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“Get to the Rifles”: Antifa Members Facing Criminal Indictment for Scheme to Attack Federal Agents

By Oct. 18, 2025

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(WND News Center)—In a case that is believed to be the first time an indictment has been handed down against members of Antifa, the ‘left-wing terrorist organization” that has been striking over and over at America, two defendants are accused of helping plan at attack on a federal facility in Texas.

And constitutional professor and expert Jonathan Turley, who has advised Congress in constitutional disputes and even has represented members, pointed out the irony.

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Because, he explained, that according to many extremists on the left, there is no such thing as “Antifa.”

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“I recently wrote about the effort of leading politicians, pundits, and the press to deny the existence of Antifa as violence on the left rises around the country. Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) insisted that ‘nobody’ knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist,” he explained.

He noted Ellison is on record promoting the “Antifa Handbook” and praising the organization, while Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat, dared “anyone” to name a single member of Antifa.

Done, the Justice Department has now confirmed.

Prosecutors, in fact, have named Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, two Texas men, for “helping orchestrate” the attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas on July 4.

“They are charged with providing material support to terrorists, attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S., and discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence,” the report explained.

“On the night of July 4, several masked individuals dressed in black vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the ICE parking lot and then opened fire on an Alvarado police officer who approached them, seriously wounding one officer.

Arnold allegedly yelled, “Get to the rifles,” and the indictment explains, “Seconds later, coconspirator-1 [Arnold] opened fire on the officers, striking the Alvarado officer in the neck area as the unarmed correctional officers ducked and ran for cover. The wounded officer fell to the ground but was able to return a few shots. Coconspirator-1 continued to fire additional rounds until his rifle jammed. The attackers then left the scene.”

It is the DOJ that now has defined Antifa “as a militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to a revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology, which explicitly calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law.”

Turley noted that in his book, “The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” that Antifa is “the most violent, anti-free speech group in the nation.”

He said the organization, by design, avoids structures and dates back a century, but always has worked for anonymity and secrecy to violate, and avoid, the law.

Turley noted, “Former House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was widely ridiculed for denying the existence of Antifa. Others on the left have joined Goldman in this absurd claim. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel committed part of his monologue to assure viewers that Antifa is no more than a mythical ‘chupacabra.’”

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