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Activists SENTENCED to Up to 100 Years in “Antifa” Case
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August 18, 2026
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16:13Now PlayingTwo ACLU alums - Legal AF’s Resident Legal Diva Melba Pearson and Somil Trivedi, advocacy director and senior counsel at Court Accountability - unpack the Prairieland case: the first federal terrorism prosecution built on Trump’s 2025 executive order branding “Antifa” a domestic terrorist group. Nine Texas activists were sentenced to 30–100 years after a 2025 ICE-facility protest turned violent — even though prosecutors admitted at trial the group was, at most, a loose collection of DFW anarchists and socialists. We break down who actually gets labeled antifa, how thin the evidence was, and what it means for the future of protest and free speech.
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