00:05:13.460It exposed how coordinated this particular cell in the North Texas area was.
00:05:19.000You know, it's possible to do research on the street, shoe leather journalism.
00:05:24.760It's even possible to infiltrate the bad guys.
00:05:27.380James O'Keefe has made a specialty out of undercover reporting, but typically not going into extremely dangerous, violent groups.
00:05:35.800And then, of course, there's desk based reporting through open sources, what you can find on the Internet.
00:05:41.460But really, the police have the tools and the manpower to do the kind of research that journalists don't.
00:05:49.000to get search warrants, to get a warrant for a wiretap, and to prove the kind of things
00:05:56.580that journalists typically can only speculate about, who's organizing this, who's funding
00:06:01.980this, who's controlling this, did any of that information come out through the trial?
00:06:07.700So the fact that there was a conviction for a crime is impressive and newsworthy, but
00:06:12.400did it also draw back the curtains on the organization itself?
00:06:16.860yes so here's what we learned at trial okay um in what was proven in court on the 4th of july
00:06:25.200in 2025 there was a group of at least 11 militants dressed in black block that's where they come
00:06:31.480in the antifa uniform all head to toe in black with their faces covered they came with 11 firearms
00:06:37.580and they brought explosive devices the so-called fireworks these big explosions caused
00:06:45.100staff who were unarmed inside the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas to call police. And then when
00:06:52.180police arrived, there was an ambush shooting. And then one of the ringleader of the group
00:06:58.460fled the scene and he wasn't caught for 11 days. 10 of the other co-defendants were arrested on
00:07:04.680the spot. And at trial, most of some of the most key testimony came from five of the co-defendants
00:07:14.140who had flipped and agreed to testify for the prosecution. And as part of them pleading guilty,
00:07:21.220they admitted to organizing behind an Antifa ideology. The prosecution was able to obtain
00:07:30.800these secret encrypted signal chats that showed the coordination that existed between one another.
00:07:39.120And also, those who pleaded guilty talked about how ahead of the attack that they did tactical trainings, that the ringleader of the group procured around 50 firearms.
00:07:52.880So this was clearly a planned anti-government act of violence. And this is where the Antifa part
00:08:01.100comes in. Ideology played a key part of the trial, not because the prosecutors were charging people
00:08:11.000based on their beliefs. That's protected First Amendment right. Why it was brought into the
00:08:15.780trial while that door was opened was because of the anti-government, Antifa propaganda materials
00:08:23.440that were found belonging to the members, which provided context to why they had organized the
00:08:30.700violence. There was a common ideology amongst those in this conspiracy, and they were convicted
00:08:36.020of things like attempted murder, felony riot, using explosives, providing material support
00:08:45.720to terrorists. So these are now convicted terrorists. And as far as the funding, what
00:08:50.560was shown was that this was a network in the North Texas area. It was really contained to
00:08:56.240potentially dozens of people. The case so far already has 22 people who are being prosecuted
00:09:03.900at the state and or federal level. So even though the federal trial has concluded with 16
00:09:09.940convictions, there's still six other people who are facing state trials. And then the 16 who are
00:09:17.760convicted federally also have their state charges, which is really important, by the way. The reason
00:09:23.040why the media right now, if you Google this story, North Texas Antifa, and what you'll see in the
00:09:29.560Guardian or New York Times is they're calling them protesters and calling the direct action a
00:09:36.160noise demonstration. And these type of lies, I think, is to prepare material so that when there's
00:09:43.180a Democrat president, these type of articles could be presented to that president to try to
00:09:49.340get pardons for these now federally convicted terrorists. But the state of Texas, and this is
00:09:56.580where I guess the slogan, don't mess with Texas, is really true. They're not dropping the case.
00:10:02.640They're not closing their case just because the federal case is done. The 22 defendants are facing
00:10:10.540charges of what is essentially the Texas version of RICO, which is a really serious felony with
00:10:16.020many years in prison if there's a conviction for that. They're charged with attempted murder,
00:10:21.420domestic terrorism so their legal woes are not over at all amazing i mean i say again i don't
00:10:31.200support the breaking into congress and the great meandering on january 6th but bringing firearms
00:10:37.080bringing explosives uh you know the shooting at cops that that simply didn't happen on january 6th
00:10:45.340but i it's very interesting that the state is proceeding because of course a democrat president
00:10:50.260in the future cannot pardon for a state offense.
00:11:54.520The propaganda materials that were made by the members of the cell who was convicted advocated for the overthrow of the U.S. government, the overthrow of the liberal democratic order.
00:12:06.200These are revolutionary anarchists, communists, violent extremists.
00:12:12.660There was an expert testimony from somebody who researches Antifa who testified at the trial and talked about the role of direct action, rioting, mutual aid, and then terrorist attacks.
00:12:25.960It's all part of building up to try to weaken and destabilize the state, which, given certain circumstances, they can have a lot of success in, as we saw in places like Portland and Seattle in 2020 during the BLM Antifa riots after George Floyd died.
00:12:43.860I forgot to mention earlier that this shooting ambush attack led to an officer, a local police officer, being shot in the neck.
