Kelly Neidert, a conservative activist, claims that she has spent most of her undergraduate experience at the University of North Texas (UNT) dealing with threats from alleged Antifa members. Her off-campus apartment door was recently spray-painted with an obscene message, which she alleges was done by members of Antifa.
Neidert, who founded and has chaired the UNT chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) since 2019, tweeted a photo of her apartment door on April 29 with a spray-painted message that read, “Stay home Nazi c—.” Neidert captioned the photo, “Antifa is now resorting to stalking and intimidating college girls for being conservative.”
The YCT has been active on the UNT campus since 1980. Neidert told Fox News harassment by members of Antifa has escalated since a YCT-sponsored anti-abortion prayer vigil was held last semester.
Previously, Neidert was secreted in a closet by police after an event featuring Texas House of Representative candidate Jeff Younger turned violent, with demonstrators disrupting the event and campus police escorting Neidert and another YCT member out of a classroom.
Neidert said she suspects the door vandalism was motivated by her recent founding of a nonprofit, “Protect Texas Kids,” which she says opposes left-wing curriculum in schools and clinics that administer transgender hormones to minors.
Neidert told the news outlet she was on her way to a campus Trans Pride Fest to protest the gender transitioning of children when she noticed that her door had been vandalized with spray paint and her door camera blacked out.
Recounting the incident, Neidert told The Dallas Express she had gone to her leasing office to renew her lease around 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29, and returned to her apartment at 3:00 p.m. She found the graffiti when she left again around 4:30 p.m.
“Whoever did it managed not to get caught on my doorbell camera,” she said. “Sometimes ring doorbells are bad about picking up motion, and even I scrolled through to see if I could find the person.”
Neidert shared that before it was blacked out, her door cam recorded footage of a man pacing back and forth in front of her apartment, whom she did not recognize as a neighbor. However, it is unclear if he had anything to do with the graffiti.
She filed a police report the following day. The Dallas Express reached out to Neidert’s apartment complex for comment, but no calls had been returned as of press time. The City of Denton Police Department told The Dallas Express on May 5 that Neidert had filed a report with their office.
Later, Niedert attended an event where she encountered a person who took responsibility for the graffiti left on her door. Warning: video footage in the following links contains language some readers may find offensive.
Niedert tweeted a picture and videos of the person and reported them to the police. Still, she told The Dallas Express, “I think she was trying to freak me out. I don’t think she actually did it.”
While it is unclear who may have vandalized Neidert’s door, Neidert went to the local Mayday celebration on Sunday, May 1, to identify the people she believes were responsible. During the event, Neidert said, her phone was taken out of her hands and thrown. She also alleged she was shoved harshly, almost causing her to fall.
Forty-eight hours later, Neidert held another event on the UNT campus where members of YCT clashed with protesters of YCT. Neidert shared a tweet thread of the event, which included protesters against the organization shouting explicit chants at her.
According to the YCT Twitter account, two speakers who attended the event were advocates against child gender transitions and discussed how transitioning affected them. The tweet thread also alleged that Neidert was “mobbed and assaulted” by protesters.
Also reportedly present were members of the Proud Boys, who Neidert says she did not invite. In a tweet, she wrote, “My group did not invite that group or coordinate with them at all. But if they hadn’t been there, I would have been critically injured,” though she noted that the event had a full security team.
