ANDY NGO REPORTS: First Antifa terrorism convictions in US history - "Five far-left extremists have admitted to being Antifa members and terrorists in federal plea deals stemming from a coordinated ambush shooting on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on the Fourth of July. It is the first known case in U.S. history in which Antifa members have officially admitted to being part of an organized Antifa cell. On Nov. 19, Seth Sikes, Joy Abigail Gibson, Lynette Read Sharp, Nathan Baumann and John Phillip Thomas each admitted to one count of providing material support to terrorists for their role in the shooting attack on the Prairieland facility in Alvarado, Texas, that resulted in a police officer being shot in the neck and other officers being fired upon. As part of their plea deals, which would see them imprisoned for no more than 15 years (they were facing up to decades in prison), they also agreed to a set of stipulated, or formally agreed-upon, facts of the case. “Beginning on or about July 3, 2025, and continuing until on or about July 4, 2025, in the Northern District of Texas, [defendant name] planned with others to provide resources and personnel, including [himself/herself], knowing and intending that they would be used to carry out acts of terrorism,” Baumann, Gibson, and Sikes admitted were true in the court filing. They admitted that the terrorism was “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.” In Baumann’s stipulated facts, he admitted: “Baumann found that others who participated in the acts against Prairieland adhered to an Antifa, revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology that is anti-law enforcement, anti-immigration enforcement, and calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law. Antifa is a militant enterprise that advocates insurrection and violence to affect the policy and conduct of the U.S. government by intimidation and coercion. In line with his Antifa ideology, on or about July 3 and July 4, Baumann, along with others, participated in the planning of the ‘direct action’ against Prairieland set for the night of July 4, to influence and affect the conduct of the government by intimidation and coercion…” All five who pleaded guilty admitted that the “Antifa cell” had “conducted an act of terrorism.” Sikes’ admission provided more detail about how the North Texas Antifa cell operated: “Sikes and his coconspirators adhered to an Antifa, anarchist ideology and organized cells or ‘affinity groups’ around their beliefs.” Formally organized Antifa networks are decentralized, with militants forming cells calling themselves “affinity groups.”... Cameron Arnold (a Trantifa known as “Autumn Hill”) and Zachary Evetts were indicted on similar terrorism charges on Oct. 15, marking the first time in U.S. history any Antifa members had been formally accused at the federal level of terrorism crimes"
Nick Sortor on X - "π¨ BREAKING: ALL NINE members of an Antifa cell in TX have just been found GUILTY of TERRORISM charges brought by the DOJ, per @MrAndyNgo This is HUGE, as it's the first terrorism trial against Antifa members in US history! A precedent has been SET π₯ The terrorists AMBUSHED ICE agents at their detention center in Alvarado, TX, shooting one of them in the neck, back in July 2025. Pure TERRORISM. And the FBI, DOJ, and a federal jury of 12 all agreed. "First time ever: the FBI arrested Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremists and terrorism charges have been brought for the July 4 Prairieland ICE attack in Texas," @FBIDirectorKash said after their arrests Jurors found the defendants guilty of providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiracy to use/carry explosives, and using/carrying explosives. Many of them will now rot in prison. MUCH deserved. We need MORE of this! Well done, @AGPamBondi ππ»"
The left wing spin and cope around this is amazing
Thread by @MrAndyNgo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "BREAKING — Ngo Comment report: Verdict reached in the first-ever federal Antifa terrorism trial over the Texas ICE ambush where an officer was shot in the neck. All cell members have been CONVICTED. Antifa supporters had threatened witnesses during the trial.
