MIAMI-DADE — The Southeast Florida Fusion Center, an intelligence unit within the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, distributed a confidential bulletin in October 2025. The 28-page report, marked "for official use only," described antifa as a "decentralized autonomous network of cells" that "stand against capitalism and want to overthrow governments they feel are oppressive through violence and silence their opposition by any means necessary." It stated that "Antifa has been very active, their most prevalent presence during the George Floyd riots and recently during the anti-ICE protests." The report asserted that the National Lawyers Guild serves as the "legal representative" of antifa and included a picture of National Lawyers Guild legal observers wearing lime-green hats.

The bulletin warned that zines are tools to "recruit new sympathizers" and that inflatable animal costumes are a "form of propaganda implemented by Antifa to soften their image." It also cast using "profane language against law enforcement" and "doxing" as antifa tactics. The report claimed that the "goal of Antifa is the violent overthrow of the United States government." The bulletin cited sources including right-wing social media accounts, journalist Andy Ngo, conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, and an X account called Far Left Watch. The report additionally referenced President Donald Trump's executive order from September 22, 2025, which designated antifa as a "domestic terrorist group." President Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) on September 25, 2025.

Xavier de Janon, director of mass defense for the National Lawyers Guild, disputed the bulletin's claims. "I don't know what that means, because antifa is not an organization," de Janon said. He added, "But again, it's false. It's just not based on truth. There is no retainer agreement with antifa." De Janon also clarified that "NLG as an organization does not provide legal representation. Its members do." The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937.

Brendan McQuade, a professor at the University of Southern Maine who studies fusion centers and domestic surveillance, commented on the context of such reports. "The tone set by leadership is important," McQuade said. He added, "In the Trump administration the incentive structure is clear: Trump wants to mobilize the security apparatus against his perceived enemies, and in some sense the FBI and the Florida fusion center are both responding to that incentive structure." The bulletin's reliance on right-wing social media and figures for information on antifa, and its assertion about the National Lawyers Guild, drew criticism from civil liberties experts.