Texas Leads the Nation:
Gov. Abbott Designates the Muslim Brotherhood and Its Leading Front Group, C.A.I.R., as International Terrorist and Transnational Criminal Organizations
Federal and Other State Governments Must Do the Same
8:00–9:00 a.m. ET, November 20, 2025
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. He explicitly subjected those groups and “any persons promoting or aiding their criminal activities” to prosecution pursuant to state law.
These initiatives are long overdue, urgently needed and templates for what must be done across America.
After all, Texas is just ground-zero for efforts by the Brothers, CAIR and other sharia-supremacists to subvert our constitutional republic and impose instead their totalitarian rule.
Fortunately, a Republican primary ballot measure next spring will afford voters a chance to endorse a Texas prohibition of such efforts to supplant our Constitution as “the supreme law of the land.”
But the jihadists of the Muslim Brotherhood and front groups like CAIR explicitly aspire to take down our entire country. They must be stopped, now.
Moderator:
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Member, Victory Coalition; Briefing Co-sponsor; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- Debbie Georgatos, host, “America, Can We Talk”
- Lt. Cmdr/Dr. David Wurmser, PhD, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Senior Middle East advisor to an Under Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Vice President of the United States; Director, Middle East program, Center for Security Policy (Invited)
- Congressman Keith Self, Representative of the 3rd District of Texas
- Major Stephen C. Coughlin, United States Army (res.)(Ret.), Esq., co-founder, Unconstrained Analytics; served, Directorate for Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Targeting (JCS-J2T); assigned to USCENTCOM
Sponsor:
The Victory Coalition’s mission is to focus on the need for victory over those determined to impose Sharia, whether by violent jihad or the stealthy, subversive kind, on Americans here at home and on their friends and allies in the Middle East and beyond.