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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This history shaped the world we live in. Many Americans have never heard of it. Meet Benjamin Johnson, co-founder of Refusing to Forget. 🔗 youtu.be/k6ITAhvCdpQ Support our 2026 campaign: refusingtoforget.org/donate/ #PublicHistory #TexasHistory

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers. Learn more in today's blog post: refusingtoforget.org/the-canales-...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New on the blog: A guest post marking 115 years since the Rocksprings lynching of Antonio Rodríguez. Contributor Ignacio Minjarez examines the 1910 lynching & invites readers to consider how the stories told after the violence helped define who Rodríguez was. refusingtoforget.org/115-years-si...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#OTD in 1915, Texas Rangers murdered Jesús Bazan and his son-in-law, Antonio Longoria, in cold blood. /1

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Want to be featured on our blog? Refusing to Forget publishes blog posts in response to anniversaries & developments in historical knowledge & the way we commemorate the past. Past blog entries can be found at refusingtoforget.org/blog-2/. For more information email jpcarmona74@gmail.com.

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🔎 New website feature! You can now search across our blogs, OTD calendar, resources and more. 🔎 Give it a try and let us know what you search for! refusingtoforget.org

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

#OTD in 1915, three supposed participants in the “Plan de San Diego” uprising were killed by law enforcement. It is not known whether soldiers, law enforcement, or Texas Rangers were the ones to pull the trigger. /1

Historical marker acknowledging and remembering the participants in El Plan de San Diego. https://refusingtoforget.org/plan-de-san-diego-mexican-american-spirit/.

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

On July 23 or 24, 1915, the brothers Lorenzo and Gorgonio Manríquez were killed near Mercedes, Texas, by deputy sheriffs, in a chain of events that unleashed violence across south Texas in late summer and fall of 1915. /1

Mercedes Canal in Mercedes, Hidalgo County, Texas. Ca. 1920 https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/tex/id/5194/

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

📢 @datarescueproject.org is calling on us to help #SaveOurSigns! Interpretive signs in national parks may be removed by Sept. under new federal rules. You can help preserve history by photographing & uploading park signs. This summer, let’s #SaveOurSigns. www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

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We love our National Parks. Help us #SaveOurSigns

We need your help to #SaveOurSigns

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who visited us at the Alliance for Texas History conference! This landmark event was a significant moment for public & scholarly engagement with Texas history. We look forward to whats next under the leadership of RTF cofounder, Dr. Sonia Hernández. www.alliancefortexashistory.org

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#OTD on May 3, 1909 Ranger Levi Davis killed Severo Lopez in Rio Grande City. Lopez and several friends had been enjoying a festive dinner when Davis and 2 other Rangers ended the festivities with gunfire. /1

"Ranchman Killed," Fort Worth Sat Telegram, May 5, 1909

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

#OTD in 1955 Texas Ranger Bob Crowder negotiated an end to a revolt in the Rusk State Hospital for the ‘criminally insane.’ Black inmates took over the segregated Black ward, beat attendants, and took hostages in anger over terrible conditions. Image: TX Ranger Museum. /1

Headline of the Rusk Cherokeean reading, “Extra: State Hospital Patients are Rioting on Maximum Security Ward in Rusk.”

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

▪️New Blog Post▪️ Our latest guest blog was contributed by artist Ed Moralez whose great grandfather, Manuel Moralez, was one of the 15 men and boys killed in Porvenir in 1918. Through his art, Ed Moralez honors & memorializes the lives lost at Porvenir. refusingtoforget.org/the-morning-...

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The Morning, The Coldness, & The Truth. - Refusing to Forget

I started this painting not out of some type of revenge or retribution of any kind, but from the desire to honor and to memorialize my Great grandfather Manuel Moralez, who was killed that early morn...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#OTD in 1918, Florencio García was arrested by Texas Rangers Sadler, Sittre, and Lock at a ranch south of Brownsville. He was never seen alive again. A death certificate was issued and the Rangers were charged with murder. /1

Florencio Garcia’s death certificate, signed by Cameron County Acting Coroner Henry Kirk

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

New blog post... "Rather than an isolated or inexplicable “incident,”... the Ciudad Juárez fire embodied a broader & longstanding tradition of diffused, extra-legal, and surreptitious violence, which since the 1980s, has shaped the experiences of millions of transborder crossers." bit.ly/4bMulvG

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Two Years After the Ciudad Juárez Shelter Burning: Forgotten Violence Across the Mexican Vertical Border - Refusing to Forget

“We’re not going to open [the door] for them. I told them already.” The words decisively uttered by a Mexican immigration agent lingered in the air

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In March 1847, in South Texas, a group of Texas Rangers under the direction of Marby “Mustang” Gray murdered the entire adult male population of a village. Supposedly, this was retaliation against “Mexicans” broadly for an attack on a US supply train by the Mexican army. /1

Robert M. Utley’s Lone Star Justice pg. 77

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Join us on March 24th for a virtual book talk with Refusing to Forget co-founder @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social. Johnson's will discuss his latest book, Texas: An American History. This event is exclusive for our Patreon subscribers! Join us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/RefusingtoFo...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Congrats to RTF co-founder, @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social on his latest book,Texas: An American History! Teaching resources & a dedicated blog accompany this book. Bookmark this site as it will undoubtedly be an invaluable resource in the years to come. www.texasanamericanhistory.com/blog/another...

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Another Texas History Book — Texas: An American History

Why would any sane person write another take on Texas history from the dinosaurs to the 21st century?

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD on February 13, 1919, the final day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Railroad Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the state capitol. /1

the Texas capitol building, with the monument to the Heroes of the Alamo in the foreground

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📣TONIGHT! Join us for a virtual book talk with @ccarmona.bsky.social, in a discussion facilitated by RTF member @leahlao.bsky.social. This event is exclusive for Patreon subscribers! Please consider subscribing, your support helps us to continue this work! www.patreon.com/c/Refusingto...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This short documentary is a must watch on the anniversary of this important event. Today we remember Alfonso Loredo Flores and the Pharr Riots of 1971. vimeo.com/790683524?sh...

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¡Ya Basta! The Pharr Riot

This documentary tells the story of the racism and police brutality that led to the Pharr Riot of 1971 in Pharr, Texas. The unwarranted murder of an innocent bystander,…

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#OTD in 1971 Mexican-origin people in the border city of Pharr endured a police riot, commonly called the Pharr Riots, that resulted in the killing of Alfonso Loredo Flores. To halt the "riot" the city government called in the Texas Rangers, among other police agencies. /1

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Happy Hour with a Historian – Exclusive Event for Patreon Members! Join us for a virtual Happy Hour with the Refusing to Forget team. We’ll chat & answer your burning questions in a fun, relaxed, informal setting. Not a member yet? There's still time to sign up! www.patreon.com/c/Refusingto...

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