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It's the Lawfare podcast.

I'm Peter Beck, an associate editor at Lawfare, with Tom Brzeowski, who up until very recently

headed domestic terrorism prosecutions at the Department of Justice.

L.T. Edwards, Lawfare's public service fellow, and Stephen Monticelli, a special investigative

correspondent at the Texas Observer.

You're hanging your terrorism theory on a case that is that leadership is bragging about this

first terrorism charge of its kind for Antifa on threads that kind of focus on the ex-post conduct,

not necessarily the defendants intending and knowing

and planning to do this thing,

but afterward then concealing this person

or concealing the evidence and calling it terrorism.

Today, we're talking about domestic terrorism prosecutions

and the ongoing trial of an alleged Antifa cell

in North Texas.

Stephen, let's start with you. Can you take us back to the events of July 4th, 2025?

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