They’re looking at potentially decades in federal prison. Read my report. Antifa associates are threatening and promising violence in reaction to nine of their Texas comrades being convicted at the first-ever Antifa federal terrorism trial. ngocomment.com/p/all-members-…
As the verdict was being read out, some of the Antifa supporters in the courtroom started wailing and crying, resulting in them being ejected from the court. Read about what happened at the historic first Antifa federal terrorism trial in Texas:
Antifa supporters are asking if the two trans Antifa terror convicts, both men who pretend to be women, will be able to serve their sentences in a female prison. Read: ngocomment.com/p/all-members-…
Antifa associates are responding to the terrorism conviction of their comrades in the North Texas Antifa cell by calling for the jurors to be hunted down and killed. Read my report: ngocomment.com/p/all-members-…"
Left wingers are still lying that it's not an organisation. Too bad a jury decided differently. So the cope is to condemn Texas
Andy Ngo on X - "The Guardian’s Sam Levine, who lied in his reporting on the Wi Spa trans incident in 2001, is lying again about Antifa as he runs cover for his terrorist comrades who were convicted for their roles in an anti-government, anti-police shooting ambush attack. Here’s what happened:"
The Other 98% | Facebook - "In a massive blow to the first amendment, Trump administration wins its first “antifa case”. Pam Bondi made the stakes clear: "Today's verdict will not be the last." Eight people were convicted Friday on material support for terrorism charges for attending a July 4th noise demo outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, the government's first use of the material support charge against alleged antifa members accused of domestic terrorism. The conviction didn't require proof anyone committed violence. It required wearing dark clothes. Federal prosecutors told jurors that wearing "black bloc" clothing was itself a terrorist act, that "providing your body as camouflage" constituted material support for terrorism. That's the new legal standard. Show up in black. Go to prison for 15 years. The convictions were made possible by NSPM-7, Trump's executive order weaponizing federal law enforcement against left-wing activism. One defense attorney said it plainly: "This wouldn't be a terrorism case if it weren't for that memo." There is no domestic equivalent to the State Department's list of foreign terror organizations, in part because organizations operating within the United States are protected by broad First Amendment rights. Trump bulldozed that protection with an executive order designating "antifa", a decentralized umbrella term, not an organization, as a domestic terrorist group. There is no "antifa." There is no membership card. There is no headquarters. The government invented the enemy and then convicted people of joining it. Defense attorney Xavier de Janon put it plainly: "The federal government has signaled, successfully, that very regular protest activities could get you federally charged and federally convicted." The National Lawyers Guild's Suzanne Adely warned the case is designed to "increase the fear, hoping that folks in other cities will think twice over protesting." That's the point. Not justice. Deterrence. The government doesn't need to arrest everyone. They just need you scared enough to stay home."
The Other 98% | Facebook - "The Trump administration just convicted people of terrorism for wearing black clothes and lighting fireworks on the Fourth of July. A federal jury in Texas found eight anti-ICE protesters guilty of "providing material support to terrorists" in what the government called its first-ever terrorism prosecution targeting alleged "antifa" members. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated by promising "today's verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last." Here's what actually happened. A group of people showed up at the Prairieland ICE detention center on July 4th to set off fireworks in a noise demonstration protesting the caging of immigrants. Things went sideways when one person, Benjamin Song, opened fire and wounded a police officer. Song was the only shooter. He was convicted of attempted murder. But the government didn't stop there. Prosecutors argued that simply wearing black clothing at the protest was enough to convict the other eight of terrorism, telling jurors that "providing your body as camouflage for others to do the enumerated acts is providing support." Read that again. Wearing dark clothes is now terrorism. The prosecution presented zines, anti-Trump stickers, and Socialist Rifle Association pamphlets as evidence. They treated the use of Signal, a widely used encrypted messaging app, as proof of conspiracy. Their own "antifa expert" admitted he uses Signal too. Even the government's own cooperating witnesses said they didn't expect violence that night. The jury acquitted most defendants on the attempted murder charges, signaling they rejected the "coordinated ambush" narrative. But the terrorism convictions stuck. The wife of one defendant wore her wedding dress to court and told reporters: "Federal prosecutors told a panel of Northern District of Texas residents with a straight face that lighting off fireworks on the Fourth of July was terrorism." Eight people now face between 10 and 60 years in prison. For attending a protest. For wearing black. For being against ICE. The judge himself seemed to see the absurdity, asking prosecutors why "antifa" even mattered to the charges. "Whether it's antifa or the Methodist Women's Auxiliary of Weatherford, why does it matter?" It doesn't. That's the point. The label is the punishment."
Left wing logic - prosecuting organised, violent terrorism violates freedom of speech
Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memetic...: "It's difficult for a normal person to understand what happened so I'll try to explain. The terrorist committing a premeditated act of terror saw a cop coming to him and his comrades. He grabbed a rifle and fired at the cop. One of the bullets struck the cop. The terrorist's defense that he actually argued in the court was that he wasn't firing at the cop, he was firing a warning shot at the cop, and the bullet must have taken a ricochet then hit the cop because he didn't actually mean to shoot the cop. Yes, that was his actual defense. This is why he was sentenced to 100 years lol."
BlackRedGuard *Communist hammer and sickle* *Palestinian flag* @OGBlackRedGuard: "100 fucking years for firing a gun at the ground."
Alec Karakatsanis on X - "The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case."
Payton Alexander on X - "“Everyone should be learning about this case.” Okay! Here’s what happened: On the night of July 4, 2025, 11 members of a North Texas Antifa cell carried out a coordinated attack on the Prairieland Detention Center. Earlier that day, they had conducted reconnaissance (including reporting on security of the facility), and had assembled a cache of dozens of firearms. The group planned the attack ahead of time, including a “gear check” where the leader discussed bringing rifles and ominously “not getting arrested.” They dressed in black uniforms and brought 11 firearms, body armor, and military-grade first aid kits (including tourniquets for gunshot wounds). They disabled CCTV cameras at the facility, and threw fireworks and explosives to flush the officers out for a planned massacre. When officers called 911, Lt. Thomas Gross responded. Bodycam footage shows one of the attackers yelling “get to the rifles!” as the group opened fire. Gross was shot once in the neck, with the bullet exiting through his back, but survived and continued to fight back. The perpetrators of the failed mass shooting were arrested and charged with offenses ranging from concealment of evidence to attempted murder. They were found guilty by a jury of their peers, and very appropriately received sentences ranging from 30-100 years. There. Now you know."
