Texas residents are demanding answers after the state’s highest court temporarily blocked testimony that could have revealed who is behind the mysterious organization connected to millions of controversial mailers.
According to The Chron, the Texas Supreme Court issued an administrative stay on Friday, stopping a scheduled deposition involving the Texas Transgender Student Union LLC. The Wyoming-registered organization distributed pamphlets presenting themselves as resources for transgender students shortly after early voting began. The court’s order temporarily pauses the deposition while the group’s broader petition remains pending.
The mailers directed young people toward the Transgender Education Network of Texas, or TENT, despite the advocacy organization denying any involvement.
TENT went to court to identify those responsible. A Travis County judge ordered a representative of the mysterious LLC to answer questions under oath, but the Texas Supreme Court intervened before that could happen.
Texas Residents Want Answers
The development quickly reached Texas residents on Reddit, where the court’s last-minute involvement fueled even more speculation about who might be behind the mysterious organization. Some users questioned whether politically connected figures could eventually surface as more information comes out.
Those suspicions were intensified by a separate deposition involving messaging provider Infobip. Testimony reportedly identified customers connected to related text messages as the Republican Women’s Caucus Fund and someone named John Braun. The texts directed recipients toward TENT resources, much like the later mailers, but the disclosure does not establish that either customer paid for or organized the physical mail campaign. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund has denied involvement with both the texts and the physical mailers.
One Reddit user reacted to the disclosure by writing, “I knew it had to be GOP.”
Texas Transgender Student Union LLC maintains that forcing it to reveal its representatives would violate constitutional protections for anonymous political expression. Its attorney, Chris Hilton, accused TENT of seeking to inflict the same damage it claimed to have suffered.
“They seek to inflict some of the same harms that they claim to be suffering,” Hilton argued.
Hilton previously worked under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and later helped represent Paxton during his impeachment trial. Paxton’s campaign has denied sending the materials.
The court fight isn’t the only effort to find out what happened. West Texas District Attorney Sarah Stogner has opened a potential-forgery investigation involving the printed mailers, an investigation that isn’t resolved by the Supreme Court’s temporary stay.
The stay does not permanently settle the case or establish who created the campaign. For now, though, the people behind the Wyoming LLC remain unidentified, leaving Texas voters with the very question the deposition was meant to help answer.
