No journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job.
Yet on Friday, May 28, Antifa tried to kill me again while I was reporting on the ongoing protests and riots in Portland, Ore. for a new chapter of my...
book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.”
I was chased, attacked and beaten by a masked mob, baying for my blood. Had I not been able to shelter wounded and bleeding inside a hotel while they beat the doors and windows like animals, there is...
no doubt in my mind I would not be here today. Their words, like their actions, speak for themselves.
Antifa wants me dead because I document what they want to stay hidden. The attacks against me and threats on my life are retribution for my work as a journalist, recording the tactics and true ideology of an extremist clandestine movement that relies on deception and regards...
the truth as the greatest threat of all. They want the right to hide their identities behind masks, and erase records of their arrests and alleged crimes. They want me dead for capturing these things and reporting on them. But it is the right of every journalist, protected...
and preserved by the founding fathers, to report freely without fear. I was forced to flee my home in Portland last year as the death threats escalated but returned recently to take care of my elderly family. When I engaged in field reporting for my book, I did what every...
beat reporter would do: I took care to mitigate the risks and went to observe Antifa first-hand during a demonstration at the Justice Center. Like many other journalists Antifa has tried to silence and intimidate through violence and threats, I had to cover my face and eyes...
to do my job and stay alive. As the Asian son of Vietnamese immigrants, I also have to be mindful of Antifa’s attacks on multiple people of East Asian origin.
Shortly before midnight, Antifa member John Hacker, who assaulted me in 2019, began asking me questions. I didn’t answer and attempted to walk away, but a group of masked people in black followed and surrounded me. As they interrogated me, one managed to pull off my mask and...
immediately yelled, “That’s Andy. Get him! Get him!”
As I sprinted through downtown Portland trying to flag down help, there was no visible police presence. At SW 4th Ave and SW Morrison, one of the black-clad Antifa members tackled me to the ground in front of...
Pioneer Place Mall, punching my head and face repeatedly, while I pleaded for them not to kill me. All the time I could hear the angry cries and footsteps of the mob approaching.
In the chaos, I managed to seize a moment when my attackers were distracted and crawled away. As soon as I could get to my feet, I sprinted inside the only business I could see that was open —The Nines Hotel. I begged hotel staff to call 911, but they refused and ordered me...
to wear a mask and leave the property. I insisted, reminding them of the violent mob outside seeking to kill me. By now, masked Antifa operatives were pounding on the hotel doors and windows, screaming and shouting my name and trying to break inside.
It seemed obvious they intended to make good on hundreds of threats over the past two years to kill me.
Afraid the windows would shatter and let the mob in, I begged someone to let me go up the elevator to escape from the lobby. For more than an hour, Antifa extremists kept trying to get into the hotel to hunt me down and finish the job they started on the street.
Dozens of riot police took up positions in front of the building where at least one online video shows extremists swearing and screaming at officers for “protecting Andy Ngo.” At least one Antifa member was arrested according to the...
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon, felony attempted assault, felony riot and other crimes. His bail was immediately covered by an Antifa bail fund group. archive.ph/DmSAO
Later, I was escorted to an ambulance by a medic from Portland Fire and Rescue through a back entrance of the hotel.
I was treated in the ER for multiple injuries to my head and body.
When Antifa last beat me for doing my job in 2019, doctors told me I could have died from the brain hemorrhage caused by the blows to my head. I have made more than two dozen reports of subsequent threats and attacks to the Portland Police,...
and as far as I am aware no action has been taken.
After the 2019 assault, Antifa and their sympathizers sought to cast me as a liar, white supremacist and far-right agitator who deserved to be beaten.
These lies will be used again to try to discredit me and other journalists reporting on Antifa, and to distort the facts.
But there is only one truth.
I call on the Portland Police and federal authorities to act on this before Antifa operatives hiding behind their masks succeed in murdering an American journalist on their watch. And I call on journalists and all those who believe in the First Amendment to...
join me in standing against the tyranny of those who use violence to terrorize, silence and suppress the truth.
Wow. In Oregon’s emergency lawsuit to prevent the President from sending troops to protect federal property, a disturbing email from @PortlandPolice Sergeant Andrew Braun (badge #56961) was included. In it, Braun blames the victims of Antifa violence for their own assaults and attacks.
