True Texas Project: The New Red Scare

Organizing Communities and Challenging the “True Texas” Narrative

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/true-texas-project-the-new-red-scare


With a clever rebranding in 2019 came a new strategy for expanding their messaging of misinformation. Let's go back a little to bring you up to speed on the comparison to the Red Scare.

The Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. In an effort to control the masses, the narrative was that anyone who spoke out for civil liberties and free speech was enemies of the state and was treated as such.

“One thing to remember in discussing the communists in our government is that we are not dealing with spies who get 30 pieces of silver to steal the blueprints of new weapons,” McCarthy warned in an infamous 1950 speech. “We are dealing with a far more sinister type of activity because it permits the enemy to guide and shape our policy.”

Sounds all too familiar, doesn’t it? The True Texas Project was born out of needing to keep the basic white supremacist ideologies intact. They are against any form of immigration and truly believe that they are preserving the “true values” of America. To push their narrative, they have created satellite offices across the state to recruit like-minded individuals to spread their anti-government messaging.