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Five far-left extremists have admitted to being Antifa members and terrorists in federal plea deals stemming from a coordinated ambush shooting on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on the Fourth of July.
It is the first known case in U.S. history in which Antifa members have officially admitted to being part of an organized Antifa cell.
On Nov. 19, Seth Sikes, Joy Abigail Gibson, Lynette Read Sharp, Nathan Baumann and John Phillip Thomas each admitted to one count of providing material support to terrorists for their role in the shooting attack on the Prairieland facility in Alvarado, Texas, that resulted in a police officer being shot in the neck and other officers being fired upon.
As part of their plea deals, which would see them imprisoned for no more than 15 years (they were facing up to decades in prison), they also agreed to a set of stipulated, or formally agreed-upon, facts of the case.
“Beginning on or about July 3, 2025, and continuing until on or about July 4, 2025, in the Northern District of Texas, [defendant name] planned with others to provide resources and personnel, including [himself/herself], knowing and intending that they would be used to carry out acts of terrorism,” Baumann, Gibson, and Sikes admitted were true in the court filing. They admitted that the terrorism was “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.”
In Baumann’s stipulated facts, he admitted: “Baumann found that others who participated in the acts against Prairieland adhered to an Antifa, revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology that is anti-law enforcement, anti-immigration enforcement, and calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law. Antifa is a militant enterprise that advocates insurrection and violence to affect the policy and conduct of the U.S. government by intimidation and coercion. In line with his Antifa ideology, on or about July 3 and July 4, Baumann, along with others, participated in the planning of the ‘direct action’ against Prairieland set for the night of July 4, to influence and affect the conduct of the government by intimidation and coercion…”
Andy Ngo
November 20, 2025
ANDY NGO REPORTS: First Antifa terrorism convictions in US history | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
The following is from Federal case 4:25-cr-00272-P, Document #89:
Beginning on or about July 3, 2025, and continuing until on or about July 4, 2025, Sikes conspired with others to provide personnel, including himself, knowing and intending that it be used to carry out acts of terrorism, that is, violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1361, depredation against property of the United States, including the Prairieland Detention Center (Prairieland), which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) was using to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation. The terrorism was calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.
Sikes and his coconspirators adhered to an Antifa, anarchist ideology and
organized cells or “affinity groups” around their beliefs. On or about July 3, Sikes and his coconspirators began planning a “direct action” at Prairieland, for the night of July 4, in order to influence and affect the conduct of the government by intimidation and coercion, and to retaliate against government conduct.
It is long past time there were some convictions. Antifa has caused millions of dollars in damages and at least one murder but this is the first conviction.
I don’t suppose this will affect all the clowns who keep saying that “Antifa does not actually exist”.
Isn’t calling for the overthrow of the government, then acting on that, called treason?
Sedition
Only if you fail.
Sedition, actually, Treason is the one explicit crime listed in the US Constitution, and the requirements are spelt out.
Probably not. But it will help us identify people who have a problem with reality.
These convictions are great news, but there’s a bigger, more important legal finding in here.
This line is entered as part of the “stipulated facts”: Antifa is a militant enterprise that advocates insurrection and violence to affect the policy and conduct of the U.S. government by intimidation and coercion.
The phrasing sounds very similar to “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government or civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives,” which is the FBI definition of terrorism.
Particularly the “intimidate [and/or] coerce a government” part; both phrases use those exact words.
IOW, the legal finding strongly implies that Antifa is a terrorist organization, and the defendants (now convicts) agreed to that stipulation. I cannot believe that this is a coincidence on the part of the prosecutors. Brilliant move!
I’m hopeful that more convictions follow, and that Antifa’s financial backers are also drawn in as financiers of terrorism. This case certainly provides some foundation for that.
To clarify, the headline and reporting clearly said that the defendants admitted to being terrorists themselves, but the bigger “win” is the legal precedent that Antifa is a terrorist organization, not just that some of its individual members are terrorists.
That’s going to be huge.
“the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government or civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives,”
Huh, sounds like Jan 6th. Did the president pardon terrorists?
Good point. And it shows what our society has become.
And the problem with democracy as a governing system. Whomever comes to power calls everyone on the opposing side terrorists now.
Wither one truly is or isn’t.
Well, it’s always nice to know where one stands in the world.
As every one of our forefathers was a terrorist to the English crown. I suppose we shouldn’t consider ourselves anything other than such also.
And plan/act accordingly.
Nah, Jan 6 was the biggest FBI entrapment scheme in the history of the United States. The FBI tried their hardest to make President Trump supporters to look like terrorists — but because of the way they were entrapped, and because of the railroading that was done to them, it was fully appropriate to pardon them.
That’s a great story, too bad it doesn’t have any backing.
A door on the West side of the U.S. Capitol was left open and mostly unguarded for key moments during the Jan. 6 riot, allowing more than 300 people to enter the building unimpeded even as officers fought valiantly to keep protesters out of other sections of the official home of Congress, according to police security footage obtained by Just the News.
“Video footage captured Tenney confronting federal officers as he sought to open the East Rotunda Doors from the inside to allow rioters to enter, despite police efforts to keep the doors shut and keep the rioters outside,” the complaint said.”
And those would be the 20,000 lbs. brass Colombus doors. How did he get inside to open them? I mean they shot Ashli Babbit for crawling through one didn’t they?
Why didn’t Nancy have the NG there like Trump asked?
No story. Facts.
Answers to your questions-
Probably the Senate Wing door, it says in the complaint.
They shot Ashli Babbit when she was trying to get into the Speaker’s lobby which leads to the House floor. This was the last line of defense, there wasn’t anywhere else to fallback to. That seems like the place to deploy weapons.
Pelosi didn’t block the guard she doesn’t have the power to do that. Some of the delay was the Pentagon because they were worried about the optics of deploying troops against citizens. Trump never put in an official request for troops. But this is silly. Trump sent the DC Guard into DC this year, he didn’t need anyone’s permission, right?
They made the mistake of committing their crime in TX. I don’t really approve of plea bargains but I suppose this one was the result of their lawyer telling them they were burnt toast otherwise. Had it happened in Chicago, they would have been acquitted.
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