{"id":2618296,"date":"2026-06-24T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-leaders-panic-after-doj-charges-minnesota-operatives\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:35:15","slug":"antifa-leaders-panic-after-doj-charges-minnesota-operatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-leaders-panic-after-doj-charges-minnesota-operatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifa leaders panic after DOJ charges Minnesota operatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fantifa-leaders-panic-after-doj-charges-minnesota-operatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2618296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent federal indictment in Minnesota has charged 15 alleged antifa members with conspiracy, prompting concern among antifa leaders about legal repercussions and exposing teh movement\u2019s clandestine structure. Following police raids, social media accounts affiliated with antifa warned members to stay safe and alert their groups.Supporters have organized a legal defense fund that quickly raised over $200,000. The case reveals antifa\u2019s decentralized organization, comprised of local cells that coordinate via encrypted channels and conduct tactical training for violent actions against targets like ICE officers.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment details how antifa cells, such as Direct Action Minnesota, operate covertly with encrypted dialog and organized violence. Experts believe this case could dismantle the myth that antifa is merely an idea, showing it as a real, organized network. Investigators emphasize that federal infiltration of encrypted messaging platforms such as Signal has been key to gathering evidence, revealing that many antifa groups prioritize operational security to avoid detection.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters and organizations like the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), which act as legal observers for protests, are also at risk of exposure and legal jeopardy. The NLG\u2019s covert activities, including planning and providing legal cover during riots, may violate IRS rules and jeopardize their nonprofit status. The case builds upon previous federal prosecutions of antifa affiliates, such as in Texas, where members admitted to attacking ICE facilities in line with antifa\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n<p>This crackdown demonstrates a shift in federal efforts to target antifa\u2019s organizational and operational structure, moving from the perception of antifa as an amorphous movement to recognizing it as a potentially organized threat. Antifa members are increasingly instructed to evade authorities by not talking to the FBI, with flyers circulating online advising activists to remain silent and providing contact numbers for legal assistance. Experts note that prior leniency from local governments in cities like portland and Seattle has allowed antifa to operate with little fear of legal action, but federal intervention marks a new phase in efforts to curb its activities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4611186\/doj-minneapolis-antifa-network-conspiracy-charge-targeting-ice-officers\/\">federal indictment<\/a> of 15 alleged antifa cell members in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Minnesota\/\">Minnesota<\/a> on conspiracy charges last week is sending <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antifa\/\">antifa<\/a>\u2019s leaders into a panic, scrambling over the case\u2019s legal implications for the underground movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to last week\u2019s raids on the residences of the defendants, allied antifa accounts across social media started circulating <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VitalistInt\/status\/2066880190316150850\">an alert<\/a> warning others, \u201cOne of our comrades was arrested and all of their electronics were confiscated. Please alert all of your groups. Stay safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4621189\/pro-cuba-activists-plan-trip-honor-fidel-castro\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Pro-Cuba activists in US plan trip to honor Castro regime as Trump ramps up pressure<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4620337\/anarchist-website-far-left-tool-evidence-doj-probe\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Anarchist website turns from far-left tool to evidence in DOJ investigation<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4619148\/ilhan-omar-husband-financial-disclosure-discrepancy-income\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Ilhan Omar claims husband only earned $200 last year after multimillion-dollar \u2018accounting error\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The People\u2019s City Council of Los Angeles, an anti-capitalist collective in California, issued <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PplsCityCouncil\/status\/2066927663390793828\">a statement<\/a> saying that federal authorities mounting a conspiracy case against suspected antifa operatives is \u201chow they will come for you,\u201d instructing its followers, \u201cYou should be discussing this with your comrades and organizing groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, supporters of the defendants have since set up <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/chuffed.org\/project\/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund\">a legal defense fund<\/a> on Chuffed.org, a left-wing crowdfunding site for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-makes-example-out-of-antifa-arsonist-in-federal-firebombing-case\/\" title=\"Judge makes example out of ... arsonist in federal firebombing ...\">financing social justice<\/a> causes. Within a week of its creation, the fund has already amassed more than $200,000 from over 3,000 donors, most of them anonymous.