Biden DoJ sent the FBI to Terry Newsomes home March of 2023 under the false pretense of an investigation of ANTIFA targeting parents. At the time, Newsome didn’t know he was under an FBI investigation.
A Downers Grove, Illinois father who stood up at a school board meeting against the graphic book “Gender Queer” became the target of a tightly timed campaign that moved from an SPLC Hatewatch article written by a Chicago ANTIFA-linked researcher straight into federal action.
FOIA records, TSA documents obtained by Congress, and the sequence of events show that the pattern is not a coincidence. His case fits the broader pattern documented in the Department of Justice’s October 5, 2026 Weaponization Working Group report on the Garland Memorandum, which traced how the Biden Administration pressured DOJ to treat parents objecting to school policies—including explicit materials, CRT, and transgender policies—as potential domestic terrorists.
Link to Garland Parents Memo: https://www.justice.gov/archives/ag/file/1170061-0/dl?inline=
Terry Newsome, Illinois Chapter President of Parents Involved in Education, former Republican precinct committeeperson, and host of the Behind Enemy Lines podcast, first spoke out in 2021 after discovering explicit sexual content in Community High School District 99 libraries. His advocacy was local, public, and focused on parental rights. He has never been charged with any crime related to January 6, 2021. He left the west side of the Capitol grounds before anyone breached the final police line or entered the Capitol.
The 2026 DOJ report details how the National School Boards Association’s September 29, 2021 letter to President Biden labeled such parental speech as potentially “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism,”and how, five days later, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued his October 4, 2021 memorandum directing the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to treat threats against school officials as a federal priority.
Internal DOJ emails cited in the report show career officials calling the request “ridiculous” and warning against ramping up federal manpower for non-federal conduct, yet White House and ODAG pressure prevailed. Whistleblower accounts in related House reports noted the FBI opening assessments on parents simply for belonging to “right-wing mom’s groups,” owning guns, or “railing against the government.”
Newsome’s later targeting—after speaking against graphic sexual content in school libraries—occurred under that framework. Parents Involved in Education, like other parental-rights groups, fell into the category of organizations the NSBA and subsequent federal posture treated as sources of disruption.
FOX News story on the SPLC targeting Parents Organizations
On or about November 15, 2022, SPLC senior research analyst Jeff Tischauser filed a FOIA request for Newsome’s school board emails. Tischauser, based in Chicago, has documented public ties to ANTIFA networks, including a July 4, 2022 post directing complaints to an “ANTIFA Foot Soldiers” email address. On November 30, 2022, Tischauser published the Hatewatch article “Illinois Radical Parent Activist Has Hate Group Ties, History of Racist Posts.” It labeled Newsome an extremist with hate-group affiliations, citing a public law-enforcement event photo, a sarcastic “OK” hand sign, old social media posts taken out of context, and his presence in Washington on January 6. A national SPLC press release followed the story on December 1, 2022.
Jeff Tischauser Downers Grove South FOIA request targeting Terry Newsome for being a vocal parent about the indoctrination and sexualization by the school.
Four days after the article, on December 4, 2022, Tischauser posted on X that he had asked Newsome why he “tried to overthrow the government on 1/6” and received no response. Newsome states the conversation never occurred and that the claim is absolutely false. He left before any breach. The same period saw Sedition Hunters, an ANTIFA-aligned group known for collaborating with the Biden FBI, create a dedicated “Terry Newsome – Big Pouches” page using the Jeff Tishauser SPLC article, ANTIFA posts, LinkedIn details, and employer information.
Jeff Tischauser, SPLC analyst acting as an agent of ANTIFA.
The federal response was immediate. The first 50 pages of an FBI FOIA production (out of 346 pages the Bureau says it holds) show the FBI opened an investigation of Newsome approximately one week after the November 30 SPLC story—days after the December 4 “overthrow” post. The remaining pages, Newsome was told, would take 49 months to release. On December 15, 2022—fifteen days after the article—TSA initiated an unusual “recurrent review” of his PreCheck eligibility. He received a Determination of Ineligibility dated January 13, 2023. Congressman Troy Nehls later obtained the TSA response, signed by Charles Makings, Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs. It stated only that TSA was “unable to determine that Mr. Newsome meets the TSA PreCheck Application Program eligibility standards.” No specific information, failed standard, or decision-maker was identified.
