“Since the start of 2021, Texas has experienced a significant amount of extremist activity. One driver of this phenomenon is Patriot Front, a white supremacist group that has distributed propaganda across Texas – and the rest of the US – with alarming frequency, using the state as a base of operations. Two other factors are extremists who continue to target the LGBTQ+ community and QAnon supporters who have gathered for conferences and rallies across the state. Texas has also seen a significant increase in antisemitic incidents over the last two years. It recorded the country’s fifth-highest number of antisemitic incidents in 2022, at a time when ADL has tracked the highest-ever number of antisemitic incidents nationwide,” says the introduction to the Anti-Defamation League’s new report “Hate in the Lone Star State: Extremism & Antisemitism in Texas.”
The ADL found an 89 percent increase in antisemitic incidents from 2021 to 2022 (112 to 212), 526 instances of white supremacist propaganda distributions across Texas a 60 percent increase from 2021 to 2022 (329 to 526), and a 33 percent increase in hate crimes (406 to 542). None of which is surprising in a state led by corrupt fascists who won’t shut the fuck up with the “invasion” rhetoric.