CCISD, True Texas Project and Scott Bowen.

June 18, 2024

CCISD Trustee was the guest speaker of True Texas Project.

TTP was thrown out of another venue due to their support of white nationalist figures and rhetoric. Back in 2022 Buzz Aldrin’s church in Webster banned the far right group from having their meetings in the facility after learning about the group. According to The Texas Tribune another group, the Dallas Botanical Gardens, has cancelled TTP’s event stating they “rejects all forms of hate speech, discrimination, or bigotry.”

And they have a point. A big one. Even some of the most white wing of the party, including Don Huffines, has joined 12 other speakers and have cancelled their appearance at the event. From the Tribune:

Billed as the 15th anniversary celebration for True Texas Project, the conference agenda claims that there is a “war on white America,” and urges attendees to embrace once-fringe ideologies such as Christian nationalism or the Great Replacement Theory, which claims that there is an intentional, often Jewish-driven, effort to destroy white people through immigration, interracial marriage or the LGBTQ+ community.

Other speakers include “figures with ties to antisemites and extremists, including Paul Gottfried, a far-right author who mentored neo-Nazi Richard Spencer”. TTP is supported by the two republican billionaires out of the Dallas area, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. They also created Defend Texas Liberty PAC. The leadership was caught meeting with known white supremacist Nick Fuentes. The backlash was so bad the PAC folded but they created another under a new name.

This is who CCISD Scott Bowen associates with. Do yourself a favor and read the two articles from the Tribune. The first outs the group and their agenda for the birthday bash. The second is about the speakers cancelling their appearance. Here are a few comments from the speakers:

  • “I know that the True Texas Project gets things done and I need each and every one of you to continue to fight for the conservative principles we all stand for,” –Ted Cruz
  • “Every good and [decent] and honorable person associated with this event should back out,” Travis County GOP Chair Matt Mackowiak 
  • It’s a “dumb and inaccurate way to promote the Republican agenda” and that he “was never given a lineup of speakers or topics.” Senator Don Huffines
  • “I categorically reject white replacement theory and never write or speak about it. I’m not interested in any of that stuff.” Todd Bensman, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies
  • “What kind of stupid son of a bitch would associate with these racist assholes?” Me.

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CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen’s buddies on women’s rights

April 1, 2024

Yep. This is who he is associating with.

Once again the True Texas Project is in the news with a leaked video from a meeting in Granbury at a True Texas Project event. The speaker is Paul Brown, the Director of Policy and Operations of a fringe group called “Abolish Abortion Texas.” This is the extreme far right group Scott Bowen spoke at last week. They have advocated for succession, against the gay community, among other things.

I’ve been critical of Bowen ever since he was linked to the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Defend Texas Liberty, and Texans for Strong Borders. Go ahead and look Fuentes up. I’ve detailed Bowen’s association with them and have spoken at the school board meeting addressing this issue. Take a minute to review his association with True Texas Project here.

In the leaked video, Brown calls for:

  • The banning of IVF. 
  • The prohibition of emergency contraception. 
  • The ban of some forms of birth control, like IUDs. 
  • Capital punishment for women who have abortions. 
  • Capital punishment for doctors who perform abortions.

These are extreme positions. Extremely extreme. You can read the entire story on Lone Star Left’s website including viewing the video of the event. This is truly some f-ed up stuff.

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CCISD Trustee to speak at anti-government extremist group

March 19, 2024

True Texas Project has been listed as one of 15 hate and anti-government groups in Texas. This list includes the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Mom’s for Liberty, and Patriot Front a white supremacist group. This local chapter was banned from holding meetings at the Webster Presbyterian Church after the elders learned of their background.

So Scott Bowen, a CCISD Trustee is going to be their speaker tonight. The meeting is open to everyone so it should be very interesting. True Texas Project attempted to hold a forum for League City Council candidates but it was cancelled due to lack of interest by the candidates. At least they know better than Scott.

