Inside America’s Silent Invasion

Cartels, jihadists, and extremists are waging an undeclared war from within

Dead Drop Intel: The Real Threat

For years under the Biden administration, the official line from the intelligence community and the White House has been clear and unwavering: the greatest threat to America’s national security comes from white nationalist extremism. That narrative has been repeated in congressional hearings, amplified by major media outlets, and used to justify billions of dollars in funding for domestic counterterrorism initiatives targeting American citizens. Every press conference, report, and “domestic extremism” bulletin reinforced the same talking point - that the danger was internal, ideological, and overwhelmingly conservative in character.

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But reality does not bend to politics. While Washington’s bureaucrats obsessed over narratives, the ground truth shifted beneath their feet. The southern border collapsed. Over 10 million people have entered the United States illegally since 2021, including hundreds of thousands of “got-aways” - individuals who crossed undetected and remain completely unvetted. Among them are military-age males from nations with active jihadist movements and others openly hostile to the United States. Intelligence sources have confirmed that operatives from regions tied to Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS-K, and the IRGC have been apprehended, while many more have likely slipped through undetected.

These are not economic migrants seeking work. They are potential infiltrators exploiting chaos. Every week, Border Patrol and DHS leak reports of men carrying false documents, encrypted phones, and tactical training backgrounds. Yet Washington downplays the threat, terrified of the political fallout that comes with admitting a catastrophic failure of border security.

Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have transformed into hybrid terrorist organizations. Once driven purely by profit, they now operate with military discipline and strategic intent. Cartel factions control vast regions of northern Mexico, command private armies, and deploy drones, armored vehicles, and encrypted radios. Their logistics networks reach deep into American cities, embedding operatives in everything from human trafficking rings to suburban fentanyl distribution hubs.

The cartels no longer merely smuggle - they govern. They collect taxes, impose rules, and assassinate those who resist. Their reach extends into the U.S. itself through bribery, extortion, and infiltration of local institutions. Each year, more Americans die from fentanyl - manufactured in China, trafficked by the cartels - than were killed in twenty years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. That’s not a crime wave. That’s a covert war of attrition.

While these external and transnational threats metastasize, domestic extremist movements have also evolved. Groups like Antifa are no longer just street-level anarchists smashing windows at protests. They’ve become a decentralized network with hierarchy, funding streams, logistics support, and a clear political mission. They use encrypted communications, shared training camps, and rapid-mobilization tactics that mirror insurgent cells overseas. They hijack protests, attack law enforcement, sabotage businesses, and destroy public infrastructure - all under the convenient cover of “activism.”

Despite this, they rarely face organized federal scrutiny. The same agencies that once infiltrated church groups and parents at school board meetings ignore Antifa’s organized violence. Federal prosecutors frequently decline charges. Local officials turn a blind eye or even quietly sympathize. Political protection has replaced law enforcement.

This convergence of threats - cartels, foreign jihadists, ideological extremists—creates a perfect storm. Each feeds off the instability created by the others. The cartels exploit migrant surges to mask infiltration. Foreign actors fund disinformation and chaos through online networks. Domestic extremists weaponize the resulting division to tear communities apart from within. It’s a layered, asymmetric campaign designed not to conquer America outright but to erode it from within - to exhaust the system until it collapses under its own contradictions.

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Yet Washington refuses to adapt. The intelligence community remains trapped in a Cold War echo chamber of bureaucracy and political correctness. Its priorities are dictated by optics, not outcomes. DHS and the FBI are still fixated on the next “January 6” headline while ignoring real-world warning signs: rising cartel violence along the border, infiltration attempts near critical infrastructure, and foreign actors using NGOs and nonprofits as fronts for recruitment and propaganda.

This is not about party politics - it’s about survival. The threat landscape has shifted beyond ideology. It is no longer defined by skin color or political affiliation but by intent and capability. The adversaries now operating inside America’s borders are diverse, networked, and opportunistic. They thrive on the vacuum created when leadership chooses perception over protection.

Every intelligence failure has a common root: denial. The denial of uncomfortable facts. The denial of open borders as a security risk. The denial of ideological extremism that doesn’t fit the narrative. And the denial that the greatest vulnerability in America today is internal complacency - a national security establishment too politicized to see what’s right in front of it.

The truth is no longer classified. It’s visible in every fentanyl death, every cartel killing, every attack on a police precinct, and every radicalized protest that devolves into chaos. The signs are all around us. The question is whether our leaders will acknowledge them before the next coordinated catastrophe forces their hand.

Because the real threat isn’t what Washington says it is.

The real threat is what they refuse to see.

Godspeed,
Mike Glover
Founder