose these subpoenas on the floor. Demand the State Department retract its political blacklist. Dissent is not terrorism — and protecting the right to organize, advocate, and speak freely is the job.