Last August True Texas Project hosted Chris Russo. Who is Chris Russo? Glad you asked. From a previous post about Scott Bowen affiliation with Russo:

Chris Russo. (More on Chris below) Director of Texans for Strong Borders. Was seen chauffeuring [Nick] Fuentes [known white supremacist] to and from the meeting at Pale Horse Strategies this month. Multiple people, who asked not to be named to avoid drawing the attention of white nationalists, told the Tribune that Russo has ties to Fuentes’ so-called “groyper” movement. 

Scott and Russo are buddies. Again from a previous post:

This is truly strange coincidence. Russo, Cheshire, and Bowen graduated from Texas A&M. All three were on the Student Senate together. Russo was the President of the Senate the year right after Bowen. Cheshire co-authored a bill concerning the Gay Community at Texas A&M on religious freedom grounds. Russo and Cheshire are directors for Texans for Strong Borders, an anti-immigrant PAC primarily funded by Defend Texas Liberty. Russo is listed as the Treasurer with an address in El Lago.

This is who Scott Bowen is associating with. The Texas Tribune wrote an extensive set of articles on all of these individuals. I spoke at a CCISD board meeting calling on Bowen to disavow these organizations and to return the $2000 contribution he received from Defend Texas Liberty. So now he is going to speak at one of these organizations.

Film at 11. Literally.

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Update on the white supremacist PAC spending

February 27, 2024

They are still around.

I recently wrote about the two Texas billionaires, Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks, who funded Defend Texas Liberty. DFT leadership was caught having a long meeting with Nick Fuentes, a known white supremacist. The backlash was brutal with calls for elected officials and candidates, including CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen, to return their contributions. The leader of DTL was fired and he changed his company’s name. DTL’s donations have dried up.

Dunn and Farris worked quickly to defund DTL and start up a new PAC called Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC. It was formed in late 2023 and has raised, sort of, a couple of million. So far they have raised $3,928,000 with $3,740,000 coming from Wilks and Dunn and $188,000 coming from a few wannabes.

They have spent $3,300,162 trying to influence the republican primary. Here are the candidates they are supporting and the amounts they are contributing. This list includes Katrina Pierson the Trump kiss ass and Shelley Luther who lost in 2020 and 2022. She was the hairdresser, who violated the COVID restrictions, turned politician. David Covey is challenging Speaker of the House Dade Phelan. Brent Money has already lost a special election.

CandidateAmountChallenging
Andy Hopper$230,000 Lynn Stucky
David Covey$225,000 Dade Phelan
Kyle Biedermann$150,000 Dwain Handley
Mitch Little$145,000 Kronda Thimesch
David Lowe$125,000 Stephanie Klick
Katrina Pierson$115,000 Dennis London
Shelley Luther$110,000 Reggie Smith
Brent Money$85,000 Open Seat (Lost)
Marc LaHood$85,000 Shekhar sinha
Matt Morgan$50,000 Jacey Jetton
John T Perez$50,000 Mano Deayala
Wes Virdell$50,000 Open Seat
Wernick$25,000 Morgan Meyer
Helen Kerwin$15,000
Cheryl Bean$10,000 Open Seat
Joe McDaniel$10,000 
Tom Glass$10,000 
Hillary Hickland$5,000 
Janis Holt$5,000 
Stormy Bradley$5,000 
Liz Case$2,500 

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It’s F***ing Friday: Stop whining

February 2, 2024

Welcome to Fucking Friday. It’s like “What Grinds My Gears” only worse.

Elections are just 10 months away and MSNBC is already giving air to all of the whiny little voters saying they aren’t going to vote because “No one is reaching out to them”, or “He isn’t doing enough on [name your issue], or “No one is kissing my ass”. It is getting old. It is time to grow the fuck up.

The adult comment when considering who to vote for is “I will vote for the individual who I have an opportunity to sway, to move my issue forward. He/She will never be perfect but I have to chose the one that I have a chance with”. And that is not fucking trump.

Just remember when your feelings are hurt, your panties are in a wad, you’re crossing your arms across your chest, and you refuse to vote, you risk electing someone that will not only screw you and your family but everyone else in the United States.

