Antifa on State Payroll: Minnesota Staffer Charged in Conspiracy

The Justice Department in mid-June indicted 15 people in Minnesota affiliated with a radical leftist group tied to the designated terrorist organization Antifa. One of them just so happens to be a state government employee. 

Alec Stewart is an assistant wildlife manager with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, local outlet Alpha News reported on June 23. “Stewart is charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer” during the often violent anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests that rocked the state earlier this year, the news site noted.

The 15 “members and associates of Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN)” were charged with “various federal crimes, including conspiracy to impede a federal officer, multiple counts of interstate stalking, interstate threats, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, multiple counts of assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property,” the DOJ announced on June 16.

‘Committed to Militant Class Struggle and Revolution’

 As the department made clear, these are very dangerous individuals.

“As outlined in the indictment, DAMN is an organization dedicated and committed to direct action against federal law and immigration enforcement … DAMN describes itself as ‘a decentralized coalition of working-class people engaged in various forms of community defense against the current Federal Occupation.’” “Decentralized coalition” means a collection of small cells that operate independently so they cannot be connected by investigations into a large organized network.

“DAMN is comprised of members from several sub-groups, such as the Black Cat Worker’s Collective, Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club, and other organizations,” the Justice Department detailed. Here’s how the DOJ described one of these groups. “The Black Cat Worker’s Collective is a Minneapolis-based Antifa affinity group committed to militant class struggle, community self-defense, and revolution.”

In Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota, this situation should hardly be a surprise. That a wildlife employee, of all things, should also be a committed leftist radical is also not out of the norm. Minnesota government agencies seem infested with such sentiments as part of their official bureaucratic verbiage.

Radicalizing the Fish and Trees in Minnesota

Cultural Marxism is truly meant to embrace all aspects of community life. In Minnesota, that includes fishing and hunting. The 2026 Minnesota Fish Consumption Guidance Updates Summary, issued by the state’s Department of Health, could apparently not even go one written paragraph without spouting leftist babble. Eating fish from any of the countless waterways in the Land of 10,000 Lakes is ostensibly a political act.

“In Minnesota, we are standing on the ancestral lands of the Dakota people,” the fish summary states. “Native peoples were removed unjustly, and we in this space are the beneficiaries of that removal. At [the Minnesota Department of Health], as we understand that land is related to health, we want to be a good steward of the land we are on. This acknowledgement is just one piece of that. We understand the systemic racism, historic trauma, and genocide that has impacted Indigenous communities and peoples in our state.”

This is the mindset of even the most routine state agency procedure in Minnesota. Is it any wonder that radical revolutionaries are welcomed as employees on the taxpayer dime?

Even the planting of trees in urban areas, a salutary goal, is another plank in the social justice war against systemic racism.

Here’s an excerpt from an article in the Department of Natural Resources’ Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine for September-October 2024:

“‘The current distribution of tree canopy in cities like Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and Rochester correlates strongly with zoning and planning decisions that disenfranchised people of color and low-income people for decades,’ says Molly Codding, community environmental justice coordinator for DNR Forestry.”

Yes, the state’s natural resources department has an official “community environmental justice coordinator” dedicated solely to forestry.

“Environmental justice refers to the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income concerning the development, implementation, and enforcement of laws, regulations, and policies,” Codding explained in a post on the University of Minnesota’s Urban Forestry Outreach & Research web portal on “Environmental Justice and Forestry.”

These are the people now operating countless mundane government agencies in states throughout America. It’s vital that citizens understand just what the “transformative social and cultural change” promised by the hard left encompasses. It plans to reach into every single facet of your life. Nothing is allowed to exist outside of the revolution.