Support the Prairieland Defendants

Category: updates

  • Event: National Support Call on January 12

    Join us on a national call to learn about the current status of the Prairieland case and how you could plug into court support as the defendants get ready to go to federal trial next month, starting February 17. We will be joined by members of the DFW Support Committee, people directly affected by the case, and the Director of Mass Defense at the National Lawyers Guild and member of the People’s Law Collective, Xavier De Janon.

    Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/OptionOrderConsumerEuropeIntelligence

    Monday, January 12
    7 PM CST / 8 PM EST

    Donate: https://www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWprotestors

    Read more about the case and defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/

  • Update on Dario Sanchez’s Upcoming Court Dates

    Update on Dario Sanchez’s Upcoming Court Dates

    Dario’s hearing and trial have been moved! The state prosecution had not prepared for the January 8 hearing. The state has finally provided more discovery after at least 5 requests from Dario’s attorneys.

    Court dates for Dario Sanchez:
    1) Pretrial motions hearing: January 22 at 1:30 PM at 204 S Buffalo St, Cleburne, TX 76033

    2) Jury trial to start (tentatively): April 20 at 9 AM at 204 S Buffalo St, Cleburne, TX 76033

  • Anti-Repression Workshop in Dallas-Fort Worth

    Join us this Tuesday, December 9 for an in-person anti-repression workshop where we will contextualize the Prairieland cases within a larger pattern of state repression, and build skills and strategies to resist the attack on our communities together.

    This workshop will be hosted in Dallas-Fort Worth by the National Lawyers Guild’s Director of Mass Defense and co-directors at the People’s Law Collective, which helped beat the Atlanta Cop City RICO cases.

    Please email us at dfwsupportcommittee@hacari.com for more details.

  • November 17 Update on Prairieland Case

    This week, defendants Autumn Hill, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Meagan Morris, Ines Soto, Liz Soto, Savanna Batten, Maricela Rueda, and Daniel Sanchez Estrada were federally indicted together on the same case. These defendants, except for Sanchez Estrada, were indicted on a range of charges including riot, material support of terrorism, use of explosive, attempted murder, and discharge of a deadly weapon. Sanchez Estrada was indicted on corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal a document. Defendants Joy Gibson, Nathan Baumann, Lynette Sharp, Susan Kent, and Rebecca Morgan were charged with a single count of material support of terrorism. These defendants have signed plea deals and will formally enter a guilty plea on Wednesday, November 19 and Monday, November 24. The trial date for the federal case against Evetts, Hill, and others will likely be set in by the end of the month, and we expect the date to be in late December 2025 or early January 2026.

    On the state case, Janette Goering had a writ of habeas corpus hearing on a reduction to her $5 million bond. She was denied the bond reduction with no explanation. Susan Kent pled not guilty to state charges and has a state jury trial set for March 2026. Dario Sanchez‘s state jury trial is still set for January 2026.

  • Statement of Solidarity with Prairieland Defendants

    Below is a statement of solidarity with the Prairieland defendants, which we encourage individuals, organizations, and groups to reproduce to demonstrate their support!

    We also ask that people plan for the October 3, 2025 international day of action in solidarity with the Prairieland defendants!

    We stand in solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants as community members and pursuers of a better world. In supporting them, we do it with love for their humanity, grief for their confinement, and rage for the repression they face. On July 4, 2025, protesters gathered to make a display of noise and fireworks to express solidarity with immigrants and ICE detainees at the kidnapping facility, the Prairieland Detention Center, in Johnson County. In the early morning of July 5, 10 DFW comrades were arrested; since then, the other 7 defendants were arrested as part of a wave of terrifying raids and surveillance. The state’s narrative about what happened that night and in the nights that followed is dubious and full of inconsistencies.

    This case matters because not only are loved ones and comrades facing horrific conditions in the Johnson County Jail but their incarceration represents a growing pattern of movement repression. As ICE resistance amplifies, met with fascist government takeovers and ICE hiring incentives, solidarity with those stolen from their communities is ever more needed to nourish a culture of care rather than a culture of cruelty.

    This case will almost certainly be used to justify sweeping expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. Authoritarianism can already be felt in everything from the US arming the Gaza genocide to the building of Cop Cities all over the country. ICE Fascism rips away the foundations of communities, spreading fear, distrust, and segregation, and criminalizes dissent. Communities are being destroyed by masked fascists everyday and are in need of support and defense — just like the Prairieland Defendants and everyone deprived of social ties and comforts due to systems of incarceration and displacement.

    We stand with the DFW Support Committee as they support the Prairieland defendants, loving them through their separation from the world. We will spread the word of their struggle, help build legal defense so our comrades can see a sky without walls or chains, and promote community events and actions to rebuild community support, which state repression seeks to destroy. Through it all, side by side with our community members and loved ones on the inside, we will build a wall of resistance and resilience against the State’s efforts to dismantle our movements.