https://cleverpeople.com/blog/view/148448/trumps-doj-using-antifa-label-for-enhanced-terrorism-charges https://cleverpeople.com/blog/view/148448/trumps-doj-using-antifa-label-for-enhanced-terrorism-charges Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:29:43 -0500 https://cleverpeople.com/blog/view/148448/trumps-doj-using-antifa-label-for-enhanced-terrorism-charges Just as the DoJ abuses the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, they are now labeling people as "antifa operatives" in order to file enhanced terrorism charges against them.

"Antifa" is just short for anti-fascist, and I'd like to think the majority of people in the world are anti-fascists. We already fought a world war over fascism, and the good guys won. Antifa in the US is not an organization and has no leaders. The only people in any danger from antifa are fascists, which is why Trump and some other authoritarian world leaders are paranoid about them. Trump also designated several foreign groups as "antifa networks" because they speak out against him.

They are claiming to have caught a "North Texas Antifa Cell" after the July 4th attack on the ICE detention facility in Alvarado, TX. Some of the people arrested have been charged with "providing material support to terrorists" and other federal charges that will greatly increase the penalty if convicted.

A federal grand jury has indicted all of these people, but we don't know what the prosecutor told them and what choices of charges they were given. This is happening in deep red Texas, so we'll have to watch how the court case plays out. Even if those indicted were criminals, saying they were part of an "antifa cell" is ridiculous.

Here's local media coverage of the people who were arrested:
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/9-alleged-north-texas-antifa-cell-members-indicted-july-4-attack-texas-ice-facility/

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