They Printed a Zine. The DOJ Gave Them 450 Years. (ft. Melissa Gira Grant)
On July 4, 2025, a loosely affiliated group of demonstrators gathered outside
the Prairieland immigration detention camp in solidarity of incarcerated migrants.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) would soon recast the demonstrators as an “Antifa cell.” Federal prosecutors would trump up terrorism charges against them. In some cases, the DOJ indicted people who hadn’t even been present at the demonstration. Their so-called crime? Making and moving zines.
Then Trump’s hand-picked federal judges sentenced the Prairieland defendants to a combined 450 years in prison.
How did a routine act of public…
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