Braun claims that journalist @KatieDaviscourt, citizen journalist @hunnybadgermom and conservative activist @RheinDAmacher are somehow responsible for being attacked by “protesters.” He falsely labels Daviscourt and Chelly Boufferache as “counter-protesters” and accuses them of trespassing on federal property. In reality, these journalists stay near or on federal property because when they're on public streets in Portland, the Portland Police will not bother to investigate if they are assaulted or robbed.
Sgt. Braun is essentially parroting Antifa talking points, which justify violence against those they deem unwelcome in public areas they lay claim to. Antifa regularly argues that anyone they label as an “antagonizer” (i.e., press) is fair game for violent retaliation. This leadership mindset or policy helps explain why Portland Police have systematically failed to protect conservatives from being beaten or robbed by Antifa and the violent far-left over the years. ngocomment.com
.@PortlandPolice Sgt. Andrew Braun wrote in an email that is being used by Oregon in a lawsuit to try to stop troops from being sent to protect federal property that journalists @KatieDaviscourt & @hunnybadgermom are to blame for Antifa assaulting them:
@PortlandPolice @KatieDaviscourt @hunnybadgermom .@PortlandPolice Sgt. Andrew Braun wrote in an email that is being used by Oregon in a lawsuit to try to stop troops from being sent to protect federal property that journalists @KatieDaviscourt & @hunnybadgermom
are to blame for Antifa attacking them:
An Oakland Antifa trans nonbinary militant who operated an extremist anarcho-communist (Antifa's ideology) blog has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for six domestic terrorist attacks. It is the longest sentence for an Antifa militant to date.
Casey Robert Goonan ("they/them"), who has a Ph.D. in black studies, pleaded guilty to using homemade explosive devices in June 2024 to destroy a @UCPD_Cal police vehicle on campus and to attempt to firebomb the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland. He also admitted to carrying out three arson attacks on the UC Berkeley campus.
Goonan admitted he was inspired by the Hamas direct action terror attacks of Oct. 7 and that he hoped his violence would inspire others to carry out further attacks "for Palestine."
Antifa and far-left militants are calling him a "political prisoner" and are demanding his immediate release.
The mainstream media reporting is not writing about his anarcho-communist violent extremism and is making it sound like he merely did vandalism on a car.
Here is the manifesto and claim of responsibility of the Oakland Antifa trans nonbinary militant, Casey Robert Goonan, who was just sentenced to over 19 years in federal prison for carrying out multiple bombing and arson attacks in the Bay Area. The attacks were done "for Palestine," the latest in a string of violent and deadly attacks in the U.S. where Palestine is invoked.
Goonan has a Ph.D. in black studies from Northwestern University. His lawyer asked for a light sentence, arguing that his client is bipolar and diabetic. Goonan's Antifa and far-left supporters showed up to the sentencing to express support for what he did.
Convicted domestic terrorist and violent trans Antifa militant, Casey Goonan, was involved in a hammer attack on a women's rights conference in San Francisco. He wore the Antifa black bloc uniform and hid his face, but was arrested:
The White House announced that the President will be signing an executive order to formalize his Truth Social announcement of declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. @karolineleavitt also lists out several Antifa attacks in the last few years.
Here are some of the Antifa violent attacks that @karolineleavitt highlighted in the announcement from the White House press room: North Texas Antifa cell arrested over ambush shooting attack on ICE facility in July 2025: ngocomment.com/p/two-more-arr…
@karolineleavitt Here are some of the Antifa violent attacks that @karolineleavitt highlighted in the announcement from the White House press room: Portland Antifa militants charged with felony arson and other crimes in ongoing 2025 insurrection against Portland ICE: ngocomment.com/p/four-more-po…
On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore.
Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob.
I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried to choke me out. I barely managed to stumble into @theNinesHotel, begging the staff to call 911. Instead, they tried to force me back outside and told me to wear a Covid mask. I dropped to the floor, refusing to move, pleading for them to call the police. They refused.
Outside, Antifa gathered. One of their ringleaders, Elizabeth Richter — the blonde woman — began rallying the crowd. She called on others on a livestream to come finish me off. She went inside the hotel and threatened me. Antifa also tried breaking their way into the hotel.
