Senate Homeland Security hearing of September 24, 2020. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that Antifa is real and operates through "small groups and nodes," coordinating locally "sometimes through encrypted channels." DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli testified that federal officers defending the Portland courthouse sustained more than 340 injuries, and described rioters in Chicago "changing into the black block anonymous clothing."
Antifa is a real thing. It is not a fiction. Now, we have seen organized, tactical activity at both the local and regional level. We have seen Antifa adherents coalescing and working together in what I would describe as small groups and nodes.
Testimony of FBI Director Wray, exchange with Sen. Lankford