Zoe Chace
This American Life producer and reporter who covered the trial
Zoe Chace (This American Life producer and reporter who covered the trial) hosts This American Life. Topics they speak about most include Antifa, Material support for terrorism (18 U.S.C. § 2339A).
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Antifa
Zoe Chace concluded that the charges, testimony, plea deals and convictions prove nothing about Antifa.
“At the way the plea deals were written in the end. And at what the defendants were convicted of. It doesn't prove anything about Antifa at all”
This American Life: 891: The Test Case (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 1:06:51
Zoe Chace reported that the government never presented evidence of national Antifa coordination or funding at trial, despite administration claims.
“Scheidler and the government never tried to present any evidence showing some kind of national coordination or structure or planning or funding”
This American Life: 891: The Test Case (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 26:22
Material support for terrorism (18 U.S.C. § 2339A)
Zoe Chace explained that the material support charge can rest on as little as over $1,000 of damage to a federal building.
“strictly speaking, you can be charged with it if you do something as simple as do more than $1,000 worth of damage to a federal building”
This American Life: 891: The Test Case (Jul 13, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:09
Podcasts hosted
- This American Life · 1 episode in TMT
Appearances
891: The Test CaseThis American Life · Jul 13, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Zoe Chace reports on the federal trial over the July 4 Prairieland Detention Center shooting, where the government tried to prove an Antifa terror cell existed.
Often appears with
- Ira Glass · 1 shared episode
- Lynette Sharp · 1 shared episode
- Brian Bouffard · 1 shared episode
- Patrick McLean · 1 shared episode
- Anne Speckhard · 1 shared episode
- Ed Kent · 1 shared episode