Alexis de Tocqueville on X - "The magazines were being removed in an attempt to conceal evidence of the terrorist conspiracy. You may not think this case was about terrorism, but the prosecution was able to convince the jury that it was. So that puts every associated charge in that context."
Ryan Smith on X - "Sorry your terrorism thingy didn’t work out. Everyone should learn about this case, yuppp. Lesson 1. Don’t shoot at law enforcement Lesson 2. Don’t plan to shoot at law enforcement and have those messages on your electronic devices"
CatOuttaHat on X - "Shooting a federal officer in the neck is not a protest, dimwit. It's called attempted murder. If you're going to play with yourself, get a room."
SunCat on X - Sounds pretty reasonable sentences for an armed and coordinated terrorist attack against a federal facility. These antifa goons are used to getting special treatment. Those days are over. Happy incarceration! π"
william tallant on X - "I find it ironic antifa destroyed a federal courthouse week after week in Portland Antifa has the ability to afford to make signs and banners professional fly ppl around and put them up in hotels. You shot a cop in TEXAS duh! Jan6 no weapons extreme terms we want the financing"
Shooter, 7 others sentenced to decades in prison after violent incident at Texas ICE facility - "A man who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration centre last year was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison Tuesday, while other protesters accused of having links to antifa were given multiple decades in federal prison. Benjamin Song was convicted of attempted murder last March after prosecutors say he opened fire and wounded a police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado in a July 4, 2025 incident... U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, one of two judges overseeing the proceedings, said what happened last July wasn't a protest but "an assault on democracy."... One of the defendants, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, was convicted of corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents. Others pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists rather than take their case to trial... Critics warn the case could have wide-reaching impact on protests given that organizations operating within the U.S. are supposed to be protected by First Amendment free-speech rights. Short for "anti-fascist," antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations. The National Lawyers Guild — a decades-old progressive bar association — has tracked the Prairieland case, expressing concern about the rights to rights to free expression, assembly, and association for several of the defendants... federal prosecutors charged 15 people with impeding the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota. They claimed the demonstrators were members of antifa who conspired against the federal government to block arrests and deportations by setting up blockades around government buildings and throwing chunks of ice at federal vehicles, among other actions."
The most hilarious left wing cope was "Bro you really fell for this one eh? Those people aren't even real."
I like how they pretend that the antifa members are only "accused" of various things instead of being convicted of them, as they have been, and runs cover for antifa in so many other ways
Left wingers are now pretending that attacking and even trying to kill a police officer and providing material support for terrorists fall under the first amendment
Ariana Jasmine | Facebook - "Texas Anti-ICE Protesters Sentenced to Decades in Prison For Protesting
Nine protesters in Texas have been sentenced to extraordinarily unusual and long prison terms after being convicted on terrorism-related charges tied to a 2025 demonstration outside an immigrant detention center. The case stems from a Fourth of July protest at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where activists gathered late at night for a noise demonstration meant to show solidarity with people detained inside. Prosecutors said some demonstrators vandalized property, including vehicles, a guard shack, tires, and a security camera. When law enforcement arrived, one activist, Benjamin Song, fired an AR-15 from nearby woods and struck an officer in the shoulder; the officer survived. Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison because of the shooting. Several others, including Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto, and Meagan Morris, received 50-year sentences. Maricela Rueda was sentenced to 70 years. Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who was not present at the protest, was sentenced to 30 years after prosecutors accused him of moving left-wing materials after his wife’s arrest. The sentences are stunning not only because of their length, but also because several of the defendants were acquitted of attempted murder and firearms charges. Legal observers have noted that the judge appears to have stacked sentences consecutively, creating prison terms far beyond what many expected. The Trump administration celebrated the outcome, framing the case as a victory against “Antifa terrorists,” but that framing is exactly what makes this case so alarming. “Antifa” is not a formal organization; it’s a broad label often used to describe anti-fascist politics, protest movements, and decentralized left-wing activism. In this case, prosecutors leaned heavily on that label, arguing that the defendants were part of a “North Texas antifa cell.” Critics say the government used politics, reading material, group chats, Signal messages, and left-wing zines to portray loosely connected activists as a coordinated terrorist threat. Although one person fired a gun, the government’s case went far beyond individual accountability. Prosecutors secured terrorism-related convictions against people who did not fire a weapon, some of whom were not accused of planning the shooting, and at least one person who was not even at the protest. The punishment handed down to these protesters is longer than the harshest sentences given to far-right leaders involved in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years, and Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, received 18 years. They’ve both been released in 2025 thanks to Trump’s full pardon. The message being sent is clear: protest against state violence, ICE, and the carceral system can be reframed as terrorism, and political beliefs can be used as evidence. An association can become a conspiracy, reading material can become ideology, encrypted messaging can become suspicious, and proximity to one person’s violent act can become the basis for decades in prison. The federal government has already pursued similar cases against activists in other cities, including Minneapolis, Spokane, and Chicago. The pattern is deeply troubling: anti-ICE protests are increasingly being treated not as civil disobedience or political resistance, but as a national security threat. This case should force a national conversation about proportionality, political prosecution, and the expanding use of terrorism language against domestic protest movements. Because when the state can turn loosely affiliated activists into “terrorists,” it creates a playbook that can be used against anyone who challenges government power. For more news updates like this, please subscribe at www.arianajasmine.com/subscribe"
Left wing logic (including in comments) - trying to ambush and murder law enforcement is peaceful protest and if you disagree you support authoritarianism. Elsewhere people are still claiming that WWII soldiers were antifa and that only fascists oppose antifa
Sam Russek on X - "Update: 8 Texas protesters were sentenced today, following a July 4 noise demo outside an ICE detention center. The maj. were sentenced to 50 years in prison 2 were sentenced to 70 & 100 years, respectively The last, who wasn't even at the protest, was sentenced to 30 years."
