Important piece in the Michigan Law Review by Steffen Seitz on the growing use of conspiracy charges against left-wing activists—from Stop Cop City to pro-Palestine students. The charges are designed to suppress and kill social movements papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is pretty similar to how the US government dismantled IWW (Union) and other socialist movements. The espionage act has traditionally been deployed to harry left aligned organization. Zinn writes about that in the People's History of the United States. (IIRC)