I escaped only by jumping into an elevator with a hotel guest. After that, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a police guard. I was soaked in my blood. On social media, Antifa immediately began trying to track which hospital I was in, hoping to finish the job.
As soon as I was discharged, I had to flee Portland. I moved between safe houses in different states. Antifa’s hunt for me was far from over.
@PortlandPolice closed the case a few weeks afterward, saying they couldn’t identify anyone. Nobody was ever arrested, just like in 2019 when I was beaten to the point that my brain bled.
What happened afterward? In 2023, at a civil trial in Portland, I sued John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, two Antifa militants involved in that mob attack in the video above. A liberal judge allowed the defense's objection to the damning Twitter DMs between the two on the night of the attack from being shown to jurors. The trial was marred by multiple security threats that resulted in jurors being rushed out for safety reasons.
Hacker's lawyer told the jurors in the closing statement that she was Antifa and, “I'm going to remember every one of your faces when you leave here.” They rendered a not liable verdict for both.
Dustin Ferreira, the man in the wheelchair inciting the mob to try to break into the hotel to attack me, was given a $400,000 settlement last year by Portland for being arrested at a riot. ngocomment.com/p/inside-the-a…
Today’s killing of Christian children at a church in Minneapolis occurred in the context of a surge in far-left trans propaganda encouraging Trantifa and other leftists to take up arms to kill transphobes and “fascists.”
Their targets: Christians and conservatives.
I have been warning and reporting on this phenomenon for years and am called a liar by liberal media, and targeted with death threats by the far-left.
Trans far-left radicals are being encouraged every day to take up arms to legitimize their unfounded paranoia, sociopathy and mental health co-morbidities.
Why the Media Won’t Tell You Who Killed Children at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis
A gunman killed children in a Minneapolis church. The shooter was trans. Media is already covering it up—just like Nashville. Read the Ngo Comment dispatch: ngocomment.com/p/why-the-medi…
Antifa unmasked: Another Portland Antifa violent suspect has been federally charged, this time for one of the most violent attacks on federal law enforcement in Portland so far. archive.is/dCEp7
Trans nonbinary far-left militant Robert Jacob Hoopes ("he/they") has been charged with felony aggravated assault of a federal officer with a dangerous weapon and depredation of federal property in excess of $1,000.
Hoopes allegedly tried to kill federal officers protecting the ICE building by hurling large rocks at their heads on June 14. One officer was hit in the head (pictured below).
Hoopes also allegedly used a stolen stop sign and pole as a battering ram to try to break inside the ICE facility so his comrades could burn down the building.
Hoopes graduated in 2023 from the expensive and extremely radical Portland liberal arts college @Reed_College_. Many of the violent 2020 BLM-Antifa rioters had ties to the southeast Portland college.
The FBI surveilled Hoopes at his home on NE 16th Ave. in Portland, Ore. He is the 22nd Portland Antifa rioter to be federally charged so far since the insurrection began on the ICE facility two months ago. ngocomment.com
A liberal Oregon federal judge has denied the prosecution’s request that extremely violent Portland Antifa suspect Robert Hoopes be kept in custody. He will be released and will have the opportunity to destroy any evidence that could show how he was part of an Antifa conspiracy.
Fable Sorenson, the woke far-left girlfriend of violent Antifa federal felon suspect Robert J. Hoopes, has released a statement about how they tried to delay his arrest when officers showed up at the home by asking irrelevant questions. She claims he is a pacifist Quaker and lies about them surviving the arrest only because they are in a nice white neighborhood (a black anti-ICE violent suspect was arrested without issue recently). The court was shown footage of a masked militant identified as Hoopes hurling rocks at federal agents in an insurrection attack and using a metal sign pole as a battering ram to try to break inside a federal facility. One officer was struck in the head with a rock allegedly thrown by Hoopes, seriously injuring him.
Hoopes graduated from the expensive Portland liberal arts college, @Reed_College_. He's from Newtown, Pa., where he attended the George School, an extremely expensive boarding and day school that costs over $51,000 in tuition alone per year. His father flew in from New York to support his son at the hearing, and members of the Portland Quakers @fgcquaker religious community came to testify in support of him. (I have contacted the Portland Quakers group for comment.)
Hoopes laughed and smiled after being released without bail by a liberal federal judge despite the serious violent felony charges and the objection of the prosecution.