Many of you did exactly that in 2016. How did that work out for you, your family, women, immigrants, the Gay community, teachers, police, Muslims, Jews, non-Christians, victims of gun violence, and others? As a Mexican American you helped put a target on my back because of the hate speech ushered in by Trump.How in the fuck did acting like a fucking child help move your damn issue forward. Because of that vote in 2016 the United States Supreme Court has screwed us all for the next 30-40 years. Decades!

So this time, do us a favor. Grow up. Vote for someone that you have an opportunity to have a reasonable discussion with to move your particular concern forward. Voice your concern, be passionate about your issue, but when it comes time to do the right thing, do it.

Just fucking do it.

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Who is Defend Texas Liberty donating to?

February 2, 2024

Something is happening.

Defend Texas Liberty, the guys who got caught having a 7 hour meeting with a known white supremacist, Nick Fuentes, has donated over $1.5 Million to various candidates. The Texas Tribune broke the story back on Oct 8, 2023. Of the $1.5 Million donated, only $25,000 was donated after the story broke. Maybe people are getting the idea that associating with a white supremacist, even in Texas, isn’t the best idea.

As I have written before, DTL attempted to finance a couple of CCISD candidates. One returned the donation the other lost. It’s clear CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen invited these people to participate. He has a very disturbing relationship with them.

Those receiving donations from DTL after being exposed are Brent Money for $10,000. Money is running for the seat vacated by Bryan Slaton. Bryan was removed from the House after providing an underaged staff member with alcohol and porking her “all night long”. Bryan’s campaign was entirely funded by DTL.

State Representative Robert Hall received $5,000 and State Representative Steven Toth received $10,000. These donations speak volumes. Here are those who accepted donations in 2023.

Republican Party of Bexar County (CEC) ,4,000.00
Republican Party of Bexar County (CEC) ,1,000.00
Texans for Dan Patrick ,1,000,000.00
Republican Party of Texas ,150,000.00
Republican Party of Texas ,100,000.00
Tinderholt ,Tony D.100,000.00
Republican Party of Texas ,50,000.00
Tarrant County Patriots PAC ,20,000.00
Republican Party of Texas ,17,500.00
Tarrant County Patriots PAC ,15,000.00
Toth ,Steven H.10,000.00
Hopper ,Stephen9,000.00
Republican Party of Texas ,7,500.00
Republican Party of Texas ,7,500.00
Harrison ,Brian E.6,000.00
Texans for Kelly Hancock SPAC ,5,000.00
Miller ,Sid5,000.00
Tarrant County Patriots PAC ,5,000.00
Toth ,Steven H.5,000.00
King ,Phillip S.5,000.00
Hall ,Robert L.5,000.00
Dorazio ,Mark E. 2,000.00
Schatzline ,Nathaniel 1,000.00
Craddick ,Christi L.500.00
Harrison ,Brian E.2,500.00
Covey ,David A.50,000.00
Money ,Brent A.10,000.00
McLaughlin ,Don E.2,500.00
1,596,000.00

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Nazis endorse Trump for reelection

January 15, 2024

This is what the Republican Party, the once great conservative party of Lincoln, has become.

Trump has brought out the filth of humanity and they love him. These guys will be at the Republican Party convention. They will be mingling with so called “conservatives”, the type of conservatives who will look the other way while they wave their Make America White Again flags. This is who they are.

Every American have their own faults but the overwhelming vast majority do not support this message or those who are quiet about those who spread it. Unfortunately the Republican Party is quiet, afraid of the trump supporters and of trump himself. The once great party of “conservative values” are now the party that welcomes name calling, dog whistling, Nazis, lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, racism, and more.

This is the Republican Party. This is not what conservatives believe in.

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2024. The Year of the Conservative

January 10, 2024

Americans are counting on you.

2024 must be the year when conservatives restores the Party of Lincoln to the traditional conservative values they once stood for. In November the election will not be about politics or differences in opinion on issues such as the economy or national security policies. It is an election about right vs wrong. Conservatives know the difference. The vast majority of Americans know the difference. Americans teach children the difference. Our teachers expect kids to know the difference and employers demand their employees to know the difference.

