A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups is mobilizing congregations to take over Texas school boards.
On February 6, pistol-packing pastor Troy Jackson, a former Republican Party of Texas strategist and current candidate for vice chair of the Texas GOP, beamed as he welcomed a dozen conservative activists into a flag-adorned meeting room at the New Beginnings Church in Bedford. The attendees included the founder of Citizens Defending Freedom, a Tarrant County GOP official, the founder of the local John Birch Society, and a representative from the far-right group Turning Point USA.
From Keller to Katy, such right-wing religious candidates continue to run for school boards in 2024, increasingly with the vocal support of pastors and congregations in the Remnant Alliance orbit. While some deep red areas like Llano have become flashpoints, most of the action appears clustered in suburban districts around Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Its political activism is framed as spiritual warfare against satanic evil in the pursuit of realizing the kingdom of God on earth. School boards are a top priority for the Remnant Alliance; official meetings of the group encourage activists to attend their meetings. Scarborough, one of its leaders, has vowed to free school boards from “It’s difficult to exaggerate the scope of the Remnant Alliance’s collective influence. Between the nine groups that make up the coalition, there are thousands of churches and hundreds of thousands of activists.
At the New Beginnings meeting, Remnant Alliance members engaged in a wide-ranging discussion that blurred the lines between faith and politics. Jackson, the hosting pastor, boasted that 19 of his congregants ran for office in 2022, mainly school boards and city councils.
In total, Recover America claims to have helped conservative candidates win 25 of 36 school board races since 2019. Katy is one of the school boards that has been targeted by members of the Remnant Alliance; another is Keller, 250 miles northwest in Tarrant County, where a newly elected conservative majority also adopted controversial bathroom and pronoun policies aimed at trans and nonbinary individuals in the district.
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