The future of the First Amendment may have been strangled in a Texas courtroom.
On Friday, nine defendants were found guilty of providing "material support" for terrorism. The crime that got them labeled an "antifa cell" by federal prosecutors? Attending a noise demonstration at an ICE facility.
After federal agents killed Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, the MAGA camp was quick to call them both "domestic terrorists." Now the Trump administration has officially stretched the definition of "domestic terrorist organization" to include anyone who expresses "extremism" on race, gender, or immigration. In Trump’s America, the guardrails are gone.
We aren’t going to let them normalize this fascist creep. The New Republic is digging into the mechanisms this administration leans on to obliterate our freedom of expression. But we can’t do it without your help.
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Cases like this use the courts to create a population of cowed people.
If, like the defendants in Texas, you use a nickname on Signal, carpool to a rally, or light a firework in solidarity with detainees, you could now be a terrorist in the eyes of the law.
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