Lydia Koza remembers standing at the stove on the evening of July 5, 2025, sauteeing vegetables for her wife, when she heard loud banging. Her roommate yelled something about a raid, and Koza hit the floor, hands in the air, worried she was going to be killed.

Instead, FBI agents ordered all eight inhabitants out of the house, including Koza’s roommate, who held a one-month-old infant. As they stood barefoot outside with guns pointed at them, the FBI arrested Koza’s wife, Autumn Hill. Koza hasn’t seen Hill, outside of jail or court, in the eight months since.

Hill is one of nine people currently standing trial for events stemming from a small protest that took place on July 4, 2025, at the Prairieland Detention Center just outside of Dallas, in which a police officer was non-fatally shot. According to participants, the protest was meant to be a noisy but peaceful show of solidarity with ICE detainees held in the prison. Now, the “Prairieland Defendants” have been charged with participation in what the Trump administration has called a “terrorist attack.”

The Prairieland case marks the first time the federal government has ever filed terrorism charges against “antifa”—a term, short for “antifascist,” that has become a watchword for the Trump administration’s attempted crackdown on left-wing protest. A verdict is expected either this Thursday or Friday.