Newly acquired FBI FOIA shows they opened a investigation into Terry Newsome days after the SPLC story was released
While traveling to Turning Point USA’s AmFest with his wife and 15-year-old twins (VIP guests of Charlie Kirk), Newsome, his wife, the twins, and two of the children’s friends were all marked Quad-S (SSSS). The family endured enhanced screening. Later trips, including to CPAC, involved additional agents, secondary searches, bomb-residue checks, and U.S. Air Marshal oversight that made him the focus of the gate. The Quad-S designation was later lifted after congressional intervention; PreCheck was not restored.
In March 2023, FBI agents arrived unannounced at Newsome’s home. He did not know he was under investigation. They indicated they were there because of ANTIFA threats against him and other parent groups, then shifted to questions about January 6, whether he entered the Capitol, and any Proud Boys connections. Ring-camera footage exists of the visit.
ANTIFA and aligned fake X accounts weaponized the SPLC labels. Venues hosting events for Parents Involved in Education, Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, Gays Against Groomers, and Log Cabin Republicans received threats against owners and performers. Multiple joint parent forums were canceled. Pre-Musk Twitter Trust and Safety chief Ella Irwin reviewed complaints about accounts tagging Capgemini executives and clients with the SPLC material and declined to act, calling it protected conversation.
Pre Elon Musk Purchase of Twitter, Ella Irwin, Head of Trust and Security refused to remove ANTIFA aggressive harassment of Terry Newsome, his employer, clients and their executives
Congressman Matt Gaetz sent a formal Demand Letter on or about June 2, 2023, to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It asked four questions: whether Newsome was on any watchlist; why the SSSS designation was placed; whether DOJ, FBI, or DHS maintain a watchlist of people present near the Capitol on January 6; and whether they maintain one for parents who spoke at school board meetings. All three acknowledged the letter. None answered the questions.
Congressman Matt Gaetz Congressional Demand Letter sent to Garland, Wrey and Mayorkas on Terry Newsomes behalf
In February 2025, Tischauser published a second SPLC Hatewatch hit piece, “Head of Trump’s Immigration Plans Met Proud Boys Associate About Deportations,” after Newsome met border czar Tom Homan in Chicago and Washington, including a December 11, 2024 session also attended by Alderman Raymond Lopez. The article labeled Newsome a Proud Boys associate. That characterization was later incorporated into Tom Homan’s Wikipedia page. Weeks later, Capgemini terminated Newsome after 23 years. He had won the company’s top sales award seven times—more than any other employee. HR stated the termination was “not due to performance.” At the time he was 63 and recovering from back-to-back cancer treatments for Stage 4 prostate cancer (following immunotherapy for Stage 3 melanoma).
Second targeted SPLC hit piece published by Jeff Tischauser, SPLC Analyst and ANTIFA associate weaponizing the SPLC to harass and discredit Republicans. Two weeks after this story was published Terry Newsome was laid from his 23 year career with Capgemini
The sequence is documented: SPLC article by an Antifa-linked analyst on November 30, public “overthrow the government” accusation on December 4, FBI investigation opened within days, TSA PreCheck review and family Quad-S designation within two weeks, FBI home visit under a shifting pretext months later, second SPLC piece, and career-ending termination. Newsome has provided the Gaetz letter, Nehls/TSA correspondence, FOIA response, Tischauser posts, ring-camera images, and employment records to members of Congress. He has asked the House Judiciary Committee to determine who inside DOJ or FBI received and acted on the SPLC material, to compel release of the remaining FBI pages, to identify the officials who imposed the Quad-S and PreCheck actions, and to examine the SPLC–Antifa pipeline that supplied the public predicate.
After the June 9th, drilling by Jim Jordan and the Judiciary Committee of SPLC CEO Brian Fair Terry Newsome confronts him in the hallway. Fair was asked why the SPLC employers ANTIFA Associates. No response!
The 2026 DOJ report confirms the foundation: political pressure produced the Garland Memorandum that treated parents speaking at school boards as a federal enforcement priority, despite internal warnings that the conduct was largely local and constitutionally protected. Newsome’s experience—SPLC labeling, rapid FBI and TSA action, family screening, and career destruction—illustrates how that posture operated in practice against a parent whose offense was opposing explicit sexual material in a high school library. Parents who objected to explicit material in school libraries, and Americans who attended January 6 without being charged, were subjected to the same pattern of designation, screening, investigation, and economic pressure. The timestamps, the FOIA opening date, the TSA review date, and the unanswered congressional questions are public. The agencies have never explained the coincidence.
Newly released damaging DoJ Report on Garland weaponizing the DoJ against parents:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1464216/dl?inline
Terry Newsome is available for interviews and prepared to provide the full paper trail. Contact: [email protected].
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