00:12:52.660So that's where the attempted murder convictions played in.
00:12:57.160And so, you know, moving forward, I think we can expect the media is going to double down on the lies that we've seen already, on how they're covering this case.
00:13:08.760And Antifa themselves, just talking about mafia a minute ago, you know, one of the features of mafia was intimidation of witnesses and those who cooperate with law enforcement.
00:13:19.620Well, what we saw at the beginning of the trial, what I witnessed in Messages in Blue Sky were threats against the former comrades who have pleaded guilty and agreed to work with the prosecution.
00:13:33.480What I'm seeing now are death threats and threats of violence against the sentencing judges in Texas.
00:13:58.180Andy, I went down to Portland, Oregon a couple years ago to take in some of your trial.
00:14:04.320Because Antifa, and I don't mean to be lascivious here or to exaggerate, they tried to kill you.
00:14:10.840And they hunted you down on the streets of Portland, and they came bloody close.
00:14:17.300And it was incredible to see the trial.
00:14:19.580I was in the courtroom, and you just described intimidation of witnesses or prosecution.
00:14:24.680I could see that in real time in the courtroom there.
00:14:28.380In fact, the judge had to repeatedly stop the session and make admonishments.
00:14:33.500There was a jury there that I could see with my eyes from sitting there.
00:14:37.640The Antifa thugs in the courtroom were threatening the jury. It really was straight out of a mafia trial. Give us a word on that. What became of that and were there any appeals? Did anything change because of that trial in Portland?
00:14:52.940So that was a civil trial in a lawsuit that I brought against Rose City Antifa at all. I accused Rose City Antifa and six individuals of beating me back in 2019 or 2021 or being part of the conspiracy that led to me being jumped and beaten and nearly killed on two occasions.
00:15:17.340I'm really glad that you brought up what you witnessed in that courtroom. There weren't very many media there, unfortunately, but there was a lot of intimidation tactics from the Antifa supporters in the puppet gallery that led to a number of Antifa supporters or allies or associates being banned from the trial, for one.
00:15:37.560And then the jurors were terrified. And we saw that particularly just after the verdict was delivered, the judge informed us that, and by the way, the verdict was that the two were found not liable.
00:15:52.440and you shine a light on one part of it
00:15:57.000of how finding justice for Antifa violence in Portland
00:16:00.840is an uphill battle, to say the least.
00:16:04.380And then two, you're dealing with a judge
00:16:08.080And then you're dealing with three tactics
00:16:11.980from Antifa supporters that is done out in the open
00:16:15.280and then the conduct as well of the lawyers.
00:16:17.840one of the lawyers for um one of the antifa members said in her closing statements she said
00:16:25.400and this is almost verbatim i am antifa and i will remember your faces when i leave and you know a
00:16:33.300normal judge would potentially call a mistrial over something like that but nothing was done
00:16:38.900and then after the verdict was delivered the judge announced that their jury rule would be
00:16:43.800seal permanently because of the fears expressed by those who were there it was terrifying i mean i
00:16:50.800i only visited there as a journalist but it really felt like you know there's that antifa chant or
00:16:57.420that leftist chant whose streets our streets it felt true there i mean the city is in such decay
00:17:05.100portland once one of the most beautiful cities in america um and and quite liberal in the good
00:17:11.460sense of that word. It is a violent place and Antifa really does rule the streets. I found that
00:17:17.360my visit to that trial deeply depressing. And I think it's similar in other deep blue
00:17:25.380Democrat cities, San Francisco, LA itself, Chicago. It seems that prosecutors won't lay
00:17:34.880charges against Antifa. They won't even denounce. Sometimes they say, oh, Antifa is an idea. It's
00:17:40.860not a group. It doesn't even exist. I hear so many excuses. And I think that with so many of
00:17:48.020these DAs that were put in place with the assistance of Soros funding, I think there's
00:17:54.580sort of a legal exemption. If you are a domestic terrorist on the left, you'll likely not be
00:18:01.440charged. And if you are, the charges might be dropped. And you just described the civil case
00:18:06.860that I viewed with my own eyes, it really feels like a mafia problem, but it's not a money-making
00:18:13.160group. It's an ideological revolutionary group. What's the path forward? Who's doing it right?
00:18:18.160It sounds like the state of Texas is doing it right. What's your advice to, let's say,
00:18:23.660the Department of Justice in the remaining years of the Trump administration? What would you want
00:18:28.680the Trump DOJ to do? The Trump DOJ in the second administration has been doing an amazing
00:18:36.720job. You know, there were a lot of skeptics after, back in September, when President Trump
00:18:44.080announced that in an executive order that his administration would be treating Antifa as
00:18:48.800domestic terrorists. And that statement wasn't just symbolic, it was really a directive to
00:18:56.900the various parts of government that answer to the president. And in addition to the convictions
00:19:03.820in Texas, which are done now, and there's going to be another round of sentencing next week.
