Dana El-Kurd

Sure.

A sticky notepad found at the Soto residence contained passwords for the Emma Goldman Book Club Twitter account and an Antifa Dallas Fort Worth Twitter account.

Which prosecution used as evidence linking defendants to quote-unquote Antifa?

The government also called on David Kyle Schittler as an expert witness to testify about Antifa.

Schittler is a member of the Center for Security Policy, an SPLC-designated hate group.

He also helped draft the definition of Antifa given in this case and used that definition while testifying in front of the Senate last year.

The defense missed a deadline to challenge the prosecution's Antifa expert qualifications, which would have needed to be filed as a pretrial motion as opposed to an objection during the trial.

Prosecutors also cited Trump's Antifa executive order, despite this order being signed months after the Prairieland incident.

And the prosecutors also claimed that the International Antifa Defense Fund contributed over $5,000 to the Prairieland defendants' Give, Send, Go crowdfunding page.

So much of this case was spent arguing over whether the defendants were in fact Antifa and what that even means, like what does it mean to be Antifa and if that's actually relevant to the charges that they were facing.

And by the end of the trial, it became more clear that the defendants weren't exactly being prosecuted for being members of Antifa.

Rather, the government asserted that their proximity to this idea of Antifa was

provided evidence to their motive and preferred tactics.

Quoting the support committee courtroom notes, quote, the government's strategy was to display zines, stickers, pamphlets, flags, and other political materials, anarchist, anti-fascist, anti-ice, animal liberation, and argued that this shared ideology proves conspiracy and motive.

FBI case agent Casey Bennett testified that the materials, quote, show a group of people sharing an ideology and that this, quote, might lead us to intent behind the attack and shows a conspiracy, unquote.

Towards the end of the trial, Judge Pittman asked the prosecution, quote, is it necessary to prove this stuff about Antifa?

The support committee courtroom notes say that the prosecution responded by saying that Antifa ideology, particularly Black Bloc, was how the group operated.

The judge pressed, quote, whether it's Antifa or the Methodist Women's Auxiliary,

Why does it matter?

Yep.