Dana El-Kurd
speaker
4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
Dana El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
The Emma Goldman Book Club was a local zine distributor and publisher that also put on community events from a radical anti-capitalist, usually anarchist friendly perspective.
Emma Goldman obviously being an anarchist.
Yep.
And like the fact that obviously these three organizations aren't actually tied together in any sort of like like they're trying to frame it as like, you know, an Al Qaeda and an Al Qaeda affiliate type deal.
Right.
Which is not sure accurate to how these organizations work or to what's going on here.
But I'm not surprised they went with this line of argument.
I mean, the defendants had connections to these groups, right?
Sure, yeah.
And because these groups have an ideological underpinning that can be seen as being quite similar in some ways, they're viewing that as part of the connection that connects the individuals who were involved in these sorts of organizations or community events.
Yeah, and I'm not surprised that's how they tried to argue it.
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.
Showing 2461–2480 of 4,891 · page 124 of 245
← Previous
Next →