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Deposition ties national GOP women’s group to texts about transgender youth
A Travis County judge ordered depositions after TENT said the texts and mailers used its name and branding without consent, prompting threats and a forgery probe.
- On Tuesday, Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer ordered depositions for the Texas Transgender Student Union and Infobip regarding an alleged mass impersonation campaign targeting the Transgender Education Network of Texas .
- Since mid-October, 4.2 million mailers and unsolicited texts falsely used TENT's branding to promote resources, prompting the organization to denounce the materials as a 'coordinated campaign' designed to inflict reputational damage.
- TENT lawyers alleged the impersonation caused 'immediate and severe' threats to staff safety, forcing the organization to deactivate its website and suspend programming while seeking the perpetrators.
- Infobip agreed to cooperate with TENT's legal team, while a representative from the Wyoming group must sit for a Zoom deposition on Friday as part of court-ordered discovery.
- Republican District Attorney Sarah Stogner opened a criminal forgery investigation into the mailers, citing concerns the campaign aimed to influence voters by exploiting transgender issues ahead of midterm elections.
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'Trans resources' text traced back to a national GOP caucus and 'John Braun'
In a breaking news post that went live at 8:14 p.m. tonight (Thursday, Oct. 29), The Texas Tribune reports that a text campaign allegedly offering advice and references to LGBTQ+ teens in fact came from the Republican Women Caucus Fund and an individual named John Braun, according to a deposition from messaging company Infobip. Travis […]
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