Seven members of a violent Antifa cell from North Texas learned this week that their self-proclaimed revolutionary antics have real consequences.
A federal court sent each one packing to prison, with sentences stretching from under two years all the way to half a century for their roles in an armed attack on law enforcement and a federal facility.
The July 4, 2025, assault targeted the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where a police officer was shot during the chaos, as reported by The Post Millennial.
NO MERCY: More members of the North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced to years in federal prison in the first Antifa federal terror case in history. Some cried in court.
Ahead of sentencing, one convict allegedly tried to k*ll herself. EXCLUSIVE: https://t.co/uSnRqGMzXP
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 1, 2026
The cases make clear that left-wing domestic extremism is not some internet fantasy. It is real, organized, and dangerous, and these sentences show that the Justice Department is finally beginning to treat it that way.
Ines Houston Soto, described as one of the ringleaders, received the harshest penalty: 50 years in prison. Federal prosecutors said Soto planned the attack and encouraged others to bring weapons to “liberate” detainees.
Judges did not buy the revolutionary rhetoric, treating the cell’s actions as what they were, an act of domestic terror.
Rebecca Deyalyn Morgan and Joy Abigail Gibson, who also goes by the name Rowan and identifies as transgender and nonbinary, received 15 years each.
Prosecutors stated that they had helped coordinate communications and supplies for the assault. Allegedly, they had stockpiled firearms and improvised explosives, claiming they were fighting “fascism.”
John Philip Thomas and Lynette Read Sharp received nine years apiece for their participation in the raid. Both had taken plea agreements that reduced their potential time in exchange for cooperation.
Federal agents said Thomas fired at least one shot during the attack, while Sharp provided logistical support and transportation.
Another member, Seth Edison Sikes, was given six years and ten months. Sikes, according to court records, helped store the group’s weapons and materials and acted as a scout around the ICE facility on the night of the assault.
He accepted a plea deal after admitting to possession of an unregistered firearm.
The lightest sentence went to Nathan Josiah Baumann, who will serve 22 months and an additional year of supervised release.
Prosecutors described Baumann as a lower-level participant but emphasized that his willingness to involve himself in an armed conspiracy against law enforcement helped enable the violence.
Court documents show that all but Soto agreed to plea deals. The result was a range of reduced penalties for those who cooperated. Soto, on the other hand, refused any plea agreement, maintaining his extreme ideology and defiance to the end.
The judge gave no leniency, citing a complete absence of remorse and ongoing threats made by Soto against government officials from behind bars.
An eighth Antifa member, Susan Elaine Kent, had been scheduled for sentencing alongside the others but will instead face the court next week. Her charges reportedly include possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit assault on a federal officer.
The attack on the detention center rattled the community of Alvarado, a town not accustomed to political violence. Local officials said that the assault was planned over social media using encrypted communication platforms and that the group had discussed similar actions in other states.
Video recovered from their phones featured the Antifa logo, anarchist symbols, and anti-police slogans.
Conservatives have long warned that Antifa is not the harmless “anti-fascist activist group” that many liberal outlets claim it to be.
Instead, it behaves like a militant network bent on disrupting law enforcement and spreading chaos. For years, establishment media and Democrat politicians refused even to acknowledge the violence associated with their activities. It took bloodshed in Texas for the courts to be forced to act.
The federal sentences suggest that the tide might finally be turning. When activists trade protest signs for rifles and pipe bombs, it is not “civil disobedience,” it is terrorism.
The court’s rulings this week are a message that those who target officers or federal property will face the full weight of the law.
What makes this case particularly revealing is how organized these Antifa cells have become. Far from grassroots protesters, the group’s members had coordinated travel, tactics, and funding sources.
Agents said they found digital evidence of out-of-state donors who provided resources for “direct action” activities. Yet, silence continues from the political left, which still refuses to call out violence from its own fringe.
While Democrats in Congress keep branding conservatives as “extremists,” the real extremism often wears black masks and waves the red and black flag of Antifa.
These individuals were not misunderstood activists. They were armed and ready to kill. And now, for once, justice has caught up with them.
