A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group.
Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder.
Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. -- Their legal teams plan to appeal.
The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, 2025
during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded.
“The antifa of it all, from my perspective, was purely political,”
says one of the defendants’ attorneys, Xavier de Janon, who joins Democracy Now! to break down the case.