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-conspiracy-case-exposes-antifa-s-covert-operations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conspiracy case exposes antifa\u2019s covert operations<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antifa, by design, is subdivided at the local level into loosely affiliated cells, or \u201caffinity groups,\u201d organized around their shared anarcho-communist beliefs. This decentralized structure serves to shroud antifa\u2019s operations in secrecy and undercut claims that it is a unified criminal organization, despite these cells often working in tandem to attack political targets they perceive as \u201cfascist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, the mythos surrounding the far-left movement has helped antifa\u2019s forces evade prosecution. But compromising <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3493802\/antifa-organization-movement-has-metastasized\/\">the clandestine movement<\/a>\u2019s public image as an amorphous and imaginary threat is the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1446251\/dl?inline\">94-page indictment<\/a> that lays out, in extensive detail, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Minneapolis\/\">Minneapolis<\/a>-area antifa network\u2019s organizational structure, operational strategies, and covert communication tactics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Direct Action Minnesota, the antifa network named in the charging documents, is accused of organized violence targeting <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ICE\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> officers. As outlined in the indictment, DAMN\u2019s members hold regular meetings, coordinate almost exclusively through encrypted Signal chatrooms, and train their foot soldiers in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4421197\/guerrilla-ice-watch-groups-backed-left-grantmakers\/\">guerrilla-like warfare<\/a> ranging from tactical surveillance to mass mobilization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4613615\/inside-anti-ice-antifa-cell-minneapolis\/\"><strong>INSIDE THE ANTI-ICE ANTIFA CELL RAIDED IN MINNEAPOLIS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some extremism researchers expect the conspiracy case to expose antifa as a real and organized threat, debunking the myth that antifa is merely an idea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capital Research Center president Scott Walter said the investigation\u2019s findings will \u201cblow up the ridiculous lie that antifa doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAntifa does exist but in a decentralized way,\u201d Walter said in an interview with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cAnd it works very hard to maintain what its soldiers call \u2018operational security,\u2019 so that their enemies can\u2019t figure out what they\u2019re doing, who they are, and where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walter noted that antifa activists are particularly alarmed about the FBI infiltrating the Minneapolis cell\u2019s Signal group chats, as many other antifa groups rely on the supposedly secure messaging platform to plan criminal activities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe feds have penetrated into the encrypted messaging of these underground networks, and they\u2019re terrified because that is where the evidence is of their crimes,\u201d Walter said. \u201cTo prove a conspiracy, you have to prove these people were planning crimes and then carried out those crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Intercept<\/em>, a liberal outlet sympathetic to the antifa cause, published <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/06\/17\/signal-messages-minneapolis-ice-protests\/\">a piece<\/a> last week panicking over how federal investigators were able to access the accused\u2019s Signal messages, which prosecutors largely built the conspiracy case around. Antifa-aligned influencers <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Combs0294\/status\/2067423962154336362\">then<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThunderPig\/status\/2067632455771640257\">shared<\/a> the instructional article highlighting \u201csteps\u201d to take to conceal their correspondence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKeep in mind that Signal\u2019s disappearing messages delete the contents of a message, but they don\u2019t remove evidence that communications between parties occurred in the first place,\u201d <em>the Intercept<\/em> article advised. \u201cThis means that even if a group has enabled disappearing messages, someone who gains access to a member\u2019s device could later determine with whom they were chatting. Therefore it\u2019s safest to regularly delete entire groups and chats, not just the messages themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"h-allies-also-vulnerable-to-exposure\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allies also vulnerable to exposure<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the day federal officials announced the conspiracy charges, a group of supporters <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/2066964246106194342\">gathered<\/a> outside the Minneapolis courthouse in solidarity with their indicted comrades. Among them was the National Lawyers Guild, which Walter said functions as the legal arm of antifa. Members of the NLG were seen displaying a banner that read \u201cFighting Fascism Since 1937.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There, an attorney for NLG\u2019s Minnesota chapter held a press conference, demanding that the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Minnesota drop all charges against \u201cour community members.\u201d That morning, \u201cA legal observer\u2019s house was raided,\u201d according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VitalistInt\/status\/2066880190316150850\">a community alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA legal observer almost certainly means the National Lawyers Guild,\u201d Walter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/national-lawyers-guild\/\">Originating as a Stalinist communist front<\/a> in the 1930s, the NLG today <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nlgmn.org\/request-legal-observers-2\/\">deploys<\/a> so-called legal observers, the \u201ceyes and ears\u201d of its criminal defense team, to preplanned riots. The embedded operatives, tasked with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/massdefenseprogram\/los\/\">building defense cases<\/a> while on the ground, act as an assurance against arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBefore riots, they tell the rioters, \u2018Don\u2019t worry. We\u2019ll do our best to keep you from even getting arrested. And if you are arrested, we will get you out of jail immediately. It is very unlikely that you\u2019ll end up being prosecuted, but if by chance you lose the lottery and face prosecution, we\u2019ll represent you,\u2019\u201d Walter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wearing lime-green hats, NLG\u2019s army of legal observers works to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3862921\/antifa-international-war-chest-bails-out-associates-around-the-world\/\">ensure that antifa rioters beat their criminal charges<\/a>, promising their rioting clients ahead of planned violence that they will get them off scot-free.