This week, the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division will be the site of a monumental lawsuit–the first of its kind. The United States has indictments against 10 members of a North Texas Antifa Cell who conducted a military-like operation of terror at the Prairieland Detention Center, a DHS facility. The attack, which was not only coordinated and premeditated, involved rifles and other weapons. The charges contain 12 counts, some of which are attempted murder of officers and employees of the United States.

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According to the indictment, those defendants provided material support to terrorists. Antifa has been declared a domestic terrorist organization.

The Justice Department released this statement about the charges and indictment.

A federal grand jury in Fort Worth, Texas indicted nine North Texas Antifa Cell operatives, and seven more were charged by information, with offenses including rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer and unarmed correctional officers at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4, 2025, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson.

Yesterday’s twelve-count indictment charges Cameron Arnold, a/k/a Autumn Hill, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, a/k/a Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada with multiple offenses for their roles related to the Prairieland attack.  The defendants are set for arraignment on December 3, 2025, in front of a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Texas.

Charges were also filed recently against Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Susan Kent, Rebecca Morgan, Lynette Sharp, and John Thomas with one count of providing material support to terrorists.  A sixteenth defendant, Seth Sikes, was charged by information in late October with one count of providing material support to terrorists.  Guilty plea hearings for Baumann, Gibson, Thomas, Sharp, and Sikes will be held in front of a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Texas next week, with Morgan set to plead guilty the following week.

The indictment and information follow on the heels of federal complaints brought against the defendants in July, soon after the July 4 attack.  According to the charges, the defendants were members of a North Texas Antifa Cell, part of a larger militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to an ideology that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law.  Antifa’s coordinated efforts involve obstructing Federal law through organized riots, violent assaults, and armed confrontations with law enforcement officers, increasingly targeting agents and facilities related to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in opposition to the agency’s deportation actions.  The indictment alleges that most of the Antifa Cell involved in the Prairieland attack looked to Benjamin Song as a leader.  As alleged, Song acquired firearms that he distributed to co-defendants and recruited members at gun ranges and combat sessions he conducted, as well as from various ideologically aligned groups.  For example, defendants Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto, and Savanna Batten are alleged to have been part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called “zines.”

The charges reflect that, late at night on July 4, at least eleven of the defendants rioted and attacked the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was using to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation.  The defendants dressed in “black bloc”—dark clothing with head and face coverings that concealed their identities—were designed to hide each individual’s identity and to aid and abet those members engaged in illegal acts by making them indistinguishable from one another to law enforcement.  According to the charges, after Antifa Cell members arrived at Prairieland, they began shooting off fireworks and throwing fireworks at the facility and vandalizing vehicles and a guard shack on Prairieland property.

Who’s representing these suspected terrorists? The National Lawyers Guild is an old firm going back to defending Bill Ayers for Weather Underground’s terror activities, and they are still representing suspected terrorists today. Attorneys for the defendants are downplaying the coordinated and premeditated attack by calling their attack, noisemaking, an “extremely common form of protest, extending solidarity to those behind bars.”

YOUR PRAYER IS NEEDED
You can be praying for this case. Those representing the government’s case and testifying against the suspected terrorists need prayers for protection and wisdom.

Also, be aware that Antifa is sending out social media posts to flood the courtroom with Antifa supporters on February 17th when the trial is expected to begin. Your intercession for the protection of those standing against Antifa can shift the atmosphere in this demonically fueled terror group’s day in court.

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