First ‘Antifa’ Terrorism Case Begins Today - The Tuesday AM Quickie 2/17/26
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Today you’ll read about the regime’s “antifa” terrorism trial starting today, the deportation of nine people to Cameroon though they are not from there, and Obama flip-flopping on aliens.
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First ‘Antifa’ Terrorism Case Begins Today
Fifteen defendants are facing charges that they materially supported terrorism after participating in a demonstration outside of an immigrant concentration camp last summer in Prairieland, Texas, during which a man allegedly shot and wounded a cop, The Intercept and Talking Points Memo reported.
It is the regime’s first terrorism prosecution of a so-called “antifa” cell; “antifa” is short for “anti-fascist.” Defendants were initially charged with attempted murder of a federal officer and use of a firearm. But after gun rights activist Charlie Kirk got shot in the neck and died, federal prosecutors upgraded the charges at Trump’s direction. Material support for terrorism is a federal statute prosecutors used widely for the first time after 9/11. It requires that prosecutors show a defendant “knew and intended to commit a crime of terrorism.” Per TPM:
The case is complex: more than one week after the demonstration, prosecutors arrested one man for shooting the cop, purportedly tracing gun purchases and DNA back to him. The alleged ties between some of the defendants and the alleged shooter seem, from what the government has revealed so far, to be tenuous; in court documents, prosecutors use wearing black clothing, protest literature, and group chats to construct a single conspiracy. Civil liberties attorneys say the approach crosses the boundary from punishing violence into punishing a political stance.
Some defendants are tied to the alleged conspiracy because they distributed “insurrectionary materials called ‘zines’” or because they belong to a leftist book club.