Foreign Regimes Weaponize American Activists

Adversarial states are cultivating U.S. activists as overseas influencers and mouthpieces, turning domestic radicals into tools of foreign propaganda and pressure. The path often runs from street radicalization at home to travel, media festivals, and on‑camera endorsements of hostile slogans abroad. This blends soft power, information ops, and sabotage‑adjacent activism. — It reframes foreign‑influence risk as a citizen‑centric problem that spans propaganda, FARA enforcement, and protest security rather than only state‑to‑state espionage.