Antifa agitators are posting a hit list around Portland targeting reporters documenting the violent uprisings against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A physical flyer appearing on telephone poles across the city shows wanted-style photographs of investigative journalists, right-wing media figures, and live streamers who have all recently reported on the anti-ICE violence in South Portland.
“Far-Right ‘Content Creators’ [Be On The Lookout],” the flyer is titled, accompanied by the reporters’ ages, screen names, and whether they attended this month’s White House roundtable on antifa.
Separately, breakout visuals of individual targets show their “threat level,” such as one coded red, accusing the Post Millennial‘s Andy Ngo of being “transphobic, bigot[ed], racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, ultra-far right.”
The graphics were created by a transgender “nonbinary” activist and artist known as “Hexcastly” on social media. Antifa accounts are also circulating digital versions of the flyers via Bluesky, Facebook, and X.
Among those named are Turning Point USA’s Frontlines correspondent Jonathan Choe and independent journalist Chelly Bouferrache, also known as “HoneyBadgerMom,” who have both been assaulted by antifa’s forces while covering antifa activity.
“There is a pattern of targeting journalists by the far Left, and it is not isolated to myself,” Bouferrache told the Washington Examiner. “I hope that the [Trump] administration is aware of this. This is a First Amendment issue. Following and supporting local and independent journalists helps significantly.”
Since she started covering the occupation-style protests against ICE this summer, Bouferrache has been the victim of vile insults, harassment, menacing, several assaults, and doxxing, the public posting of private information.
Although she lives 90 miles from Portland in a remote area, Bouferrache said someone left four caltrops, which are spiked weapons, in her driveway last week, a significant escalation.
“This, along with these ‘hitlists,’ tells me I am doing something right and am directly over the target,” Bouferrache said.
In the face of political violence, Bouferrache is undeterred.
“I will not stop; I will not be bullied or threatened into stopping my coverage,” she said.
Bouferrache pointed to two other hit lists she has appeared on this year alone.
In September, self-described provocateur Alex Randall posted a now-deleted YouTube video naming Bouferrache, Choe, and many of the same journalists targeted by the Portland flyers as threats that antifa activists should “BEWARE” of, accompanied by images of them. In mid-October, the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair hung printed pictures on a wall of riot reporters, including Bouferrache and Choe, along with their locations.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Choe said this, too, is not the first time he has found himself on a hit list.
“When I first saw that floating around,” Choe, a freelance reporter bouncing between riot-torn cities, said of the main Portland flyer. “I actually kind of laughed, because this is now like the seventh hit list I’ve been on in the past three months. Whether it’s Seattle or Portland, it seems like my face is everywhere now, and it’s due to the coverage that I’ve been doing now for the past five years of far-left activism, especially antifa violence.”
Choe said the posters are meant to send a message, both as a threat to the identified targets and a call to action among antifa’s followers, serving as an informative tool for so-called comrades.
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“I think the message is, ‘Hey, we’re watching. We know who you are. You better watch your back. We have eyes on you at the same time.’ It is also for informational purposes, because there’s still people who don’t know who I am,” Choe said.
Choe is primarily known in Seattle, where he conducts the majority of his reporting. Though not a regular reporter in the Portland market, Choe will “parachute in” when antifa announces plans for riotous violence.
However, antifa’s latest alert tactic may already be working. A few months ago, Portland antifa, for the most part, had no idea who he was. But in an incident over the weekend, one antifa operative immediately recognized him and called out his name.
“They know who I am now, and I think that flyer had something to do with it,” Choe said.
On Oct. 8, the Trump White House hosted an antifa roundtable with a dozen or so journalists, half of whom had ties to the Pacific Northwest, a hotbed for antifa organizing.
Choe, who was one of the White House panelists invited to brief President Donald Trump on antifa, said when antifa saw that televised intelligence-gathering event, many members of the far-left movement grew concerned.
“Wow, these are the guys who actually are on the front lines exposing us. They’re now at the White House, and they have the ear of the president,” Choe said.
Sources told the Washington Examiner that FBI agents reached out over the phone and in person to several participants who were seated at the White House roundtable.
The federal investigators asked about antifa’s organizational structure, specifically known ringleaders, funding sources, and specific cells operating in the United States, sources said.
“We put a huge light on the anarchy Rose City Antifa was getting away with to the point President Trump had the Portland roundtable,” said Conservative Caucus national field director Chad Caton, another face on the Portland flyer. “Afterwards, they did the poster as a BOLO, but let’s call it what it was. It’s a hit list.”
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However, it has had an opposite effect, Caton told the Washington Examiner.
“This poster only motivated those on it to come back out to Portland and double down,” Caton said. “We will not be bullied. We aren’t scared of you.”