00:19:09.720There's also a federal Antifa conspiracy case that was just announced recently in the state
00:19:16.620of Minnesota. Remember how earlier this year we saw mass coordination of street violence,
00:19:23.440anarchy, intimidation of federal agents and officers, violence against them during this
00:19:29.760uprising in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. And there was coordination behind that. And now
00:19:36.800recently, the indictment was unsealed. 15 people have been charged. They're accused of being part
00:19:43.040of a Minnesota Twin Cities Antifa direct action group. So according to the federal prosecutors,
00:19:50.080the way they organized was very similar to what happened in Texas, using signal,
00:19:54.000everyone having aliases, creating violent extremist propaganda. And so they organized
00:20:00.820behind an ideology, allegedly, and carried out a conspiracy, allegedly, to injure and impede
00:20:08.060federal agents. So that case is new in Minnesota. I think the DOJ has to really
00:20:13.640keep up that pressure for the federal U.S. attorneys across, particularly in liberal
00:20:20.940jurisdictions because um you know looking at what the local prosecution prosecutors would do they'll
00:20:27.960do nothing you know in minnesota it's attorney general at the state level keith ellison this is
00:20:33.940somebody who who is a democrat politician who uh held up a few years ago the book the antifa handbook
00:20:41.260and expressed support for it that antifa handbook is not just any book if you buy that book
00:20:48.600funding from the profits from that go to provide legal defense to accuse Antifa criminals around
00:20:57.960the world. And the attorney general in the state of Minnesota expressed support for that. So this
00:21:03.300is where the federal government has to do anything and everything it can. Of course, it's still
00:21:09.220going to face a lot of really biased liberal federal judges that we've seen, as we've seen
00:21:13.760in many jurisdictions, including like in Portland and Oregon, there's been some sentencing of some
00:21:19.220of the anti-ICE, anti-FAR rioters from the last year. And they've received at most two years in
00:21:25.120prison for acts of ultraviolence against federal property and federal agents. You know, and I'm
00:21:31.720just thinking this whole time you're saying this, how peaceful Canadian truckers, including our
00:21:36.040friend Tamara Leach, I mean, spent weeks in solitary for peaceful honking their horns.
00:21:43.000And I know you've talked to our Montreal-based reporter, Alexa Lavoie. Not only has she been
00:21:49.420attacked by Antifa on the streets of Montreal, with police standing by, literally feet away,
00:21:54.360doing nothing. We now have to send her out with at least two security guards every time she goes
00:21:58.500out. But she uncovered an Antifa smoke bomb thrower who went into a church and threw two
00:22:05.440incendiary devices. He works, or at least he worked last we checked, for the Department of
00:22:11.420Defense at a military base in Quebec. Gabriel Lepage was his name. So when we find anti-fine
00:22:18.040Canada, when they do violence, like imagine throwing smoke bombs in a crowded church and
00:22:24.040then just walking right out. Incendiary devices. And he, not only is he free, he worked in the
00:22:30.200heart of a canadian military base so canada is is so unserious about this violence and again
00:22:37.120alexa's videos got hundreds of thousands of views there's no chance that the military and
00:22:43.400the police didn't know about it they obviously abide it did you follow any of alexa's work on
00:22:49.440that do you have any thoughts on that like how could such a man operate in a sensitive national
00:22:55.820security place like a military base. I have had the pleasure of meeting Alexis
00:23:01.380several times. I really respect her on the ground dogged journalism, and I am familiar
00:23:06.760with her reporting on that attack inside that evangelical church worship event. I think it's
00:23:13.060a tragedy that no action appears to have been taken against this individual who works in the
00:23:19.020Canadian military. This is where the Antifa propaganda is so important. And they use a lot
00:23:27.880of actually capital on it in terms of having people write pieces, distributing it. And it's to
00:23:35.060help mainstream their ideology of left-wing political violence. And once it reaches a
00:23:40.900certain critical mass, and perhaps we're seeing it in Canada, unfortunately, it's when there are
00:23:46.240acts of political violence being committed by militants on the violent far left, it's seen as
00:23:52.640a non-issue. And that's a huge success for Antifa, right? Because then people will excuse all manners
00:24:00.920of violence by them and then drop the hammer at every turn on those who engage in civil disobedience
00:24:09.420on the right, not acts of violent criminality. And the way that the media, the Canadian media
00:24:15.920treated people who donated $5, $10 to the truckers convoy was horrific and really emblematic of what
00:24:25.520happens when that whole apparatus is functioning as a machine in this institutional capture,
00:24:34.000not just of media, but in government and in institutions that are meant to be neutral for the public as being tax funded.
00:24:47.620Well, I mean, it's incredible the work that Alexa does, and sometimes I think she's too brave.
00:24:52.020Sometimes I wish she would pull back a bit, but we do our best to support her with crowdfunding from our viewers who provide her with security,
00:25:00.080which unfortunately we need that's just the state of affairs in Montreal and to a degree Toronto
00:25:06.100Ottawa and Vancouver where they target Drea Humphrey as well well Andy it's great to catch
00:25:11.820up with you once again folks if you don't have the book yet it's called Unmasked Inside Antifa's
00:25:17.140Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy and I would say that that book is just as relevant in Canada as
00:25:23.700it is in the United States you can also follow Andy on his Substack page no comment that's spelled
00:25:29.660www.ngocomment.com. Andy, thanks so much for taking so much time with us today.
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