Recently, TENT experienced 3 malicious instances of impersonation of our organization.

Two text messages and fraudulent mailers impersonating TENT were sent out across Texas, leading to a surge in hateful messages and threats to our organization’s email inboxes and social media. As a result, State Representative Jeff Leach put in a formal request to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate our organization.

In response to these fraudulent and malicious attempts to impersonate our organization, TENT filed an official cease and desist and a Rule 202 Petition to be granted subpoenas for the entities who sent the text messages and mailers to release information regarding the impersonated messages.

On October 29th, the motion to share redacted information was granted and revealed the text message campaign was registered to the Republican Women Caucus Fund and an individual named John Braun. However, the Texas Supreme Court blocked the deposition to reveal the entities responsible for the fraudulent mailers in the early morning of October 30th.

This is only the beginning of finding justice for not just trans Texans but all Texans who had their privacy taken from them in this political attack. Your support is needed to strengthen our organization’s physical and digital security for our staff and community, and legal defense against these malicious attacks.

Donations will allow TENT to continue to consult security specialists, equip our organization and staff with digital and physical security tools, and continue to keep our legal representation throughout this fight for answers.

Support and security is critical now more than ever so that we may continue to fight for trans Texans.

Trans Texas Defense and Preparation Fund