Chapter 70
Defend Texas
The roots of civil unrest in Texas are easy to trace. Lower wages mean lower taxes. Small towns can’t afford police and firefighters from their reduced tax base. The money that would pay for these things went to Renquist instead.
Making matters worse, fear of bank failures convinces people to stash cash in their homes, which leads, in turn, to an increase in home invasions. An awful time to be without police, small towns revive an Old West remedy to replace the missing law enforcement. Town sheriffs post ** sheets looking for volunteers to join posses.
Armed citizens keeping the peace and defending their towns become a movement in itself.
Today that movement unites. Militias and armed citizens descend on Houston for a convention called Defend Texas. The convent
