Naked Fascism
We are here. Stopping it will not be peaceful.
Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada is a legal immigrant with a green card, who came to live in America at 14 years old. On July 4th, 2025, his wife, Maricela Rueda, was arrested at a protest at an ICE facility in Prairieville, Texas. A police officer had been shot and injured, although Maricela had nothing to do with it. After she called to tell him, Daniel moved a box of antifascist magazines from one apartment to another.
He was being surveilled by the FBI. For moving a box, he was arrested, jailed, and repeatedly threatened with deportation if he didn’t plead guilty. Believing himself innocent, he didn’t.
On Tuesday, Daniel was convicted on terrorism charges and given a sentence of thirty years in prison. His wife was given fifty years, despite having committed no crime other than being at a protest and trying to leave when she was told. In total, eight people from a group of under a dozen protesters were convicted and sentenced to the maximum possible 450 combined years in prison.
Only one of them committed any violence. The others committed no serious crimes, if any. Instead, they were accused of being “Antifa.”
To put this case in perspective, the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers received 22 and 18 years respectively on seditious conspiracy charges for planning and executing January 6—which resulted in hundreds of cops being beaten, tortured, and injured.
The average homicide sentence is 22.5 years.
The case was seen as a test of the Trump regime’s National Security Policy Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7)—a policy which criminalized anti-fascism and “Antifa” as terrorism.
But “Antifa” is simply a hoax. There is no organized group called Antifa. The meme was started in 2017 by alt-right trolls after Charlottesville.
But that did not stop Trump’s personal defense attorney Todd Blanche, and the man who sued me for calling him a “chud,” Kash Patel, from boasting about “dismantling Antifa.”
“Today’s sentencings show the FBI remains committed to identifying, locating, and dismantling Antifa and its funding networks across the country”
—FBI Director, Kash Patel“The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice”
—Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche
This is a mass delusion shared by Trump’s entire government. “Antifa” is just a boogeyman to project right-wing violence onto. Here is convicted seditious conspiracist Joe Biggs describing how he planned to “dress like Antifa” on January 6th so he could ambush protesters.
Joe Biggs was set free by the Trump Justice Department. Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, on the other hand, is going to prison for three decades for moving a box of paper.
This is not my country. It is unrecognizable. It is textbook fascism of the kind not seen since Nazi Germany. Life sentences for protesting is just one step from executing dissidents like Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friends in White Rose who were guillotined for distributing pamphlets mocking Hitler.
“We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience.”
On February 18, 1943, Joseph Goebbels gave perhaps his most infamous speech, after the Russian Army had retaken Stalingrad after one of the bloodiest battles in world history. Despite the devastating losses on the Eastern Front and in North Africa, Goebbels gathered the masses in Berlin Sportsblast and called for “total war.”
But the Trump regime has no intention of stopping with protesters. It is trying to put a Congresswoman in prison for 17 years for showing up at an ICE facility. Given their glee at destroying the lives of eight people for being in a non-existent “Antifa” cell, this threat must be taken very seriously.
NSPM-7 was put in place after Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a kind of retribution against the “radical left.” The effort was led by Stephen Miller, who has another project in motion. He wants to move disabled people from community care to “institutions.”
This is pure, unadulterated Nazism.
Just as eliminating antifascists from Germany was one of Hitler’s goals, so was eliminating the weak, the disabled, and the “work-shy” from communities so they could be “institutionalized.”
Between 1939 and 1941, 300,000 disabled people were murdered in institutions or concentration camps in the Nazi program Aktion T4.
Railroading non-violent protesters for life on blatantly manufactured charges, and trying to purge the disabled from our communities, are not just signs of fascism. They are limbs of the death machine fascism always creates, in full motion. Stopping it is not going to be easy—or peaceful—I’m afraid.
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The majority of "antifa" lay at Arlington National Cemetery - nuff sed.
Man, this is downright scary. And what juries convicted these people? That's scary too...