For years, the left told us Antifa was just an idea. A concept. Nothing to worry about. Just passionate activists exercising their First Amendment rights. Tell that to the ICE officer they shot. Tell that to the federal judges now handing down sentences that are making these domestic terrorists cry in open court.
More Antifa terrorists were sentenced in Texas this week, and the scenes playing out in that Fort Worth courtroom are everything law-abiding Americans have been waiting years to see. Tears. Despair. The slow, dawning realization that the laws they spent years flouting actually apply to them too. One defendant was so terrified of facing the consequences of her own actions that she allegedly tried to take her own life before sentencing.
This comes on the heels of last week’s landmark punishment — 450 years of collective prison time handed down to the first batch of convicted members from the same North Texas Antifa terror cell. The group that ambushed an ICE detention facility and put a law enforcement officer in the hospital. The same group that the mainstream media barely covered, and that Democratic politicians treated as a cause worth defending.
Seven more members of that cell faced the music this week before U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor — two federal judges, by the way, who are now reportedly receiving threats from Antifa’s allies for having the audacity to enforce the law. Let that sink in. The left is threatening federal judges for sentencing convicted terrorists. And the silence from Democratic leadership is deafening.
The sentences handed down ranged from 22 months for those who cooperated fully with prosecutors to 50 years for Ines Soto, the defendant who refused a plea deal and forced the court’s hand. The others — Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Rebecca Morgan, Lynette Sharp, Seth Sikes, and John Thomas — received sentences ranging from 22 months to 15 years each after accepting plea agreements.
Independent journalist Andy Ngo, who has spent years documenting Antifa’s violence while legacy media outlets dismissed him and covered for the group, broke the news of the sentencing and provided the courtroom details that mainstream outlets couldn’t be bothered to report. Once again, it took one relentless independent journalist to tell the American people what was actually happening — because the corporate press was too busy running interference for the movement:
Remember how Texas Antifa terrorists were sentenced to 450 years in federal prison? It’s not over yet. More were sentenced today. There was crying in court. One of the convicts even tried to k*ll herself before sentencing.
Read my Ngo Comment report: https://t.co/uSnRqGMzXP pic.twitter.com/S4ofZNbPBa
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 1, 2026
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Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody.
U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week’s 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group’s first batch of trial defendants.
With the exception of Ines Soto, all of Wednesday’s defendants had accepted plea agreements before trial.
And:
Another defendant, Susan Kent, had her sentencing rescheduled to next week. Ngo reported that defendant Rebecca Morgan tried to harm or kill herself prior to sentencing, but no additional records were available. Of the 16 defendants, at least a quarter identify as trans, but they are all being housed in a facility matching their biological sex.
Here’s what the left doesn’t want you to focus on: these weren’t misguided kids who got caught up in a moment of passion. This was an organized terror cell. They planned an ambush on a federal law enforcement facility. They shot a federal officer. And for a long time, they believed — reasonably, based on years of experience — that the justice system would look the other way. Blue city prosecutors. Sympathetic judges. Charges dropped. Wrists slapped.
Not anymore.
The message being sent from that Fort Worth courtroom is one that should have been sent years ago: if you wage war on law enforcement officers, attack federal facilities, and terrorize communities in the name of radical left-wing ideology, the full weight of the American justice system will come down on you. Hard. And no amount of crying in court will change that.
The next batch of Antifa terrorists is watching. They should be very, very worried.
