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🗓️ 1 October 2025
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A member of DFW Defendants Support reports from the first court hearing for 17 activists being charged with terrorism after attending a July 4 noise demo in Dallas gone very wrong. While details of the events are limited, it has been centrally cited by the Trump admin to justify their assault on protest and dissent, offering some clues of how similar prosecutions might proceed in the future, and highlighting the necessity of solidarity with those targeted for their political beliefs and associations.
Final Straw interview with Moira Meltzer-Cohen
Info on the pro-Palestine activist mentioned: https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2025-09-24/tarrant-county-raunaq-alam-perjury GF Uprising support Free Casey Goonan
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| 0:00.0 | You must be tired. |
| 0:06.9 | I am tired, yeah. |
| 0:08.5 | This was scheduled for an hour and a half hearing and it was almost seven hours. |
| 0:13.7 | I think the judge was just as piss as the rest of us. |
| 0:17.9 | Is that a good thing or a very bad thing? |
| 0:20.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.0 | It's complicated. |
| 0:22.2 | The result wasn't particularly interesting. |
| 0:24.9 | Everyone got the judge affirmed the probable cause to detain them. |
| 0:30.2 | They haven't been indicted yet, so there's not probable cause for charge, but, and probable |
| 0:36.2 | cause is a low bar. It's not a, you know, it's nothing slam dunk. |
| 0:41.7 | I think that it's a sign that the state is realizing there's a lot of attention. And the state, |
| 0:47.9 | I mean feds in this case, have a lot of attention. So before you, before you say more, |
| 0:51.5 | is this the kind of stuff you want to get into on the show? |
| 0:55.0 | No, not necessarily. |
| 0:56.2 | Okay. |
| 0:56.7 | I think I more want to get into, like, I think a lot of people have not heard the details about the case. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Sort of like, and they don't really know, they know, like, something weird is happening in Dallas. |
| 1:09.3 | Yes. |
| 1:10.5 | And they don't realize that like this is not a Dallas problem. |
| 1:17.4 | We are a part of a very large process that's going to impact everybody else. |
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