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">Legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild look on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with demonstrators Friday after some lay in the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city\u2019s effort to dismantle the protest zone that has drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and a lawsuit from nearby businesses. (AP Photo\/Elaine Thompson)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/06\/localimages\/National-Lawyers-Guild.jpg?w=696&#8243; &#8220;https:><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild look on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. (AP Photo\/Elaine Thompson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose green hat guys are a crucial part of the riot machinery, and now they\u2019re in danger of being held accountable for conspiring to aid these alleged criminal acts,\u201d Walter said. \u201cIf you\u2019re planning to do something criminal and I am planning a way to make it likely that you can get away with it, then I\u2019m in trouble too, because I have assisted you in your crimes by making you think you\u2019re going to be able to escape legal accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also at risk is the NLG\u2019s tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-tege\/rr75-384.pdf\">Internal Revenue Service rules<\/a> prohibit charitable entities from \u201cencourag[ing] the commission of criminal acts by planning and sponsoring such events,\u201d and nonprofits accordingly found complicit in criminal conspiracies risk losing their tax privileges.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-doj-building-on-its-recent-antifa-busting-success\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">DOJ building on its recent antifa-busting success<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newly unsealed indictment marks another test of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to dismantle criminal enterprises that operate under the banner of antifa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3499558\/antifa-inc-left-wing-movement-ideology-criminal-network\/\"><strong>ANTIFA INC: HOW AN IDEOLOGY BECAME AN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conspiracy case out of Minnesota follows the Justice Department\u2019s successful conviction of 16 members or affiliates of an antifa cell in Texas, including nine coconspirators <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4490216\/texas-antifa-terrorism-trial-verdict\/\">found guilty<\/a> in the first-ever federal trial to bring terrorism charges against antifa militants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Texas case, which involved the cell ambushing an ICE facility near Dallas, seven defendants took plea deals <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3895618\/confessions-texas-antifa-cell-operatives-could-pull-back-curtain\/\">admitting in sworn statements<\/a> that the anti-ICE attack was launched \u201cin line with [an] Antifa ideology,\u201d and five of them <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4485899\/convicted-coconspirators-spill-insider-intel-antifa-texas-terrorism-trial\/\">flipped to testify at trial<\/a> against their comrades in exchange for reduced prison time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\">Antifa accounts are circulating a digital flyer directing followers not to talk to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/06\/localimages\/image_004e85<\/a>.png?w=696&#8243; &#8220;https:><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Antifa accounts are circulating a digital flyer directing followers not to talk to the FBI. (X.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never before in U.S. history had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-cell-guilty-pleas-could-pull-back-curtains-on-antifa\/\" title=\"Texas cell guilty pleas could pull back curtains on ...\">antifa members openly confessed<\/a> in criminal court to their membership, let alone unmasked other associates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Minnesota arrests, antifa accounts are widely sharing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PplsCityCouncil\/status\/2066941539691921847\">a flyer<\/a> directing activists, \u201cDon\u2019t Talk to the FBI,\u201d to avoid implicating themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The graphic contains a number for the NLG\u2019s \u201cFBI Hotline\u201d to dial if a subject is approached by federal investigators, as well as a script to follow during questioning. \u201cEvery day is Shut The F*** Up Friday,\u201d one account captioned the advisory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walter said that in riot-plagued cities, such as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Portland\/\">Portland<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Seattle\/\">Seattle<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Chicago\/\">Chicago<\/a>, progressive government officials tend to tolerate left-wing violence in the streets and refuse to enforce the rule of law. \u201cThere have been extremely few legal actions taken against antifa anywhere, and they are not used to this,\u201d Walter told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re now seeing the feds get involved, and that is a brand new thing for antifa,\u201d Walter said. \u201cThey thrive in cities where soft-on-crime <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/George-Soros\/\">Soros<\/a> DAs turn a blind eye to their thuggishness, so after years of swimming in the kiddie pool, they suddenly find themselves in the deep end with the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antifa leaders panic after Minnesota conspiracy indictment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"featured_media":2618297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kyle-Wagner-antifa.jpg?w=594","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3802,7076,51050,5698,35652],"class_list":["post-2618296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-antifa","tag-doj","tag-law-enforcement-2","tag-minnesota","tag-political-unrest"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kyle-Wagner-antifa.jpg?w=594","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618300,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618296\/revisions\/2618300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}