Andy Ngo on X - "I’m sorry your friends were convicted. But it wasn’t a “noise demo.” It was an Antifa ambush shooting. They brought 11 firearms with them and shot an officer in the neck. The cell members who flipped and testified at trial spoke about the secret planning, and firearms training that happened before the attack. They admitted to being inspired to action through antifa ideology in stipulated statements. I hope you or your friends don’t succeed in killing people."
James Surowiecki on X - "The 1st Amendment prohibits the govt, including judges, from punishing - or, in this case, levying additional punishment on - people because of their ideological positions. Seems like obvious grounds for appealing the sentences."
Charles Fain Lehman on X - "I don't think this has ever come up at SCOTUS, but given that hate crime enhancements don't run afoul of 1A, I'd be surprised if making sentencing choices based in part on expression of a pro-violence ideology does. For example, the Zodiac killer believed that he was killing people to make them his slaves in the afterlife. That's an ideological position (even if an insane one), yet it would be perfectly reasonable to punish him more severely given the unique threat posed by someone who believed that and had acted on that belief."
Jonathan H. Adler on X - "Unlikely, as the ideology in question here embraces the use of violence so sentence serves to protect public and deter."
Bonchie on X - "They so desperately want these terrorists to get off. A real mask-off moment."
Ken Klippenstein on X - "An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool π"
Andy Ngo on X - "Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada is not American. And he wasn’t convicted and sentenced for moving Antifa zines. It was proven at his trial that he conspired with and helped one of the terror suspects conceal evidence that showed she and her co-defendants from the night of the shooting were inspired by violent Antifa insurrection ideology."
Left wingers just keep lying to try to manifest reality. Of course, other ignorant left wingers just lap it up, because it plays to their prejudices
The Intercept on X - "Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda."
Andy Ngo on X - "One of the North Texas Antifa terror suspects told her partner, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, to hide evidence of the cell’s anti-government violent extremist ideology after they were arrested for the terrorist attack. He planned the evidence hiding with her and carried it out. It was proven at trial. To frame this as a free speech issue by a publication whose writers and readers support Antifa killing people for having right-wing beliefs is worse than lying."
Meme - Robin Bougie: "They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-Al zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented."
Guardian: "Building power - 'This is injustice': how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison. Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility"
Jared Auner: "Never a day I'm not disgusted and ashamed to be an American."
Besides yet more evidence that left wingers relentlessly lie (that transporting zines was what got antifa insurrectionists long jail sentences), this is an open proclamation by one that he hates his country. But we will still be told that left wingers do not hate their countries. But given how much they lie about the former, it's no surprise they keep lying about the latter too
Meme - PoliMath: "It's boring to argue with this lie so I'll just show what this guy actually got 30 years for"
"Corruptly Concealing a Document or Record, by transporting a box containing numerous Antifa materials, such as insurrection planning, anti-law enforcement, anti-government, and anti-immigration enforcement documents and propaganda from Sanchez Estrada's residence to a location in Denton, Texas, intending to conceal the box's contents and impair its availability for use in a federal grand jury and federal criminal proceeding.
- Defendant convicted: Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada
Conspiracy to Conceal Documents and other objects that would implicate Maricela Rueda in the riot and shooting at the Prairieland facility.
- Defendants convicted: Sanchez Estrada and Maricela Rueda"
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein: "An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving "Antifa" zines and there's about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump's reflecting pool"
