Joe Rogan Experience #2544 - Chris Williamson · Aired Aug 21, 2026
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The National School Boards Association previously sent a letter to the Biden administration suggesting that protests at school board meetings could be considered domestic terrorism.
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The letter is real and it did reach for that language. On 29 September 2021 the NSBA asked the White House to look at threats and violence against school board members under statutes including the PATRIOT Act, calling them the equivalent of domestic terrorism. What it pointed at was threats and violence, not protest itself, and the association apologised for the letter three weeks later after its own state chapters objected.
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Is it true that the National School Boards Association previously sent a letter to the Biden administration suggesting that protests at school board meetings could be considered domestic terrorism?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The letter is real and it did reach for that language. On 29 September 2021 the NSBA asked the White House to look at threats and violence against school board members under statutes including the PATRIOT Act, calling them the equivalent of domestic terrorism. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2544 - Chris Williamson, aired Aug 21, 2026, at 2:50:24. The supporting source is edweek.org, linked below.
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