{"id":2520902,"date":"2025-12-13T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-warns-of-possible-antifa-attack-at-saturdays-lets-go-wa-event\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:49:12","slug":"fbi-warns-of-possible-antifa-attack-at-saturdays-lets-go-wa-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-warns-of-possible-antifa-attack-at-saturdays-lets-go-wa-event\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI warns of possible Antifa attack at Saturday&#8217;s Let&#8217;s Go WA event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-warns-of-possible-antifa-attack-at-saturdays-lets-go-wa-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2520902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The FBI and Tumwater Police Department have warned that Antifa-affiliated individuals plan to commit acts of violence and intimidation at a &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Washington&#8221; (LGW) signature gathering event in Tumwater scheduled for Saturday.LGW is collecting signatures for two initiatives: one to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-states-pushing-bills-to-keep-biological-men-out-of-womens-sports\/\" title=\"4 States Pushing Bills To Keep Biological Men Out Of ...\u2019s Sports\">ban transgender girls<\/a> and women from participating in female sports, and another to establish a strong parents&#8217; bill of rights regarding education. Following the FBI&#8217;s notification, Tumwater PD has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uc-berkeley-extends-dorm-lockdown-bans-solitary-outdoor-exercise-for-students\/\" title=\"UC Berkeley Extends Dorm Lockdown; Bans Solitary Outdoor Exercise For Students\">increased security presence<\/a> and advised LGW to enhance its own security. LGW has experienced numerous attacks on signature gatherers at past events and has responded by increasing its security measures. Despite the threats, LGW leadership remains resolute to continue their campaign. LGW founder Brian Heywood stated that intimidation tactics will not deter their efforts to promote fairness in girls&#8217; sports and parental rights. The initiatives require approximately 309,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-puts-fast-food-law-on-2024-ballot\/\" title=\"California Puts \u201cFast-Food Law\u201d on 2024 Ballot\">000 valid voter signatures<\/a> by January 2, 2026, to qualify for certification. The FBI&#8217;s involvement underscores the seriousness of the threats, marking an escalation in political violence surrounding these initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">FBI, Tumwater PD warn of possible Antifa attack at Saturday&rsquo;s Let&rsquo;s Go WA event<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2443384\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\">Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> has notified Let&rsquo;s Go Washington that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antifa\/\">Antifa<\/a>-affiliated individuals and groups are calling for acts of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/violence\/\">violence<\/a> and intimidation against volunteers and supporters during a signature gathering event in Tumwater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>LGW is gathering signatures for two initiatives: one to ban transgender girls\/women from female sports and another to establish a strong parents&rsquo; bill of rights regarding education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3917091\/los-angeles-mayor-urges-hiring-400-police-officers\/\">Los Angeles mayor urges hiring of over 400 police officers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3917081\/bill-protect-school-kids-sexual-misconduct\/\">Bill designed to protect school kids from sexual misconduct<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3916532\/california-confiscates-black-market-cannabis\/\">California confiscates $56.5M in black market cannabis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Spokesperson Hallie Balch told The Center Square that LGW was contacted by the Tumwater Police Department after the FBI notified the department of the threats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The FBI let them know that they had received information that Antifa would be coming,&nbsp;and&nbsp;they&rsquo;ve been promoting violent acts against our&nbsp;rally&nbsp;and people that&rsquo;ll be there,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re planning to come out and cause a ruckus essentially, so Tumwater PD told us that they have it on their radar, and they&rsquo;ll be in the area, but they said we should also look into getting our own security measures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Balch, LGW brought its own security teams to every signing event following dozens of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/washington\/article_ee4bfc7b-be54-45fc-90ee-7624d330b84f.html\">attacks on signature gatherers<\/a>&nbsp;outside storefronts and at previous rallies in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just added a few more people to that list,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>LGW leadership is determined to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-to-recall-radical-la-district-attorney-is-a-go-report\/\" title=\"Campaign To Recall Radical LA District Attorney Is A Go: Report\">continue gathering signatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Antifa&rsquo;s goal is to threaten and intimidate Washington citizens into silence,&rdquo;&nbsp;LGW founder Brian Heywood said in a Friday news release. &ldquo;It won&rsquo;t work. We have already <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >endured unprecedented political violence<\/a> throughout this campaign &ndash; including more than&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1YyeQhLxoX5rOLODP2NpbhyWondEFjOl1OqGhM0HfSqo\/edit?usp=sharing\">50 documented physical assaults<\/a>&nbsp;and even a hit-and-run by a thief trying to make off with stolen signatures &ndash; yet Washingtonians continue to stand up for fairness in girls&rsquo; sports, the restoration of parental rights, and common-sense reforms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_092f845a-2a8f-4b35-94f0-9cb411624831.html\">designated Antifa<\/a>&nbsp;a domestic terror organization in September, one week after The Center Square&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_c0765f8b-68d0-4ac0-9f13-3f24d7d83379.html\">asked him<\/a>&nbsp;if he would consider doing so in an Oval Office news conference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In October, Trump also designated Antifa a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_03638cc7-fd2b-478d-9389-a11488e86680.html\">foreign terror organization<\/a>, again after The Center Square asked if he would do so.<\/p>\n<p>Balch said local police did not provide details on how the FBI discovered the threats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But they did say that they&rsquo;ve never&nbsp;had the FBI call on behalf of Let&rsquo;s Go Washington because of one of our events, so that tells us that it must be serious,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/washington\/article_3129dcbd-5d46-4c60-9edf-04496597f8b2.html\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;by TCS, LGW released new signature count totals for both initiatives this week.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, LGW had collected 315,979 signatures for&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.sos.wa.gov\/_assets\/elections\/initiatives\/ballottitleletter_3276.pdf\">IL26-638<\/a>&nbsp;to protect girls in sports,&nbsp;and 298,571 signatures for&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.sos.wa.gov\/_assets\/elections\/initiatives\/finaltext_3264.pdf?_gl=1*9j3qzt*_ga*NTkxMjkxOTMzLjE3MzYyOTY5NzU.*_ga_7B08VE04WV*czE3NTczNDc4NDkkbzIxJGcxJHQxNzU3MzUzMjA4JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..*_ga_X6SDF160YQ*czE3NTczNDc4NDkkbzExJGcxJHQxNzU3MzUzMjA4JGo2MCRsMCRoMA..\">IL26-001&nbsp;<\/a>to restore the parental rights initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3898318\/who-is-funding-the-refuse-fascism-rallies-in-dc\/\">WHO IS FUNDING THE &lsquo;REFUSE FASCISM&rsquo; RALLIES IN DC?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 309,000 valid voter signatures are required by 5 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2026, to have each measure certified by the Office of the Secretary of State. That number is based on the percentage of registered voters who participated in the last general election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will not be silenced by intimidation or even violence,&rdquo;&nbsp;Heywood said in the news release. &ldquo;Girls deserve fairness in sports, and parents have a right to know what&rsquo;s going on in their child&rsquo;s classroom. We are proud to continue fighting for those rights.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI, Tumwater PD warn of possible Antifa violence at LGW event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":2520903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1259fee69b68a976865062a9b0864b2d-scaled.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3802,50645,42507],"class_list":["post-2520902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-antifa","tag-fbi-2","tag-security-alert"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1259fee69b68a976865062a9b0864b2d-scaled.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520908,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520902\/revisions\/2520908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}