Speakers, venue pull out of prominent activist group's pro-Christian nationalist conference

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BY ROBERT DOWNEN
JUNE 13, 2024

Multiple speakers and a venue have pulled out of a prominent Texas activist group’s July conference after The Texas Tribune reported on its plans to amplify white nationalist figures and rhetoric.

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.

On Wednesday, the Tribune reported that the conference lineup features figures with ties to antisemites and extremists, including Paul Gottfried, a far-right author who mentored neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. Since then, at least three of the 12 listed speakers have said they will no longer partake in the event, two of whom said they were unaware of the themes and lineup when they agreed to participate.

“I was unaware of the racialist themes of the conference and language of the other sessions related to it until the past couple of days,” Todd Bensman, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Tribune on Thursday. “I categorically reject white replacement theory and never write or speak about it. I’m not interested in any of that stuff.”

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Shine the light and the cockroaches scurry. 😬

[Lonestarblue]

1. Of course, Dunn and Wilks are behind this group and its "Christian" depravity.

Bth are Dominionists who are using their billions to turn Texas into Afghanistan. They’re getting closer to succeeding.

“True Texas Project is a key part of a powerful political network that West Texas oil tycoons, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks have used to push the state GOP and Legislature to adopt their hardline opposition to immigration, LGBTQ+ rights and public education. Dunn and Wilks are by far the biggest donors to the Republican Party of Texas, and have used their influence to purge the party of more moderate lawmakers and survive a high-profile scandal last year over racists and antisemites employed by groups they fund.

Formerly known as the NE Tarrant Tea Party, True Texas Project was crucial in the rise of Texas’ ultraconservative movement throughout the 2010s. It rebranded after McCarty wrote on social media that she sympathized with the gunman who murdered 23 Hispanic people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 — one of many mass shooters who have been motivated by a belief in Great Replacement Theory.”

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2. Thanks, blue

Great background info. 👏

[magicarpet]

3. I second that,.. TexBloo thamks for taking the time to

... send this info our way.

Hyper ultra Fascists stinking up the room full of run of the mill Fascists.

Pee-yew,...
where is the Frebreeeeez ?

[raging moderate]

4. Abolitionists saw that Black slaves were better Christians than slaveowners.

And modern Black people are better Christians than so-called "Christian" white nationalists.

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5. Update Fort Worth City Officials Demanded Event Reinstatement

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But after a lawyer for True Texas Project went to the City of Fort Worth, which owns the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, city officials ordered the venue's management on Friday to reinstate the event and reverse its cancellation.

"WE WON!!!" True Texas Project founder Julie McCarty posted on social media on Friday.

Botanic Garden CEO Patrick Newman did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

McCarty previously blamed the backlash on “woke attacks” by the Tribune to “silence TTP and prevent us from advancing the grassroots movement across Texas.” McCarty and True Texas Project have not responded to repeated requests for comment about the event since Friday.

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Hmmm wonder who got to them? Tim Dunn or Farris Wilks? Harlan Crow?