Ever since 2015 the leadership of the Republican Party has perverted the conservative label starting with calling immigrants rapists, and thieves. Over the last eight years they have tolerated racist comments, calling elected officials names, talking about grabbing women by the p*ssy, adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, and more. That wasn’t enough for conservatives to abandon their nominee.

For years the conservatives of the republican party stood their ground and drew a line in the moral sand, then drew another, then another, then another. So now they tolerate racism, adultery, misogyny, meeting with known white supremacists, admitting to taking highly classified documents, hiding them from the FBI, and lying about it. They tolerate lying every single day. They tolerate attacks on the gay community, teachers, police, and even the military. They tolerate being impeached, twice. They tolerate being indicted on 91 felony counts. They tolerate inciting violence and making Hitler like statements and they tolerate whining every time they lose.

Conservatives can’t draw another line in the sand without being laughed at. Conservatives have lost their party. Trump will be their nominee for President even if he is convicted on any one or more of the 91 felony charges filed against him. That battle has been lost but the war can still be won starting in November. Conservatives know the difference between right and wrong and voting to put that rotten, filthy, racist human being back into the White House is wrong.

No one is expecting true conservatives to vote for Biden or join the Democratic Party, but they are hoping that they will rise to the occasion and vote to keep Trump out of office and help our country return to American values, values such as honor, integrity, and winning or losing with dignity. America is counting on you.

Happy New Year.

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“Anti Government” group enters League City elections

January 9, 2024

UPDATE: Candidate Chris Dodson has also refused to attend.

They’re not doing very well.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has added the True Texas Project to their list of extremist organizations categorized as a general anti-government organization. The local group has attempted to enter the League City elections by holding a forum for the candidates. Unfortunately only one, the book burner an Nick Long’s boy, Courtney Chadwell, has accepted the invitation. Here is the line up:

I don’t think Ange or Dodson knows who the TTP is or who Joshua is. Joshua is leading the book banning charge in League City roaming the kids section of the library searching for books that say pee-pee or wee-wee. His group has had speakers advocating for Texas to secede from the United States (a really stupid and illegal idea). His group was banned from using the facilities by Buzz Aldrin’s Presbyterian church in Webster for its extreme views which the church did not condone. From the Chronicle:

The group’s lineup of featured speakers indicates its alignment with radical white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ policies. Kelly Neidert, founder and leader of the anti-LGBTQ organization Protect Texas Kids, said she’s slated to be a featured speaker at TTP’s upcoming events

They also have interfaced with Chris Russo, leader of a local anti-immigrant PAC, outed by The Texas Tribune as meeting with a known white supremacist, Nick Fuentes. They supported Bryan Slaton an anti LGBTQ State Representative who was removed from the Texas House for providing alcohol to a minor and they having sex with her.

I’ll make sure Ange and Dodson knows who they are meeting with. Courtney knows who they are. We should know who he is.

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A Pale Horse of a different color

December 8, 2023

This doesn’t change anything.

Pale Horse Strategies is a consulting firm associated with Defend Texas Liberty PAC and owned by former State Representative Johnathon Strickland. Strickland was also the lead of Defend Texas Liberty. Was….

The Texas Tribune exposed DTL, specifically Strickland, for meeting with a known white supremacist, Nick Fuentes at Pale Horse Strategies. DTL has since removed Strickland, the Speaker of the House had called on all republicans to denounce DTL and return any donations they received.

Well today The Texas Tribune says that Pale Horse Strategies is changing their name to West Fort Worth Management LLC. From the Tribune:

In a Nov. 13 filing with the Texas Secretary of State, an attorney for Pale Horse Strategies LLC wrote that the firm would also conduct future business under the name “West Fort Worth Management LLC.”

The firm is owned by former state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, and is heavily involved in right-wing politics in Texas.

PaleHorseStrategies.com has gone dark. According to the Texas Ethics Commission no political organization has spent money with West Fort Worth Management. You just can’t change who you are by changing what people call you.

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