True Texas Project has for years worked with Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. Ted Cruz and other prominent Republicans.

True Texas Project has for years worked with Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. Ted Cruz and other prominent Republicans.

An influential grassroots group with close ties to Texas Republican lawmakers is hosting a conference next month that encourages its attendees to embrace Christian nationalism and resist a Democratic campaign “to rid the earth of the white race.”

Billed as the 15th anniversary celebration for True Texas Project, a far-right activist group that got its start as a North Texas tea party organization, the agenda claims there is a “war on white America,” or elevate theories that white Americans are being intentionally replaced through immigration — a common belief among far-right extremists, including many mass shooters.

“It’s absolutely vital we remember that when they say ‘white supremacy’ or ‘white nationalism’ or whatever the most recent scare phrase is, they literally just mean your heritage and historical way of life,” reads the description for a session on “Multiculturalism & The War on White America.” “It’s a culture war, simple as that. Stop apologizing. Stop backing down. Start fighting back.”

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    So Republicans don’t move leftward… and that’s the Dems’ fault? Jesus Christ, you’re so willing to create apathy and division on the left/center-left axis that you’ll ignore the prime cause staring you in the face:

    The GOP could move back towards the center, they choose not to.

    It is not the Dems’ fault Republicans have no desire or intention to stop their full-on fascism train.

    And before you “B-b-b-b-but the Dems!” yes, it’s bad for them to move rightward too. But chasing the rightward movement, and causing the rightward movement, are obviously differing degrees of bad.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      So Republicans don’t move leftward… and that’s the Dems’ fault?

      Where did I say that?

      I said:

      And the more Dems move to the right, the crazier republicans get because they have nowhere to go but to the right.

      I just can’t think of a simpler way to say that…

      What part are you having trouble with?

      Sure, republicans could move to the left, even pass Dems like the last party switch.

      But why would they want to? Modern republicans are full on religious fascists, they want to be even further right than they are now.

      I’m saying we stop following them, because when we do, everyone except ultra wealthy donors and religious extremists lose.