Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism

DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say it is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protesters

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September, Donald Trump and others pledged a no-holds barred crackdown on leftwing activists.

We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them," Trump said after Kirk's shooting. Top White House officials, including JD Vance and Stephen Miller, repeatedly publicly vowed that a crackdown was coming. In particular, the government focused on Antifa." short for antifascist, is not an organization but rather an ideology that broadly describes a variety of left-leaning beliefs.